The head of the UN refugee agency said Monday that his organisation will need to make deep cuts with dire consequences for displaced people, unless it receives urgent new funding.
Speaking at the start of UNHCR's annual executive committee meeting in Geneva, Filippo Grandi voiced concern for the agency's financial situation, at a time when the number of forcibly displaced people around the world has passed 100 million for the first time.
Grandi said the war in Ukraine, which spurred"the largest and fastest displacement crisis in Europe since the Second World War", had added over $1 billion to UNHCR's budget this year, bringing it to $10.7 billion. But he warned that while countries had vowed that their funding towards the Ukraine emergency would not impact funding towards other crises, that"additionality is not always visible when it comes to specific contributions to UNHCR."
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