Yearly Contribution to the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) 2024

In 2024, conflict and climate change-related effects, among other factors, will only continue to fuel current crises and translate into more humanitarian emergencies. As humanitarian resources become increasingly insufficient, there is a risk of leaving millions of people without basic means of survival.

In this context, a fully-resourced CERF at USD 1 billion, as endorsed by the General Assembly in 2016, is essential to ensure efficient, coordinated assistance reaches the people most in need.

• Anticipatory action is scaled up and proactive measures are provided to mitigate the impact of humanitarian disasters.
• CERF’s role in climate crisis financing is strengthened such as through dedicated climate action account.
• Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) is strengthened through funding aiming at empowering affected people, including women led organizations and women human rights organizations, to participate actively in humanitarian decision-making and enhance the overall responsiveness of humanitarian aid.

Expected results:   Assistance to people caught up in new emergencies and in existing emergencies that have deteriorated significantly is provided.

Results from previous phases:  

• In 2023, CERF proved instrumental in enabling response to time-critical humanitarian needs, with the most urgent requests processed in as little as two days.
• CERF also continued to play a significant role in anticipatory humanitarian action as the largest global funder in this domain. This support has facilitated the development of anticipatory action frameworks in 19 countries, enabling proactive measures to mitigate the impact of humanitarian disasters.
• CERF has become the leading global humanitarian funding tool for responding to climaterelated humanitarian emergencies, with an annual average of close to 30 per cent of total allocations going to climate-related disasters.
• CERF reinforced its commitment to boost operations in underfunded crises. In 2023, CERF allocated an unprecedented allocation of USD 271 million through its Underfunded Emergencies window, the highest ever annual amount.