Additional Context: This information was collected by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, from a survey conducted with 17 humanitarian actors at the regional and field level.

Devex Researcher Note: The Cadre Harmonisé is a regional food security analysis tool used across West and Central Africa to classify and project acute hunger, led by the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel. Although it is unclear how the U.S. has continued to support the Cadre Harmonisé after the termination of USAID, its reliance on technical partners for data inputs is well documented. Primary partners include the World Food Programme, or WFP, and the Food and Agricultural Organization, or FAO, among others. It also shared data with the U.S. government's Famine Early Warning Systems Network, or FEWS NET, which, although back online, also relied on data collection from the WFP and non-governmental organizations that may similarly be operating with reduced capacity due to U.S. funding cuts.

Although the U.S. is not listed as responsible fot these cuts in the source document, it has enacted major cuts to the Cadre Harmonisé's technical partners — U.S. contributions to the WFP more than halved, from $4.45 billion in 2024 to $2.06 billion in 2025, making up 74% of the total funding decrease, which forced WFP offices to "cut down on costly surveys." Likewise, the FAO atrributed a $180 million reduction in its emergency and resillience programming largely to the termination of 98 formerly U.S.-funded programs.

Source: OCHA