Figures are as reported by donors and recipient organizations to the Financial Tracking Service as of 31 August 2016. All financial data is continuously updated on fts.unocha.org. Dollar signs in this document denote United States dollars.

For more information, please contact the Resource Mobilization Support Section (RMSS), Partnerships and Resource Mobilization Branch (PRMB), OCHA at rmss-ocha@un.org.www.humanitarianresponse.info/appeals | www.unocha.org/2016appeal

As of 31 August 2016, UN-coordinated appeals and refugee response plans as covered by the Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) require US$21.7 billion to meet the needs of 95.4 million people affected by humanitarian crises in 40 countries. Global requirements are adjusted throughout the year as response plans are revised, both upwards and downwards, to reflect up-to-date needs. The current decrease has resulted from revisions of plans for Ethiopia, Afghanistan and Yemen.

The Ethiopia Humanitarian Requirements Document (HRD) now requests $1.6 billion to respond to the needs of 9.7 million people affected by El Niño. In Afghanistan, there is a $54 million reduction in the overall ask from $393 to $339 million. The reductions reflect funding constraints impacting the ability to implement programmes, realistic absorption capacity and capability to deliver in the coming six months. Humanitarian actors have reached 2.1 million people with aid. The HRP for Yemen now requires $1.6 billion to respond to the needs of 12.6 million people. Some 6.9 million people have received assistance in 22 Governorates.

Funding for the Syria Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) and the Syria Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP) is at 34 per cent and 47 per cent respectively. Although the London conference saw record-level pledges, disbursements are urgently required to allow organizations to scale up or sustain operations in Syria and the region. With the highly prioritised Iraq 2016 Humanitarian Response Plan only 53 per cent funded, operational partners have urgently appealed for additional $284 million to prepare for the humanitarian impact of the operation to retake Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The 2016 humanitarian response plans (HRPs) for Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon contain components to respond to the Lake Chad Basin crisis and have appealed for $559 million to scale up their operations. The Cadre Harmonisé report for August notes that 65,000 people in North-East Nigeria are experiencing famine, more than 1 million people are in emergency, while about 3.3 million are in crisis. Please see icon overleaf for information on other urgent funding needs.

Additionally, El Niño's impact on people’s food security and agricultural livelihoods, will continue through the next growing season, with the impact on health, nutrition, water and sanitation likely to grow throughout the year. Eastern and Southern Africa are the most affected regions with the effects likely to last well into 2017. Some 23 countries have presented costed response plans with total requirements of $5 billion.

On 16 August, the Emergency Relief Coordinator released $50 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for severely underfunded aid operations in Yemen, the Democratic Republic Congo, Chad, Central African Republic, Rwanda and Eritrea [link]. The latest rapid response allocations include aid for Syrian refugees in Jordan and an allocation to Niger. CERF has allocated a total of $291 million in 2016 thus far. The Fund has received $345 million for 2016 as of the end of August, and continues to anticipate a funding gap of $50 million on the $450 million annual funding target.

Meanwhile, 18 Member States have contributed $465 million in 2016. OCHA manages 18 CBPFs in the world’s worst crises, where these funds have allocated $339 million to aid agencies: 19 per cent to national NGOs; 47 per cent to international NGOs; 34 per cent to UN agencies. CBPFs continue to be one of the largest direct sources of funding to local and national frontline responders.

* The global figures in this document (95.4 million people and $21.7 billion requirements) do not include RRP country chapters already covered in corresponding HRPs.

PEOPLE AFFECTED GLOBALLY

EL NIÑO FUNDING

$21.7 billionTOTAL REQUIREMENTS OF UN COORDINATED APPEALS

95.4 million

60 million

PEOPLE TO RECEIVE AID*

40 COUNTRIESAFFECTED

MAR.JAN. FEB. JUN. JUL.APR. MAY

FUNDING GAP

REQUESTED$5 billion$3.4 billion

$2.0 B

$4.0 B

$6.0 B

$8.4 billionFUNDING RECEIVED

39%FUNDED

$13.3 billionFUNDING GAP

OUTSIDE FUNDING

UN COORDINATEDAPPEALS FUNDING

$7.6 billion$8.4 billion

GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN FUNDING RECEIVED

$16 billion

UNITED NATIONS COORDINATED APPEALS

FUNDINGUPDATEA U G U S T 2 0 1 6

HUMANITARIAN

Figures are as reported by donors and recipient organizations to the Financial Tracking Service as of 31 August 2016. All financial data is continuously updated on fts.unocha.org. Dollar signs in this document denote United States dollars.

For more information, please contact the Resource Mobilization Support Section (RMSS), Partnerships and Resource Mobilization Branch (PRMB), OCHA at rmss-ocha@un.org.www.humanitarianresponse.info/appeals | www.unocha.org/2016appeal

* This figure does not include contributions by the Government of Ethiopia as these are not reflected in FTS (in-country monitoring indicates total funding of $1.027 billion).** Contributions received towards aid activities in Pakistan and Colombia and DPRK are counted as global humanitarian funding outside appeals.

REGIONAL REFUGEE RESPONSE PLAN (RRP)

SYRIA$3.1 B

$1.077 B34%

CAR RRP$345.7 M

$78.0 M23%

BURUNDI RRP$313.8 M

$98.8 M31%

NIGERIA RRP

$47.9 M24%

$198.7 MS. SUDAN RRP$701.6 M

$132.5 M19%

CAMEROON$282.1 M

$75.4 M27%

YEMEN RRMRP$94.1 M

$20.7 M22%

SUDAN$952.1 M

$390.5 M41%

DRC$690.0 M

$294.4 M43%

NIGERIA$279.2 M

$102.4 M37%

OTHER FUNDING**

HAITI$193.7 M

$60.6 M31%

NIGER$316.4 M

$108.1 M34%

YEMEN$1.6 B

$516.5 M32%

BURKINA FASO$90.5 M

$45.1 M50%

28%$48.8 M

LIBYA$172.4 M

BURUNDI$62.3 M

$19.9 M39%

HRPCOUNTRY-BASED POOLED FUNDHUMANITARIAN RESPONSE PLAN

$XXXX%$XX

REQUIREMENTSFUNDING COVERAGEFUNDING RECEIVEDFURTHER INFORMATION

DJIBOUTI$74.8 M

$18.1 M24%

HONDURAS$44.1 M

$5.3 M12%

GAMBIA$11.4 M

$-0%

MOSUL$283.7 M

$-0%

MALI$354.0 M

$100.2 M28%

$1.028 B*

ETHIOPIA$1.6 B

AFGHANISTAN$338.8 M

$132.9 M39%

SYRIA 3RP$4.5 B

$2.15 B47%

SENEGAL$19.9 M

$5.6 M28%

SOMALIA$885.1 M

$283.7 M32%

$15.7 M18%

MAURITANIA$89.2 M

FIJI$38.6 M

$21.7 M56%

IRAQ$860.5 M

$452.6 M53%

MYANMAR$189.5 M

$85.4 M45%

$41.9 M COLOMBIA $37.9 M DPR KOREA $267.3 M PAKISTAN

CAR$531.5 M

$150.7 M28%

GUATEMALA$56.6 M

$15.6 M28%

ZIMBABWE$359.8 M

$49.0 M14%

UKRAINE$297.9 M

$72.4 M24%

SOUTH SUDAN$1.3 B

$566.0 M44%

CHAD$541.3 M

$106.1 M20%

oPt$570.7 M

$189.1 M33%

$1.1 M24%

$4.9 MSAHEL

ECUADOR$72.8 M

$24.0 M33%

HRP/APPEAL FUNDING & REQUIREMENTSBY FUNDING COVERAGE

FUNDINGUPDATEA U G U S T 2 0 1 6

HUMANITARIAN

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICIn CAR, due to underfunding, key implementing partners such as Save the Children have announced the withdrawal of operations. Although the Humanitarian Country Team continues to work to fill the gap, should the underfunding continue, the humanitarian presence is likely to further reduce its footprint, especially in the interior where the state is practically absent and operations are more costly due to logistics and security concerns, leaving most vulnerable communities without health services and other life-saving humanitarian programmes. For instance, while 50 percent of the CAR population depends on food assistance to survive, the food security sector remains only 7 percent funded.

MALIDespite the $16 million CERF grant allocated in January 2016, the HRP, which amounts to $354 million, is only 28 per cent funded ($100 million). During the current lean season, funds are urgently required to distribute food or transfer cash to people in need, including to 424,000 people severely food insecure, and to assist 180,000 children facing severe acute malnutrition. Funds are also critical to further assist 9,600 Malians affected by the floods throughout the country, and the people displaced by the recent clashes between armed groups in the Kidal region in late July.

SYRIAFunding for the Syria Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) and the Syria Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP) is at 34 per cent and 47 per cent respectively. Although the London conference earlier this year saw record-level pledges, some donors have not yet allocated all the funds pledged. Contributions are urgently required to allow organizations to scale up or sustain operations in Syria and the region.

SUDANIn Sudan, where 5.8 million people were already in need of humanitarian assistance, emerging needs have grown in 2016 with the arrival of more than 90,000 refugees from South Sudan and 200,000 flood-affected people. Despite the scale of the needs, the Humanitarian Response Plan remains only 30 percent funded. Additional funding is urgently needed to prevent new crises from worsening – funding shortages for example continue to threaten the provision of life-saving services to new arrivals from South Sudan - while continuing to meet existing needs of 2.2 million vulnerable IDPs and 1.5 million malnourished children. The impact is already being felt, with a rise in malnutrition rates reported in areas of Darfur where programming has been scaled back due to funding constraints.

YEMENMore than half way through 2016, Yemen's Humanitarian Response Plan is under-funded with only 32 per cent funding received. Over the last year severe the number of people who are severely food insecure grew from 6 million to 7 million, one step away from declaring famine. Over 14 million people require assistance accessing healthcare as the health sector has all but collapsed in absence of a fully functioning formal economy curbing private healthcare and limiting the Government's ability to pay salaries and provide basic social services. Urgent funding is needed to ensure that the UN and our partners can reach people most in need throughout the country while expanding our foot print. Without the necessary funding food rations may be reduced. The 2016 Yemen HRP aims to reach 12.6 million people by the end of 2016, of whom 4 million have been reached on average every month with some form of assistance.

LIBYAUrgent action is needed to prevent further deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Libya, where 2.4 million people are in need of assistance. The health system is on the verge of collapse due to shortage of medicine, equipment and personnel. Nearly two million people, or a third of the population, are in need of assistance to access life-saving health services. Food insecurity is on the increase, with 1.3 million people in need of food assistance, due to the severe disruption of supply routes, damage to critical market infrastructure, limited availability of cash and rising prices. Food distribution to the most vulnerable will cease as of September if urgent funding does not materialize. Recent escalation of violence in Sirte has displaced over 90,000 people, of whom 72,000 people are in need. Humanitarian capacities have been stretched and additional funding is required to prevent a rupture in the humanitarian assistance.

ECUADORThe Flash Appeal, seeking US$ 72.7 million to support 350,000 people with multi-sector life-saving assistance, protection services and immediate livelihood restoration, is 31 per cent funded despite a US$ 7.5 million CERF allocation. While the government is keen to move quickly to the reconstruction phase, the Flash Appeal period has been extended for an additional three months (August to October) to cover unmet immediate humanitarian needs. Lack of funding will mainly affect the rural areas where some 73,000 people remain displaced and are still in need of shelters, WASH and food assistance.

HAITIThe humanitarian situation remains complex in Haiti. Additional funding is needed in particular to address rising food insecurity (US$ 33.8 million received - funded at 32 per cent) and to control the recent cholera upsurge a total of US$20.3 million are required (Health and WASH). So far, only $8 million (39 per cent) of these urgent requirements have been funded. UNICEF and WHO project that there could be 50,000 cases by the end of the year if adequate rapid response is not available in WASH and Health. A 40 per cent reduction of cholera response teams due funding shortfalls combined with heavy rains already resulted in increased cholera cases, with weekly incident levels similar to 2013. Insufficient funding will also jeopardize the ability of humanitarian partners to provide food assistance and to support emergency agriculture, nutrition and livelihood interventions.

AFGHANISTANOver 221,000 Afghans, of whom nearly 80 per cent are women and children, have been newly internally displaced by a growing conflict in 2016 alone. Despite the even tighter focus of the 2016 HRP on life-saving interventions compared to 2015, US$ 206 million is still required, in particular in the areas of health and acute malnutrition. Funds are urgently needed to mitigate growing humanitarian needs among families unable to return home for several months - beyond the current immediate support for the first month of displacement, as well as for growing numbers of returnees. Prolonged displacement in very hard conditions, with lack of access to food, safe water and basic health services, will further compound the existing malnutrition crisis. Currently only 35 per cent of children in need of treatment for severe acute malnutrition are being reached.

SOMALIADrought continues to have a devastating impact on Somalia. Food security is expected to deteriorate in the next five months following significant crop destruction and reduced livestock productivity. This comes against a backdrop of a complex and protracted crisis with 4.7 million people, or 38 per cent of Somalis, in need of humanitarian and livelihood support, including more than one million displaced people. At least 305,000 children under the age of 5 are acutely malnourished. Of the US$ 885 million requested in the 2016 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), only 34 per cent has been received so far. If funding is not received now, mortality and morbidity rates as well as school drop-outs will increase. Scarcity of pasture and water sources also increases the risk of inter-communal violence due to competition and related protection violations.

SOUTH SUDANFighting in July 2016 has resulted in renewed forced displacement and humanitarian needs. At the beginning of the year some 6.1 million people – more than half of the population – were estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance, and the situation continues to deteriorate. Hunger and displacement are now widespread across the country. An estimated 2.3 million people have been forced to flee their homes, including some 70,000 who have fled to Uganda since violence erupted in July 2016. Some 4.8 million people are acutely food insecure, many of whom are in previously stable areas such as Northern Bahr el Ghazal. South Sudan is again facing a Cholera epidemic and seeing unprecedented levels of Malaria. The 2016 HRP call for US$ 1.3 billion to reach 5.1 million of the most vulnerable South Sudanese, yet is only 44 per cent funded. Additional funds are urgently needed to meet the increasing and expanding needs.

IRAQThe humanitarian operation in Iraq is highly prioritised. With 10 million people requiring some form of assistance, at least $4.5 billion are required to respond at international standards. Partners have appealed instead for only a fraction of this, launching the 2016 Humanitarian Response Plan at $861 million in January. The plan targets 7.3 million people with basic emergency packages for each cluster, sequenced across first-line, second-line and full-cluster responses. Despite its rigorous prioritization, only 53 per cent of the appeal has been received. The impact of this underfunding cannot be underestimated. Agencies also require additional funding for the Mosul operation, which may become the single largest, most complex humanitarian operation in the world in 2016. Partners launched an urgent appeal for $284 million to prepare for Mosul, which is required in addition to the funding appealed for in the 2016 HRP.

ETHIOPIAThe crisis in Ethiopia, which tripled the number of people requiring humanitarian assistance following the El Niño induced drought, is not over. A total of 9.7 million people still require emergency food assistance. A likely La Niña event is expected to cause further flooding and ‘drought-like conditions’ in late 2016 and 2017. Acute Watery Diarrhoea continues to spread, with over 10,000 cases reported this year. Of the $1.62 billion requested, $612 million is still urgently required for lifesaving humanitarian assistance. Those most immediately impacted by lack of funding will be the more than 420,000 severely malnourished children and around 2.3 million moderately malnourished people across the country.