UN humanitarian projects face record funding gap this year

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UN humanitarian projects face record funding gap this year

A picture shows a woman walking in front of the hospital in Gao, Mali on October 14, 2020. MICHELE CATTANI UNOCHA GENEVA UN humanitarian projects face a record funding gap this year, with only a third of the required $48.7 billion secured, a spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Friday.

As a result of armed conflict in Ukraine and the drought in the Horn of Africa, the money is needed to help around 204 million people around the world.

The funding shortfall is $33.6 billion, our biggest funding gap. Jens Laerke, spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said he was a spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

More than halfway through the year, the funding shortfall is $33.6 billion, our biggest funding gap, Jens Laerke, OCHA spokesman told a media briefing.

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He said that the needs in the world are rising much faster than the donor funding is coming in.

Laerke said that $15.2 billion had been collected by the mid-year mark, a record in a year of soaring humanitarian needs.

The United States is the top donor, contributing just over $8 billion, while the World Food Programme is the largest recipient, according to OCHA's website.

The $5 billion needed includes all the UN coordinated appeals worldwide, including the annual humanitarian response plans in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Syria, as well as flash appeals in Ukraine and regional appeals for refugees in Afghanistan.

The money is intended for all UN humanitarian agencies and some NGOs, but it does not cover appeals from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the ICRC because they have independent appeal processes, Laerke said.