https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/afghanistan-humanitarian-response-plan-2018-2021-june-2020-revision

https://reliefweb.int/report/bangladesh/2020-joint-response-plan-rohingya-humanitarian-crisis-january-december-2020

https://reliefweb.int/report/bangladesh/hctt-response-plan-monsoon-floods-united-nations-bangladesh-coordinated-appeal

https://fts.unocha.org/countries/118/summary/2020

https://fts.unocha.org/countries/105/summary/2020

https://reliefweb.int/report/myanmar/covid-19-addendum-2020-myanmar-humanitarian-response-plan-april-december-2020

https://fts.unocha.org/appeals/991/summary

https://reliefweb.int/report/philippines/philippines-covid-19-humanitarian-response-plan-august-2020-revision

https://reliefweb.int/report/indonesia/indonesia-multi-sectoral-response-plan-covid-19-may-october-2020

https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/IOR4023902020ENGLISH_0.pdf

https://reliefweb.int/report/cook-islands/pacific-humanitarian-team-covid-19-response-plan

https://reliefweb.int/report/papua-new-guinea/covid-19-multi-sector-response-plan-papua-new-guinea-disaster-management-0

https://unsdg.un.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/TLS_Socioeconomic-Response-Plan_2020.pdf

https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/afghanistan-humanitarian-response-plan-2018-2021-june-2020-revision

https://fts.unocha.org/appeals/906/summary

https://fts.unocha.org/countries/118/summary/2020

https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/MMR_HRP_2020_FINAL_131219.pdf

https://cerf.un.org/what-we-do/allocation/2020/summary/20-RR-PAK-45179

https://cerf.un.org/what-we-do/allocation/2020/summary/20-RR-FJI-42874

https://reliefweb.int/report/cambodia/floods-response-plan-cambodia-2020-period-nov-2020-april-2021

https://reliefweb.int/report/philippines/philippines-super-typhoon-goni-rolly-and-typhoon-vamco-ulysses-humanitarian-needs

https://samoa.un.org/en/27431-national-measles-response-and-recovery-appeal

https://cerf.un.org/what-we-do/allocation/2020/summary/20-RR-VUT-42734

https://reliefweb.int/report/viet-nam/viet-nam-floods-response-plan-2020

https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/One-UN%20Plan%20Multisectoral%20Support%20To%20Covid-19%20Preparedness%20Response%20and%20Recovery%20in%20Malaysia%20-%2024%20July%202020.pdf

COUNTRYUPDATED AS OF 23 DECEMBER 2020 PLAN LINK FUNDING REQUIRED PEOPLE TARGETED% FUNDED 2020 2021J M A AM J J S N DOF J M A AM J J S N DOF

AFGHANISTAN

AFGHANISTAN

BANGLADESH (Cox’s Bazaar Joint Resp. Plan)

BANGLADESH(Cox’s Bazaar)

CAMBODIA

DPR KOREA

DPR KOREA

FIJI

INDONESIA

IRAN (Islamic Republic of)

MALAYSIA

MYANMAR

MYANMAR

NEPAL

PACIFIC (14 countries)

PAKISTAN

PAKISTAN

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

PHILIPPINES

PHILIPPINES

SAMOA

TIMOR LESTE

VANUATU

VIET NAM

BANGLADESH (Intersectoral - Cyclone, Floods)

46%

50%

44%

63%

9%

28%

65%

62%

49%

67%

65%

47%

66%

61%

52%

30%

57%

38%

12%

10%

9%

25%

20%

63%

$395.7 M

$735.4 M

$181.4 M

$876.7 M

$39.7 M

$107.0 M

$145.0 M

$117.3 M

$13.7 M

$58.8 M

$216.5 M

$108.4 M

$36.7 M

$145.8 M

$112.8 M

$121.8 M

$49.3 M

$205.9 M

$9.4 M

$10.0 M

$60.0 M

$52.6 M

$13.4 M

$27.0 M

$40.0 M

11.1 M

11.1 M

1.8 M

1.8 M

5.5 M

5.5 M

16.0 M

25.0 M

7.7 M

0.9 M

0.9 M

1.0 M

2.1 M

5.7 M

2.3 M

5.4 M

0.7 M

7.5 M

0.2 M

0.0 M

1.2 M

0.3 M

1.8 M

0.2 M

0.2 M45%

ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

COVID MULTI-SECTOR RESPONSE PLANS (MSRP) IN THE GHRP

COVID MULTI-SECTOR RESPONSE PLANS NOT IN THE GHRP

HUMANITARIAN AND REGIONAL RESPONSE PLANS (HRP/RRP)

COORDINATED RESPONSE PLANS FOR NATURAL DISASTERS

REQUESTED TO FUND HUMANITARIAN RESPONSES ($US BILLION)

COUNTRIES WITHA RESPONSE PLAN

28$3.9BHAS BEEN RECEIVED (55 PER CENT FUNDED)

$2.2B

RESPONSE OVERVIEW

7 countries included in the $10 billion Global Humanitarian Response Plan (GHRP) for COVID-19

19 countries with COVID response plans, not included in the GHRP

9 responses were launched in response to natural disasters (Plans or CERF)

OF THE MOST VULNERABLE PEOPLE PRIORITIZED FOR LIFE-SAVING ASSISTANCE

97M

$1.2B

$581M

REQUESTED

RECEIVED

RECEIVED

RECEIVED

$466M

$262M

REQUESTED

REQUESTED$1.9B

$212M

$47M

REQUESTED

2020 HUMANITARIAN Laili Begum,

Momotaz Begum and Salma Khatun carry

drinking water back to their homes in a

flooded community in Sirajganj District,

Bangladesh. (WFP/Sayed Asif

Mahmud)Over the course of the year, humanitarian needs and human vulnerabilities have grown across countries in Asia and the Pacific due to the health and economic shock of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The region was also battered by particularly harsh period of monsoon rains, tropical cyclones, floods, and landslides, resulting in a doubly difficult year for the world's most densely populated and disaster-prone region.

In the context of COVID-19, humanitarian agencies are overcoming increasingly complex challenges to reach the most vulnerable people affected by the mutually compounding socio-economic and humanitarian consequences of the pandemic, climatic disasters, and ongoing conflicts.

IRANIRAN

PAKISTANPAKISTAN

BANGLADESHBANGLADESH

COVID MSRP IN GHRPCOVID MSRP NOT IN GHRPHRP/RRPCOORD. RESP. PLANS FOR NAT. DISASTERS

AFGHANISTANAFGHANISTAN

NEPALNEPALMYANMARMYANMAR

VIET NAMVIET NAM

PHILIPPINESPHILIPPINES

MALAYSIAMALAYSIAINDONESIAINDONESIA

TIMOR-LESTETIMOR-LESTE

PAPUA NEW GUINEAPAPUA NEW GUINEA

VANUATUVANUATU

FIJIFIJI

SAMOASAMOA

PACIFICPACIFIC

CAMBODIACAMBODIA

DPRK

J M A AM J J S N DOF J M A AM J J S N DOF

J M A AM J J S N DOF J M A AM J J S N DOF

J M A AM J J S N DOF J M A AM J J S N DOF

RECEIVED$1B

AS OF 23 DECEMBER 2020

ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

RESPONSE OVERVIEW2020 HUMANITARIAN

RESPONSE PLANS FOR NATURAL DISASTERS AND THE CENTRAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE FUND

OUTLOOK FOR 2021The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to affect public health and exacerbate humanitarian needs across Asia and the Pacific next year. A number of countries, including Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Timor-Leste are at high risk of being affected by La Niña in early 2021, and the combined effect of the pandemic and climate shocks is likely to increase food insecurity in several countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, and Myanmar.

The Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) for 2021 includes Humanitarian Response Plans for Afghanistan, Myanmar, Pakistan³, and a Refugee Response Plan for Bangladesh. The total funding requirements for the four plans in the coming year amount to more than $2.8 billion to address the needs of over 21 million people. Updated response plans to address

THE GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE PLANThe COVID-19 pandemic had severe impacts on the lives of the most vulnerable people in coun-tries already facing humanitarian crises. In March 2020, the United Nations launched the Global Humanitarian Response Plan (GHRP) to respond to the humanitarian impact of the pan-demic and to complement existing response plans for ongoing humanitarian crises. Seven countries in Asia and the Pacific were included in the GHRP over the course of the year, re-questing a total of US$1.2 billion.

In Bangladesh, the JRP for 2020 included re-quirements of $876.7 million to respond to the humanitarian needs of 1.3 million people, in-cluding Rohingya refugees and people from the host community. The GHRP extended this appeal by adding another half million people from the host community and calling for an ad-ditional $181 million to address the immediate health impacts and multi-sectoral needs result-ing from COVID-19. A further $200 million GHRP plan was later added to address the wider hu-manitarian impact of Covid-19 in others areas of Bangladesh, including compounding natural disaster responses to cyclones and flooding in Covid-19 affected areas.

By addressing the humanitarian impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the GHRP comple-ments national public health plans for COVID-19 and WHO’s Strategic Preparedness and Re-sponse Plan (SPRP). Together with national and UN frameworks for socio-economic recovery, the GHRP is part of the wider multilateral re-sponse to the pandemic.

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TLBD VU

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The year 2020 has been defined by the human cost of the global COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on public health systems and national economies. Humanitarian needs globally have surged to unprecedented levels.

At the beginning of the year, four countries in Asia and the Pacific had active response plans for protracted humanitarian crises. By the end of 2020, a total of 28 countries have response plans due to the impacts of the pandemic and to respond to natural disasters that have affected the region. This is the highest number of active response plans in Asia and the Pacific since the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.

As well as exacerbating humanitarian needs, the pandemic has also increased challenges for responders, including travel and access restrictions, and has reinforced the need for new approaches to better support local and national humanitarian action.

HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE PLANS AND REGIONAL RESPONSE PLANS

COVID-19 MULTI-SECTORAL RESPONSE PLANS

JANDPRK MYANMAR

AFGHANISTAN

AFGHANISTAN

PAKISTAN MYANMAR BANGLADESH

BANGLADESH

TIMOR-LESTE

NEPAL

MALAYSIA CAMBODIA PHLIPPINES

VIETNAM PAKISTAN

PAPUA NEWGUINEA

INDONESIA

PACIFIC

FIJI

VANUATU

PHILIPPINES

IRAN DPRK

MAR

APR

MAY

JUN

OCT

NOV

Not every COVID-19 response plan in the region falls under the umbrella of the GHRP. An additional 19 countries, including 14 Pacific Island Countries, have launched multi-sector response plans to address country-specific impacts of the pandemic.

For example, migrant workers, refugees, stateless people, and other undocumented people are among the most vulnerable and most affected groups in countries such as Malaysia and Nepal. In Nepal, an estimated 750,000 to 800,000 migrant workers returned to the country, with thousands caught in border areas and quarantine centres. The Nepal COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Plan (CPRP) outlined requirements of $108.4 million to support the Government of Nepal’s response to COVID-19 and to improve the situation in quarantine centres and assist migrant workers.

Investments in preparedness and contingency planning by humanitarian organizations and country teams, allowed countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines¹ and Timor-Leste to launch their COVID-19 response plans even before the release of the GHRP.

At the beginning of 2020, and before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, a total of 19.3 million people in Afghanistan, Myanmar, DPR Korea, and Bangladesh were affected by complex emergencies, conflict, and natural disasters had been prioritised and targeted for humanitarian assistance. The three Humanitarian Response Plans (HRPs) and the Joint Response Plan (JRP) for the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis call for a total of US$1.9 billion for humanitarian action.

Natural disasters continued to affect a number of countries across Asia and the Pacific in 2020. It is expected that due to climate change, the frequency, severity, and impact of weather phenomena will continue to be exacerbated.

Humanitarian responses to natural disasters were complicated by access and logistical challenges, including travel restrictions and the implementation of health protocols. For example, governments and humanitarian organizations in countries such as India, the Philippines, or Vietnam integrated COVID-19 prevention measures in cyclone evacuation protocols and the set-up of evacuation centres.

Five natural disaster response plans were launched in 2020. Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines were affected by widespread flooding, storm surges, landslides, and wind damage due to a series of tropical cyclones. The response plans for the three countries called for a total of $102 million to assist more than 692,000 of the most affected people. Two further response plans for Bangladesh were launched to respond to the impacts of Cyclone Amphan in May, and then to the devastating impact of the worst monsoon floods in years.²

As well as these response plans, a number of CERF allocations supported coordinated responses, including to the measles outbreak in Samoa, Cyclone Harold in Vanuatu and Fiji, and severe floods in Pakistan. The planning figures for these coordinated responses have been included in this overview.

A number of other coordinated humanitarian responses without formal plans are ongoing, including activities to address residual humanitarian needs in the Philippines resulting from a series of earthquakes in late 2019 and the ongoing conflict with armed groups in Mindanao.

In addition, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has launched 14 emergency appeals in Asia and the Pacific and the Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) allocated emergency funding on 23 occasions this year. The figures from these responses have not been included in the total figures of this overview.

humanitarian needs arising from COVID-19 are already being planned in many countries, including Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Nepal.

In addition, a number of existing response plans will carry into next year, including the cyclone and flood response plans in Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines as well as emergency appeals by the International Federation of the Red Cross. This brings the projected humanitarian caseload for Asia and the Pacific in 2021 to a minimum of 37 million people with funding requirements of $3.3 billion. These figures are expected to significantly rise over 2021, starting with the impacts of the Pacific cyclone season which began when Tropical Cyclone Yasa struck Fiji in mid-December 2020.

The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations.

Feedback: ocha-roap@un.org unocha.org/roap Sources: Humanitarian Partners [1] The Philippines COVID-19 multi-sectoral response plan was added to the GHRP in its second iteration. [2] The Cyclone Amphan and Flooding response plans are included under the Bangladesh GHRP. [3] The HRP for Pakistan is a new addition to the GHO.