Supply Chain View

According to OCHA funding for Logistics Cluster activity for the Pakistan floods is still $5m short of the $15m requirement estimated. All the learning from recent humanitarian emergencies (from the Asian tsunami of 2004 to the Haiti earthquake earlier this year) shows how vital logistics coordination is to an effective response.

$15m is small as a proportion of the total requirement (about 3% of the total budget of $460m – the biggest ticket cluster being Food Security). More details from ReliefWeb.

In the UK the DEC appeal has raised £30m. I heard DEC’s Chief Exec Brendan Gormley on the radio yesterday saying that the British public’s response has shamed governments around the world into giving more. The DEC appeal is still open – click through if you would like to donate (again).