This year, the European Commission has allocated nearly 130 million euros in humanitarian aid to Latin America and the Caribbean to address the needs of the most vulnerable people affected by the major emergencies currently underway.
The largest allocation of EU funding goes to Venezuelawith almost €50 million. The bulk of the funding will help to address the consequences of the protracted humanitarian crisis in the country and its regional repercussions, while €5 million will be allocated to disaster preparedness. The information was provided by the Commission in a statement statement published on its portal.
In ColombiaAs people continue to suffer from the impact of armed conflict, 11 million euros are allocated to humanitarian aid. In addition, 5 million euros are earmarked for disaster preparedness.
For the rest of South Americafunding amounts to €22 million. This includes €14 million to respond to major humanitarian needs (in particular forced displacement, which remains a major problem throughout the subregion), of which €2 million will be dedicated to responding to the internal crisis in Ecuador and the aforementioned million to the floods in Brazil. The remaining 8 million euros will be allocated to disaster preparedness activities.
In Central America€17 million will support the response to major humanitarian crises, mainly stemming from chronic violence and the record number of displaced people in transit. An additional €1 million is earmarked for disaster preparedness.
As already announced in March20 million euros were released in humanitarian aid for Haitia country in which the EU recently launched a humanitarian air bridge. For the rest of the CaribbeanMore than one million euros will be allocated to humanitarian aid, in particular in response to migratory flows originating mainly from Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti, and an additional one million euros will be allocated to disaster preparedness.
Finally, an additional amount of one and a half million euros has just been allocated to respond to the Dengue outbreak in Central and South America.
The announcement comes at the same time as Crisis Management Commissioner Janez Slothvisits Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados. In Bridgetown (Barbados), the Commissioner will also sign a memorandum of understanding with several regional organisations and governments to enhance cooperation on disaster risk management between the EU and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Strengthening disaster risk management
The new MoU will be signed on Wednesday in Barbados during a ceremony co-hosted by the European Union, the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) and the Government of Barbados.
The memorandum brings together the European Union and the Latin American and Caribbean region through CDEMA, the Coordination Centre for Disaster Prevention in Central America and the Dominican Republic (CEPREDENAC), the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) and the General Secretariat of the Andean Community (SGCAN), as well as Chile, Cuba and Mexico.
The aim is to strengthen joint work on disaster preparedness and prevention and to promote information exchange and training opportunities. This was one of the key commitments made during the EU-CELAC summit held last year in Brussels.
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2024-07-21 02:58:01
