Monitoring
Monitoring
We are closely monitoring a number of humanitarian disasters and assessing them against our criteria for launching an appeal.
A camp for displaced people in northwest Syria in December 2020. Image: Abdul Sattar Al-Nasser/DEC
The DEC has three criteria which must be met before we launch an appeal.
We often monitor crises that don't yet meet our criteria but may do in the future. Often our member charities are responding to these crises already and we encourage people who wish to help to donate to them. Alternatively you can donate to our Emergency Fund which will support the DEC’s next appeal, whether it’s a natural disaster, disease outbreak, or a crisis fuelled by drought or conflict.
Find out more about which crises we are monitoring below.
Sudan Conflict
Conflict broke out in Sudan in April 2023 and has seen intense fighting, including in the capital, Khartoum and the northern Darfur region.
According to the UN, more than 12 million people have been displaced and more than half of its population, 25.6 million people, are facing acute hunger, with 755,000 children projected to suffer from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition.
Our members are responding inside Sudan across White and Blue Nile, Darfur, Kordofan, Khartoum, and Al Jazirah. In neighbouring countries, members are responding cross-border in Chad, Ethiopia, South Sudan, and Central African Republic, supporting refugees and returnees to these countries. Response priorities include food security, protection, health, nutrition, shelter, and WASH.
The DEC is deeply concerned for the safety of civilians caught up in the fighting and the current humanitarian crisis. We are monitoring the situation closely and assessing it against our criteria for launching a national fundraising appeal in the UK.
Those criteria are not currently met, but several DEC member charities have a presence in Sudan or neighbouring countries. If you would like to help them respond and help people affected by this crisis, you can donate to the following DEC charities:
DRC Crisis
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) saw a dramatic increase in violence towards the end of January in the city of Goma and surrounding areas. Many people were killed in the fighting, and hundreds of thousands were forced to flee their homes, worsening the already dire humanitarian crisis in the region.
Essential services including water and electricity have been cut off, schools have closed, and hospitals are overwhelmed by the numbers of people injured. Many medical facilities have been forced to close, and people urgently need food, shelter, clean water and basic supplies. Since the violence escalated, aid organisations have faced huge challenges accessing affected areas, but they are working to reach communities in need with lifesaving aid.
Across DRC, more than 25 million people are in need of humanitarian support after years of ongoing conflict. Although this crisis does not currently meet the criteria for a DEC appeal, we continue to monitor the situation closely.
DEC member charity Oxfam is responding in Goma and the surrounding areas of North Kivu province, as well as in other areas of the country. They are working to support families impacted by the current crisis. DEC member charity Tearfund have also launched an appeal to help provide life-saving aid to people fleeing the conflict.
If you would like to help, you can donate here:
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