The Hill
The United States pledged $2 billion in United Nations humanitarian assistance Monday, as part of a deal aimed at streamlining the way international aid is distributed.
In Geneva, the U.S. State Department and the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) signed a memorandum of understanding, creating a new umbrella fund from which OCHA can funnel U.S. and other aid to individual U.N. agencies, rather than U.S. contributions going to scattered appeals for aid.
The U.S. “anchor commitment” of $2 billion represents a significant reduction compared with past U.S. aid to U.N. agencies and comes as the Trump administration has slashed funding to international aid initiatives.
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