(million EUR)
Financial programming | 13 230.9 |
NextGenerationEU |
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Decommitments made available again (*) | N/A |
Contributions from other countries and entities | 15.6 |
Total budget 2021-2027 | 13 246.5 |
(*) Only Article 15(3) of the financial regulation.
Rationale and design of the programme
Humanitarian aid is a key pillar of the EU's external action and an important element of the EU's ability to project its values globally. The EU humanitarian aid programme provides emergency, life-saving assistance to people, particularly the most vulnerable, hit by human-induced or natural disasters.
The scale, frequency and duration of crises that demand international humanitarian response is increasing, aggravated by long-term trends such as climate change, population growth, rapid and unsustainable urbanisation, resource scarcities and increasingly protracted armed conflicts and insecurity. These are, and will continue to be, among the main drivers of humanitarian crises, which in turn generate growing humanitarian needs on a global scale. The situation has been exacerbated by the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.
The 2023 global humanitarian overview presents funding requirements of USD 51.5 billion to assist 230 million of the 339 million people in need in 68 countries. However, humanitarian funding is not increasing at the same speed as the needs. Funding for the plans included in the 2022 global humanitarian overview reached USD 24 billion, whereas the needs amounted to USD 51.7 billion. This funding gap is expected to continue to grow, as well as the need for front-line lifesaving humanitarian assistance.
The EU is able to fill some of the gaps in global humanitarian aid, including by addressing needs in areas that are difficult to access, and by providing response not only to the biggest and most visible humanitarian crises, but also to those receiving no or insufficient international aid and political/media attention. Member States often look at the EU as a donor to provide assistance in crises where they are not able to intervene in a national capacity. Member States also benefit from the EU’s ‘humanitarian diplomacy’, which aims to increase humanitarian space and lead to more effective provision of humanitarian aid, by encouraging economies of scale. Because of the financial weight (the EU and its Member States together are a leading donor), the EU is a leading player in humanitarian assistance on the international stage and a strong advocate for the respect of international humanitarian law. Another key element of EU added value for Member States lies in the strong operational knowledge and technical expertise of the EU’s unique network of humanitarian field offices spread in 41 countries.
The humanitarian aid programme provides emergency, life-saving assistance to people, particularly the most vulnerable, hit by man-made or natural disasters.
In line with the humanitarian aid regulation (Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/96), people affected by disaster or conflict, irrespective of their race, ethnic group, religion, sex, age, nationality or political affiliation benefit from humanitarian assistance, which must not be guided by, or subject to, political considerations. The EU acts on the basis of the international humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence. Humanitarian aid is often the only EU instrument able to intervene concretely in acute conflict situations. Thanks to its flexibility, humanitarian aid has also made a significant difference in many of the countries and crises at the origin of the global refugee and migration crisis.
The humanitarian aid programme’s main specific objectives are to:
- provide needs-based delivery of EU assistance to save and preserve life, prevent and alleviate human suffering and safeguard the integrity and dignity of populations affected by natural disasters or man-made crises, including protracted crises;
- build the resilience and recovery capacity of vulnerable or disaster-affected communities, in complementarity with other EU instruments.
Humanitarian interventions mainly consist of funding projects carried out by around 220 partner organisations – non-governmental organisations (e.g. national societies of the Red Cross), international organisations (e.g. United Nations agencies and the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement), and Member States’ specialised agencies. Most of the time, these interventions occur in complex, risky contexts with difficult access conditions. Besides being a lead donor, the EU has also been playing a leading role in the development of new policy approaches (e.g. education in emergencies, assessment of people-centred intersectoral needs) and innovative funding modalities (e.g. cash-based assistance).
In most cases, the Commission delivers assistance through financial support via individual agreements with partner organisations (non-governmental organisations, United Nations agencies or other international organisations). The management mode applied with non-governmental organisations is direct management, and the one applied with the United Nations and international organisations is indirect management.
The Commission delivers aid to the affected populations in parallel to humanitarian aid mobilised by Member States, as set out in the European Consensus on Humanitarian Aid and based on international humanitarian principles. EU action aims at providing needs-based delivery of EU assistance to save and preserve life, prevent and alleviate human suffering, and safeguard the integrity and dignity of populations, as well as at ensuring that people and communities at risk of disaster and resilient and prepared. To achieve these objectives, EU actions focus on child protection, food security and livelihoods, health, nutrition, protection and settlement, as well as the provision of water, sanitation and hygiene services.
The humanitarian aid regulation is not bound by duration to a specific multiannual financial framework, hence the policy and legal framework for the EU's humanitarian aid is not expected to change.
Programme website:
Impact assessment:
- N/A
Relevant regulation:
Evaluations:
The following humanitarian aid evaluations were finalised in 2022.
Evaluation of the emergency social safety net programme, covering January 2018-March 2020.
Evaluation of the European Union’s humanitarian interventions in Yemen (2015-2020).
Evaluation of the European Union’s humanitarian interventions in Humanitarian Access.
Evaluation of the European Union’s humanitarian response to sudden-onset disasters.
Evaluation of the European Union’s humanitarian interventions in the Sahel (2016-2020).
Evaluation of the European Union’s humanitarian interventions in disaster preparedness.
Evaluation of ECHO’s partnership with the World Health Organization (2017-2021).
Budget
Budget programming (million EUR):
2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | Total | |
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Financial programming | 2 168.1 | 2 441.8 | 1 776.9 | 1 660.7 | 1 693.6 | 1 727.5 | 1 762.4 | 13 230.9 |
NextGenerationEU | ||||||||
Decommitments made available again (*) | N/A | |||||||
Contributions from other countries and entities |
9.9 | 5.7 | p.m. | p.m. | p.m. | p.m. | p.m. | 15.6 |
Total | 2 177.9 | 2 447.4 | 1 776.9 | 1 660.7 | 1 693.6 | 1 727.5 | 1 762.4 | 13 246.5 |
(*) Only Article 15(3) of the financial regulation.
Financial programming:
+ EUR 1 661.8 million (+ 14%)
compared to the legal basis*
* Top-ups pursuant to Article 5 of the multiannual financial framework regulation are excluded from financial programming in this comparison.
- Given its centrality in dealing with current crisis, the programme has been reinforced substantially at different times.
- In 2021, budget has been reinforced by EUR 665.1 million during the year through the Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve, amending budget, redeployments from Heading VI instruments and the Virement d'Aide Humanitaire cater for increasing humanitarian needs, such as the crises in Afghanistan and in the Nagorno-Karabakh or the Kenya and Somalia droughts.
- In 2022, the humanitarian aid budget was reinforced by EUR 635.7 million. In part, the transfers originated from the Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve and redeployments from Heading VI instruments to cater for the needs arising in response to the Russian war against Ukraine and the worldwide deterioration of food security. Further funds became available through the Virement d'Aide Humanitaire to tackle the security and displacement crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In addition to the reinforcements, ECHO also received frontloading of EUR 211 million from the Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve at the beginning of the year.
- For 2023, an initial budget increase was secured in the form of multiannual financial framework funding amending letter (AL/01) for EUR 150 million.
Budget performance – implementation
Annual voted budget implementation (million EUR)(1):
Commitments | Payments | |||
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Voted budget implementation | Initial voted budget | Voted budget implementation | Initial voted budget | |
2021 | 2 168.1 | 1 503.0 | 2 400.5 | 1 900.1 |
2022 | 2 441.8 | 1 806.1 | 2 390.6 | 2 091.6 |
(1) Voted appropriations (C1) only.
- In 2021, the initial humanitarian aid budget (comprising humanitarian aid, disaster prevention and support expenditure) was EUR 1 503 million and the final implemented budget stands at EUR 2 168 million further to several reinforcements totalling 665 million to address the rising needs of different humanitarian crises.
- The initial 2022 budget for humanitarian aid was EUR 1 806 million and included a frontload from the Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve of EUR 211 million. The final budget stands at EUR 2 441.8 million, as the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, the ensuing global food crisis and other emergencies triggered budgetary reinforcements for a total of EUR 635.7 million(1) through transfers from the Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve, Heading VI instruments and the Virement d’Aide Humanitaire.
- The humanitarian aid budget has been committed in full. The Commission allocated attributions to respond not only to humanitarian crises attracting widespread attention notably Ukraine or Afghanistan, but also forgotten crises, i.e. severe, protracted humanitarian crises, often with a low media interest, where affected populations are receiving insufficient international aid. In the context of the Rohingya crisis, for example, the Commission has delivered basic life-saving humanitarian aid, addressing the needs of the most vulnerable people affected by the violence and conflict.
- In addition to its humanitarian aid operations under the multiannual financial framework, ECHO received and committed EUR 145.5 million from the European Development Fund’s 10th and 11th envelopes to address the global food security aggravated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
- The Commission will continue responding to new and protracted crises in 2023. This objective will remain very challenging as humanitarian needs are expected to keep growing. Today, humanitarian needs remain at an all-time high with one in every 23 people requiring humanitarian assistance, which represents 4.2% of the world population. Inevitably, the situation is further deteriorating as evidenced by the devastating earthquake in Türkiye and Syria in February 2023.
(1) Only C1 credits considered.
Contribution to horizontal priorities
Green budgeting
Contribution to green budgeting priorities (million EUR):
Implementation | Estimates | Total contribution | % of the 2021–2027 budget | ||||||
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2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | |||
Climate mainstreaming | 840.7 | 1 016.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 857.0 | 14% |
Biodiversity mainstreaming | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0% |
Clean air | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0% |
- The figure for 2022 (EUR 1 016.46 million) is the result of the application of the methodology to track spending contributing to climate mainstreaming. The Commission is implementing central tracking at the commitment level, to improve the accuracy and reliability of data on climate action. The tracking is based on the EU’s climate-marker methodology, made up of three scores (0/40/100). Generally, humanitarian aid projects have climate adaptation as a “significant objective” (40%) with some exceptions, while preparedness actions within humanitarian aid contribute to a 100% to climate mainstreaming as its objective has climate adaptation and/or mitigation objectives “as fundamental in the design, or the motivation for, the activity”.
- In order to reduce the carbon footprint of and the environmental damage caused by humanitarian aid, minimum environmental requirements and associated guidance were published in 2022. Technical assistance and support was provided to partners and ECHO’s staff in order to integrate environmental considerations into the directorate-general’s humanitarian aid operations and those of its partners.
- ECHO continued to encourage partners to include preparedness measures and climate, environmental and conflict risk considerations into all the humanitarian actions it funds, to help ensure that impacts, including those related to the climate, are accounted for in all sectorial interventions (e.g. displacement). The resilience marker is a tool that supports partners in doing so throughout the design of their interventions by ensuring that they consider and address these risks. The following examples illustrate the Commission’s response to the consequences of climate change and the relief of affected populations in 2022.
- Response to floods in Pakistan. Over EUR 30 million of funding was allocated following the heavy floods in Pakistan over the summer of 2022, focusing on urgent needs such as shelter, nutrition, health, and water and sanitation. As an example, an initiative involving Mercy Corps entitled ‘Emergency support to meet the immediate needs of flood affected communities in Balochistan and Sindh provinces’ began its 6-month operation in September 2022. This initiative includes cash-based assistance, water sanitation and hygiene, health, shelter and support for livelihoods (livestock). In August 2022, the EU Civil Protection Mechanism was activated at the request of the Pakistani authorities. As of the last update, nine EU Member States and one other participating state had offered assistance to Pakistan in the form of family tents, water purification teams, medical staff and equipment, etc.
- Response to drought in the Horn of Africa. In response to the devastating climate-induced drought affecting the Horn of Africa and the resulting overwhelming emergency needs in the region, an additional EUR 32 million of humanitarian assistance was announced in April 2022, bringing the total contribution to over EUR 108 million for the drought-affected countries. One example of this intervention is a project entitled ‘Multi-sectoral emergency response in drought affected areas of Somali region, Ethiopia’, which is being run in partnership with Save the Children. The project began in May 2022 and will run for a period of 1 year.
Gender
Contribution to gender equality (million EUR) (*):
Gender score | 2021 | 2022 | Total |
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1 | 2 168.1 (**) | 2 441.8 | 4 609.9 |
(*) Based on the applied gender contribution methodology, the following scores are attributed at the most granular level of intervention possible:
- 2: interventions the principal objective of which is to improve gender equality;
- 1: interventions that have gender equality as an important and deliberate objective but not as the main reason for the intervention;
- 0: non-targeted interventions (interventions that are expected to have no significant bearing on gender equality);
- 0*: score to be assigned to interventions with a likely but not yet clear positive impact on gender equality.
(**) Update from last year figures.
- The Commission is committed to ensuring that EU humanitarian aid takes into account the different needs and capacities of women and men of all ages. The Commission is working on a methodology for gender expenditure tracking, and has provisionally assigned score 1 to the total humanitarian aid budget for 2022 (EUR 1.806 billion). This is a Commission-wide methodology, and differs from other assessment methods used to track humanitarian funding, such as the Commission’s humanitarian gender-age marker and the gender equality marker used by the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. It is clear that humanitarian aid has some impact on gender equality (therefore, scores 0 and 0* could not be assigned), but gender equality is also not the principal objective of the programme (therefore score 2 could not be assigned).
- The EU continued mainstreaming gender and age across all sectors of intervention, outlining the approach to gender and gender-based violence in humanitarian crises in the staff working document ‘Gender: Different needs, adapted assistance’. The EU remained an active member of the ‘Call to action on protection from gender-based violence in emergencies’ initiative and reported concerning the commitments made on the road map for 2021-2025. The EU furthermore increased its focus on conflict-related sexual violence in response to observations in several recent and ongoing crises.
Digital
Contribution to digital transition (million EUR):
2021 | 2022 | Total | % of the total 2021-2027 implementation | |
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Digital contribution | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
Budget performance – outcomes
Baseline | Progress (*) | Target | Results | Assessment | |
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Geographical coverage of the EU humanitarian aid: percentage of countries in need of humanitarian assistance (according to United Nations humanitarian appeals) benefiting from EU-supported operations | 0% | 14% | 100% annually from 2022 to 2027 | 95%. Milestone achieved for 2021. Milestone not achieved for 2022 | Deserves attention |
Percentage of humanitarian aid funding targeting actions in forgotten crises | 0% | 29% | > 15% annually from 2021 to 2027 | Milestones achieved for 2021 and 2022 | On track |
Number of interventions of humanitarian aid operations funded by DG European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) (beneficiaries) | 0 | 29% | 177 annually from 2021 to 2027 | Milestones achieved for 2021 and 2022 | On track |
Percentage of the initial budget for humanitarian aid allocated to education in emergencies | 0% | 29% | 10% annually from 2021 to 2027 | Milestones achieved for 2021 and 2022 | On track |
Number of children reached with EU 'education in emergencies' assistance | 0 | 29% | 1.86 million children annually from 2021 to 2027 | Milestones achieved for 2021 and 2022 | On track |
Percentage of humanitarian assistance grants including elements of disaster preparedness, resilience and disaster risk reduction | 0% | 0% | 75% from 2024 to 2027 | Milestones not achieved in 2021 and 2022 | Deserves attention |
(*) % of years for which the milestones or target have been achieved during the 20211-2027 period.
Link to file with complete set of EU core performance indicators
- Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine has deeply impacted the global humanitarian landscape, both directly and indirectly, by raising food insecurity worldwide, thus significantly exacerbating the humanitarian situation in many parts of the world, which had already drastically deteriorated.
- Furthermore, a contested multilateral order and the challenges deriving from climate change are exacerbating tensions and fuelling existing regional conflicts and protracted crises. Other factors, such as failed governance and the long-lasting consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, have contributed to the current outlook. The deterioration in the humanitarian situation – for example in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, the Sahel and Sudan – is a visible illustration of a global and sustained increase in humanitarian needs, which are currently at an all-time high. In addition, continued widespread violations of international humanitarian law and impediments to humanitarian access are making the delivery of humanitarian aid even more difficult and dangerous.
- EU humanitarian aid performed well in 2022 in providing emergency assistance to people worldwide, particularly the most vulnerable, hit by human-induced or natural disasters. Even though the Commission's share of the global humanitarian aid system increased slightly compared to the previous year, the EU and its Member States are no longer jointly the world's largest humanitarian aid donors, providing around 30.9% of the global share of humanitarian aid contributions. This is partially due to the higher share provided by other donors such as the United States.
- Owing to the strong operational knowledge and technical expertise of the its unique network of humanitarian field offices, present in 41 non-EU countries, in 2022 the EU set a strong platform for reaching most of the areas in the world where humanitarian aid is needed. The EU was able to fund more than 299 million interventions(1) and provide assistance in 95% of the countries for which the United Nations launched an appeal(2). The EU was able to take advantage of its comprehensive range of humanitarian partners (around 220 organisations, including United Nations agencies, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and non-governmental organisations), through which people in need can receive assistance, even in the areas of the world that are most difficult to reach.
- In 2022, 51% of the budget was allocated to countries ranked as having a 'very high risk of disaster', and more than 15.3% of the initial budget was spent on forgotten crises, thus contributing to the objective of needs-based delivery of EU assistance to people faced with natural and human-made disasters and protracted crises.
- The programme also contributed to the objective of building the capacity and resilience of vulnerable and disaster-affected communities. In 2022, approximately 50.5 million people worldwide benefited from disaster preparedness actions in disaster-prone regions, and 32%(3) of EU-funded humanitarian operations included elements of disaster preparedness.
- The following examples illustrate the wide variety and extensive reach of the EU's support in relation to humanitarian crises in 2022.
- The response to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine by allocating EUR 485 million to provide life-saving assistance, mainly through cash transfers and humanitarian protection, to populations directly exposed to war and displacement. More than 17.7 million people in the country needed humanitarian support in 2022. Since the start of Russia's war of aggression, almost 750 000 Ukrainian refugees have fled to Moldova. In response, the EU made EUR 38 million in emergency assistance available to Moldova, including cash assistance and protection services, to address the needs of refugees and their host communities.
- In Afghanistan, the humanitarian situation has worsened since the Taliban took over in August 2021. In 2022, the number of people in need increased from 24.4 million to 28.3 million, mainly requiring support in relation to food, water sanitation and hygiene, protection and education. The main drivers of the crisis remain drought, insecurity and violence, restrictions on women's participation in society, food insecurity, global and local economic shocks and the deterioration of basic services. During the year, ECHO funded humanitarian air bridge flights delivering 497 tonnes of life-saving medical relief items for humanitarian organisations.
- Multisectoral life-saving assistance and support was provided for 15.3 million people affected by the crisis in Syria, comprising emergency response and preparedness, protection, health interventions and the promotion of international humanitarian law.
- The EU responded to the complex crisis in the Sahel and Lake Chad regions (where humanitarian needs are growing at an alarming pace for 38.3 million people), providing aid to meet the most urgent needs of conflict-affected populations that had been forcibly displaced across the region or affected by food and nutrition crises induced by climate conditions, poverty and insecurity, and compounded by the socioeconomic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- In response to the crisis in Venezuela, the EU provided aid relating to health and nutrition, water and sanitation, protection, education in emergencies and support for host communities. The crisis had humanitarian consequences for 19.7 million people, aggravated by COVID-19 and the impact of the war in Ukraine, while more than 7.1 million people have left the country. In order to improve access and operating conditions for humanitarian organisations in Venezuela, among other activities the Commission fostered donor coordination and facilitated the humanitarian aid working group known as the International Contact Group for Venezuela.
- Delivering principled humanitarian assistance is at times extremely difficult in certain protracted crises, where warring parties occasionally disregard humanitarian principles, violate international humanitarian law and interfere with the delivery of assistance in the field. In addition to this, EU humanitarian partners may have to face difficult logistical challenges when delivering assistance in hard-to-reach areas, and other types of unexpected developments in the field that may hinder aid delivery.
- While able to meet acute humanitarian needs on a short-term basis in a highly effective manner, EU humanitarian aid is less well placed to address structural issues, in particular in the context of protracted crises. Here development actors would be best positioned to act, but they are not always in a position to take over. Such situations underline the need to further develop the humanitarian–development–peace nexus so that humanitarian aid actors can exit a situation with the confidence that longer-term structural assistance will be available. For example, an initiative focusing on food insecurity was implemented in 2016.
- An increase in prices and the depreciation of the euro have had a significant impact on the EU's humanitarian aid operations, and more particularly on transport costs and the price of food items. Inflation has also had a huge impact on the purchasing power of the most fragile populations, resulting in a major increase in hardship across the globe. This has resulted in various interlinked issues, such as more people in need, more expensive response everywhere for humanitarian partners and, with the unfavourable exchange rate, less purchasing power for the euro. Accordingly, the resources available are insufficient to cover the ever increasing humanitarian needs.
- The practical effects of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine have restricted the availability of food, and the inflation and increased transport prices it has caused have increased the cost of the operations necessary to respond to the current food crisis. Global food insecurity reached a historical high in 2022, with 220 million people in need of food assistance. To address this situation, the EU significantly increased its budget for humanitarian food and nutrition assistance to an estimated EUR 950 million. A Team Europe Response strategy was also adopted by the EU and its Member States in June 2022. Reporting under the nutrition for growth accountability framework confirms that the EU is on track to fulfil the Team Europe pledge of supporting nutrition objectives with a budget of at least EUR 4.2 billion up to 2024. Despite these initiatives, global circumstances mean that reaching the objectives set out to deal with food crises remains a challenge.
(1) The figure of 299.4 million interventions was extracted from Eva Actions (a data management tool compiling data from humanitarian operations) on 13 March 2022, however the number of direct beneficiaries will be available during the second quarter of 2022. The information on the number of interventions presents the following shortcomings.
- This figure double-counts beneficiaries targeted by more than one intervention, as evidenced in 2021 where over 590 million interventions were recorded, reaching a total of 85 million direct beneficiaries. This difference is partly explained in 2021 due to the vaccination roll-out campaigns, where a single beneficiary received various vaccines.
- The number of interventions changes though time, increasing continually based on the progressive encoding of data by partners (i.e. for 2021 data around 590 million interventions were noted in the first quarter of 2022, while 672 million interventions were registered for the same period in March 2023).
(2) Of the 69 countries targeted by United Nations appeals in 2022, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia were included in the United Nations' 'Ukraine situation regional refugee response plan'. Due to its specific mandate, ECHO does not provide humanitarian aid in Member States, however assistance was provided to them through civil protection actions. The abovementioned Member States were then left out of the calculation of this indicator. ECHO provided humanitarian aid to 62 of the 65 remaining countries targeted by United Nations appeals. The three countries not reached by the EU's humanitarian operations were included in United Nations regional appeals for which the EU a provided response to other countries.
(3) This figure derives from a revised methodology that relies solely on reporting by the EU's humanitarian partners, and may therefore not include preparedness mainstreaming efforts in other sectors of operations.
Sustainable development goals
Contribution to the sustainable development goals
SDGs the programme contributes to | Example |
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SDG2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture |
In South Sudan, the EU provides funding to World Food Programme emergency food distribution and cash to address food insecurity of people living in emergency and 5 catastrophe/famine of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification. It further finances resilience, agricultural projects and the construction of feeder roads. |
SDG4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all |
In Türkiye, the EU’s conditional cash transfers for education programme (which assists around 795 000 children) and the EU humanitarian funding enabled 62 000 refugee children to be referred to education programmes. Funding contributed to almost quadruple the overall enrolment rate of the refugee school-age population over 2014–2022 and lead the project to be extended to include Afghan and Iraqi refugees and host communities. |
SDG5 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls |
In Ethiopia, in all the response operations, careful gender and age disaggregation is ensured. Most nutrition, water sanitation and hygiene, education, health and protection operations are targeting women and children. For example, particular focus is given to girls’ education despite the reluctance of the communities to send the children to school as they are often needed at home for household chores. |
SDG13 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts |
Since 2019, support to SDG 13 in the context of humanitarian aid has been provided in for example Bangladesh, southern Africa and the Indian Ocean region (linking it to disaster preparedness), Madagascar (nexus with food and nutrition), Central America and Mexico (disaster and conflict preparedness), Cuba (drought management) and the Caribbean (disaster emergency management with the World Food Programme). |