The Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2023 assesses the international financing response to crisis. Development Initiatives finds that more needs went unmet in 2022 than ever before.
Read online DownloadsOur new 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.
Read the reportDI CEO Adrian Lovett considers the report findings, finding some positive developments, and also a drive for new ways of thinking and working across the humanitarian system.
Read the forewordNew and continuing crises increased the pressure on the humanitarian system, and funding fell short of demand. What are the key opportunities for reform?
Read the executive summaryChapter One
Conflict, climate and ongoing pandemic impacts have left an estimated 406.6 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. Despite unprecedented response to certain appeals, the funding gap grew by volume.
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Humanitarian crises are increasing in number and lasting longer. Forced displacement and food insecurity – both worsened by the war in Ukraine – drove the significant rise in need.
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Total funding increased, but only 1.2% went directly to local and national actors. Progress against commitments to enable locally led responses is too little and too slow.
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Joint action between humanitarian, development, peacebuilding and climate actors is needed to ensure the root causes of crisis are addressed as well as the consequences.
Read chapter fourChapter Five
Details of the methodology and definitions used in this report – including data sources, acronyms and abbreviations.
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Thank you to those who contributed to and supported the publication of the Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2023.
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A list of the acronyms and abbreviations we have used across the report.
Read appendix twoOur new 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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This report, produced by Development Initiatives and SIDA, finds that protracted crisis countries increasingly rely on humanitarian assistance over funding for development and peace objectives.
The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) commissioned DI to conduct research into the role of local and national actors in the response to the current hunger crisis in South Sudan.
Development Initiatives, in partnership with UNICEF and Oxfam, conducted this research on overhead allocation in the humanitarian sector on behalf of the IASC Results Group 5. This work informed the development of guidance which has now been endorsed and published by the IASC.