Camp for displaced people in Sudan. The UN has asked for $33 billion in humanitarian aid for 135 million people in 2026 Humanitarian aid
To support 135 million people in 50 countries next year, humanitarian organizations will need $33 billion. its partners appealed with an appeal first of all to allocate $23 billion to provide urgent assistance to 87 million people affected by wars, climate disasters, earthquakes, epidemics and hunger.
These funds form part of the Global Humanitarian Plan for 2026 released on Monday.
“This call defines where our collective energy must be focused first queue,” said UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher, presenting the document.
Millions of people need support
The updated plan has been unveiled amid sharp cuts to humanitarian programs this year, as well as a record number deadly attacks on aid workers.
The document includes detailed plans for 29 crisis zones. The largest of these is in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, where $4.1 billion is needed to help three million people. population. An additional $2 billion is needed to support the seven million Sudanese who have fled the country.
The largest regional request relates to the situation around Syria – 2.8 billion dollars to help 8.6 million people.
aid 4.1 million inhabitants of Ukraine in 2026 humanitarian institutions request 2.3 billion dollars.
Consequences of the reduction funding
Tom Fletcher recalled that only 12 billion dollars were allocated for the humanitarian plan for 2025 – this is the lowest figure in a decade. As a result, 25 million fewer people received assistance than a year earlier.
The consequences were palpable: people lacked food, health care systems could not cope with the load, “and full-blown famine hit a number of areas in Sudan and Gaza,” he noted. Fletcher.
“Programs to protect women and girls have been cut and hundreds of humanitarian organizations have closed. And more than 380 employees of the humanitarian system were killed – this is a record figure,” – added the deputy head of the UN.
Humanitarian workers under permanent threat
The UN Emergency Relief Coordinator also stressed that humanitarian workers today are working “at the limit, chronically underfunded and under constant attack.” He said only 20 percent of requests for funds from the humanitarian community are funded.
“We send ambulances on your behalf to where the fire is raging said Fletcher. – But now they are asking us for more put out this fire. But there is not enough water in the tank. And they are shooting at us.”
Call to Member States
Over the next 87 days, humanitarian organizations will seek support from UN member states – “one day for every million lives we strive to save,” explained the head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs issues.
He also stressed the need to strengthen the protection of humanitarian workers – “not just by raising concerns, but by holding accountable those who kill us and who give weapons to those who kill us.” kills.”