The United States vowed to provide nearly $2 billion in aid for the United Nations’ humanitarian efforts, the State Department announced. The $1.8 billion in aid, which builds upon a previous $2 billion announced in December, focus on “hyper-prioritized life-saving humanitarian assistance activities.”
“The United States and OCHA signed the first Humanitarian Reset agreement on December 29, 2025, in Geneva, Switzerland, alongside an anchor U.S. pledge of $2 billion in support for 18 country-based and crisis-level pooled funds,” the State Department explained. “Since then, both the United States and OCHA [United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs] have been hard at work operationalizing that agreement – delivering critical assistance to the field in record time, implementing robust new oversight and accountability measures, mobilizing support from major humanitarian donors, and demonstrating effectiveness of a faster, more accountable, efficient, impact-driven, locally-driven and hyper-prioritized model of humanitarian assistance.”
According to the department, the 92% of U.S. humanitarian aid reaches “populations experiencing the highest-severity needs.”
The United Nations welcomed the latest U.S. contribution, with UN Secretary-General António Guterres stating the aid will “allow humanitarians to reach millions of people in the most urgent crises with lifesaving support.”
In December, the State Department and the United Nations signed an agreement that Secretary of State Marco Rubio said “radically reforms the way the U.S. programs, funds, and oversees UN-administered humanitarian work, ensuring that more lives will be saved for fewer U.S. taxpayer dollars.” He explained that the new model better shares “the burden of UN humanitarian work with other developed countries and will require the UN to cut bloat, remove duplication, and commit to powerful new impact, accountability and oversight mechanisms.”
