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Burma: Overseas Aid

Volume 490: debated on Friday 27 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development through which United Nations organisations his Department channels funding for Burma-related aid and activities; and how much was channelled by his Department through each such organisation in the last 12 months. (265885)

During the 2008-09 financial year, the Department for International Development (DFID) has channelled funding for Burma through UN organisations as follows:

Cyclone Nargis emergency response:

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)—£2,271,179

International Labour Organisation (ILO)—£590,810

UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF)—£750,000

UN Development Programme (UNDP)—£1,850,000

UN Habitat—£250,000

UN Habitat and UNDP jointly—£600,000

UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)—£300,000

World Food Programme (WFP)—£12,000,000

World Health Organisation (WHO)—£250,000.

Regular country programme:

UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF)—£1,560,000

UN Development Programme (UNDP)—£1,569,565

UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS), for the Three Diseases Fund—£4,500,000

UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)—£550,000

World Food Programme (WFP)—£350,000.