Global Annual Results Report 2025: Humanitarian action
Progress, results achieved and lessons from 2025 in UNICEF humanitarian action
Highlights
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The lives of millions of children in 2025 were shaped by violence, lack of food, famine, intensifying climate shocks and disruption of essential services. Challenges to humanitarian access and disregard for international humanitarian law hampered efforts to meet children’s growing needs. The year was also marked by significant funding cuts for humanitarian assistance – along with fast-paced reform in the humanitarian system (the Humanitarian Reset) and the United Nations (the UN80 Initiative) system.
In 2025, UNICEF achieved the following results in humanitarian settings:
- Drinking water services for 36.2 million people;
- Measles vaccinations for 38.7 million children;
- Early detection and treatment of wasting and other forms of malnutrition benefiting 98.8 million children under 5 years of age;
- Access to education for 9.1 million children and adolescents;
- Community-based mental health and psychosocial support services for 8.8 million children, and interventions to prevent gender-based violence and support survivors for 10.9 million children and women;
- Humanitarian cash assistance for 0.9 million households;
- Delivery of $1.44 billion worth of supplies in preparation for or in response to emergencies.
The results for children were made possible through the support of our resource partners. In 2025, UNICEF received $2.96 billion in humanitarian funding, resources that contributed to saving the lives and improving the prospects of many children and families. Resources that were provided as flexible funding – global humanitarian thematic funding, regional humanitarian thematic funding, or country thematic funding – provided UNICEF with maximum flexibility to respond to emerging and chronic needs of children in some of the worst places on earth to be a child.
The present report describes the humanitarian situation of children and how UNICEF engaged with partners at the local, regional and global levels to save lives, protect childhoods and ensure that children’s rights were upheld.
