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New guidelines put youth at forefront of humanitarian response

How Covid could be the long overdue shake-up needed by the aid sector

How Covid could be the long overdue shake-up needed by the aid sector Karen McVeigh © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty This year one in every 33 people across the world will need humanitarian assistance. That is a rise of 40% from last year, according to the UN. More than half of the countries requiring aid to help deal with the coronavirus pandemic are already in protracted crises, coping with conflict or natural disasters. Even before Covid-19 threw decades of progress on extreme poverty, healthcare and education into reverse, aid budgets were heading in the wrong direction. In 2020, the UN had just 48% of its $38.5bn (£28bn) in funding appeals met, compared with 63% of $29bn sought in 2019.

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The New Humanitarian | Rethinking Humanitarianism podcast: Multilateral reform

GENEVA While we don’t know what’s on the UN secretary-general’s list of new year resolutions, one item might very well be to push ahead with the overhaul of the UN system that he launched when he took office in 2017. But change is hard. Given the complicated politics of how the UN is run, can his vision – or any reform agenda – realistically deliver? Does that agenda create openings for reform of the multilateral system?  As we close out a year in which the UN marked its 75th anniversary, we’re taking a hard look at whether reform of multilateral agencies has a chance.

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