AT ONE YEAR, $376 MILLION PROVIDED BY EMERGENCY FUND

 

NEW YORK, 9 March (OCHA) -- In the year since its official launch on 9 March 2006, $376.1 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has been used to provide life-saving humanitarian aid in 40 countries through 361 individual projects. 

UNITED NATIONS GIVES $85 MILLION TO UNDERFUNDED CRISES IN 15 COUNTRIES

UNITED NATIONS RESOLVED TO CONTINUE WORKING IN DARFUR DESPITE RISKS

 

UN AGENCIES IN SRI LANKA SEEK $66 MILLION FOR HUMANITARIAN AID IN 2007

UNITED NATIONS APPEALS FOR $16.6 MILLION FOR TIMOR-LESTE

 

UNITED NATIONS CONCERNED BY CIVILIAN DEATHS IN SRI LANKA

 

Secretary-General accepts resignation of relief coordinator jan egeland

‘with deep regret and with profound gratitude’ for tireless efforts

The following statement by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was issued today at Headquarters:

Secretary-General says emergency fund innovative, flexible, saves lives;

appeals for generous response from donors at high-level conference

Following are the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) High-level Conference in New York, 7 December:

United Nations REQUESTS SUPPORT FOR GLOBAL EMERGENCY FUND IN 2007

NEW YORK, 7 December (OCHA) -- The United Nations this morning convened a high-level conference on support for the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) in 2007, as part of the ongoing process of humanitarian reform.

‘WITH YOUR HELP, MY FELLOW AFRICANS ARE TRANSFORMING DESPAIR INTO HOPE, AND HATRED

INTO HEALING,’ SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT LAUNCH OF HUMANITARIAN APPEAL

Following is the text of remarks, as delivered today by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, at the launch of Humanitarian Appeal 2007 in New York: