The UN Resident Coordinator/Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria Ali Al-Za’tari approved US$19 million from the Syria Humanitarian Fund to sustain immediate life-saving and early recovery assistance for tens of thousands of people in Aleppo. “Families from east Aleppo are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance such as food and non-food items; and registration of birth, death, marriage and family papers and other legal services. This Syria Humanitarian Fund allocation is part of these efforts, and will finance immediate multi-sectoral assistance in all affected neighborhoods of eastern Aleppo, as well as to collective shelters and other priority areas in Aleppo city where internally displaced people are staying. In 2016, UN agencies and partners operating in Syria and cross-border disbursed more than US$220 million for programmes and services to people in need in Aleppo city, which includes US$14 million from the Syria Humanitarian Fund. The Syrian Humanitarian Fund is a multi-donor humanitarian pooled fund which has disbursed US$46 million in 2016 to UN agencies and international and national NGOs in Syria.

Source: GNN Liberia January 18, 2017 13:44 UTC