Ebola Update - Noon Briefing (16 December 2014)

United Nations - Ebola Update by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the United Nations Secretary-General at the Daily Noon Briefing at UN Headquarters in New York (16 December 2014).
(Update)
On Ebola, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) today announced that for the first time in Sierra Leone, hazard payments to Ebola Response Workers (ERWs) will be made using mobile money.
Sudipto Mukerjee, Country Director for UNDP in the country, stressed that one of the most difficult things about tackling the Ebola crisis had been to getting trained people to come and run centres.
In that context, the transition from direct cash to an electronic solution will help to improve overall efficiency, timeliness and security [of payments] for Ebola workers.
The current cycle of hazard payments are being made from December 15 to 19, and approximately 16,000 workers who are being paid by the Sierra Leonean National Ebola Response Centre, and 13,000 are targeted to receive their pay through mobile money.
And more information on this is available from UNDP’s own website.
Global Ebola Response Website