COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan (GHRP) July Update

Message from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to all Permanent and Observer Missions and other International Organizations in New York and Geneva

We are pleased to share with you the July update of the COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan (GHRP). The main document and annexes are available through the following links:

GHRP: https://www.unocha.org/sites/unocha/files/GHRP-COVID19_July_update.pdf

Annexes: https://www.unocha.org/sites/unocha/files/GHRP-COVID19_Annexes_July_update.pdf

Abridged version : https://www.unocha.org/sites/unocha/files/GHRP-COVID19_v3_abridged.pdf

(Arabic and French translations of the abridged version will be available at unocha.org next week.)

The GHRP prioritizes the most vulnerable segments of the populations - older people, those with disabilities, children, women and girls, refugees, IDPs, migrants and other marginalized groups. The estimated requirements of US$10.26 billion cover priority, life-saving needs. The increased requirements - primarily in food security, health, sanitation and protection (including from gender-based violence) – aim to provide assistance to 250 million people in 63 countries. 

The $10.26 billion includes $8.4 billion for country-level requirements for UN agencies and NGOs. It also includes global requirements for $1.8 billion made up of:

• $1.02 billion for humanitarian air transport, medevac, stranded migrants;
• $500 million for famine prevention to scale up interventions and put in place stocks to limit the possibility of famine in the most vulnerable communities;
• $300 million unallocated supplemental funding for NGOs (in addition to country-level requirements) to bolster NGO rapid response actions as the pandemic evolves.

While no new countries have been added for this update of the GHRP, this third iteration provides more comprehensive coverage to meet the needs of vulnerable people that were not included in regional refugee and/or migrant plans. As such, this update includes stand-alone, intersectoral plans for Bangladesh, Djibouti, Ecuador, Jordan, Kenya, Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

The response thus far – about $1.75 million or 23% of the May requirement (17% of the updated July requirement) - is encouraging. It has enabled humanitarian actors to stay and deliver and to adapt their response to continue providing aid despite persistent challenges. However, much more is urgently needed to prevent a large-scale human tragedy in fragile and low-income countries.

Should you have further questions, do not hesitate to contact OCHA’s Assessment Planning and Monitoring Branch: Lilian Barajas (barajas@un.org) and Chris Gerlach (gerlach2@un.org).