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Underfunding is felt across the range of UNHCR’s activities and around the world. Ten situations—the primary subject of this report— are particularly affected. These situations comprise 56% ($5.160 billion) of UNHCR’s budget. Examples are given in each of these situations of where underfunding has already (as of August 2020) brought activities to an end, and where activities are on the brink of being cancelled or scaled back if funding is not forthcoming soon. As these examples show, underfunding is affecting all areas of UNHCR’s response, from protection, to assistance and resilience activities, to solutions. While some instances of underfunding are due to new needs or reprioritization resulting from COVID-19, many examples pre-date the pandemic and demonstrate the impact that chronic underfunding can have on the lives of people of concern and UNHCR’s ability to respond.
