UN OCHA Global Humanitarian Response Plan COVID-19 - May Update

Since the publication of the Global Humanitarian Response Plan (GHRP) on 25 March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken hold in the 54 countries with ongoing humanitarian crises at varying scale, speed and severity levels. Based on their vulnerability and response capacity, an additional nine countries and Djibouti, as part of the Regional Migrant Response Plan for the Horn of Africa and Yemen, were included in this update, bringing the number of countries covered by this plan to 63.

Data and analysis conducted since the release of the GHRP in late March confirm the anticipated humanitarian impact of the pandemic on the health and socioeconomic conditions of vulnerable groups identified, including 

• older persons,
• people with comorbidities,
• people with mental health and psychosocial needs,
• persons with disabilities, women,
• children and youth,
• forcibly displaced persons,
• refugees, a
• sylum seekers and migrants, and,
• people who have lost their sources of income and fall outside social protection systems.