As crises intensify worldwide, access to essential reproductive health and protection services is becoming increasingly fragile.
Rising needs are colliding with shrinking humanitarian resources, leaving millions of women and girls without reliable pathways to healthcare, while attacks are escalating against health facilities and safe spaces. Amid these shifts, UNFPA continues to safeguard access to life-saving sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence protection services for those most affected.
UNFPA will launch the 2026 Humanitarian Action Overview on 11 December at 3 p.m. CET (9 a.m. EST), spotlighting its global appeal, response priorities, and major trends facing women and girls in crisis settings. The launch will also share key results achieved in 2025, despite historic operational constraints and a severe decline in humanitarian funding.
You can register for a live webcast of the event here. The event will also be livestreamed on UN Web TV. Speakers will include UNFPA Executive Director Ms. Diene Keita, along with representatives from governments, regional organizations and women-led organizations working on the front lines of humanitarian crises.
The launch comes at a pivotal moment for the humanitarian system. Needs are outpacing resources across nearly every crisis. Agencies and local partners are being asked to adapt to new models of delivery, new accountability expectations and more targeted investments.
As of 30 September 2025, UNFPA supported life-saving services in 50 crisis-affected countries, reaching more than 6.2 million people with sexual and reproductive healthcare and more than 2.9 million people with gender-based violence prevention and response, despite the global funding gap. The launch of the 2026 Humanitarian Action Overview reaffirms UNFPA’s commitment to stand with women and girls in every emergency, and to support local and women-led organizations, which are often the first to respond and the last to leave.
