UN: Humanitarian Response Plans require more than $20 bln in 2019
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs expected that the Humanitarian Response Plans will require more than
$20 billion for the fourth year in a row.
The Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) for 2019 will
be launched in Geneva on 4 December, the UN office said in a report.
More resources are required so that aid workers can
reach all vulnerable people most in need, it also said. While donors have been
generous, increasing contributions to inter-agency-coordinated response plans
from US$3.7 billion in 2007 to nearly $14 billion thus far in 2018, needs have
far outstripped resources year after year, it added.
In South Sudan, for instance, years of conflict and
insecurity have pushed nearly 60 per cent of the population into extreme
hunger, the report said. Some 6.1 million people faced “crisis”, “emergency” or
“catastrophe” levels of food insecurity in 2018, it also said.
The report added that the cost per person assisted
is well under $250 and covers the entire year in most cases.
