Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, said that “over 16 million Syrians are in need of humanitarian assistance more than ever.”
Griffiths’s previous statement came during a briefing to the Security Council to discuss the political and humanitarian situation in Syria.
Griffiths said: “The underfunding for aid with the ongoing rise of humanitarian needs in Syria leads to continued suffering of the Syrian people.”
Griffiths added that “we collected 55% of our funding needs in 2021, which decreased last year to 39%, representing the biggest funding gap since the start of the crisis.”
Griffiths signaled that “more that 7 million people have displaced throughout Syria, and millions of people have sought refuge to neighboring countries and beyond.”
The international donors announced at the VIII Brussels conference on supporting the future of Syria and the region the allocation of financial aid worth €7.5 billion in grants and loans to help Syrian refugees. The pledges at the VIII Brussels conference surpassed the amount of $4.07 billion that the United Nations had appealed for, but they represented a significant decrease compared to amounts pledged in previous years, according to the Associated Press.
“Syria Response Coordination Group” had previously stated that “all the amounts announced in the Brussels conference are fictitious amounts, as in all previous versions of the aforementioned conference, through the announcement of massive funding payments and they are not fulfilled by donors, which was clearly evident in Previous versions.”
