The UN's Central Emergency Response Fund dispersed US$485 million to projects in 49 countries and territories in 2012 – the highest amount since its inception.

Introduction

This review is concerned with the financing arrangements for programmes that address acute malnutrition at scale through the community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM). The CMAM approach is geared towards the early detection, treatment and counselling of moderately and severely acutely malnourished children, in the community, by community agents.

Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 107
Report of the Secretary-General on the Peacebuilding Fund

Summary

The present report, which covers the activities of the Peacebuilding Fund for the period from January to December 2012, is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 63/282, which requested the Secretary-General to submit an annual report on the operation and activities of the Fund.

DAKAR, 20 March 2013 (IRIN) - Aid watchdogs have been pushing for more transparent governance and information on financial flows, but just how much progress has been made over the past couple of years?

The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), born out of the 2008 Accra aid effectiveness conference, and concretized at the Busan aid effectiveness conference in 2012, is one initiative pushing governments to be more open about where their aid money is going.

GA/AB/4054

Sixty-seventh General Assembly
Fifth Committee
19th Meeting (AM)

Also Takes Up Reports on: Department of Safety and Security; Review of Use of Private Security Companies by United Nations

In scrutinizing the Secretary-General’s proposed budget for 33 special political missions for 2013, delegates in the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today expressed concern over the unabated growth in financing those missions and the present arrangements for doing so.

The Financial Tracking Service (FTS) is managed by OCHA and is a global, on-line, real-time database of humanitarian funding needs and international contributions. In 2012, 1992-2012 FTS celebrates 20 years of recording international humanitarian funding.

HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES

• Goma airport re-opens on 5 December, commercial activities coming back to life

• UNDSS lifts the relocation/evaluation status in Goma for UN international staff on 5 December.

• North Kivu humanitarian community validates three priority intervention areas hosting 590,000 affected people.

• Mai Mai Nyatura reportedly committing grave human rights violations against in Masisi Territory

11/30/2012 12:41 GMT

LONDRES, 30 nov 2012 (AFP) - Le Royaume-Uni a annoncé vendredi le gel de 25,9 millions d'euros de son aide au développement au Rwanda en raison de ses "inquiétudes" vis-à-vis du soutien du régime de Kigali aux rebelles du M23 qui opèrent en République démocratique du Congo (RDC) voisine.

La décision de la ministre britannique de l'Aide au développement, Justine Greening, suit celle, hautement polémique de son prédécesseur Andrew Mitchell, qui avait levé partiellement en septembre le gel de l'aide au Rwanda, décrété en juillet.

Evidence of Rwandan state support for M23 rebels 'credible and compelling', ministers say

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