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. OCHA reports extensive cuts to agencies that collect primary data on humanitarian needs across the region, such as the World Food Programme, or WFP, the Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, or OHCHR, as well as international NGOs taking on this role, such as IMPACT Initiatives.

Devex Researcher Note: The loss of dedicated information officers implies that data collection roles are being taken on by responders with other mandates if at all, and that the U.N. response, including its coordination role, increasingly relies on partner-led or secondary data. Although not listed in the source document, the U.S. enacted major cuts to the agencies supporting these data systems — including the International Organization for Migration's, or IOM, Displacement Tracking Matrix and the WFP's Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping, among others. In the case of IOM, U.S. operational contributions declined $795 million between 2024 and 2025, accounting for about 86.3% of its total funding decrease. 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 its total funding decrease over this period. The U.S. further stopped all its contributions to the OHCHR from 2025 onwards from about $36 million in 2024. IMPACT initiatives had received U.S. grants for humanitarian data collection in Mali and neighboring areas, which appear to have been terminated as per a March 2025 memo.

Source: OCHA