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A CONSOLIDATED APPEAL TO SUPPORT PEOPLE AFFECTED BY DISASTER AND CONFLICT
Acknowledgements
This publication was produced by the United Nations Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in collaboration with
humanitarian partners across the world.
OCHA thanks all organizations, partners and donors who contributed to the
Global Humanitarian Overview 2017 and who regularly report to the Financial
Tracking Service (FTS). FTS is the source for the funding updates contained in
this publication.
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Contents
Section
INTRODUCTION
01
Foreword2
Global humanitarian response: 2017 at a glance 4
Executive summary 5
AND CONTEXT
Examples of people reached in 2016 6
Response plans around the globe 8
INTRODUCTION
Funding overview and analysis 10
AND CONTEXT
Moving towards multi-year planning 12
Localisation: Reinforcing national actors 13
Building resilience into emergency response: El Niño/La Niña 14
Regional Inter-Agency Standing Committee (RIASCO) Action Plan 14 Foreword
Collaborative planning for optimal response 16
Global humanitarian response: 2017 at a glance
Section Executive summary
02
Humanitarian Response Plans 18
Afghanistan19 Mali26
Burundi20
Cameroon20
Myanmar27
Niger27 Examples of people reached in 2016
Central African Republic 21 Nigeria28
Chad22
Democratic Republic of the Congo 22
occupied Palestinian territory
Somalia30
29
Response plans around the globe
RESPONSE PLANS Djibouti23 South Sudan 30
Ethiopia23
Haiti24
Sudan31
Syria31
Funding overview and analysis
Moving towards multi-year planning
Iraq 25 Ukraine32
Libya26 Yemen32
Other Response Plans
Burkina Faso 34
33
Localisation: Reinforcing national actors
Mauritania34
Senegal34 Building resilience into emergency response:
Regional Response Plans 35 El Niño/La Niña
Burundi Regional Refugee Response Plan 36
Nigeria Regional Refugee Response Plan
South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan
36
37
Regional Inter-Agency Standing Committee
(RIASCO) Action Plan
Syria Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan 37
Collaborative planning for optimal response
Section
03
Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) 39
Country-based Pooled Funds (CBPFs) 40
How you can engage in 2017 41
Section
01
Financial Tracking Service 42
SAVING LIVES WITH
CRITICAL FUNDING
Foreword
Stephen O’Brien
United Nations Under-Secretary-General
for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency
Relief Coordinator
“UN resolution 46/182 remains as relevant and
fundamental today as in December 1991 and the
principles of humanity, neutrality, independence1
and impartiality continue to provide direction for
strategic, coordinated, and effective humanitarian
Under-Secretary-General for
assistance for people in need.” Humanitarian Affairs and
Emergency Relief Coordinator,
Stephen O’Brien, visits the protected
site adjacent to the UN Mission
Around the world, a growing anniversary of General Assembly and reduce people’s humanitarian base in Wau, South Sudan. More
ecosystem of humanitarian actors resolution 46/182, which laid the needs and vulnerability. This than 20,000 people are seeking
ranging from local communities to foundation of today’s humanitarian Agenda for Humanity heralds a protection here as a result of recent
conflict. (2 August 2016)
national governments, international ecosystem. It was the result of an time of transformative change and
organizations and the private sector unrelenting series of sudden-onset humanitarians are more determined
Credit: OCHA/Charlotte Cans
is delivering life-saving assistance disasters, conflicts, droughts and than ever to leave no one behind. The
and protection to people in need. other emergencies that illustrated the task is critical, as humanitarian needs
Their work is more necessary need for international humanitarian continue to rise and humanitarian
and courageous than ever. Over organizations to respond efforts are hampered by reduced
128.6 million people now require collaboratively, strategically and access, growing disrespect for
humanitarian assistance in 33 effectively, making the best use of human rights and flagrant violations hard towards ever better needs people in 40 countries were targeted to be saved, protected and supported.
countries. To respond to the needs available resources. of international humanitarian law. assessments and joint analysis. We by consolidated appeals requiring It also allows humanitarian
of the most vulnerable 92.8 million Aid workers are increasingly at risk are already fast-tracking some of $22.1 billion. A total of $11.4 billion organizations the flexibility to ensure
UN resolution 46/182 remains as
people, the international community of targeted attacks. With climate the provisions for the Humanitarian was provided by donors towards the adequate coverage across all sectors
relevant and fundamental today as
requires US$22.2 billion in 2017. change, natural disasters are Response Plans (HRPs) for 2017, for appeals. However, the funding gap of humanitarian response. I also
in December 1991 and the principles
likely to become more frequent, example with multi-year planning and for humanitarian action stands at encourage donors to invest in the
These past 12 months humanitarian of humanity, neutrality, independence
more violent and more severe; and financing for responding to protracted $10.7 billion. We acknowledge the Central Emergency Response Fund
actors have saved, protected and and impartiality continue to provide
man-made crises may become more crises, thus placing people’s huge contribution of Member States (CERF) and the country-based pooled
supported more people than in any direction for strategic, coordinated,
protracted. But there are also positive immediate humanitarian needs in line who hosted pledging conferences in funds (CBPFs), which enable timely
previous year since the founding of and effective humanitarian
changes: there are more local, with their right to survive and thrive. 2016, including the Supporting Syria and flexible funding to respond to
the United Nations. In 2016, more assistance for people in need.
national and international actors, In August, the Humanitarian Country and the Region Conference in London, sudden or escalating humanitarian
funds were appealed for than ever
That resolution was a landmark for more financial and in-kind resources, Team in the Democratic Republic of and who advocated the Pledging crises.
before. But also, as we speak, more
the United Nations and its partners. new communications and mapping the Congo (DRC) devised a three-year Conference in Support of Iraq and the
people have humanitarian needs, not I remain confident in our collective
The structures, responsibilities technologies, and more countries plan complementing humanitarian, Summit for Refugees and Migrants
least because of protracted crises will to explore every avenue to deliver
and tools it created, including the with the political will and mechanisms development, and peacekeeping at which participants committed
lasting longer and longer. Sadly, with vitally needed aid to the tens of
consolidated appeals, are still in place to prepare for disaster elements. Central African Republic additional funding for Humanitarian
persistently escalating humanitarian millions of women, men and children
central to our work. Member States response. We need to accelerate (CAR), Chad, Cameroon, Somalia and Response Plans.
needs, the gap between what has to who deserve dignified lives and
essentially understood that effective the positive changes to meet the Sudan are also presenting multi-year
be done to save and protect more In light of increasing humanitarian safety.
coordination is the force multiplier of challenges of 2017 and beyond. plans for 2017.
people today and what humanitarians needs, we call on everyone to step up
humanitarian action.
are financed to do and can access is Key to the Agenda for Humanity is the Humanitarian organizations are unearmarked humanitarian funding in
growing ever wider. This year’s World Humanitarian Grand Bargain and the ‘new way of deeply grateful to donors for their support of the strategic, effective and
2 Summit (WHS) marked a huge
1 Independence from political, economic, 3
working’ involving comprehensive and continuing and steadfast support prioritised Humanitarian Response military or other objectives was recognized
This 2017 Global Humanitarian
effort by all stakeholders to take collective engagement in responding and generosity in 2016. As of 30 Plans. This is after all the best value as an important additional guiding principle
Overview coincides with the 25th for provision of humanitarian assistance in
that vision forward to better meet to crises. We are also working November 2016, a total of 96.2 million for money and allows for more lives 2003 – A/RES/58/114.
INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT
GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE
2017 AT A GLANCE Executive Summary
For 2017, humanitarian partners complexity in countries including arising from protracted crises more
will require $22.2 billion to meet the Iraq, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen, effectively. Multi-year planning and
needs of 92.8 million people in 33 preventing humanitarians from the Humanitarian Response Plans
countries. The initial appeal for 2016 carrying out their work and leaving are designed to increase the chances
stood at $20.1 billion to meet the affected people without basic for greater collective impact and
128.6 92.8 $22.2
needs of 87.6 million people in 37 services and protection. accountability.
countries. This is in stark contrast to
Mines, explosive remnants of war and United Nations agencies and partners
million million billion the $2.7 billion called for in the first
improvised explosive devices impede are relying especially on unearmarked
TOTAL PEOPLE IN NEED TOTAL PEOPLE TO RECEIVE AID* TOTAL REQUIREMENTS six inter-agency humanitarian appeals
humanitarian access and threaten and multi-year donor support to
launched in 1992. The last quarter
the live s of vulnerable populations ensure timely response. Low, delayed
century has seen an overwhelming
in conflict-affected regions. As Iraqis and unpredictable funding with strict
shift in frequency, scale and magni-
RESPONSE NUMBER OF NUMBER OF TO RECEIVE AID IN NEED work to rebuild their lives as a result allocation criteria has dire conse-
PLANS PEOPLE IN PEOPLE TO tude of humanitarian emergencies.
NEED RECEIVE AID
of the Mosul military campaign, quences. In Ukraine, for example,
Crises in Afghanistan, Burundi, the
mine clearance will be essential for inadequate funding has resulted
0 20 40 60 80 100% Democratic Republic of Congo,
Humanitarian Response plans their safe return, and to ensure that in major delays, interruptions and
Afghanistan 9.3 M 5.7 M Somalia and Sudan have necessitated
schools, hospitals and infrastructure discontinuation of critical activities
Burundi 3M 1M appeals almost every year. This has
function satisfactorily. such as mobile health clinics and
Cameroon 2.9 M 1.2 M also been the case since the turn of
services in hard-to-reach areas. Main-
Central African Republic 2.2 M 1.6 M the millennium for CAR, Chad, Iraq Food insecurity and malnutrition
Chad 4.6 M 2.7 M taining transport links for humani-
and the occupied Palestinian territory. will continue to drive humanitarian
Democratic Republic of the Congo 7.3 M 6.7 M tarian relief for vulnerable people in
need. Across the Sahel, hundreds of
Djibouti 289.3k 244.9k As 2017 approaches, these same Mali has been seriously challenging
thousands of households live in unac-
Ethiopia** 5.6 M 5.6 M countries and many others are in 2016. In Yemen, underfunding,
ceptably precarious conditions. Food
Haiti** 2.5 M 2.2 M immersed in conflict and urgently outstanding pledges and bureau-
Iraq** 11 M 5.8 M insecurity, acute malnutrition, disease
require a multidimensional response. cratic impediments limit the reach of
Libya 1.3 M 941k and disasters are a reality for millions.
In Afghanistan for example, needs are humanitarian partners to save count-
Mali 3.7 M 1.4 M Conflict in the region and in bordering
Myanmar 525k 525k
increasing due to massive displace- less children from dying from hunger.
countries has uprooted many people
Niger 1.9 M 1.5 M ment and protracted conflict. In If sufficient funds are not secured
from their homes and livelihoods
Nigeria 8.5 M 6.9 M Burundi, the political crisis continues for DRC, 4.3 million people will face
and forced them into dependency on
occupied Palestinian territory 2M 1.6 M to deepen and the number of people heightened risk of morbidity or death
external assistance. Where chronic
Somalia 5M 3.9 M in need of urgent support has tripled due to malnutrition, food shortage
South Sudan*** 6.1 M 5.1 M
vulnerabilities drive humanitarian
to 3 million. About 1.2 million people, and epidemics.
Sudan*** 5.8 M 4.6 M needs, humanitarians are collabo-
80 per cent of them women and
Syria** 13.5 M 12.8 M rating with development actors to In 2017 urgent humanitarian assis-
children, have fled from South Sudan,
Ukraine** 3.8 M 2.6 M bring about a “shift from delivering aid tance will be required in Ethiopia,
Yemen** 18.8 M 10.3 M making this the largest refugee
to ending needs”. In 2017, transi- Somalia, Haiti and Southern Africa
movement in Africa.
tional Humanitarian Action Plans for due to the El Niño event and its
Other Appeals**** Aid organizations in Syria expect Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Senegal successor, La Niña. In Southern
Burkino Faso** 860.6k 477.9k protection and humanitarian needs will be strategically aligned with resil- Africa El Niño caused a 9.3 million
Mauritania** 539k 416k
to grow exponentially if hostilities ience and development frameworks. ton cereal production deficit and led
Senegal 881k 379.1k
continue and no political solution is to severe water shortages. Here and
At the World Humanitarian Summit
found. In the Lake Chad Basin, Boko elsewhere, failure to act upon the
the humanitarian community resolved
Regional Response Plans Haram violence is causing instability alarming crises outlined in this Global
to change the way it works in order
and insecurity and there is little Humanitarian Overview 2017 could
Burundi Regional Refugee Response Plan 534k 534k to adapt to the changing operational
evidence that a political solution is lead to a far wider humanitarian crisis
Nigeria Regional Refugee Response Plan 443k 443k context to meet the needs of affected
forthcoming. with devastating repercussions to life,
South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan 1.9 M 1.9 M people. Six countries will develop
Syria Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan 4.7 M 4.7 M livelihoods and security.
Humanitarian access is severely multi-year response plans in 2017
constrained and has grown in to allow partners to address needs
4 5
*The number of people targeted is reached through prioritisation and assessment ***Estimated figures are cited based on 2016 figures.
of capacities and access, as well as the estimate of the gap between what ****Humanitarian action plans developed for 2016 as a transitional measure
national actors can cover and what the international community needs to provide. strategically aligned with resilience and development frameworks.
**Figures cited are estimates as of 30 November 2016.
INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT
Examples of people reached in
2016
Amount of non-food items
received by households in
Cameroon, Niger and Chad
affected by Nigeria crisis
exceeded target.
130,000
people were provided with
30,000 1.2 million >100% emergency shelter in Fiji.
A glance at humanitarian aid delivered around the globe young children and young
litres of water women received medical
attention in Sudan. children displaced
9,500+
distributed each day
98.5% to displaced people in
north and south
from Mosul, Iraq
immunized against
polio and measles.
of traditional and mud shelters Gaalkacyo, Somalia.
73%
of extremely food insecure people restored and constructed to
in areas of Haiti affected by
support vulnerable people in
Hurricane Matthew received food
assistance. northern Mali. In just one month, 1.9 million
77,173 27 million 100,000
people affected by the Syria
crisis received food
displaced people in the Lac square metres of land freed people receiving safe
from the threat of mines assistance in Egypt, Iraq,
An average Learning supplies region, Chad, received food water each day in
110
distributed for assistance. and explosive remnants of Jordan, Lebanon and
hurricane-affected
war in South Sudan. Turkey.
More than 1.7 million regions of Haiti.
4 million families returning to school children in
nine regions of
5.8 million
75%
people in Syria received
Afghanistan from Pakistan
Ethiopia.
NFIs such as blankets, provided with food rations
78%
and household items every doses of yellow fever vaccine
cooking utensils, water of unaccompanied minors were delivered in Kinshasa,
containers, hygiene kits, day. affected by Nigeria crisis Democratic Republic of the
and plastic sheeting this supported in Cameroon, Congo and provinces Over 508,664
3 million
year. Niger and Chad. bordering Angola.
of refugee households from South Sudanese
national officers trained in
973,019 Central African Republic now
live in adequate dwellings.
people in 17 governorates of Yemen
refugees
registered in
Uganda, Kenya,
1,000 camp management and people in Nigeria reached with emergency food
4
camp coordination in Ethiopia, DRC,
reached with food, crops assistance in March 2016.
Nigeria and Ecuador. and livestock. CAR and Sudan.
72,968
encashment centres in Herat, Jalalabad,
Kabul and Kandahar, Afghanistan providing
83% 25,629
grants to returnees from Pakistan. items of
of households in the West
people in Kachin and unexploded
Bank, occupied Palestinian
1.18 million
Shan States, Myanmar ordnance (UXO)
territory, whose homes are
have access to
5.1 million subject to demolitions or destroyed in the
1.9 million
25,000+
minimum available Democractic
people in Syria received protection, including damage, have received
protection services. patients received medical Republic of the
through evacuation and legal assistance. immediate shelter/NFI beneficiaries received mine
attention in Syria.
assistance. Congo. risk education in Syria.
people displaced from
283,975
Zero
new cases of cholera Mosul, Iraq reached with
declared in Central African emergency assistance
individuals received Shelter/NFI Republic in October 2016. Over within 48 hours. Each day up to
13 million 200
assistance in Haiti following hurricane.
viewers watched mine risk
11,271
cholera-prevention kits with
individuals rescued in Libyan waters education videos on five aqua tabs, soap and oral
6 national TV channels in rehydration salts delivered 7
since January 2016.
Ukraine. in Haiti.
INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT
RESPONSE PLANS AROUND THE GLOBE
33 COUNTRIES
AFFECTED 22 HUMANITARIAN
RESPONSE PLANS 4 REGIONAL REFUGEE
RESPONSE PLANS 3 OTHER
APPEALS
Ukraine
Libya
Chad occupied Palestinian territory (oPt)
Syrian Arab Republic
Niger
Iraq Afghanistan
Mali Countries with Humanitarian
Response Plans (HRPs) or Other
Myanmar Appeals
Haiti Mauritania Sudan
Yemen
Senegal Countries included in Regional
Djibouti Refugee Response Plans
Burkina Faso Somalia
Nigeria
Ethiopia
Cameroon
South Sudan
Central African
Republic (CAR) Burundi
Democratic Republic
of the Congo (DRC)
Burundi Regional Refugee Nigeria Regional Refugee South Sudan Regional Syria Regional Refugee
Response Plan Response Plan Refugee Response Plan and Resilience Plan
Syrian Arab Republic
Turkey
Lebanon Iraq
Egypt Jordan
Niger
Chad Sudan
Ethiopia
Uganda South Sudan
DRC Cameroon
Rwanda
Nigeria Kenya
Uganda
Tanzania
Burundi
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INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT
FUNDING OVERVIEW AND ANALYSIS
Total Financial Requirements 2016 Funding Update Funding Trend 2004-2016
$22.2 billion
Requested
In 2017, humanitarian partners will require
close to $22.2 billion to respond to the $22.1 billion $11.4 billion 20 in billion US$
needs of more than 92.8 million people in total requirements funded 15 Gap
33 countries. These include preliminary
52% $10.7 billion 10
estimates for some countries subject to covered unmet requirements
5 Funding
change in the coming weeks with the FUNDED UNFUNDED
2017 2016 FINANCIAL AMOUNT
conclusion of the 2017 planning process. REQUIREMENTS FUNDED 0
2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016
All 29 response plans included in this
5B 0 0 100%
overview also existed last year. The Gambia,
Guatemala and Honduras HRPs and the $550.2 M $338.8 M Afghanistan Mosul Flash Appeal $232.7 M 82% 2016 Overall Global
Central African Republic and Yemen
$61.1 M $90.5 M Burkina Faso* South Sudan $1.0 B 78% Humanitarian Funding
$73.7 M $62.3 M Burundi Iraq $663.6 M 77%
Regional Refugee Response Plans are the $406.1 M $313.9 M Burundi Regional Refugee Response Plan Burundi $43.6 M 70%
only plans from last year that will not be
continued in 2017.
$309.6 M
$399.5 M
$232.2 M
$531.5 M
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Ethiopia** $1.061 B –% $9.0 B $20.4 B $11.4 B
Yemen $935.8 M 57% Other funding Overall Humanitarian
$588.8 M $541.3 M Chad Syria Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan $2.486 B 55% outside the funding appeal
$748.0 M $690 M Democratic Republic of the Congo humanitarian funding
As compared with 2016, current * Burkino Faso $49.5 M 55% appeals
$43.0 M $74.8 M Djibouti Democratic Republic of the Congo
requirements for half of the appeals have $374.6 M 54%
$895.0 M $1.6 B Ethiopia*
increased, with the largest percentage Afghanistan $180.0 M 53%
$370.0 M $193.8 M Haiti*
increases for Nigeria, Haiti (due to the Myanmar $98.2 M 52%
$930.0 M $860.5 M Iraq* 2016 Appeal Total Requirements
Niger $127.3 M 49%
2016 hurricane), and Afghanistan. Four $151.0 M $172.5 M Libya & Per cent Funded by Sector***
Burundi Regional Refugee Response Plan $152.8 M 49%
plans request more than $1 billion each $293.0 M $354.1 M Mali
$781.4 M $5.6 B $4.8 B $2.4 B
Cameroon $108.7 M 47%
(Syria 3RP, Syria, Yemen, and Nigeria), and $74.5 M $89.2 M Mauritania* 50% 49% 42% 36%
Somalia $413.8 M 47%
$150.0 M $189.5 M Myanmar
9 plans request between $500 - $1 billion Haiti Flash Appeal $64.3 M 46%
$271.3 M $260.5 M Niger
(Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of occupied Palestinian territory $263.0 M 46%
$1.054 B $484.2 M Nigeria
Congo, Chad, Ethiopia, Iraq, occupied $241.2 M $198.8 M Nigeria Regional Refugee Response Plan Sudan $427.8 M 44%
Coordination & Multi-Sector Food Health
Palestinian territory, Somalia, South Sudan $550.0 M $570.7 M occupied Palestinian territory Syria $1.371 B 43%
Support
RRP and Sudan). $15.8 M $19.9 M Senegal Nigeria $200.2 M 41% Services
$864.0 M $885.2 M Somalia Zimbabwe $142.5 M 40% $1.2 B $636.5 M $1.1 B $9.0 M
34% 31% 29% 27%
In 2016, overall global funding for $1.3 B $1.3 B South Sudan*1 Chad $210.5 M 39%
$1.2 B $701.6 M South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan Mali $130.8 M 37%
humanitarian activities as reported to FTS
$952.0 M $971.8 M Sudan*2 Afghanistan Flash Appeal $53.5 M 35%
reached $20.4 billion as of end November.
$3.4 B $3.2 B Syria* Djibouti $26.3 M 35%
This global sum includes $11.4 billion $4.7 B $4.5 B Syria Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan Water & Education Protection Safety &
Central African Republic $180.9 M 34%
allocated to coordinated HRPs and Regional Sanitation Security
$214.0 M $297.9 M Ukraine* Nigeria Regional Refugee Response Plan $65.3 M 33%
Refugee Response Plans, as well as $8.9 $1.9 B $1.6 B Yemen* $638.4 M $780.3 M $1.6 B $103.5 M
Senegal $6.5 M 33% 23% 22% 20% 16%
billion attributed to activities or actors Yemen Regional Refugee Response Plan $30.3 M 32%
2016 Response Plans Not Included in 2017 Appeal
outside these plans. Funding for the top Haiti $62.1 M 32%
four emergencies – Syria and the region, $152.1 M Afghanistan Flash Appeal Ukraine $88.3 M 30%
Iraq, Yemen and South Sudan – represent $345.7 M CAR Regional Refugee Response Plan Libya $48.6 M 28%
Agriculture Economic Shelter & Mine
$11.5 M Gambia Guatemala $15.9 M 28% Recovery & NFIs Action
half of all humanitarian funding for the year.
$56.7 M Guatemala South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan $186.6 M 27% Infrastructure
$139.0 M Haiti Flash Appeal *** Includes 2.1 billion not yet assigned to a sector
Sahel $1.2 M 24%
As of end November, inter-agency appeal $44.2 M Honduras
Mauritania $21.3 M 24%
requirements were only half covered, $10.7 M Libya Flash Appeal
$283.7 M Mosul Flash Appeal CAR Regional Refugee Response Plan $80.5 M 23%
leaving $10.7 billion in unmet requirements. 2016 Pooled Funding
$4.9 M Sahel Honduras $5.3 M 12%
The three Flash Appeals issued in response
to natural disasters – Ecuador, Fiji and Haiti
$94.1 M
$352.3 M
Yemen Regional Refugee Response Plan
Zimbabwe
Libya Flash Appeal $499k 5% $400M 47 countries
Gambia $440.2k 4% CERF allocations with humanitarian operations
10
– received less than half of their $250
million requirements.
* The figures cited are estimates pending finalisation of the 2017 HRP.
1
The figures cited are for 2016 and are currently being updated.
** This figure includes all humanitarian funding to Ethiopia in 2016, including contributions made by the Government of Ethiopia.
Humanitarian partners in Ethiopia have a joint plan with the government – the 2016 Humanitarian Requirements Document, $530M 17 countries
CBPF allocations with humanitarian operations 11
2
The figures cited are from 2016 and await completion of the HRP for 2017. HRD. In-country reports indicate a funding level of US $1.061 billion out of a total HRD requirement of US $1.6 billion which is
66% of the requirements. This data however is not comparable with funding tracked by FTS.
Global figures in this document (128.6 million people in need, 92.8 million people to receive aid, $22.2 billion requirements for
2017 and the $22.1 billion requirements for 2016) do no include RRP country chapters already covered in corresponding HRPs. All financial data is continuosly updated on fts.unocha.org, figures reflect reporting as of 30 November 2016. Dollar signs in this
document denote USD.
INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT
Moving towards multi-year Advantages of multi-year planning
Multi-year planning can enhance Multi-year planning does not imply required if the multi-year plans
planning humanitarian response by setting
more predictable and realistic
operational objectives and by
humanitarian involvement in the
implementation of development
plans or programmes. It encourages
are to be transformed into action.
With greater predictability of
funding, humanitarian partners
placing emphasis on durable results. collaboration with development can respond with flexibility, more
In August 2016, the Humanitarian year Humanitarian Response Plan. practices will promote greater It ensures complementarity with and other partners at the analytical expeditiously and with greater
Country Team in DRC agreed to Humanitarian, development and coherence among humanitarian, development and other frameworks. and planning stages, and creates impact in protracted emergency
draft a three-year plan (2017-2019) peacekeeping programmes in DRC development, peacekeeping space for development partners environments.
in order to build better synergies are being mapped to provide an and peacebuilding partners. In In order for multi-year HRPs to
to address structural and chronic
among humanitarian, development, overview of current operations and essence, multi-year planning puts be successful, in each case the
causes of humanitarian needs
stabilization and peacekeeping identify gaps which partners can affected people at the heart of the development component must
earlier, or at significant stages.
actors. Four plans currently in the collectively act to overcome. humanitarian agenda, aiming to be to-scale. Targeting the most
Multi-year plans offer longer
making reflect this shared vision. provide immediate humanitarian vulnerable people at local level, this
This harmonization of humanitarian, decision and implementation cycles
These are the United Nations assistance as before and to build in balanced approach to planning is
development and peace plans is for development programming. They
Development Assistance Framework programmes with a lasting impact designed to break the humanitarian
the result of an unprecedented present development actors with
(2018-2022), the Plan National on lives. dependency cycle and, when
commitment to step up the more opportunities for interaction
Stratégique de Développement appropriate, to permit phased
efficiency of humanitarian response Several countries have opted for with humanitarian actors and
(2017-2021), the World Bank transfer of caseloads from the multi-
in DRC and to offer vulnerable multi-year planning to promote extend the timeframe for their own
Country Partnership Framework year HRP to development planning
people long-term solutions. New more predictable humanitarian planning.
(2017-2021) and the new multi- frameworks, such as the United
response and ensure greater Nations Development Assistance More predictable humanitarian
“The World Humanitarian
coherence between development, Framework. multi-year funding is urgently
peacebuilding and humanitarian
frameworks. The following
Summit brought a new countries are embarking on multi-
year planning in 2017: Cameroon,
momentum to humanitarian
action, spurring the humanitarian
CAR, Chad, DRC, Somalia and
Sudan. Multi-year planning in
these countries should ultimately
Localisation: Reinforcing
community and others to change
reduce the need for humanitarian
assistance and progressively
transfer responsibility to national
national actors
the way they work in order to and local authorities and
development partners. Similarly,
adapt to the altered operational
One of the major outcomes of the local and national responders and as part of the Grand Bargain work
the Syria Regional Refugee and
World Humanitarian Summit was to increase collaboration with local stream, donors committed to
Resilience Response Plan (3RP)
the resounding call for international actors. channel at least 25 per cent of
environment.” includes appeals for 2017 and 2018.
humanitarian actors to reinforce
Greater effectiveness in
funding to local actors as directly as
and not replace local and national possible by 2020. By the end of the
humanitarian response requires
actors. third quarter 2016, country-based
complementarity and partnership
pooled funds had disbursed $476
Commitments made by between international organizations
A new way of working stakeholders at the Summit and local actors. Wherever possible,
million, with 64 per cent of the total
amount going to NGOs, including 18
The World Humanitarian Summit context of increasing protracted transparency, interaction between demonstrate a desire to see coordination should build upon
per cent to local NGOs.
brought a new momentum to crises, it is widely recognized that partners and complementarity. profound changes in the existent structures and be led by
humanitarian action, spurring the multi-year planning and financing Humanitarian actors must combine humanitarian system, while national actors.
humanitarian community and is the most suitable and strategic their strengths to provide optimal retaining and emphasizing respect
Local actors – who are often the
others to change the way they work approach. As well as calling for support to those most in need, while for humanitarian principles and the
most effective partners to deliver
in order to adapt to the altered multi-year plans and funding, the ensuring adherence to the principles preservation of humanitarian space.
timely assistance – currently receive
operational environment. In a Grand Bargain invited greater of humanitarian action. Signatories to the Grand Bargain
a very small portion of overall
work stream are spearheading
financial support for humanitarian
12 change by committing to provide
assistance. To address this issue,
13
more support and funding tools for
INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT
Building resilience into
households prioritize food over from December 2016 to April 2017. of thousands of children are at
healthcare. About $800 million have been raised risk of irreparable damage from
to date, leaving a funding gap of 40 undernutrition and risk dropping out
emergency response:
The drought has disproportionally
per cent. of school, health centres cannot
affected women and children,
provide the most essential services
exacerbating existing protection Funding from international
as drought-related illnesses increase,
threats and vulnerabilities and development partners and national
El Niño/La Niña
and farmers will not be able to fully
creating new ones, such as: governments has saved lives,
resume agricultural production.
increased exposure to wild animals protected livelihoods and helped
and sexual violence as they travel in reduce human suffering. Funding
search of water or wild foods; sexual received has allowed partners to
While the 2015/2016 El Niño Drought has been a major driver conditions do prevail, communities exploitation, in particular exchange of reach 9 million people in November
event ended in May, its impact on of humanitarian need, resulting in suffering the effects of El Niño sexual favours for food, money and with food and cash assistance, while
vulnerable people and communities over 1 million children facing severe may have to contend with yet more water; and children dropping out of almost 80,000 children have been
will be felt for many months to acute malnutrition in Africa alone. adversity. Preparedness, early school due to lack of water and food, treated for severe acute malnutrition
come. Prompted by drought, Food, water, sanitation, and health action and investment in climate and entering into child labour or early and more than 600,000 people
flooding and extreme weather are among the most critical sectors resilience are essential instruments marriage. In Malawi, for example, the reached with clean water. More than
related to El Niño, 22 countries requiring urgent support. As the for preventing El Niño and La Niña drought has affected 42 per cent of 175,000 households have received
appealed for international end of 2016 approaches, farmers events from evolving into disasters. primary schools, forcing more than crop and livestock inputs. National
humanitarian assistance in 2016 in Southern Africa are preparing The Secretary-General’s Special 137,000 children to discontinue their social protection programmes
with a combination of HRPs, to plant crops for the coming year. Envoys on El Niño and Climate are education. have been strengthened and cash
regional appeals and government A successful planting season is developing a ‘Blueprint for Action’ to transfer programmes expanded
The crisis is occurring against a
plans totalling over $5 billion. While critical for any chance of livelihood guide urgent and focused action in to stimulate local markets. United
backdrop of widespread poverty and
some countries are beginning to recovery in 2017. each of these areas. Nations agencies, national and
vulnerability. For instance, in more
recover, others, including Ethiopia, international NGOs, as well as IFRC,
Current forecasts indicate a than half of the affected countries,
Somalia, Haiti and Southern African have played an indispensable role in
probability of weak La Niña the prevalence of stunting among
countries, will require continued the response.
conditions in the latter part of young children is above 30 per cent.
humanitarian assistance in 2017. Humanitarian assistance across the
2016 through early 2017. If these The impact of the El Niño-induced
region is being scaled up. Subject to
drought in Southern Africa is further
availability of resources, 13 million
exacerbated by weak commodity
people will receive assistance in
prices, unfavourable exchange rates
Regional Inter-Agency
January and 800,000 households
against the dollar and slow economic
(3.1 million people) will receive
growth. In Malawi, the fourth poorest
agriculture and livelihood support
country in the world, per capita
Standing Committee
between December 2016 and
income is actually declining while
January 2017. During the coming
food prices have increased 172 per
months, partners will reach some
cent above the five-year average. The
(RIASCO) Action Plan
580,000 severely malnourished
fragile political situation in several
children with life-saving treatment
countries affected by drought further
and with water, sanitation and
limits their capacity to effectively
hygiene services for over 4.6
respond to the crisis.
Southern Africa El Niño-induced Drought On 26 July 2016, the Southern
million children and their families
who are in critical need of support.
African Development Community Humanitarian partners will continue
El Niño conditions persisting during Standing Committee (RIASCO) for have reduced access to safe (SADC) declared a Regional Drought to support countries to secure
the 2015/16 planting season have priority attention (Angola, Lesotho, drinking water as a direct result of Disaster and launched a Regional education for 1.9 million affected
caused the worst drought in 35 years Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, the drought. This has resulted in an Appeal for Humanitarian and children, to provide protection and
in Southern Africa. It contributed to Swaziland and Zimbabwe), 13.6 increase in drought-related illnesses Recovery Support. In support of the care for over 5 million vulnerable
a 9.3 million ton cereal production million people have been targeted as people are forced to drink from SADC Appeal, humanitarian partners children, and to reinforce and scale
deficit and severe water shortages, for assistance during the peak unprotected water sources; and launched the RIASCO Action Plan, up social cash transfer programmes.
causing a widespread humanitarian of the lean season from January a decline in medical care, and which has been revised in light of
Without additional funding, critical
crisis across Southern Africa. to April. Almost 580,000 children adherence to HIV/Tuberculosis new assessment data. The revision
14 humanitarian needs will not be met. 15
In the seven countries identified need treatment for severe acute treatment protocols as clinics and seeks to mobilise $1.3 billion to
Millions of the most vulnerable will
by the Regional Inter-Agency malnutrition, and 3.2 million children hospitals run dry and affected address the needs of 13.6 million
not receive full rations, hundreds
people in seven priority countriesCollaborative planning for
optimal response: HRPs RESPONSE
PLANS
By speaking with a common voice important step towards making of all financial requirements and
and reinforcing humanitarian the best possible use of scarce of partners active in emergency
principles, humanitarian actors are financial resources, the HRPs are response with a focus on the most
able to advocate more effectively evolving in line with the Grand urgent priorities. This allows the
for vulnerable people and demand Bargain commitments. Improved donor community to target its
greater protection and increased costing approaches are enhancing financial resources effectively.
access, while working more
efficiently with governments and
HRP transparency. The strategies
and objectives provide the
The HRPs are a starting point
for response monitoring, which Humanitarian Response Plans
other actors. This is essential for framework for multi-year planning increases accountability to affected
the millions of displaced people, and funding and for improved populations and to donors and Other Appeals
host communities, refugees and coherence between humanitarian which is consistently strengthened
returnees in need of humanitarian
support. Humanitarian Response
and development programmes.
Common and predictable planning
to that end. The provision of cash
and vouchers for individuals or
Regional Response Plans
Plans (HRP) provide a unique processes continue to enable local households to meet their own
platform for humanitarian partners actors to participate in coordinated emergency needs is increasingly
to consolidate and present humanitarian response efforts. The mainstreamed into all stages of the
collective strategic plans and HRPs are grounded in inclusive Humanitarian Programme Cycle.
programmes. Since their inception assessments and evidence-based Cash and voucher distribution offers
in 2013, the HRPs have guided prioritisation of needs, joint analysis greater involvement to beneficiaries
consolidated multilateral, local and planning. The ultimate goal and respects their dignity. Thanks
and national humanitarian action is to collect as much accurate to these different dimensions, the
and, importantly, served as a fund information as possible on the humanitarian assessment and
raising tool for donors to finance many different needs of women, planning process is people-centred
rapid response. Humanitarian actors men, girls and boys in order to plan and the appeals objectivize the most
and donors pursue the common for the highest possible impact in urgently needed financial resources
goal of responding effectively to meeting acute humanitarian needs. to meet the needs of the most
needs of people in crises. As an HRPs paint a comprehensive picture vulnerable.
Section
16
02HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE PLANS
Afghanistan
PEOPLE IN NEED PEOPLE TARGETED REQUIREMENTS (US$) % CHANGE FROM 2016
9.3M 5.7M 550.2M
$ 62%
The humanitarian situation in 5 years of age. Afghanistan is a With over 1 million people on
Afghanistan remains precarious and disaster-prone country with very the move, Afghanistan is on the
needs here are increasing. Around limited coping capacity: 69,000 tip of a humanitarian crisis. The
Humanitarian
455,000 people have been displaced people were affected in 2016 and convergence of IDPs and large-
by conflict this year, and 550,000 200,000 people may be so in 2017. scale returns in overstretched urban
internally displaced persons (IDPs) centres has taken a toll on host
Humanitarian partners reached over
Response Plans
are counted as living in protracted communities, as capacity to absorb
3.2 million people with humanitarian
displacement. Returns of Afghans and extend essential services to
assistance up to September
and refugees from Pakistan have new arrivals is limited.
2016, including conflict affected
spiked since July 2016, with some
IDPs, refugees and returnees. In 2017, conflict, recurrent sudden-
560,000 recorded by 5 November.
Humanitarian funding in 2016 onset shocks, limited service delivery
More than a quarter of all provinces
bridged gaps in public services and residual acute vulnerability will
have acute malnutrition rates above
such as basic health care, including necessitate continued humanitarian
15 per cent, well above emergency
The Humanitarian Programme Cycle is trauma care, and treatment for action in parallel with development
level. In 2017, 1.8 million people
central to the commitments made at acute malnutrition. strategies to break the poverty cycle,
will require treatment for acute
enhance community resilience and
the May 2016 World Humanitarian malnutrition including 1.3 million Yet inconsistent funding has
reduce dependency on humanitarian
children under 5 years of age. This undermined humanitarian
Summit. 2017 Humanitarian Response resources.
includes 1.3 million children under partners’ ability to respond.
Plans are prioritised on grounds of solid
analyses of response contexts -
engagement with national and
international humanitarian partners
throughout the planning processes,
enhanced linkages to recovery and
development frameworks and where
possible multi-year plans.
An internally displaced girl with companions
18 in a school tent in Police Rah informal 19
settlement near Herat city, Afghanistan.
Credit: UNHCR/Jim HuylebroekHUMANITARIAN RESPONSE PLANS
Burundi Central African Republic
PEOPLE IN NEED PEOPLE TARGETED REQUIREMENTS (US$) % CHANGE FROM 2016 PEOPLE IN NEED PEOPLE TARGETED REQUIREMENTS (US$) % CHANGE FROM 2016
3M 1M 73.7M
$ 18% 2.2M 1.6M $399.5M 25%
The humanitarian impact of the Basic services have suffered from and essential medicines to 175,000 Almost forty percent of the decline in funding contributed to education and 617,000 people were
political crisis in Burundi continues the dire economic climate and from recipients, amongst them pregnant population of CAR, or 2.2 million the challenges in assisting the most provided with potable water.
to deepen. The number of people in diminished government spending, women and children under 15 years people, will require humanitarian vulnerable. More than 3,000 incidents
Funding for humanitarian operations
need is expected to triple in 2017 - a situation aggravated by major of age. assistance in 2017. Almost of gender-based violence were
in 2017 will be critical. Currently only
from 1.1 million to at least 3 million. donors suspending direct budget 385,000 people remain internally reported and 13,000 children were
In 2017, scaling up operational 30 per cent of the population has
Protection needs will almost double support. displaced due to fighting among enlisted in armed forces and armed
capacity, investing in joint needs access to clean water and 25 per
to 1.8 million people, and food armed elements, inter-communal groups. Some 25 per cent of schools
Humanitarian organizations assessments and dedicating cent of people live without sanitation
insecurity will impact three times as conflict and criminality. Despite were non-functional, 40 per cent of
have scaled up to respond to capacity for coordination will be facilities. Humanitarian partners
many people as before, affecting 2.1 political progress, new waves the population was food insecure
humanitarian needs in Burundi, critical to respond to the increased are often the sole providers of basic
million people due to rising prices of displacement, the continued and severe acute malnutrition
in spite of considerable funding vulnerability of people struggling services. With reports of proliferation
of basic food items, poor rains in absence of basic social services among children under 5 years of
constraints. In 2016, food and with the impact of the crisis which of weapons and explosives hazards
the 2016 agricultural season and and the reluctance of 420,681 IDPs age surpassed the emergency
nutrition assistance were delivered has taken hold in Burundi. in all 16 prefectures threatening
chronic poverty. The number of to return to their host communities, threshold (2 per cent) in many
to over 736,000 people in the livelihood and security, especially in
people needing health assistance humanitarian actors are still relied localities. Humanitarian partners
country, child protection services areas of return and resettlement of
will triple, from 1.1 to 3 million. upon to provide significant, urgent, contained a cholera outbreak that
were delivered to 24,460 children refugees and IDPs, clearance and
life-saving assistance. could have affected as many as 1.7
nationwide risk awareness will be
million people; over 41,000 displaced
In 2016, persistent insecurity, important in 2017.
children were given access to
logistical constraints and a steep
Cameroon
PEOPLE IN NEED PEOPLE TARGETED REQUIREMENTS (US$) % CHANGE FROM 2016
2.9M 1.2M $ 309.6M 33%
As many as 3 million people will In 2016, humanitarian actors people and 314,000 girls and
need humanitarian assistance and assisted 722,000 people in boys under 5 years old suffering
protection in Cameroon in 2017. Cameroon. Food was delivered to from severe and moderate acute
Boko Haram-related violence 405,000 people, health services malnutrition will be endangered.
has displaced around 200,000 provided to 263,000 people and Equally, tens of thousands of
Cameroonians internally and led to nutritional support to over 100,000 children will not go to school and
an influx of some 74,000 Nigerians people. Despite a dangerous and hundreds of thousands of women
in the Far North region. Some difficult operating environment, and men will at the mercy of
274,000 Central African refugees this year humanitarian partners violence, especially in the Far North
have sought refuge in the East, reached over 266,000 people with region.
Adamaoua and North regions. humanitarian assistance in the Far
In total, 2.6 million people in the North region. Nevertheless, the
country are food insecure to the threat posed by explosive hazards
point of crisis or emergency levels. in this region continues to impede
Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is humanitarian access.
touching the 2 per cent emergency Women queue with their children to
Without sufficient funding, the lives receive treatment at a clinic in the
threshold in one district in the Far
20 of 288,000 severely food insecure conflict-affected town of Bambari in 21
North.
Ouaka Province, Central African Republic.
Credit: UNICEFHUMANITARIAN RESPONSE PLANS
Chad Djibouti
PEOPLE IN NEED PEOPLE TARGETED REQUIREMENTS (US$) % CHANGE FROM 2016 PEOPLE IN NEED PEOPLE TARGETED REQUIREMENTS (US$) % CHANGE FROM 2016
4.6M 2.7M $ 588.8M 9% 289.3k 245k $ 43M 43%
The Humanitarian Country Team in children with severe acute in the Lac region will go without Through a combination of drought Chronic stressors, such as lack of and erosion of livelihoods puts
Chad is expecting a humanitarian malnutrition were admitted for assistance and protection. Over 4 conditions spanning the two past basic water, sanitation, hygiene children at greater risk of child
caseload of over 4.4 million people therapeutic care and over 600,000 million food insecure people in Chad decades and the impact of the (WASH) and health services, limited labour.
in 2017. This includes 389,000 people received food assistance. will be unable to meet the needs of recent El Niño phenomenon, the livelihood safety nets, high food
In 2017, humanitarian partners plan
refugees, primarily from CAR and Much remains to be done to improve their families, especially during the humanitarian situation in Djibouti prices and structural poverty have
to assist nearly 245,000 people,
Nigeria, and over 105,000 IDPs. The food security and nutritional status lean season. continues to be of concern. As of aggravated humanitarian conditions
including Djiboutians living in
situation is particularly precarious in in Chad. The national global acute November 2016, drought is believed in Djibouti. The presence of
extreme poverty, refugees, asylum
the Lac region, where over 250,000 malnutrition (GAM) rate, currently at to have plunged more than 159,000 refugees, and of migrants transiting
seekers and migrants. The 2017
people are affected by the regional 11.9 per cent, and the SAM rate of people into food insecurity. Of through the country, increases the
HRP charts life-saving assistance in
conflict involving Boko Haram. Food 2.6 per cent, both exceed alert and these, over 130,000, or some 46 pressure in a situation already very
the food security, nutrition, WASH,
insecurity across the Sahel belt emergency thresholds. per cent, live in rural areas. Acute tense. Partners have been providing
health, protection and education
of the country affects 1.8 million malnutrition is also expected to life-saving assistance on the ground.
Underfunding in 2017 will hinder sectors. The plan also addresses
people. continue at high levels, with a global However, low levels of funding
plans to provide desperately needed some of the resilience needs of
acute malnutrition rate assumed are constraining their efforts and
In 2016, humanitarian actors in treatment for 400,000 malnourished drought-affected people.
to be higher than the 17.8 per cent jeopardizing vulnerable populations.
Chad sharply improved the lives girls and boys under 5 years of age.
reported in 2013. Absence of economic opportunity
of displaced and other vulnerable Hundreds of thousands of women
people. For example, over 130,000 and men affected by the conflict
Democratic Republic of the Congo Ethiopia
PEOPLE IN NEED PEOPLE TARGETED REQUIREMENTS (US$) % CHANGE FROM 2016
PEOPLE IN NEED PEOPLE TARGETED REQUIREMENTS (US$) % CHANGE FROM 2016
7.3M 6.7M 748M
$ 8% 5.6M 5.6M $ 895M 44%
While Ethiopia battles the residual will require food assistance; 1.2 will have three strategic objectives:
The DRC has been in a state of acute first three quarters of 2016. Over five If funding cannot be secured,
needs arising from the El Niño- million children and pregnant and save lives and reduce drought-
emergency for two decades. Over the million people received explosive protection services for 1.5 million
induced drought, below average lactating mothers will require induced morbidity; protect and
years, the crisis has both broadened hazard risk education. people might be at risk, including
rains in the southern and eastern supplementary feeding; 9.2 million restore livelihoods; and prepare for
and deepened, pushing one tenth of for some 54,000 victims of physical
The current DRC Humanitarian parts of the country caused by the people will be without safe drinking and respond to other humanitarian
the population to the point of life- violence, 11,000 victims of sexual
Response Plan is a multi-year negative Indian Ocean Dipole and La water and 2.4 million households shocks, including natural disasters,
threatening needs in 2017. and gender-based violence and
plan covering 2017 to 2019. Niña have led to new symptoms of will need livestock support. Partners conflict and displacement.
7,500 children at risk of protection
In 2016, rising inter-communal It demonstrates strategic drought. Livestock deaths and water also estimate that 300,000 children
violations. Additionally, 4.3 million In 2016, generous allocations from
tensions, intensive military breakthroughs to enhance the shortages are already reported will become severely malnourished
people will face heightened risk donors and the Government of
operations, El-Niño-related quality, speed and accountability from the affected areas. In addition, in 2017.
of morbidity or death due to Ethiopia enabled the nationally-led
phenomena, epidemics and a sudden of the response. These include disease outbreaks and, food and
malnutrition (4.1 million people) The Government and humanitarian response to regularly reach 10
influx of South Sudanese refugees new approaches to cash transfer nutritional insecurity persist in
food shortage (650,000 people), and partners are developing detailed million people through food
further challenged humanitarian programming. The number of pocket areas.
epidemics (58,000 cases). Funding sector response plans, which will be assistance and 10 million people
responders in DRC. Against this affected people in DRC is expected
is required to reduce the negative The Government and humanitarian updated on the conclusions of an were provided with safe water and
backdrop, 3.8 million people received to increase slightly to 7.9 million in
impact of explosive remnants of war partners are recalibrating the ongoing assessment. These plans sanitation. Seed assistance for 1.5
health assistance, 2.2 million people 2017. This figure includes 6.2 million
22 on civilians, particularly children, who nationally-led response to address will be reflected in the Humanitarian million people saved almost US$ 23
received WASH assistance, and more people rendered acutely vulnerable
make up two thirds of the victims. residual and emerging needs. It is Requirements Document, to be 1 billion in food aid expenses for
than 710,000 people received food by conflict and natural disaster.
anticipated that 5.6 million people released in January. The document 2016/2017.
and livelihood support during theHUMANITARIAN
Iraqi familiesRESPONSE PLANS
displaced by fighting in
Shora, 25 km south of Mosul, arriving
at an Iraqi army checkpoint on the
northern outskirts of Qayyarah.
Haiti Credit: UNHCR/Ivor Prickett
PEOPLE IN NEED PEOPLE TARGETED REQUIREMENTS (US$) % CHANGE FROM 2016
2.5M 2.2M $ 370M 91%
The humanitarian situation in Haiti hurricane), and residual needs to health, water and sanitation,
deteriorated in 2016, with Hurricane of 55,000 people affected by the safe housing and livelihood
Matthew tragically demonstrating earthquake six years ago will all opportunities.
Haiti’s vulnerability to sudden-onset require committed efforts. With a
After years of political uncertainty,
disaster and making immediate continued flow of returnees from the
it is hoped that election of a head
humanitarian assistance a necessity Dominican Republic and as many as
of state will result in improvements,
for more than 1.4 million people. 250,000 of these returnees expected
allowing the Government to focus
The impact of the hurricane will be in 2017, exacting demands on
on sustainable development
felt well into 2017 and sustained life-saving assistance will be made.
interventions to build people’s
support will be required, particularly In the agriculture sector alone,
resilience to shocks, thereby
to address food security, livelihoods producers desperately need seed,
reducing the risk of humanitarian
and cholera response, as well as fertilizer and planting materials.
crises in this disaster-prone country.
protection concerns stemming from
All this is happening as the country
hurricane-induced displacement.
struggles to get hundreds of
Food insecurity resulting from El thousands of Haitians living in
Niño, a renewed spike in cholera poverty onto the development path
cases (exacerbated by the by providing them with access
Iraq
PEOPLE IN NEED PEOPLE TARGETED REQUIREMENTS (US$) % CHANGE FROM 2016
11M 5.8M $930M 8%
Military operations against the on the city will raise the threat of consequences. Up to 3 million other
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant hunger, deprivation, lack of medical IDPs will remain displaced across
(ISIL) intensified dramatically in assistance, and human rights the country in over 3,700 locations.
2016, increasing the number of violations. Millions of people are grappling
people in need of humanitarian with the enormous psychological,
Across the rest of Iraq, the
assistance to 11 million as the year emotional and physical
humanitarian situation is extremely
ended. consequences of the violence.
complex and the operational
The battle for Mosul is taking a environment volatile. Some The strategic importance of the
devastating toll and it is inevitable 1.5 million displaced people humanitarian operation in Iraq
that humanitarian conditions will are expected to return home in cannot be underestimated. In 2017,
plummet and the number of IDPs 2017, many to areas that are humanitarian partners will provide
will drastically rise as the military heavily damaged, littered with intensive assistance, principally
campaign continues into 2017. explosive hazards and where to the 5.8 million people most in
Civilians are at high risk of being basic infrastructure and access need. Insufficient funding would be
caught in crossfire and used as to basic services are thin on the catastrophic, leading to inadequate
Downtown Jeremie, two days after Hurricane human shields. Families trying ground. As people return, they support that could fuel new
24 Matthew swept through the country with heavy
to flee are being targeted and attempt to defuse explosive grievances and undermine efforts to 25
rains and high winds on 4 October 2016.
killed by ISIL. A prolonged siege remnants themselves, with fatal restore peace.
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