TOTAL POPULATION 22.1M PEOPLE AFFECTED 8.8M PEOPLE TARGETED 4.9M REQUIREMENTS (US$) $397.6M At least 8.8 million people have been affected by the earthquake, with the majority anticipated to need some...
We are pleased to share with you the recently endorsed IASC key messages on The Global Impact of High Food, Fuel, and Fertilizer Prices, and the Climate Crisis. Please see...
The 2023 Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO), launched today by the UN in collaboration with nongovernmental organizations and other humanitarian partners, paints a stark picture of what lies ahead. Next year...
IT’S ON ALL OF US – COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY FOR GBV RISK MITIGATION Global Cluster Coordinators Group, Statement for 16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE 2022 As humanitarians, we have...
The UNITE to End Violence against Women initiative is a multiyear effort to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls around the world. The initiative, launched in 2008 under...
At the Climate Change Conference (COP27) countries come together to take action towards achieving the world’s collective climate goals as agreed under the Paris Agreement and the Convention. Building on...
Urgent humanitarian action needed as record numbers face starvation A record-high number of people across six countries are either already starving or on the brink of disaster, a new report...
The Horn of Africa Is Facing Its Worst Drought In More than Four Decades, With Catastrophic Consequences Communities in the Horn of Africa are facing the immediate threat of starvation,...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in 19 countries or...
The fourth edition of the IGAD Regional Focus of the Global Report on Food Criseshighlights the alarming high-levels of acute food insecurity in 2021 in the region, where about 42...
A global economic crisis, continuous conflicts and climate shocks are driving an unprecedented food crisis. Yet, funding is not keeping up with the growing needs , forcing humanitarian operations to...
Global hunger is at record levels and rising, according to the latest figures from the UN. Up to 828 million people went hungry in 2021, the ‘ State of Food...
A global food crisis fuelled by conflict, climate shocks and the COVID-19 pandemic is growing because of the ripple effects of the war in Ukraine driving rising prices of food,...
UN and NGO partners raise the alarm: Over 30 million Sahelians, most of whom are women and children, require life-saving assistance and protection, an increase of almost two million from...
Humanitarian needs are increasing rapidly, globally, across many countries, from limited access to food, safe water, health, and nutrition services that have a direct effect on livelihoods. To prevent further...
The following statement is a joint alert by meteorological agencies and humanitarian partners. 30 May, 2022; Nairobi, Kenya: The current extreme, widespread, and persistent multi-season drought affecting Somalia, the arid...
What’s the connection between food safety and food security? Food security means having regular access to enough safe and nutritious food to lead an active and healthy life. That makes...
An estimated 8.3 million (8M South Sudanese, 0.3M refugees) people are expected to experience severe food insecurity by the depth of the lean season (May – July) 2022
The gFSC organized a special Global Partners’ Meeting on Ukraine crisis and its repercussions on major food crisis at global level. gFSC members and FSC teams in countries are already...
Snapshot Worsening drought is putting some areas across Somalia at risk of Famine through June 2022 if the current April to June Gu season rains fail, food prices continue to...
World Food Programme, FAO and UNICEF issue join forces to sound alarm - as WFP calls for US$1.97 billion to save lives. Thirty-one thousand people are facing famine-like conditions in...
Snapshot A projection update analysis was conducted in Haiti in February 2022 to update the IPC Acute Food Insecurity projection originally released in September 2021, on the basis that new...
Overview The acute food insecurity and malnutrition situation in Yemen has deteriorated further in 2022, with 17.4 million people (IPC Phase 3 and above) in need of assistance as of...
