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Ethiopia: Netherlands Gives 3.5 Million Euros to Help Drought Victims
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The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)
15 May 2008
Posted to the web 15 May 2008
Addis Ababa
Victims of drought in southern parts of Ethiopia will benefit from a 3.5 million euro (equivalent to roughly 52.5 million ETB) contribution made this week by the government of the Netherlands.
The funds will be used to meet the most pressing needs of vulnerable communities living in the drought-affected areas, the Royal Netherlands embassy in Addis Ababa said in a statement Wednesday.
The statement said the 3.5 million euro contribution is channeled through the United Nations Humanitarian Response Fund, a fund administered by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA).
The Humanitarian Response Fund (HRF) for Ethiopia is an emergency funding mechanism managed by the UN Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) and established to address gaps in critical, live-saving emergency response.
The Humanitarian Response Fund (HRF) has allocated approximately US$ 25 million since March 2006 towards emergency assistance addressing sectoral needs in three major emergencies: The Horn of Africa Drought, The Floods, and The AWD Outbreak.
In order to address the most pressing cross-sectoral needs, the Humanitarian Response Fund has focused particular attention on non-food needs such as emergency health, nutrition, water, sanitation, non-food items, and agriculture and livestock interventions.
Netherlands, along with various donors such as DfID, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, is a major contributor to the HRF.
In 2007, Netherlands spent a total of 34 million eruos in Development aid to Ethiopia's education, Health, rural economy, good governance and environment sectors.
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It has also contributed 2 million euros to African Union's capacity building in peace and security initiatives.
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