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Escalation in the Middle East and Beyond: The Humanitarian Response

Issued in March 2026, Escalation in the Middle East and Beyond: The Humanitarian Response outlines the rapidly worsening humanitarian consequences of expanding hostilities across the Middle East and neighbouring regions. Civilians are bearing the brunt of the violence through deaths, displacement, destruction of essential services, and severe constraints on humanitarian access. The escalation has triggered the most significant global humanitarian supply‑chain disruptions since COVID‑19, driving up costs and delaying life‑saving assistance far beyond the region. Humanitarian partners are responding across Iran, Lebanon, the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Syria, Afghanistan and beyond, prioritizing life‑saving aid, protection of civilians, support to local responders, and respect for international humanitarian law, while urgently calling for de‑escalation and flexible funding to sustain the response.

GHO

Global Humanitarian Overview 2026

The GHO 2026 presents an analysis of global crises and needs and the humanitarian plans to address them. In 2026, humanitarian partners are appealing for almost US$33 billion to assist 135 million people in crisis, with the immediate priority being to mobilize $23 billion to save 87 million lives. The GHO presents a collective picture of humanitarians' achievements and, conversely, what happens when humanitarians are unable to deliver aid.

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GHO

Foreword by the Emergency Relief Coordinator

"This year’s Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) is the latest diagnosis of the staggering scale of global suffering, the challenges we face in responding, the case for moral imagination and moral ambition ... It is our clarion call to the world, our plan—laser focused, stripped back, costed, rooted in solidarity but also reform, evidence and efficiency—to save 87 million lives in 2026."

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Operations

People in need (all plans)

252.1 million
People targeted (all plans)

143.2 million

Requirements (US$)

$33.66 billion
Funding (US$)

$8.31 billion
% Funded

24.7%

Number of plans

35
Countries affected

55

Plan table

06-Jun-2026

Plans	Plan type	People in need	People targeted	Requirements	Funding	% Funded
Afghanistan	HNRP	21.9 million	17.5 million	$1.71 billion	$283.6 million	16.5%
Burkina Faso	HNRP	4.5 million	2.7 million	$658.5 million	$95.9 million	14.6%
Cameroon	HNRP	2.9 million	1.9 million	$319 million	$75.8 million	23.8%
Central African Republic	HNRP	2.3 million	1.3 million	$264.1 million	$58.3 million	22.1%
Chad	HNRP	4.5 million	3.4 million	$986.1 million	$251.7 million	25.5%
Colombia	HNRP	6.9 million	2.7 million	$287 million	$160.9 million	56.1%
Democratic Republic of the Congo	HNRP	14.9 million	7.3 million	$1.40 billion	$497.8 million	35.5%
Haiti	HNRP	6.4 million	4.2 million	$880.3 million	$202.1 million	23.0%
Mali	HNRP	5.1 million	3.8 million	$577.9 million	$96.3 million	16.7%
Mozambique	HNRP	2.4 million	1.7 million	$534.3 million	$144.6 million	27.1%
Myanmar	HNRP	16.2 million	4.9 million	$889.6 million	$344.2 million	38.7%
Niger	HNRP	3.1 million	2 million	$675.6 million	$95 million	14.1%
Nigeria	HNRP	5.9 million	2.5 million	$516.4 million	$231.8 million	44.9%
Somalia	HNRP	4.8 million	2.4 million	$852 million	$168.7 million	19.8%
South Sudan	HNRP	9.9 million	4.3 million	$1.46 billion	$379.8 million	26.0%
Sudan	HNRP	33.7 million	20.4 million	$2.87 billion	$671.3 million	23.4%
Syrian Arab Republic	HNRP	15.6 million	8.6 million	$2.92 billion	$545.2 million	18.7%
Ukraine	HNRP	10.8 million	4.1 million	$2.30 billion	$992.5 million	43.1%
Venezuela	HNRP	7.9 million	5.5 million	$632.2 million	$102.4 million	16.2%
Yemen	HNRP	22.3 million	12 million	$2.16 billion	$318.1 million	14.7%
Lebanon	FA	1.4 million	1.4 million	$639.9 million	$190.6 million	29.8%
Madagascar	FA	0.6 million	455 thousand	$68 million	$36.3 million	53.4%
Occupied Palestinian Territory	FA	3.6 million	3 million	$4.06 billion	$595.6 million	14.6%
Horn of Africa to Yemen and Southern Africa (MRP)	REG	1.4 million	0.9 million	$53 million	$32.8 million	62.0%
Islamic Republic of Iran (RRP)	REG	2.8 million	2.8 million	$80 million	$38.6 million	48.3%
Rohingya (JRP)	REG	1.9 million	1.6 million	$710.5 million	$271.9 million	38.3%
Sudan (RRP)	REG	2.6 million	2.6 million	$496.9 million	$83.2 million	16.7%
Syria (3RP)	REG	15.3 million	8.6 million	$2.80 billion	$164.4 million	5.9%
Uganda (RRP)	REG	2.2 million	2.2 million	$828.7 million	$149.4 million	18.0%
Venezuela (RMRP)	REG	6.9 million	1.5 million	$763.1 million	$77.1 million	10.1%
Cuba	Other	4.2 million	2 million	$81.8 million	$17.2 million	21.1%
GHO 2026 (Plan not yet defined)	Other	-	-	$0	$886.6 million	0%
Pakistan	Other	2.8 million	1.9 million	$64.9 million	$23.4 million	36.0%
Sri Lanka	Other	1.2 million	0.7 million	$35.3 million	$19.7 million	55.7%
Viet Nam (Multiple Typhoons 2025-2026)	Other	1.4 million	0.7 million	$61.1 million	$3.2 million	5.2%

Monitoring humanitarian action: an interactive dashboard

This consolidated monitoring dashboard brings together humanitarian needs, targeting, requirements, funding and response progress, with selected indicators disaggregated across administrative levels to support analysis from national to sub-national scale.