Against a backdrop of soaring global humanitarian needs fuelled by conflict, climate change and the impact of COVID-19, a new model for collaboration between public and private sector actors is needed to promote international security and tackle humanitarian needs, delegates heard today during the Security Council’s open debate on advancing public-private humanitarian partnerships.
Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), speaking via videoconference, said the humanitarian sector is one of the world’s biggest growth industries, pointing out that war, economic turmoil, and increasingly, climate change and environmental degradation, are driving millions of people into poverty each year. Up to 783 million people do not know when - or if - they will eat again and 45 million under five years old are now estimated to have acute malnutrition, she reported.
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