UNHCR / FUNDING GAP

25-Oct-2022 00:11:40
Over recent months, funding shortfalls have forced UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to introduce cuts to its lifesaving aid to refugees and others forcibly displaced people in a number of operations across the world. UNHCR
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STORY: UNHCR / FUNDING GAP
TRT: 11:40
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: NATS

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21 MAY 2022, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH,

1. Various shots, busy street
2. Various shots, people selling vegetables on the side of street
3. Wide shot, woman pumping water
4. Wide shot, people walking
5. Wide shot, people riding a small vehicle
6. Wide shot, young man with branch in his hands
7. Wide shot, kids standing in street
8. Med shot, man carrying bags on his shoulders in the rain


12 JULY 2022, KALAMBARI CAMP, CHAD

9. Various shots, people walking in the camp
10. Various shots, women sitting by a tree with her boy
11. Various shots, women and children in the camp


6 FEBRUARY 2021, PARAGUACHÓN CROSSING POINT, MAICAO, LA GUAJIRA, COLOMBIA

12. Various shots, people arriving

5, 6 FEBRUARY 2021, INTEGRATED ASSISTANCE CENTER (CAI), MAICAO, LA GUAJIRA, COLOMBIA

13. Various shots, aerial view of shelters
14. Various shots, children playing
15. Various shots, women talking
16. Various shots, mother plaiting her daughter’s hair

21 APRIL 2021, MODALE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

17. Various shots, refugees carrying belongings
18. Various shots, young boy sitting in front of a tent
19. Various shots, people alighting from trucks
20. Various shots, people at new shelters
21. Various shots, children playing in shelter

AUGUST 2019, GAMBELA, ETHIOPIA

22. Various shots, children in classroom with teacher

AUGUST 2022, GAMBELA, ETHIOPIA

23. Various shots, teacher and students in outdoor classroom

JULY 2022, MELKEDIDA, ETHIOPIA

24. Wide shot, camp
25. Med shot, man standing amongst carcasses of dead animals
26. Various shots, animal carcasses
27. Med shot, UNHCR staff talking to man / carcasses of dead animals
28. Various shots, people at water well
29. Med shot, woman sitting next to makeshift shelter

UNKNOWN LOCATIONS, IRAQ

30. Wide shot, shelter
31. Various shots, family in halter keeping warm and reading

MAY 2021, RISALA VILLAGE, IRAQ

32. Wide shot, destroyed buildings
33. Various shots, man with children drinking tea
34. Wide shot, children running into school
35. Wide shot, children in classroom

RECENT, ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, JORDAN

36. Wide shot, drone shot of camp
37. Wide Shot, camp
38 Various shots, street life
39. Wide shot, aerial of solar panels
40. Wide shot, camp life at night
41. Med shot, makeshift shelter / Tent
42. Med shot, children at school
43. Wide shot, camp
44. Wide shot, child playing with ball

4 FEBRUARY 2022, BEKA, LEBANON

45. Various shots, people sheltering from snow
46. Various shots, camo
47. Med shot, young boy

11 JUNE 2022, MAGWI, SOUTH SUDAN

48. Various shots, man sorting corn
49. Various shots, women in farm
50. Med shot, man looking out of his tent at farm in the rain
51. Wide shot, shelter
52. Various shots, family inside shelter

FILE, BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN

53. Wide shot, drone footage of camp

10 MARCH 2022, OLD FANGAK, SOUTH SUDAN

54. Wide shot, aerial of flooded plains
55. Various shots, people working on dykes
56. Various shots, woman carrying branches into the sunset

FILE, TUNAYBAH, SUDAN

57. Med shot, children pushing wheelbarrow
58. Med shot, man and woman on donkey cart
59. Various shots, refugees fixing parts for shelters
60. Various shots, clinic in camp
61. Various shots, refugee engineer checking water tank

21 MARCH 2022, BUNAGANA, UGANDA

62. Wide shot, aerial of people arriving from Democratic Republic of Congo
63. Various shots, new arrivals carrying their belongings
64. Various shots, reception center

2020, YUMBE, UGANDA

65. Various shots, refugees laying bricks for new shelters

2019, ARUA, UGANDA

66. Various shots, refugees at border point

10 JUNE 2020, ADEN CITY, YEMEN

67. Various shots, children
68. Various shots, water point

2 NOVEMBER 2020, ADEN CITY, YEMEN

69. Various shots, sweeping outside her tarpaulin shelter
70. Various shots, camp life
STORYLINE
Without an injection of at least 700 million US dollars before the end of the year, UNHCR fears that the next round of cuts in assistance will be catastrophic for people in need.

Over recent months, funding shortfalls have forced UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to introduce cuts to its lifesaving aid to refugees and others forcibly displaced people in a number of operations across the world.

Without an injection of at least 700 million US dollars before the end of the year, UNHCR fears that the next round of cuts in assistance will be catastrophic for people in need.

Already, many operations have had to scale back essential programmes to cope with tighter funding.

In Uganda, which is experiencing an Ebola outbreak, UNHCR is unable to procure enough soap and hygiene kits to help combat the deadly disease. In Chad, water supply in camps has been cut due to fuel shortages. In Lebanon, 70,000 extremely vulnerable refugee families no longer receive their safety net help from UNHCR.

The danger is that further cuts will push families to make irreversible choices such as taking-on unmanageable debt, or sending children to work rather than school or, disastrously, offering a daughter for early marriage to reduce the numbers of mouths to feed at home. Desperation can also push families to embark on dangerous journeys further afield.

UNHCR is particularly concerned about the funding gaps in the Middle East as winter approaches. Further cuts in cash assistance will impact 1.7 million people in Lebanon, Jordan and Yemen with thousands of families unable to cover the cost of heating or warm clothes.

The displaced in other countries will also suffer, as the unmet funding shortfall will result in cuts to services for rape survivors and care for mothers and babies in Ethiopia, or shelter for displaced people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The situation is also acute in countries like Bangladesh and Colombia.

While donors, especially private companies, foundations and individuals, have contributed record levels of funding to the agency this year, UNHCR has underlined that the ripple effects of the Ukraine crisis are affecting its ability to deliver equitably around the world.

Since highlighting the funding gap in 12 particularly underfunded operations earlier this year, UNHCR has received an additional 400 million US dollars. This has been critically important to enabling operations. Yet even with this injection of funds, needs continue to grow and the gap remains at 700 million US dollars.
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