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Humanitarian funding analysis: Acute malnutrition in Mauritania - Crisis Briefing: 30 July 2015

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1. Key points

  • According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)’s Financial Tracking Service (FTS), donors have committed/contributed US$35.7 million of humanitarian assistance to Mauritania so far in 2015. The European Union (EU)’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO) is the largest donor in 2015, having contributed or committed US$13.2 million to the crisis.

  • The UN-coordinated Strategic Response Plan (SRP) for Mauritania requests US$95 million from donors to respond to the crisis; this was revised downwards in June 2015 from US$105.2 million requested at the beginning of the year. The SRP is currently 34% funded at US$32 million; a further US$3.7 million has been given outside the appeal. Mauritania is one of the nine countries captured in the three-year Sahel regional SRP, i which was launched in February 2015 with a total requested amount of US$1.96 billion.

  • In 2015, Mauritania received an estimated US$16.6 million for nutrition and food securityrelated projects, out of which US$1.2 million has been committed/contributed to projects in Hodh El Chargui.