OCHA Situation Report
Ceantral/East Africa: Regional Humanitarian Funding Update
   (1st Quarter 2007)
15 May 2007


Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

The Regional Humanitarian Funding Update provides a quarterly overview 
of funding levels and trends in the 14 countries in the Central and East 
Africa region (CEA) (1) based on data reported to the Financial Tracking 
System (FTS) (2).

The CEA region faces the greatest humanitarian need anywhere in the 
world. Out of 15 Consolidated Humanitarian Appeals launched in the world 
for 2007, nine are from countries in the region. This represent 75 per 
cent of global humanitarian requirements.

This first issue looks at trends in the Consolidated Appeals; 
allocations from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), as well as 
the outcome of the Humanitarian Financing Workshop in Addis Ababa in 
January 2007.

I. The Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) in Central and East Africa

In November 2006, Inter-Agency Consolidated Appeals were launched to 
facilitate emergency response to crises in over 29 countries world-wide. 
The appeals cover the activities of 140 organisations and aim to assist 
27 million people during the course of 2007. Nine of these appeals seek 
to respond to emergencies in eleven countries in the CEA region. The 
total requirement for the response strategies outlined in these appeals 
is USD $ (3) 3.015 billion as of 19 April.


2007 Consolidated Appeals in the CEA region

|--------------------+--------------+------------+--------|
|                    | Requirements |  Funding $ |   %    |
|                    |       $      |            |covered |
|--------------------+--------------+------------+--------|
| Burundi            |  130,110,406 | 35,286,918 |   27   |
|--------------------+--------------+------------+--------|
| Central African    |   54,490,366 | 16,629,301 |   31   |
| Republic           |              |            |        |
|--------------------+--------------+------------+--------|
| Chad               |  174,418,637 | 61,896,949 |   35   |
|--------------------+--------------+------------+--------|
| Democratic         |  686,591,107 | 29,615,574 |    4   |
| Republic of Congo  |              |            |        |
| Humanitarian       |              |            |        |
| Action Plan        |              |            |        |
|--------------------+--------------+------------+--------|
| Great Lakes        |  88,051,014  | 18,095,985 |   21   |
|--------------------+--------------+------------+--------|
| Republic of Congo  |  22,920,010  |  4,599,215 |   20   |
|--------------------+--------------+------------+--------|
| Somalia            |  262,354,615 | 88,179,686 |   34   |
|--------------------+--------------+------------+--------|
| Sudan Work Plan    |1,258,721,955 |434,288,469 |   35   |
|--------------------+--------------+------------+--------|
| Uganda             |  337,378,908 | 98,457,779 |   29   |
|--------------------+--------------+------------+--------|
| Total              |3,015,037,018 |787,049,876 |   26   |
|--------------------+--------------+------------+--------|

Source: FTS, April 2007


To date the FTS has recorded a total of over $908.6 million dollars in 
contributions to humanitarian response in the region for 2007 (4) (both 
CAP and non-CAP funding), of which $ 787 million has been contributed 
through Consolidated Appeals. An addition total amount of $ 420.6 
million has also been pledged to the region (see endnotes) (5). The 
tables below show the ten highest contributing donors to humanitarian 
response in the CEA region in 2007 through the CAPs and overall. The ten 
donors contributing most to CAPs in the region also largely represent 
the ten donors contributing the highest amounts to humanitarian response 
overall to the region. This trend demonstrates the continued preference 
to fund within the appeals framework.

Notes:

(1) Burundi, Central Africa Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of 
Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, 
Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda

(2) The FTS is a global, real-time database which records all reported 
international humanitarian aid. FTS is managed by the UN Office for 
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). All FTS data are provided 
by donors or recipient organisations. Unreported contributions are not 
reflected in the FTS. More information about the data is available at: 
http://ocha.unog.ch/fts/exception-docs/AboutFTS/data.doc

(3) All amounts shown in US$

(4) As of 19th April

(5) Summary table of Pledges to the CEA Region

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