Source:
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Turkey, Syrian Arab Republic (the)
9 May 2012: Unrest in Syria has lead to the displacement of thousands of people fleeing violence into the neighbouring countries of Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq.
To date, the Government of Turkey, with the support of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), has led the response to the...
Source:
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Pakistan
I. Key Messages
Some 7.2 million Pakistanis urgently need humanitarian aid as they deal with the impact of two separate emergencies. Security operations have led to the displacement of more than 200,000 people in the tribal areas of north-western Pakistan over the past two months, bringing the total number displaced to 700,000. A...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Yemen
23 April 2012: CERF gives $10 million in life-saving funds for displaced in Yemen
Yemen continues to face a complex emergency, including widespread conflict-driven displacement concentrated in the north and south of the country. Yemen is currently experiencing two simultaneous episodes of displacement affecting 13,500 newly displaced...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Gambia (the), Mali, Mauritania, Niger (the), Senegal
(New York, 26 April 2012): The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has given some US$82 million in the last six months to help humanitarian organizations in the Sahel scale up assistance to...
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: New York
25 January 2012, The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian
Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC), Valerie Amos, today announced the allocation of some US$104 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to bolster humanitarian operations in 13 neglected humanitarian emergencies around the world: Central African Republic, Chad, Côte...
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: New York
26 April 2012, The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has given some US$82 million in the last six months to help humanitarian organizations in the Sahel scale up assistance to address rising hunger, malnutrition and conflict-related displacement resulting from the crisis in Mali. Since November 2011, these grants to humanitarian partners in Burkina Faso,...
Source:
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country:
Senegal
11 April 2012: The Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has given US$7 million to four UN agencies to provide emergency food aid for most food insecure people in Senegal.
In Senegal, according to United Nations estimates, some 850,000 persons are food insecure. Many households have begun to adapt negative coping strategies, such as...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Pakistan
The Central Emergency Response Fund provided $14,845,730 in underfunded grants to six UN agencies and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Pakistan. The grants will target affected populations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA.
The World Food Programme (WFP) received the largest underfunded grant of $4.7 million to provide...
Source:
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country:
Pakistan
Pakistan’s north-western areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkwa Province (KP) and Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) have experienced significant population movements over the past few years as a result of generalized violence.
In response to urgent humanitarian needs in 2012, the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) provided $11,970,485 to...
Source:
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country:
Nepal
In Nepal, an estimated 3.5 million people are facing food insecurity due to recurring droughts, floods and persistent poverty. The United Nations estimates that that the lack of food at the household level is an acute problem in most of the Mid-West and Far-West regions of the country where acute food shortages persist in 63 per cent of households...