Most of the international humanitarian organizations are cutting staff and revising programmes as funding falls due to the global financial crisis. United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said the financial crisis following on the heels of the food price crisis, could severely intensify the plight of the poor in developing countries.
This year's food crisis threw an additional 75 million people into hunger and poverty according to FAO.
Other NGOs declared that they expected, due to the international financial crisis, that there will be big cuts in the funds availed to them by the donor countries, hence reduction of the humanitarian projects which the NGOs care about in several parts of the world amongst which is Sudan.
The budgets controlling these international organizations amounts to billions of dollars coming from several sources on top of which are the western governments, international banks and institutions, then the individual and group donors.
Due to the current financial crisis which affected all the financial institutions and the increase in the internal debts of the government, besides the diminishing economy, it is natural that the donors will not be able to fulfill their pledges to the NGOs.
Sudan is one of the recipient states and all Darfur IDPs camps depend in such donations; added to that the reconstruction of Southern Sudan which also depends on donors funding.
Accordingly, and in anticipation to the international developments we should give more concern to the issue because it will have its impact internally.
If we succeed to speed up solving the Darfur crisis, millions of its people, who were out of the production circle, will return to their home villages and become self-sufficient without any need to humanitarian aid. However, we should take the necessary measures to avoid as much as possible the negative impacts of the international financial crisis which seems to take longer time before it will come to an end.