Extra 65 million people will need help in 2023 – UN
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On Thursday, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released a record $51.5 billion humanitarian appeal for 2023 with 339 million people in need of assistance in 69 countries.
The cost of the humanitarian response in 2023, according to the OCHA estimation in Geneva, is estimated at $51.5 billion, a 25 percent increase compared to the beginning of 2022.
The Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, said, “Humanitarian needs are shockingly high, as this year’s extreme events are spilling into 2023.”
Griffiths added that “Lethal droughts and floods” extending from Pakistan to the Horn of Africa and Russian-Ukrainian war have turned a portion of Europe to a war arena, where “more than 100 million people are now displaced worldwide.”
He went further saying that the 2023 Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) the US released in cooperation with NGOs and other humanitarian partners reveals that no less than 222 million individuals in 53 states will be at risk of “acute food insecurity by the end of 2022.”
The GHO is the humanitarian community’s annual assessment of global humanitarian needs and resources required to respond to them.
An estimated 45 million individuals in 37 states will face starvation, in a time when public health falls under big pressure by coronavirus, monkeypox, vectorborne, Ebola and cholera diseases.
In term of reaching global gender parity, Griffith noted that “it will take four generations – 132 years…388 million women and girls live in extreme poverty.”
The response plans in the GHO cover at least 25 countries among them are Arabic ones including Syria.