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UN global aid appeal likely Wednesday

Staff Corresponded
The United Nations (UN) is likely to make a global appeal on Wednesday for assistance to 30 million flood-blightcd people for the next six months, while the government announced it would launch its own appeal later.
The World Food Programme (WFP) will not launch its global appeal for emergency food aid today and has pushed il back to later in the week for further incorporation of numerous assessment and planning decisions.
A four-member UN team, led by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative Jorgen Lissncr, forwarded the final draft on the UN global 'flash appeal' to the disaster management ministry for discussion.
Getting the green light from Food and Disaster Management Minister Kamal Ibne Yousuf, the UN is set to send the final draft to its Department of Humanitarian Affairs in Geneva for approval today, said Dilruba Haider, head of the UN disaster management and crisis prevention team.
The UN delegation also proposed a donor-government meeting on Sunday to iron out planning, coordination and funding issues once the appeal has been launched.
Yousuf told reporters that the draft is a fresh UN appeal to mobilise funds for six months to meet basic needs of flood victims.
The appeal will concentrate on funds largely for rebuilding infrastructure, with water and sanitation, shelter, income-generating activities and agricultural implements also on the list, a spokesperson for the UN said.
Although the government estimates that Bangladesh incurred 6.6 billion dollars in damage from the floods, the appeal seeks to undertake rehabilitation based upon the needs for only next six months.
The Economic Relations Division is sketching out preliminary assessments and plans for the government's own long-term appeal to major multilateral donors, such as the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, to develop infrastructure, the minister said.
WFP APPEAL DEFERRED
"We are in the final stages of completing the assessment for the emergency food appeal. It will take another two to three days to launch the appeal as we are likely to make some minor changes after discussing the details with the WFP headquarters," a spokesperson for the WFP told The Daily Star last night.
The WFP, the UN food aid agency, will work jointly with Unicefcoordinating the UN focus on nutrition for postflood rehabilitation. The Food and Agriculture Organisation will look after post-flood food relief under the Disaster Emergency Response Group, according to preliminary UN drafts.