{"id":51838,"date":"2022-05-20T18:20:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T16:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/?p=51838"},"modified":"2022-07-04T11:01:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T09:01:10","slug":"un-deeply-troubled-over-cuts-in-development-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/un-deeply-troubled-over-cuts-in-development-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"UN \u201cdeeply troubled\u201c over cuts in development aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Amina J. Mohammed, UN Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations has published a statement saying that she is \u201cdeeply troubled over recent decisions and proposals to markedly cut Official Development Assistance (ODA) to service the impacts of the war in Ukraine on refugees.\u201c\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIt is clear for all to see that the continuing war in Ukraine is having an alarming impact on a world economy already battered by COVID-19 and climate change,\u201c Ms. Mohammed, who is Chair of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group, says in her statement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43593\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43593\" src=\"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/Amina-Mohammed-united-nations-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed \u00a9 UN Photo\/Rick Bajornas\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/Amina-Mohammed-united-nations-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/Amina-Mohammed-united-nations-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/Amina-Mohammed-united-nations-696x463.jpg 696w, https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/Amina-Mohammed-united-nations-631x420.jpg 631w, https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/Amina-Mohammed-united-nations-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/Amina-Mohammed-united-nations.jpg 784w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed \u00a9 UN Photo\/Rick Bajornas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">She points out that global food prices have reached an all-time high and a global energy crisis is already in motion at a time when public finances in many developing countries are overstretched in the aftermath of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis is the exact moment requiring countries and the United Nations system to respond to the surging humanitarian and development needs by bringing additional resources needed to meet Member State ODA pledges, thus investing in humanity\u2019s resilience and preventing the current crisis from cascading into many others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0Extraordinary times call for extraordinary efforts.\u201c<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0The Deputy-Secretary-General urges all countries to reconsider making cuts that will affect the world\u2019s most vulnerableand emphasizes the need for additional and more predictable funding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cContributions to key UN agencies, funds and programmes working with people on the ground are facing steep proposed reductions. Cuts to development and the United Nations mean scaling back support at a time when demand for support to meet the deepening development needs has reached an all-time high.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0We must invest to rescue the Sustainable Development Goals and ensure that we can continue to help the most vulnerable people in our human family on a safe planet,\u201c Ms. Mohammed says in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amina J. Mohammed, UN Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations has published a statement saying that she is \u201cdeeply troubled over recent decisions and proposals to markedly cut Official Development Assistance (ODA) to service the impacts of the war in Ukraine on refugees.\u201c\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u201cIt is clear for all to see that the continuing war in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":18517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20052],"tags":[20261,20260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}