Overall the UK government committed £20m in emergency support to Haiti. This included a 64 person emergency search and rescue team, a field assessment team and funding to help provide more than 380,000 people with food, clean water and medical care.
Our support to UN agencies and international NGOs has included:
- £1m for the Haitian Red Cross to provide food, shelter, clean water and other immediate needs for 20,000 families
- £2m for the World Food Programme for transport, communications and base camps to help with the logistics of getting relief where its needed
- £326,000 for UNOPS to provide transitional shelters
- £300,000 for the World Health Organisation for disease surveillance, to help prevent the spread of epidemics such as malaria and dengue fever
- £1m to help the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs bring in more than 30 extra staff to help bolster humanitarian coordination
- £2.5m allocated to Oxfam (£1 million), Action Against Hunger (£1 million), and Handicap International (£500,000) to deliver clean water, shelter, medical care and food for 160,000 earthquake survivors
- £1.12m to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for shelter, camp co-ordination and camp management for an overall target population of 1.1 million
- £400,000 for an 11-strong medical team from Merlin, which has carried out over 350 life saving surgical operations - combining orthopaedic and plastic surgery to save survivors' limbs - and treated a further 4,250 people for potentially fatal diseases including acute diarrhoea, malaria and respiratory infections. Merlin is also running mobile clinics to provide health care support to underserved areas
- £2.5m to fly in urgent relief supplies for shelter, water and medical care
- £287,378 to CARE for four technical shelter experts including a land tenure expert
- £400,000 to ACTED (Agency for Technical Co-operation in Development) for water, sanitation and shelter activities aimed at assisting more than 65,000 people.