The annual Global Humanitarian Assistance (GHA) report comprehensively assesses international financing at work in humanitarian situations since 2000.
For 20 years, Development Initiative’s annual Global Humanitarian Assistance (GHA)
report has comprehensively assessed international financing at work in humanitarian
situations. Now, the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic presents a new challenge to the
world. As the global crisis unfolds, and the response continues to take shape, the
GHA Report 2020 frames the crisis financing landscape in which the pandemic has
become the pre-eminent feature.
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed existing weaknesses in national and global
systems, structures and leadership. We cannot yet see the scale of the global fall-out,
but early evidence already shows disproportionate impact on the world’s most
vulnerable people – those already living in fragility and poverty, already in or at
risk of crisis. As ever, the GHA Report 2020 looks back to analyse existing crises and
vulnerabilities, and the financing at work to help those in need. This year, we have
added new analysis to examine the financing response to Covid-19, illustrating a
humanitarian system under immense strain.
