---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: IRIN <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:37 AM Subject: HORN OF AFRICA: Top 30 donors to the food crisis To: Jean-Francois Darcq <[email protected]>
HORN OF AFRICA: Top 30 donors to the food crisis NAIROBI, 26 July 2011 (IRIN) - After several appeals by the UN and other aid agencies, the international community is rallying to feed an estimated 11.6 million people facing starvation in the Horn of Africa. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, about US$1.1 billion has been committed, while the gap in funding stands at about $1 billion. Below is a list of the top contributors to humanitarian funding in 2011 in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia; the figures in brackets indicate additional pledges that have not yet been committed as of 26 July: 1. United States - $448,017,213 ($46,704,961) 2. European Commission - $167,237,380 ($8,111,588) 3. Japan - $90,386,480 4. UN Central Emergency Response Fund - $86,298,912 ($11 million) 5. United Kingdom - $65,334,968 ($122,734,183) 6. Canada - $26,050,674 ($3,902,440) 7. Denmark - $22,754,682 8. Sweden - $20,175,100 9. Norway - $22,187,271 10. Brazil - $22,095,646 11. The Netherlands - $13,635,563 12. Germany - $13,159,162 13. Spain - $12,194,066 ($4,977,729) 14. Switzerland - $10,767,113 ($572,738) 15. Finland - $7,701,130 16. Australia - $7,455,698 ($47,169,811) 17. France - $5,564,352 ($1,353,276) 18. Ireland - $4,852,895 ($569,801) 19. Italy - $3,012,512 ($1,430,615) 20. United Arab Emirates - $1,927,649 21. Sudan - $1,788,000 22. Islamic Development Bank - $1 million 23. Russian Federation - $1 million 24. New Zealand - $762,777 25. Saudi Arabia - $738,487 26. African Development Bank - $507,898 27. Luxembourg - $276,578 28. South Africa - $146,199 29. Czech Republic - $112,676 30. Estonia - $42,254 Source: UNOCHA Financial Tacking Service [ http://fts.unocha.org ] kr/ag/mw [END] This report online: http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportID=93331 © IRIN. All rights reserved. More humanitarian news and analysis: http://www.irinnews.org/ [This item comes to you via IRIN, the humanitarian news and analysis service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the United Nations or its Member States. Reposting or reproduction, with attribution, for non-commercial purposes is permitted. Terms and conditions: http://www.irinnews.org/copyright.aspx IRIN partners: UAE, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, UNEP and the IHC. More information: http://www.irinnews.org/donors.aspx This mail is from an automatic address. Contact IRIN at: [email protected]. Revise/stop your subscription: http://bit.ly/9nCoUP ] Subscribed email: [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
