๐ Tender Overview
The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Martin Griffiths, has allocated US$11 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for a rapid response to help people threatened by food and nutrition insecurity and refugees in Mali.
This allocation will enable the humanitarian community to provide emergency food and nutrition assistance to 287,915 vulnerable people and to respond to the multi-sectoral needs of 38,732 refugees in the regions of Me?naka, Gao, Mopti, Bandiagara and San.
"Funding for the humanitarian response is at an all-time low. This allocation breathes new life into the vital assistance we are trying to provide in the northern and central regions. It also serves as a reminder that the humanitarian situation in Mali and the central Sahel must remain an international priority," stated Alain Noude?hou, UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Mali. In this context of chronic underfunding, "we hope that this allocation will have a catalytic effect in mobilizing more flexible funding, particularly for the refugee response," he added.
A total of four projects will benefit from this allocation, which will help provide multi-sectoral support through food assistance (implemented by WFP), the distribution of emergency food production and livestock kits (implemented by FAO), the care of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition (implemented by UNICEF), and the protection and multi-sectoral care of refugees (implemented by UNHCR).
The CERF allocation of $11 million is intended to increase the level of funding for humanitarian emergencies in a context where, as of May 2024, only 13% of the funding required for the 2024 Humanitarian Response Plan has been mobilized.
