HIGHLIGHTS
• US$12 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund will ensure food and medicine pipelines until June.
• Over 18,000 migrants have departed Libya’s coastline towards Italy since 1 January.
• Displacement Tracking Matrix records 332,000 IDPs in second round, with higher figures expected once Benghazi figures are collected in the next round.
FIGURES
No. of IDPs 331,622
No. of migrants 142,370
No. of refugees 250,000
Affected pop. 2.44 mln
CERF funding averts rupture of food and medicine pipelines: 12 new projects approved
An injection of US$12 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has provided much-needed financing for the approval of 12 priority projects from the Libya Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP). The projects target IDPs, refugees, migrants, asylum-seekers and vulnerable conflict-affected communities across Libya. The funding comes at a crucial time, restoring pipelines to ensure that food assistance and supplies of essential medicines reach those most urgently in need.
Overall funding towards the HRP has now reached $19.7 million, falling well short of the $165.6 million required. Humanitarian Coordinator Mr. Ali Al-Za’tari stressed that this will not be enough to respond to the urgent needs of people in Libya, with pipelines set to break again by June without further funding.