Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2022
The Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2022 provides a critical overview of the crisis financing landscape. Development Initiatives finds that total funding has plateaued despite historically high demand.
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Our report 'Falling short? Humanitarian funding and reform' presents the latest data on global humanitarian assistance, as well as progress on Grand Bargain localisation targets, cash and voucher assistance, and anticipatory action.
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Financing for humanitarian response faces overlapping climate, Covid-19 and conflict-related challenges as donors struggle to meet unrelenting growth in need.
Read the forewordExecutive summary
Growth in international humanitarian assistance has stalled against a backdrop of escalating need driven by climate change, Covid-19 and emergent conflict in Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Ukraine.
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People and crisis
In 2021, there were an estimated 306 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, of whom 74% were experiencing protracted crisis. Intersecting risks in vulnerable states are complicating response.
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Volumes of humanitarian and wider crisis financing
Total international humanitarian assistance has plateaued with the second-highest shortfall in funding recorded. A small proportion of climate finance goes to countries already at risk of multiple crises.
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Donors of humanitarian and wider crisis financing
A second large drop in UK funding contrasted with increases from the two largest donors, as multilateral development banks play an increasing role in countries experiencing crisis.
Read chapter three- Summary
- International humanitarian assistance: largest donors
- Largest donors of gender-relevant humanitarian funding
- Private donors of humanitarian assistance
- Multilateral development bank financing to countries experiencing crisis
- World Bank financing in crisis contexts
- Development financing for disaster risk reduction
Chapter Four
Recipients and delivery of humanitarian funding
Efforts to improve the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of funding continued in 2021 but progress on the Grand Bargain is uneven as direct funding to local and national actors fell…
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Methodology and definitions
Details of the methodology and definitions used in this report – including data sources, acronyms and abbreviations.
Read chapter five- What is humanitarian assistance?
- Cash
- Channels of delivery
- Climate-related ODA
- Country and region naming conventions
- Crisis categories
- Deflators
- Dimensions of vulnerability, fragility and risk
- Disaster risk reduction
- Earmarked funding
- Exchange rates
- Funding for local and national actors
- Gender-relevant international humanitarian assistance
- International humanitarian assistance
- People in need and people targeted for assistance
- Food insecurity
- Private funding
- Protracted crisis countries
- Rounding
- UN-coordinated appeals
- World bank financing in crisis contexts
appendix one
Acknowledgements
Thank you to those who contributed to and supported the publication of the Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2022.
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Acronyms and abbreviations
A list of the acronyms and abbreviations we have used across the report.
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