There are hundreds of disasters around the world every year: floods, droughts, cyclones and conflict. These can vary from the local level to global scale. When local communities and governments are overwhelmed, Concern is among the first to help.
It is the poorest and most vulnerable who suffer most during disasters as they do not have the resources to prepare or react effectively. Many of those affected require humanitarian assistance just to stay alive. But they also need support to rebuild their shattered lives over the long term.
Concern’s analysis of funding trends to the major coordinated humanitarian response instruments reveals worrying facts: that the response to many ongoing disasters remains drastically woefully underfunded; that donors’ commitments are not being honored; and that donor countries have not effectively adapted their funding approaches to respond to protracted crises.
Concern is committed to ensuring that effective, timely humanitarian action is informed by humanitarian principles and is guided by policies and funding focused on the most vulnerable.
An effective global humanitarian response system
Work towards a more effective global humanitarian response system which ensures timely, effective, and principled humanitarian action by providing rapid funding based purely on need, eliminating funding gaps
Lasting change
Prioritisation
An early warning response system
