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Children during lunch provided by a UN-funded school feeding programme at Kabasa Primary School in Doolow, Somalia in 2022. Photo: OCHA/Yao Chen

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87 million lives campaign

Our 87-day campaign to rally support from new and existing donors for 87 million people with most severe needs covered by our global humanitarian appeal launched on 8 December 2025. Learn more about the campaign.

What we do

We mobilize aid, share information, support humanitarian efforts, and advocate for crisis-affected communities.

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Where we work

Our presence in crisis-affected regions, combined with our expert team, allows us to rapidly respond and provide support to those in need.

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How you can help

Nearly every humanitarian response is critically underfunded. Every cent counts, and saves lives. Contribute today!

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Current responses

Staff from OCHA and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) Humanitarian Fund visit a project in Gaza that aims to remove waste and restore access to clean water. The project, funded by the OPT Humanitarian Fund, is implemented by the international NGO, Première Urgence Internationale in partnership with the national NGO, Agricultural Development Association - PARC. It aims to restore access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene services for 10,000 displaced and returnee individuals in Gaza, Deir Al Balah

Occupied Palestinian Territory

The Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) faces a protracted political crisis characterized by more than 55 years of Israeli military occupation, internal Palestinian divisions, and recurrent escalations of hostilities.

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A woman seeks medical counsel at a health facility supported by the OCHA-managed Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund in Dawlatabad District, Faryab Province. Photo: OCHA/Abdullah Zahid

Afghanistan

Afghanistan is facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis with a serious risk of systemic collapse and human catastrophe.

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Displaced children in Burkina Faso access education through radio-based learning, funded by the Regional Humanitarian Fund, offering an alternative path to schooling.

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso continues to face the worst humanitarian crisis in its history, with one in four Burkinabè now in need of humanitarian assistance.

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Karen Perrin, OCHA’s head of office in Cameroon, plants a tree in the Minawao refugee camp in the country’s northern border, as part of a reforestation project in response to the drought. Photo: OCHA//Bibiane Mouangue

Cameroon

Nine out of 10 regions in Cameroon are affected by three complex humanitarian crises: the Lake Chad basin conflict, the North-West and South-West crisis, and the Central African Republic (CAR) refugee crisis.

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Three women and a young man look at the camera. Some of the women are clutching a plastic sheet. A UN vehicle and tents can be seen in the background.

Chad

The humanitarian crisis in Chad is becoming more entrenched due to growing food insecurity and malnutrition, forced displacement, the effects of climate change, and political, socioeconomic, health and sanitation challenges.

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Community members trained by the NGO, the Alliance for International Medical Action demonstrate malnutrition screening techniques in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). 
The initiative is supported by the DRC Humanitarian Fund. Photo: OCHA/Francis Mweze

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Since early January, escalating conflict and intensified M23 attacks in North and South Kivu, has displaced hundreds of thousands, worsening the humanitarian crisis and straining already scarce resources.

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Children in a desert landscape

Eritrea

Following a border conflict with Ethiopia from 1998 to 2000, Eritrea experienced a prolonged "no-war, no-peace" situation and faced international sanctions for a decade.

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Women in Ethiopia's Oromia Region fill water from a borehole solarized by the NGO, GOAL with funding from the OCHA-managed Ethiopia Humanitarian Fund. Solar-powered water systems improve access to clean water for drought-affected communities by ensuring a more sustainable and reliable water supply. Photo: Manuel Morini

Ethiopia

Ethiopia continues to face overlapping and complex humanitarian challenges driven by conflict, climate shocks, disease outbreaks, and economic hardship.

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A young girl peers out from between makeshift shelters at a displacement site in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Haiti

Haiti is enduring a severe crisis with political, economic and humanitarian challenges. The President's assassination in July 2021 left the country without a leader, and the economy has suffered from four years of negative growth.

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Food parcels being distributed to people displaced by conflict in Saida, Lebanon by Basmeh & Zeitooneh, a Lebanese non-governmental organization. The aid had been made possible by the OCHA-managed Lebanon Humanitarian Fund. Photo: Basmeh & Zeitooneh

Lebanon

Lebanon is facing the largest escalation of conflict since the 2006 Lebanon War, with more than 1,000 people killed between 16 to 27 September, including 87 children and 156 women, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.

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A woman displays her aid card after receiving relief supplies from humanitarian partners. Mali, floods

Mali

Mali is beset by insecurity, conflict, the impacts of climate change and limited access to basic social services, all of which are causing severe humanitarian need.

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A woman stands with a pointer and watches as a child writes on a blackboard placed against a wall. Children are seated on the floor in front of the board. Soe bags can be seen placed against a dilapidated wall.

Mozambique

An estimated 945,000 people have been internally displaced by the armed conflict in Cabo Delgado Province in northern Mozambique, which continues to increase humanitarian needs. 

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A woman in a displacement camp in Kachin State, Myanmar, holds a young child.

Myanmar

Two years since the military takeover, the humanitarian outlook for Myanmar remains bleak. Conflict is raging, public services are in disarray and inflation is having a devastating effect on people’s financial situations.

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A medical team from the NGO, Action Pour le Bien Être, with a patient in a camp for the internally displaced in Ouallam, Niger. A project financed by the OCHA-managed Regional Humanitarian Fund for West and Central Africa supports efforts to respond to gender-based violence, provision of emergency shelter, non-food items and healthcare service. Photo; OCHA/Michele Cattani

Niger

Niger continues to face an acute and complex humanitarian crisis marked by the impact of persistent insecurity, epidemics, food insecurity and floods.

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 A woman and her child at a stabilization centre in Mashamari, managed by the International Rescue Committee in Maiduguri.

Nigeria

There has been no reprieve in the humanitarian crisis in north-east Nigeria’s Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States, where armed conflict is now in its thirteenth year.

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An OCHA team hears from drought-affected communities in Galkacyo district in Somalia's Mudug region.

Somalia

Somalia is facing a rapidly unfolding humanitarian catastrophe, driven by the longest and most severe drought in at least 40 years.

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Aman (left), a Solidarités community mobiliser, raises awareness about hygiene at Bulukat Transit Centre. The centre in Malakal, South Sudan, receives people fleeing conflict in Sudan. Photo: OCHA/ Basma Ourfali

South Sudan

The humanitarian situation in South Sudan is worsening, driven by the cumulative and compounding effects of years of conflict, subnational violence, food insecurity, the climate crisis and public health challenges.

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The Sudan Humanitarian Fund has supported local community-led organizations in Gedaref State, Sudan, to set up a community kitchen that provides food assistance. However, significant gaps remain, including access to education for children who are out of school.  Photo: OCHA/Yao Chen

Sudan

Clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces erupted in Khartoum on 15 April 2023. Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands injured due to the conflict.

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Zea, who was a refugee with her eight family members in Lebanon returned to her hometown Al-Qusayr in western Homs countryside near the Lebanese border. She found her home destroyed due to war and had to set up a tent on her land to live there.  “We feel joy to be able to return to our land, nobody will force us to leave now. Also, there are huge needs here...," she said. Photo: OCHA/Ali Haj Suleiman

Syrian Arab Republic

Fourteen years since the onset of the crisis, Syria is grappling with a catastrophe of unprecedented magnitude, with new developments adding to the existing crises and taking a heavy toll on the people living in Syria.

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A humanitarian worker from a local NGO, Angels of Salvation, supported by the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund, assists an evacuee from a frontline town in Donetsk Region.  Photo: OCHA/Angels of Salvation

Ukraine

Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces in February 2022, the lives of countless women, men and children have been torn apart. Millions were forced to leave Ukraine and become refugees.

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An OCHA team visits a clinic in Al Mansuriyah District in Al Hodeidah Governorate, Yemen to assess needs. Photo: OCHA

Yemen

Eight years into the conflict, the crisis in Yemen remains severe, with more than 21 million people — two thirds of the population — in need of humanitarian assistance.

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How we respond

In the aftermath of heavy flooding in Mozambique in January 2026, a UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination Team (UNDAC) comprising UN staff and partners such as Atlas Logistique arrive in Xai Xai city to provide support to the authorities in coordinating early response efforts.

We coordinate

During an emergency, at the request of the affected country’s Government, we coordinate the flurry of response efforts to ensure they reach the people most in need.

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Edem Wosornu, OCHA's Director of the Operations and Advocacy Division, addresses a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East (Syria) in November 2024. Photo: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

We advocate

Through our public and private advocacy, we raise awareness of humanitarian crises and the needs of affected people. We advocate for the protection of civilians and respect for international humanitarian law.

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Meeting of dignitaries at the ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment

We develop policy

We constantly update existing policies and develop new ones, as we strive to improve the way we deliver assistance to people in need.

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Displaced children in Burkina Faso access education through radio-based learning, funded by the Regional Humanitarian Fund, offering an alternative path to schooling.

We fund

We work with humanitarian partners around the world to identify the most critical humanitarian needs, plan responses and determine the budgets needed to address them.

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Information Management team at work

We inform

Accurate information and data are critical in informing a rapid, effective and principled humanitarian response. They are also vital for coordinating the response.

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Global Humanitarian Overview 2026

After a year in a site for internally displaced people in Goma, Buholo—mother of eight children—returned to her home in Masisi. She is now trying to rebuild her life. Decades of armed conflict have decimated infrastructure and livelihoods in the eastern DRC. Photo: OCHA/Wassy Kambale.
Buholo, returned to her home in Masisi, after a year in a site for people internally displaced by conflict in Goma. Decades of armed conflict have upended lives in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo: OCHA/Wassy Kambale.

A collective push to protect millions of lives

In 2026, millions of people caught in conflict and disaster face their hardest test yet: survival. Funding cuts in 2025 stripped away lifelines, even as crises deepen. Yet, the global humanitarian community is determined to stand with them—from local organizations aiding their own communities, to international partners delivering where it is needed most.

In 2026, humanitarians will aim to collectively assist 135 million people, out of 239 million people in need, with the immediate priority being to save 87 million lives. Read the Global Humanitarian Overview 2026.