Senior PSEA Technical support mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo remains home to one of the largest and most complex humanitarian emergencies in the world. As of November 2020, the DRC had the highest number of people in the world who are food insecure (21.8 million). With over 5.2 million people displaced, it is the second largest crisis of displacement in the world (after Syria). This dismal humanitarian situation is largely provoked by conflicts located mostly in the Eastern provinces of Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu, some of which have been on-going for over 20 years. The population of the DRC is also regularly exposed to large-scale, lethal epidemics such as measles, cholera and Ebola. In 2020, over 270 humanitarian organizations, operating under the leadership of the Humanitarian Coordinator, made a collective request of over USD 2 billion to deliver emergency relief assistance, in often difficult conditions of access and security, to over 9 million Congolese. Only 35% of this funding was received in 2020.