Red Cross

But once get the funds, how will be distributed? There is a system of coordination of the UN through clusters or groupings in which participating agencies and NGOs, adds, and Intermon is included in water and sanitation, and nutrition. Intermon deals with the provision of water, health training, attention to livestock or aid to markets that are still operating, inter alia. It is not only important to eat and drink to the people, but ensuring the sustainability of the country protecting the cattle through better access to grass or water or giving money to farmers and food in exchange for work on projects such as systems of harvesting, soil conservation and small systems of irrigation systems, explains Mario Zappacosta, the Department of information and alert FAO Economist. The Agency has requested additional $ 120 million EE UU for the Horn of Africa; 70 for Somalia and 50 for Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti and Uganda. Help on three flanks the aid map is tripartite: Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.

In the two first countries the UN works, but there are also bilateral aid from Governments. The Abyssinian, according to Contreras is coordinating well the theme of refugees; the Kenyan, explains Zappacosta, has authorized undated the opening of a new field for 80,000 people, since some, like the Dadaab are more than saturated and have even begun to develop suburbs. Red Cross (CR), which is in phase of creating a concrete project for Somalia, is studying the management of one of these camps in Kenya supporting the authorities, because the local response speed is no longer the same as before. The cluster that belongs Red Cross - shelter or hostel - still not been activated, confirms Alberto de Castro, Deputy director of international cooperation in Spain, but the Organization has permanent presence for years, for example, in Ethiopia, where he works the Red Crescent.