Select Committee on International Development Memoranda


Annex

Agreed DFID Emergency Funding for Iraq

RED CROSS

International Federation of the Red Cross  £15,500,000

  Support to pre-positioning stocks, deployment of delegates, as well as disaster preparedness/response activities of the relevant National Societies.

International Committee of the Red Cross  £16,500,000

  Support to pre-positioning stocks, deployment of delegates, emergency medical support, water and sanitation, protection and assistance activities.

Total Red Cross  £32,000,000

UN

World Food Programme  £33,000,000

  Support to enable the procurement, transport and distribution of foodstuffs, including operational and logistical support. Support to the provision of the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service and the United Nations Joint Logistics Centre. Food pre-positioning for 250,000 for ten weeks. Upgrading logistics and communications capacity.

United Nations Children's Fund  £9,000,000

  Pre-positioning emergency supplies. Developing campaign for mine awareness. Enhance capacity of field offices. Support to key activities in water and emergency sanitation, routine immunisation and mine risk education throughout Iraq.

United Nations High Commission for Refugees  £1,750,000

  Winter kits for 350,000. Procurement of remaining kits for target caseload of 600,000. Site identification and deployment of additional emergency officers.

World Health Organisation  £6,000,000

  24 emergency health kits pre-positioned. Training on communicable diseases and awareness for CBW. Need to preposition 76 additional health kits and 20 surgical kits. Strengthen WHO field operations, logistics and communications.

Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Assistance  £900,000

  Deployment of personnel to Country Teams and Larnaca. Deploy IRIN officers to Cyprus, Turkey, and Jordan. Develop public information capacity. Support of information, coordination and technology in Iraq and the region.

Office of the United Nations Security Co-ordinator  £600,000

  Enhance current security structure with 1 Regional Security Coordination Officer, 6 Field Security Officers, oversight and training.

Food and Agriculture Organisation  £1,500,000

  Support to agricultural and poultry production in war-affected areas of southern Iraq to boost food security and contribute to improving the nutritional status of project beneficiaries in areas targeted.

United Nations Development Programme  £7,035,100

  Emergency assistance in the electricity sector focusing on Central and Southern Iraq. Work includes assessments and rapid rehabilitation.

United Nations Mines Advisory Service  £4,000,000

  Support to mine clearance activities and mine action co-ordination

Total Funding to UN Agencies:  £63,785,100

NGOS

Merlin  £265,000

  Emergency health, mobile units, rapid health assessments

International Medical Corps  £220,000

  Emergency Trauma care, primary care for under 5s and pregnant woman and obstetric care

Save the Children UK  £500,000

  Health, non-food items and tracing

HelpAge International  £150,000

  Non-food items, shelter to elderly IDPs and their dependents

GOAL  £305,834

  Assistance and Primary Health Care to southern Iraq

BBC World Service Trust  £390,600

  Emergency radio programme & media audit BBC WST

War Child  £613,133

  Emergency bakeries programme

MedAir  £295,565

  Assistance to IDPs in northern Iraq

Mines Advisory Group  £80,883

  Mine action preparedness, mine marking and deployment of coordinators to centre/south Iraq

4RS  £105,673

  Assistance to vulnerable women in northern Iraq

CARE  £499,070

  Rehabilitation of water, sanitation and health facilities in centre/south Iraq

Total NGO'S  £3,425,758

Grand Total Funding Agreed:  £99,210,858

(Total Funding Committed:  £115,000,000)

SECTORAL BREAKDOWN AT 3 JUNE 2003
SectorAgency Funding
Health, nutritionWHO, UNICEF, Merlin, IMC, SCF, HelpAge, CARE, GOAL, Health kits £8.5 million


Water and sanitation
UNICEF, CARE £4 million


Food
WFP, Warchild £33.6 million


Agriculture
FAO £1.5 million


Security
UNSECOORD £0.6 million


Mines action
UNMAS, MAG, UNICEF £4.7 million


Media
BBC World Service Trust £0.4 million


Co-ordination and information
UNOHCI, OCHA, HIC£1 million


Displaced people
UNHCR, Medair, 4RS £2 million


Power, fuel
UNDP £7 million


Education
UNICEF £0.2 million


Unearmarked
£35.7 million


Total:
£99.2 million


  Unearmarked contributions are those to agencies such as ICRC operating multi-sectoral programmes where our contribution is not for a specific sector. In addition we are providing seven secondments to UN agencies.




 
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