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Geneva: The United Nations said on Monday that it was stealing its global humanitarian aid projects because of “deepening of deep funding so far.”
The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it was seeking $ 29 billion for 2025, against the actually $ 44 billion, which was actually applied in December, “Hyper Priority” appeals.
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, later said on Monday that it would have to eliminate 3500 jobs, which would reduce its workforce costs by 30 %, as relief funds become vapored.
Since US President Donald Trump returned to his post in January, the United States – the world’s top donor – has reduced foreign aid greatly, which has caused disaster in the humanitarian sector all over the world.
Strict consequences for US financial support have yielded emergency assistance, vaccination campaigns and dramatic results for drug distribution to fight AIDS.
Other major donor countries have also reduced their contribution to the uncertain economic approach. “The reduction in brutal funding leaves us with a brutal choice,” said Ocha Chief Tom Fletcher.
“There is a percentage of what we ask, the one you chose to spend in the war last year.” At the end of April, visiting a hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Fletcher warned: “The effect of aid deductions is that millions of people were killed.”
About HALF has received only $ 5.6 billion out of the $ 44 billion originally wanted for this year by 2025, it is only 13 %. Overall, the original project covered more than 70 countries and aims to help nearly 190 190 million weak people.
Nevertheless, the project acknowledged that there were 115 million people who would not be able to reach the United Nations. Fletcher said on Monday, “We have been forced to suffer human survival. Mathematics” are cruel, and the consequences are heartbreaking. “
“Many people will not be supported by their needs, but we will save more lives through our resources,” he said.
Fletcher said, aid will now be instructed to “reach the people and places facing the most essential needs”, with those with “extreme or destructive conditions”, as an initial point.
Fletcher’s call came out when the UNS Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP) released a joint preliminary warning report on the 13 -hotspot. The report states that Sudan, Palestinian territories, South Sudan, Haiti and Mali have communities that are already experiencing famine, is at risk of famine or suffering a destructive level of severe food insecurity. “
“Due to increasing access constraints and significant shortages of funding, catastrophic crises are being increased,” he said. He added that Yemen, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar and Nigeria are now considered a lot of concern and need immediate focus on saving lives, adding that Burkina are other hot spots with Faso, Chad, Somalia and Syria.
“This report is a red alert,” said WFP chief Cindy McCain. “Without financial support and access, we cannot save lives. Instant, permanent investment is very important to help food and recovery as the window is shutting down to prevent further destructive appetite.”
The agency’s chief Philippo Grandi told the UN Security Council in April that Washington had earlier made more than 40 % of the UNHCR refugee agency’s budget. “In the light of difficult financial facts, UNHCR has been forced to reduce the overall scale of its work,” Grandi said in a Monday statement.
The UNHCR estimates that it will eliminate 2025 with the funds available at the same level a decade ago – even though the number of people was forced to flee their homes in the same period, which has led to more than 122 million in the same period.
“Overall, about 3,500 staff’s positions will be closed,” the statement said, “Overall, the UNHCR estimates that staff costs are about 30 percent.”
