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    Why was 2023 such a bad year for humanitarian aid spending?

    This year has seen the largest ever shortfall in humanitarian spending. Here's a look at what went wrong, and why.

    By David Ainsworth // 14 December 2023

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    Earlier this week, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres took to the stage to beg donors for more help to address humanitarian crises around the world.

    “We cannot continue doing more with less,” he said. “We cannot turn our backs on human suffering.”

    Guterres’ words came at the launch of the Global Humanitarian Overview 2024, a report released annually by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or UNOCHA.

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      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.

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