US embassy cable - 04ROME2125

UNCLAS ROME 002125 
 
SIPDIS 
 
 
FROM U.S. MISSION IN ROME 
LUANDA FOR USAID DIRECTOR HELLYER, DWYER 
USAID FOR AA/DCHA WINTER, DCHA/FFP LANDIS AND NOVICK 
STATE FOR PRM/MLANGE, IO/EDA KOTOK, AF/C AND AF/S 
USDA/FAS FOR CHAMBLISS 
GENEVA FOR USAID/KYLOH 
NSC FOR JDWORKEN 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EAID, EAGR, AORC, PREF, AO, WFP 
SUBJECT: POST-CONFLICT ANGOLA FUNDING SHORTFALLS 

REF: LUANDA 0493 
 
1. ON MAY 27, 2004, AT THE SECOND ANNUAL SESSION OF THE 
EXECUTIVE BOARD, MIKE SACKETT, WFP'S REGIONAL DIRECTOR 
FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA, CONFIRMED THAT PER REFTEL, AN 
INCREASINGLY SERIOUS FUNDING SHORTFALL IN ITS ANGOLA 
PIPELINE ARISES FROM THE LACK OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM 
DONORS. 
 
2. SACKETT ALSO REPORTED THAT, DESPITE HIS RECENT 
PERSONAL APPEAL TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF 
ANGOLA (GRA) OFFICIALS IN LUANDA AS WELL AS PAST GRA 
REPRESENTATIONS, MOST RECENTLY IN OCTOBER 2003, WHEN THE 
GRA PLEDGED $7.5 MILLION, THE GRA HAS NOT MADE ANY 
FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROTRACTED RELIEF AND 
RECOVERY OPERATION (PRRO), WHICH BEGAN IN APRIL 2004. 
 
3. NO DONOR CONTRIBUTIONS HAVE BEEN MADE SINCE APRIL 
2004.  THE "RETURN AND RESETTLEMENT" PRRO IS RESOURCED AT 
ABOUT $36 MILLION OF THE $253 PLANNED PROJECT SCOPE, OR 
LESS THAN 15% OF THE TOTAL, WITH MAJOR DONORS 
CONTRIBUTING AS FOLLOWS: 
 
-- USG, $25.4 MILLION; 
-- JAPAN, $3.7 MILLION; 
-- CANADA, $1.8 MILLION; 
-- GERMANY, $1.2 MILLION; AND 
-- NORWAY, $1 MILLION. 
 
OTHER DONORS ARE SWITZERLAND ($880 THOUSAND), FINLAND 
    ($730 THOUSAND), NETHERLANDS ($300 THOUSAND), IRELAND 
($77 THOUSAND) AND KOREA ($60 THOUSAND), BUT NEITHER THE 
UNITED KINGDOM NOR THE EUROPEAN UNION HAS CONTRIBUTED TO 
THIS PRRO. 
 
4. COMMENT: THE US MISSION CONSIDERS THAT WFP, OTHER UN 
AGENCIES, AND BILATERAL DONORS MUST MAINTAIN UNRELENTING 
PRESSURE ON THE GRA TO FULFILL ITS ANNOUNCED COMMITMENTS 
TO WFP'S HUMANITARIAN OPERATION IN ANGOLA.  BUT CLEARLY, 
THE GRA ALSO THIS YEAR CONTINUES TO REQUIRE GENEROUS 
INTERNATIONAL DONOR SUPPORT, PARTICULARLY IN ASSISTANCE 
EFFORTS AIMED AT RETURNEES AND RESETTLEMENT. 
REGRETTABLY, THE DWINDLING OF DONOR COMMITMENT MAY 
JEOPARDIZE POST-CONFLICT RECOVERY AND RESETTLEMENT.  HALL 
 
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 2004ROME02125 - Classification: UNCLASSIFIED