Global Humanitarian Overview 2024, February Update (Snapshot as of 29 February 2024)

Attachments

Inter-Agency Coordinated Appeals: February Update

PEOPLE IN NEED 302.2M

PEOPLE TARGETED 184.1M

APPEALS 36

REQUIREMENTS (US$)2 $ 46.1B

2024

The GHO 2024 requires $46.10 billion to assist 184.1 million people in need across 73 countries through 36 coordinated response plans.

As of the end of February 2024, total humanitarian funding amounts to $4.34 billion which is 35 per cent less than what was recorded at the same time last year ($6.69 billion). Meanwhile, reported GHO funding amounts to $1.75 billion, 30 per cent less than what was reported in February 2023 ($2.38 billion).

Nine plans have less funding recorded compared to the same time last year (Central African Republic, Colombia, El Salvador, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Ukraine).

This funding snapshot is concerning given the bleak global humanitarian outlook for 2024 and the growing severity of needs. Reported funding in the beginning of 2023 was exceptional, largely because of additional funding during the last quarter of 2022 in response to the Ukraine crisis and its global secondary impacts. The following chart highlights end-February GHO and total funding as a percentage of end-year totals since 2019. The current reported funding in absolute terms is the highest since 2020, except for last year.