Funding for humanitarian programmes in 2025 has dropped to its lowest level in a decade, leaving millions without access to food and medical care, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) said in the Global Humanitarian Overview 2026 report that was published recently, according to Russian news agency Sputnik/RIA Novosti.
"In 2025, humanitarian funding saw its greatest contraction in a decade, with donor cuts causing funding to drop below 2016 levels. The United States, traditionally the largest humanitarian donor – funded US$2.5bil (RM10.29bil) against the 2025 Global Humanitarian Overview (21% of total GHO funding), compared to US$11bil (RM45.31bil) in 2024," the report read.
