Newsnomics AJAY ANGELINA reporter | The United Nations Global Humanitarian Overview report 2023 at Geneva generate an appeal for $51.5bn aid money on the brink in 2023, as tens of millions of additionalpeople expected in need of humanitarian assistance.
On Thursday, the UN recorded $51.5billion is needed to help 230 million of the world’s most vulnerable people in nearly 70 countries next year. As the overlapping crises have already left the world dealing with the “largest global food crisis in modern history”, the UN explained.
Needs are “shockingly high”, the UN’s top emergency relief official, Martin Griffiths, warned that it was very likely that this year’s emergencies would continue into 2023.
“The needs are going up because we’ve been by smitten by the war in Ukraine, by COVID, by climate,” he said. “I fear that 2023 is going to be an acceleration of all those trends, and that’s why we say … that we hope 2023 will be a year of solidarity, just as 2022 has been a year of suffering.”
Moreover, Mr. Griffiths described the appeal as a “lifeline” for people on the brink.
Apparently, more than 100 million people are now displaced worldwide due to the lethal draughts and floods, Ukraine war, and top of the devastation is Pandemic among the world’s poorest.
At least “222 million people … will face acute food insecurity in 53 countries by the end of this year” and 45
million people in 37 countries risk starvation in 2023, according to the Global Humanitarian Overview.
“The five countries Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Haiti, Somalia and South Sudan are already experiencing what we
call famine like conditions that as a result tends to be children of displacement, food insecurity, lack of food,
starvation.” Griffiths explained.
In 2023, the UN humanitarian community is going to play a bigger role in international climate discussions, in order to secure resilience funding for those in most need.
This year’s UN-led Global Humanitarian appeal is only 47% funded – a sharp drop from earlier years where
funding levels used to reach 60~65%.
Therefore, “Humanitarian organizations are therefore forced to decide who to target with the funds available,” a UN statement said.
