Global Humanitarian Overview 2024, September Update (Snapshot as of 30 September 2024)

Table of contents

• Inter-Agency Coordinated Appeals: September Update 2
• Lebanon 3
• Regional Focus: 6
• Latin Ameria and the Caribbean 6
• Pooled Funds 8

The 2024 Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) requires $49 billion to assist 187.6 million of the people in need across 73 countries through 43 coordinated response plans.

More than $1.7 billion was reported during the month of September, bringing GHO funding to $16.21 billion. This is $1.42 billion or eight per cent less than at the same time last year. Coverage of appeal requirements has reached 32.7 per cent, meanwhile, the gap between the financial requirements and funding currently stands at more than $32 billion.

Total reported humanitarian funding has reached $22.48 billion, which is a decrease of around seven per cent compared to the amount recorded at the same time last year ($24.3 billion).

While it is early to predict end-year funding and coverage of GHO requirements, analysis of trends and donor intentions indicate that it is unlikely that the 2024 funding will reach the amount recorded for 2023 ($25.11 billion) and that coverage will remain below the previous five-year average of 55 per cent.

By end September 2024, total income projections for 2024 to the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) remain concerningly low and at $524.6 million, the lowest level since 2017. This will have direct and drastic consequences on the Fund’s ability to allocate funding in rapid-onset and underfunded crises until the of the year.

Expected income to the Country-based Pooled Funds (CBPFs), reached $838.3 million by the end of September 2024. The outlook for the funds in 2024 and 2025 remains concerning and worrying for the Funds’ operationality. A more comprehensive overview of the CBPFs will be provided in the October update.