UN emergency aid office OCHA scales back aid plans due to lack of donations
Published: Monday, Dec 11th 2023, 09:20
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The United Nations needs 46.4 billion dollars for humanitarian operations in the coming year. This should help almost 181 million people in 72 countries, as the UN emergency aid office OCHA reported on Monday.
Despite wars, conflicts and climate catastrophes, combined with hunger, poverty, disease outbreaks and displacement, the office has drawn conclusions from this year's poor donations. Of the 56.7 billion dollars actually required for 2023, only a good third had been collected, said OCHA head Martin Griffiths in Geneva. As a result, the target for 2024 is now only 181 million people rather than 245 million. "If we don't provide more aid in 2024, people will pay for it with their lives," he said.
Due to the low level of donations, ten million people in Afghanistan did not receive any food aid between May and November this year. In Myanmar, it was not possible to build better accommodation for half a million displaced people as planned. In Yemen, 80 percent of those in need who were promised aid received neither water nor toilets.
The largest aid programs in the coming year are planned for Syria (4.4 billion dollars), Ukraine (3.1 billion dollars), Afghanistan (3 billion dollars), Ethiopia (2.9 billion dollars) and Yemen (2.8 billion dollars). In addition, there are planned transnational aid programs that also include Venezuela, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria and many neighbouring countries.
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