The United Nations said Monday that they were drastically reducing their global humanitarian aid plans due to the “deepest financing cuts in history.”
The UN Humanitarian Agency said in a statement that it was looking for $ 29 billion in funds compared to $ 44 billion requested in December, in an “hyper priority” appeal.
Under President Donald Trump, who assumed the position in January, the United States, the main donor of the world, greatly reduced his foreign aid, wreaking havoc in the humanitarian aid sector worldwide.
Other donor countries have reduced their contributions to an uncertain economic perspective.
“The brutal fund cuts leave us with brutal elections,” Tom Fletcher, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) said in a statement.
“All we ask is 1% of what he chose to spend last year on war. But this is not just a call for money: it is a call to global responsibility, to human solidarity, to a commitment to end suffering.”
With 2025 almost halfway, the UN has received only $ 5.6 billion of the $ 44 billion, only 13%, which had requested while facing growing crises in Sudan, the Middle East, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Myanmar, among others.
“We have been forced to a triaite of human survival,” said Fletcher. “Mathematics are cruel and the consequences are heartbreaking. Too many people will not receive the support they need, but we will save as many lives as we can with the resources they give us.”
According to the new guidelines, Ocha AID will direct so that “reaching the people and places that face the most urgent needs” and the support will be directed “on the planning already carried out by 2025 … This will ensure that the limited resources are directed where they can do as well, as quickly as possible,” said the statement.
