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Financing humanitarian needs amid the Covid-19 pandemic

Factsheet

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This factsheet presents updated analysis on humanitarian assistance being provided to meet needs emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic. It looks at who is receiving assistance, who this assistance is coming from, and how funding is being channelled. It also looks at the coverage of UN appeal requirements and how the proportions of requirements met for response to the pandemic compare with the proportions met for other crises.

Building on earlier analysis presented in the Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2020, the factsheet focuses on humanitarian financing going to the Covid-19 pandemic response and looks at out how – in the midst of the pandemic – the funding picture is changing. This factsheet provides information on:

  • the largest recipients of humanitarian assistance for response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and how much these countries are receiving;
  • the largest donors of this assistance, and how much they are contributing;
  • the extent to which appeal requirements are being met for the pandemic response, compared to other needs for other crises;
  • channels of delivery.

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