Falling short? Humanitarian funding and reform
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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2023 saw a reduction in humanitarian assistance and mixed progress on key areas of reform – localisation, cash and voucher assistance and anticipatory action
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Global humanitarian assistance: Crisis and funding response
Humanitarian financing stalled in 2023 and is set to drop further in 2024, at a time when the funding gap is the highest it has ever been.
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Funding to local and national actors
Grand Bargain donors provided just 0.6% of funding directly to local and national actors, and transparency of intermediaries remains a challenge.
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Cash and voucher assistance
In 2023, volumes of humanitarian cash and voucher assistance fell for the first time, matching overall trends, and continued to mostly be delivered by international actors.
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Pre-arranged finance for anticipatory action
Anticipatory action accounted for a tiny fraction of humanitarian funding in 2023, despite its potential to more effectively mitigate impacts from a greater proportion of disasters than reactive responses.
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Methodology and definitions
Details of the methodology and definitions used in this report – including data sources, acronyms and abbreviations.
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Acknowledgements
Thank you to those who contributed to and supported the publication of this report.
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Acronyms and abbreviations
A list of the acronyms and abbreviations we have used across the report.
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