Q3 2014 SUMMARY
During the third quarter of 2014, the humanitarian community relied on rapid and strategic CERF funding to kick-start emergency operations and to keep life-saving programmes running. The Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) allocated US$70 million from CERF to help humanitarian partners in 20 countries respond to some of the most urgent crises worldwide.
Some $50 million from CERF’s rapid response window went to 13 counties, including Iraq where a system-wide level-three (L3) emergency was declared in August and to the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone where the worst outbreak ever of Ebola virus has become a major humanitarian crisis.
The ERC also set aside $75 million in the second round of the underfunded emergencies window to support 11 countries in two regions where humanitarian needs are high but financial support is low: West Africa’s Sahel ($30.5 million) and the Horn of Africa ($44.5 million). Some $20 million has already been allocated.
Donors demonstrated their continued faith in the effectiveness of CERF during the third quarter with $108.3 million in contributions.
By the end of September 2014, donors had pledged $435 million for 2014, just short of CERF’s $450 annual funding target. Some $404.3 million (or 93 per cent) of that amount had already been received.
