Photo: Mateusz Buczek/OCHA CAP launch
NAIROBI, 28 June 2010 (IRIN) - The aid world is an acronym jungle. Sometimes there are simply not enough good ones to go around, so they get used twice.
One of those is "CAP".
About 40%, some EUR55 billion (about US$76.5 billion in 2009 prices), of the EC's annual budget is spent on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), a complex system of subsidy and support to farming in the bloc.
Meanwhile, appeals for some of the worst crises in the world are collated in what is known as a Consolidated Appeals Process (also, the CAP). These appeals cover the needs of some, but not all, of the world's most severe emergencies. This CAP raised some US$6.9 billion of an overall US$11.1 billion in humanitarian funding in 2009. Both figures are according to the Financial Tracking System of UN OCHA.
The top five member state recipients of the EC's CAP (using a 2009 average of $1 = EUR 0.719) were allocated some US$49 billion in 2009. These figures are freshly released in June 2010 by farmsubsidy.org, a non-profit group run by a network of European journalists, researchers and activists.
They donated about US$588 million. This, mathematically, is equivalent to just over one percent of their CAP receipts.
| Receipts from the EC CAP | Donations to the Consolidated Appeals | Percent | |
| France | 15,288,095,751 | 33,719,769 | 0.2% |
| Germany | 10,430,889,552 | 119,322,549 | 1.1% |
| Spain | 10,352,522,462 | 104,598,528 | 1.0% |
| Italy | 8,130,416,900 | 33,935,578 | 0.4% |
| UK | 5,155,201,160 | 296,318,489 | 5.7% |
| Sources: OCHA FTS, www.farmsubsidy.org |
[ Note: Member state contributions through the European Commission's humanitarian funding department, ECHO, are not included.
Other bilateral and multilateral and non-governmental humanitarian funds not through the CAP system are also not included. ]
bp
0 comments:
Post a Comment