The funding has been allocated to 11 different projects to be managed by five United Nations agencies: the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the World Food Programme (WFP), and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Of the total amount, US$4.5 million will provide medical drugs, health care, and support to epidemic surveillance in order to avert or contain deadly waterborne epidemics. Thanks to an additional US$2 million, over one million people will receive clean water or water purification products. A further $ 1.5 million will be used to supply non-food items and emergency shelter to families who lost their homes or essential household goods. Finally, US$700,000 will provide food aid to those most in need and will support livelihoods.
This grant brings the total allocated to the Sudan flood response to US$ 13.5 million. The United Nations had already allocated an amount of US$ 4.8 million for the emergency, from its locally managed pooled fund known as the “Common Humanitarian Fund” (CHF).
The United Nations and partners have so far supplied aid to at least 500,000 people. Humanitarian organizations will now be able, together with Government counterparts, to continue responding to the emergency until at least mid-September, when the heavy rains are expected to gradually subside.
Approved by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2005 as a successor to the Central Emergency Revolving Fund, the CERF aims to save lives by providing a more predictable and timely response to humanitarian emergencies.
Source: Sudan Tribune
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