{"id":135849,"date":"2024-12-04T09:10:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T07:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/un-seeks-47-billion-in-aid-as-donor-appetite-shrinks-while-crises-multiply\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T09:10:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T07:10:25","slug":"un-seeks-47-billion-in-aid-as-donor-appetite-shrinks-while-crises-multiply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/un-seeks-47-billion-in-aid-as-donor-appetite-shrinks-while-crises-multiply\/","title":{"rendered":"UN seeks $47 billion in aid as donor appetite shrinks while crises multiply"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135849\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>The United Nations on Wednesday sought $47 billion in aid for 2025 to help around 190 million people fleeing conflict and battling starvation, at a time when this year&#8217;s appeal is not even half-funded and officials fear cuts from Western states including the top donor, the U.S. Facing what the new U.N. aid chief Tom Fletcher describes as &#8221;an unprecedented level of suffering&#8221;, the U.N. hopes to reach people in 32 countries next year, including those in war-torn Sudan, Syria, Gaza and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;The world is on fire, and this is how we put it out,&#8221; Fletcher told reporters in Geneva. &#8221;We need to reset our relationship with those in greatest need on the planet,&#8221; said Fletcher, a former British diplomat who started as head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) last month. The appeal is the fourth largest in OCHA&#8217;s history, but Fletcher said it leaves out some 115 million people whose needs the agency cannot realistically hope to fund: &#8221;We&#8217;ve got to be absolutely focused on reaching those in the most dire need, and really ruthless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. cut its 2024 appeal to $46 billion from $56 billion the previous year as donor appetite faded, but it is still only 43% funded, one of the worst rates in history. Washington has given over $10 billion, about half the funds received. Aid workers have had to make tough choices, cutting food assistance by 80% in Syria and water services in cholera-prone Yemen, OCHA said.<\/p>\n<p>Aid is just one part of total spending by the U.N., which has for years failed to meet its core budget due to countries&#8217; unpaid dues. While incoming president Donald Trump halted some U.N. spending during his first term, he left U.N. aid budgets intact. This time, aid officials and diplomats see cuts as a possibility. &#8221;The U.S. is a tremendous question mark,&#8221; said Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, who held Fletcher&#8217;s post from 2003-2006. &#8221;I fear that we may be bitterly disappointed because the global mood and the national political developments are not in our favour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Project 2025, a set of conservative proposals whose authors include some Trump advisers, takes aim at &#8221;wasteful budget increases&#8221; by the main U.S. relief agency, USAID. The incoming Trump administration did not respond to a request for comment. Fletcher cited &#8221;the disintegration of our systems for international solidarity&#8221; and called for a broadening of the donor base. Asked about Trump&#8217;s impact, he said: &#8221;I don&#8217;t believe that there isn&#8217;t compassion in these governments which are getting elected.&#8221; One of the challenges is that crises are now lasting longer &#8211; an average of 10 years, according to OCHA. Mike Ryan, World Health Organization emergencies chief, said some states were entering a &#8221;permanent state of crisis&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission &#8211; the European Union executive body &#8211; and Germany are the number two and three donors to U.N. aid budgets this year. Charlotte Slente, Secretary General of the Danish Refugee Council, said Europe&#8217;s contributions were also in doubt as funds are shifted to defence:\u00a0 &#8221;It&#8217;s a more fragile, unpredictable world [than in Trump&#8217;s first term], with more crises and, should the U.S. administration cut its humanitarian funding, it could be more complex to fill the gap of growing needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/un-seeks-47-billion-aid-donor-appetite-shrinks-while-crises-multiply-2024-12-04\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/un-seeks-47-billion-in-aid-as-donor-appetite-shrinks-while-crises-multiply\/\">UN seeks $47 billion in aid as donor appetite shrinks while crises multiply<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[17187,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-135849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-un-seeks-47-billion-in-aid-as-donor-appetite-shrinks","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}