In 2023, 339 million people will need humanitarian assistance, according to a report published last month by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
The percentage of people in need has doubled in just four years, UNOCHA said in its Global Humanitarian Overview 2023. And $51.5 billion is needed to meet humanitarian needs in 2023 — an increase of more than $10 billion on projections just a year ago.
Humanitarian appeals have always been underfunded, according to UNOCHA’s financial tracking service, or FTS, which publishes data on its website going back to 2016. But not to the extent that they were last year.
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David Ainsworth@daveainsworth4
David Ainsworth is business editor at Devex, where he writes about finance and funding issues for development institutions. He was previously a senior writer and editor for magazines specializing in nonprofits in the U.K. and worked as a policy and communications specialist in the nonprofit sector for a number of years. His team specializes in understanding reports and data and what it teaches us about how development functions.
