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Somalia has reached a tipping point. The lives of hundreds of thousands of people are at immediate risk, according to the latest food security and nutrition analysis.

A 12-month IASC Principals Somalia and Horn of Africa Communications and Advocacy Strategy. The aim of the strategy is to leverage both the comparative advantages of individual IASC members and the collective voice of the IASC to boost public and private advocacy and ensure coherence around advocacy efforts in relation to the drought in Somalia.

Pledge by members of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on migrants affected by crises a. We will continue our efforts to protect humanitarian space and reject the politicization of aid for migrants in countries in crisis. b. We will collectively advocate for the rights, protection, and safety of all migrants, regardless of their migration status and at all stages of their journeys.

This statement affirms the commitment of the IASC to ensure that Accountability to Affected People (AAP) is central to principled humanitarian action. It also pledges to support Humanitarian Coordinators (HCs), Humanitarian Country Teams (HCTs), clusters and individual agencies to prioritize the implementation of this commitment in all humanitarian operations.

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi), and the member agencies of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), the humanitarian system’s main coordinating body[1], are working together to ensure that the most vulnerable people caught up in humanitarian crises have access to COVID-19 doses. 

The global humanitarian community calls on world leaders at climate summit to prioritize the most vulnerable and at-risk countries and communities.

The people of Afghanistan need our support now more than ever. Our organizations are committed to helping and protecting them. We will stay in Afghanistan and we will deliver. At the start of 2021, half the population of Afghanistan – including more than 4 million women and nearly 10 million children – already needed humanitarian assistance. One third of the population was facing crisis and emergency levels of acute food insecurity and more than half of all children under 5 years of age were malnourished.

Amid a worsening humanitarian situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, reports of indiscriminate and targeted attacks against civilians, including rape and other horrific forms of sexual violence, continue to surface. This must stop. Signatories:

Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee issued a joint statement on the situation in Yemen on 28 May 2020, coinciding with the high-level pledging event for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.