The cogs of international aid are finally turning heres how the money is being coordinated and what its being spent on
The Ebola crisis has exposed failings in the ability of leading global institutions to respond to an admittedly unprecedented health emergency. As world leaders chide one another for failing to dedicate enough funds to fighting the virus in west Africa, and the consequences of neglecting health systems in some of the worlds poorest countries become ever more obvious, the cogs of international aid are beginning to turn. But the money is only dribbling in slowly, and there are concerns that the virus is already out of control in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
On 16 September, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it needed $988m (£617m) to tackle the disease in those three countries in the six months up until February 2015. OCHA presented a detailed overview of requirements (pdf) outlining what the money would be spent on and by whom.
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