The Diplomat
The Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) plans to allocate a total of 95 million euros for humanitarian aid in the world this year, the institution announced on Friday on the occasion of World Humanitarian Day.
This amount represents an increase of 30 million euros compared to the 65 million euros allocated to the same concept in 2021, and maintains the upward trend of recent years, in line with the commitment to allocate 10% of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to Humanitarian Action, according to AECID on its website.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, praised on his Twitter account, the “commendable work” carried out by humanitarian workers, pointing out that aid is channelled through AECID, and will reach 95 million euros in 2022 “to provide a response to people affected by natural disasters and conflicts”.
Aecid, for its part, stressed that humanitarian workers, in many cases, “risk their lives so that humanitarian aid reaches the most vulnerable people affected by crises around the world”.
Spanish Humanitarian Action is the main donor in contexts such as the Sahrawi refugee camps and contributes to the response to the crises in Ukraine, Afghanistan, the Sahel, the Palestinian Territories, the regional crisis in Syria and Central America, as well as the global food crisis unleashed this year as a result of climate change and aggravated by the invasion of Ukraine.
The Humanitarian Aid Office (OAH) has a logistics base for humanitarian material in Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid) and material stored in the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Panama.
It also finances the humanitarian logistics base of the World Food Programme (WFP) in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, which mainly attends to food crises in West sub-Saharan Africa.
