31% out of the $791-M UN requested Yolanda fund filled

United Nations Secretary Ban Ki-Moon said on Sunday that already 31 percent of the total $791-million required funding for the Typhoon Yolanda [Haiyan]response are already filled, based on their Strategic Response Plan (SRP).

In a press conference hours before leaving the Philippines, the UN secretary general told reporters over the weekend that the $791 million “requested fund” is in the UN humanitarian community’s SRP where it is “closely aligned” to the government’s Reconstruction Assistance on Yolanda (RAY) plan drafted by the National Economic and Development Authority.