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Current Requirements (US$)$889.6 million
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Current People Hyper Prioritized2.6 million
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Current Hyper Prioritized Requirements$521.1 million
GHO estimates at launch (8 December 2025)
Crisis overview
Myanmar’s humanitarian crisis has continued to deepen due to intensifying conflict, recurrent natural disasters, and steady economic collapse. In the first half of 2025, Myanmar ranked second globally for conflict intensity and fourth most dangerous country for civilians, with more than half of the population exposed to conflict. The security situation for civilians is deteriorating, protection risks are severe, and the resilience of communities is stretched to breaking point.
In March 2025, a devastating earthquake struck central Myanmar. The disaster impacted key agricultural regions, destroying crops, irrigation systems, and grain stores—threatening food security for 2 million newly affected people. The earthquake damaged or destroyed tens of thousands of houses, dozens of roads and bridges, and nearly 70 health facilities, severely disrupting access to essential services.
Mandalay Region, Myanmar
A teacher stands amid the ruins of his former classroom destroyed by the earthquake.
UNICEF/ Minzayar
An estimated 3.6 million people have been displaced by conflict and earthquake, with 1.7 million in the hardest-hit regions in the Northwest, Rakhine, and Southeast, the highest figure on record. Most conflict-displaced people have fled their homes multiple times and often end up in informal shelters with limited access to food, healthcare, and clean water.
The significant underfunding of the response combined with inflation, access restrictions, and interruptions to services have resulted in many essential needs going unaddressed and worsening over time. Based on an in-depth analysis of the humanitarian shocks and its related impacts, the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) has focused the scope of analysis for 2026 on the two-thirds of the country affected by two primary shocks—conflict and earthquake.
In total, 16.2 million people—more than 45 per cent of the population within the scope of analysis—require life-saving assistance and protection services, including 5 million children. The reduction of people in need relative to 2025 is entirely the result of a more shock-informed scope of analysis consistent with the ‘Humanitarian Reset’ and downward adjustments made to baseline population projections, and by no means indicates any improvement of the humanitarian situation.
Response priorities and financial requirements for 2026
In spite of the high level of needs, the Myanmar 2026 HNRP target has been set at 4.9 million people, a 27 per cent decrease from 6.7 million in 2025. The reduction in target is proportional across most clusters and largely a reflection of diminished response capacities foreseen for 2026. The 2026 target amounts to 30 per cent of the total PiN figure of 16.2 million. The funding required to implement the plan amounts to $890 million, a 36 per cent decrease from the $1.4 billion requested in 2025. There is a high correlation between the intensity of conflict-related incidents and earthquake impact, the severity of needs, and subsequent targeting decisions under the HNRP. Prioritized within the 2026 HNRP are 2.6 million people at a cost of $521 million.
Given the magnitude of the PiN, funding landscape and capacity constraints, the HCT prioritized the response according to severity of needs, partners’ operational capacity and funding projections with:
- More focus on IDPs, returnees/resettled/integrated IDPs, and non-displaced stateless people and less on other shock-affected people.
- More focus on hard-to-reach rural areas and those with the most severe needs, while being realistic about potential reach given access and capacity constraints.
- Removal of resilience, disaster risk reduction, prevention and basic social services-type activities and elimination of any overlap between planned activities and caseloads identified in the UN Transitional Cooperation Framework (TCF).
Myanmar
A girl stands on the grounds of a displacement site hosting families affected by the March 2025 earthquake.
OCHA/Pierre PeronThe 2026 HNRP prioritizes life-saving and protection activities. Each cluster defined quantifiable needs and severity thresholds at township level to inform response priorities – accounting for people's preferences – while ensuring that targeting remains realistic and feasible. However, unless development partners step in and support the most vulnerable people, no longer targeted under the HNRP with rebuilding their livelihoods, humanitarian needs will persist.
The upcoming elections could potentially trigger increased tensions, outbreaks of conflict, displacement, and further access restrictions. While there have been modest access openings in 2025, such as localized progress to facilitate the earthquake response in Mandalay and Sagaing, the overall access environment is expected to remain heavily constrained, requiring strong reliance and risk sharing with local responders, who are the backbone of the response. The 2026 HNRP will integrate key components of the ‘Humanitarian Reset’ agenda with a particular focus on community involvement, simplified and locally-led coordination structures and pooling of resources in support of a more efficient, targeted, and localized response.
Myanmar
2025 in review: Response highlights and consequences of inaction
Response highlights
Education
919,000 individuals have been reached with education in emergencies support.
Food Security
1.6 million people have received life-saving emergency food and livelihoods assistance.
Health
2.1 million people have received essential health care services, supplies or emergency referral services.
Nutrition
600,000 children and pregnant and lactating women have received life-saving nutritional assistance.
Protection
3.3 million people have been assisted with protection services.
Shelter
1.9 million people have been reached with shelter and non-food item support.
WASH
2.2 million people have received WASH services.
Recovery
464,000 people have been reached with early recovery interventions.
Mandalay Region, Myanmar
Consequences of funding cuts
Education
700,000 children were left without access to learning.
Food Security
825,000 persons did not receive life-saving emergency food assistance.
Health
600,000 persons will not receive essential health care services, supplies or emergency referral services
Nutrition
31,000 children under five have experienced increased morbidity or death in the absence of life-saving treatment for severe acute malnutrition.
Protection
1.8 million people were left without protection services.
Shelter
1.3 million conflict-affected IDPs and other vulnerable people did not receive shelter and NFI assistance.
WASH
1.1 million people remained without access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene services.
Recovery
1.2 million people affected by the earthquake remained with restricted access to services due to unaddressed debris and waste.
Kachin State, Myanmar
A child watches a lesson from the doorway of a classroom in a displacement camp. Access to education remains a challenge in conflict-affected areas.
OCHAAccess constraints & attacks against aid workers/facilities
Humanitarian access
38 per cent of all townships were considered hard to reach.
Health Care
More than 200 attacks on health care were reported in 2025, damaging over 80 health facilities
Access constraints and challenges
1.5 million people in hard-to-reach areas could not be reached with any form of assistance.