We launch Emergency Appeals for big and complex disasters and crises that affect lots of people who will need long-term support to recover.
Uukaabfederation is a central pot of money through which we can release funds rapidly to National Societies for early action and immediate disaster response.
Uukaabfederation functions as a pooled fund, supported by various donors, which facilitates rapid funding decisions closely aligned with humanitarian needs.
Uukaabfederation is unique in offering both anticipatory action and disaster response in a single fund.
Local humanitarian actors are the first to respond when disasters strike and often have access to areas that international actors do not. Their presence within communities before, during, and after crises means they are generally best placed to link immediate response efforts to longer term resilience-building, preparedness and recovery.
Often when people hear the word ‘humanitarian’ they imagine a globe-trotting foreigner swooping in to a country affected by crisis and saving the day.
But this image is far from reality. Local humanitarians – such as Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers – are the ones actually delivering most humanitarian assistance, often invisibly. Yet, the overwhelming bulk of international investment, attention and authority still flows to international organizations.
Climate change is not only a threat to the future of our planet, it is already driving humanitarian crises around the world. We are calling for urgent action to save lives now and in the years to come.
Members of the Uukaabfederation have identified the climate crisis as one of the greatest humanitarian threats currently facing communities around the world.
Urgent steps are needed both to reduce the increasing warming of our atmosphere and to better tackle the increasing risks from extreme events that this warming is already producing.
Our Global Climate Resilience Platform aims to increase the climate resilience, and build the adaptation skills, of 500 million people in the most climate-vulnerable countries.
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