Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs) awarded ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ for ewriting the rules of humanitarian aid
Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs), a Sudanese grassroots network of nearly 10,000 volunteers, will receive the 2025 Right Livelihood Award in Stockholm on 2 December. Operating across all 18 states, ERRs have pioneered a mutual aid model that puts communities themselves in charge of identifying needs and directing resources. Their decentralised approach has sustained millions with food, healthcare, education and protection at a time when traditional humanitarian agencies have been unable to reach vast areas of the country.
The 2025 Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” is being given to four Laureates: Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change and Julian Aguon
(Pacific Islands and Guam), Justice For Myanmar (Myanmar), Audrey Tang (Taiwan), and Emergency Response Rooms (Sudan).
Since 1980, the Right Livelihood Award has recognised 203 Laureates from 81 countries, celebrating their courage to solve global problems.
