Få humanitære kriser modtager så megen opmærksomhed og engagement som konflikten i Syrien, men kun få er villige til at donere penge, når det kommer til stykket – end ikke halvdelen af midlerne er i hus.
DUBAI, 19. september, 2012 (IRIN): Yet, as the head of operations of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent put it at the end of July: “Nobody is really putting his hand in his pocket and putting his money where his mouth is.”
While funding has picked up in recent weeks, UN appeals for more than 541 million US dollar to help Syrians in need inside the country, as well as Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries, are currently 40 percent funded. (The appeals have been revised and increased several times).
Other agencies like Médecins sans Frontières – which has independent funding channels – have also complained that a lack of funds has limited operations.
According to the UN’s Financial Tracking Service, which records all reported donations, donors have given an additional 200 million dollar, outside the two UN appeals. (The International Committee of the Red Cross’s operation in Syria, for example, is fully funded, though its scale of operations is much smaller.)
So why has the funding for the UN and others lagged?
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