I have just allocated $25 million from @UNCERF to address Gender-Based Violence programming in humanitarian emergencies.
https://t.co/6SIkoxL68v
#EndGBV#InvestInHumanity
‘’These shelter materials were like a lifeboat for me and those like me” said Qaid, a 65-year-old displaced father.
@UNmigration & @CBPFs for Yemen (@YHF_Yemen) provided displaced people affected by floods w/shelter and & supporting items in 🇾🇪
via @IOM_Yemen#InvestInHumanity
In Niger, thousands affected by floods face the risk of waterborne diseases.
In response, @UNCERF allocated $5M to provide urgent and critical life-saving aid to 182,000 vulnerable people.
Read more & #InvestInHumanity➡️https://t.co/c1OJ99gROU w/@OCHA_Niger
🔹Information
🔹Funding
🔹Access
🔹Advocacy
This is how OCHA supports humanitarians, so that they can help the millions of people caught up in crisis. https://t.co/Ha3vU9ePLh
Rhetoric is way ahead of the reality of our collective action to end gender-based violence. Because of the pandemic, gender equality, women’s rights, & even women's physical safety is in more jeopardy now. What to do? My remarks at the #CalltoActionGBV https://t.co/GAJ4XSydM1
A deadly combination of conflict & climatic shocks is driving up suffering around the world.
Thank you @PMaurerICRC @BelgiumUN@EUatUN@Niger_ONU for the #UNGA High-level Event on The humanitarian Impact of Combined Conflict, Climate and Environmental Risks.
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With US$9M from the @CBPFs for CAR, a @WFP_UNHAS's helicopter is enabling the delivery of life-saving assistance in hard-to-reach areas in 🇨🇫
Read more and #InvestInHumanity w/@OCHA_CAR https://t.co/8VfPb2TN0g
Through @UNCERF and @CBPFs, @UNOCHA ensures humanitarian organizations have the funds and resources they need to respond during emergencies.
Read more and #InvestInHumanity ➡️https://t.co/6y83z579Xf
.@UNOCHA's pooled funds (@UNCERF& @CBPFs) channeled
💲1.5 billion to
👨🏾⚕️thousands of life-saving projects in
🌍48 countries
prioritizing support for
🚺 women & girls
♿️ people w/disabilities
📚education
🛡️protection
Learn more➡️https://t.co/6y83z579Xf
#InvestInHumanity
Since February, @UNOCHA's Pooled Funds (@UNCERF & @CBPFs) have released $309M to fight the #COVID19 outbreak.
$152M went to NGOs to kick start lifesaving activities.
Check out more in our InfoGraphic: https://t.co/HJwLZPYqRL
#InvestInHumanity
To ensure emergency aid is effectively delivered to crisis-affected people, the CAR Humanitarian Fund regularly monitors funded projects, meets with beneficiaries, implementing partners and authorities. This year @CBPFs has allocated US$ 21.9 M to assist crisis-affected people
Decisions taken now will have consequences for decades. In the @guardian today, I urge int'l financial institutions to take three quick and crucial steps now to help stave off worse suffering in years to come. Read: https://t.co/oncdjnWe9m #UNGA
"Larger economies have been flexible and creative coping with #COVID19 impact – the same mindset needs to be applied to helping poorer countries."
- @UNReliefChief urges financial institutions to support vulnerable countries in @guardian op-ed. https://t.co/UNI5OySDo0
Israel must immediately allow entry of fuel and other essential items into #Gaza; Hamas must end actions risking further destabilization. Read my full statement: https://t.co/jZ14PSI84b
"If not this support [from @triangle_gh & the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund], I don't know how I would have coped with all of these challenges," says Tetiana, one of the 1.1 million elderly & persons with disabilities living in e. #Ukraine.
➡️Read her story: https://t.co/hv8THOAvD9
Last year @UNCERF allocated a record US$539M to support 29M+ people in 49 countries. I am grateful to our partners for their life-saving work and our donors for making this possible. More in our 2019 Annual Results Report➡️https://t.co/uHDqJ4JZe1 #InvestInHumanity