Humanitarian Financing

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Managing acute malnutrition at scale - A review of donor and government financing arrangements (Network Paper Issue 75)

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.

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Is Aid to South Africa Drying Up?

JOHANNESBURG, May 17 2013 (IPS) - Commentators and business leaders in South Africa believe that the recent announcement of an end to the United Kingdom’s aid programme to South Africa may be the start of a new trend to cut back on aid to this country, and possibly to the rest of Africa.

“This British announcement was not entirely unexpected,” Neren Rau, the head of the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry, told IPS.

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Saudi Fund for Development support community infrastructure rehabilitation in crisis affected areas of KPK

The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has extended additional financial support to UNDP in Pakistan for US$ 1.3 million bringing its total contribution to US$ 6.7 million for community infrastructure restoration and rehabilitation in the crisis affected areas of district Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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World + 1 other
Sleight-of-Hand and Aid Delays Leave Poor Short Changed

The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), the peak body for Australia’s overseas aid and humanitarian charities, has today criticised announcements by the Government that aid increases would be delayed by another year and that further overseas aid will be spent domestically on asylum seeker costs.

“The Government’s aid delay breaks an election promise to scale up the aid program by 2015, and comes on top of delays announced last year,” said Marc Purcell, ACFID Executive Director.

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World + 5 others
Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) Annual report 2012 (MAA00010)

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IFRC

Period covered: January to December 2012

Overview

The DREF allocated a total amount of CHF 22,836,393 in 2012. Seventy-five per cent of the allocations, CHF 17,076,253, were made as grants to small-scale operations implemented by National Societies for which no emergency appeal was launched, known as DREF operations. CHF 5,760,140 was allocated as loans of start-up funding to emergency appeals.

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OECD development co-operation peer review - Australia 2013 - The Development Assistance Committee: Enabling effective development, Preliminary version

06/05/2013 - Australia delivered USD 5.44 billion in official development assistance (ODA) last year, or 0.36% of its growth national income. It is the eighth most generous country in the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC), which groups the world’s major donors. Australia’s goal is to reach 0.5% of GNI by 2017 – a goal the DAC encourages it to follow through on, given its good track record and relatively strong economy.

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Walking the Talk in Somalia? Progress since the 2012 London Conference

The Somalia NGO Consortium stresses the need to overcome any perception that the objective of humanitarian assistance is to stabilize or support the Federal Government.

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With malaria breakthrough in sight, UN officials urge greater funding to finish the job

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UN News Service

25 April 2013 – With the globally agreed target of reversing the incidence rate of malaria by 2015 now in sight, top United Nations officials today urged the international community to stay committed to protecting people from this preventable disease and to scale up key interventions such as the provision of insecticide-treated mosquito nets.

There are now less than 1,000 days until 31 December 2015, the deadline agreed to by world leaders to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which include several health targets.

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Histoires d’aide : Nana Kojo Kondua IV, créateur d’emplois

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Oxfam

L’aide publique au développement est un catalyseur de changement, qui permet d’améliorer les vies de millions de personnes à travers le monde. Oxfam se bat pour que les pays riches tiennent leurs promesses et fournissent une aide importante et efficace aux populations les plus vulnérables.

Parce que la pertinence des programmes d’aide est parfois questionnée, Oxfam America a publié des histoires de vies qui ont été durablement changées grâce à l’aide. Voici celle de Nana Kojo Kondua IV, chef d’un village de pêcheurs au Ghana.

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Africa Health Forum 2013: Finance and Capacity for Results

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UNAIDS

Big questions were raised about getting the best results in health and development at the World Bank’s Africa Development Forum 2013. The event brought together Ministers of Finance and Health from some 30 African countries to explore effective and creative ways to ensure the future health of the continent.

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Coup d’accélérateur pour l’efficacité de l’aide alors qu’une initiative historique prend de l’élan

London – Plus de 130 donateurs publient désormais leurs données auprès de l’Initiative internationale pour la transparence de l’aide, une plateforme de données ouverte qui permet de tracer un tableau à jour, exhaustif et comparable des flux d’aide, afin d’en améliorer la responsabilisation et l’impact.

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DFID Humanitarian Aid Programme Summary: Spending and Indicative Results for Syria and the Region

Millions are in need in Syria and the region. The UK is responding by providing hundreds of thousands of people with food, medical care and relief items. Total UK Assistance to date: £141.1 million. The majority of this funding has been given to agencies in response to the priority needs, as described below. £7 million of funding for Syria and the region is currently being allocated to agencies.

Figures on this page are rounded for ease of communication.

UK assistance inside Syria: £83.3 million. Key results include:

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World Bank to Help Lesotho Provide Lifesaving Health Services for Mothers and Infants in Hard-to-Reach Areas

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World Bank

WASHINGTON, April 18, 2013 – The World Bank today signed an agreement with the Kingdom of Lesotho in Washington for the new Maternal and Newborn Health Performance-Based Financing Project.

The credit of US$12 million from the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), with a grant of US$4 million from the Health Results Innovation Trust Fund, supported by the UK and Norway, will be used to introduce innovative financing for health facilities in Leribe and Quthing districts in the first year, with expansion to other districts in subsequent years.

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Better Health Outcomes for Women, Children, and the Poor

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World Bank

Between 2004 and 2012, the number of health facilities in Afghanistan increased from 496 to 2,047, of which 1,680 are primary care facilities and 74% have at least one female staff member (up from 54%). The number of community health workers, of which more than 50% are female, has also dramatically increased to almost 20,000.

Challenge

In 2003, Afghanistan was among the poorest countries in the world, emerging from decades of conflict and in the midst of post-conflict reconstruction and transition, with substantial international security and development support.

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Fourth Replenishment (2014-2016): Outcome of the Global Fund’s Third Replenishment

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The Global Fund

Introduction

1. This technical note provides an overview of the current status of 2011-2013 donor pledges made during the Global Fund Third Voluntary Replenishment conference held in New York during 4-5 October 2010. All data provided is as of 31 December 2012.

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Learning the lessons? Assessing the response to the 2012 food crisis in the Sahel to build resilience for the future.

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Oxfam

Evaluating the response to the 2012 food crisis, Oxfam says the aid community needs to fundamentally change the way it deals with food crises in the region and help communities to better prepare for recurring emergencies.