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U.S. Announces $2 Billion UN Aid Pledge With Tight Conditions and Narrowed Focus

The pledge channels money into an OCHA-run pooled fund under reform conditions that narrow eligibility for this tranche.

FILE - People carry sacks and boxes of food and humanitarian aid that was unloaded from a World Food Program convoy that had been heading to Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
A general view of a U.S. State Department sign outside the U.S. State Department building in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 11, 2025. REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon/File Photo
FILE - A woman and her children, survivors of Sunday night's 6.0-magnitude earthquake, wait for assistance in the village of Wadir, Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Nava Jamshidi, File)
FILE - Women displaced from El-Fasher stand in line to receive food aid at the newly established El-Afadh camp in Al Dabbah, in Sudan's Northern State, Nov. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)

Overview

  • The memorandum sets an initial $2 billion anchor for 2026 UN relief as part of a U.S.-framed humanitarian reset.
  • Funds will be centralized in an OCHA-managed pool, with future agency access tied to consolidation, stricter oversight and the warning to “adapt, shrink, or die.”
  • Initial allocations target 17 countries, including Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Syria and Ukraine, with Gaza and Afghanistan excluded from this tranche.
  • A portion of the funding will go to the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund to accelerate responses to new or rapidly worsening emergencies.
  • UN leaders praised the commitment, while aid groups warn it remains far below global needs after steep Western donor cutbacks and earlier U.S. reductions.