Ann Maymann

.@Refugees High Commissioner @FilippoGrandi: "I cannot emphasize more how dramatic the situation is. In this very moment - period of time - I am leading an internal effort which may conclude with the retrenchment of my organization to up to one third of its capacity. One third. We are one of the largest humanitarian organizations in the UN system and some of my fellow heads of agency are leading similar efforts World Food Programme, IOM, some of whom we work, of course, very closely with. I have spoken about this the other day at ECOSOC, I was invited to speak at an event on displacement that was very useful and that is perhaps the forum to talk about these issues but you must also understand that the retrenchment, the retreat of agencies like UNHCR, like the World Food Program, like UNICEF, from the theaters of crisis will have also impact on matters of peace and security, because we will be much less able to exercise what is, after all, a stabilizing function in those areas, not only in respect of onward population movement, as I have mentioned in my opening remarks, but also of the stability of those regions." Later adds: "We will not be able to do more with less. But as I have said many times, we will do less with less. We are already doing less with less."