The Pooled Funds StoryHub is a collection of stories that show the impact of the OCHA-managed pooled funds: the global Central Emergency Response Fund, the Country-based Pooled Funds, and regional funds for West and Central Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

OCHA’s pooled funds help provide the world’s most vulnerable people with life-saving assistance to, thanks to contributions from national governments, foundations, and private individuals.

From emergency water for communities affected by El Niño floods in Somalia, to safe spaces for people at risk in Colombia; to helping humanitarian organizations respond to millions of people in dire need in Gaza; these human stories help illustrate how pooled fund support makes a real difference – to the lives of real people when they are dealing with severe crises.

OCHA’s Pooled Funds help our partners clear land of remnants of war in Ukraine; provide children with the resources needed to stay in school in Lebanon; and many other life-saving interventions around the world.

Highlighted stories

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  Helping shelter families displaced by conflict
  Lebanon | 2024 | CERF Three quarters of Lebanon’s public schools are now serving as emergency shelters.
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  Building skills in communities devastated by economic crisis
  Venezuela | 2024 | CERF “We realized this is not just for men, we can do it too.”
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  CERF helps a young doctor deliver life-saving treatment
  Yemen |2024|CERF “Most people can’t afford treatment if they have to pay.”

Latest stories

• Helping shelter families displaced by conflict
  Lebanon | 2024 | CERF Three quarters of Lebanon’s public schools are now serving as emergency shelters.
• Mental and physical health care for survivors of violence
  Central African Republic | 2024 | CBPF “It felt like my life was ruined.”
• Helping children return to school
  Central African Republic | 2024 | CBPF “I didn’t have a bag or anything to write with, and sometimes I stayed home because I felt different.”
• A lifeline for people fleeing conflict
  Ethiopia | 2024 | CERF “I did not come and work for years in Sudan to go home amputated.”
• Building skills in communities devastated by economic crisis
  Venezuela | 2024 | CERF “We realized this is not just for men, we can do it too.”

#OCHAthanks our donors for your generous contributions to the pooled funds.

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