Organization:United Nations Ebola Response Fund
United Nations Ebola Response Fund is a special fund set up by the United Nations Foundation to allow donations to support U.N. institutions to respond to the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.[1] The U.N. has received other money for Ebola, but the fund is more flexible in how it can be spent.[2] The U.N. announced the fund on 12 September 2014.[3] They asked for one billion dollars to be donated, and by 21 October 2014 50 million had already been pledged.[4] On November 11 the Philippines government announced it would donate 1 million to the fund.[5]
Countries that have pledged or committed money to the fund by 7 November 2014 include Australia , Azerbaijan, Canada , Chile , China , Colombia, Denmark , Estonia, Finland , Germany , India , the Republic of Ireland, Japan , Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Malta, New Zealand, Norway , Romania, South Korea , Sweden, the United Kingdom , and Venezuela.[6]
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References
- ↑ U.N. Foundation Announces Formation Of Ebola Response Fund
- ↑ Ebola crisis: UN launches urgent appeal for donations
- ↑ "UN Foundation Launches Fund to Support United Nations' Ebola Response". http://www.unfoundation.org/news-and-media/press-releases/2014/ebola-response-fund-WHO.html.
- ↑ Pledges to U.N. fund to fight Ebola more than double to $50 million
- ↑ Philippines to donate $1m to UN's Ebola fund
- ↑ Ebola Response MPTF
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