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UNICEF seeks $1.2 billion for emergency assistance

By Assam News on February 5, 2010 at 12:04 pm

On Thursday, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) released its Humanitarian Action Report (HAR) 2010, which highlights the situation of children and women in 28 countries and territories that have been identified as being in the most desperate need, and seeks $1.2 billion to help them.

UNICEF in Haiti The Humanitarian Action Report 2010 examines the most severe crises in the world, which require exceptional support. The 28 countries and territories are included in the report on the basis of the scale and chronic or protracted nature of the crisis, the severity of its impact on children and women, and the potential to bring about life-saving results. In these cases, urgent action is imperative to save lives, ensure access to safe water, adequate sanitation and hygiene, health, nutrition and to protect children against the worst forms of violence and abuse, and to provide children with education - even under the worst of circumstances.

The focus of this year’s Humanitarian Action Report is partnerships. In recent years, UNICEF and its partners have invested significantly in risk reduction, emergency preparedness, early warning mechanisms, and response and recovery systems.  UNICEF’s partnerships can help foster the needed innovation, outreach, participation and effective programming to make a difference for the ever-increasing number of children in need.

The HAR 2010 also points to evolving global trends which pose cumulative risks to children including climate change, global economic volatility, and the changing nature of conflict – particularly the widespread prevalence of sexual violence against children and women.  The ongoing global financial crisis, compounded by unstable food prices, is causing increases in poverty and malnutrition, and severely threatening progress that has been made for children in some developing countries. Children and women have been especially hard hit.

With the severity of the crises in Asia, financial needs are expected to more than double in 2010. However, the greatest needs are still in sub-Saharan Africa, where some 24 million people in the Horn of Africa are being affected by drought, chronic food insecurity and armed conflict in 2009. Sudan, Chad, Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are facing internal and/or cross-border violence and mass displacement, and problems of humanitarian access. The situation also remains severe in Zimbabwe, deepening the vulnerability of the country’s children and women.

Source: UNICEF



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