UNICEF Emergency Response

Dear Friend,

The number of emergencies around the world is growing. And many of them never make it onto the news. UNICEF is working around the globe, responding to the emergency needs of children in crises you know and in those you don’t, while also preparing for future emergencies.

UNICEF and partners are stepping up work in anticipatory action, early warning, and preparedness, including child sensitive analysis of climatic and other risks, development and review of emergency scenarios, and anticipated response plans to strengthen response capacities in years to come.

Sudan Case Study:

Famine  was recently confirmed in a camp where more than 400,000 displaced people are sheltering in Sudan’s Northern Darfur Region . The Famine Review Committee (FRC)’s conclusion – the first determination of famine by the Committee in more than 7 years – means people, including children, are dying of hunger, and related conditions such as malnutrition and infection.

With your generous support, UNICEF is on the ground, delivering lifesaving aid in response to the Sudan crisis.

UNICEF is partnering with local, international and other UN partners to provide critical health support, vaccines and water and sanitation services, reaching over 5 million people with safe drinking water and more than 3 million people with critical health supplies this year. Limited humanitarian access has been a major challenge, but with malnutrition on the rise, UNICEF has persevered and continues to provide lifesaving ready-to-use therapeutic food to treat children across the country. In 2024, UNICEF, together with partners has expanded its nutrition-focused partnerships, which are operationally present in 132 priority areas, including 103 in hard-to-reach areas due to the conflict. UNICEF healthcare workers are supporting early detection and prevention efforts, reaching nearly 2.8 million   children with malnutrition screening so far this year. UNICEF supports critical services to address malnutrition in more than 1,700 health facilities and through 70 mobile teams. In the first half of the year, over 133,600 severely malnourished children were admitted. In addition, UNICEF has continued to move lifesaving nutrition supplies through crossline and cross-border operations, sufficient to treat 215,000 severely malnourished children.

In a time when the world is seeing more frequent, more extreme, and more prolonged emergencies, UNICEF’s ability to respond with agility and speed is more important than ever. On behalf of the children and families caught in crisis, thank you for your valuable support.

In partnership,

Marisa

Dear Friend,

In an increasingly volatile world with more children in need than ever before, your flexible giving has allowed UNICEF and partners to quickly respond to crises and anticipate future risks. Allowing UNICEF to:

• Provide immediate life-saving assistance to the children who are most in need.
• React faster in underfunded/forgotten emergencies. When it is difficult to attract international attention for forgotten crises; global humanitarian funding helps to address this gap.
• Rapidly release funds for sudden-onset emergencies, within 24 hours, as needed.
• Respond equitably based on needs by reaching children in smaller and/or forgotten crises, in underfunded sectors and in multi-country and sub-regional crises.
• Invest in preparedness for early response. Through better risk analysis and the identification of high-return actions, preparedness saves lives and makes the emergency response faster and more efficient. This also facilitates more strategic and stronger UNICEF programming.
• Save transaction costs associated with managing individual and earmarked contribution agreements. By reducing transaction costs, more funding can be allocated to programs for children and families.
• Ensure a higher quality response by facilitating strategic and efficient investments based on a clear set of criteria and priorities

This flexibility has allowed UNICEF to respond equitably to emergencies across the globe. To learn more, please click here.

With your support, in 2024, UNICEF is aiming to reach more than 93.8 million children –including 50.1 million girls and 9.3 million children with disabilities – with humanitarian assistance across 155 countries and territories as follows:

• Reach 52.4 million people with safe water;
• Immunize 17.3 million children against measles;
• Provide 19.3 million children with access formal or non-formal education;
• Ensure 26.7 million children, adolescents and caregivers access community-based mental health and psychosocial support;
• Treat 7.6 million children for severe wasting;
• 8.7 million women, girls and boys accessing gender-based violence risk mitigation, prevention or response interventions

On behalf of the vulnerable children around the world who find themselves in the midst of emergencies, we thank you for your support.

In partnership,

Marisa Ferguson

Links:

• Forgotten Emergencies