AMMAN — Donor governments pledged a record $1.054 billion Tuesday
to support the
UNHCR’s work in 2022, enabling it to continue lifesaving
programs worldwide for millions of people who have been forced to flee. A
further $808 million has been pledged for the UNHCR’s programs in 2023 and
beyond.
اضافة اعلان
“I am
grateful to all our donors for this vote of confidence. This funding is vital
to support refugees, internally displaced and stateless people. The strong
commitment also signals solidarity with the communities and countries hosting
them,”
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Filippo Grandi said.
“While this funding is crucial, I am afraid it will not be
enough given the growing challenges we foresee in 2022 and displaced people’s
needs, largely driven by conflict, climate change, and
COVID-19 — three
scourges that the world has failed to stop,” he added. “We will need greater
action in these areas if we are to turn the page on a disastrous period of
proliferating violence, disease and hardship.”
The UNHCR’s 2022 Global Appeal covers operations in
136 countries and territories, and is based on an approved budget of $8.994
billion. Almost half of this reflects the cost of responding to emergencies
assisting a record number of forcibly displaced people, especially in the
Middle East and Africa, as well as the millions who have fled their homes in
places such as Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Venezuela, and beyond.
In response to these and other crises, the UNHCR’s key
activities in 2022 focus on refugee and child protection, emergency
preparedness and relief items for urgent deployment, cash assistance for the
most vulnerable, health and food security, preventing and responding to
gender-based violence, providing water and sanitation, nutrition support,
shelter, education, livelihoods, clean energy and environmental protection as
well as support for stateless people.
Despite the continued rising trend in forced displacement —
there were 84 million forcibly displaced people at the beginning of 2021, and the
UNHCR’s planning and budgeting for 2022 is against a projected increase in this
number in 2022 — there are some glimmers of hope.
Progress has also been made in the inclusion of refugees,
displaced and stateless people in national health, education and social
protection systems, in spite of the debilitating impact of the pandemic.
Governments have made pledges to this end through the Global Compact
on Refugees and these must continue to be resourced. “In addition to
humanitarian aid, it is important that the international community builds on
the progress made over the past years and provides even more bilateral
development support to countries and communities hosting large numbers of
refugees,” said Grandi.
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