Responsibility for humanitarian funding is “not being shared equitably” between economies worldwide, EU Commissioner for humanitarian aid Janez Lenarčič said on Tuesday as he called on rich nations to pay up.
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00:21 With this increased humanitarian needs,
00:24 we also see that the humanitarian funding
00:27 is not growing, or at least not as fast
00:31 as humanitarian needs, which means that
00:34 we are also witnessing a growing funding gap.
00:38 The fact is that the responsibility
00:43 for humanitarian funding is not being shared equitably.
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01:23 If everybody, everybody in the EU
01:27 and in the developed world would allocate
01:30 that kind of funding for humanitarian aid,
01:34 there would be probably no funding gap,
01:37 which means there are some within the EU
01:40 and outside that are not doing their fair share,
01:44 specifically having in mind the member states
01:47 of the OECD, so-called club of developed
01:52 or rich countries.
01:55 This group contains countries that have the capacity
02:00 and not all of them contribute in accordance
02:04 with this capacity to humanitarian aid.
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