The 2011 Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP) for Somalia was launched on December 1st in Nairobi, Kenya, by aid agencies calling for US$530m to finance 229 projects by 15 UN agencies and 90 international and national non-governmental organisations that will address Somalia's most urgent humanitarian needs. Although significant, the sum represents an 11% drop compared with the total required in 2010, owing largely to an expected decrease in food assistance needs (which may now be revised), improved co-ordination structures and rigorous project vetting. At the time of the 2011 CAP launch, the 2010 CAP for Somalia was 69% funded, having received US$409m of the US$596m required. This made the Somalia appeal globally the second best funded in 2010, although US$179m of the 2010 funding was carried over from 2009.