Global Humanitarian Overview 2024, January Update (Snapshot as of 31 January 2024)

Inter-Agency Coordinated Appeals: January Update

PEOPLE IN NEED 301M
PEOPLE TARGETED 181.1M
APPEALS 36
REQUIREMENTS (US$)$ 46.6B

The 2024 GHO launched in December 2023 required $46.6 billion to assist 181 million of the 301 million people in need of aid in 73 countries. The Middle East and North African region requires $13.9 billion, the largest total for any region in 2024 and accounting for 30 per cent of the Global Humanitarian Overview. East and Southern Africa requires $10.9 billion, while West and Central Africa calls for $8.3 billion. Asia and the Pacific will require $5.5 billion, Eastern Europe $4.1 billion, and Latin America and the Caribbean $3.6 billion.

This year’s GHO adopted a lightened Humanitarian Programme Cycle that further prioritised the number of people targeted to receive aid. In another step forward, nine countries are publishing online documents (or expanded content), and several have merged their Humanitarian Needs Overview and Humanitarian Response Plan into new “Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan” – HNRP – that provides a clear and compelling overview of humanitarian needs and the response strategy. The nine pilot countries are Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Ukraine. Their documents can be accessed on Humanitarian Action.

The pilots demonstrate the versatility of an online document, for example, being fully searchable, integrating interactive maps and charts – such as a severity of need by region for South Sudan – or providing online annexes to a shortened HNRP, as Somalia