South Sudan Humanitarian Fund Annual Report 2024

Donor contributions

In 2024, donors contributed $42.5 million to the South Sudan Humanitarian Fund (SSHF), enabling critical support to the country’s most vulnerable communities. While this represents a decrease from the $60 million received in 2023, it reflects the broader global funding pressures facing many donors amid multiple, simultaneous humanitarian crises. This evolving donor landscape underscores the importance of continued collaboration, innovation, and diversification of funding sources to sustain life-saving assistance across South Sudan. In that regard, the SSHF saw renewed engagement from the private sector, a promising development not observed in the past three years. In 2024 the SSHF continued to receive contributions from the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, to mention just a few

Donor funding decreased consistently from 2020 to 2022, followed by an increase in 2023. This was not sustained, as in 2024, there was a sharp decline in funding, resulting in the lowest funding received by SSHF in five years. The decrease in funding reflects a continuous drop in contributions.

The number of SSHF donors has remained consistent, with variations in amounts contributed by each donor. Specifically, Switzerland and Ireland increased their contributions by 292 percent and 47 percent, respectively. Conversely, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Sweden decreased their donations by 51, 43, and 40 percent, respectively.

The Fund received 42 percent of the contributions in the year's first quarter, which enabled the launch of the first standard allocation in the second quarter. However, the cumulative second and third quarters (28 percent) realized reduced contributions, followed by an increase in the fourth quarter (30 percent). The slow pace in the second and third quarters affected the Fund’s ability to launch a robust and sizeable allocation in the first three months and third quarters (28 percent) realized reduced contributions and an increase in the fourth quarter (30 percent). The slow pace in the second and third quarters affected the Fund’s ability to launch a robust and sizeable allocation in the first three months.