Denmark is updating its humanitarian strategy. This provides a good opportunity to consolidate progress towards coherent humanitarian and development approaches and to integrate the new thinking to emerge from the World Humanitarian Summit in policy work. Denmark will need to make sure that humanitarian principles are respected in the new approach, especially as it expands its programming to tackle the root causes of crises. So far, the humanitarian budget has been protected from overall official development assistance (ODA) cuts; if it is to remain a predictable partner and influential donor on the global stage, Denmark will need to ensure that its budget at least remains stable in the future.