Commission plans EUR 1 million emergency response for flood victims in Bolivia

On the 5 March 2007, the European Commission launched an emergency decision for €1 million to help people and communities affected by the latest consequences of the El Niño phenomenon in Bolivia.

The worst problem, so far, has been flooding, with 350,000 people and eight of the country's nine departments affected. An emergency expert from the Commission's Humanitarian Aid department, ECHO, visited the affected region, assessing the basic needs of flood victims and liaising with relief agencies on rescue operations to be funded. The emergency funds would be channelled through ECHO under the responsibility of Louis Michel, the European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: El Niño - EU plans to step up funding in new approach to address global food crises http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-el-nino-eu-plans-to-step-up-funding-in-new-approach-to-address-global-food-crises/

ESO: Background information: Relations between Peru and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/relations-between-bolivia-and-the-european-union/

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