Directorate-General for Humanitarian Aid - (ECHO) annual report 2007. Report from the Commission. COM (2008) 449 final, 9 July 2008

The main objective was to reduce excess mortality and morbidity among highly vulnerable populations in Sudan through integrated assistance. In addition, DG ECHO support aimed

The Commission adopted a Global Plan of EUR 10,000,000. DG ECHO focus has been in support of health, nutrition, water and sanitation, livestock, food security and support

Finally, DG ECHO is also dealing with sectoral and transversal priorities and encourages – whenever possible and relevant – a transition process towards development activities

ECHO contributed in 2001 with a Global Plan for Sudan that released €15 million for funding of projects in a wide range of areas, such as health, nutrition, food security, water

ECHO contributed just under € 27 million to the Tanzania refugee programme in 2000 through the UN and the Red Cross, thus effectively funding more than one third of the

In the case of East Timor, three decisions of humanitarian assistance were signed in 1999 ( €2 million in July before the crisis, €3 million in September for emergency operations

ECHO continued to carry out evaluations throughout the year, mainly of its humanitarian aid programmes in different parts of the world which amounted to a total of ECU 150.53

The United Nations secretary-general’s food crisis task force, pulling together UN agencies, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, and others, is launching a