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U.N. reports low overall funding for appeals; CERF and Central Emergency Fund make targeted allocations
Summary
The United Nations said the humanitarian response plan is underfunded at about 13% of needs and announced targeted rapid allocations from CERF and other U.N. funds for cholera response in the DRC, climate action and aid in South Sudan.
The United Nations said funding for global humanitarian appeals remains far below requirements and reported several rapid allocations from pooled emergency funds.
The U.N. said that, to date, about $552 million has been received for this year’s humanitarian response plan, representing roughly 13% of a $4.2 billion requirement. The briefing highlighted new rapid allocations: $750,000 from the U.N. Central Emergency Response Fund’s (CERF) anticipatory action program to support cholera response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and $9.5 million released by CERF for climate action initiatives across eight countries (Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Chad, Mauritania, Niger, Somalia, Venezuela and Zambia). An additional $10 million was described as released to rush life‑saving aid to more than 270,000 people in South Sudan, targeting vulnerable communities in Jonglei and Upper Nile states.
The briefing said CERF and the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) allocations will support World Health Organization and UNICEF partners on health, water, sanitation and hygiene, infection control, risk communication and community engagement. U.N. speakers emphasized the need for more flexible funding and fuller access to allow humanitarian partners to scale responses as disease outbreaks and overlapping crises worsen in affected countries.
Tom Fletcher, the emergency relief coordinator, told the Security Council in a separate briefing that more needs to be done to protect civilians in conflict and to preserve humanitarian space; the press briefing reiterated his admonition that recent trends show an “unraveling of the protection of civilians and respect for international humanitarian law.”
