Bridging humanitarian, development nexus 'central theme' at Lake Chad Basin conference

Donors pledged at least $672 million for relief efforts in the African countries around the Lake Chad Basin at an international donor conference Friday. What isn’t yet clear is how much of the now 45-percent-funded appeal will go toward humanitarian relief or to long-term development, peace building or livelihood efforts.

By // 24 February 2017

Humanitarian aid and development actors “have an opportunity to do what we are all talking about — bridging the humanitarian and development divide," said World Food Program Executive Director Ertharin Cousin at Friday’s Oslo Humanitarian Conference on Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin.

During the conference, 14 donors pledged $458 million for relief efforts in 2017 and an additional $214 million for 2018 and beyond. Pledges have been announced by the European Commission, Norway, Germany, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Italy, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Republic of Korea.

“We are expecting pledges from major donor countries to keep coming,” Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, tweeted at the conclusion of the conference.

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