YANGON, 24 January 2011 (IRIN): Overseas development assistance (ODA) to Burma has dropped to pre-Cyclone Nargis levels, leaving millions needing food, shelter, health and education, warn aid agencies.
More than 138.000 people lost their lives and 2,4 million people were affected by the category 4 storm in May 2008.
According to the latest data available from the Organization for Economic Development and Co-operation (OECD), ODA to Burma has fallen since 2008, despite a worldwide ODA increase.
Burma received 357 million US dollar of ODA in 2009, a 30 percent cut from the previous year.
Now that the humanitarian component of the ODA has decreased to pre-Nargis levels, the estimated ODA in 2010 is as low as 5 dollar per capita (pr. indbygger), said Andrew Kirkwood, head of Save the Children Burma.
– Nargis was just a blip (lille blink), he said. In 2008, the humanitarian response to Nargis marked a 170 percent increase in ODA from the year before when Burmas ODA was 198 million dollar, according to the OECD.
However, while the humanitarian aid component of the ODA increased in 2008, core non-emergency funding remained low in 2009 at 127 million dollar or 2,50 dollar per capita, according to the OECD.
In the same period Cambodia received 208 million dollar in non-humanitarian funds, despite having a population approximately three times smaller.
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