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+title: "UN Humanitarian Agencies Reduce 2024 Funding Requests As Gap Widens Between Resources and Needs"
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+region_title: "Global & Transnational Products"
+date_published: 2024-04-23
+product_id: "U2923"
+product_pdf: "World_HumanitarianFunding_2024Apr23_HIU_U2923.pdf"
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+keywords:
+  - UN
+  - funding
+  - appeals
+  - humanitarian
+  - assistance
+  - aid budgets
+  - people in need
+  - targeted beneficiaries
+  - funding requests
+  - gap
+  - displacement
+  - disasters
+  - climate change
+  - conflict
+  - violence
+  - disease
+  - regional response plans
+  - flash appeals
+
+tweet: "New HIU infographic on global funding for humanitarian assistance:"
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+The UN called for $49 billion for its 2024 humanitarian programs, down from $56 billion in 2023. The smaller appeal comes as UN agencies navigate a steep anticipated downturn in aid budgets worldwide, at a time when 2023 donor contributions already only covered 43% of the $56 billion appeal. The smaller 2024 appeal represents the UN’s reduction in targeted beneficiaries to only those in need of life-sustaining assistance. Worldwide, the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance has tripled in the past decade and is very likely to continue to increase due to historically high levels of need stemming from conflicts, climate disasters, disease, and violence.