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Nearly 300 million people globally need humanitarian assistance and protection
At the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), we bring the world together to tackle humanitarian emergencies and save the lives of people caught in crises.
What we do
We mobilize aid, share information, support humanitarian efforts, and advocate for crisis-affected communities.
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.
How you can help
Nearly every humanitarian response is critically underfunded. Every cent counts, and saves lives. Contribute today!
Current responses
![A man wearing an OCHA vest and helmet is helping upload an ambulance stretcher with a person lying on it into an ambulance, which has its back doors open. Another ambulance can be seen parked alongside it.](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2024-02/20240219_193829000_iOS.jpg)
![Displaced girl in the Kandahar region of Afghanistan](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2023-06/Displaced%20Families026.jpg)
Afghanistan
Afghanistan is facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis with a serious risk of systemic collapse and human catastrophe.
![Inside a classroom, a boy standing behind a desk speaks into a microphone, which held by a woman, who is standing in front of him. Other children can be seen seated at their desks. Two blackboards are in view in the background.](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2024-02/BUR_102023_UNOCHA_105902.jpg)
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.
![A woman looks into the camera](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2023-06/20221103-A7R02420.jpg)
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.
![Women and children sit under an informal shelter covered by grass mats in what appears to a cooking area. A pot of rice is cooking on a firewood stove.](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2024-02/Photo4.jpg)
![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.](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2024-04/Chad%20photo%20for%20country%20page.jpeg)
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.
![ASG Mission Union Wounaan Field Visit](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2024-01/2023-05-17%20CO%20-%20ASG%20Mission%20%2804%20Union%20Wounaan%20Field%20Visit%29%200139_0.jpg)
Colombia
Colombia has made progress in development and peacebuilding over the past decade, but internal armed conflict and violence, extreme weather-related events and COVID-19 have left 7.7 million people in need.
![People with bags on the road. People with baggage are also standing on the wayside.](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2024-02/DRC_FEBRUARY%202024_UNOCHA_IDP_46.jpg)
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has the largest number of internally displaced people (IDPs) on the African continent.
![Portrait of a family in El Salvador](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2023-06/69_El%20Salvador2022_Tremeau_1R6A0679.jpg)
El Salvador
El Salvador is still dealing with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and extreme weather events of 2020. Combined with existing vulnerabilities, this left an estimated 1.7 million people in need of assistance.
![Children in a desert landscape](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2023-06/P1010269-X2.jpg)
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.
![A woman, Esha Mohammed, walks along the dry landscape](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2023-06/ED18.jpg)
Ethiopia
Ethiopia is facing multiple humanitarian emergencies due to climate change, conflict, disease outbreaks, poor macroeconomic conditions, and high commodity and food prices due to inflation.
![A grandmother with her two grandchildren](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2023-06/051_Guatemala2022_Tremeau_L1008050.jpg)
![A woman holds a baby inside a room. Bags and other people can be seen in the room.](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2024-02/DSC08167.jpg)
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.
![A woman in an OCHA vest talks to a woman facing her. They are standing in a verandah of a house.](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2024-01/exposure%20forgotten.jpg)
Honduras
Honduras faces growing vulnerabilities, including political and social conflicts, climate change, forced displacement and migration.
![Two women sat on the ground speaking with one another](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2023-06/KEN_20221012_OCHA_DroughtSamburu0421.jpeg)
![Painting of a refugee on a wall in Beirut](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2023-06/refugee%20%282%29.jpg)
Lebanon
Lebanon is facing an unprecedented economic and financial crisis affecting all residents, including Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian refugees and migrants.
![Family in their garden outside their home in Madagascar](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2023-06/Ambalakondro-7.jpg)
![Children working with chalk and slates in classroom](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2023-06/School%20children%20-%20Tombouctou%203%20%281%20of%201%29.jpg)
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.
![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.](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2024-02/ASG%20witnessed%20a%20class%20in%20an%20improvised%20corner%20of%20one%20of%20the%20destroyed%20buildings%20in%20Mocimboa%20da%20Praia%2C%20Cabo%20Delgado..jpeg)
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.
![A woman with a young boy tied to her back walks on an unpaved narrow path. A young boy and a man carrying water and bags walk behind her.](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2023-09/Myanmar_Modola_2022_21.jpg)
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.
![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](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2024-07/OCHA_NIGER_Day2_0.jpg)
Niger
Niger continues to face an acute and complex humanitarian crisis marked by the impact of persistent insecurity, epidemics, food insecurity and floods.
![Falmata Goni and her baby at a stabilization centre managed by International Rescue Committee in Bama local government area, Borno State. 2 May 2023. The centre is supported by OCHA. Photo: OCHA/Adedeji Ademigbuji](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2024-07/DSC00206.jpg)
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.
![Ali Jabbar (right), whose agricultural land in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province was devastated by flash floods in April 2024, shares his story of loss with OCHA staff member Umer Dil. Thousands of people have been affected by the floods that washed away farms, 80 canals and hundreds of fruit plants. Photo: OCHA](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2024-07/WhatsApp%20Image%202024-07-01%20at%204.15.09%20PM.jpeg)
Pakistan
Unrelenting monsoon rains across Pakistan — the worst in a decade — resulted in widespread flooding and landslides between June and August 2022.
![A woman with baby in her arms stands in front of an informal tent. Two men and a woman in blue vests and clothing face her.](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2024-02/20230620-DSC_0030_0.jpg)
Somalia
Somalia is facing a rapidly unfolding humanitarian catastrophe, driven by the longest and most severe drought in at least 40 years.
![Two women stand in a open space with their backs to the camera. They have an arm around each other's back.](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2024-02/SSD_092023_UNOCHA_GBV_Bentiu-87_0.jpeg)
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.
![A woman stands with a little girl in her arms facing the camera with two young boys standing next to her](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2023-08/IMG_3760-Enhanced-NR%20%281%29.jpg)
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.
![Syrian children smiling at the camera](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2023-06/IMG_5825.jpg)
Syrian Arab Republic
After 11 years of crisis, most Syrians continue to face a continued humanitarian decline. The country still has the world’s largest number of internally displaced people of 6.8 million people.
Türkiye
OCHA Türkiye is one of the three OCHA hubs working together to implement the Syria Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) collectively in the spirit of the whole of Syria.
![UN staff inspect damaged residential areas in Dnipro, Ukraine, after an attack left civilians, including children, injured and civilian infrastructure compromised](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2024-06/Ukraine%20residential%20building%20damages.jpg)
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.
Venezuela
In 2022, Venezuela showed signs of economic stabilization and growth. Despite this, people still face vast socioeconomic challenges.
![A man in a white jacket with a stethoscope sits behind a desk - a woman with a baby in her arms and a young boy standing next to her sits across the desk.](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_3_2_25/public/2024-02/OCHA-YEM-2022-AUG-YHF-VISIBALITY-ABYAN-%20%20%2823%29.jpg)
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.
How we respond
OCHA launches Annual Report for 2023
The Annual Report takes stock of OCHA’s actions and activities during 2023. It also highlights the contributions of Member States and other UN and civil-society partners in ensuring the most vulnerable people in crises received timely and quality humanitarian assistance.
![Annual Report cover](https://www.unocha.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_50/public/2024-06/Annual%20Report%20cover.jpeg)