UN to cut humanitarian operations office staff by 20% ...Middle East

In a letter to staff, UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs head Tom Fletcher wrote “we will reduce bureaucracy and reporting layers. We will become less top-heavy, substantially reducing senior positions... but have dynamic and full responses where we are present.”

Since February, OCHA has implemented austerity measures to save $3.7 million internally, but that won’t be enough.

The broader aid situation has grown dire since the Trump administration scrapped 83 percent of humanitarian programs funded by the US Agency for International Development. USAID had an annual budget of $42.8 billion, representing 42 percent of total global humanitarian aid.

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is an advocacy arm of the United Nations that delivers reports from the front-line of conflicts “to amplify the voices of crisis-affected people,“ according to its website.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which employed nearly 20,000 people at the end of September, also indicated in March that it expects a “significant reduction” in its workforce due to the absence of American funding.

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