The United Nations humanitarian body on Friday, April 11 announced plans to reduce its personnel from more than 2,000 people by 20%, citing “a wave of brutal cuts.”
In a letter to the staff, the head of the UN Humanitarian Affairs Office, Tom Fletcher, wrote: “We will reduce the bureaucracy and the layers of reports. We will become less important, reducing high -level higher positions … but we have dynamic and complete responses where we are present.”
In the letter sent on Thursday, of which they were published on the office website on Friday, Fletcher said the agency faces a financing gap of almost $ 60 million. Since February, OCA has implemented austerity measures to save $ 3.7 million internally, but that will not be enough.
The last cuts “will also reduce their presence and operations” in Cameroon, Colombia, Eritrea, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Turkey and Zimbabwe.
‘Brutal cut’
The broader help situation has become serious since the Trump administration discarded 83% of the humanitarian programs financed by the United States Agency for International Development. USAID had an annual budget or $ 42.8 billion, representing 42% or total or total global humanitarian aid.
“The context we face is the most difficult for a leg for our mission as Ocha, and the system we coordinate,” Fletcher wrote. “The humanitarian community was already underloaded, overloaded and literally under attack. Now, we face a wave of brutal cuts.”
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is a United Nations defense arm that offers reports of the first line of conflicts “to amplify the voices of people affected by the crisis,” according to their website. It has active pulmonary leg in response to current violence in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan and other conflict areas to provide humanitarian aid.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which used almost 20,000 people at the end of September, also indicated in March that awaits a “significant reduction” in its workforce due to the absence of US funds.
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