INTRODUCTION
ACAPS’ Humanitarian Access Overview provides a snapshot of the most challenging contexts for humanitarian access globally in the past six months.
In the Global Humanitarian Access Index, ACAPS analysts considered nine variables for ranking and comparing humanitarian access levels worldwide. Data was gathered per specific crisis at the national, subnational, and regional levels. Information was then aggregated at the country level, and a country score was provided as an indication of the humanitarian access situation.
Between June–November 2024, crisis-affected populations in 36 countries experienced high to extreme access constraints that made it difficult for them to meet their basic needs.
By November, ACAPS was monitoring humanitarian crises in 93 countries around the world.
Access scores show a deterioration in 20% of the crisis-affected countries (19 countries) and an improvement in 14% (13 countries), while the humanitarian access situation remained stable for 66% (61 countries). This stability, however, mostly indicates the persistence of severe access constraints, with 43% of the crisis-affected countries where humanitarian access has remained stable scoring between high to extreme access levels (3–5).
This issue of the Global Humanitarian Access Overview focuses on one indicator from the humanitarian access analysis framework: violence against personnel, facilities and assets.
This includes security incidents, such as attacks, abductions, the killing of workers, and the looting of humanitarian warehouses or humanitarian assets. The emphasis on this indicator stems from the surge in high-intensity armed conflicts worldwide, making the security and safety of humanitarian workers even more challenging. Consequently, the report mainly focuses on a selection of conflict-affected crises and examines the trend for these security incidents, their impact on humanitarian response, and how the situation might evolve in the coming months based on historical data.