United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

2024-25 total Australian ODA [budget estimate]: $10.0 million
2023-24 total Australian ODA [budget estimate]: $10.0 million

Australia's development efforts are set out in Australia's International Development Policy.

Australia works with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to support its vital work in mobilising and coordinating response to humanitarian disasters. Our funding to OCHA supports humanitarian assistance to be rapidly and effectively allocated based on need. Australia supports OCHA's overarching approach, goals and objectives as outlined in OCHA's Strategic Plan 2023 - 2026.

In 2023-24, Australia provided $10 million in global funding which enabled OCHA to:

Mobilise and coordinate effective humanitarian action, in partnership with national authorities, to alleviate human suffering in disasters and emergencies
strengthen disaster preparedness across the Indo-Pacific region, with specific support to the budgets of OCHA's Regional Office for the Asia-Pacific (ROAP) and Regional Office for the Pacific (ROP); and
advocate for and lead effective and timely humanitarian response.

Australia also contributes to OCHA-managed country-based pooled funds to help meet the highest priority needs in humanitarian crises. In 2023-24, Australia provided funding to country-based pooled funds in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Somalia and Ukraine.

Find out how Australia supports OCHA's Country-Based Pooled Funds to deliver humanitarian aid where it is most needed