UN Central Emergency Response Fund: Haiti

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Organization: 
UN Central Emergency Response Fund
Operating in this crisis location since: 
Sun, 2006-01-01
Stated mission at this site: 
On 13 January 2010, the morning after the catastrophic earthquake, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced an allocation of $10 million for emergency response. An additional $15 million was allocated on 15 January. Four humanitarian agencies the International Organization for Migration, (IOM), World Food Programme (WFP),United Nations Children’s Fund( UNICEF) and the World Health Organization(WHO) were therefore able to jumpstart their programmes to provide shelter, clean water, health services and food to some of the thousands of people struggling to cope in the aftermath of the earthquake. Funding was also made available for logistics for humanitarian operations.

Haiti is the sort of international aid “orphan” the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) was created to help. In 2003, a humanitarian appeal for Haiti received only 38 percent of the $14 million required to adequately meet the life-saving needs in Haiti. Since the Fund became operational in 2006, Haiti has received emergency funding each year, some $54 million in total. With $16 million received from CERF to help combat the effects of natural disasters and the food crisis in 2008, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere was the sixth-largest recipient of CERF funding. The humanitarian appeal for Haiti, launched in September 2008, received 59 percent of the $121 million funding required. CERF was the fourth-largest source of funding (after U.S., U.K. and ECHO) for that appeal.

Budget for this Crisis: 
25000000
# Staff at Crisis Location: 
0
# Partner Organizations: 
0
# Indigenous Staff: 
0
# Home Country Staff: 
0
# Foreign Staff: 
0
Pass money to partner orgs: 
Yes
Allows Donation Earmarking: 
No
Transparent Earmarking: 
No