Ms Jane-Ann McKenna:

Organisations on the ground are starting to see the impact. In particular, it has had an immediate impact on local organisations in terms of having to let go of staff. It has effectively closed programmes overnight because there were no cash reserves. There was no area where they could continue activities until they found other means of financing. A lot of reorganisation is taking place in international organisations and UN organisations in terms of what is feasible to be able to continue and the resources that need to be let go based on the realities of the lack of funding.