Som reaktion på et hidtil uset antal kriser kloden rundt går verdensorganisationen ud med en omfattene appel til donorsamfundet for 2015 – i år blev kun knapt halvdelen af bønskrivelsen hørt i form af penge til FN-familiens vidtforgrenede hjælpearbejde.
GENEVA, 8 December 2014, (UN News Service): The United Nations Monday launched a multi-billion dollar appeal for critical funding as its humanitarian arm and relief agencies prepare to tackle an unprecedented level of crisis around the world in 2015.
Spearheaded by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) the latest appeal spans a broad swathe of conflict zones and refugee crises – from the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Burma to Yemen and Ukraine.
The appeal calls for 16.4 billion US dollar (godt 98 mia. DKR) to help at least 57.5 million people who “have experienced unimaginable suffering” with assistance in the coming year.
“Over 80 percent of those we intend to help are in countries mired in conflict where brutality and violence have had a devastating impact on their lives,” said Valerie Amos, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, in Geneva kicking off the appeal.
“We will continue to put people at the centre of our relief efforts and do everything we can to respond quickly and effectively, but the rising scale of need is outpacing our capacity to respond”, noted she.
Fire lande tegner sig for 70 procent af de fornødne penge
According to OCHA’s latest estimates, 2014 saw a “sharp rise” in the number of people affected by conflict as inter-communal violence erupted in South Sudan and the Central African Republic (CAR).
Meanwhile, long-standing conflicts in the DR Congo and Syria continued to yield vast numbers of displaced persons within the countries and refugees crossing borders, only adding to the sense of crisis pervading their respective regions.
Against that backdrop, the crises in Iraq, South Sudan, CAR and Syria alone account for over 70 per cent of overall funding requirements.
Strategisk hjælpeplan klar for Vestafrika til februar
In addition, OCHA said, February 2015 will see the launch of strategic response plans covering requirements in West Africa’s Sahel region and Djibouti, increasing the number of people to be reached with humanitarian assistance and further depleting the funding pool for 2015.
António Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), warned that the humanitarian world was no longer facing a “business as usual” scenario as humanitarian needs had climbed to “unprecedented levels.”
“Without more support, there simply is no way to respond to the humanitarian situations we are seeing in region after region and in conflict after conflict.”
International donors provided 9.4 billion dollar (56 mia. DKR) in funding in 2014. Nevertheless, that was only 48 per cent of the total amount requested by the aid community.
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Se også flot illustration af hele appellen på http://www.unocha.org/2015appeal
