OCHA presents 2024 annual report

The report by the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs shows how 2024 was a year of profound suffering for people due to countless conflicts around the world.

Providing aid to local populations are humanitarian workers but they often become targets themselves and, sadly, many of them lose their lives.

The amount of resources that aid workers have to rely on is very limited, in addition, there have been substantial funding cuts over the past year. In this sense, the work that partners and donors do is of paramount importance.

Also important is support for local communities where women and people with disabilities play an essential role in decision-making.

Added to this is the climate crisis that brings with it floods and droughts negatively affecting local populations. The relationship with local populations is essential to understand their needs by facilitating humanitarian access.

OCHA therefore provides assistance to displaced people by helping them to return home or to integrate into a new community where they have found refuge, and all this without leaving anyone behind.

OCHA's priorities include a humanitarian response that is people-centred and above all more inclusive.

The work that humanitarian workers do is of paramount importance because they provide food, water, health care especially for children.

It is therefore necessary to continue to support their work also through a process of de-bureaucratisation to make it more agile and above all more effective in the areas most in need.