{"id":77467,"date":"2019-05-01T10:40:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T08:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=77467"},"modified":"2019-05-01T12:06:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T10:06:33","slug":"floods-response-plan-deficit-at-k14-6-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/05\/01\/floods-response-plan-deficit-at-k14-6-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Floods response plan deficit at K14.6 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Jameson Chauluka: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United Nations (UN) has said the deficit for the flood response plan budget has dropped to K14.6 billion from K18.9 billion in early April.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released Tuesday, UN says Malawi has received $25.6 million in contributions and pledges out of a total requirement of $45.2 million, putting the deficit at $19.6 million, roughly K14, 641 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cUnited Nations agencies, in collaboration with the Government of Malawi, have reached over 400,000 persons affected by the impact of Cyclone Idai. The flood-affected populations have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/ireland-pumps-k615m-in-malawi-floods-response\/\">received<\/a> immediate life-saving relief support including food, medicine, shelter, protection services and other non-food-items such as water, sanitation and hygiene supplies,\u201d t<\/em>he statement reads in part.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In early March 2019, heavy rains and floods, linked to the cyclone, killed 60 people, displaced 87,000 and affected over 870,000 others across the country.<\/p>\n<p>President Peter Mutharika declared Malawi a state in disaster on March 8 and launched Flood Response Plan and Appeal on March 28.<\/p>\n<p>The statement quotes UN Resident Coordinator, Maria Jose Torres, as saying UN and its partners triggered their support to the response after the floods hit the country.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe assisted the government to rapidly assess the immediate needs to inform the humanitarian response. Beyond addressing the immediate needs, we are also supporting the government to assess post-disaster recovery needs that will inform early to long term recovery interventions in the affected areas,\u201d<\/em> Over 91,000 households (over 410,000 people) have been provided with food or cash in nine districts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jameson Chauluka: The United Nations (UN) has said the deficit for the flood response plan budget has dropped to K14.6 billion from K18.9 billion in early April. In a statement released Tuesday, UN says Malawi has received $25.6 million in contributions and pledges out of a total requirement of $45.2 million, putting the deficit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77472,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77467\/revisions\/77472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}