The United Nations says donors have so far contributed close to 1.2 billion US dollars for humanitarian action in South Sudan.

This includes over 980 million dollars for projects in the South Sudan Crisis Response Plan.

The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says in order to enhance transparency of the flow of resources for humanitarian action in South Sudan and other emergencies around the world, the UN maintains an online system called the Financial Tracking Service.

UN OCHA says this public system tracks donations in real-time, specifying which organization has received resources for which projects.

The Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan, Toby Lanzer, says the Financial Tracking Service is one of the tools the UN uses to make sure that the aid operation is transparent and accountable to the people they are serving.

He says users of the Financial Tracking Service can download pre-prepared tables detailing donors and recipients of funds, create customized searches or focus on specific sectors or organizations.

They will also be able to compare financing flows between different crises across the globe.

Mr. Lanzer also said the UN agencies and non-governmental organizations will launch the planning for the year 2015 aid operation in South Sudan at the beginning of next month.

He said the planning is to take place in close collaboration with South Sudanese people and institutions and authorities at local, state and national levels in order to help inform the aid community’s response to the on-going crisis.