The full global impact of the cuts will not be known until the 2024 budget plans are completed in November, but ICRC said it already knew that around 270 positions would need to be cut at its Geneva headquarters, out of 1,400 people currently employed there. It voiced concern "about the impact that reduced humanitarian assistance will have on people living through armed conflict and violence". "Adjusting to this economic reality will unfortunately entail further significant staff reductions in some locations," ICRC said in a statement. That compares to the 2.4 billion revised budget for this year. The cuts, it said at the time, would mean that "at least 20 of currently 350 locations around the world will close".īut on Monday, it said that would not be enough.Īn initial forecast for 2024 indicated it would need to decrease its budget by an additional 13 percent next year, it said, estimating a budget of 2.1 billion Swiss francs ($2.4 billion). The organisation had announced in April that it needed to save 430 million Swiss francs ($474 million) globally by early next year, resulting in around 1,500 job cuts worldwide. "The paradox," he told reporters at ICRC's headquarters in Geneva, is that the cuts are "taking place at a time where global humanitarian needs have never been higher". "We live in an era of declining budgets," ICRC director-general Robert Mardini said, pointing out that the organisation's forecast was the consequence of shrinking humanitarian assistance budgets globally. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it expects to have to make cuts due to a 13-percent smaller budget for 2024 than its already shrunken 2023 one.
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