UN provides emergency cash to global crisis hotspots
More than a third of the money will support aid efforts in Yemen ($20 million) and Ethiopia ($15 million), where desperate people are struggling with the combined impacts of hunger, displacement, disease and climate disaster.
Allocations are also included for activities in conflict and climate-affected countries, including Burma ($12 million), Mali ($11 million), Burkina Faso ($10 million), Haiti ($9 million), Cameroon ($7 million) and Mozambique ($7 million).
Countries responding to droughts and floods caused by El Niño, such as Burundi ($5 million) and Malawi ($4 million) will also receive additional money, part of which will promote climate-smart humanitarian action.
Final Funding
Joyce Msuya, Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, stressed the importance of additional resources.
“In too many humanitarian emergencies, lack of funding prevents aid agencies from reaching people in need of life-saving assistance.and that’s heartbreaking,” she said. speak.
“CERF sponsorship is a Emergency cash injections are the last resort to prevent the worst and save lives when other sources of humanitarian funding are insufficient. We urgently need continued and increased donor attention to these underfunded crises,” she added.
Msuya is also the acting director of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), taking over from Martin Griffiths, who resigned in June.
2nd Allocation 2024
This is CERF’s second allocation for underfunded emergencies in 2024, following a $100 million allocation in February to seven countries, including Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Honduras, Lebanon, Niger, Sudan and Syria.
OCHA warned that this year’s $200 million allocation for humanitarian crises is the lowest in three years, highlighting the widening gap between humanitarian needs and the funding CERF receives to meet them.
This year, the humanitarian community is seeking some $49 billion to assist the 187 million most vulnerable people in crises around the world.
To date, only 29 percent of this funding has been received – a shortfall of $35 billion.
