Media Home
UN Web TV
UN Audiovisual Library
UN PhotoGlobal Humanitarian Overview 2024 - Underfunding and the Cost of Inaction: How to address one of the main challenges to humanitarian response
Production Date
Video Length
01:10:55
Asset Language
Broadcasting UN Entity
Corporate Name
Summary
The overarching theme for this event focuses on the major challenges of underfunding towards coordinated humanitarian action worldwide. The lack of funding for humanitarian response efforts has significant and far-reaching impacts on affected populations, exacerbating their vulnerability and prolonging their suffering.
View moreView lessDescription
Difficult decisions have been taken by humanitarian partners in relation to addressing the most pressing and urgent humanitarian needs. It highlights the real costs that underfunding has on humanitarian operations and people requiring assistance. Furthermore, it explores what humanitarian organizations, Member States and donors, host governments and local communities, and development partners need to do to mitigate the negative impact and maintain principled and sufficient humanitarian aid.
This event aims to:
- Present the mid-year funding status of the Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) and highlight major funding gaps.
- Offer a broader picture of the funding landscape in crisis-affected countries, including development funding streams.
- Raise awareness of the continued increase in humanitarian needs, the widening funding gaps, and priorities.
- Describe the cost of inaction on the most vulnerable people in some of the most underfunded crises and potential countermeasures.
Moderator: Ms. Michelle Nichols - Reuters Bureau Chief at the UN, NY
Panel Composition:
- OCHA – Name TBC -
- Development Initiatives – TBC
- Donor / Partner Representative – EU/ECHO
- NGO Representative – World Vision or NRC
- Private Sector Representative – Miyamoto International