[1][2] The concept is supported by European governments, but has been met with both praise and criticism by humanitarian practitioners.
[6] The encouragement of humanitarian aid agencies working closer with international development institutions was met with strong resistance by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Médecins Sans Frontières, and the International Committee of the Red Cross, with the later two expressing concern about contradictions between the Nexus and humanitarian principles.
[5] In February 2019, the OECD stated their collective intent to fund complimentary humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding actions.
[9] Both the UK's Department for International Development and German's Federal Foreign Office expressed enthusiasm for the commitment to the Triple Nexus.
[9] Harvard Humanitarian Initiative's analysis of applying the Triple Nexus approach in Mali concluded that humanitarian organizations should push in the "opposite direction" of the Triple Nexus,[10] and recommended a "urgent introspection" of the new way of working.