Content_paragraphs:  Insecurity, lack of basic services, economic and governance crises, and the
  
  COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to increased humanitarian needs across Libya.
  
  The 2021 humanitarian needs overview contains the assessment that 1.3 million
  
  people need humanitarian assistance in 2021, including 173,000 internally displaced
  
  people, 228,000 returnees, 304,000 migrants, 44,000 refugees and 502,000 vulnerable
  
  host community members, compared with 900,000 people in need of humanitarian
  
  assistance in 2020. The situation was exacerbated by increasing food prices, which
  
  remain 20 per cent above pre-COVID-19 levels. Moreover, in the Libya Humanitarian
  
  Response Plan, 153,000 people were identified as at risk of gender-based violence
  
  and requiring specialized prevention and response programming.