Rise in disasters, displacements changing the face of humanitarian finance
By Lean Alfred Santos // 03 July 2015
Today, nearly 60 million people around the world have been forcibly displaced due to conflicts and disasters — more than in any other time in the post-World War II era.
And this is changing the face of global humanitarian financing.
Conflict in Syria and Iraq, climate-related disasters in Asia-Pacific, and the Ebola outbreak in West Africa pushed the international humanitarian response 19.5 percent from $20.5 billion in 2013 to $24.5 billion in 2014, according to Development Initiatives’ 2015 Global Humanitarian Assistance report. This “rising scale and changing nature of needs” pushed humanitarian aid to “another record high.”
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Lean Alfred Santos@DevexLeanAS
Lean Alfred Santos is a former Devex development reporter focusing on the development community in Asia-Pacific, including major players such as the Asian Development Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. He previously covered Philippine and international business and economic news, sports and politics.
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