A high-level United Nations mission, representing the whole humanitarian community in Pakistan, has travelled to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to discuss the allocation of the US$100 million pledged by the Kingdom last month.
“The meetings with high-level government representatives are going extremely well and we are on the right track to rightly allocate this generous donation to the most needy people in Pakistan,” said Manuel Bessler, Head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Pakistan.
In the last few weeks, the Humanitarian Country Team, which comprises UN agencies as well as international and national non-governmental organisations, has assessed the situation and has made proposals on where this additional aid is mostly required.
Millions of people have been affected by the conflict, and humanitarian assistance is needed for those who are still displaced, those who are newly displaced, those who have returned to their areas of origin, those who never left the conflict-affected areas and the families providing shelter for internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Of the 2.7 million people displaced since the start of the conflict in August 2008, 1.02 million are still living with either host families or in the 19 camps supported by the humanitarian community. About 1.65 million people have returned to their homes since July 2009 but ongoing military operations are still triggering new displacements, especially in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
To date, 60 percent of the $680 million revised requirements for the Pakistan Humanitarian Response Plan has been funded by more than 20 countries and private individuals and organisations.
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