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.

Hundreds of international aid organisations and their counterparts in the affected countries have come together to share and analyse information on humanitarian needs, to establish unified strategic response plans, and to organize their implementation to deliver aid as effectively as possible to those most in need

Annual publication Statistics on International Development (SID) provides information on the UK’s Gross Public Expenditure on Development (GPEX) which includes both the DFID aid programme and official aid provided through other UK government departments

HIGHLIGHTS

• Over 240,000 people affected by flooding in eastern Africa

• 70 people killed by intercommunal clashes in Kenya

• Ebola outbreak under control in Uganda as a new strain kills 11 people in DRC

• Over 600,000 people have been displaced by fighting in DRC since January

• A sixth camp in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia has been endorsed by the government

• The flow of refugees and migrants from the Horn of Africa towards Yemen exceeds previous records

In this issue

Executive Summary

The Mid-Year Review of the 2012 Sudan Humanitarian Work Plan (HWP) comes at a time of growing concern for Sudan.

(New York, 19 July 2012) The number of people needing humanitarian aid around the world has risen from 51 million to 62 million – an increase of more than 20 per cent –during the first half of 2012.

More than 18 million people in nine countries in the Sahel region are facing a severe food and nutrition crisis, worsened by conflict in northern Mali. More than a million children under five are at risk of dying from severe acute malnutrition and over 200,000 people have fled into neighbouring countries.

The February—May rainfall was characterized by a late onset and mixed performance throughout the horn of Africa (HoA). Exceptionally heavy rains and the consiquential flooding In western areas contrasted sharply with large rainfall deficits in eastern areas, including the eastern half of Kenya, parts of southern Somalia, northeastern Ethiopia, and northwestern Uganda. These rains led to a generally improved regional food security situation. However, several areas are still in Crisis and Emergency food insecurity situation (IPC Phase 3 and 4respectively).

Link: Overview of the Consolidated Appeals and similar concerted humanitarian action plans at Mid-Year 2012