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The UK provides assistance to conflict-affected people in Darfur through a variety of mechanisms, including support for the African Union/United Nations peacekeeping mission (UNAMID) and other peacebuilding and security programmes.Humanitarian programmes are targeted at both displaced and resident populations. We are the largest donor to the UN's Common Humanitarian Fund, with 30% of this fund spent on humanitarian assistance in Darfur. These contributions, along with our bilateral programme, have helped 87,000 IDPs return home in 2008, train and employ 800 teachers, open 64 health care facilities, and install 246 boreholes and 785 latrines.We also deliver humanitarian aid through NGOs such as Mediar, Tearfund, GOAL and RedR, who are providing health services for 540,000 people, as well as nutrition, water and sanitation programmes in Darfur and elsewhere. We contribute to the ICRC's work in Sudan which this year will spend approximately 70% on its humanitarian response in Darfur. Due to poor rains and increasing conflict we recently made an exceptional allocation to the UN World Food Programme's emergency operations which will provide food assistance for some 3 million people across Sudan, including Darfur.We are currently reviewing all our aid, including aid channelled through multilateral agencies to ensure it is as effective as possible and brings real benefit in terms of building peace and delivering assistance to those affected by conflict. |