Global Humanitarian Overview 2024, March - April Update (Snapshot as of 30 April 2024)

Inter-Agency Coordinated Appeals: March - April Update

PEOPLE IN NEED 292.4M

PEOPLE TARGETED 182.2M

APPEALS 36

REQUIREMENTS (US$) $ 48.28B

INTER-AGENCY APPEALS FUNDING (US$) $ 4.34B

APPEALS COVERAGE 9%

TOTAL HUMANITARIAN FUNDING(US$) $ 7.30B

The 2024 Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) requires $48.28 billion to assist 182.2 million people in need across 70 countries through 36 coordinated response plans.

As of end March 2024, total humanitarian funding totalled $5.91 billion, which is over a third less than what was recorded at the same time last year ($9 billion). Meanwhile, reported GHO funding amounted to $3.01 billion, 44 per cent less than in March 2023 ($5.37 billion).

At the end of April 2024, total humanitarian funding amounted to $7.30 billion, which is 36 per cent less than what was recorded at the end of April last year ($11.40 billion). Meanwhile, reported GHO funding totalled $4.34 billion or 42 per cent less than in 2023 ($7.44 billion).

Several funding trends can be highlighted. Firstly, there is typically a large increase in reported funding between March and April each year due to donor and agency reporting cycles and disbursements of new budgets in the first quarter. This year, however, the increase in reported funding was only $1.39 billion, the lowest from March to April since 2019. Similarly, whereas GHO coverage has increased six per cent on average between the end of March and end of April, this year, the month-on-month increase was only two per cent. Secondly, reported funding from top donors has been significantly less in the first four months of 2024 compared to 2023. From January to the end of April, the top five donors reported $4.58 billion of humanitarian funding. This is 63 per cent of the total reported and is $4.12 billion less than the $8.73 billion reported during the same period in 2023 when funding from these donors was 79 per cent of the total reported. In comparison, in 2022, the top five donors reported $5.72 billion or 74 per cent of the total.
This reduction at the beginning of 2024 is mainly due to delayed budget approvals and disbursements by several key donors.