Commission pays an advance of €100 Million to Spain for post-DANA storm recovery

The role of Spanish NGOs in responding to the DANA emergency

On October 29, 2024, Spain was struck by a DANA (Isolated Depression at High Altitude), an extreme weather event that triggered torrential rains and devastating floods. The most affected regions were the Valencian Community, Murcia, Andalusia, and parts of the Mediterranean coast, where 227 people lost their lives, and thousands saw their homes and livelihoods severely damaged or destroyed. However, in addition to facing the devastation on the g…

The European Commission has disbursed to Spain an advance of 100 million euros from the European Solidarity Fund to cover expenses resulting from the floods caused by the DANA that last October left more than 200 dead in the east and south of the country, most of them in the Valencian Community. This pre-financing of 100 million is the maximum established by regulation, a figure that the Commission considered "appropriate" despite not having the…

Valencia, 1 Apr (EFEverde).- The Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar (CHJ) has awarded an emergency contract to monitor the quality of the continental waters and evaluate the condition of the extraordinary water avenues caused by the dana on 29 October in part of the territory of its demarcation. The action has a budget of 280,000 euros and will take samples of surface and underground water, as well as sediments, in various channels and ditches …

The Department of Agriculture, Water, Livestock and Fisheries will allocate more than 150 million euros to the recovery of the agri-food sector, deeply affected by the DANA flood, as well as its modernization in all the provinces of the territory, in order to improve its efficiency and the functioning and quality of the water networks of the region.The Valencian Community will increase its aid to boost innovation in business Specifically, 98.4 m…

Valencia CF, the Fundació VCF and Divina Seguros, official insurer of the Club, continue to work, within the solidarity initiative ‘UNITS COM SEMPRE’, on the revitalization of the sports activities of the children of the football clubs affected by the DANA last October 29. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video So more than a thousand children of these schools have been insu…