The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund has allocated Zimbabwe US$11 million in humanitarian aid.
The UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr John Holmes, announced the aid package last week in which 14 countries, including Zimbabwe, were allocated a total of US$75 million to boost humanitarian response.
The 14 countries are faced with food shortages, diseases and conflict.
The funds will be granted to UN humanitarian agencies and the International Organisation for Migration, and through them to partner organisations, including non-governmental organisations, to support humanitarian projects in the affected countries.
Countries were selected to receive grants based on an analysis of the funding levels of their aid programmes, the severity of the humanitarian needs, security and other constraints on aid delivery.
Humanitarian actors in Zimbabwe received the largest single allocation of US$11 million.
Agencies working in Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Ethiopia and Somalia will receive allocations of US$10 million per country. Humanitarian agencies in Yemen will receive US$5 million, as will humanitarian partners in Colombia and Haiti.
Meanwhile, programmes in Burundi and Niger will receive US$4 million, and Myanmar US$3 million. Humanitarian actors in Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, and Eritrea will each receive US$2 million.
This is the first round of allocations from the Central Emergency Response Fund’s window for under-funded emergencies in 2009.
The second round will be in July. In 2008, a total of US$128 million was allocated to under-funded emergencies.
The Central Emergency Response Fund is bankrolled by voluntary contributions from member states, non-governmental organisations, local governments, the private sector and individual donors.
The fund was established in 2006 to help agencies respond rapidly to new or deteriorating humanitarian situations. It is administered by the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
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