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Evidence of inclusive impact and opportunities for donor investment

CBM’s Inclusive Humanitarian Action (IHA) Annual Report 2025 highlights how 718,000 people were reached across 18 countries with inclusive responses. The report showcases impact, strategic partnerships, localisation, and urgent funding needs — offering clear entry points for institutional donors to strengthen inclusive humanitarian response.

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Biengoli from Togo, who has been physically impaired for 20 years, shares, "I grow sorghum and soya, but drought leaves us with meagre harvests, leading to famine in my family during lean times."

Christian Blind Mission (CBM) has published its report highlighting our efforts and progress in ensuring that humanitarian responses include and reach everyone, especially persons with disabilities who are often the hardest hit in crises. The Inclusive Humanitarian Action (IHA) Annual Report 2025 provides a concise overview of inclusive work covering CBM’s 2024 programmes with updates through mid-2025.

In 2024, CBM and partners reached more than 718,480 people across 18 countries, with a humanitarian programme budget of €10,068,920.

 

Humanitarian needs outpace resources

This year’s report highlights that the global humanitarian system is stretched to its limits. Escalating conflicts in Sudan, Gaza, Ukraine, the DRC, and the Sahel region, along with more frequent climate-related disasters such as floods, droughts, and cyclones, have caused massive displacement. These circumstances have led to considerable suffering. Persons with disabilities are disproportionately affected, yet responses remain largely inaccessible to them.

At the same time, humanitarian funding is shrinking. Aid budgets across Europe and the U.S. have been cut, leaving organisations like CBM to stretch resources further than ever. The report warns that funding for inclusive humanitarian responses remains critically low, with significant risks for the most marginalised communities.

 

Delivering inclusive impact

Despite these challenges, CBM and its partners expanded access to health care, food, clean water, cash assistance, psychosocial support, and livelihoods in some of the world’s most difficult contexts. Key results from 2024 include:

  • €10,068,920 total humanitarian programme funding across 58 projects and 46 partners.
  • 718,480 people reached in 2024
  • Sector results include: 348,889 people receiving food assistance; 70,941 reached with inclusive WASH; 48,273 with inclusive health services; and 22,494 receiving inclusive cash/voucher assistance.
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In Gaza, CBM and Atfaluna Society's community kitchen in Deir Al-Balah provides vital meals to those in need.

A key component of our approach is localisation, working meaningfully with national and local partner organisations who are best placed to lead effective, inclusive responses. In the past year, CBM has supported initiatives in major humanitarian settings. These include;

  • Nigeria (iWASH) — 51 boreholes completed (exceeding a target of 40), giving clean water to over 71,000 people; greatly improving health, reducing waterborne diseases, and saving time for women and children.
  • Ukraine — Five inclusive projects (rehab, assistive tech hubs, mental health support, and inclusive cash) reached over 50,000 people in 2024, focusing on internally displaced persons, returnees, veterans, and host communities affected by the war. The projects are mainly funded by the German Federal Foreign Office and Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft.

 

 

  • Gaza and Lebanon (food and livelihoods) — a community kitchen run by CBM and Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children in Gaza, providing daily meals and employing deaf young people; by the end of 2024, the kitchen had delivered food to more than 341,250 people (report figure). Lebanon’s Access Kitchen and vocational green-kitchen initiatives distributed 33,337 meals by June 2025 and linked training to livelihood outcomes.
  • Guatemala (anticipatory action) — the first inclusive municipal Anticipatory Action Protocol (AAP) for flooding in the region was developed in Panajachel, with municipal budget allocation — a strong signal of local ownership and cost-efficiency.
  • Ethiopia (mental health and psychosocial support MHPSS) — community-based psychosocial support, 10 trained rehab workers and 280 home-based care recipients, demonstrating programmatic integration of MHPSS and rehabilitation.

Strategic leverage and partnerships

The continuation of the German Federal Foreign Office (GFFO)-funded Leave No One Behind! consortium into Phase 4 is a key milestone for impact and scale. This phase builds on earlier rounds by addressing gaps and placing stronger emphasis on meaningful participation, accessibility, and the localisation of technical support. The project is implemented across Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, South Sudan, Uganda, and Somalia/Somaliland — contexts where persons with disabilities face heightened risks. A key focus is empowering local OPDs and humanitarian coordination systems to lead inclusive responses, making inclusion a standard part of humanitarian action.

CBM also signed a new MoU with ZOA, a Netherlands-based relief and recovery organisation. ZOA seeks to strengthen inclusion in its humanitarian work by drawing on CBM’s expertise in partner implementation and localisation. In turn, CBM benefits from ZOA’s strong operational presence and capacity to respond in complex contexts where CBM has no structures or partners. The partnership has already enabled a rapid joint response to the March 2025 Myanmar earthquake, with CBM contributing €200,000 to a €2 million relief and recovery project.

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The IHA Annual Report 2025 contains project briefs, partner highlights, and further evidence for institutional due diligence. For partnerships or funding conversations, contact CBM at the address listed in the report or via contact@cbm.org

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  • CBM Inclusive Humanitarian Action (IHA) Annual Report 2025

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    This report highlights IHA’s achievements, lessons, and stories that show what is possible when inclusion is a shared commitment. In this report, you will read about projects that not only met urgent needs but also built the resilience of individuals and communities.

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