Cash-strapped humanitarian system faces 2023 with shrinking donor base

News January 20, 2023 / By: Ann Danaiya Usher

As Ukraine continues to dominate headlines, the humanitarian system faces the coming year with dual challenges of increasing financing requirements and a small group of donors, led by the United States, carrying most of the load. “We worry that the needs in 2023 will be even larger. We need to engage to expand the donor base,” says Jakob Wernerman at the Swedish aid agency Sida.

Jakob Wernerman Sida photo cropped.jpg — Jakob Wernerman, Head of Sida’s Humanitarian Unit, in a bunker in Kyiv, mid-January. (Photo by Sida)

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