Muddying the humanitarian waters further are growing efforts to stretch countries' aid budgets to deliver national security objectives or fund responses to the global refugee crisis.
Earlier this month, they sent the agency "six 'do not fund' responses," says NERI manager John Herczeg.
Reliable data on OF and associated SB in low-resource countries are lacking, underscoring the relative invisibility of these issues; sound numbers are needed to guide policy and fund responses to these neglected conditions of poverty.
Demonstrating the difference to children's lives between well funded response (e.g. in the tsunami) and poorly funded responses (e.g. chronic emergencies such as DRC) could support the debate.
"The funding response to the floods is improving, but much more is needed," he said.
However, the numbers of Vietnamese with profound disabilities in need of services are within reach of a comprehensive US funded response working in partnership with local Vietnamese organizations.
consider establishing in each CERF funded response the possibility of having an umbrella fund for NGO response to be managed by the HCT.
Purpose/Objective: The end of project Evaluation on the UNICEF/GOK ECHO funded Response to the Drought Emergency 2004-2005 on Health and Nutrition, Water and Sanitation in Northern Kenya was commissioned by UNICEF.
In January October 2009, US$130.8 million (23 per cent of the total humanitarian funding of US$572.4 million) was received through humanitarian pooled funding mechanisms including CERF, Common Humanitarian Funds, Humanitarian Response Funds and Multi-Donor Trust Funds, administered by the World Bank.
When United States officials recently asked Panamanian banks to search for suspicious accounts that might have been used to hide terrorists' funds, responses came quickly.
