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Start Network response in Cameroon & West Africa thanks to long term DFID funding
March 3, 2015
Posted by Tegan Rogers
Start Network member agencies will be implementing long term responses to the ongoing refugee crisis in Cameroon and the Ebola crisis in West Africa. This is thanks to two grants from the UK Department for International Development which have been earmarked specifically for these two crises.

DFID have allocated £3 million for the refugee crisis in Cameroon. More than two years of violence in the Central African Republic has driven thousands of refugees into neighbouring Cameroon, which has resulted in its own humanitarian crisis as the camps struggle to meet their needs. This crisis is low profile, meaning it has attracted little funding for humanitarian agencies to respond to the increasing needs.

The West Africa Ebola response is to ensure preparedness and prevention in four specified West African countries to start with. The funding totalling £7m will cover projects up to twelve months in duration…