The unpredictability, volatility, and protracted nature of emergencies today is taking a heavy toll on children and families. From violence in Haiti, to massive flooding in Nigeria, to displacement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, emergencies can strike or escalate with little or no warning. An overstretched humanitarian system – which also faces shrinking funding – is struggling to respond to the sheer scale of these crises. Too often, action is coming after lives and livelihoods have been destroyed.
Global Humanitarian Thematic Funding (GHTF) allows UNICEF to decide when and where it’s best to allocate funding. This flexibility is critical during responses to sudden-onset emergencies, when children’s lives are in immediate danger, and also for protracted emergencies where needs are chronic yet urgent, but when the world’s focus may be elsewhere.
Discover here seven places where flexible funding has already saved and changed lives
Fonte: unicef.org
