
ALT World map showing FCDO’s network of 280 posts across 180 countries and territories, and countries where the Humanitarian Crisis Response Department (HCRD) supported responses to sudden-onset humanitarian crises, 2021 to 2025. The 19 crises supported were: the Afghanistan crisis, the Tonga volcanic eruption and tsunami, the Ukraine conflict, the Pakistan floods, Cyclone Freddy in Malawi and in Mozambique, the Turkey–Syria earthquake, the Sudan conflict, the Morocco earthquake, the Libya floods, the Israel–Occupied Palestinian Territories crisis, Hurricane Beryl (affecting Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, and the Cayman Islands), the Israel–Lebanon conflict, the Marburg virus disease outbreak in Rwanda, the Vanuatu earthquake, conflict escalation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Myanmar earthquake, India–Pakistan escalation and Hurricane Melissa (Haiti and Jamaica).

ALT “As we get to grips with aid budgets falling worldwide, both my Committee and the UK’s aid watchdog have now raised serious concerns about the impact on some of the world’s poorest people, particularly in fragile and conflict affected states. But the fact remains; currently we only have the

ALT skeleton of the Government’s new approach to aid spending. The IDC’s future of aid report called for Ministers to put flesh on the bones and I hope that ICAI’s new report will further focus FCDO minds on this task.” Photo alongside the quote shows a photo of the Chair Sarah Champion MP, with bobbed curly hair and wearing a white jacket.

















