UNICEF released an emergency appeal to get $ 4.2 billion donation in order to be able to reach 59 million children with life-saving support in 64 countries across the globe. It is its biggest ask of donors yet, representing 3.5 times the funds requested in 2010.<\/p>\n
\u201cAround the world today, we\u2019re seeing the largest number of children in need of emergency assistance since we began record-keeping. One in four children lives in a country affected by conflict or disaster\u201d, said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore. \u201cHistoric numbers of children forcibly uprooted from their homes urgently require protection and support. Conflict remains the major driver, while hunger, infectious disease, and extreme weather events related to climate change force millions of others to seek life-saving aid.\u201d<\/p>\n
UNICEF\u2019s\u00a0Humanitarian Action for Children<\/em>\u00a0sets out the agency\u2019s 2020 appeal and its work to provide conflict- and disaster-affected children with access to water, sanitation, nutrition, education, health and protection services. Overall, including adults, the appeal covers emergency support to 95 million people.<\/p>\n The five largest individual appeals are for\u00a0Syrian refugees and host communities in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey ($ 864.1 million); Yemen ($ 535 million); Syria ($ 294.8 million); the Democratic Republic of the Congo ($ 262.7 million); and South Sudan ($ 180.5 million).<\/p>\n Reaching the growing numbers of children affected by crises worldwide \u2013 especially in countries that typically receive less funding \u2013 requires not just additional funding, but funding that is more \u201cflexible\u201d, Fore said.<\/p>\n \u201cOur ability to provide children with support from the moment disaster hits until they can get back to their normal lives requires funding that is quickly available, multi-year and isn\u2019t tied to particular countries or issues. Flexible funding helps us save more lives and protect more futures.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2019, flexible funding enabled UNICEF to respond to a dramatic increase of insecurity and displacement in Burkina Faso and Mali, two countries whose emergency appeals are still less than one-fifth funded.<\/p>\n The 2019 appeal \u2013 set at $3.92 billion and revised upwards to $4.13 billion mid-year, was 57 percent funded as of 1 November, including $761 million in multi-year funds carried over from the previous year.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UNICEF released an emergency appeal to get $ 4.2 billion donation in order to be able to reach 59 million children with life-saving support in 64 countries across the globe. It is its biggest ask of donors yet, representing 3.5 times the funds requested in 2010. \u201cAround the world today, we\u2019re seeing the largest number […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":47624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,6030],"tags":[7596,6498,6497],"yoast_head":"\n