Rise in disasters, displacements changing the face of humanitarian finance

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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