Inside The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service: Flying To Challenging Locations
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The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) is managed by the World Food Programme (WFP). The group provides common air services for the humanitarian community to remote and challenging areas. With its fleet of over 100 aircraft, it transports crucial cargo and up to over 400,000 passengers a year across the globe.
UNHAS has served 400 regular destinations in 23 countries. Photo: The World Food Programme
Critical missions
UNHAS emphasizes that its goal is to provide safe, reliable, cost-efficient, and effective light cargo and passenger transport “for the wider humanitarian community to and from areas of crisis and intervention.” Additionally, the organization notes that it is the “only humanitarian air service that gives equal access to all humanitarian entities.”
WFP Mauritania Country Brief, January 2020
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USD 0.8 m cash-based transfers made
USD 11.8 m six months (February 2020 – July 2021) net funding requirements
86,231 people assisted in January 2021
Operational Updates
WFP continued implementing treatment of moderate acute malnutrition in Guidimakha, Assaba and Hodh El Charghi regions, reaching 7,161 children and pregnant and lactating women. A new screening exercise is under preparation for Assaba and Hodh El Charghi region in order to identify people in need of nutrition assistance.
The school feeding programme resumed on 4 January following the decision of the Mauritanian government to reopen schools. A daily morning porridge and a hot meal were distributed to 19,694 pupils in the three regions of the country where WFP already implemented a package of resilience building activities. As part of a refocusing exercise to concentrate school-canteens in the same communes and departments as resilience sites, new schools were i
WFP Syria Country Brief, January 2021
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US$ 2.9 m in cash-based transfers made
US$ 375.3 m 6-month net funding requirement (February 2021 – July 2021, as of 15 February 2021)
4.8 m people assisted in January 2021 (based on dispatches)
Operational Updates
In January, WFP delivered food and nutrition assistance to 4.8 million people across its General Food Assistance (GFA), School Feeding, Nutrition, and Livelihoods, Resilience and Social Safety Netsactivities in Syria.
WFP dispatched GFA to some 4.6 million people across all 14 Syrian governorates. Of this, 28 percent was delivered through the cross-border operation from Turkey to areas of Idlib and western rural Aleppo governorates not accessible from inside Syria.
A record 12.4 million people, 60 percent of the Syrian population, are now food insecure, according to the results of the nationwide food security assessment conducted in late 2020; by far the highest number ever recorded.
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WFP Flash Appeal for the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) - February 2021
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Vital air links in crisis countries at risk as humanitarian air service faces severe funding gap
ROME – The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), a critical lifeline transporting humanitarian workers and lifesaving cargo to some of the most challenging and hard-to-reach locations, urgently requires US$ 204 million to continue existing operations beyond February 2021.
Disruptions in UNHAS operations have the potential to impact major humanitarian operations including those in Yemen, the Syrian Arab Republic and Haiti, where conditions continue to worsen due to ongoing conflict and the impact of COVID-19.