1. Provide timely multi-sectoral life-saving assistance to crisis-affected people to reduce mortality and morbidity

2. Improve vulnerable people’s access to livelihoods and life-sustaining basic services

3. Mitigate protection risks and respond to protection needs through humanitarian action

Risultati principali attesi:   SHF currently holds USD 20m in reserve and expects an additional USD 20m in donor contributions by April 2024. In anticipation of these funds, SHF plans to allocate USD 36m, with USD 30m designated for a food response, and USD 6m for efforts by Emergency Response Rooms. The food response allocation will assist NGOs in covering logistics costs for the movement and distribution of stock procured by UN agencies, alongside related operational expenses. This allocation will also support essential health, WASH, and agricultural activities. Close coordination with CERF will ensure maximum complementarity of the USD 30m food allocation exclusive to NGOs and the USD 15m CERF allocation to agencies.

Risultati fasi precedenti:   As of August 2023 SHF had reached approx. 2.12m people in need, with 56.1% being women and girls (total figure for 2023 still outstanding). The fund continued to earn the trust by donors as an effective and efficient emergency-focused instrument, specialized in providing timely and flexible funding to hard-to-reach areas. It received USD 102m in contributions, equivalent to 9% of the HRP-funded amount. Of this, 3m was allocated before 15 April and USD 82m after the outbreak of the current conflict. Priority clusters included NFI, Health, WASH, Protection, Nutrition and Food Security. In December alone, SHF released USD 33m in response to the cholera outbreak, and the most urgent needs in Darfur, Kordofan, and Blue Nile states. With its 31 partners in 2023, around 62% of the funding was granted to INGOs, 25% to NNGOs (directly or indirectly), and 9% to UN agencies. SHF assured an open, transparent, agile and well-informed allocation approach, prioritizing the needs of the people by providing funding to the best-placed partners.