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EU FUNDS
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External Assistance
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Humanitarian Aid
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Humanitarian Aid
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The European Commission Directorate-General for Humanitarian Aid (DG ECHO) is responsible for managing funds provided by the EU for humanitarian assistance to victims of conflicts or disasters (both natural and man-made) in countries outside the EU.
The purpose is to save and preserve life, reduce or prevent suffering in non-EU countries hit by humanitarian crises. DG ECHO is committed to providing this assistance solely on the basis of needs.
DG ECHO pays special attention to cross-cutting issues such as the link between emergency and development aid, disaster preparedness, HIV/AIDS and children. To make sure that DG ECHO's operations are driven by needs, DG ECHO's work programme is based on a global needs assessment (GNA) methodology. This provides a cross-country assessment comparing the situation across some 130 developing countries on the basis of nine humanitarian indicators:
| • Human development |
| • Human poverty |
| • Natural disaster risk |
| • Conflicts |
| • Refugees |
| • Internally displaced persons (IDPs) |
• Malnutrition |
| • Mortality |
| • Other donors' contributions |
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