Humanitarian Aid

Fact Sheet on Danish Humanitarian assistance to Pakistan in 2010- 2011

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I: Humanitarian Assistance for the flood victims in 2010 – DKK 130 million (USD 22 million)

The Danish response to the massive floods in 2010 was provided through:

1. iNGO registered in Denmark, such as Save the Children, DanChurchAid, Danish Red Cross and Danish Mission Council  these organisations work through local partners in Pakistan that are able to respond quickly;
2. the UN system, including UNHCR, WFP and UNOCHA
3. ICRC and
4. Danish Emergency Management Agency (DEMA). The distribution amongst the groups was approximately one third for iNGOs, one third for UN organisations and one third for ICRC and DEMA together. The DEMA intervention – setting up four field hospitals in Sindh - proved especially useful treating about 150,000 patients during the three months period they were operational.

The enclosed table gives an overview of all 2010 contributions.

In 2011 a total of DKK 47,2 million (USD 8,8 million) in humanitarian support to people in Pakistan distributed as follows:

II: Protracted humanitarian support in 2011 – DKK 32 million (USD 6 million) Through Danish registered iNGOs support is being provided to families who lost their livelihood during the 2010 floods. Assistance is also provided for Afghan refugees within the framework of the RAHA strategy and for ICRC’s work in the border areas.

III: Immediate Humanitarian Assistance for the flood victims in 2011 –  DKK 15,2 million (USD 2,8 million) The 2011 immediate relief work related to the floods in Sindh, Balochistan and Southern Punjab has been supported via Danish registered iNGOs, the UN and NDMA:

Organisation	Amount in DKK	Purpose	Date of grant
Save the Children	4,200,000	Reestablishment of schools and Disaster Risk Reduction
DanChurchAid	4,000,000	Improvement of food security for conflict affected families in Swat in KPK
Danish Refugee Council (DRC)	5,000,000	Support to Afghan refugees in camps in KPK province – DRC also implements project financed by UNHCR
UNICEF	7,600,000	Flood affected people
ICRC	11,000,000	Flood affected people
Total On-going humanitarian projects	31,800,000

Organisation	Amount in DKK	Purpose	Date of Grant
Danish Red Cross	1,000,000	Emergency relief for flood victims in Sindh – implementing partner: Pakistan Red Crescent	16.09.2011
Save the Children	750,000	Emergency relief for flood victims in Sindh	12.09.2011
DanChurchAid	545,000	Support for flood victims in Sindh – implementing partner: Church World Service Pakistan/Afghanistan via ACT	15.09.2011
Danish Emergency Management Agency	50,000	Contribution to the EU-MIC Protection Team from ECHO to make assessment with Pakistani Authorities	21.09.2011
NDMA	300,000	Direct contribution to NDMA’s assessment and relief operations	23.09.2011
Save the Children	5,000,000	Emergency relief for flood victims in Sindh through food, shelter, emergency medical care and child protection, education and nutrition interventions	19.10.2011
WFP	7,500,000	Food supplies to Pakistan	19.10.2011
Total	15,145,000

In addition, the Danish iNGOs have provided funds out of own resources for an immediate response. Denmark has also provided core funding to the tune of DKK 50 million for UNCHR and corresponding amounts to WFP and UNICEF to allow these organisations to take immediate reaction whenever disaster strikes. This has also benefitted Pakistan.