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UN Projects Soaring World Humanitarian Needs In 2022

Dec 2, 2021 | Pratirodh Bureau

FILE PHOTO: Hundreds of people gather near a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan in August 2021 (AP Photo)

The United Nations is predicting that a record 274 million people, who together would amount to the world’s fourth most-populous country,  will require emergency humanitarian aid next year in countries like Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Syria and Yemen, which face a raft of challenges including war, insecurity, hunger, climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), in its annual overview of future needs, is projecting a 17% jump in the number of people who will need urgent assistance in 2022, and is appealing to donors to provide a record $41 billion to help 183 million people who are the most in need.

“The climate crisis is hitting the world’s most vulnerable people first and worst. Protracted conflicts grind on, and instability has worsened in several parts of the world, notably Ethiopia, Myanmar and Afghanistan,” said Martin Griffiths, the head of OCHA. “The pandemic is not over, and poor countries are deprived of vaccines.”

The appeal pulls together needs from an array of UN agencies and their partners, and is likely to fall short of its ambitions. This year, donors provided over $17 billion for projects in last year’s Global Humanitarian Overview from OCHA, but funding has been less than half of the UN request for 2021.

This year, Griffiths said, “We reached 70 percent of the people that we wanted to. We’re aware that we’re not going to get the $41 billion, much as we will try hard.”

The overview lays out country-specific plans for 30 countries, half of them in Africa, and most of the rest in the Middle East or Latin America.

Griffiths cited estimates by the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation that 45 million people are at risk of famine, in dozens of countries.

“Humanitarian aid matters,” said Griffiths. “We were able to stop famine affecting half a million people in southern Sudan…we delivered health care to 10 million people in Yemen…we’ve helped vaccinate millions in Myanmar.”

OCHA says more than 24 million people require life-saving assistance in Afghanistan, driven by conflict, political turmoil, the coronavirus, economic shocks and the worst drought in more than a generation.

“We never left Afghanistan. And we are there now with a projected programme for 2022, three times the size of the programme for 2021  because of the various needs and circumstances that you know so well,” he said.

That appeared to be an allusion to the ouster of the internationally-backed Afghan government by Taliban fighters in August, and surge of humanitarian needs in the country, including the fight against famine and hunger since then.

Griffiths said the situation in Ethiopia, where the government has been battling fighters from the Tigray region, is the most worrying in terms of urgent, immediate need and said he was very worried about a possible siege by fighters on the capital, Addis Ababa.

“The capacity to respond to an imploded Ethiopia is almost impossible to imagine,” he said. “I think Ethiopia is the most concerning,” Griffiths said, adding, “It’s a terrible thing to have to choose between, you know, places of such great need in the world.” (PTI)

Tags: Climate Change, coronavirus pandemic, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Pratirodh, United Nations

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