Macro-economy “emergency” support needed to avoid collapse

With the increased potential for a deterioration in the political and security situation, the humanitarian community in Burundi has shifted its focus to ensuring that emergency nutrition, health, water, education and other needs are adequately met, while promoting sustainable reintegration and recovery activities wherever possible, the UN appeal document said. Priority “life-saving” concerns in Burundi had been addressed, but “sustainable success will depend on donors’ willingness to make longer-term, more fundamental commitments to Burundi’s future”, it said. Support to macro-economic stability should be viewed as emergency aid “to avoid total collapse of the economy and the national administration”.