As at 31 March, the global funding requirements for humanitarian response plans and appeals for 2016 are over US$20.1 billion to meet the needs of 88.7 million people across 38 countries.
About $1.5 billion in funding has been received so far, leaving a shortfall of $18.6 billion. The outstanding pledges amount to over $124.4 million as reported to the Financial Tracking Service (FTS).New plans in March included the Fiji Tropical Cyclone Winston Flash Appeal seeking $39 million and the Burundi Humanitarian Response Plan requiring $62.3 million. The global figures are likely to increase further in the course of 2016.
Urgent funding to time-sensitive needs is required in some operational priorities where there are risks of severe consequences due to seasonal cycles or impending breaks in funding pipelines.
These include operations in Somalia, South Sudan and Ethiopia and the emergency response to needs in the aftermath of the cyclone in Fiji. Please see icon overleaf for further information.For the El Niño-related needs, an estimated $2.4 billion has been appealed through government or Humanitarian Country Team plans in the countries of greatest concern. The funding gap is about $1.5 billion, of which over $600 million is required for Ethiopia alone.
Meanwhile, by the end of March, the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has received almost $224 million in contributions for 2016; and allocated more than $160 million through its underfunded emergencies (UFE) and rapid response (RR) windows. The Fund has allocated almost $60 million in rapid response grants to eleven countries. Most recently, funds have been allocated in response to the tropical cyclone Winston in Fiji; yellow fever outbreak in Angola; and refugee response in South Sudan; while CERF has continued responding to humanitarian consequences of the global El Niño phenomenon - in Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique, Somalia and Swaziland. The first allocation round, of $100 million, to sustain life-saving relief in nine severely underfunded crises, was finalised in March.
The global figures in this document (88.7 million people and over $20.1 billion requirements) do not include RRP country chapters already covered in corresponding HRPs.