Humanitarian workers expect the dwindling of aid allocated to Syrians
Humanitarian workers expect that the proceedings of the eighth session of the Brussels conference to support the future of Syria and the region would reduce the amount of aid allocated to the Syrians.
The UN World Food Program’s deputy executive director, Carl Skau, said: “We have moved from assisting 5,5 million people annually to 1.5 million people in Syria.”
Skau made it clear that the “aid program has shrunk the most in the shortest period of time”, according to Associated Press.
The UN Deputy Regional Coordinator for the Syria Crisis, David Carden, pointed out that the “UN response plan for Syria for 2024 requires more than $4.7 billion but is only six percent funded.”
Carden made it clear that the United Nations can only feed 600000 people out of 3.6 million who are food insecure in north-west Syria.
The United Nations had expressed its hope to collect more than $4 billion of lifesaving aid to support about two-thirds of people in need, 16.7 million Syrians, whether in Syria or in countries of asylum.
At the VII Brussels conference last year, donors pledged $10.3 billion, including about $6 billion in grants and the rest in loans.
The VIII Brussels conference on supporting the future of Syria and the region will be held today, which is hosted by the European Union, according to the UN website.
