Inter-Agency Coordinated Appeals: May - June Update

People in Need

300M

People Targeted

178M

Requirements (US$)

$44B

Appeals

Inter-Agency Appeals Funding (US$)

$5.96B

Appeals Coverage

13.5%

Total Humanitarian Funding (US$)

$10.58B

As of end-June, the 2025 Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) presents total funding requirements of $44.18 billion to assist 178.2 million of the 299.7 million people in need in 72 countries. To date, only $5.96 billion has been reported, representing just 13.5 per cent of the full financial requirements. This figure is approximately one third lower than the funding recorded at the same time last year.

Reprioritization

PEOPLE URGENTLY PRIORITIZED

114M

URGENTLY PRIORITIZED REQUIREMENTS (US$)

$29B

Overview: the cruel math of aid cuts

The magnitude, gravity and suddenness of funding cuts in the first quarter of 2025 have forced the humanitarian community to hyper-prioritize its response efforts. This step—as called for in the Humanitarian Reset and supported by the IASC Emergency Directors through their ‘global accelerated transition plan’—aims to ensure that humanitarians save as many lives as possible with the resources they have. Beginning in March 2025, every country operation and regional response rapidly reviewed their existing plans and appeals, originally crafted with high-levels of rigor, to identify those people in the most urgent need of assistance and the most critical response to be mobilized.

This hyper-prioritization has identified 114.4 million people who are facing the most life-threatening needs to be most urgently targeted with assistance and protection. This represents just 38 per cent of the total number of people in need of humanitarian assistance globally (299.7 million) and only 64 per cent of those targeted for humanitarian assistance in 2025 (178.2 million). This hyper-prioritization required painstaking deliberation and decisions by humanitarian leaders and partners, who had already exerted extensive efforts to tightly define their 2025 humanitarian plans and appeals.

To reach these people, US$29.1 billion—out of the total $44 billion currently required under the Global Humanitarian Overview—needs to be mobilized urgently. Yet, as of 30 June, just $5.96 billion has been received, amounting to just over 13.5 per cent of the total humanitarian funding required in 2025 through the Global Humanitarian Overview ($44.18 billion).

Hyper-prioritizing country responses

The reprioritization of Humanitarian Needs and Response Plans (HNRP) in 2025 was based on two main criteria, contextualized to each country’s context, allowing space to consider additional activities or geographic areas as relevant. The two baseline criteria were:

focusing humanitarian action on the people and places that need it most, using intersectoral severity 4 and 5 as the starting point; and
prioritizing life-saving activities, including protection, based on work already undertaken for the Humanitarian Programme Cycle 2025.

This hyper-prioritization identified 88.2 million people to be most urgently targeted for assistance and protection by HNRPs, with $21.5 billion immediately required to reach them in 2025.

Reprioritizing across regional plans

Regional response plans have also reprioritized to ensure limited resources are first directed to where they are most urgently required, putting a spotlight on “what must be done first”, noting that the overall needs and figures of 2025 remain valid.

As a result of this exercise, 27.8 million people—out of the 35 million identified in the regional response plans—have been hyper-prioritized for assistance and protection, with corresponding prioritized requirements amounting to $8.7 billion.

As part of the hyper-prioritization, humanitarian clusters have identified their most urgent targets and financial requirements, focusing on the most severely affected populations and areas.

Hyper-prioritization resources

For the full hyper-prioritization document, see here. This document and the Humanitarian Action website include a timely overview of trends in crises, an in-depth look at what happens when humanitarians cannot response, and the achievements to date even amid extreme challenges.

The new interactive dashboard that accompanies the GHO special edition presents the results of the hyper-prioritization of Humanitarian Needs and Response Plans (HNRPs) undertaken by each operation. It does not include the regional plans. Analysis can be performed by operation, cluster (when available) and severity level.