The gravity of funding cuts in the first quarter of 2025 has required the humanitarian community to urgently hyper-prioritize its response. This special edition of the GHO explains how country and regional plans were hyper-prioritized to ensure that extremely scarce resources are directed to life-saving actions and protection for the people and places that need them most, aiming to target 114 million people with $29 billion.

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In the first months of 2025, conflict and violence have worsened ongoing crises while at the same time, critical foreign aid spending has been disrupted. With your help, relief organizations can reach crisis-affected people with food, clean water, medicine, shelter and much more when they need it most.

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As of end-April, the 2025 Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) presents consolidated funding requirements of $46.08 billion to assist 188 million of the 310 million people in need in 72 countries. To date, reported GHO funding totals $4.19 billion which is only nine per cent of the current financial requirements.

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The GHO 2025 presents an analysis of global crises and needs and the humanitarian plans to address them. In 2025, humanitarian partners are appealing for over US$47 billion to assist nearly 190 million people facing life-threatening and urgent needs across 72 countries. The report looks at response trends to strengthen, such as localization, cash, accountability and the changes needed to deliver aid effectively: security and funding. The GHO presents a collective picture of humanitarians' achievements and, conversely, what happens when humanitarians are unable to deliver aid.

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