Humanitarian funding gap
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Why it matters
When appeals go unfunded, food aid and health services are cut first; funding gaps lead famine and displacement by months.
What moves it
Donor budgets and aid cuts, new crises competing for funds, access constraints.
How it's rated
Alert
Pipeline breaks forcing large-scale suspension of food or health aid in famine-risk countries.
Watch
Funding more than 10 percentage points behind recent years at the same point, or major ration cuts announced.
Normal
UN global appeal funding in line with recent years; no major ration cuts.