Press Releases

                                  40 donors pledge over US$300 million for 2026

(New York, 9 December 2025) As humanitarian crises around the world outpace the funding available to address them, senior United Nations officials today rallied the international community to urgently mobilize more support for the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), at an annual pledging event marking the Fund’s 20th anniversary.

(New York, 15 August 2025) United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed 12 new members to the Advisory Group of the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF). 

(Maputo, Mozambique, 13 March 2025) Three days before Tropical Cyclone Jude made landfall in northern Mozambique, the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) allocated US$6 million to help hundreds of thousands of people ahead of the storm.

(New York/Geneva, 6 March 2025) With global humanitarian funding being scaled back precipitously, the United Nations today allocated US$110 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to boost life-saving assistance in 10 of the world’s most underfunded and neglected crises across Africa, Asia and Latin America.

                                     45 donors pledge US$351 million for 2025 

(New York, 10 December 2024) With conflicts and climate disasters miring millions of people around the world in humanitarian need, top United Nations officials today urged the global community to ramp up support for the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), during an annual pledging event.