20. Asks the Commission to present a proposal for a revised regulation on rehabilitation and reconstruction in order to ensure rapid and flexible funding of such measures in the post-crisis phase, in its broadest sense, including security and good governance; feels that this revised regulation should contain flexible fast-track procedures for disbursement of funds and approval of projects and programmes that take into account the specific and difficult nature of reconstruction and rehabilitation projects and programmes; notes that these funds for rehabilitation and reconstruction should not be taken from the emergency aid budget alloca ...[+++]ted to ECHO; feels that funding from the reconstruction and rehabilitation line should be released through a trigger mechanism – that would come into operation once a crisis erupts – in order to ensure sufficient and rapid availability of funds;

20. Asks the Commission to present a proposal for a revised regulation on rehabilitation and reconstruction in order to ensure rapid and flexible funding of such measures in the post-crisis phase, in its broadest sense, including security and good governance; feels that this revised directive should contain flexible fast-track procedures for disbursement of funds and approval of projects and programmes that take into account the specific and difficult nature of reconstruction and rehabilitation projects and programmes; notes that these funds for rehabilitation and reconstruction should not be taken from the emergency aid budget allocat ...[+++]ed to ECHO; feels that funding from the reconstruction and rehabilitation line should be released through a trigger mechanism – that would come into operation once a crisis erupts – in order to ensure sufficient and rapid availability of funds;

The Commission is pursuing a twin-track approach. Firstly, the current level of humanitarian assistance to refugees will be maintained while they remain in Tanzania. Secondly, should the conditions be met for their repatriation – and we are pushing everybody concerned and some who do not think they should be concerned to make this happen – then the funds allocated by ECHO to the Tanzania programme will follow the refugees back home.

The objective should be that ECHO funding of operations carried out by the UN itself should focus on those activities where the UN either has a proven track record or effectively has a comparative advantage in providing a specific humanitarian service.

The objective should be that ECHO funding of operations carried out by the UN itself should focus on those activities where the UN either has a proven track record or effectively has a comparative advantage in providing a specific humanitarian service.

Relief: Camps for displaced people are still vital, and ECHO will support organisations that have a track record of evacuating sites and starting up afresh as necessary.