Cairo – The World Food Program and the United Nations Refugee Agency will reduce jobs due to Funds reduction, mainly from the United StatesOfficials told the connected press on Tuesday, warning that reduction will seriously affect the help programs around the world.
WFP is expected to reduce the United Nations organization to 30% of their staff. The head of the High Commissioner for Refugees said that he would reduce his headquarters and regional cost reduction offices by 30% and reduce older positions by 50%.
According to the internal notes obtained by the AP and have verified two UN officials who spoke about the state of anonymity to discuss internal staff.
One WFP official called the “most massively” cuts that the Agency will viti in the past 25 years, and as a result, operations will disappear or be reduced.
Cuts to UN agencies emphasize the impact of the President Donald Trump’s The US withdrawal decision From your position as in the worldwide to help the world. Trump gave billionaires of ally Elon Musk And his Government Efficiency Department Power for re-exchanging the Federal Government, with a Focus on reducing the side of aid. No before the administration moves, many donor nations reduced humanitarian consumption, and the UN agencies were fighting to achieve funding goals.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarrić said Secretary General Antonio Gutteres was “deeply tortured for drastic reduction of funds.”
“The heads of our humanitarian agencies are forced to take impossible painful decisions because budget reductions have an immediate and often deadly impact on the world’s most sensitive,” Dujarrić said in the AP statement. “We understand the pressures on national budgets facing governments, but these reduced come at the time when military spending hit the record again.”
WFP, the world’s largest humanitarian organization, received 46% of its funding from the United States 2024. years.
He was questionable about planned cuts, in a statement that “in this challenging donor environment would give the priority of their limited resources on vital programs that urgently needed in food for 343 million people fighting and they are increasingly facing hunger.”
The internal memorand said that staff regions “will affect all geographies, divisions and levels” in the Agency. Suggested a further reduction may be necessary and said that the Agency would review its “program portfolio”.
The UN top agency provides assistance about 43.7 million refugees around the world, together with others among 122 million people separated from their homes in conflicts and natural disasters.
She said the statement that the Agency “would have to significantly reduce our workforce”, including the reduction of the seat and regional offices. UNHCR said that some countries would be closed, but did not give an immediate digit how much staff will be reduced.
“The impact of this Funds Gruke on the lives of refugees is already executed and will be far above,” said the Agency. Programs that provide food, clean water, medications, emergency shelter and other services “will be reduced or stopped.”
For example, reduced funding would reduce access to clean water at least half a million Displaced people in Sudanincreasing the risk of outbreaking cholera and other diseases.
It will also hurt the efforts for the house and secure education for refugees from Sudan in South Sudan, Chad and Uganda. He warned that the lack of facilities in the host countries will encourage more refugees to try dangerous to cross into Europe.
In April 23 e-mail to staff, the head of UNHCR said the seat and regional offices would reduce costs by 30%. It was said that older positions at the level will be closed to reduce 50% reduction.
The cuts will “influence our operations, the size of our organization, and the most worrying, the people who are invited to protect themselves,” said. “It is critical to give priority, as we always have, well-being and safety of refugees and displaced persons without citizenship.”
UNHCR Office in Lebanon – which is a home of about a million refugees from Syria – only 15% financed, spokesman said that her spokesman Lisa Abou Khaled said.
This month he had to stop financial assistance to 347,000 refugees – two-thirds of the number that had previously helped – and funding the remaining 200,000 will only last until June, said. She also stopped primary health services for about 40,000 refugees.
The UN agency announced last month that it hit him 30% reduction of funding for the year, mainly due to us reductions. It said that the ultimate programs that affect 6,000 staff and the reduction of its staff at the headquarters by 20%.
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Associate printing writer Sarah El Deeb in Beirut, Lee Keath in Cairo and Farnoush Amiri in the United Nations contributed to this report.
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