Overheads take up to 1/3 of tsunami funds
NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Up to about a third of the $590 million
U.N. fund spent for the Indian Ocean tsunami relief may have gone to
pay for overhead.
The Financial Times says its two-month investigation showed the money
appears to have been spent on administration, staff and related costs.
The $590 million was part of the United Nation's $1.1 billion disaster
flash appeal.
The newspaper also found several U.N. agencies continue to refuse to
disclose details of their relief expenditure in spite of earlier
pledges of transparency by senior officials.
The flash appeal covered the money donated by governments to the world
body in the first weeks after the disaster to fund the early aid work,
the Times reported.
The newspaper said details of that appeal it obtained from U.N.
agencies such as the World Health Organization and the World Food
Program showed 18 percent to 32 percent of the expenditure related to
staff, administration and other costs.
Some agencies say non-profit aid organizations should claim no more
than 10 percent of project funds for administration costs, the report
said.
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