CERF allocates $3 million to provide food aid to victims of armed conflicts
Women waiting to receive food aid [Photo: IRIN] 3 September 2008: Thousands of IDPs and returnees in the North Kivu Province and Ituri are dependent on food aid and are in urgent need of a continued supply of food. A $3 million CERF grant is allowing the World Food Programme (WFP) to respond to the situation with much-needed food assistance.
Women waiting to receive food aid [Photo: IRIN]
Working with implementing partners including Caritas and Premiere Urgence, WFP is reaching IDPs and returnees in North Kivu Province and Ituri, some of the most food insecure regions of DRC. The grant is allowing WFP to bridge funding gaps and maintain humanitarian operations reaching over 187,000 people.
[Last update: 26 September 2008]
20 March 2008: Despite the success of the election in 2007, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains one of the most serious humanitarian crises in the world. The two provinces of Kivu had been in crisis since the beginning of 2007.
In response to this situation, CERF allocated $33.4 million through its first-round underfunded emergencies window for food assistance to displaced populations; emergency health services and protection against sexual violence for women, promotion of human rights and rule of law, multi-sector emergency assistance to returnees and displaced, health services, education services, and agricultural projects.
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