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Europa English European External Action Service EEAS
14.06.2025
Pressemitteilung
EEAS 

EU Statement - UNICEF Executive Board: Annual Report on UNICEF Humanitarian Action

Check against delivery Chair, Madam Executive Director, I am speaking on behalf of the European Union as a donor. We congratulate UNICEF and its staff for their humanitarian achievements in 2024, in a context where it has become more and more difficult to assist children because of hindered humanitarian access, violations of international humanitarian law and a decline in funding. We regret to see that at the end of 2024, UNICEF had received only 31 percent of its total requirement, with the ...
Check against delivery Chair, Madam Executive Director, I am speaking on behalf of the European Union as a donor. We congratulate UNICEF and its staff for their humanitarian achievements in 2024, in a context where it has become more and more difficult to assist children because of hindered humanitarian access, violations of international humanitarian law and a decline in funding. We regret to see that at the end of 2024, UNICEF had received only 31 percent of its total requirement, with the top six crises accounting for 52 per cent of humanitarian contributions received, and that private sector contributions decreased by 35 per cent, back to pre-COVID-19 and pre-Ukraine war levels. In this constrained environment, we welcome that UNICEF transferred USD 850 million in cash to its humanitarian partners, with 45.5 per cent going to local and national civil society organizations, and 19 per cent of it to local women-led organizations. We encourage UNICEF to continue on this trend, all the more so considering the severe funding problems WLOs are currently confronted with in the field. We support UNICEF’s steadfast humanitarian diplomacy efforts on behalf of children and commend its determination to speak out and overcome access obstacles in the most difficult contexts, notably in Gaza. We welcome the results achieved by UNICEF in its different fields of activity, notably that 9 million children had access to education, and we reiterate the EU’s strong commitment to the priority...

Errors and omissions excepted. As of: 14.06.2025