Pandemics, conflicts and climate change are fueling the need for humanitarian aid
Corona pandemic, climate change and conflicts will increase the need for humanitarian aid worldwide in the coming year.
the essentials in brief
- Aid organizations will need $ 41 billion in the coming year.
The number of people in need “has never been so high,” said UN emergency aid coordinator Martin Griffiths on Thursday in front of journalists in Geneva. According to estimates by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha), around 274 million people around the world will depend on some form of support in 2022, 17 percent more than in the record year 2021.
One in 29 people will need help in 2022, which is a 250 percent increase since 2015, when one in 95 people needed help, according to the Ocha report “Global Humanitarian Overview”.
It will take $ 41 billion in the coming year to support the 183 million people who die most dependent on aid in 63 countries. That is twice as much as four years ago. For 2021, the UN agencies and other aid agencies had called for $ 35 billion.
The report paints a depressing picture of the increasing need for help due to conflict and growing instability in countries such as Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Myanmar. Natural disasters and climate change increased displacement and hardship, as did the corona pandemic. According to reports, more than five million died worldwide due to the pandemic, and about 20 more measures to insure them have slipped.
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