15-RR-MWI-1347115-RR-MWI-13471_Malawi_Jan2015_ApplicationAfricaMalawiEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRFloodBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20152015-01-30T00:00:002015-01-30T00:00:002015-02-12T00:00:002015-02-19T00:00:007950587.006961397000000000In early January 2015, heavy rainstorms and floods hit 15 out of the 28 districts in Malawi and consequently the President declared a State of Disaster. Preliminary reportsby by Government and humanitarian partners estimate of 638,000 people are affected overall, and at least 174,000 people (numbers still being verified) have been displaced in the 3 worst hit districts (Phalombe, Nsanje and Chikwawa). Howver, access and transporation of relief items is a challenge.
CERF-funded interventions will be complementary to other actions already in place but insufficient to respond adequately and timely to the critical needs in the affected areas. The priorities for the flood response are:
The logistics cluster response is focuses on providing life-saving Humanitarian Aviation Services, CERF supported component of WFP project will reinforce the floods response by the provision of one (1) heavy duty helicopter for the transport of cargo and passengers for a period of 21 days under this funding to support the overall humanitarian response; fleet of specialized light and all terrain trucks for places hard to reach places. WFP will also support through provision of temporary storage facilities
The shelter and camp management cluster intervention aims at ensuring protection and a minimum of living conditions standards to the displaced population. The response includes technical support for CCCM, systematic and comprehensive data collection and registration of displaced communities; and provision of life-saving NFIs and establishment of emergency shelters in relocation sites.
The food security cluster response will food assistance to 270,281 flood-affected people in the first 3 months of the 6.5 month response period. This response is closely coordinated with the emergency agriculture intervention, focused on restoring the food production capacity of the most affected farming households, through agricultural input and livestock distribution for replanting by taking advantage of the remaining period of the rainy season as well as residual moisture. CERF funds will be funding the 6.3% of the overall agriculture cluster response. It will assist 16,000 vulnerable households with about 88,000 direct beneficiaries (50,000 women and 38,000 men) in the three most affected districts of Nsanje, Phalombe and Chikwawa.
The WASH cluster intervention will benefit a total of 25,000 flood affected target population, with the provision of water, sanitation and hygiene services from the CERF-funded emergency Intervention. The 25 camps are selected based on the severity of the disaster that affected the three districts in Chikwawa, Nsanje and Phalombe. The key outputs include provision of safe water services through water treatment and reticulated water systems. Temporary sanitation facilities will be constructed to ensure the affected population has access to gender segregated and gender-responsive latrine facilities.
The education cluster intervention aims at restoring and providing safe educational and recreational activities for children. The cluster will facilitate temporary learning to create safe protective spaces and resumption of school feeding to reduce hunger and increase participation and protection will be provided to 28,879 flood-affected learners through the provision of 689 school in box kits and 127 metric tons of food to 33 affected schools.
The original submission for 8 projects is almost US 8 million.15-RR-MWI-13471-NR01EnglishFabrizio Cesaretti2015-11-12T00:00:002016-08-17T00:00:002015-02-11T00:00:0015-RR-YEM-1580915-RR-YEM-15809_Yemen_Jul2015_ApplicationAsiaYemenWestern AsiaWestern AsiaRRPost-conflict NeedsConflict-relatedMan-made20152015-07-20T00:00:002015-07-20T00:00:002015-09-15T00:00:002015-09-16T00:00:003392792.002592511000000000Even before the escalation of conflict in March 2015, Yemen faced one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises. The current conflict has affected most of the country, leaving 21.1 million people – 80 per cent of the population – in need of some form of humanitarian assistance. The fighting led to the evacuation of all UN and INGO international staff in March 2015 and whilst 110 international UN staff have returned to Sana’a, there is an urgent need, in line with the L3 activation, to increase international UN and INGO staff presence across the country. Funding is needed to facilitate the rapid establishment of security prerequisites and operational necessities for international staff to operate in areas of most humanitarian need. Area hubs have been identified for the UN and INGO to establish presence across the country. The CERF funds will directly benefit 1056 UN humanitarian workers and the staff of 34 NGOs working from these area hubs. The hubs will enable the serving of 11,442,573 beneficiaries in Aden, Hudaydah, Sa’ada, Sana’a, and Taizz, and the funding will focus on the establishment of emergency telecommunications and data sharing and the provision of adequate security and safety measures for the humanitarian community.15-RR-YEM-15809-NR04Jamie McGoldrick#Jamie McGoldrickEnglishJulia Wittig2016-08-01T00:00:002016-09-04T00:00:002016-10-07T00:00:002016-12-22T00:00:00Fully2015-09-10T00:00:0015-RR-TZA-1737915-RR-TZA-17379_Tanzania_Oct2015_ApplicationAfricaUnited Republic of TanzaniaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRCholeraBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20152015-10-22T00:00:002015-10-22T00:00:002015-11-05T00:00:002015-11-10T00:00:001500314.0015003141036323107862421149478120538449561657009184837619235803771956In Tanzania, an outbreak of cholera, which began in Dar Es Salaam in late August 2015, has spread to 12 of the 28 regions of Tanzania, putting 32.7 million people at risk. Some 6,208 cases and 83 deaths had been recorded as of 29 October 2015. Over 75% of the cases were reported from Dar es Salaam. The case fatality rate of 1.5% is considered high by WHO standards, although underreporting may partially explain the high rate.
The current outbreak is different from previous ones in its vast geographical spread within a short period of time. The last major outbreak in 2010 had 1,997 reported cases but this was limited to Tanga and Dar es Salaam regions. The current situation has not yet stabilized. The rapid spread of the outbreaks across the past four weeks has fuelled fear that the situation could get substantially worse if the epidemic is not controlled before the start of the rainy season in late October. The concentration of cases in Dar es Salaam, the main commercial city of Tanzania, conjugated with a very mobile population across the country, further enhances this risk.
To respond, aid agencies require some $6 million, including $4 million for UNICEF and WHO. This application incldues one joint health project by the two agencies.15-RR-TZA-17379-NR02alvaro.rodriguez@undp.org#Alvaro RodriguezEnglishDavid Hartstone2016-08-05T00:00:002016-10-26T00:00:00Fully2015-11-05T00:00:0015-RR-NGA-1786815-RR-NGA-17868_Nigeria_Dec2015_ApplicationAfricaNigeriaWestern AfricaWestern AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20152015-12-03T00:00:002015-12-03T00:00:002016-02-29T00:00:002016-03-02T00:00:009930000.009854146172998214816387814183906337886521792356904552702909606On 3 December the RC/HC of Nigeria submitted an application to the CERF’s rapid response window in response to needs resultant from the regional Lake Chad basin crisis/Boko Haram related crisis.
The ongoing armed conflict in North-East (NE) has directly affected 14.8 million people, of whom 7.4 million are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. While the armed conflict has directly affected four NE states - Borno, Adamawa, Yobe and Gombe - Borno State has been disproportionately affected and is the epicentre of military operations and displacement of civilians. The current humanitarian response is covering all the four directly affected states of Borno, Adamawa, Yobe and Gombe.
The Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) has shown reasonably steady growth in the numbers of Internally Displaced People (IDPs), from fewer than 400,000 in December 2014 to over 2 million in the last quarter of 2015.
In Borno State alone there are 1.6 million IDPs, the majority of whom are in the capital city, Maiduguri. While the majority of the IDPs are living in host communities, 118,400 IDPs in Borno live in 24 camps. Eight of the IDP camps in Maiduguri City, the capital of Borno State, are occupying schools.
The submission focused on supporting the process of relocating IDPs out of schools to five new sites as the new sites require massive preparation of shelter, WASH, and health facilities. Decongestion of camps and further enhancement of the shelter and WASH facilities is a priority in camps which will be maintained in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states.Some good explanations of beneficiary counts (nutrition, WASH and child protection) - in case examples needed in future. Z - Not in use - IDP, Z - Not in use - Protection, Z - Not in use - Malnutrition, Food Security Boko Haram crisis 2014-15-RR-NGA-17868-NR03omuga@un.org#Vincent OmugaEnglishJulia Wittig2016-06-14T00:00:002016-08-09T00:00:002016-11-29T00:00:002016-12-19T00:00:002017-07-18T00:00:00Fully2016-02-25T00:00:0016-RR-GTM-18429Guatemala RR Application, Jan 2016 (El Nino)AmericasGuatemalaLatin America and the CaribbeanCentral AmericaRRDroughtMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20162016-01-19T00:00:002016-01-19T00:00:002016-02-04T00:00:002016-02-09T00:00:004849930.00482969021808232954510350887523681032557269575663148358The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has declared the current El Niño effect in Guatemala to be one of the worst in the last few decades. Its impact has been felt most strongly in the northern zone of Central America. In Guatemala, the dry corridor of Eastern and Central Guatemala has had up to 65 days without rain between late June and September which is abnormal. According to reports from the Ministry of Agriculture, losses were documented in both, “primera” (from May to August) and “postrera” (from August to November) harvests. Accumulated losses of harvest from last year, significantly exacerbated this situation leaving affected families with no food reserves since May. Around 175,387 families reported 75 to100 per cent losses of their maize and beans harvests along the dry corridor.
As a result of the accumulated impact of the dry spell in 2014, these affected families have been without food reserves since May this year. Joint EFSA-type, emergency assessments carried out by MAGA, SESAN, WFP and FAO in September, have identified as many as 248,000 families in need of humanitarian assistance. The states with the highest levels of food insecurity are located in Eastern Guatemala: Santa Rosa, Jutiapa, El Progreso, Zacapa, Jalapa, and Chiquimula and some others in Central and Western: Baja Verapaz, Totonicapan, and Huehuetenango. FEWSNET indicates that around 75 municipalities from these States are in IPC phase 3 (Crisis), while around 33 are in Phase 2 (stress). The prolonged food insecurity and lack of food reserves has furthermore had a negative impact causing higher than usual prevalence of acute malnutrition in children under 5.
The humanitarian team aims to deliver a timely, effective and life-saving response in three of the worst affected states of Baja Verapaz, Chiquimula and Jutiapa. Food security (WFP) aims to provide immediate food support to a target 23,000 families (115,000 beneficiaries) while nutrition will treat 6,000 children (UNICEF) and health (PAHO/WHO) will support nutrition efforts. Primary and priority targets for life-saving CERF activities are those families with no food reserves, at least one case of acute severe malnutrition (in children and/or pregnant/lactating women), households headed by widows or single mothers, and families affected by critical health problems (diarrhea, ARIs, and/or chikungunya). This CERF request is for a five-month response, for $4.85 million. El Nino 2015-201616-RR-GTM-18429-NR03EnglishMirna Loiferman2016-05-18T00:00:002016-07-13T00:00:002016-11-04T00:00:002017-06-07T00:00:00MostlyWHO achieved 4.5x times more beneficiaries than planned, reasoning behind the estimated number is not clear2016-02-02T00:00:0016-RR-AGO-18644Angola RR Application, Feb2016 (El Nino)AfricaAngolaMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaRRDroughtMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20162016-02-11T00:00:002016-02-11T00:00:002016-03-01T23:49:34.82016-03-04T00:00:006683718.00498938610236710654820891565093330629395722167460437177604637The Angola humanitarian team is responding to the persisting impact of the El Niño phenomenon. This is the fourth year with reduced rainfall. This has resulted in about 800,000 people being food insecure compared to over 500,000 people in 2014, based on FAO assessment in December 2015. Agricultural production loss is estimated at over 52,000MT valued at over 10.4 billion kwanzas ($72 million). There is also a reported loss of livestock (360,000 animals) valued at 36 million kwanzas, further exacerbating poverty and the economic status of families. The undernutrition situation is much worse with doubling undernutrition rates of SAM cases (95,877 in total in the 7 provinces); and 45,411 harboured in the municipalities of the 3 border provinces when compared to June 2015.
The food situation has become dire, and 63 per cent of the affected areas are in Cunene, Huila and Namibe provinces, where production losses of cereals and legumes have been nearly 90 per cent. The food and nutrition situation is becoming critical in the Namibe and Cunene Provinces where the population is heterogeneous but their livelihood is based mainly on fishing, cattle rearing and subsistence agriculture. Given to the poor access to safe water, the affected population have agriculture camps spread and desolated without any production capable to sustain the families until the next rainy season. The lack of rains and crop production are exacerbating migratory movements of communities, looking for better conditions for their families and animals around operational water points. All these are happening against the backdrop of an impeding economic depression due to the oil shock from rapidly falling oil prices and income to the government.
The government prompted by the office of the Vice President set up an interagency commission who have assessed the situation. This has been complemented by other mission assessments by FAO and the MOH-DNSP respectively confirming the seriousness or acuteness of the situation in the last quarter of 2015.
The focus of the humanitarian response is the 3 worst affected provinces. The CERF proposal will assist funding in the Food, Nutrition, Health and WASH sectors. FAO will provide seeds and inputs such as hand tools and other resources to the 50,000 vulnerable people. UNICEF and WHO will address the impact of acute malnutrition: UNICEF through treatment through therapeutic foods and WHO for treatment for those children and at risk pregnant and lactating women who are suffering complications. WASH will address access to water through rehabilitation of boreholes. The CERF contribution is $5 million for 5 to 6 months of an initial response. El Nino 2015-201616-RR-AGO-18644-NR01P. Paolo Balladelli#P. Paolo BalladelliEnglishDavid Hartstone2016-06-14T00:00:002016-08-09T00:00:002016-12-30T00:00:002017-06-21T00:00:00Partly2016-02-26T00:00:0016-UF-TZA-18470Tanzania UFE Application, Feb 2016 (Burundi crisis)AfricaUnited Republic of TanzaniaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-02-12T00:00:002016-02-12T00:00:002016-04-05T16:23:33.8772016-04-06T00:00:0011000000.001099466469965683741383395542152342107763125386120716246102The civil unrest in Burundi has led to an outflow of over 230,000 refugees since April 2015 with more than 124,000 refugees arriving in Tanzania. The current average is about 1,500 arrivals per week. The goal of UN agencies’ projects for CERF is to ensure continuation of the provision of basic humanitarian response, establish water supply in new camp locations, continue food distribution, distribute fuel efficient stoves, strengthen SGBV prevention and consular capacity, and ensure safe transport and settlement of refugees in camps. UN agencies are targeting 120,000 beneficiaries in four refugee sites.The UN Country Team requires $183 million for humanitarian action in Tanzania in 2016. According to FTS, no humanitarian has been received for Tanzania in 2016, as of 2 March 2016. The CERF allocation from the underfunded emergencies window will amount to about $11 million for 12 projects, if approved.
Tanzania Underfunded Emergencies application
Total envelope: $11 million (Round I allocation: $100 million for 9 countries)
Application received: 12 February 2016
Number of projects submitted: 12 Z - Not in use - Application - Refugee Burundi political crisis 2015-202016-UF-TZA-18470-NR03mona.folkesson@one.un.org#Mona FolkessonEnglishFabrizio Cesaretti2016-10-17T00:00:002016-12-08T00:00:002017-03-31T00:00:002017-10-12T00:00:002016-03-30T00:00:0016-UF-UGA-18474Uganda UFE Application, Jan2016 (DRC and South Sudanese refugees)AfricaUgandaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-02-12T00:00:002016-02-12T00:00:002016-03-22T15:44:12.7232016-03-22T00:00:0018000000.0018000027259251270369529620171029193855364884430280464224894504Uganda is host to over half a million refugees, with the largest groups coming from South Sudan, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In 2015 alone, Uganda received over 112,000 new refugees. Current risk analyses suggest these influxes will continue in 2016, further emphasizing the emergency nature of the refugee response in Uganda. Worst-case scenario planning in 2016 accounts for an influx greater than half of the existing refugee population in Uganda. Inter-agency response plans (RRPs) and contingency plans have been put in place to receive as many as 300,000 new refugees in 2016 in these worst-case situations. Refugees from South Sudan and DRC constitute the most underfunded and most severe humanitarian emergency in Uganda, and the CERF grant has been prioritized to focus on life-saving initiatives for these at-risk populations. The refugee management policy in Uganda is characterised by a non-camp, settlement approach. Refugees are not settled in camps but in village-like settings where they receive small plots for agricultural cultivation, enjoying the right to work and freedom of movement granted under the Ugandan Government’s 2006 Refugee Act and 2010 Refugee Regulations. Within this refugee management context, the CERF allocation will be prioritised for the immediate life-saving needs of its South Sudanese and Congolese refugee populations in the following sectors: 1) Protection (including registration of new arrivals/child protection/SGBV); 2) Food Security; 3) Shelter, Site Preparation, and NFIs; 4) Health & Nutrition; 5) WASH, and 6) Emergency Agricultural Livelihoods.Humanitarian UN agencies in Uganda reported to the CERF secretariat that they require about $343 million for humanitarian action in 2016. Funding requirements for Uganda in the 2016 South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan are $164 million, and $22 million in the Burundi Regional Refugee Response Plan (these numbers overlap with the UN figure of $343 million). According to FTS, aid agencies in Uganda had received only $5.8 million in humanitarian funding as of 29 February 2016.
Uganda Underfunded Emergencies country envelope: $18 million (Round I allocation: $100 million for 9 countries)
Application received: 12 February 2016
Number of projects submitted: 8 Z - Not in use - Application - Refugee South Sudan crisis 2013-16-UF-UGA-18474-NR03nasiib.kaleebu@one.un.org#Nasiib KaleebuEnglishJulia Wittig2016-10-17T00:00:002016-12-01T00:00:002017-03-31T00:00:002017-12-22T00:00:00Fully2016-03-17T00:00:0016-UF-PRK-18469DPRK UFE Application, Jan 2016 (Protracted Crisis)AsiaDemocratic People's Republic of KoreaEastern AsiaEastern AsiaUFMultiple EmergenciesInternal strifeMultiple20162016-02-15T00:00:002016-02-15T00:00:002016-03-08T18:29:35.9232016-03-10T00:00:008000000.008000692823220824780164800011502830974542477393824811345252072773The goal of UN agencies’ projects for CERF is to reduce maternal and under-five child mortality and morbidity through critical and life-saving interventions in food security, nutrition and maternal and child health. UN agencies are targeting 2,077,249 beneficiaries, including 1.7 million under-five children, and 260,000 pregnant and lactating women in 11 provinces.The UN Country Team requires about $111 million for humanitarian action in DPRK in 2016 (based on 2015 figures since the 2016 ‘Needs and Priorities’ document has yet to be published). The CERF allocation from the underfunded emergencies window will amount to about $8 million for 6 projects, if approved.
DPRK Underfunded Emergencies application total envelope: $8 million (Round I allocation: $100 million for 9 countries)
Application received: 15 February 2016
Number of projects submitted: 616-UF-PRK-18469-NR02Throne-Holst@un.org#Marina Throne-HolstEnglishdorjee2@un.org2016-10-18T00:00:002016-12-16T00:00:002017-03-31T00:00:002017-11-10T00:00:00Fully2016-03-05T00:00:0016-UF-KEN-18491Kenya UFE Application, Jan 2016 (South Sudanese refugees)AfricaKenyaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-02-15T00:00:002016-02-15T00:00:002016-03-22T15:45:04.5032016-03-28T00:00:004000000.0039987468549881038166536386314865387284124129129691253820In addition to 45,000 South Sudan refugees already present, 48,000 South Sudan refugees have arrived in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya since December 2013 because of inter-ethnic clashes in South Sudan. Nine-thousand new arrivals are anticipated in 2016 of which 60 per cent are expected to be women and children. Kakuma hosts over 184,000 refugees (South Sudanese and others) and the influx has put a strain on aid services. The goal of UN agencies’ projects for CERF is to ensure that health care, nutrition, HIV/AIDS support, maternal and childcare, sanitation and food activities are provided to the refugees. UN agencies are targeting 102,000 beneficiaries in Kakuma refugee camp.The 2016 South Sudan RRRP lists requirements of $48 million for South Sudanese refugees in Kenya. The CERF allocation from the underfunded emergencies window will amount to about $4 million for 6 projects, if approved. Kenya Underfunded Emergencies application Total envelope: $4 million (Round I allocation: $100 million for 9 countries) Application received: 15 February 2016 Number of projects submitted: 6 Z - Not in use - Application - Refugee South Sudan crisis 2013-16-UF-KEN-18491-NR02lenanyokie@un.org#Julius Lesoina LenanyokieEnglishdorjee2@un.org2016-10-20T00:00:002016-12-06T00:00:002017-03-31T00:00:002017-04-10T00:00:002017-11-29T00:00:00Partly2016-03-16T00:00:0016-UF-SDN-18490Sudan UFE Application, Jan 2016 (South Sudanese refugees)AfricaRepublic of the SudanNorthern AfricaNorthern AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-02-15T00:00:002016-02-15T00:00:002016-03-17T16:05:50.052016-03-22T00:00:007000000.00699142529813305186033199051919329098397184971189429The political conflict that erupted in South Sudan on 15 December 2013 displaced thousands of civilians in South Sudan and continues to cause an outflow of refugees into neighbouring countries, including Sudan. Sudan continued to face a steady influx of South Sudanese refugees throughout 2015. By the end of December 2015, nearly 195,000 South Sudanese had sought safety in Sudan, fleeing violence and insecurity in their home country. With some 109,000 new arrivals recorded between January and December 2015, Sudan was the country that received the largest influx of South Sudanese refugees in the region.
With CERF funding, aid agencies will respond to the most pressing needs of South Sudanese refugees in Sudan, which includes the development of new sites with basic services to ease overcrowding and raise provision of life-saving services to emergency thresholds within the existing sites in the areas of health, education, nutrition, and protection.
The establishment of the sites will require basic semi-permanent infrastructure, backfilling, construction of drainage and an internal road to facilitate access within. Solar lighting will be installed to enhance protection. Once completed, refugees will be transported to the new sites from those identified as being the most overcrowded.
The existing services in current sites will be expanded to ensure there are no breaks in service provision in health, nutrition and protection, as well as additional support to the education sector that struggles to provide appropriate services to the high number of children in the sites.The South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan requires $141 million for South Sudanese refugees in Sudan in 2016. Funding for the South Sudan RRRP is not yet recorded on FTS.
Sudan Underfunded Emergencies allocation
Country envelope: $7 million (Round I allocation: $100 million for 9 countries)
Application received: 15 February 2016
Number of projects submitted: 5 Z - Not in use - Application - Refugee South Sudan crisis 2013-16-UF-SDN-18490-NR06merghani@un.org#Randa MerghaniEnglishdorjee2@un.org2016-10-20T00:00:002016-12-05T00:00:002017-03-31T00:00:002017-12-28T00:00:00Fully2016-03-11T00:00:0016-UF-BDI-18467Burundi UFE Application, Jan 2016 (Political Crisis)AfricaBurundiEastern AfricaEastern AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-02-15T00:00:002016-02-15T00:00:002016-04-05T16:38:54.8172016-04-06T00:00:0013000000.0012985955158184155208313392158883186494345377317067341702658769Humanitarian agencies are scaling up efforts to reinforce protection and ensure access to basic services to people in need, in a highly vulnerable context. Violence and fear emanating from the political crisis are on the increase. At least 439 people have been killed and nearly 265,000 displaced people since April 2015, and access to essential services has deteriorated. Continued heavy rains are causing localized floods and landslides, leaving at least 52 people dead and 5,068 households displaced, whose houses have been damaged or destroyed between November 2015 and January 2016. These two drivers are exacerbating an already dire situation of many vulnerable Burundians. With this CERF grant and through multi-sector interventions in Burundi’s six most affected provinces, humanitarian agencies aim to help avert acute vulnerabilities caused by the political crisis in the country since April 2015, as well as localized flooding.Humanitarian UN agencies in Burundi reported to the CERF secretariat that they require about $111 million for humanitarian action in 2016. Funding requirements for Burundi in the recently published 2016 HRP, which focuses only on new needs related to the political crisis and floods, are $62 million. According to FTS, no funding has been received for the HRP as of 11 March 2016, and $1.9 million in funding has been received outside of the HRP.
Burundi Underfunded Emergencies Application
Country envelope: $13 million (Round I allocation: $100 million for 9 countries)
Application received: 15 February 2016
Number of projects submitted: 12 Z - Not in use - IDP Burundi political crisis 2015-202016-UF-BDI-18467-NR02Hanane Babikir#Hanane BabikirEnglishJulia Wittig2016-10-18T00:00:002016-12-08T00:00:002017-03-31T00:00:002017-07-17T00:00:002017-10-17T00:00:00Mostlyyes, very good explanation per sector and across. Very convincing. Probably rather conservative estimates.2016-03-31T00:00:0016-UF-ETH-18468Ethiopia UFE Application, Jan 2016 (South Sudanese refugees)AfricaEthiopiaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-02-15T00:00:002016-02-16T00:00:002016-03-30T22:43:58.722016-03-29T00:00:0011000000.0010991119101647948701965174743594781142216149082189651338733Over 730,000 refugees of 19 different nationalities are currently hosted in Ethiopia, making it the largest refugee-hosting country in Africa. The South Sudanese represent the largest refugee community in Ethiopia. As of 15 January 2016, Ethiopia hosts 281,471 refugees from South Sudan, the vast majority of whom are hosted in six refugee camps in the Gambella region. Out of this, 226,638 arrived in Ethiopia as a result of the December 2013 events in South Sudan and its aftermath, and 55,059 had fled to Ethiopia prior to the current crisis. Of the new arrivals, about 33,000 are living with host communities. The goal of UN agencies’ CERF projects is to conduct registration of new arrivals, relocation from entry point to the camps, distribution of food items, provision of primary health care and nutrition services, improvement of WASH facilities, provision of core relief (non-food) items and soap, and shelter. UN agencies are targeting nearly 214,000 beneficiaries in Gambella and Benishangul Gumuz Regional States.The Ethiopia component of the 2016 South Sudan RRP amounts to $284 million. The CERF allocation from the underfunded emergencies window will amount to about $11 million for 4 projects, if approved. Ethiopia Underfunded Emergencies application Total envelope: $11 million (Round I allocation: $100 million for 9 countries) Application received: 16 February 2016 Number of projects submitted: 4 Z - Not in use - Application - Refugee South Sudan crisis 2013-16-UF-ETH-18468-NR05Arefaines@un.org#Senait ArefaineEnglishFabrizio Cesaretti2016-10-18T00:00:002016-12-05T00:00:002017-03-31T00:00:002017-11-07T00:00:002016-03-23T00:00:0016-UF-MLI-18527Mali UFE Application, Jan 2016 (Conflict and Food Insecurity)AfricaMaliWestern AfricaWestern AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-02-16T00:00:002016-02-16T00:00:002016-03-29T17:19:54.9872016-03-30T00:00:0016000000.00159999803598033362166960193254021891395145416852055253551210560People in Mali continue to suffer from the consequences of conflict, food insecurity and malnutrition. Some 2.5 million people are in need of assistance, 1.9 million are food insecure, 2.2 million need health services and 840,000 water and sanitation services. More than 700,000 children under age 5 suffer from acute malnutrition. As of October 2015, there were 62,000 IDPs and 139,000 Malian refugees in neighbouring countries.
The strategy that the Humanitarian Country Team developed to implement this CERF grant of $16 million from the Fund’s window for underfunded emergencies focuses on the north of the country and has two main objectives: The first objective is to respond to the food security and nutrition crisis by preventing and treating malnutrition, providing food aid to 26,000 people during the lean season, and helping 90,000 people restart agricultural activities. The second objective is to respond to urgent needs in several key sectors in the north. This includes providing water and sanitation services to 45,000 people, shelter and non-food items to 8,000 people, improve access to education for 63,000 children and access to health care for 200,000 people, to conduct mine action and to strengthen protection monitoring and child protection. About $8 million will be used for each of the two objectives.The 2016 Mali Humanitarian Response Plan requires about $354 million to provide assistance to some 1 million people in need. According to FTS, the Mali HRP had received $19.3 million in humanitarian funding as of 18 March 2016.
Mali Underfunded Emergencies Application
Country envelope: $16 million (Round I allocation: $100 million for 9 countries)
Application received: 16 February 2016
Number of projects submitted: 1816-UF-MLI-18527-NR01FrenchJulia Wittig2016-10-25T00:00:002016-12-06T00:00:002017-03-31T00:00:002017-10-17T00:00:00Fully2016-03-23T00:00:0016-UF-LBY-18497Libya UFE Application, Jan 2016 (Conflict)AfricaLibyaNorthern AfricaNorthern AfricaUFHuman RightsConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-02-19T00:00:002016-02-19T00:00:002016-04-05T16:26:05.542016-04-04T00:00:0012000000.00119890243146172936876083044540414312398852807686587249261493584There are an estimated 435,000 IDPs in Libya, the vast majority of which have been displaced since the escalation of conflict since mid-2014. The level of displacement has increased almost seven-fold since April 2014, with displacement patterns revealing both cross-regional displacement (populations fleeing from one side of the country to another) and localized displacement, with populations fleeing within their own provinces, particularly in the northwest. An estimated 269,000 IDPs are located in the country’s western region, which includes 120,000 IDPs who fled fighting in the Warshefana suburb southwest of Tripoli in August 2014 and Tobruk, Ajdabiya and Al Bayda. The goal of UN agencies’ projects for CERF is to improve access to health services and essential medicines; respond to protection needs of affected populations; provide household food availability and protecting people from malnutrition risks; provide minimum shelter assistance and essential NFIs; provide safe drinking water and basic sanitation services; improve access to essential services; and providing direct support and protection to meet the humanitarian needs of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. UN agencies are targeting 350,000 people in Benghazi, Tripoli, Sabha, Al Jabel Al Gharbi.In 2016, Libya will have an HRP, with overall requirements of $166 million, including $138 million for UN agencies. As of 14 March, $4.4 million in funding for the HRP had been recorded on FTS. The CERF allocation from the underfunded emergencies window will amount to about $12 million for 12 projects, if approved.
Libya Underfunded Emergencies Application
Country envelope: $12 million (Round I allocation: $100 million for 9 countries)
Application received: 19 February 2016
Number of projects submitted: 12 Z - Not in use - IDP16-UF-LBY-18497-NR01gehac@un.org#Carlos GEHAEnglishJulia Wittig2016-10-20T00:00:002016-12-05T00:00:002017-03-31T00:00:002017-10-18T00:00:00Fully2016-03-31T00:00:0016-RR-LAO-18817Lao PDR RR Application, Feb 2016 (Locusts)AsiaLao People's Democratic RepublicSouth-Eastern AsiaSouth-Eastern AsiaRRInsect infestationBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20162016-02-23T00:00:002016-02-23T00:00:002016-03-01T17:33:29.5072016-03-07T00:00:00385521.0032881112200117402394050400516601020606260063400126000Twelve districts in north-east of Lao PDR are poised to suffer a very serious locust attack against crops in April–June 2016, with seven of those districts most at risk. 78,823 people are considered affected. In response, FAO aims to safeguard the food security and livelihoods of 75,000 people in rural communities in the areas of Lao PDR affected by the outbreak of the Yellow-Spined Bamboo Locust by ensuring food and crop losses to locusts are effectively reduced through control operations against the locust hopper bands.16-RR-LAO-18817-NR01EnglishFabrizio Cesaretti2016-06-14T00:00:002016-08-10T00:00:002016-12-01T17:33:29.5072017-05-10T00:00:00Fully2016-03-01T00:00:0016-RR-MNG-18890Mongolia RR Application, Mar 2016 (Dzud)AsiaMongoliaEastern AsiaEastern AsiaRRHeat/Cold WaveMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20162016-03-01T00:00:002016-03-01T00:00:002016-03-18T16:33:26.082016-03-16T00:00:002525853.0024429743655359972545692100971578993471369623043Around 60 per cent of Mongolia, or 211 out of the 339 districts, is in dzud or near-dzud condition since December 2015. Dzud is a cyclical slow onset disaster unique to Mongolia. It consists of a summer drought followed by a deterioration of the weather conditions in winter (10 to 350 cm snow thickness, temperatures -40° C to -50° C) and spring during which shortage of pasture and water leads to large scale deaths of animals. Although primarily affecting livestock exposed to extreme winter conditions, dzud events should not be seen as simply winter emergencies or livestock famines; they have profound and far-reaching impacts on Mongolian pastoral herder sector which depends on this vital sector for food and income.
The CERF grant will provide the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) with the necessary funds to address the most urgent survival and livelihood needs of 4,390 vulnerable herder households in dzud conditions in most-affected provinces. CERF grants will contribute to ensuring that most vulnerable households can survive the winter and are protected from extreme livelihoods collapse; and thus help to avert a larger humanitarian crisis.
CERF funding will be used to provide targeted support at household level that complements the Government’s response activities which currently focuses on infrastructure and social services. The Protection and the Nutrition sector (which includes a food component) will deliver a package of basic relief items designed to ensure the survival of the most vulnerable herders. The agriculture component aims to minimize additional loss of lives and damage to social and economic assets helping to ensure the survival of the most vulnerable herders and their families who are almost totally dependent on livestock for livelihoods. This will be followed by a cash intervention which will ensure that low income households can buy additional food staple, warm clothes, heating and cooking fuels, other products essential for surviving the extreme winter and isolation. El Nino 2015-201616-RR-MNG-18890-NR01lazau-ratz@un.org#Alexandra Lazau-RatzEnglishFabrizio Cesaretti2016-06-30T00:00:002016-08-24T00:00:002016-12-18T16:33:26.082017-05-10T00:00:00Fully2016-03-14T00:00:0016-RR-FJI-18935Fiji RR Application, Mar 2016 (Cyclone Winston)OceaniaFijiMelanesiaMelanesiaRRStormBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20162016-03-03T00:00:002016-03-03T00:00:002016-03-21T00:00:002016-03-18T00:00:007507962.0080223825890556595115500119595114905234500178500171500350000On 20 and 21 February 2016, category-5 tropical cyclone (TC) Winston cut a path of destruction across Fiji. The cyclone is estimated to be one of the most severe ever to hit the South Pacific and has directly affected an estimated 350,000 people -- approximately 40 per cent of the total population of Fiji. The hardest hit areas are Lau group and Lomaiviti (including Koro) in the Eastern Division, Raki Raki and Tavua in Western Division and Taveuni and Cakandrove in Northern Division.
Immediate response efforts have been led by the Government of Fiji to ensure that preparedness plans were put in place prior to the disaster. The Government of Fiji estimates the total damage bill at more than FJ$1 billion -- almost $500 million. In recognition of the severity of the disaster, on 22 February, the Fiji government requested international assistance and declared a 30-day State of Natural Disaster.
The Fiji Government has a strong national structure for disaster preparedness and emergency operations and is leading the current response. The National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) is coordinating efforts and has activated the National and Divisional Emergency Operations Centres (EOCs).
The humanitarian response in Fiji will be guided by the following strategic objectives as outlined in the Flash Appeal:
1) Rapidly provide life-saving assistance to people affected by the cyclone and re-establish basic services
2) Support restoration of livelihoods and self-reliance
3) Provide safe emergency and transitional shelter, while protecting vulnerable people in all affected communities
The CERF strategy targets over 349,000 million people, requesting $7.9 million to address the most critical needs. To achieve the above objectives the strategy focuses on nine eight key sectors – Shelter, Food Security, Education, Health, WASH, Protection, Logistics and Emergency Telecommunications -- across all 12 hardest hit areas that have been identified by the Government. El Nino 2015-201616-RR-FJI-18935-NR01osnat.lubrani@one.un.org#Osnat LubraniEnglishJulia Wittig2016-06-30T00:00:002016-08-25T00:00:002016-12-21T00:00:002017-05-17T00:00:00Fully2016-03-14T00:00:0016-RR-SSD-19018South Sudan RR Application, Mar 2016 (Sudanese refugees)AfricaSouth SudanEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-03-04T00:00:002016-03-04T00:00:002016-03-24T15:59:37.822016-03-23T00:00:005995523.0059893213744403277762451335858096195739013585UNHCR has been working to protect and provide basic services to some 103,600 refugees in Unity State, as reflected in the South Sudan Humanitarian Workplan 2016. In Ajuong Thok camp, UNHCR and partners are undertaking multi-sectorial response activities including health, water, shelters and camp management. In Yida, UNHCR has been undertaking protection interventions and facilitating the relocation of refugees to Ajuong Thok, while supporting provision of water and sanitation services. The proximity of Yida to the contested border (Jau area), its militarization and associated protection concerns arising from the mixed character of the influx (civilian asylum seekers, combatants and former combatants), fundamentally compromises the question of its suitability as a refugee site. The Government of South Sudan and UNHCR had previously developed a phased closure plan for Yida which began in 2013 and was due to be finalized by mid-2017. However, the process was put on hold due to the outbreak of major conflict across the country in December 2013.
In mid-November 2015, however, a Government decision was taken to bring forward the closure of Yida to June 2016. This decision is noted as final, and Government representatives travelled to Yida in January 2016 and communicated the decision directly to refugees. This has triggered a rapid response request, as operationalization of the new site in Pamir must be accelerated in an unforeseen manner, and relocation of refugees must be sped up.
With Ajuong Thok nearing its full capacity of 40,000 refugees, preparation of the new site in Pamir is urgently needed to so that refugees can relocate there and mitigate a potentially dire deterioration in the humanitarian circumstances of refugees in Unity. Yida is currently hosting about 70,000 refugees with nearly 70% under the age of 18, including nearly 1,000 unaccompanied and separated children, particularly vulnerable to a range of protection issues including forced recruitment and SGBV which are increasingly prevalent in the context of the wider conflict in South Sudan. When Yida closes, lack of alternative space would leave refugees either stranded in Yida without the necessary protection and assistance, or result in major overcrowding of Ajuong Thok. This current application is for UNHCR to relocate to the new site in Pamir and to provide basic services for around $6 million.16-RR-SSD-19018-NR07throp@un.org#David ThropEnglishFabrizio Cesaretti2016-07-08T00:00:002016-08-26T00:00:002016-12-24T15:59:37.822017-06-16T22:13:372016-03-16T00:00:0016-RR-LSO-19019Lesotho RR Application, Mar 2016 (El Niño and Drought)AfricaLesothoSouthern AfricaSouthern AfricaRRDroughtMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20162016-03-04T00:00:002016-03-04T00:00:002016-04-05T00:03:06.5432016-04-08T00:00:005045384.00478291868804720121408166889191162160053137695163174300869The Government of Lesotho (GoL) declared a State of Emergency (22 December 2015) in light of the drought which is expected to worsen over the course of 2016. The GoL, in collaboration with UN agencies and NGOs, conducted a joint rapid community assessment in January and early February 2016, which found the current number of people who are at risk of food insecurity and who are unable to meet their survival needs until June 2016 is 534,508 people (more than 25% of the population). The severity of the situation is likely to surpass the 2012 crisis when 725,000 people were affected.
The impact of El Niño-induced drought is affecting multiple sectors: water scarcity and rain deficits which have led to delays or failure of the planting season, causing a sharp decline in food production. Water shortages have also made basic services unable to function normally (e.g. health centres and schools). It has also severely impacted crop and livestock production, health and nutrition and the overall food security of households; all further compounded by vulnerability factors such as HIV prevalence at 23% and high chronic malnutrition at 33% together with general poverty.
The CERF allocation of $5 milllion will be used to address the most critical needs identified as gaps in the government appeal document in the key sectors targeting 130,450 people in Lesotho. CERF funds will be used for immediate cash assistance to the most vulnerable families and will be complemented with a household gardening package. Affected health clinics will be reinforced by preventing and treating malnutrition, particularly for children under 5, people living with HIV and pregnant women. The water dimension will be addressed through WASH interventions. Interventions that protect and restore the livelihoods of vulnerable farming families in time for the next planting season will also be addressed.Total funds required by UN agencies and NGOs for the response are $60 million, of which 19% is funded. Food Security El Nino 2015-201616-RR-LSO-19019-NR01karla.hershey@one.un.org#Karla HersheyEnglishJulia Wittig2016-07-20T00:00:002016-09-09T00:00:002017-01-05T00:03:06.5432017-05-17T00:00:00Fully2016-04-04T00:00:0016-RR-MOZ-19204Mozambique RR Application, Mar 2016 (El Niño and Drought)AfricaMozambiqueEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRDroughtMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20162016-03-09T00:00:002016-03-09T00:00:002016-03-24T18:28:46.312016-03-31T00:00:004736020.004679803289343009659030380657331011137566999103406170405Mozambique is facing a severe drought in the southern provinces and parts of central region due to El Niño. In a January 2016 assessment FEWSNET reports high numbers of people affected by drought and food insecurity. Currently there are 380,000 people in need of food assistance (IPC Phase 3) in the southern provinces of Maputo, Gaza and Inhambane, and in the central provinces of Tete and Sofala. Approximately 380,000 people are in need of immediate assistance facing lack of food and water. The impact of drought on nutritional status of children is also serious with initial reports estimating 72,374 malnourished children will be in need of assistance over the next 6 months in the five provinces. A January 2016 assessment by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MASA) found 260,730 farmers to be affected.
CERF funds will enable provision of food assistance to about 62,400 beneficiaries, nutrition assistance to over 8,320 malnourished children, safe drinking water to approximately 40,000 people and agriculture inputs to 152,500 people in most affected districts in the provinces of Maputo, Gaza, Inhambane, Sofala and Tete.Total requirements for the next six months humanitarian response are $42.5 million. On 9 March, the RC of Mozambique submitted a request in the amount of $4.7 million to the CERF’s RR window, including interventions in the food assistance, WASH and nutrition sectors. El Nino 2015-201616-RR-MOZ-19204-NR03marcia.de.castro@one.un.org#Marcia De CastroEnglishJulia Wittig2016-07-13T00:00:002016-08-29T00:00:002016-12-24T18:28:46.312017-06-14T00:00:00Fully2016-03-24T00:00:0016-RR-SOM-19262Somalia RR Application, Mar 2016 (El Niño)AfricaSomaliaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRDroughtMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20162016-03-10T00:00:002016-03-10T00:00:002016-04-06T22:52:06.6872016-04-13T00:00:0011000000.001100630157472696001270727248889240161728129960158840288800The effects of El Niño on Somalia were mixed with the anticipated heavier than normal rains and consequent riverine and flash floods in central and southern Somalia not materializing. The situation is very different in Puntland and Somaliland where rainfall was well below average during the 2015 Gu (April to June) and Karan (August to September) seasons. By September 2015, they had already experienced two consecutive poor rainy seasons and already experiencing drought conditions. In its August to December 2015 forecast, the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit projected that about 330,000 people in the seven regions of Puntland and Somaliland would be in IPC phases 4-Emergency and 3-Crisis. By February 2016, the number had risen to 385,000 and yet to be verified assessments indicate up to 500,000 people could be affected in the two regions.
The CERF allocation of $11 million will support the scaling up of time-critical lifesaving humanitarian assistance necessary to avert a deterioration of the drought-induced crisis over the next five months for 224,000 severely food insecure people through life-saving Food Security, Nutrition, Health and WASH interventions in the hardest hit areas of Somaliland and Puntland. Activities include provision of food through unconditional cash transfers, conditional lifesaving cash assistance including cash for work to restore community assets, vaccination of goats to contain the spread of Contagious Caprine Pleuroneumonia disease outbreak, therapeutic feeding support for treatment of moderate acute malnutrition cases among children under five years of age and pregnant and lactating women, provision of emergency health services addressing communicable diseases, maternal and child health, supply of emergency health kits, water trucking, light rehabilitation of strategic water points and distribution of hygiene kits in drought affected areas.Total funds required for the response are $71 million, of which 20% has been funded. El Nino 2015-201616-RR-SOM-19262-NR05kovacm@un.org#Matija KovacEnglishJulia Wittig2016-07-19T00:00:002016-09-15T00:00:002017-01-06T22:52:06.6872017-01-23T00:00:002017-06-16T00:00:00Fully2016-04-06T00:00:0016-RR-SDN-19372Sudan RR Application, Mar 2016 (Conflict and Displacement)AfricaRepublic of the SudanNorthern AfricaNorthern AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-03-14T00:00:002016-04-22T00:00:002016-05-02T15:39:16.0032016-05-02T00:00:0010003187.009692867165041782634330145241716531689310283499166019On 16 January 2016, different sources including UNDSS confirmed fresh clashes in Jebel Marra. The reported total number of people in need stands at 105,000 and is evolving rapidly. The displacement is of a scale that has not been seen in recent years in such a short period. It is unclear how long this displacement will last or whether people will return to their place of origin; and a decision has not been made on whether the current location of IDPs in Sortony will remain in light of the environmental challenges evident. IDPs come from areas that have been mostly inaccessible for humanitarian actors and humanitarian aid and have benefited from very limited access to basic services. While some have been able to bring household items and some cattle, others have fled without their livelihood items. The Sortony site, next to the UNAMID camp, itself is in an area that has been out of government control and where no infrastructure at all is available, hence a need for strong investment to accommodate the high number of displaced people.
The strategic focus and objective of the CERF request is “to provide emergency relief to people affected by conflict in Jebel Marra in North Darfur”, with a focus on Kabkabiya (Sortony), and, Tawilla ( Rwanda and Argo camp) and to reduce suffering of 86,400 people from IDPs, mainly women and children by providing life-saving assistance in line with Do No Harm principles and practices.
The interventions will be delivered in seven sectors, with two sectors mainstreaming protection (child protection and GBV) in an integrated manner responding to the three HRP strategic objectives-life-saving/emergency reliefs, protection, and food security and nutrition. Response includes WASH, Shelter/NFI, Food Security and Livelihoods, Nutrition, health and Protection, Education, and CCCM. The CERF submission is for $10 million.16-RR-SDN-19372-NR07merghani@un.org#Randa MerghaniEnglishJulia Wittig2016-08-02T00:00:002016-10-10T00:00:002017-02-02T15:39:16.0032017-06-09T00:00:00Mostly2016-04-28T00:00:0016-RR-SWZ-19441Swaziland RR Application, Mar 2016 (El Niño and Drought)AfricaSwazilandSouthern AfricaSouthern AfricaRRDroughtMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20162016-03-15T00:00:002016-03-15T00:00:002016-04-06T18:59:28.942016-04-04T00:00:003144400.00314190851314542141055282427627951522277559082165157755Swaziland is currently experiencing one of the most severe El Niño-induced drought conditions with low rainfall, acute food and water shortages. The current agricultural season (October 2015-April 2016) is deemed to have the lowest recorded rainfall in the SADC region in at least 35 years. The Swaziland Vulnerability Assessment Committee estimates that over 300,000 people--one quarter of the total population--are currently affected by the drought and require food assistance. The effects of the drought are expected to last at least until the 2017 harvest.
Total funds required for the response are $80 million--including immediate and longer term action--of which 20% is funded by the Government.
The CERF allocation of $3 million will be used to support over 71,500 people with food assistance, while the WASH sector will provide emergency water and sanitation access to some 95,000 people. The selection criteria are based on the economic vulnerability of households and communities in the areas marked as most affected by the drought situation as indicated by country assessment reports in the regions of Lubombo and Shiselweni. Food Security El Nino 2015-201616-RR-SWZ-19441-NR01israel.dessalegne@one.un.org#Israel DessalegneEnglishDavid Hartstone2016-07-19T00:00:002016-09-06T00:00:002017-01-06T18:59:28.942017-05-03T00:00:00Mostly2016-03-28T00:00:0016-RR-AGO-19627Angola RR Application, Mar 2016 (Yellow Fever)AfricaAngolaMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaRRUnspecified Health EmergencyBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20162016-03-21T00:00:002016-03-21T00:00:002016-03-31T17:37:23.982016-04-06T00:00:003000000.0030000005494135770241126437455650524962980612100506311019862107049The Ministry of Health notified WHO of an urban yellow fever outbreak in Luanda on 21 January 2016 with the first cases being identified in Viana District on 5 December 2015. The yellow fever outbreak in Luanda Province has seen significant increases in the number of reported cases and high mortality rates. The outbreak originated within the Eritrean refugee population and has spread rapidly to other inhabitants. There have been a growing number of districts in Luanda Province that are reporting cases and with high vector density. There is currently a presence of 683 suspected cases, 112 deaths and 90 confirmed cases distributed in 10 of the 12 districts of the Luanda Province. With suspected cases being confirmed in an increasing number of areas there is a heightened risk of yellow fever spreading around Angola and to neighbouring countries. WHO has analysed the situation and took into account the grading criteria of scale, urgency, complexity and context. On the basis of this analysis, it has been proposed to the Director General to declare this yellow fever outbreak in Angola as an internal WHO Grade 2 emergency.
Due to the urgency to vaccinate and contain the outbreak as quickly as possible, the yellow fever International Coordinating Group (ICG) has shipped 6.4 million vaccine doses from their emergency stockpile which are shipped for free to Global Alliance Vaccination Initiative (GAVI) eligible countries. However since Angola is not a GAVI-eligible country, the country has to cover the cost for replenishment of the yellow fever emergency stockpile. There is also a global shortage of yellow fever vaccine. If the number of suspected cases increase over the 6 million threshold than there will be a lack of available vaccines worldwide.
The strategic objective of the humanitarian response strategy is to conduct a reactive mass vaccination campaign that covers all Luanda’s districts. The plan is to cover at least 80% of the population in a short time frame in order to achieve herd immunity and contain the outbreak. Phase I, the first mass reactive campaign, started on 2 February 2016 and has since concluded, having reached 1.57 million people. Phase II has also concluded and has reached 2.3 million people in the Luanda province. Phase III is currently still ongoing with an approximet amount of 1 million people left to vaccinate. $3 million of CERF funds will be used to replenish 2,338,828 doses of yellow fever to the ICG emergency stockpile with which 2,107,049 individuals have been vaccinated in the Luanda Province.16-RR-AGO-19627-NR02paolo.balladelli@one.un.org#Paolo BalladelliEnglishFabrizio Cesaretti2016-07-21T00:00:002016-09-01T00:00:002016-12-31T17:37:23.982017-05-02T22:55:41Fully2016-03-31T00:00:0016-RR-KEN-19805Kenya RR Application, Mar 2016 (Measles)AfricaKenyaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRMeaslesBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20162016-03-24T00:00:002016-03-24T00:00:002016-04-12T22:25:32.8472016-04-15T00:00:001049964.00962943131620255499387119000131620255499387119A measles outbreak in Mandera country in northern Kenya began on 16 December 2016. As of end-March 2016, 144 cases had been reported although health teams estimated the actual number to be about 576. Three-quarters of cases are among children under 15 years, and about 636,000 children are estimated to be at risk of infection. The quality of health care is poor in the region due to a shortage of of health workers. Overall immunization coverage in Mandera, in 2014, stood at only 27.7 per cent. Under the lead of the Ministry of Health, aid agencies will conduct an emergency measles vaccination campaign and vitamin A supplementation in Mandera county, estimated to cost $3.5 million. CERF funds, of about $1 million for WHO and UNICEF, would cover parts of this campaign, including emergency measles vaccination and vitamin A supplementation for 280,000 children.16-RR-KEN-19805-NR03nooryussuf@un.org#Abdi Noor YussufEnglishFabrizio Cesaretti2016-07-19T00:00:002016-09-14T00:00:002017-01-12T22:25:32.8472017-10-11T00:00:002016-04-12T00:00:0016-RR-DJI-19828Djibouti RR Application, Mar 2016 (People Displaced by Drought and El Niño)AfricaDjiboutiEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRDroughtMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20162016-03-26T00:00:002016-03-26T00:00:002016-04-22T21:47:52.0972016-04-28T00:00:002002037.001972054136871353027217165201918735707302073271762924Since the end of November 2015, Djibouti has been confronted with the arrival of 7,500 nomadic pastoralists from the Somali Region of Ethiopia fleeing from one of the most severe droughts in the last decades. Given the severity of the drought in both Ethiopia and Somalia, it is expected that these numbers will increase considerably over the next three to six months. All arrivals indicate that they intend to stay in Djibouti until the situation improves (in particular grazing areas), which means they will not return before the next rainy season in July at the earliest. Based on historical figures from previous severe droughts, knowledge of pastoral routes and the evolution of the drought in neighbouring countries these movements could increase to 12,000 arrivals in the same locations thus increasing the impact on already vulnerable host communities.
The new arrivals are malnourished, anaemic, have myriad health challenges including measles and have lost their livelihoods due to death of livestock. The influx of these vulnerable people is putting serious pressure on the already fragile health system and availability of water points in Djibouti, particularly in the remote rural areas.
The CERF allocation of $2 million will be used to address food security, prevention / detection / treatment of severe and moderate malnutrition, access to safe drinking water and preventative and curative health services for 18,500 nomadic pastoralists from Ethiopia and vulnerable host community in Djibouti. The livestock interventions will ensure that the same group of people avoid sliding into further humanitarian crisis. It is important to include host communities in the response as they themselves are critically food insecure and vulnerable due to recurrent droughts and non-inclusion could lead to tensions. El Nino 2015-201616-RR-DJI-19828-NR01harbi.omar@undp.org#Harbi OmarEnglishJulia Wittig2016-08-08T00:00:002016-09-23T00:00:002017-01-22T21:47:52.0972017-02-01T00:00:002017-10-17T00:00:00MostlyThe beneficiary estimation is very vague. No comment on how double counting was avoided. Clearly some double counting.2016-04-22T00:00:0016-RR-SSD-19881South Sudan RR Applicaiton, Mar 2016 (Conflict and Displacement)AfricaSouth SudanEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRHuman RightsConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-03-29T00:00:002016-05-17T00:00:002016-05-20T00:00:002016-05-26T00:00:0014973815.0014834302678436625013409375985136658212643143828202908346736The humanitarian crisis in South Sudan has worsened in scale, scope and urgency since the beginning of 2016. This CERF Rapid Response allocation will provide a time-critical injection of funds which would enable humanitarian partners to rapidly ramp-up procurement, transportation and distribution of life-saving emergency supplies and scale-up humanitarian assistance and protection activities in the areas hardest hit by recent conflict – particularly in Western Equatoria (Mundri West and East), Western Bahr El Ghazl (Wau), Jonglei (Pibor) and Upper Nile (Malakal) – ahead of the rainy season. The CERF allocation will kick-start rapid action in response to newly arising needs and facilitate partners’ response in areas that have been inaccessible for some time. 250,000 individuals are directly affected in the target states; CERF funding will target 215,000 IDPs and other affected people.On 29 March, Eugene Owusu Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General and UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan submitted an application to the CERF’s rapid response window. South Sudan crisis 2013-16-RR-SSD-19881-NR09throp@un.org#David ThropEnglishJulia Wittig2016-09-01T00:00:002016-10-25T00:00:002017-02-20T00:00:002017-06-21T00:00:00Fully2016-05-17T00:00:0016-RR-PNG-20038Papua New Guinea RR Application, Apr 2016 (El Niño and Food Insecurity)OceaniaPapua New GuineaMelanesiaMelanesiaRRDroughtMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20162016-04-01T00:00:002016-04-01T00:00:002016-04-14T21:23:54.7232016-04-18T00:00:004741505.0047361552773225598533303886426643655076659652241118837The impact of El Niño in Papua New Guinea has created a series of cumulative shocks to food security. From April to August 2016, growth of staple crops (largely root crops) was stunted, with frosts wiping out crops in higher altitude areas completely. From January 2016, highly concerning field reports came in, including of starving children in the Western Province. This triggered a National Disaster Centre assessment (mVAM) supported by the World Food Programme. The assessment, which consisted of over 3,700 interviews with key informants living in affected areas confirmed that the food security situation had in fact deteriorated significantly over the three months since January. 1.31 million people were experiencing high food insecurity, with over 162,000 people in 6 Local Level Government areas (LLG) facing extreme food shortages and classified as severely food insecure. In addition, indications are strong of extreme food needs in Milne Bay outer islands, where the District Provincial Administrator says 18,700 people may need assistance. Including other pockets of critical need around the country (43,000 people), there are therefore approximately 223,700 people now requiring immediate humanitarian assistance.
The rapid deterioration of the food security situation has created an imperative for an immediate emergency response, with the priority being a rapid-scale up of food distributions and nutrition interventions while there are needs in health WASH, Agriculture and Early recovery. They key objectives for the CERF funds are to: i) Address the immediate food needs of people in areas suffering from extreme food shortages and ii) Ensure that vulnerable groups, particularly children under 5, suffering or at risk for severe acute malnutrition receive nutritional support.
The CERF funds will be used to kick-start a food security and nutrition (SAM) response in the 4 LLGs in Hela and Enga Provinces with an initial 2-month intervention (3-month for nutrition). The food situation in those two provinces is critical, staple crops will take 6-9 months to regrow due to the high altitude, and there are very complex logistics and access issues due to lack of road infrastructure and ongoing local conflicts. El Nino 2015-201616-RR-PNG-20038-NR01roy.trivedy@one.un.org#Roy TrivedyEnglishJulia Wittig2016-08-10T00:00:002016-09-15T00:00:002017-01-14T21:23:54.7232017-04-27T00:00:00Fully2016-04-14T00:00:0016-RR-MDG-20140Madagascar RR Application, Apr 2016 (El Niño and Drought)AfricaMadagascarEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRDroughtMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20162016-04-08T00:00:002016-04-08T00:00:002016-04-28T20:48:14.3272016-04-29T00:00:005999050.005988888166750168467335217131714133069264783298464301536600000A humanitarian emergency is unfolding in Madagascar. A long period of drought, over two successive years, exacerbated and intensified by El Niño in the last six months or so is causing significant losses in agricultural production. The crop year was marked by a prolonged rain deficit (between September 2014 and March 2015) causing a deficit in major food crops in the South, such as maize, cassava and rice compared with a five-year average. The next harvest in May/June 2016 is expected to be equally poor. Further, the period between February and May is the food solder peak, but with the rapid deterioration observed since February 2016, a three-month lean season will likely translate to an acute humanitarian emergency, with the humanitarian impact continuing well beyond June 2016.
The lack of water is not only impacting agricultural and lifestock, but has also caused a spike in the cost of water. In areas where people are most vulnerable and face enormous challenges because of the drought, they may have to pay up to 28 as much for water as the price paid in urban centers like the capital. This increase in the cost of water has a real impact on the ability of households to pay for water, and as a result there is an alarming decrease in the amount of water consumed per person per day.
1.1 million people are food insecure, of whom 665,000 are facing severe food insecurity. In some areas, access to food is declining at an alarming rate. Household food stocks have been exhausted. The number of people who are severely food insecure is 14% higher than in March 2015 and 41% higher than in October 2015. In areas with high rates of severe food insecurity, 31 municipalities have a prevalence of severe acute malnutrition that exceeds the emergency threshold of 2 per cent.
The planned response with CERF fudns includes a response to food insecurity (WFP, FAO), nutrition services (WFP, UNICEF), a WASH response (UNICEF), and a health response (WHO and UNFPA). The requested amount for the CERF submission is $6 million. El Nino 2015-201616-RR-MDG-20140-NR02violet.kakyomya@undp.org#Violet KakyomyaFrenchJulia Wittig2016-08-10T00:00:002016-09-29T00:00:002017-01-28T20:48:14.3272017-06-13T00:00:002016-04-25T00:00:0016-RR-ECU-20419Ecuador RR Application, Apr 2016 (Earthquake)AmericasEcuadorLatin America and the CaribbeanCentral AmericaRREarthquakeGeophysicalNatural Disaster20162016-04-26T00:00:002016-04-26T00:00:002016-05-24T00:48:37.5972016-05-25T00:00:007500000.007501349177391771135450262262623752463439654394887913On 16 April 2016, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck northwest Ecuador resulting in a state of emergency in six provinces with a population of 7 million. The earthquake caused significant damage to housing and infrastructure leaving thousands of people without safe shelter, water, food, health services. The protection of people without housing who are living in collective centers, spontaneous sites and with host families, is an urgent concern.
The CERF allocation of $7.5 million will support humanitarian partners in Ecuador will provide immediate life-saving assistance to some 91,400 people in the four severely affected cantons of Jama, Muisne, Pedernales and Portoviejo within a period of three months. The immediate assistance will focus on provision of food, water, emergency shelter, sanitation facilities, basic and urgent health care, as well as urgently require protection assistance, including SGBV prevention and support to survivors, child protection and family tracing.Total funds required for the Flash Appeal are $72.7 million, of which 0% has been funded. Z - Not in use - IDP16-RR-ECU-20419-NR01carrera1@un.org#Gioconda CarreraEnglishFabrizio Cesaretti2016-09-01T00:00:002016-10-28T00:00:002017-02-24T00:48:37.5972017-10-12T00:00:002016-05-24T00:00:0016-RR-NGA-20452Nigeria RR Application, Apr 2016 (Lassa Fever)AfricaNigeriaWestern AfricaWestern AfricaRRUnspecified Health EmergencyBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20162016-04-27T00:00:002016-04-27T00:00:002016-05-13T21:01:15.9372016-05-18T00:00:00399741.0039974186200703441565448162269545151167167822139889307711The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), an arm of the Federal ministry of Health (FMOH), notified WHO Nigeria about the Lassa fever outbreak on 7 January 2016 requesting support to respond to the outbreak in 10 states. As of 27 April, 270 cases had been reported in 23 states with an extraordinarily high case fatality rate at 50.4 per cent while some 4,535 people have been tested but not yet confirmed.
Response activities are required in all 23 affected states targeting a total population of 110 million people. Particularly vulnerable groups are health care workers who treat the patients and their close relatives who care for them and indeed the whole population living in the area. This would usually include wives, mothers and children who could become infected by coming in contact with infected rats or with body fluids of an ill patient.
The CERF allocation of $400,000 targets support to 300,000 people within four most severely affected and non-endemic states. WHO is the sole recipient of the CERF funds with activities focused on case management, laboratory diagnosis and surveillance including contact tracing. The project will be implemented within 6 months with the Federal Ministry of Health and the state ministries of health.The total requirement for the humanitarian response is $2 million, of which no funding has been received. In addition the Government requires another $8 million to support interventions.16-RR-NGA-20452-NR04omuga@un.org#Vincent OmugaEnglishFabrizio Cesaretti2016-08-23T00:00:002016-10-13T00:00:002017-02-13T21:01:15.9372017-06-13T00:00:00Fully2016-05-13T00:00:0016-RR-GIN-20518Guinea RR Application, May 2016 (Ebola)AfricaGuineaWestern AfricaWestern AfricaRREbolaMeteorological, Hydrological and Climatological20162016-05-03T00:00:002016-05-03T00:00:002016-05-27T17:16:48.4732016-06-01T00:00:002999413.002971319917634681264465283010953815704647822182The announcement on 17 March 2016 of a new outbreak of Ebola took place two weeks after the declaration by WHO of the end of the Ebola crisis in Guinea. Thus far 8 people have died and 5 are receiving treatment at a center that was reactivated urgently after some months of inactivity. Complicating the situation, the declaration of the outbreak is coming at a time when many of the health responders and other actors were in the process of winding down their operations.
The resurgence of Ebola is caused by structural weaknesses at the community level (surveillance) and lack of close monitoring of families cured of Ebola. Further, late detection of the new contamination chain has contributed to the problem. The toll of the disease and the humanitarian consequences are still present with orphans and windows unable to sustain themselves.
The activities proposed in these 3 projects are aligned to the Response Mechanism developed by the National Coordination for the fight against Ebola in collaboration with international technical partners including the three applicants agencies. Specifically, WHO, IFRC and ALIMA are working towards preventing new infections through epidemiological surveillance, clinical monitoring and the management of cases. UNICEF is focusing on community involvement in prevention through social mobilization but also sanitation in high contamination risk communities. The main objective of the coordinated response to is to achieve 0 Ebola cases in Guinea. This CERF application includes support to 3 UN agencies (UNICEF, WHO and UNDP) in the health sector. UNDP specifically has taken a lead role of payment of the Ebola Response workers in Ebola Treatment Centres through operating NGOs supports NGOs to conduct safe and dignified burials. In this context and to this end UNDP has partnered amongst others with ALIMA and IFRC and
UNDP is willing to be accountable for both organizations and is confident that UNDP can adequately ensure oversight.
This CERF contribution, therefore will support the 3 UN agencies with an allocation of approximately $3 million. Ebola in western Africa 2014-201516-RR-GIN-20518-NR05seraphine.wakana@one.un.org#Seraphine WakanaFrenchJulia Wittig2016-09-07T00:00:002016-10-31T00:00:002017-02-27T17:16:48.4732017-06-07T00:00:00Fully2016-05-27T00:00:0016-RR-VNM-2055016-RR-VNM-20550_Viet Nam_May2016_ApplicationAsiaViet NamSouth-Eastern AsiaSouth-Eastern AsiaRRDroughtMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20162016-05-07T00:00:002016-05-07T00:00:002016-05-25T22:49:20.2372016-06-01T00:00:004010435.0038978645374259496113238113941185164299105167683244660412343The impact of the 2015/16 El Niño phenomenon has left parts of Viet Nam, including the Mekong Delta, South Central and Central Highland regions, suffering the most severe drought in more than 60 years. Since mid-2015, 52 of 63 provinces – more than 83 per cent of the country – have been affected by drought, with 22 provinces currently drought-affected, of which 18 were severely affected and/or had declared a state of emergency as of 19 April 2016. Another eight provinces were at risk of becoming severely affected in the coming weeks. As a result, 2 million people are experiencing acute water shortages and require humanitarian assistance.
In response to the Government’s request for international support to its response, the United Nations prepared and launched jointly with the Government an Emergency Response Plan (ERP) to provide water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), food security, health, nutrition and early recovery support to the drought-affected population. Of the ERP caseload (2 million), 256,000 people are targeted by the CERF-supported WASH response, 180,000 by the Health Response, 17,500 by the Food Security response and 12,400 under-five children and pregnant and lactating women. The prioritization of sectors and the eight provinces included in the CERF-supported response is based on the results of the joint multi-sector rapid assessment conducted from 21-24 March in six of the then 12 provinces that had declared states of emergency, and has been informed by subsequent consultation with the Government. El Nino 2015-201616-RR-VNM-20550-NR01Pratibha Mehta#Pratibha MehtaEnglishJulia Wittig2016-09-09T00:00:002016-11-01T00:00:002017-02-25T22:49:20.2372017-06-13T00:00:00Fully2016-05-25T00:00:0016-RR-TCD-20685Chad RR Application, May 2016 (Lake Chad Crisis)AfricaChadMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-05-17T00:00:002016-06-05T00:00:002016-06-09T01:49:59.5072016-06-16T00:00:009999904.0099915522777428907566812217625668478444995054575104525Violence attributed to Boko Haram continues to displace people in Chad and beyond. It is estimated that 2.8 million people have been displaced within or across the borders of Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria, with almost 100,000 displaced persons in Chad. Between 21 July and early September 2015, more than 48,000 new IDPs were registered in the Lake region, bringing the total number of refugees, IDPs and returnees to over 77 000 people. Following the attacks of 10 October to Bagasola, the Government declared a state of emergency in the Lake region.
Following a multisectoral mission organized in January 2016 in the northern basin of the Liwa Daboua-axis, 22 sites have been identified with an initial estimate of over 56,000 displaced people. The situation of displaced people is alarming. Families fled leaving behind their property. They have urgent needs in protection, health, water and sanitation, shelter and essential household items, as well as food security and nutrition.
According to a study that took place in mid-March 2016 the number of people severely food insecure is estimated to be more than 1 million, which represents an increase of 400,000 new people compared to the situation at the same time in November and December 2015. The analysis revealed that there is a hunger gap in various departments in the region of Lake Mamdi and Wayi. The causes of reduced food availability are due to a decline in agricultural production, rising grain prices and declining terms of trade partly linked to Boko Haram crisis and the consequent population displacements.
These are the two triggers that have resulted in a CERF request. The strategic objective of the CERF funding is to provide multisectoral emergency relief and protection to 76,846 vulnerable persons (IDPs and host communities) that are newly displaced in the Lake region, as well as 61,419 people newly affected by food insecurity and malnutrition. The CERF funds will allow provision of immediate assistance to the most vulnerable people, including IDPs, as well as vulnerable host populations that require emergency assistance. The humanitarian team is requesting $10 million from CERF for this immediate response. Boko Haram crisis 2014-16-RR-TCD-20685-NR07sawadogoa@un.org#Abdoulaye SawadogoFrenchFabrizio Cesaretti2016-09-09T00:00:002016-11-10T00:00:002017-03-09T01:49:59.5072017-03-17T00:00:002017-12-28T00:00:002016-06-09T00:00:0016-RR-LKA-20835Sri Lanka RR Application, May 2016 (Floods)AsiaSri LankaSouthern AsiaSouthern AsiaRRFloodBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20162016-05-26T00:00:002016-05-26T00:00:002016-06-10T20:09:24.222016-06-16T00:00:004637626.0043200808418389107173290154819166285321104239002255392494394On 26 May, Una McCauley, Resident Coordinator a.i. UN of Sri Lanka, submitted an application to the CERF’s rapid response window. A flood emergency began on 15 May 2016 when Sri Lanka was hit by tropical storm Roanu. Widespread flooding and landslides resulted in many parts pf the country, affecting 84,696 households, over 340,000 people. Government assessments conducted on 22 May show that 4,296 houses have been damaged or destroyed and 55,956 families (237,240 people) have been displaced. Aid agencies are requesting CERF funds to support time-critical life-saving assistance for 220,000 people in the WASH, shelter, health and food sectors in the worst affected districts of Colombo, Gampaha, Kegalle and Rathnapura.On 26 May, Una McCauley, Resident Coordinator a.i. UN of Sri Lanka, submitted an application to the CERF’s rapid response window.16-RR-LKA-20835-NR02una.mccauley@one.un.org#Una McCauleyEnglishJulia Wittig2016-09-14T00:00:002016-11-18T00:00:002017-03-10T20:09:24.222017-06-08T00:00:00Fully2016-06-10T00:00:0016-RR-SDN-20880Sudan RR Application, Jun 2016 (South Sudanese refugees)AfricaRepublic of the SudanNorthern AfricaNorthern AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-06-01T00:00:002016-06-01T00:00:002016-07-12T00:00:002016-07-11T00:00:007999561.007951140452647129238177231431632039222491902841277Since January 2016 over 58,000 people from South Sudan’s Northern Bahr El Ghazal and Warrap states have fled into East Darfur, South Darfur and West Kordofan due to heightened food insecurity and the ongoing conflict. In particular, the number of South Sudanese refugees arriving in Khor Omer in East Darfur increased from 5,000 people in February to almost 29,000 by end of May. In response to the new influx, humanitarian partners under the leadership of UNHCR developed a three-month emergency response plan to address the most pressing needs resulting from the surge of arrivals into East Darfur, South Darfur and West Kordofan.
The CERF allocation of $8 million will prioritize the most pressing needs of more than 41,000 South Sudanese refugees who have arrived in East Darfur and 1,900 anticipated to arrive. East Darfur has been prioritized because the state has received nearly 80 per cent of the new influx into areas where resources and response capacity have been extremely limited. CERF funds will support construction of a temporary camp for refugees, and provide time-critical life-saving services through provision of health and nutrition services, shelter and non-food items, water and sanitation, food assistance and emergency livestock services. To support protection concerns, CERF funding will support initial reception arrangements at the new site, family tracing and reunification for unaccompanied and separated children, assistance to persons with specific needs, support for community based protection networks, and comprehensive GBV prevention and response services.The overall response plan requirement for the new influx of refugees is $40 million based on inter-agency assessments and extensive consultation with field staff and partners, involves camp-based assistance in East Darfur, and rural community-based assistance in West Kordofan and South Darfur. To date, 5% of the $40 million new requirement has been funded. South Sudan crisis 2013-16-RR-SDN-20880-NR09americas@unhcr.org#Lindsey America-SimmsEnglishJulia Wittig2016-10-13T00:00:002017-01-13T00:00:002017-04-12T00:00:002017-06-23T00:00:00MostlyThe agencies and OCHA colleagues experienced difficulties estimating refugee figures at the proposal stage. The planning figures were 41,180, but counts from April 2017 revealed that only 28,558 refugees had arrived or were present in camps. Refugees have been highly mobile, coming and going into/out of the camps. This was also due to difficulties in relocating refugees as planned to a new site. So, while some sectors did not reach the targets, other sectors significantly overreached the target. But all explanations are credible.2016-07-01T00:00:0016-RR-SOM-20943Somalia RR Application, Jun 2016 (Cholera)AfricaSomaliaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRCholeraBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20162016-06-06T00:00:002016-06-06T00:00:002016-06-23T00:00:002016-06-23T00:00:001879029.001879031700084001540087501085019600157501925035000A major spike in reported cases of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) and cholera in southern and central Somalia has triggered the need to significantly scale up a response to contain the outbreak. Already 8,838 AWD/cholera cases have been reported in 2016, compared to 5,257 cases that were reported for the entire year in 2015. Overall, $6 million are required for the response to this outbreak of which only $600,000 have been received to date. A total of about $1.8 million in CERF RR support is requested.
This CERF grant will be used to reduce AWD/Cholera related morbidity and mortality among 27,500 cases over a four month period. It will support complementary health, logistics and WASH services in the most affected areas with the highest caseload and notable increase in trends in reported deaths. Activities implemented will aim at interrupting the disease’s transmission, protection of those at risk and treatment of those already suffering from the disease.16-RR-SOM-20943-NR06haggarty@un.org#Alta HaggartyEnglishJulia Wittig2016-10-06T00:00:002016-11-25T00:00:002017-03-23T00:00:002017-05-05T00:00:002017-06-30T00:00:00Fully2016-06-17T00:00:0016-RR-BGD-21056Bangladesh RR Application, Jun 2016 (Cyclone Roanu)AsiaBangladeshSouthern AsiaSouthern AsiaRRFloodBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20162016-06-14T00:00:002016-06-27T00:00:002016-07-07T00:00:002016-07-14T00:00:001779750.001799769202753021350488221469551811766442421125731168152On 14 June Robert Watkins, Robert D. Watkins UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative Bangladesh submitted an application to the rapid response window of the CERF in response to Cyclone Roanu and subsequent monsoon flooding which has affected 1.3 million people throughout the country. The application seeks CERF funds to support Humanitarian Coordination Task Team (HCTT) members in addressing the humanitarian needs of 166,362 highly vulnerable persons, mostly women and girls who lost all their belongings and livelihoods in the cyclone at the beginning of the 3-month monsoon season. Projects included in the application aim to address critical needs in the food, shelter, WASH and health sectors.16-RR-BGD-21056-NR02robert.watkins@undp.org#Robert WatkinsEnglishJulia Wittig2016-10-10T00:00:002016-12-12T00:00:002017-04-07T00:00:002017-06-15T00:00:00Partlyobvious difficulties in avoiding double counting without proposing a solution.2016-07-01T00:00:0016-RR-MWI-21135Malawi RR Application, Jun 2016 (Conflict and Displacement)AfricaMalawiEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-06-17T00:00:002016-06-17T00:00:002016-07-07T21:21:15.7832016-07-13T00:00:001821073.001437503233421094443220916523861454337618304Given the influx of refugee from Mozambique into Malawi as a result of conflict between Government and RENAMO forces, the Government of Malawi has opened a new refugee camp requiring unplanned resources to address a humanitarian situation. The 11,583 refugees fleeing from Mozambique have settled along the border line with some 13,000 effected host community members, particularly in Mwanza District. Over the past months, new arrivals have been registered in other districts, Chikwawa, Nsanje and to a lesser extent Ntcheu as well as spontaneous arrivals at Luwani refugee camp itself. Efforts are made to reach out to these populations of concern while addressing the urgent needs in Luwani required by the opening of a whole new camp. The humanitarian community began relocation of the registered Mozambican refugees to the Luwani refugee camp as of the 15 April, 2016, following the Government’s re-opening of the camp 15 March 2016, attempting to ease the strain on the affected hosting community population. The Mozambican refugees are 63 per cent children under 18 years of age, with a total of 54 per cent female. This triggered a new crisis for immediate and coordinated humanitarian response in order to prevent loss of life in both Kapise transit centre and Luwani newly re-opened refugee camp. In particular for food, shelter/NFIs and health for refugees relocated to Luwani.
The inter-agency response aims to provide protection through life-saving and sustaining assistance, while ensuring the prevention of deterioration of vulnerabilities and promotion of self-reliance for Mozambican refugees through the following broad strategic approach: 1) Relocation to Luwani in safety and dignity; 2) Continued registration and provision of protection and essential assistance at Kapise and Luwani ensure refugees have access to protection; 3) Outreach to persons of concern beyond Luwani and Kapise enables remote protection; and 4) Community-based protection and a solutions-oriented approach underpin the emergency response. The CERF submission will provide immediate assistance of US 1.8 million as other resources are being mobilized focusing on basic lifesaving response including food, shelter/NFI and health by WFP, UNHCR and UNICEF.16-RR-MWI-21135-NR03johanne.fremstad@gmail.com#Johanne FremstadEnglishFabrizio Cesaretti2016-10-10T00:00:002016-12-09T00:00:002017-04-07T21:21:15.7832017-10-13T18:18:142016-07-01T00:00:0016-RR-NGA-21156Nigeria RR Application, Jun 2016 (Lake Chad Crisis)AfricaNigeriaWestern AfricaWestern AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-06-20T00:00:002016-06-20T00:00:002016-07-14T00:00:002016-07-18T00:00:0013375642.0013229882551556474711990244366520829644899521116829216350A joint UN multi-sector assessment was conducted in Borno and Yobe States in April covering the newly accessible and other areas and concluded that these people – who have had limited access to assistance over the past two years, face malnutrition. The nutrition situation is compounded by food insecurity, deplorable water and sanitation facilities, limited coverage of health services and inadequate shelter. The assessment showed that around 800,000 IDPs host communities in Borno and Yobe States face emergency conditions and require immediate food assistance. The IDPs include 180,000 in greater Maiduguri, 120,000 in camps and 250,000 in newly liberated areas in Borno State. In Yobe State, more than 250,000 people are severely food insecure. These figures are expected to increase during the coming lean season. Staple food prices in northern Borno State have increased by 50 to100%, and market functionality is limited because of insecurity and restrictions on trade and movement.
It also showed that an estimated 350,000 children under 5 will suffer from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), 244,000 in Borno State alone, in 2016. Without urgent interventions, an estimated 67,000 children 6-59 months with SAM are likely to die in Borno and Yobe States in 2016 or equivalent to 184 daily. The SAM estimated during the HNO/HRP was only 83,079. However, with the new caseload in newly liberated areas, SAM has increased to 398,188. Some 64,000 children 6-24 months urgently need supplementary specialized nutritious foods and 21,000 pregnant and lactating mothers need food supplements.
Many displaced women report that they experienced sexual and gender based violence when fleeing the armed conflict. IDPs/returnees continue to be exposed to protection risks, in particular, the most vulnerable such as older persons, child headed households, women, boys and girls and those with disabilities. IDPs/returnees face further restriction on their freedom of movement, which at times, limits access to basic services and livelihood. Civilians in newly accessible areas have very high psychosocial needs, as IDPs were subjected to serious human rights violations under Boko Haram, including abductions, sexual abuse, forced marriage, forced religious conversions and witnessing grave violence to family members.
This appeal is specially requested to immediately cover those who are in newly liberated areas, who are in dire need of food, nutrition to avoid further deterioration of the food insecurity, global acute malnutrition, exposure to sexual abuse and exploitation, and sexual and gender based violence. The LGAs of implementation will be in Damboa, Dikwa, Monguno, Bama and Maiduguri (in Borno state).
Food Security and Nutrition: Around 118,000 people in newly accessible areas will be covered with either cash based interventions (85,000), general food distribution (13,000) and supplementary feeding for children between 6 and 23 months suffering from or at risk of MAM (20,000). In Protection/child protection: 250,000 are targeted to benefit from protection monitoring of newly accessible communities; (2) 4,000 severely traumatized IDPs, including sexual violence survivors, will benefit from provision of psycho-social support, (3) 650 high risk children. For SGBV: A total of 40,000 individuals are targeted to benefit from the psychosocial services to meet the needs of vulnerable population and distribution of dignity kits to women and girls., 3) community sensitization on referral pathways for GBV and, 4) capacity building for security personnel on GBV and PSEA. This submission will also fund common logistics (UNHAS) and UNDSS.
The submission to Nigeria is US 13 million. Boko Haram crisis 2014-16-RR-NGA-21156-NR05omuga@un.org#Vincent OmugaEnglishJulia Wittig2016-10-28T00:00:002016-12-22T00:00:002017-04-14T00:00:002018-01-16T00:00:00Partlyunconvincing total beneficiary figure. was changed by CERF secretariat to reflect only sector with highest figures. no analysis of how double counting was avoided between sectors.2016-07-12T00:00:0016-RR-COD-21185DR Congo RR Application, Jun 2016 (Yellow Fever)AfricaDemocratic Republic of the CongoMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaRRUnspecified Health EmergencyBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20162016-06-22T00:00:002016-07-01T00:00:002016-07-13T20:56:17.5732016-07-14T00:00:001611901.0016048082199041272262249216632617906293205555499614816947565467710471624On the 20th of June 2016, an official declaration of the yellow fever “outbreak” by the DRC Health Ministry was declared to the world. The surveillance system of disease control pointed out that the threshold related to a yellow fever outbreak had been reached. The trend in confirmed and suspected cases is also still on the increase. Latest on June the 23rd 2016, a total of 1307 suspected cases of yellow fever including 75 deaths were reported by the national surveillance system. Of these cases, 68 were confirmed as being yellow fever in 24 health zones in the following five provinces: Bas-Uélé, Kwango, Tshuapa, Kongo Central and Kinshasa. The dynamics of transmission, cross-border population movements are almost impossible to control and easier the spread of the epidemic and the conjunction of the ongoing cholera and measles outbreaks that considerably reduce the capacity of the MoH to fully cover the yellow fever response.
The project aims to support government effort that aim to reduce morbidity and mortality related to the yellow fever outbreak in affected areas, and prevents its expansion to other health districts. Lifesaving activities will include:
WHO will undertake the procurement of supplies that include Emergency Health Kits to be provided to health facilities for case management of around 600 new cases. Reagents will be provided for laboratories for early detection of case with good diagnostic. An emergency training for Health workers will be provided on the management of cases. Other supplies will be providing to initiate surveillance activities where this hasn’t started as well as early detection of cases. UNICEF will undertake social mobilization and risk communication for prevention in those prioritized health zones too.16-RR-COD-21185-NR05macdiarmid@un.org#Charlotte MacDiarmidEnglishJulia Wittig2016-10-13T00:00:002016-12-14T00:00:002017-04-13T20:56:17.5732018-01-08T00:00:00LimitedVery difficult to evaluate credibility of the number of beneficiaries as almost all of them are indirect beneficiaries. (reached through media campaigns). Beneficiary population equals total population affected. Unclear how the difference between target and reached beneficiaries came about.2016-07-08T00:00:0016-RR-RWA-21371Rwanda RR Application, Jul 2016 (Landslides)AfricaRwandaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRFloodBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20162016-07-05T00:00:002016-07-05T00:00:002016-08-05T15:18:27.7632016-08-09T00:00:004408840.0042189441732252730700521571735512512293303988242121281From 7-9 May 2016, Rwanda was affected by a series of landslides that have occurred in the Gakenke, Muhanga, and Ngororero districtfs. The landslides were triggered by the heavy and torrential rains in these areas as a result of the phenomenon from the El Nino and the La Nina. The sustained heavy rains have also caused some flooding in these districts. This disaster resulted in the loss of 50 lives, 27 injuries, complete destruction of 2,317 houses, partial destruction of 1,500 houses, damage of 3,447 hectare of agricultural land, loss of livestock, disruption of infrastructure such as water supply system, bridges and roads, and affected approximately 80,000 households.
A CERF allocation of $4.5 million will help address the needs of 50,000 disaster-affected people including displaced families whose houses were completely destroyed, those whose houses were partially destroyed, and those who have lost crops and agricultural lands. The allocation will support activities in five priority sectors including 1) food security and nutrition, 2) shelter/NFIs/community infrastructure, 3) emergency agriculture and livelihoods, 4) WASH and 5) health.16-RR-RWA-21371-NR03george.otoo@one.un.org#George OtooEnglishdorjee2@un.org2016-11-07T00:00:002017-01-09T00:00:002017-05-05T15:18:27.7632017-12-27T00:00:00Mostly2016-08-04T00:00:0016-RR-IRQ-21399Iraq RR Application, Jul 2016 (Fallujah Crisis)AsiaIraqWestern AsiaWestern AsiaRRHuman RightsConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-07-07T00:00:002016-07-07T00:00:002016-07-27T00:00:002016-07-29T00:00:0015000000.001500060244410659421103523330010815314145377710174095251805On 7 July Ms. Lise Grande, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq, transmitted an application to the CERF’s rapid response window in response to the crisis in Anbar (Fallujah) and Baghdad governorates as result of ISIS activity and ongoing armed conflict. 85,000 people are estimated to be newly displaced, and up to 150,000 people are potentially affected. Having experienced displacement, war and trauma, populations face high needs in the protection and health sectors, as well as shelter. The current, highly prioritised, humanitarian response plan (HRP) presents needs of over $64 million associated with Anbar and Baghdad governorates as a result of this recent violence. The application to the CERF requests $15 million to support humanitarian response activities in the protection, health, shelter, water, sanitation and health (WASH) and camp coordination and camp management (CCCM) sectors. Z - Not in use - IDP16-RR-IRQ-21399-NR07anderson17@un.org#Craig AndersonEnglishJulia Wittig2016-11-10T00:00:002016-12-28T00:00:002017-04-27T00:00:002017-05-17T00:00:002017-06-15T00:00:00Fully2016-07-25T00:00:0016-RR-NPL-21571Nepal RR Application, Jul 2016 (Karnali Drought)AsiaNepalSouthern AsiaSouthern AsiaRRDroughtMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20162016-07-19T00:00:002016-07-19T00:00:002016-08-01T22:04:09.2732016-08-05T00:00:001939578.00194299928410546768308601144311443284106611994529Nepal, in the Karnali zone is currently facing a devasting drought and serious food insecurity situation. The current humanitarian crisis in the Karnali zone is the result of the worst drought since 1960. The current agricultural drought conditions are classified as ‘extreme’ and ‘severe’ in nearly all parts of the Karnali. Further, and in addition to food insecurity, due to the prolonged drought in Karnali region, the situation of nutrition among children age less than five years and pregnant and lactating women has been deteriorating.
The overall CERF strategy is to provide immediate relief and to help address the effects of the drought and carry over vulnerable households until the next harvest. There are three proposed interventions: food security, nutrition and agriculture. All three interventions help address the short term acute needs of the affected households and people. Through the CERF grant some 50,000 affected people will be assisted. The CERF grant is for approximately US 2 million.16-RR-NPL-21571-NR05dan.ayliffe@one.un.org#Dan AyliffeEnglishMirna Loiferman2016-11-02T00:00:002017-01-04T00:00:002017-05-01T22:04:09.2732017-10-20T20:19:43Fully2016-07-29T00:00:0016-RR-TLS-21670Timor Leste RR Application, Jul 2016 (Drought)AsiaTimor-LesteSouth-Eastern AsiaSouth-Eastern AsiaRRDroughtMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20162016-07-29T00:00:002016-08-04T00:00:002016-08-08T23:46:52.912016-08-10T00:00:00846000.0084670334053405681009660966034051306516470From May to July June 2016, the severity of the consequences of prolonged reduced especially in the northern and eastern coastal areas of Timor Leste was evident. Rainfall was at 70 per cent of normal, in a country where over 70% of the population relay on subsistence farming, the scale of the impact of El Niño has been significant and felt across all municipalities. Erratic rains resulted in both areas and yield reductions of the maize and rice crops. Rice field preparation was delayed, and in February, the general planting progress status on rice was between 40 to 50 per cent of the normal.
Based on assessment results, the UN Resident Coordinator Office, in close collaboration with the HCT and the Ministry of Interior, finalized an Emergency Response Plan (ERP) on 19 April. The scope of the ERP is to assist 400,000 people in the prioritized, 5 worst affected areas. Priority needs are in the areas of water, food, nutrition, health, livelihoods and education. Interventions on food and water are most urgent.
The strategic objective of the CERF request is to address the immediate food and nutritional needs of people in areas suffering from extreme food shortages. This CERF request prioritizes blanket feeding implemented by WFP in collaboration with Government and other partners to address the risk of severe acute malnutrition among children, as well as pregnant and lactating women. The supplementary fortified food to be provided would ensure that the most vulnerable of the communities get the nutritional intake they need during the three-month intervention. This CERF request is for US846,593. El Nino 2015-201616-RR-TLS-21670-NR01adelina.lourdes@one.un.org#Adelina LourdesEnglishdorjee2@un.org2016-11-11T00:00:002017-01-09T00:00:002017-05-08T23:46:52.912017-12-26T00:00:002016-08-08T00:00:0016-RR-NER-21746Niger RR Application, Aug 2016 (Lake Chad Crisis)AfricaNigerWestern AfricaWestern AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-08-08T00:00:002016-08-08T00:00:002016-09-07T21:08:14.6532016-09-06T00:00:005000000.004989275172901949736787207263791358639380165741095426Following May and June violence by Boko Haram in neighboring Nigeria, there have been significant new arrivals of refugees and IDPs to the Diffa region of Niger. 76,000 new displaced persons have been reported including 15,010 women at reproductive age, 3,040 pregnant women, 2,140 lactating women and 11,240 adolescent girls within which reproductive health activities will target a total of 26 250 newly displaced persons including 15,010 women of reproductive age and 11,240 adolescent girls. The first joint assessment missions with national authorities and humanitarian partners on the ground identified (i) water and sanitation, (ii) health care including psychological support and response to SGBV, (iii) food, (iv) shelter and (iv) non-food items as urgent needs. The revised HRP estimates 21,889, 872 are required to respond to the needs of newly arrived IDPs and refugees.
The CERF rapid response request submitted 8 August requests $5 million and focuses on five sectors (nutrition, emergency shelter /NFI, WASH, protection and logistics). CERF funding will be used to address the most urgent needs of a 76,000 target population Z - Not in use - IDP, Z - Not in use - Application - Refugee Boko Haram crisis 2014-16-RR-NER-21746-NR04dieudonneb@un.org#Bamouni DieudonneEnglishJulia Wittig2016-12-12T00:00:002017-02-07T00:00:002017-06-07T21:08:14.6532017-06-21T00:00:002018-01-08T00:00:00Fully2016-08-31T00:00:0016-RR-JOR-21774Jordan RR Application, Aug 2016 (Syrian refugees)AsiaJordanWestern AsiaWestern AsiaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-08-15T00:00:002016-08-15T00:00:002016-08-24T21:53:53.82016-08-31T00:00:0011544000.004308657117601224024000249902601051000367503825075000An estimated 100,000 Syrians are stranded at the north eastern borders in Hadalat and Ruqban. The barren desert landscape, with no relief, vegetation, or open water sources coupled with soaring daytime temperatures and frigid temperatures at night is the most hostile of environments. The nearest settlement is 170km away and access is across 120km of open desert. This creates desperate conditions for this population and makes the delivery of any assistance, all of which needs to be shipped in, incredibly challenging.
The Jordanian authorities have restricted access of this population to the Jordanian territories due to national security concerns, since the majority of the population originates from ISIS-controlled areas in northern Syria. After the VBIED attack on Ruqban on 21 June, the Government sealed the borders and suspended humanitarian assistance delivery before a decision was made on resuming water and food assistance. This CERF request focuses on enhancing security arrangements and delivering priority life-saving assistance; food, water and sanitation, and 24/7 basic primary healthcare for US12 million.
Lastly, since approval of the concept note, only UNICEF and UNDSS have access to the population. Due to the urgency and lifesaving nature of the water trucking response, these projects have been advanced until the remaining agencies have access. Syria crisis 2011-16-RR-JOR-21774-NR02abuata@un.org#Mirna Abu AtaEnglish2017-03-22T00:00:002017-05-16T00:00:002017-07-01T00:00:002016-08-24T00:00:0016-UF-YEM-21828Yemen UFE Application, Aug 2016 (Conflict and Displacement)AsiaYemenWestern AsiaWestern AsiaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-08-19T00:00:002016-08-19T00:00:002016-09-07T00:00:002016-09-13T00:00:0013001519.00129888372702922654485357402174993103175278164877915757651063556Already mired in a humanitarian crisis when violence escalated in mid-March 2015, Yemen has 21.2 million people in need of some form of humanitarian assistance. This includes 14.4 million people unable to meet their food needs, 19.4 million who lack clean water and sanitation and 14.1 million without adequate healthcare. The 9th Task Force on Population Movement (TFPM) report showed in May 2016 that around 800,000 individuals, conflict and disaster driven IDPs returned to their villages of origin requiring different livelihood and rehabilitation support. Close to 83 per cent of IDPs in Yemen are sheltered in hosted settings (where IDPs are hosted by families, friends or others, usually without paying rent) and in rented accommodation. About 51% of the population is suffering from food insecurity and malnutrition, in line with Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or Emergency (IPC Phase 4). The Health Resources & Availability Mapping System (HeRAMS) preliminary result showed that only 46 % of health facilities are fully functioning. The goal of UN agencies’ projects for CERF is to deliver an integrated package of assistance to IDPs, host communities and returnees including health and nutrition services, provision of shelter kits and NFIs, rehabilitation of water resources and provision of protection services. UN agencies are targeting 940,000 people in Ibb, Amanat Al Asimah and Lahj Governorates.The Humanitarian Country Team requires about $1.8 billion for humanitarian action in Yemen in 2016. According to FTS, Yemen has received 25% of its requirement as of 31 May 2016. The CERF allocation from the underfunded emergencies window will amount to about $13 million for 6 projects, if approved.
Yemen Underfunded Emergencies Application
Country envelope: $13 million (Round II allocation: $50 million for 6 countries)
Application received: 19 August 2016
Number of projects submitted: 616-UF-YEM-21828-NR06mounier@un.org#Pascal MounierEnglishdorjee2@un.org2017-04-17T00:00:002017-06-05T00:00:002017-09-30T00:00:002017-10-05T00:00:002018-01-18T00:00:00Fully2016-09-02T00:00:0016-UF-ERI-21832Eritrea UFE Application, Aug 2016 (Gaps in Basic Services)AfricaEritreaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaUFPost-conflict NeedsConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-08-19T00:00:002016-08-19T00:00:002016-09-16T22:11:13.0732016-09-26T00:00:002000000.002002599124757120542245299212415216275428690337172336817673989The 2015 harvest was poor due to a lack of rains--partly caused by the El Niño weather phenomenon--resulting in a food deficit affecting mainly people in the arid coastal areas and some parts of the highlands. Food insecurity and malnutrition among children, pregnant women and mothers remain a concern. Malnutrition, diarrhoeal diseases and pneumonia are among the three leading casues of child deaths and illness. In remote parts, immunization coverage is low and access to health care limited. The country hosts more than 2,200 refugees at Umkulu refugee camp, who rely on assistance. Aid agencies in Eritrea will use CERF funding to provide assistance to more than 421,000 people in need, with health care and nutrition services for 419,000 affected people in three of the six regions, Northern Red Sea, Anseba and Gash-Barka, and multi-sector assistance for the 2,200 refugees.The country team requires about $35 million for humanitarian action in Eritrea in 2016, which was funded at 6.5 per cent ($2.2m) as of mid-August. The CERF allocation from the underfunded emergencies window will amount to about $2 million for 4 projects, if approved.
Eritrea Underfunded Emergencies Application
Country envelope: $2 million (Round II allocation: $50 million for 6 countries)
Application received: 19 August 2016
Number of projects submitted: 416-UF-ERI-21832-NR02maputseni@un.org#Clever MaputseniEnglishdorjee2@un.org2017-04-17T00:00:002017-06-06T00:00:002017-09-30T00:00:002017-11-08T00:00:00Fully2016-09-15T00:00:0016-UF-RWA-21834Rwanda UFE Application, Aug 2016 (DRC and Burundi refugees)AfricaRwandaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-08-19T00:00:002016-08-19T00:00:002016-09-26T20:40:54.332016-09-26T00:00:005000000.0049987783767035278729482725132050593016492167328132249Almost 164,000 refugees live in Rwanda, including more than 132,000 from Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in six camps. The camps are managed by UNHCR and the Rwandan Government, and the refugees living here are dependent on international humanitarian aid. While Rwanda has been hosting Congolese refugees for two decades, Burundians mostly started arriving in April 2015 fleeing election-related violence. Aid agencies in Rwanda will use CERF funding to scale up life-saving protection and assistance for the 132,000 refugees living in camps, including drinking water and sanitation to prevent disease outbreaks, health care including vaccination and reproductive health, food aid and shelter. This is in line with the regional refugee response plan for Burundi and UNHCR's operations plan for Congolese refugees.The country team in Rwanda requires about $152 million for humanitarian assistance to refugees from Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2016, and has received $38 million or 25 per cent, as of end-August 2016. The CERF allocation from the underfunded emergencies window will amount to about $5 million for 5 projects, if approved.
Rwanda Underfunded Emergencies Application
Country envelope: $5 million (Round II allocation: $50 million for 6 countries)
Application received: 19 August 2016
Number of projects submitted: 5 (originally 6) Burundi political crisis 2015-202016-UF-RWA-21834-NR04george.otoo@one.un.org#George OtooEnglishdorjee2@un.org2017-04-17T00:00:002017-06-01T00:00:002017-09-30T00:00:002017-10-06T00:00:002018-01-18T00:00:00Mostly2016-09-20T00:00:0016-UF-COD-21899DR Congo UFE Application, Aug 2016 (Conflict and South Sudanese refugees)AfricaDemocratic Republic of the CongoMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-08-20T00:00:002016-08-20T00:00:002016-09-26T20:39:05.592016-09-26T00:00:0010993704.0010995505265282873855266157421671632458422704545487724The Democratic Republic of the Congo remains one of the world’s most complex and most protracted humanitarian crises with 7.5 million people in need of humanitarian assistance due to armed conflict in the east, food insecurity, the lack of basic social services across the country, localized natural disasters and disease outbreaks, including yellow fever.
The Humanitarian Country Team has decided to prioritize $11 million in CERF funds for humanitarian assistance in two areas: Dungu in Haut Uélé for multi-sector assistance to 12,000 South Sudanese refugees and 8,000 people from host communities, and the route from South Irumu in Ituri to North Kivu for aid to more than 70,000 vulnerable people, including those that have been displaced, returnees and host communities. Aid agencies will provide food aid and agricultural assistance, nutrition services, emergency shelter, education and multi-sector assistance to refugees. This is in line with the Humanitarian Response Plan for DRC and the regional refugee response plan for South Sudan.The Humanitarian Country Team requires about $690 million for humanitarian action in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2016. According to FTS, the Humanitarian Response Plan has received 43 per cent of its requirements as of 11 September 2016. The CERF allocation from the underfunded emergencies window will amount to about $11 million for 9 projects, if approved.
DRC Underfunded Emergencies Application
Country envelope: $11 million (Round II allocation: $50 million for 6 countries)
Application received: 20 August 2016
Number of projects submitted: 9 South Sudan crisis 2013-16-UF-COD-21899-NR06macdiarmid@un.org#Charlotte MacDiarmidFrenchJulia Wittig2017-04-18T00:00:002017-06-06T00:00:002017-09-30T00:00:002017-10-16T00:00:002018-01-29T00:00:00Fully2016-09-19T00:00:0016-RR-UGA-21908Uganda RR Application, Aug 2016 (South Sudanese refugees)AfricaUgandaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-08-22T00:00:002016-08-22T00:00:002016-09-09T18:11:00.5172016-09-19T00:00:0010288476.00102974971287541571462859004862575989124614177379233135410514Since the onset of fighting in Juba on July 7th 2016, almost 80,000 South Sudanese refugees have fled South Sudan to Uganda (as of 14 August 2016), signifying the worst refugee emergency in Uganda since the initial influx of South Sudanese refugees in 2014. The average daily arrival rate from July 7th to August 1st 2016 was about 2,166 South Sudanese refugees, amounting to a ten-fold increase based upon the daily average of 200 individuals prior to the crisis. These new arrivals join the existing 229,176 South Sudanese refugee population in Uganda for an estimated total of 308,479 South Sudanese refugees and asylum seekers as of August 14th 2016. Refugees from South Sudan now constitute the largest and most severe humanitarian emergency in Uganda, and the CERF Rapid Response grant request for US$7,000,000 has been prioritized to focus on life-saving initiatives for the increasing number of 64,000 new arrivals entering the country since July 7th. CERF funding will be utilised to provide life-saving protection and emergency assistance services in over-crowded temporary reception facilities, to improve the capacity of these facilities, and to provide life-saving protection and assistance in refugee settlements in Arua, Yumbe and Adjumani districts. The following sectors have been prioritised: Protection (Registration, GBV, Child Protection); Food Security; Shelter and NFIs; Health & Nutrition; and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH). The CERF funded project will also support the response to the recent cholera outbreak among refugees (and one host community member) in Pagirinya reception centre in Adjumani district. South Sudan crisis 2013-16-RR-UGA-21908-NR05nasiib.kaleebu@one.un.org#Nasiib KaleebuEnglishJulia Wittig2016-12-12T00:00:002017-02-10T00:00:002017-06-09T18:11:00.5172017-07-05T00:00:002017-12-28T00:00:00Fully2016-09-07T00:00:0016-UF-TCD-21922Chad UFE Application, Aug 2016 (CAR displacement)AfricaChadMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-08-22T00:00:002016-08-22T00:00:002016-09-23T00:00:002016-09-28T00:00:0010000011.00100005513426537111713768843192039180470122696129150251846Across Chad, 3.9 million people are affected by emergencies, including 3.8 million who are food insecure, 728,000 children under 5 who suffer from acute malnutrition and 400,000 refugees. Since December 2013, the escalation of the political and humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic has forced thousands of people to flee to neighbouring countries. Today, 73,000 Central African refugees, 83,000 Chadian citizens who had lived in CAR but were forced to return and 600,000 people from host communities in south Chad are affected by this crisis and many require humanitarian assistance. With a CERF grant of $10 million for underfunded emergencies, aid agencies in Chad will provide humanitarian relief to 217,000 people in returnee sites, refugee camps and villages that people who have fled from CAR, including all 83,000 returness, all 73,000 refugees, and 70,000 people from host communities. Assistance will include food aid, agricultural livelihoods support, nutrition services, health care, water and sanitation, education, emergency shelter and basic household items. In addition, CERF will support the humanitarian aid service in Chad. All these activities are part of the Humanitarian Response Plan.The Humanitarian Response Plan for Chad in 2016 requires $541 million and was 14 per cent funded at the time of the analysis for this allocation round (it is 19 per cent funded as of end-August). The CERF allocation from the underfunded emergencies window will amount to about $10 million for 7 projects (13 budgets since the submission contains several joint projects), if approved.
Chad Underfunded Emergencies Application
Country envelope: $10 million (Round II allocation: $50 million for 6 countries)
Application received: 22 August 2016
Number of projects submitted: 13 budgets in 7 projects CAR crisis 2013-16-UF-TCD-21922-NR08sawadogoa@un.org#Abdoulaye SawadogoFrenchdorjee2@un.org2017-04-18T00:00:002017-06-05T00:00:002017-09-30T00:00:002018-01-19T00:00:00Mostly2016-09-20T00:00:0016-RR-MMR-21991Myanmar RR Application, Aug 2016 (Floods)AsiaMyanmarSouth-Eastern AsiaSouth-Eastern AsiaRRFloodBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20162016-08-25T00:00:002016-08-25T00:00:002016-09-07T00:00:002016-09-13T00:00:003565591.0035704571692916662335914064259116997585757175778133349This application for $3,565,591,aims to cover priority life-saving activities across the most affected regions of Ayeyarwady, Magway and Mandalay, with specific focus on the most vulnerable population groups, particularly in the sector of food security (life-saving food or cash assistance, support for emergency asset creation, and emergency livelihoods assistance through agricultural interventions; health (life-saving sexual and reproductive health services emergency activities); and protection (prevention and emergency response to sexual and gender-based violence), targeting 81,682 vulnerable people. Myanmar is undergoing a very active monsoon season with heavy and continued rains causing main rivers to overflow. The rains intensified at the beginning of August, causing fresh displacement, as well as destruction of crops and housing. More than 488,000 people have been displaced across 11 states/regions since flooding began by mid-July 2016. The CERF interventions will also assist in avoiding loss of hard-won development gains as a result of the floods in affected areas. CERF funds would be used to complement a release from the country-based pooled fund to NGO partners, demonstrating how these two funds can work hand-in-hand to support different elements of a response.16-RR-MMR-21991-NR04rosa-berlanga@un.org#Narciso Rosa-BerlangaEnglishdorjee2@un.org2016-12-12T00:00:002017-02-07T00:00:002017-06-07T00:00:002017-06-15T00:00:002017-12-27T00:00:00Fully2016-09-02T00:00:0016-RR-CIV-22036Cote d'Ivoire RR Application, Aug 2016 (Displacement)AfricaCote d'IvoireWestern AfricaWestern AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-08-29T00:00:002016-08-29T00:00:002016-09-14T19:25:03.772016-09-20T00:00:002114210.0019654161057612414229906826415410980174021656833970This application aims to provide essential life-saving aid to the most vulnerable groups among the IDPs and host families (food, WASH, health, protection), estimated at 20,000 in Western Côte d’Ivoire (departments of Duekoué and Bangolo, Guémon) who have been evicted by Government with little notice from areas they had been living in. Activities include general food distributions (incl. food commodities to prevent moderate malnutrition), improvement of access to clean drinking water (water pump rehabilitation etc.) as well as reproductive health and SGBV victim care. UNICEF, WFP and UNFPA will be able to secure the required resources to launch initial life saving relief interventions in the priority sectors.16-RR-CIV-22036-NR01kats@un.org#Ancel KatsEnglishDavid Hartstone2016-12-16T00:00:002017-02-20T00:00:002017-06-14T19:25:03.772017-07-05T00:00:00Fully2016-09-13T00:00:0016-RR-CMR-22075Cameroon RR Application, Sep 2016 (Displacement)AfricaCameroonMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-09-01T00:00:002016-09-01T00:00:002016-09-23T23:07:28.222016-09-28T00:00:004204956.00418754353610557341093442848131940604218209187674169765Logone and Chari departments in Cameroon and close to the border with Nigeria, are the most affected by the Boko Haram Crisis. Currently host to about 60% of the total of IDPs in the country, there has been an increase in since June due to renewed attacks from the Boko Haram insurgency and ongoing military operations led by the Multinational Force. Consequently, 40,000 new IDPs have been displaced, increasing the total of IDPs in the Department up to 150,000 and adding to the current burden on host communities. The CERF Rapid Response grant will target 40,000 newly displaced and 20,000 vulnerable host communities as well as women and children who are the most affected by the crisis and remain at high risks of sexual violence and forced recruitment. Critical urgent lifesaving needs are required to provide food assistance, access to potable water and basic health services, including reproductive health services, protection and emergency education. Boko Haram crisis 2014-16-RR-CMR-22075-NR06zoungranas@un.org#Samuel ZoungranaEnglishMirna Loiferman2016-12-28T00:00:002017-02-24T00:00:002017-06-23T23:07:28.222017-07-07T00:00:002018-01-08T00:00:002016-09-23T00:00:0016-RR-PRK-22528DPRK RR Application, Sep 2016 (Typhoon Lionrock)AsiaDemocratic People's Republic of KoreaEastern AsiaEastern AsiaRRFloodBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20162016-09-20T00:00:002016-09-20T00:00:002016-10-04T21:29:59.5632016-10-06T00:00:005061209.0050545194972550812100537109105121935231040158830172747331577Typhoon Lionrock passed DPRK on 29 Aug 2016 causing heavy rains. In North Hamgyong province, around 140,000 people are estimated to have been severely affected and up to 600,000 in need of some form on assistance. Needs are estimated at $24,598,000. On 20 September the HC/RC submitted an application to the CERF's rapid response window in the amount of $ 5,061,209. CERF funding will be used to kick start the humanitarian response to the aftermath of the floods in North Hamgyong by facilitating immediate support in key sectors: preventing an increase of waterborne and communicable diseases and other immediate health threats through provision of access to basic water, sanitation and health services and medicine; and reducing food and nutritional insecurity through provision of supplemental food and nutrients and tools to urgently restart food production.16-RR-PRK-22528-NR04Throne-Holst@un.org#Marina Throne-HolstEnglishMirna Loiferman2017-01-04T00:00:002017-03-07T00:00:002017-07-04T21:29:59.5632017-10-12T00:00:00FullyUnicef was able to procure a bigger number of relief items and therefore the beneficiaries reached were more than estimated.2016-10-03T00:00:0016-RR-TZA-22803Tanzania RR Application Oct 2016 (Kagera Earthquake)AfricaUnited Republic of TanzaniaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRREarthquakeGeophysicalNatural Disaster20162016-10-07T00:00:002016-10-18T00:00:002016-10-26T17:08:53.6472016-10-31T00:00:001498949.001498097178461877336619170571824235299349033701571918On 10 September 2016 an earthquake of 5.9 magnitude hit North West Tanzania, at about 44 km from Bukoba town in Kagera region. As a result of the earthquake, an estimated 117,721 people are in need of assistance, having lost their homes, most of them living outside without access to adequate shelter. The total humanitarian needs are US$ 9,000,000. The education sector as a whole has been hit hard by the earthquake crisis. In Bukoba Municipal up to 69.5% of primary school and 36% of secondary school children are negatively affected and a high number of classrooms have been damaged affecting the capacity of schools to accommodate the students. The CERF allocation is at US$ 1,498,097 and focuses on supporting the three top priority sectors; Shelter/NFI; Education and schools WASH; and Child Protection targeting a total of 85,917 people. Of the overall people who have lost their houses, about 15% will be provided with temporary shelter by CERF funds. 16,917 Primary and Secondary school children from 25 most affected schools will be provided with safe learning spaces through establishment of temporary classrooms until permanent structures are established. Adequate financial resources are not available within the UNCT to respond to these priorities, therefore a request to the CERF was made in order to kick start the interventions, meanwhile other resource mobilization efforts are initiated.16-RR-TZA-22803-NR04mona.folkesson@one.un.org#Mona FolkessonEnglishJulia Wittig2017-01-30T00:00:002017-03-31T00:00:002017-07-26T17:08:53.6472017-10-19T00:00:00Mostly2016-10-26T00:00:0016-RR-CUB-22839Cuba RR Application Oct 2016 (Hurricane Matthew)AmericasCubaLatin America and the CaribbeanCaribbeanRRStormBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20162016-10-13T00:00:002016-10-13T00:00:002016-10-31T17:51:31.7372016-11-04T00:00:006390351.005352736461444315889302140285136015276300186429179173365602Hurricane Matthew, category 4 according to the Saffir-Simpson scale, directly impacted Cuba during eight hours from 4-5 October, 2016. 1,079,000 people were evacuated in six provinces of the country. The impact of the hurricane has been localized but highly destructive. The five most eastern municipalities in the most eastern province of Guantánamo have been badly damaged aswell as severely affecting municipalities in the province of Holguin. Most public infrastructure, social institutions, manufacturing centers that provide basic products at a subsidized price, and housing have been extremely damaged. Over one hundred thousand people have damaged houses and limited access to safe water.
The CERF application aims to provide immediate life-saving assistance to 298,935 people in seven severely affected municipalities within a period of six months. This immediate assistance will focus on provision of emergency shelter, food security, safe water and sanitation services, health care and education in emergency. Select16-RR-CUB-22839-NR01ydoime@yahoo.com#Yaima DoimeadiosEnglishJulia Wittig2017-01-30T00:00:002017-02-15T00:00:002017-07-31T17:51:31.7372017-12-07T00:00:002016-10-31T00:00:0016-RR-ETH-22863Ethiopia RR Application Oct 2016 (South Sudanese Refugees)AfricaEthiopiaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-10-17T00:00:002016-10-17T00:00:002016-10-26T16:36:05.962016-10-28T00:00:009491861.00949186315247210503629790262430033326242734535069623Since 3 September 2016, over 40,000 new refugee arrivals from South Sudan have been recorded in Ethiopia and on average 1,000 people arrive in Pagak entry point per day, the majority of which continue to be women and children (87 per cent). This very sudden and unexpected influx was not planned for since as per the Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRRP) 3,500 new arrivals for 2016 had been projected. To respond to the most critical needs of the new arrivals in Ethiopia and those that are expected to arrive until the end of the year US$ 53.7 million will be required. Thus far, some US$4.4 million have been made available for the response. The requested CERF funding of US$ 9,491,861 will address the most critical needs of the recently arrived 40,000 refugees of the 100,000 new arrivals expected until the end of the year. Refugees will be registered, screened for vulnerabilities and emergency protection services will be provided at both Pagak entry point and the camps, including response to SGBV survivors and essential Child Protection services. The relocation of refugees to camp extensions and eventually a new site will be scaled up to 3,000 refugees per day. Additionally, with Global Acute Malnutrition Rates rising from 8 percent to 11.7 percent over the last month, CERF funds will enable WFP to counter severe and moderate acute malnutrition. The Ethiopian Emergency Response Fund (ERF) has currently depleted its resources but is liaising with donors to seek additional funding and will, once these become available, make funding available to NGOs to complement the CERF funding. South Sudan crisis 2013-16-RR-ETH-22863-NR07Arefaines@un.org#Senait ArefaineEnglishdorjee2@un.org2017-01-30T00:00:002017-03-28T00:00:002017-07-26T16:36:05.962017-10-13T22:39:11Mostly2016-10-26T00:00:0016-RR-YEM-22865Yemen RR Application Oct 2016 (Cholera)AsiaYemenWestern AsiaWestern AsiaRRCholeraBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20162016-10-14T00:00:002016-10-14T00:00:002016-10-20T17:26:27.212016-10-25T00:00:002000000.0020000004760645446930523465238438730908225883884166142As of 12 October, 15 cholera cases had been confirmed in two governorates of Yemen, and 186 suspected cases had been identified across the country. Altogether, 7.6 million people are at risk of cholera in Yemen, including 4.5 million people in six governorates, Sana’a City, Taizz, Al Bayda, Aden, Lahj and Al Hudaydah, with confirmed or suspected cases. Health and WASH clusters provided an Integrated Cholera Response Plan on 10 October that presents an integrated response to the outbreak of cholera and acute watery diarrhea. It outlines emergency health, WASH and communications activities in 15 governorates, including six governorates where cholera cases have been confirmed or are suspected, and nine governorates at higher risk.
This CERF allocation will provide immediate life-saving response in health and WASH sectors, targetting 155,038 people in six top priority governorates, with the aim to reduce morbidity and mortality resulting to the cholera outbreak. While total requirements for this integrated response plan are $22.3 million, divided into Health, Water and Sanitation and Communication for Development sectors, the total estimated cost of immediate WASH and health activities in the six priority governorates is $10.5 million. The CERF grant of $2 million will be applied against these requirements, leaving $8.5 million in funding urgently required from other donors. OCHA has also activated complementary $2 million allocation from the Reserve emergency window of the Yemen Humanitarian Pooled Fund (HPF) for humanitarian organizations involved in the cholera response.16-RR-YEM-22865-NR07Hassan51@un.org#Ghada HassanEnglishMirna Loiferman2017-01-23T00:00:002017-03-20T00:00:002017-07-20T17:26:27.212017-11-06T00:00:00Fully2016-10-20T00:00:0016-RR-HTI-22873Haiti RR Application Oct 2016 (Hurricane Matthew)AmericasHaitiLatin America and the CaribbeanCaribbeanRRStormBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20162016-10-17T00:00:002016-10-17T00:00:002016-10-27T23:20:53.6432016-10-31T00:00:006641823.0068385292509652706845216493800853968067768916310506674901298540The application aims to address the humanitarian needs following the impact of Hurricane Matthew in the South of Haiti that resulted in widespread damage, flooding and displacement. As of 11 October 2016, the Directorate of Civil Protection of Haiti had confirmed 473 deaths, 339 injuries and 75 people missing. The number of evacuees is estimated at 175,509 people from four departments: Grand’Anse (99,400), Nippes (7,866), Ouest (3,877), and Sud (64,366). They are now living in some 224 temporary shelters. Among the approximate 2.1 million people affected, UNICEF estimates that 894,057 are children. Nearly 1,410,774 people need humanitarian assistance, including 592,581 children. Hurricane Matthew is the largest humanitarian crisis in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake and constitutes itself an unprecedented emergency for Haiti. Humanitarian needs include access to a sufficient supply of quality water, education, shelter, child protection, health and nutrition. Cholera continues to be a large concern and emergency interventions are complementing the existing cholera response where possible.16-RR-HTI-22873-NR05ditaranto@un.org#Enzo Di TarantoEnglishMirna Loiferman2017-01-30T00:00:002017-03-31T00:00:002017-07-27T23:20:53.6432017-11-01T00:00:00Mostly2016-10-27T00:00:0016-RR-AFG-23148Afghanistan RR Application, Nov 2016 (Returnees from Pakistan)AsiaAfghanistanSouthern AsiaSouthern AsiaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-11-07T00:00:002016-11-21T00:00:002016-11-22T18:07:25.8832016-12-01T00:00:009736611.009782398134888130110264998101406130116231522236294260226496520Triggered by heightened political pressure and security threats on Afghans in Pakistan, over 480,000 undocumented returnees and registered refugees have returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan since July, representing a ten-fold increase in the number of returnees from the period between January and June. The Afghanistan Flash Appeal launched in September aims to cater the needs of approximately 620,000 returning Afghans expected between September and December, which represent US$144.2 million of the total funding requirement of $152 million. Only $34 million or 23 per cent of the Appeal has been funded so far. Initial Rapid Needs Assessment found shelter, WASH and food to be the greatest needs for the newly-arriving returnees, many of whom lack basic necessities and are in highly vulnerable physical and mental states. This CERF allocation of $9.7 million will provide immediate life-saving assistance to new arrivals and cover the most critical gaps in the areas of high return. The CERF-funded projects will target 385,000 people with food, health, protection, emergency shelter, NFI and cash assistance to be delivered in Torkham Border, IOM Transit Centre, four UNHCR Encashment and Transit Centres in Herat, Jalalabad, Kabul and Kandahar, as well as provinces of Nangarhar, Kabul, Kunar and Laghman. The CERF grant will complement US$5 million allocation from the CHF Emergency Reserve, directed to plug critical gaps in the response mainly in Nangarhar province, together to address the rapidly-increasing humanitarian needs caused by the recent spike in returnee population which was not envisaged by the country’s 2016 Humanitarian Response Plan. Z - not in use - Returnees, Z - Not in use - Application - Refugee16-RR-AFG-23148-NR04mcfaddenm@un.org#Maia McFaddenEnglishdorjee2@un.org2017-03-02T00:00:002017-05-02T00:00:002017-08-22T18:07:25.8832017-09-04T00:00:002017-12-27T00:00:00Mostly2016-11-21T00:00:0016-RR-JOR-23191Jordan Berm RR Application II Nov 2016 (Syrian Refugees)AsiaJordanWestern AsiaWestern AsiaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-11-10T00:00:002016-11-10T00:00:002016-12-16T00:00:002016-12-22T00:00:005376117.005068863117601224024000249902601051000367503825075000With a rapid growth in the number of Syrians arriving at the north eastern borders of Jordan, an estimated 100,000 Syrians have been stranded at the crossing points in Hadalat and Rukban since June. The Jordanian authorities have restricted access of this population to the Jordanian territories due to national security concerns, and sealed off the borders and suspended humanitarian assistance following a VBIED attack on Rukban on 21 June. On 1 September, the USG met with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the Jordanian Armed Forces and managed to secure an agreement to resume humanitarian operations at a new distribution point. The total financial requirement for the emergency response for these 100,000 displaced Syrians from June to the end of the year was estimated at $117 million, of which only $36.7 million has been funded so far. This CERF allocation of US$5.7 million will complement an earlier CERF RR allocation of $4.3 million which funded WASH assistance and security enhancement arrangements in August, and targets the stranded Syrians in dire need of humanitarian assistance with additional security coordination, health, nutrition, protection, shelter and camp management activities. Syria crisis 2011-16-RR-JOR-23191-NR03abuata@un.org#Mirna Abu AtaEnglishdorjee2@un.org2017-03-22T00:00:002017-05-16T00:00:002017-09-16T00:00:002017-11-07T00:00:00Mostly2016-12-16T00:00:0016-RR-COD-23263DR Congo RR Application, Nov 2016 (South Sudanese refugees )AfricaDemocratic Republic of the CongoMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-11-17T00:00:002016-12-05T00:00:002016-12-15T00:00:002016-12-22T00:00:004000624.0039893711183812400242385883672012603177211912036841Triggered by fighting between the government forces (SPLA) and the elements of Riek Machar on 10 and 11 September 2016 and subsequent clashes between rebels and loyalist forces of the SPLA in the southwestern states of South Sudan, some 64,369 South Sudanese refugees (as of 22 November) have fled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Many of these refugees are stranded in the border area and, based on a multisectoral needs assessment conducted in August, expected to be suffering deplorable conditions with makeshift shelters and limited to no access to WASH facilities and health services. The total humanitarian funding requirement to address the needs of these refugees and their host communities is estimated at US$13,333.333 of which US$4,550.000 has been pledged so far. This CERF allocation of US$4,000.154 aims to provide immediate life-saving assistance to 32,325 people including 20,000 South Sudanese refugees and 12,325 people from host communities over six months, through ensuring relocation of the South Sudanese refugees in the border area to two new refugee sites in Biringi and Meri and delivering emergency shelter, WASH, food security and nutrition, agriculture, health, and protection assistance. The geographic areas to be covered by this allocation will be the Aru (Ituri Province) and Faradje (Haut Uele Province) territories. Z - Not in use - Application - Refugee South Sudan crisis 2013-16-RR-COD-23263-NR07macdiarmid@un.org#Charlotte MacDiarmidFrenchJulia Wittig2017-03-20T00:00:002017-05-15T00:00:002017-09-15T00:00:002017-10-10T00:00:002018-01-11T00:00:00Fully2016-12-13T00:00:0016-RR-IRQ-23465Iraq RR Application Dec 2016 (Mosul)AsiaIraqWestern AsiaWestern AsiaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-12-08T00:00:002016-12-14T00:00:002016-12-23T00:00:002016-12-29T00:00:0022654000.0018353642368294244479273541177816813228590946120612211558On 17 October 2016, Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) commenced military operations to reclaim Mosul, a city of 1.5 million people, from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Faced by unexpectedly fierce resistance, ISF now predicts that the operations will be prolonged beyond the initially-planned two to three months. As a result, over 56,000 displaced people (as of 15 November) are in need of time-critical assistance to survive severe winter conditions outside of their homes in the coming months. In addition, ISIL snipers are targeting civilians, firing indiscriminately on people trying to leave Mosul, resulting in a spike in civilian casulaties. Over 20 OCHA-led assessment missions have reached newly-taken areas and have identified priority needs for health (especially trauma and maternity care), protection, WASH and food assistance. As the Mosul response was not envisaged in the 2016 Iraq Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), Mosul Flash Appeal was launched in July 2016 requesting $284 million to address the preparedness needs in shelter, food, WASH, health and protection sectors. The total humanitarian funding requirement to address outstanding acute needs of conflict-affected population in and around Mosul today is estimated at $167.5 million, of which $54.5 million has been pledged so far. This CERF allocation of 18.4 million aims to provide immediate life-saving assistance to displaced families and their host population through activities in health and emergency shelter/NFI sectors. CERF-funded projects are strategically aligned with the forthcoming 2017 Iraq HRP and will be complemented by the Iraq Humanitarian Pooled Fund. An estimated 471,000 people will directly benefit from the projects under this application, which will be implemented in accessible areas of eastern Mosul City, the Mosul corridor and parts of Ninewa, Salah al-Din and Erbil Governorates over six months. AA - ad-hoc AA or early action, Z - Not in use - IDP16-RR-IRQ-23465-NR08koide@un.org#Madoka KoideEnglishdorjee2@un.org2017-03-30T00:00:002017-05-24T00:00:002017-10-21T00:00:002018-02-05T00:00:002016-12-23T00:00:0016-RR-HTI-23486Haiti RR Application Dec 2016 (Post Hurricane Matthew Shelter/Education)AmericasHaitiLatin America and the CaribbeanCaribbeanRRStormBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20162016-12-12T00:00:002016-12-15T00:00:002016-12-22T00:00:002016-12-23T00:00:003509796.0035447111027010559208296898512012018171681567932847The main objective of this application is to enable life-saving activities targeting 31,000 people facing forced eviction from temporary shelters following Hurricane Matthew in Haiti. A total of 15,000 individuals will receive shelter and basic assistance, and 16,000 excluded students will resume access to education. The total estimated cost of this application is US$ 3,509,796 out of which US$ 2,964,970 will go to IOM and US$ 544,826 to UNICEF. The grant will support the rapid restoration of emptied school buildings and the identification of and tailored assistance to particularly vulnerable evictees, including unaccompanied children, victims of sexual and gender-based violence and disabled persons. Those evicted from shelters and the most vulnerable people in zones of return will receive shelter assistance (linked to the level of damage sustained) and a multipurpose cash grant to cover basic needs.16-RR-HTI-23486-NR06vedaste@un.org#Kalima VedasteEnglishdorjee2@un.org2017-03-30T00:00:002017-05-24T00:00:002017-09-22T00:00:002017-11-04T00:00:002017-12-11T00:00:00Mostly2016-12-21T00:00:0016-RR-BGD-23507Bangladesh RR Application Dec 2016 (Myanmar Refugees)AsiaBangladeshSouthern AsiaSouthern AsiaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20162016-12-14T00:00:002016-12-22T00:00:002016-12-30T00:00:002017-01-05T00:00:002118379.0030902699581107262030766491796024609162302868644916Since November 2016, a sudden surge of at least 22,000 undocumented Myanmar nationals (UMNs) (as of 3 December) have crossed the border from the Rakhine State of Myanmar into Cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh. Teknaf and Ukhia Upazilas, which currently host a large number of both registered refugees and UMNs, have received the highest influx. A Multi-Cluster/Sectoral Initial Rapid Assessment conducted by IOM, WFP and NGO partners from 24 November to 1 December identified priority needs of the newly arrived, including Protection, Food Security/Nutrition, WASH, Health and Shelter. On 4 December, key humanitarian organizations present in Cox’s Bazar were granted access to the affected areas by the national authorities. At the request of the Government, humanitarian partners agreed to adopt a ‘discreet’ and ‘low-profile’ approach in delivering assistance to this population, by focusing on strengthening existing basic services without building new infrastructure. This CERF allocation of US$3.1 million – against the overall funding requirement of $7.5 million - aims to provide immediate life-saving assistance to 22,000 displaced people who newly arrived in Cox’s Bazar through activities in emergency shelter, food security, nutrition, protection, WASH and health (including reproductive health) sectors to be implemented over four to five months. The CERF-funded projects will be strategically aligned with the Joint Humanitarian Contingency Plan of the UN in Bangladesh, which was released on 26 November to address the humanitarian needs arising from an estimated influx of 50,000 people directly affected by the current crisis in northern Rakhine, and the Humanitarian Response Plan in development. Z - Not in use - Application - Refugee16-RR-BGD-23507-NR03Englishdorjee2@un.org2017-04-03T00:00:002017-06-02T00:00:002017-09-30T00:00:002017-10-18T00:00:00Fully2016-12-29T00:00:0017-RR-MNG-23749Mongolia RR Application Jan 2017 (dzud)AsiaMongoliaEastern AsiaEastern AsiaRRHeat/Cold WaveMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20172017-01-11T00:00:002017-01-11T00:00:002017-01-18T00:00:002017-01-20T00:00:001107614.0011076132905229852035168419693648073649414567On 19 December, the National Emergency Commission in Mongolia reported "white dzud", a harsh winter condition resulting from heavy snow fall and impossibility of livestock to access edible mass, in 110 districts of 15 provinces and one district of Ulaanbaatar city (mostly along the northern belt of the country). Multi-sectoral needs assessments and analysis conducted by the Government and humanitarian partners recorded a series of negative coping mechanisms among the affected households whose livelihood entirely depends on animal husbandry, including reduced food intake, buying food on loan, children dropping out of schools, animal theft and other community conflict, and prioritizing well-being of animals over basic family needs. Acknowledging the limited national capacity to respond to this crisis, the Deputy Prime Minister on 23 December sent a letter to the RC requesting international assistance to the affected vulnerable herder communities to prevent the collapse of their livelihoods. Out of 37,000 herder households living in the affected districts, an estimated 13,000 households are likely to require some form of assistance. Of these, humanitarian organizations are aiming to strengthen the coping capacity of the most vulnerable 8,000 households through targeted assistance in agriculture, early recovery, health and nutrition, protection and education sectors. This CERF allocation of US$1.1million, against the total funding requirement of $6.7 million for the next six months, will provide emergency agriculture (livestock) and multi-purpose cash assistance to 3,500 herder households (12,600 people) in 36 most-affected districts of 13 provinces in the country over a six-month period. The CERF response will cover the most time-critical elements of the overall humanitarian response spearheaded by the Government and supported by the UN, Red Cross, INGOs and other partners. AA - ad-hoc AA or early action17-RR-MNG-23749-NR01tsetsegmaa.amar@one.un.org#Tsetsegmaa AmarEnglishdorjee2@un.org2017-04-26T00:00:002017-06-19T00:00:002017-10-18T00:00:002017-10-27T00:00:002018-01-26T00:00:00Fully2017-01-17T00:00:0017-UF-NGA-23979Nigeria UF Application Feb 2017 (conflict displacement)AfricaNigeriaWestern AfricaWestern AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20172017-02-13T00:00:002017-02-13T00:00:002017-03-21T00:00:002017-03-27T00:00:0021996506.0021997157658519103291616914354814078872951368702113992619202113060137The Boko Haram-triggered crisis in north-east Nigeria shows no sign of abating, while escalation of violence in other parts of the country also requires swift humanitarian response. It is projected that in 2017, 8.5 million people in north-east Nigeria’s Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States will require humanitarian assistance. Famine-like conditions are forecast for 120,000 people and 5.1 million people in all are expected to be food insecure by mid-2017. Some 450,000 children in the North-East suffer from severe acute malnutrition.
The Nigeria 2017 HRP requirement is US$ 1.1 billion. At the time of the CERF UFE application, the 2016 HRP was 42% funded.
This UFE CERF application targets approximately 2.6 million people in the Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states (North East). These areas are among the most affected by displacement due to Boko-Haram-related violence. IDPs and people in host communities require emergency education, food assistance, health and nutrition supplies, protection services, shelter and WASH responses.
Nigeria Underfunded submission
Total envelope: $22 million (Round I allocation: $100 million for 9 countries)
Grant package received: 13 February 2017
Total # of projects submitted: 13 AA - ad-hoc AA or early action Boko Haram crisis 2014-17-UF-NGA-23979-NR01haggarty@un.org#Alta BellEnglishJulia Wittig2017-10-10T00:00:002017-12-08T00:00:002018-03-31T00:00:002018-04-30T00:00:002019-04-03T16:51:062017-03-17T00:00:0017-UF-LBY-24004Libya UF Application Feb 2017 (Protracted Crisis)AfricaLibyaNorthern AfricaNorthern AfricaUFPost-conflict NeedsConflict-relatedMan-made20172017-02-14T00:00:002017-03-02T00:00:002017-03-31T00:00:002017-04-06T00:00:006000000.005997815383813782776208527076499911770691088102826193914Political instability and conflict between opposing parties each backed by different militias and tribes in Libya since 2014 have resulted in a prolonged vacuum of effective governance and collapse of the security system and rule of law, with grave social and economic consequences. Without a state-level agreement on the use of resources and roles and responsibilities or a common strategy for humanitarian response, people living in or returning to conflict-affected areas are faced with extensive infrastructural damage, limited public services and security risks due to widespread contamination by explosive hazards.
The 2017 Libya Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) aims to provide life-saving humanitarian assistance to 941,000 people out of 1.33 million people in need with a funding requirement of US$151 million. Under the HRP, the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) will support actions to enable safe and dignified access to essential health services and other basic social services, as well as protection of most vulnerable Libyans, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. So far, only $9.1 million (6 per cent) of the HRP’s total funding requirement has been received as of 3 March 2017.
This CERF allocation of $6 million will address the most critical priorities as agreed by the HCT and will jump-start time-critical humanitarian assistance in health (including reproductive health), food security, WASH and protection (including child protection, S/GBV and mine action) sectors in Benghazi, Ubari and Sebha governorates of Libya with multi-sectoral assistance targeting the most vulnerable groups. With most of UN agencies and their international partners operating remotely, the CERF-funded projects will largely be implemented by local partners including government agencies, the Libyan Red Crescent Society and NGOs that are well-established in Libya and in the project areas. The HCT will maintain regular and close coordination with the sectoral and local partners to monitor the ground humanitarian situations and provide strategic and operational support for project implementation.
Libya Underfunded submission
Total envelope: $6 million (Round I allocation: $100 million for 9 countries)
Grant package received: 14 February 2017
Total # of projects submitted: 1017-UF-LBY-24004-NR01jazairi@un.org#Leila JazairiEnglishJulia Wittig2017-10-10T00:00:002017-12-08T00:00:002018-03-31T00:00:002019-04-05T22:28:112017-03-30T00:00:0017-UF-CMR-24089Cameroon UF Application Feb 2017 (conflict displacement)AfricaCameroonMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20172017-02-17T00:00:002017-02-17T00:00:002017-04-05T00:00:002017-04-07T00:00:0010000000.00100054133606143528647134782618913442436061346225056971071319612Boko-Haram related violence in north-eastern Nigeria, cross-border raids and suicide bombings in Cameroon has forced nearly 192,000 Cameroonians and 85,000 Nigerian refugees to flee their homes in search of security and protection in the Far North of Cameroon.
The number of internally displaced persons has more than doubled since early 2016, reaching about 200,000 in October 2016. This has resulted in a sharp deterioration in access to basic services which was already weak and in some cases non-existent. For example, 25 health centers are closed due to their destruction and / or occupation and 144 schools did not reopen at the start of the school year In the Far North, almost 45% of the population does not have access to drinking water and only 14% benefit from infrastructure that meets hygiene and sanitation criteria. Food insecurity remains alarming, with about 1.5 million people who are food insecure in the Far North, with 180,000 at the emergency level. Severe acute malnutrition has reached emergency thresholds in the department of Logone and Chari.
CERF funds from the Under Funded Emergency Grant will be used to meet the urgent needs of those affected in the Far North by the conflict related to the Lake Chad Basin crisis. The CERF strategy is to focus the response in the departments of Logone and Chari, which currently accounts for nearly 40% of the internally displaced persons of Cameroon. The response will also cover the border areas of the departments of Mayo Sava and the Mayo Tsanaga for a Protection response which has to extend beyond Logone and Chari, in particular as DTM should not be restricted to a single department. The main objective of the response is to save lives through priority interventions covering the sectors of Food Security, Water, Hygiene and Sanitation, Shelter and Property Non-Food, Protection, Health and Nutrition. The proposals made in this strategy aim to provide holistic assistance to targeted populations through joint projects with the same geographical focus and the same targeting.
Cameroon Underfunded submission
Total envelope: $10 million (Round I allocation: $100 million for 9 countries)
Grant Package received: 17 February 2017
Total # of project submitted: 9 Boko Haram crisis 2014-17-UF-CMR-24089-NR01cherif1@un.org#Imane CherifFrenchMateusz Buczek2017-10-10T00:00:002017-12-11T00:00:002018-03-31T00:00:002018-04-30T00:00:002019-04-02T22:31:122017-03-31T00:00:0017-UF-NER-24178Niger UF Application Feb 2017 (conflict and food insecurity)AfricaNigerWestern AfricaWestern AfricaUFPost-conflict NeedsConflict-relatedMan-made20172017-02-21T00:00:002017-02-21T00:00:002017-03-21T00:00:002017-03-27T00:00:0010000000.00100588481440601499402940009606099960196020240120249900490020Niger remains in a cycle of chronic humanitarian crisis. The Boko Haram driven conflict in the Diffa region has aggravated the vulnerability of many people
who were already living on the edge of survival before the crisis broke out. Approximately 1.9 million people in Niger will need humanitarian assistance in
2017, including 1.5 million in the nutrition sector and 1.3 million in the food security sector.
A $10 million allocation will focus on the needs of 250,000 people related to food insecurity including agriculture, access to basic social services (education, health, WASH), protection and logistics. The response will target the most vulnerable people among those affected in order to save lives primarily in the regions of Diffa, Tillabery, Tahoua and Maradi.
Niger Underfunded Emergencies Application
Country envelope: $10 million (Round I allocation: $100 million for 9 countries)
Application received: 21 February 2017
Number of projects submitted: 10 Boko Haram crisis 2014-17-UF-NER-24178-NR01saidousidibe@un.org#Halima SidibeEnglishMirna Loiferman2017-10-12T00:00:002017-12-08T00:00:002018-04-30T00:00:002019-04-08T20:04:062017-03-17T00:00:0017-RR-MOZ-24650Mozambique RR Application Mar 2017 (Cyclone Dineo)AfricaMozambiqueEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRStormBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20172017-03-13T00:00:002017-03-13T00:00:002017-03-31T00:00:002017-04-06T00:00:002000074.002000095256852471850403181182586743985438035058594388On 15 February 2017, Category 3 cyclone Dineo made landfall over Inhambane province of Mozambique. The cyclone affected 112,513 families (550,691 people), of which 7,651 families are considered particularly vulnerable, and caused widespread damages to the province’s infrastructure and agriculture. Over 33,000 houses were destroyed while another 71,294 houses as well as 389 government offices, 70 health facilities and 2,000 classrooms suffered partial damage. Some 27,000 hectares of crops and over 135,000 fruit trees were lost. Access to potable water and sanitation facilities, basic healthcare services and education of children have been disrupted.
The provincial authorities with support from international and national humanitarian partners conducted a multi-sector rapid needs assessment from 20 to 23 February. The assessment identified priority needs of the affected communities which informed the following response planning: 1) immediate assistance to the most vulnerable with food, shelter and NFI support and emergency agricultural inputs; 2) restoration of basic services through establishment of temporary facilities for education and health care; and 3) reconstruction of classrooms and health units with resilience measures.
Based on preliminary findings, the Government estimated the total funding required to respond to and restore the damages caused by the cyclone at US$16.5 million, towards which it allocated $2.3 million from the National Contingency Plan. In response to the Government request, Mozambique Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) launched a flash appeal on 28 February seeking $10.2 million to complement the national response with activities in education, health, shelter/NFI (partially to address WASH needs), food security, protection and early recovery sectors targeting 150,000 people. Only $400,000 of the appeal has been funded as of 13 March.
This CERF allocation of $2 million will address the most critical priorities as agreed by the HCT in support of the flash appeal to will jump-start life-saving humanitarian assistance in health (including reproductive health/GBV), education, food security, shelter/NFI (including WASH) sectors in Inhambane province in the next three to six months.17-RR-MOZ-24650-NR01claudio.julaia@one.un.org#Claudio JulaiaEnglishdorjee2@un.org2017-06-30T00:00:002017-09-07T00:00:002017-12-31T00:00:002018-01-25T00:00:00Mostly2017-03-30T00:00:0017-RR-MDG-25219Madagascar RR Application Mar 2017 (cyclone)AfricaMadagascarEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRStormBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20172017-03-31T00:00:002017-03-31T00:00:002017-04-18T00:00:002017-04-19T00:00:004999896.00499960148344563981047424138341380827638972797778187505Cyclone Enawo, a category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, struck the Sava region in northeastern Madagascar on 7 March. Widespread flooding was recorded throughout the eastern half of Madagascar in the wake of the storm.Following the evaluation missions organized under the auspices of the National Bureau of Risk and Disaster Management (BNGRC) with the HCT, it was estimated that some 434,000 people were affected, including a total of 247,219 displaced persons. The number of deaths is 81, with 18 people missing, and 253 others injured. This initial assessment revealed severe impact of the cyclone in Antalaha district and in the Maroantsetra district, both in the northeast region of the country.
For the next three months, the total humanitarian needs are estimated at $ 20.1 million. So far, only $691,000 were received. Under this application, the Madagascar HCT is requesting $4,999,896 to kick-start activities of five out of the ten sectors prioritized in the response. With the CERF allocation the HCT intends to cover the Shelter, WASH, Health, Food Security and Common Logistics needs for up to 150,000 beneficiaries living in Antalaha and Maroantsetra districts.17-RR-MDG-25219-NR02rakotoson@un.org#Rija RakotosonFrenchMirna Loiferman2017-07-25T00:00:002017-09-27T00:00:002018-01-18T00:00:002019-05-08T00:00:002017-04-12T00:00:0017-RR-SSD-25251South Sudan RR Application Apr 2017 (Famine Prevention and Rising Conflict)AfricaSouth SudanEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20172017-04-20T00:00:002017-04-20T00:00:002017-05-02T00:00:002017-05-10T00:00:0015520071.0015524589152850154611307461138823314931453754291673469542761215More than 3.6 million people have been displaced by conflict in South Sudan, including 1.9 million who are internally displaced and 1.7 million who have fled as refugees to neighbouring countries. New clashes since the beginning of 2017 have uprooted tens of thousands of civilians. Worst affected areas include Greater Equatoria (including Kajo-Keji, Lainya, Magwi, Torit and Yei, where some 144,000 people were displaced as of the end of February 2017), Unity (including Koch, Leer, Mayendit, Panyijar, 263,000 displaced), and in Upper Nile (including Fashoda, 66,000 displaced). At the time of writing, additional displacement is taking place due to a major offensive underway in Jonglei and recent clashes in and around Wau.
Additionally, food insecurity and malnutrition have reached unprecedented levels, with localised famine declared in Leer and Mayendit counties of Unity on 20 February. Insecurity and lack of access have left 100,000 people facing starvation, and a further 1 million others classified as being on the brink of famine. Country-wide, some 4.9 million people are now estimated to be severely food insecure, and this number is expected to rise to 5.5 million at the height of the lean season in July. Livelihoods have been decimated, with livestock looted, killed and disease prone and crops destroyed or planting delayed due to violence, displacement and unfavourable weather.
The CERF Rapid Response request, submitted 20 April 2017, is triggered by rapidly escalating food insecurity and malnutrition in South Sudan - including in locations where famine or elevated risk of famine has been declared - as well as urgent humanitarian needs in areas of new/active conflict. This application requests US$15.5 million from CERF - as a contribution to a total requirement of US$54 million - in order to reach an estimated 369,000 of the most severely-affected people in 10 highest-risk locations with an inter-cluster response. The contribution will save lives by in supporting the urgent scale-up of front line response, particularly through vital funding for procurement, transportation and distribution of emergency supplies, including inter-cluster rapid response survival kits. It will also enable programme delivery by facilitating the scale up of common services, including transportation of cargo and humanitarian personnel. AA - ad-hoc AA or early action South Sudan crisis 2013-17-RR-SSD-25251-NR01throp@un.org#David ThropEnglishRinzin Dorjee2017-08-10T00:00:002017-10-03T00:00:002018-02-02T00:00:002019-05-09T18:05:422017-05-01T00:00:0017-RR-ZWE-25764Zimbabwe RR Application Apr 2017 (Floods)AfricaZimbabweEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRFloodBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20172017-04-28T00:00:002017-05-03T00:00:002017-05-09T00:00:002017-05-11T00:00:001688953.0015852017199777514974158342224738081230333002253055On 20 March 2017, the Government of Zimbabwe launched an international appeal for Humanitarian Assistance requesting USD$189 million to respond to a national flood disaster declared on 2 March. This was after a record high rainfall exacerbated by cyclone Dineo on 16 February 2017. The flooding crisis particularly affected 36 out of the 60 districts in the country, causing damage to local infrastructure, livelihoods, roads, and homes in 36 districts in the country. Overall, some 251 people were killed; 128 others injured and over 2,600 houses destroyed, leaving hundreds of people homeless and living in temporary camps as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Some 388 schools were affected, with a likely impact on an estimated 67,000 enrolled in the affected areas. The Government further estimates that over 100,000 people are in need of access to safe drinking water as the floods have compromised the hygiene practices and water quality, especially in the congested IDP camp thereby increasing the risk of water and vector-borne diseases. The emergency needs have surpassed the resources in the normal agency programming and partners have had to redirect resources from the drought response to respond to the flood emergency. The request to the CERF rapid response window,, for approximately US 2 million, will therefore be used to address the critical life-saving needs in shelter, education, WASH and protection for approximately 55,000 people who were affected by the flooding.17-RR-ZWE-25764-NR01andrea.danti@one.un.org#Andrea DantiEnglishJulia Wittig2017-08-15T00:00:002017-10-10T00:00:002018-02-09T00:00:002018-02-05T00:00:00Fullyvery credible, well explained beneficiary count.2017-05-09T00:00:0017-RR-SDN-25600Sudan RR Application May 2017 (South Sudanese refugees)AfricaRepublic of the SudanNorthern AfricaNorthern AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20172017-05-04T00:00:002017-05-15T00:00:002017-06-02T00:00:002017-06-07T00:00:0010479979.0010469531147331636231095258453634062185405785270293280Outflow of South Sudanese refugees into neighbouring countries, triggered by the breakout of violence in December 2013 and aggravated as the conflict spread and food security deteriorated, has continued into 2017 and new arrivals in Sudan reached over 108,000 as of 30 April. This unanticipated rate of new arrivals far exceeds the trends of previous years as well as the earlier planning figure of 60,000 new arrivals for the whole of 2017, and has overwhelmed the response capacity of Sudanese government and humanitarian partners that are also supporting nearly 300,000 South Sudanese refugees already staying in the country.
This CERF grant of US$10.5 million will target 60,000 newly arrived South Sudanese refugees in key locations of South Kordofan and White Nile states with urgent WASH, health, nutrition, food, and shelter/NFI assistance over a six month period. This will involve establishing critically-needed basic services in South Kordofan including a reception centre, and expanding life-saving basic service provision in White Nile including through the expansion of two existing refugee hosting sites.
The CERF-funded response will be closely aligned with the overall strategy of the Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRRP), which was revised in April 2017 and now targets some 477,000 individuals including an additional 120,000 new arrivals projected by the end of 2017. CERF will contribute to the projected $40 million funding requirement for this new caseload, which brought up the overall financial requirement for the 2017 South Sudan refugee response in Sudan to $205.5 million. The total RRRP requirement is currently less than 10 per cent funded. Z - Not in use - Application - Refugee South Sudan crisis 2013-17-RR-SDN-25600-NR01gaanders@unhcr.org#Miranda GaanderseEnglishMirna Loiferman2017-09-11T00:00:002017-11-14T00:00:002018-03-22T00:00:002018-04-04T00:00:002019-04-03T20:17:532017-06-01T00:00:0017-RR-YEM-26002Yemen RR Application May 2017 (Famine Prevention)AsiaYemenWestern AsiaWestern AsiaRRPost-conflict NeedsConflict-relatedMan-made20172017-05-12T00:00:002017-05-12T00:00:002017-05-19T00:00:002017-05-23T00:00:0024800588.002495310750583447533698117052557736090088647710314118362361867647Nearly two years of war have exacerbated chronic vulnerabilities in Yemen, leaving an estimated 18.8 million people in need of humanitarian or protection assistance – a nearly 20 per cent increase since late 2014. This includes 10.3 million people in acute need who urgently require immediate, lifesaving assistance in at least one sector in 2017. The conflict has intensified since March 2017, especially on the western coast of Yemen, furthering worsening humanitarian conditions. The March 2017 Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report indicated an increase in the total number of food insecure people in Yemen to 17 million. Among these, some 10.2 million people are in IPC Phase 3 “crisis” and 6.8 million people are in IPC Phase 4 “emergency”. Additionally, a cholera outbreak is spreading in Yemen requiring further scale up of essential medical services to respond.
Following consultation with the Emergency Relief Coordinator and CERF secretariat in late April, the RC/HC for Yemen submitted a CERF rapid response request on 12 May for $25 million to expand urgent food, health and nutrition activities, as well as bolster common services in logistics and security. The CERF funds will enable partners to reach 1.4 million people with food aid, severe and moderate malnutrition assistance in 59 priority districts recording the highest food insecurity and malnutrition indicators. The CERF-funded intervention will also aim to mitigate excess mortality and morbidity through the health minimum service package and nutrition surveillance in 3 prioritized districts of Sa’ada, Al Hodydah and Hajjah governorates. The direct assistance will be provided over a two to four-month period while the common logistics and security services will be implemented for six months. AA - ad-hoc AA or early action17-RR-YEM-26002-NR01mounier@un.org#Pascal MounierEnglishRinzin Dorjee2017-08-23T00:00:002017-10-27T00:00:002018-03-28T00:00:002018-04-13T00:00:002019-05-09T22:32:402017-05-19T00:00:0017-RR-BGD-26523Bangladesh RR Application Jul 2017 (landslides)AsiaBangladeshSouthern AsiaSouthern AsiaRRFloodBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20172017-07-03T00:00:002017-07-05T00:00:002017-07-13T00:00:002017-07-17T00:00:001000000.00100578378671058418451102201965629876180873024048327In mid-June, Bangladesh was hit by the deadliest landslides-related disaster in its history. The disaster affected about 80,000 persons across the five districts and killed 160 persons, including 115 persons in Rangamati District alone. According to the Chittagong Divisional Health Office Control Room Report, a total of 187 injured persons were admitted in local level hospitals. Based on a multi-sector needs assessment and with the support of the national authorities, the HCT developed a Humanitarian Response Plan valued US$10 million in order to complement the assistance provided by the Government of Bangladesh (GoB).
One of the three strategic objectives of the HRP is the provision of immediate life-saving assistance. Following a thorough consultation and prioritization process, the UNCT presented a CERF RR application aiming to provide life-saving assistance to 37,737 persons living in the most severely impacted district of Rangamati in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) and, specifically in three of its ten sub-districts. These persons lost everything to the landslides and are currently living in life-threatening situations, especially women and girls. This application would allow the most affected and most vulnerable persons to benefit from emergency shelter, WASH and protection assistance. It will help them to survive the impact of the landslides and, the on-going monsoon season. This application is for US$1 million.17-RR-BGD-26523-NR02loiferman@un.org#Mirna LoifermanEnglishKristine Hansen2018-01-11T00:00:002018-03-12T00:00:002018-04-13T00:00:002019-04-08T00:00:00FullyIncreased number of beneficiaries reached versus number targeted in view of unexpected significant influx of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar into Cox Bazar, adding to agencies' targeted case load under the CERF-funded projects.2017-07-13T00:00:0017-RR-SDN-26610Sudan RR Application Jul 2017 (Jebel Mara)AfricaRepublic of the SudanNorthern AfricaNorthern AfricaRRPost-conflict NeedsConflict-relatedMan-made20172017-07-10T00:00:002017-07-19T00:00:002017-08-01T00:00:002017-08-09T00:00:004999988.00498702945837458369167329820565918641175657102427178084For the past seven years, several areas in the Jebel Marra region remained inaccessible to humanitarian partners due to insecurity and restrictions by authorities. However, during the past year, the conflict has reduced, and access to several areas has gradually opened, a few partners have since visited different areas in Jebel Marra to conduct assessments and have begun efforts to scale up assistance. The urgency of implementing this rapid response plan is driven by indicators of extremely high levels of malnutrition and mortality in Jebel Marra revealed in assessments done by the Ministry of health and some partners, Severe acute malnutrition (SAM = 5.4) and Global Acute Malnutrition rates (GAM = 15.8) are above emergency levels as well as the overall mortality rate (CMR = 2.43) per 10,000 inhabitants/per day. At the end of April 2017, a FEWSNET food security monitoring report revealed that the food security situation among new IDPs in parts of Jebel Marra has already deteriorated to Crisis (IPC Phase 3 - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification) and is likely to deteriorate to Emergency (IPC Phase 4) by May/June through September 2017 due to displacement, restrictions on movement and trade flows and limited access to normal livelihoods activities. CERF funding will be paramount in reducing mortality and morbidity and specifically child mortality associated with malnutrition and childhood illnesses in the targeted areas of Darfur which have not seen humanitarian interventions for over seven years.This CERF request is based on a rapid lifesaving response components of the Multi-Sector Rapid Response Plan to tackle urgent humanitarian needs associated with critical-level acute malnutrition and mortality among children under five in Jebel Marra localities, Central Darfur state. All CERF proposed activities constitute a minimum package aiming to ensure swift reduction in acute malnutrition and mortality among under-5 children through access to Nutrition, Health, WASH, Protection, Food Security and Livestock services.
The total requirement for the response is :US$ 23,523,943
The total amount received for the response is: US$ 11,116,508
The total amount of CERF funding requested is: US$ 4,991,75417-RR-SDN-26610-NR02merghani@un.org#Randa MerghaniEnglishMateusz Buczek2017-11-17T00:00:002018-01-16T00:00:002018-05-01T00:00:002018-06-01T00:00:002019-04-02T23:21:102017-08-01T00:00:0017-RR-NGA-26745Nigeria RR Application Jul 2017 (Severe Food Insecurity)AfricaNigeriaWestern AfricaWestern AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20172017-07-27T00:00:002017-07-27T00:00:002017-08-14T00:00:002017-08-17T00:00:009869108.00988947134716351351886068127203950001477205361920210135321632734The ongoing armed conflict in North East Nigeria which started in 2009 has caused 8.5 million people to require a range of humanitarian assistance in the states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa. Borno state is the most affected. The conflict has led to massive displacement and severe food insecurity and undernutrition. It has destroyed livelihoods and food reserves, disrupted markets and commercial activities, and impeded access to health, nutrition, sanitation and education services. The latest Cadre Harmonise of June 2017 estimates some 5.2 million people in the IPC 3, 4 and 5 categories from June through September with more than 50,000 people in famine like conditions. The 2017 HRP requirment is US $1.05 billion. As of 18 July, $442.1 million had been contributed and/or pledged (42 per cent of the requirements)
The $10 million CERF allocation will support “humanitarian hubs” from which first line responders, both UN and NGOs, can establish a permanent and secure humanitarian presence. It will also complement food assistance through the provision of integrated life-saving WASH, health and nutrition interventions focusing on newly arrived IDPs and returnees in the same areas facing famine conditions. The areas of intervention will primarily focus on Bama (Bama IDP camp and Banki), Gwoza, Mobbar and Kala/Balge, Kukawa and Damboa. The multi-sector response targets 1,305,154 people including 874,970 IDPs, 41,247 people in host populations, and 17,714 other affected people. The requested support will be complementary to bi-lateral and in-kind government contributions, as well as the Nigeria Humanitarian Fund (NHF). AA - ad-hoc AA or early action Boko Haram crisis 2014-17-RR-NGA-26745-NR02haggarty@un.org#Alta BellEnglishMirna Loiferman2017-11-16T00:00:002018-01-18T00:00:002018-06-09T00:00:002018-06-30T00:00:002019-04-11T22:54:282017-08-11T00:00:0017-UF-SDN-27345Sudan UF Application Sep 2017 (displacement)AfricaRepublic of the SudanNorthern AfricaNorthern AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20172017-09-14T00:00:002017-09-14T00:00:002017-10-26T00:00:002017-10-24T00:00:0014000000.0014169983946301058002004307787485054162928172504190854363358Sudan continues to confront significant humanitarian needs with 4.8 million people requiring assistance, inclusive of 2.3 million people internally displaced, 3.6 million people facing food insecurity, and 2.2 million children suffering from acute malnutrition. More than 182,000 South Sudanese refugees have arrived in 2017 beyond projections. Eased restrictions on operations has improved access in Darfur and Government parts of the Two Areas. New areas in Jebel Marra, South Kordofan and Blue Nile are opening to humanitarian access which will require increased response.
A $14 million allocation will focus on the needs of 267,000 people in areas with high numbers of IDPs, refugees and vulnerable host populations including newly accessible areas in South Kordofan, Blue Nile and East Jebel Marra. CERF will support life-saving interventions in Food Security and Livelihoods, Education, Emergency Shelter/ Non-Food Items, Health, Nutrition, Protection, and WASH. The Sudan Humanitarian Fund is simultaneously preparing a call for proposals for $7 million and the CERF prioritisation will be considered when identifying the urgent needs to be covered for the grant.
The Sudan Humanitarian Country Team requires about $804 million for humanitarian action in in 2017. According to FTS, Sudan received 19% of the HRP requirement as of 21 July 2017 when the UFE country selection analysis took place and is now 37.5% funded, still below the current global funding average of 44% for 2017 HRPs.
Sudan Underfunded Emergencies Application
Country envelope: $14 million (Round II allocation: $45 million for 4 countries)
Application received: 14 September 2017
Number of projects submitted: 10The CERF UFE allocation was well prioritized with a limited number or projects and a targeted geographic locations.17-UF-SDN-27345-NR03elhassan2@un.org#Tarig ElhassanEnglishMateusz Buczek2018-04-19T00:00:002018-06-07T00:00:002019-01-31T00:00:002019-05-09T21:00:062017-10-20T00:00:0017-RR-COD-27368DR Congo RR Application Sep 2017 (Displacement)AfricaDemocratic Republic of the CongoMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20172017-09-15T00:00:002017-09-15T00:00:002017-10-06T00:00:002017-10-10T00:00:0014013950.001395835516984825477142461972792109188181980242640363959606599This CERF submission is intended to address the urgent humanitarian needs arising from the sharp deterioration of the situation in areas affected by violence in the Kasai region, the Bantou-Batwa inter-communal conflict in the East and the activities of armed groups in South Kivu. Currently there are 1.4 million IDPs throughout nine provinces of which CERF support will reach approximately 647,000.
CERF-funded assistance will meet the vital needs of those affected through:
1) Immediate improvement of the living conditions, such as supply of essential household items and shelter, access to water and hygiene facilities, and access to health care.
2) Protection and respect for human rights, through school reintegration, prevention and management of gender-based violence, and profiling and registration of refugees and displaced persons.
3) Reduction of the excess mortality and morbidity through food assistance and support to emergency food production, and provision of a multisectoral package for cholera respons. DRC conflict and refugees 2017-201817-RR-COD-27368-NR03macdiarmid@un.org#Charlotte MacDiarmidFrenchKristine Hansen2018-01-10T00:00:002018-04-12T00:00:002018-08-05T00:00:002018-08-16T00:00:002019-04-24T00:00:00PartlyIn the application/chapeau, the HCT planned to deliver life-saving assistance to 809,470 beneficiaries while at the reporting stage, only 606,599 people were reached through the various interventions. it thus appears that there have been some issues at the application stage in terms of deciding on the number of total targeted beneficiaries, perhaps related to double counting. Importantly, agencies and partners largely reached, or in some projects surpassed, the planned number of beneficiaries.2017-10-04T00:00:0017-RR-CUB-27383Cuba RR Application Sep 2017 (Hurricane Irma)AmericasCubaLatin America and the CaribbeanCaribbeanRRStormBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20172017-09-16T00:00:002017-09-25T00:00:002017-10-02T00:00:002017-10-04T00:00:0010371886.0079994695118352676103859221839218938440777273022271614544636Hurricane Irma, the strongest Atlantic hurricane on record, directly impacted Cuba from 8 - 10 September 2017. The impact of the hurricane was highly destructive, with approximately two million people evacuated during the storm, an estimated 200,000 houses severely damaged and health and educational institutions, food and medical warehouses, and manufacturing centers have been extremely affected. There are severe limitations in potable water accessibility and proper sanitation. The harvest of crops has been lost. Livestock and fish farms have suffered severe damages and most economic sectors, particularly agriculture, energy and tourism are severely damaged.
On 16 September, the Cuba Plan of Action was launched requesting $55.8 million to meet the urgent needs of 2,151,080 affected people. On the same day, the Resident Coordinator a.i. submitted a request for a CERF rapid response grant of $10.4 million on behalf of the UNCT in Cuba to assist 558,801 people in 14 severely affected municipalities over a six-month period. In view of the Emergency Relief Coordinator’s decision on $10 million for humanitarian assistance in response to Hurricane Irma covering both Cuba ($8 million) and the other affected Caribbean States ($2 million), CERF secretariat asked on 18 September that the application be reduced to $8 million. On 20 September, the RC a.i. submitted a revised application of $8.5 million noting the severe scale of needs, which the UNCT subsequently was requested to further reduce to meet the $8 million allocation. The final revised application was submitted on 25 September, requesting a total of $ 8 million from CERF.
The immediate assistance provided by humanitarian partners will assist 558,801 people through the provision of emergency shelter materials, food assistance, agriculture and livelihoods, safe water and sanitation services, health care and education in emergency. The health sector will be assisting a broader geographic area and additional beneficiaries through the support to key national health system facilities.17-RR-CUB-27383-NR01yaima.doimeadios@one.un.org#Yaima DoimeadiosEnglishJulia Wittig2018-01-12T00:00:002018-03-12T00:00:002018-07-02T00:00:002019-04-03T17:06:122017-09-29T00:00:0017-UF-CAF-27399CAR UF Application Sep 2017 (displacement)AfricaCentral African RepublicMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20172017-09-18T00:00:002017-09-18T00:00:002017-10-17T00:00:002017-10-19T00:00:0010000000.0099956263925846045853033708849607866957634695652171998The Central African Republic (CAR) is experiencing a dramatic escalation of conflict and violence with 2.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. One in every five CAR citizens is either internally displaced or has fled to neighbouring countries; 600,000 and 500,000 people, respectively. Some 2 million people are food insecure, of which 55 percent are in crisis and emergency phases. Twenty-three percent of the health structures have been destroyed and two thirds of the population have no access to health care.
A $10 million allocation will focus on the needs of 180,000 people in six humanitarian hotspots of Alindao, Bangassou, Batangafo, Kaga-Bondoro, Bria and Zemio IDP sites. CERF will support life-saving interventions in Food Security and Livelihoods, Health, Nutrition, WASH, Protection, Child Protection, Gender Based Violence and Emergency Shelter/ Non-Food Items as well as enabling Logistics operations and Humanitarian Air Services. The CERF response will be closely aligned with a $3 million emergency allocation from the CAR Humanitarian Fund, ensuring complementarity and maximizing the impact of limited resources available to save lives.
The CAR Humanitarian Country Team requires about $497 million for humanitarian action in in 2017. According to FTS, CAR received 24% of the HRP requirement as of 21 July 2017 when the UFE country selection analysis took place and is now 30% funded, still below the current global funding average of 44% for 2017 HRPs.
CAR Underfunded Emergencies Application
Country envelope: $10 million (Round II allocation: $45 million for 4 countries)
Application received: 18 September 2017
Number of projects submitted: 8 CAR crisis 2013-17-UF-CAF-27399-NR02salvator@un.org#Salvator BijojoteFrenchMateusz Buczek2018-04-19T00:00:002018-06-07T00:00:002018-09-30T00:00:002019-05-10T00:00:002017-10-17T00:00:0017-UF-AFG-27432Afghanistan UF Application Sep 2017 (displacement)AsiaAfghanistanSouthern AsiaSouthern AsiaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20172017-09-18T00:00:002017-09-29T00:00:002017-10-26T00:00:002017-10-27T00:00:0010024310.00999690584616736951583119137781423172800175993155118331111The continued deepening and geographic spread of the protracted conflict in Afghanistan continues to generate significant humanitarian needs. Some 7.4 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. 1.6 million people are severely food insecure and at least 1.3 million children are expected to reach high levels of starvation this year. In 2017, 229,000 people have been displaced due to internal conflict while over 377,000 documented and undocumented Afghans returned to date and up to 773,000 Afghans are estimated to return soon.
A $10 million allocation will focus on the needs of 344,000 people comprises returnees along the Afghanistan-Iran border at Malak border, flood-affected IDPs, returnees and host communities in Nimroz province; people in need of winterization assistance across 21 high altitude provinces; and food insecure and natural-disaster affected people in 10 priority provinces. CERF will support life-saving interventions in Food Security and Livelihoods, Child Protection, Emergency Shelter/ Non-Food Items, Health, Nutrition, Protection, and WASH. The CERF support was prioritised by the country team with a view of the second Afghanistan Common Humanitarian
Fund allocation of 2017 for $25 million, which focused on improving humanitarian action and responsiveness in 45 hard-to-reach areas.
The Afghanistan Humanitarian Country Team requires about $550 million for humanitarian action in in 2017. According to FTS, Afghanistan received 27% of the HRP requirement as of 21 July 2017 when the UFE country selection analysis took place and is now 34% funded, still below the current global funding average of 44% for 2017 HRPs.
Afghanistan Underfunded Emergencies Application
Country envelope: $10 million (Round II allocation: $45 million for 4 countries)
Application received: 18 September 2017
Number of projects submitted: 617-UF-AFG-27432-NR01oppermann@un.org#Jens OppermannEnglishMirna Loiferman2018-04-18T00:00:002018-06-26T00:00:002018-10-30T00:00:002019-05-08T00:00:002017-10-20T00:00:0017-RR-ATG-27500Antigua Barbuda RR Application Sep 2017 (Hurricane Irma)AmericasAntigua and BarbudaLatin America and the CaribbeanCaribbeanRRStormBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20172017-09-22T00:00:002017-10-02T00:00:002017-10-06T00:00:002017-10-17T00:00:002168604.002154461112811410125382187723464223131581644729605Hurricane Irma—the most powerful hurricane ever recorded over the Atlantic—began its destructive path across the small island developing states of the Caribbean on September 5th. For four days, it battered the region. Irma first bore down on Antigua and Barbuda with Category 5 strength in the early hours of September 6th, destroying over 90% of the housing stock in Barbuda, severing communication with its sister isle Antigua and rendering the island uninhabitable for its 1,780 residents.
Across the territories, WASH facilities have been damaged, depriving residents of consistent access to clean water, functional sanitation facilities and adequate hygiene resources. Further, roofless and damaged structures with stagnant water are creating ideal conditions for mosquitos (which in turn serve as vectors for malaria, dengue fever, Zika and Chikungunya. Scattered debris, such as fallen trees, downed powerlines, broken windows and damaged cars, can be transformed into harmful projectiles by subsequent hurricanes.Finally, compromised access to shelter, telecommunications and basic services have increased vulnerability to crime and violence, including sexual and gender-based violence. The ERC allocated $10 million for humanitarian assistance to cover both Cuba ($8 million) and the other affected Caribbean States ($2 million).
Total amount required for the humanitarian response: US$ 27,000,000
Total amount received for the humanitarian response: US$ 4,015,000
Total amount of CERF funding requested: US$ 2,168,60417-RR-ATG-27500-NR01shari.inniss-grant@one.un.org#Shari GrantEnglishJulia Wittig2018-01-11T00:00:002018-04-03T00:00:002018-07-30T00:00:002018-08-14T00:00:002019-04-03T22:51:232017-10-06T00:00:0017-RR-DMA-27733Dominica RR Application Oct 2017 (Hurricane Maria)AmericasDominicaLatin America and the CaribbeanCaribbeanRRStormBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20172017-10-05T00:00:002017-10-05T00:00:002017-10-17T00:00:002017-10-19T00:00:002999532.003011838126441107923723237672380347570364113488271293On September 18th Hurricane Maria, a Category 5 storm, caused widespread damage and destruction in Dominica, one of the poorest countries in the Caribbean. The entire island of 71,293 has been affected, with up to 65,000 people suffering direct damage to housing and livelihoods. Dominica’s substantial indigenous population; its resident 15,000 children and 34,882 women and girls have unique vulnerabilities to natural hazards—they face heightened risk in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Several communities in the western and southern parts of the country remain cut off and are still awaiting assistance. The Flash Appeal requires $31.1 million to address the most urgent needs of the most affected people from September until December 2017. It has received less than $1 million and is only 3% funded (source: FTS on 6 October 2017).
The CERF request is for $3 million to address the needs of 71,293 people. CERF funds will be critical in reestablishing health and education services, ensuring access to safe water and sanitation, outbreak prevention and control, providing shelter and protection services. The CERF allocation will address two Flash Appeal priorities which are 1) to provide timely life-saving assistance to people affected by Hurricane Maria and 2) support the restoration of basic services and livelihoods across the country.17-RR-DMA-27733-NR01shari.inniss-grant@one.un.org#Shari GrantEnglishMirna Loiferman2018-01-22T00:00:002018-04-03T00:00:002018-07-17T00:00:002018-07-23T00:00:002019-04-03T20:51:062017-10-17T00:00:0017-RR-BGD-27808Bangladesh RR Application Oct 2017 (Rohingyas from Myanmar)AsiaBangladeshSouthern AsiaSouthern AsiaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20172017-10-09T00:00:002017-10-13T00:00:002017-10-17T00:00:002017-10-23T00:00:0012010342.00120103425483550930105765372086702410423292043117954209997Since 25 August 2017, more than half a million Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar and sought refuge in Bangladesh and the influx shows no sign of slowing. All existing camps are overcrowded, under-capacitated basic social services in existing camps are overstretched to the maximum extent, limiting dangerously access for most of the people. A revised Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) for the Rohingya Refugee Crisis was released on 4 October 2017 requesting $12 million. It covers the period of September 2017 through February 2018. The plan targets 900,000 Rohingya refugees including 300,000 who were in Cox’s Bazar before the August influx and 300,000 members of the host communities, which are also directly affected by the consequences of the Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Cox’s Bazar.
Under this application, funds are sought to cover immediate life-saving needs and support time-critical interventions for 196,000 refugees (53% women, 47% men, 54% children) on the Kutupalong extension site. In line with the HRP and the CERF prioritization-related discussions, a significant portion of this CERF RR application is dedicated to WASH and Health sectors to provide direct life-saving emergency assistance and to prepare for severed life-threatening risks related to highly probable water-borne disease/cholera outbreak. Complementary immediate and prioritized life-saving interventions in Shelter, Food Security and Protection sectors are also part of this second CERF application. Z - Not in use - Application - Refugee17-RR-BGD-27808-NR05henry.glorieux@one.un.org#Henry GlorieuxEnglishFabrizio Cesaretti2018-01-26T00:00:002018-04-02T00:00:002018-07-17T00:00:002019-04-02T00:00:00Fully2017-10-17T00:00:0017-UF-TCD-27880Chad UF Application Oct 2017 (Displacement)AfricaChadMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20172017-10-10T00:00:002017-10-10T00:00:002017-10-30T00:00:002017-11-02T00:00:0010999908.00109949632619927445536444525047653929037144975098146547The deterioration of the socio-political and security situation in the Central African Republic over the last decade has led to the influx of thousands of refugees and Chadians returnees living in the border regions. In total, the southern area of Chad, namely Moyen Chari, Logone Oriental and Salamat have seen their populations grow by nearly 145,000 people living in camps or hosted by the local population. As a result, minimum humanitarian standards are no longer met in several sectors such as food security, health and nutrition, protection, education and shelter. HCT requires 11 million to support 145,556 people (72,559 returned, 16,937 refugees and 56,060 hosts) to implement a response consisting in a multipurpose cash intervention coupled with a strengthening of health, nutritional and educational structures. Z - Not in use - Application - Refugee CAR crisis 2013-17-UF-TCD-27880-NR02sawadogoa@un.org#Abdoulaye SawadogoFrenchMirna Loiferman2018-04-19T00:00:002018-06-11T00:00:002018-09-30T00:00:002018-10-15T00:00:002019-04-22T22:34:102017-10-27T00:00:0017-RR-LBY-28296Libya RR Application Nov 2017 (UNDSS)AfricaLibyaNorthern AfricaNorthern AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20172017-11-06T00:00:002017-11-06T00:00:002017-11-14T00:00:002017-11-16T00:00:00357812.00357812000000000The humanitarian situation in Libya continues to deteriorate as 1.6 million people are affected by conflict. It is estimated that over 1 million people are in need of urgent health interventions, more than 1 million need protection assistance, 670,000 need WASH intervention, 637,000 need food assistance, 584,000 need shelter/NFI assistance and 403,000 need education support.
Developments in 2017 have generated momentum for the return of the UN to Libya, including the Strategic Assessment Review in May, the Executive Committee meeting in July, and the Security Council Resolution in September that encourage the UN to re-establish a present in Tripoli and other parts of the country through a phased return and as security conditions allow. This re-establishment of present requires substantial engagement of UNDSS. In particular, US$ 357,812 are needed for UNDSS to deploy two Field Security Coordination Officers and provide dedicated security support for the expanded lifesaving humanitarian operations in Tripoli, Benghazi and newly opened areas in Libya. This will enable the implementation of the humanitarian response required by the ongoing humanitarian needs. The UNDSS activities will also support UN agencies to implement the CERF underfunded emergency grants approved in 2017.17-RR-LBY-28296-NR02gehac@un.org#Carlos GehaEnglishKristine Hansen2018-02-16T00:00:002018-04-12T00:00:002018-08-14T00:00:002019-04-03T00:00:00FullyN/A in view of the nature of the project (security) with no direct beneficiaries targeted2017-11-13T00:00:0018-RR-ZMB-28517Zambia RR Application Jan 2018 (Refugees from DRC)AfricaZambiaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-01-09T00:00:002018-01-24T00:00:002018-02-02T00:00:002018-02-08T00:00:0010009973.006559772550855261103438194776859593271030219629Escalating violence in the Haut-Katanga and Tanganyika provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo caused an outflow of people into neighboring Zambia beginning in August 2017. As of 31 December 2017, a total of 12,765 people had entered the Luapula Province at an average rate of 110 persons per day. The refugees are currently hosted in the Kenani temporary transit centre in Nchelenge District which has overreached its capacity of 10,000 people. In December 2017, the Government of Zambia identified land for the resettlement of refugees. Based on trends of a daily average of 110 people registering at the Kenani Centre since September 2017, it is projected that 25,000 people would register by 31 March 2018. This CERF application is based on the projected figure of 25,000 refugees.
With these CERF funds, the UNCT in Zambia will establish a new refugee settlement in Mantapala and ensure a decongestion of the Kenani Transit Centre. CERF funds will be used to support the most vulnerable in the new site by providing essential WASH, nutrition, food aid, education, child protection, health and multi-sector services, as well as safe transportation to the transit centre and new settlement site. The CERF funds will support the needs of 25,000 beneficiaries over a six-month period.
Total amount required for the humanitarian response: US$ 25,908,748
Total amount received for the humanitarian response: US$ 0
Total amount of CERF funding requested: US$ 6,487,187 (The initial amount requested was $10 million; however, the CERF Secretariat asked the HCT to further prioritize the activities as the amount and proportion request was high in comparison with other CERF allocations to similar emergencies. Z - Not in use - Application - Refugee DRC conflict and refugees 2017-201818-RR-ZMB-28517-NR01paul.chitengi@one.un.org#Paul ChitengiEnglishKristine Hansen2018-06-05T00:00:002018-07-03T00:00:002018-11-30T00:00:002019-04-24T00:00:00FullyYes, following a reduction in the number of targeted beneficiaries as the numbers never reached the project levels included in the application, agencies requested re-programming and amendments of beneficiary figures, which resulted in a more accurate reporting.2018-02-01T00:00:0018-RR-COD-28606DR Congo RR Application Jan 2018 (L3 emergency)AfricaDemocratic Republic of the CongoMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-01-18T00:00:002018-01-18T00:00:002018-04-09T00:00:002018-04-12T00:00:0020102922.001998199876597829791595768297989894172873159576172873332449This CERF rapid response application of US$20 million is triggered by the IASC System-Wide Level 3 activation in the DRC on 20 October 2017 for a period of six months, focusing on the Kasais, Tinganyika and South Kivu provinces and a limited number of neighboring districts. The three operational plans issued by the HCT in December 2017 target some 3.5 million people in need of humanitarian assistance in the three provinces, for which US$418 million is required. Violence in the Kasais, Tanganyika and South-Kivu has displaced more than 2.5 million people. Close to 4.3 million people in these three areas are estimated to be facing Crisis or Emergency levels of food insecurity. This is taking place within one of the world’s largest and most complex humanitarian crises, with at least 8.5 million people across the DRC in need of assistance and protection, close to 2 million children at risk of severe acute malnutrition and outbreaks of diseases, including cholera affecting tens of thousands each year.
Following discussions between the HCT and the CERF secretariat in view of the rapid response allocation of US$14 million in September 2017 just before the L3 activation, the ERC agreed to an additional allocation in support critical activities identified in the L3 benchmarks. As such, this CERF allocation will have a direct and catalytic impact on the scale-up of the response and operational capacity in the L3 areas to deliver a more coordinated and informed response. Under this CERF application, some $20 million are sought to support enhanced coordination and IM capacity; joint analysis and rapid assessments; common logistics services; as well as rapid multi-sectorial assistance within the sectors of Food, WASH, NFIs, Health (including SRPH and Cholera prevention/treatment), and protection (child protection, SGBV). On 14 March, the final proposal of the application from UNFPA, as agreed by the HCT, was submitted to the CERF secretariat to reinforce accountability of the humanitarian community in the DRC vis-à-vis the crisis affected people in the L3 areas by establishing an inter-agency AAP mechanism. UNFPA requested $299,970 for six months implementation of which $272,728 was finally approved by the ERC. CERF funds will enable immediate life-saving assistance and support time-critical interventions for 412,674 of the most vulnerable people in the L3 areas over six months. DRC conflict and refugees 2017-201818-RR-COD-28606-NR02Rawad El Zir#Rawad El ZirFrenchPhilippe Decker2018-07-10T00:00:002018-10-15T00:00:002019-01-31T00:00:002019-03-01T00:00:002019-07-10T00:00:002018-04-09T00:00:0018-RR-YEM-28632Yemen RR Application Jan 2018 (Conflict)AsiaYemenWestern AsiaWestern AsiaRRPost-conflict NeedsConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-01-22T00:00:002018-01-29T00:00:002018-02-02T00:00:002018-02-08T00:00:0049999290.0049909290680452421566110201837097850571187668910514309272771978707The conflict and resulting humanitarian emergency, which began in 2015, worsened in November 2017 with the blockade of airports and seaports, and the sudden escalation of fighting in the western part of the country. Today 22.2 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in Yemen, of which 11.3 million are in acute need. CERF will contribute nearly US$50 million to support immediate needs related to the deteriorating situation.
This CERF Rapid Response allocation targets 1,576,012 people of which half are IDPs and focuses on two priority themes: 1) the acute needs of 1,370,000 people severely food insecure and malnourished in 27 prioritized districts that will be addressed through an integrated WASH, Health, Nutrition, FSAC, Protection interventions; and 2) 20% of funds will support the emergency response in the districts recently affected by the sudden escalation of the conflict in Hodeida. CERF funds will also support enabling services, including Logistics and Safety and Security.18-RR-YEM-28632-NR01martiny@un.org#Yannick MartinEnglishInga Christina Mueller2018-06-05T00:00:002018-07-06T00:00:002018-12-07T00:00:002019-01-15T00:00:002019-05-29T00:00:002018-02-02T00:00:0018-RR-UGA-28663Uganda RR Application Feb 2018 (Refugees from DRC)AfricaUgandaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-02-02T00:00:002018-02-02T00:00:002018-02-16T00:00:002018-02-20T00:00:006100007.006098619269612656453525172501718934439442114375387964This CERF rapid response application of US$6.1 million is triggered by the sudden influx of Congolese refugees into western and south-western parts of Uganda. Since 1 December 2017, nearly 16,000 Congolese refugees have arrived in Uganda of which some 80 percent are women and children, travelling by boats across Lake Albert. Peaking in December, over 500 people – some 10 times the average – were crossing into Uganda on a daily basis. The influx necessitates the opening of landing sites, transit centres, establishment of new refugee settlements and expansion of existing settlements. The CERF funds will enable agencies to provide urgent critical life-saving protection, shelter/NFIs, WASH, food, health and nutrition assistance for 30,600 newly arrived refugees and projected arrivals, focussed on the five districts of Hoima, Kisoro, Kanungu, Bundibugyo, and Kyegegwa in west and south-western Uganda. The figures of targeted beneficiaries are based on the 6,600 new arrivals in December 2017 and projections for new arrivals between January and March 2018.
As the new influx of refugees is putting immense pressure on the host communities’ infrastructure and services, CERF funds will also provide assistance to 9,000 members of the host communities through the preservation of the asylum space with a community-based approach. While the settlement approach is unique and commendable, it typically incurs higher up-front costs than that of a camp environment, when basic life-saving provisions are to be established.
Under this CERF application, some US$6.1 million are sought to provide urgent critical life-saving multi-sectoral assistance within the sectors of protection, shelter/NFIs, WASH, food, health and nutrition for 30,600 newly arrived refugees as well as 9,000 host community members for a period of three months. Z - Not in use - Application - Refugee DRC conflict and refugees 2017-201818-RR-UGA-28663-NR01lily.adhiambo@one.un.org#Lily AdhiamboEnglishInga Christina Mueller2018-06-20T00:00:002018-07-19T00:00:002018-11-16T00:00:002018-11-30T00:00:002020-03-23T00:00:002018-02-15T00:00:0018-UF-ERI-28520Eritrea UF Application Feb 2018 (Drought)AfricaEritreaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaUFDroughtMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20182018-02-12T00:00:002018-02-12T00:00:002018-03-14T00:00:002018-03-15T00:00:005000000.004994295126604134735261339123753150341274094250357285076535433Recurrent drought and the residual effects of the border conflict with Ethiopia are underlying causes for vulnerability in Eritrea. Two-thirds of the population is engaged in subsistence farming and pastoralism for livelihoods, rendering them vulnerable to climate variability. The relative poor performance of the 2017 agricultural season and the disruption of market access to commodities, will affect food security in 2018. As a result, more than one million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. Vulnerable groups include small-scale farmers, pastoralists, the urban poor, people living with HIV/AIDS, and refugees. The country hosts 2,288 refugees from Somalia at Umkulu Refugee Camp who are in need of basic services support.
The Eritrea humanitarian requirement is US$ 23 million. At the time of the CERF UFE analysis, humanitarian operations were 48% funded.
This UFE CERF application targets approximately 464,115 people in the Northern Red Sea, Gash-Barka, Anseba and Debub. These areas are among the most affected by displacement and IDPs and people in host communities require food interventions in the food security, nutrition, WASH and health sectors as well as multi-sector (nutrition, food and health) assistance to refugees.18-UF-ERI-28520-NR01vedaste@un.org#Kalima VedasteEnglishPatrick Francis Pascal David2018-10-03T00:00:002018-12-13T00:00:002019-10-30T00:00:002020-03-25T00:00:002018-03-12T00:00:0018-UF-MLI-28522Mali UF Application Feb 2018 (conflict displacement)AfricaMaliWestern AfricaWestern AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-02-12T00:00:002018-02-26T00:00:002018-03-14T00:00:002018-03-15T00:00:008000000.0079998006926072088141348233778111610449392637153204245841Despite the signature of the Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in 2015, armed conflicts, intercommunal violence, and terrorism attacks continue to plague Mali. In 2017, 133 access constraints were recorded. More than 97% of these cases occurred in the northern (Gao, Menaka, Kidal or Timbuktu) and central (Mopti) regions. In 2018, 5.1 million people are affected by the crisis with 27% of the Malian population having very limited access to basic services, such as drinking water, health and education.
The CERF allocation will focus on the needs of 152,771 people in five regions (Gao, Menaka, Kidal, Timbuktu and Mopti). CERF will support life-saving interventions in WASH, Nutrition, and Food Security sectors for IDPs and vulnerable people in the host communities. Health and Protection needs will be addressed as cross-cutting issues.
Total requirements: $263,000,000
Amount received: $0
Total amount requested: $8,000,000The quality of the application has improved considerably from last year UFE application. From the elaboration of the strategy through the submission of the application, the HCT was very responsive to CERF comments. The application is focus and the interventions are based on several assessments. The HCT have done a real coordination exercice to avoid gaps and duplication of activities. CERF had minor comments on the application and they were addressed promptly by the HCT.18-UF-MLI-28522-NR01massomacolomina@un.org#Evelyne ColominaFrenchPhilippe Decker2018-10-10T00:00:002018-12-12T00:00:002019-03-31T00:00:002019-06-21T00:00:002018-03-12T00:00:0018-UF-TZA-28525Tanzania UF Application Feb 2018 (Refugees)AfricaUnited Republic of TanzaniaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-02-12T00:00:002018-02-12T00:00:002018-03-09T00:00:002018-03-09T00:00:0010000000.00999545877344786311559755777663325121101135120141956277076The humanitarian situation in Tanzania is marked by 275,687 Burundian refugees, 82,290 Congolese refugees, and 543 refugees from other nationalities (Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan, Kenya and others) in Tanzania. Since the influx in April 2015, Tanzania has become the host of the largest number of Burundian refugees in the region. Currently, approximately 231,000 Burundian refugees and asylum-seekers remain in the three refugee camps, in need of international protection. Due to the strict encampment policy by the Government of Tanzania, refugees and asylum-seekers are entirely dependent on humanitarian assistance.
The Tanzania requirement to respond to the needs of refugees is US$ 250 million. At the time of the CERF UFE analysis, the humanitarian response was 27% funded.
This UFE CERF application targets approximately 231,000 Burundian refugees in Kigoma. Refugees require food security, health, protection and WASH services and critical protection services to children at risk, SGBV survivors, and other persons with specific needs.
Tanzania Underfunded submission
Total envelope: $10 million (Round I allocation: $100 million for 9 countries)
Grant package received: 12 February
Total # of projects submitted: 7 Burundi political crisis 2015-202018-UF-TZA-28525-NR01heli.oraviita@one.un.org#Heli OraviitaEnglishInga Christina Mueller2018-10-03T00:00:002018-12-12T00:00:002019-03-31T00:00:002019-05-21T00:00:002018-03-06T00:00:0018-UF-PHL-28524Philippines UF Application Feb 2018 (conflict displacement and returns)AsiaPhilippinesSouth-Eastern AsiaSouth-Eastern AsiaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-02-13T00:00:002018-02-13T00:00:002018-03-21T00:00:002018-04-02T00:00:005000335.005031703131111296526076304403168362123435514464888199After the five-month long armed conflict that ended in October 2017 between the Government of the Philippines and a local non-state armed group, over 325,000 civilians from Marawi City and other Lanao del Sur municipalities remain on the Government’s displacement registry. The conflict has left large areas of Marawi City uninhabitable, affecting as many as 60,000 of the city’s 201,000 residents who will not be able to return for several months or years. Additionally, social services, utilities, housing, livelihoods and local economies remain severely impacted.
The Philippines requirement to respond to needs of conflict displaced persons and persons in affected communities is US$ 30 million. At the time of the CERF UFE analysis, the humanitarian response was 23% funded.
This CERF application targets more than 83,000 conflict displaced persons and persons in affected communities in Marawi City and five priority municipalities in Lanao del Sur province to meet their basic needs in food security, health and nutrition; address protection concerns; and support IDP returnees through the provision of assistance at their places of origin.
Philippines Underfunded submission
Total envelope: $5 million (Round II allocation: 100 million for 9 countries)
Grant package received: 13 February 2018
Total # of projects submitted: 818-UF-PHL-28524-NR01maramag@un.org#Gina MaramagEnglishAntje Lehmann2018-10-02T00:00:002018-11-30T00:00:002019-03-31T00:00:002019-05-30T00:00:002018-03-20T00:00:0018-UF-PAK-28523Pakistan UF Application Feb 2018 (IDP returnees)AsiaPakistanSouthern AsiaSouthern AsiaUFPost-conflict NeedsConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-02-15T00:00:002018-02-15T00:00:002018-03-23T00:00:002018-04-05T00:00:008000000.0079938059405989977184036171643164194335837265702254171519873Since 2008, over five million people have been forced to leave their homes in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in a series of displacements due to militancy, and government-led security operations against non-state armed actors. From 2015-2017, the improved security situation allowed for 442,067 families to return home. In 2018, the basic needs of 1.26 million people remain to be addressed in the return areas of FATA. As such, the Humanitarian Country Team developed and launched the FATA Transition Appeal 2018-2020 highlighting health, nutrition, food security, shelter/NFIs, education and protection as the priority sectors for assistance in return areas in collaboration with the government. The FATA Transition Appeal requests $120 million in 2018 to support 1.26 million people.
The $8 million CERF underfunded emergency allocation will focus on the needs of 411,141 returnees in Kurram, South Waziristan and Orakzai agencies of FATA. CERF funds will support resumption of agricultural activities to ensure household food security and income-generation; primary education at partially and fully damaged school sites; and provision of life-saving nutrition interventions for acutely malnourished children under 2 years. Protection will be integrated in the proposed activities. The CERF grant will complement Pakistan Humanitarian Pooled Fund funding by assisting vulnerable families in the same geographical areas but with a different set of time bound activities.
Pakistan Underfunded Emergency submission
Total envelope: $8 million (Round I allocation: $100 million for 9 countries)
Grant package received: 15 February 2018
Total number of projects submitted: 3 joint projects (7 grants in total)18-UF-PAK-28523-NR01iqbalf@un.org#Fatima IqbalEnglishMadoka Koide2018-10-08T00:00:002018-12-18T00:00:002019-04-30T00:00:002019-05-31T00:00:002019-08-06T00:00:002018-03-23T00:00:0018-UF-CMR-28518Cameroon UF Application Feb 2018 (conflict displacement)AfricaCameroonMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-02-19T00:00:002018-02-19T00:00:002018-03-27T00:00:002018-04-05T00:00:0010016362.009884487170747193705364452137020154731291751307767348436656203Some 2.9 million people in Cameroon, primarily in the Far North region, are in need of humanitarian assistance due to Boko Haram attacks and violent conflict in the Lake Chad basin which has caused internal displacement of 242,000 people. In addition to conflict, calamities, such as food insecurity also contribute to under-development. The departments most affected by the crisis are Logone-et-Chari and Mayo-Sava which host 77% of the internally displaced persons. Cameroon also hosts 329,000 refugees from the Central African Republic and Nigeria. A $10 million allocation from CERF will focus on providing emergency food assistance and reproductive health services as well as emergency protection in Logone-et-Chari, Mayo-Sava, Mayo Tsanaga departments. The CERF contribution will address priority needs of 347,800 people including internally displaced persons; refugees; host communities hosting refugees and / or IDPs and returnees.
Cameroon Underfunded Emergencies submission
Total envelope: $10 million (Round I allocation: $100 million for 9 countries)
Grant package received: 23 February 2018
Total # of projects submitted: 10 Boko Haram crisis 2014-18-UF-CMR-28518-NR01jadjombaye@un.org#Kemoral JadjombayeFrenchPhilippe Decker2018-10-15T00:00:002019-02-15T00:00:002019-03-31T00:00:002019-04-30T00:00:002019-07-31T00:00:002018-03-23T00:00:0018-UF-COD-28519DR Congo UF Application Feb 2018 (conflict displacement)AfricaDemocratic Republic of the CongoMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-02-21T00:00:002018-02-21T00:00:002018-03-27T00:00:002018-04-05T00:00:0028000000.0027840104479417799912594086341173300259641134282251299385581In 2017, the dramatic deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) led to the declaration of IASC Level 3 emergency for the Kasai region, Tanganyika and South Kivu provinces among other. With 1.9 million people who were newly displaced in 2017, DRC has 4.3 million internally displaced people (IDPs), making it the African country with the highest number of internally displaced persons. DRC also hosts more than 540,000 refugees from Burundi, Central African Republic, Rwanda and South Sudan. Some 13.1 million people require humanitarian assistance in 2018, including around 7.7 million food insecure people.
A $28 million allocation will focus on the needs of 485,756 people affected by the Level 3 crises and surrounding areas (South Kivu, Maniema, Tanganyika, Haut-Katanga, Haut-Lomami, Kasai, and Lomami) and non-Level 3 areas (Ituri and North Kivu). CERF will support life-saving interventions in the Health, WASH, Nutrition, Food Security, Protection, Shelter/NFIs, Education, and Logistics sectors. This UFE allocation is in complement to a $20 million Rapid Response allocation to DRC.
Total requirements: $329,406,707
Amount received to date: $49,231,724
Total amount requested: $28,000,000The strategy was not very focus and some suggested interventions were not life-saving. The HCT seemed to face difficulties in coordinating and prioritizing the CERF intervention. Indeed, the HCT presented two separate strategies (one for the CAR refugees and one for the DRC non-L3 crisis) for this UFE allocation. The CERF Secretariat had to provide a lot of guidance and support to the HCT which was not very responsive and took more than the allowable time to respond to CERF comments. Fortunately, they were able to submit the final proposals before the closure of the submission time. DRC conflict and refugees 2017-201818-UF-COD-28519-NR01malankubikila@un.org#Cally MalankubikilaFrenchPhilippe Decker2018-10-02T00:00:002019-03-01T00:00:002019-04-30T00:00:002019-05-24T00:00:002019-07-22T00:00:002018-03-23T00:00:0018-UF-HTI-28521Haiti UF Application Feb 2018 (unmet hurricane needs and disease outbreaks)AmericasHaitiLatin America and the CaribbeanCaribbeanUFMultiple EmergenciesInternal strifeMultiple20182018-02-22T00:00:002018-03-09T00:00:002018-03-27T00:00:002018-04-05T00:00:009000000.00898517793819695942118976178084584788165633101904110442092063250In 2018 an estimated 2.8 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in Haiti. The key humanitarian challenges are the unmet needs of people affected by Hurricane Matthew in October 2016, food insecurity, cholera epidemic and the Haitian-Dominican migration issue. The resulting diverse humanitarian needs are geographically spread across the entire country with varying levels of severity.
The 2018 Humanitarian Response Plan for Haiti requires $252.2 million to support 2.8 million people in need. At the time of the CERF UFE analysis, the 2017 response plan was 34% funded.
This CERF application targets 1.29 million people in the Nord-Est, Artibonite, Grand'Anse, Sud and Ouest departments aiming to strengthen basic social services; enhancing food and nutrition security; improving protection and shelter conditions as well as access to agricultural inputs, water and health services.
Haiti Underfunded submission
Total envelope: $9 million (Round II allocation: 100 million for 9 countries)
Grant package received: 22 February 2018
Total # of projects submitted: 818-UF-HTI-28521-NR01nijimbere@un.org#Alix NijimbereEnglishInga Christina Mueller2018-10-05T00:00:002018-12-12T00:00:002019-04-30T00:00:002019-05-22T00:00:002020-02-07T00:00:002018-03-23T00:00:0018-UF-UGA-28526Uganda UF Application Feb 2018 (Refugees)AfricaUgandaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-02-23T00:00:002018-02-23T00:00:002018-03-23T00:00:002018-04-05T00:00:0017000000.0016988192192006194861386867132209306226438435324215501087825302Uganda faces a massive refugee presence with continued arrivals from South Sudan and DRC. Uganda now hosts up to 1.39 million refugees. The unprecedented influx of refugees in 2016 and 2017 tripled the refugee population to nearly 1.35 million. Women and children represent 82 percent of the refugee population, with some 757,838 children making up 61 percent of the refugee population in the country. The refugee caseload and new arrivals continues to put pressure on the country’s resources, in particular on land, basic service delivery systems and the humanitarian partners’ capacity to respond to the crisis. Acute needs remain in protection, food assistance, shelter, health and nutrition, WASH and emergency livelihoods sectors.
A $17 million allocation will focus on the needs of over 700,000 people including over 160,000 persons in host communities in the Kyaka II, Kyangwali, Palabek, Palorinya, and Imvepi settlements. With CERF funds, the UN Country Team aims to sustain and improve essential life-saving services for recent refugees who are sheltered in settlements, ensure that essential protection services are provided, and implement emergency livelihoods and community support activities such as cash for work.
The requirement for the response to the humanitarian emergency is US$ 759 million. At the time of the CERF UFE application, the humanitarian response was 40% funded.
Uganda Underfunded Emergencies submission
Total envelope: $17 million (Round I allocation: $100 million for 9 countries)
Grant package received: 26 February 2018
Total # of projects submitted: 10 South Sudan crisis 2013-, DRC conflict and refugees 2017-201818-UF-UGA-28526-NR02michael.wangusa@one.un.org#Michael WangusaEnglishInga Christina Mueller2018-10-03T00:00:002018-12-12T00:00:002019-03-31T00:00:002020-03-12T00:00:002018-03-23T00:00:0018-RR-PSE-28903oPt RR Application Mar 2018 (UNRWA)Asiaoccupied Palestinian territoryWestern AsiaWestern AsiaRRPost-conflict NeedsConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-02-28T00:00:002018-03-01T00:00:002018-03-09T00:00:002018-03-15T00:00:0015000000.0015005129153730152170305900166023164901330924319753317071636824This CERF rapid response request of US$15 million was triggered by the US Government’s decision communicated mid-January 2018 to significantly reduce its funding to UNRWA’s operating budget and to put on hold any contribution to the Agency’s 2018 emergency appeals for the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) and Syria. The abrupt suspension of US funding left UNRWA without funds to pay for planned food commodities, putting at stake the implementation of life-saving food security activities with an immediate impact on more than one million vulnerable Palestine refugees in Gaza and the West Bank.
While funding gaps and pipeline breaks do not constitute eligible triggers for CERF rapid response funding, the ERC decided on 14 February to exceptionally allocate funding under the rapid response window in view of the high risks associated with the reduction or suspension of assistance. Using CERF funds to help mitigate a potentially catastrophic deterioration in the humanitarian and security situation in oPt was backed by the Secretary-General’s stating his support for the use of the CERF in view of the exceptional circumstances. In parallel, the ERC has agreed to a $15 million CERF loan to UNRWA to support its emergency programs in the region until other funding received.
Under this CERF application, some US$15 million are sought to provide life-saving food assistance through in-kind, cash distribution and cash for work opportunities for a total of 619,030 Palestine refugees for a period of five months. Through the CERF allocation UNRWA aims to respond to time-critical humanitarian requirements preventing the imminent deterioration of a humanitarian situation; promote early action to reduce suffering of vulnerable Palestine refugees affected by the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and West Bank, ultimately preventing loss of life; and provide vital humanitarian assistance in the form of food and cash to people in need who have no other means to meet their basic requirements for a period of five months in Gaza and two months in the West Bank.
Through CERF funds, 619,030 vulnerable Palestine refugees across Gaza and the West Bank will be supported with critical quick-impact life-saving activities. These refugees are part of the UNRWA caseload included in the HRP. The implementation period will be February-June 2018 for food security activities in Gaza; while in West Bank, CERF funds will be used to cover food security needs for a period of two months (March-April). Beneficiaries targeted by these interventions have no other means of meeting their basic needs other than the humanitarian assistance provided by UNRWA. Women represent 50 per cent of targeted beneficiaries both in Gaza and in the West Bank18-RR-PSE-28903-NR01ritsema@un.org#Sheri Ritsema-AndersonEnglishMateusz Buczek2018-06-11T00:00:002018-08-10T00:00:002018-12-09T00:00:002019-04-15T20:16:582018-03-09T00:00:0018-RR-ETH-28650Ethiopia RR Application Mar 2018 (displacement)AfricaEthiopiaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-03-02T00:00:002018-03-02T00:00:002018-04-03T00:00:002018-04-05T00:00:009930695.0099306951119721213032332758108387840168923193055209143402198This CERF rapid response application of US$10 million is triggered by an upsurge in conflict around the border areas of Oromia and Somali regions since September 2017 that has left more than 1 million people displaced. Most parts of the two regions are already facing prolonged chronic drought conditions that have deteriorated pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities’ basic assets, livelihoods, services and prompted an unprecedented level of internal displacement. IDP sites in both Oromia and Somali regions have critically low access to water and sanitation. Coupled with the driest season in the year, needs for water have been increasing in both regions, and due to the prolonged situation of displacement, there is a need for immediate action.
The Government of Ethiopia has requested humanitarian partners to focus their efforts particularly on the WASH and Emergency Shelter/Non-Food Items sectors as the priority needs – an analysis supported by OCHA. CERF funds are thus targeted towards interventions within these two prioritised sectors while also, under the guidance of the Humanitarian Coordinator and Ethiopian Humanitarian Country Team, supporting the Federal Government of Ethiopia and the Somali and Oromia Regional governments in implementing registration and intention surveys to support progressive resolution of protracted displacement.
Under this CERF application, some US$10 million are sought to support immediate life-saving interventions for IDPs and host communities while contributing to the implementation of longer-term solutions for the displaced and their host communities aligned with the internationally agreed IDP Guiding Principles. The CERF funds will support Emergency Shelter and Non-Food Items through in-kind as well as unconditional cash assistance and provide WASH services through water trucking, Emergency WASH Mobile Teams and expansions of water systems for the IDPs and hosting communities over a period of six months.18-RR-ETH-28650-NR01mander@un.org#Tim ManderEnglishMirna Loiferman2018-07-10T00:00:002018-09-13T00:00:002019-01-03T00:00:002019-04-26T00:00:002018-04-02T00:00:0018-RR-BDI-29151Burundi RR Application Mar 2018 (Refugees from DRC)AfricaBurundiEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-03-05T00:00:002018-03-13T00:00:002018-03-19T00:00:002018-03-21T00:00:002350000.002350572654543831104148763188813111421757119172Since 24 January 2018, more than 8,200 Congoleses fled violence in South Kivu and seek refuge in Burundi. Refugee camps, transit centers and reception facilities currently do not have the capacity to accommodate this sudden influx of people and around 7,000 additional are expected to arrive in the following weeks when the border between DRC and Burundi will reopen.
This CERF allocation will ensure a rapid response to 15,000 new refugees by covering their urgent needs in shelter, food, provision of water and prevention of SGBV in the reception centres in Rumonge and Nyanza-Lac, transit camps and refugee camps in Ngozi, Ruyigi, Muyinga and Cankuzo provinces.
Total amount required for the humanitarian response : $7,750,000
Total amount received: $350,000
Total amount of CERF funding requested: $2,350,000The application is well-focused, the interventions are based on priorities identified by the HCT and meet the life-saving criteria. The CERF Secretariat had few comments on the application. The HCT was very responsive in addressing the comments. Z - Not in use - Application - Refugee DRC conflict and refugees 2017-201818-RR-BDI-29151-NR01simba@un.org#Lucien SimbaEnglishPhilippe Decker2018-06-26T00:00:002018-08-24T00:00:002018-12-19T00:00:002019-01-15T00:00:002019-04-16T00:00:002018-03-16T00:00:0018-RR-MRT-28922Mauritania RR Application Mar 2018 (Drought)AfricaMauritaniaWestern AfricaWestern AfricaRRDroughtMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20182018-03-05T00:00:002018-03-05T00:00:002018-03-28T00:00:002018-04-03T00:00:004000000.003975873162651625732522193552387743232356204013475754Some 602,000 Mauritanians are affected by a severe drought that started in 2017 with poor distributions of rain in space and time. The drought resulted in a significant decrease of agricultural production, pasture and water availability for livestock in most of the agro pastoral areas of the country. The resulting deterioration in food security and nutrition since last year has placed vulnerable communities at higher risk in the face of the impending lean season aggravated by what is forecasted to be additional failed rains.
The RC for Mauritania requested a CERF rapid response allocation to intervene in this time critical moment. The $4 million contribution from CERF will alleviate human suffering by enabling people’s access to food and reducing severe and acute malnutrition through life-saving activities, while protecting people’s livelihoods and productive assets. The CERF request will target the most vulnerable 63,700 people living in the priority six departments in three regions (Gorgol, Guidimakha and Assaba) in between March and August 2018. AA - ad-hoc AA or early action18-RR-MRT-28922-NR01blandine.bihler@one.un.org#Blandine BihlerEnglishPatrick Francis Pascal David2018-07-02T00:00:002018-10-03T00:00:002019-01-31T00:00:002019-05-29T00:00:002018-03-28T00:00:0018-RR-PNG-29464PNG RR Application Mar 2018 (Earthquake)OceaniaPapua New GuineaMelanesiaMelanesiaRREarthquakeGeophysicalNatural Disaster20182018-03-13T00:00:002018-03-13T00:00:002018-03-26T00:00:002018-03-27T00:00:009186710.009186710371972662663823134430112563246993171627139189310816This CERF rapid response application requesting some US$9.9 million is triggered by the 7.5 magnitude earthquake that hit the Highlands Region of Papua New Guinea (PNG) on 26 February 2018. The earthquake and subsequent aftershocks have led to the destruction of food gardens; damage to water storage facilities and contamination of water sources; and landslides have blocked riverbeds and initial areal assessments confirm the forming of dams, which could cause flash floods and up to 54,260 households are estimated to be in need of emergency shelter. The two main health facilities in the quake-affected area are damaged and power disruptions remain widespread. Many schools have been affected and education programmes in Southern Highlands and Hela Provinces are reported to have been suspended indefinitely.
CERF funds are sought in support of the Government’s request for international assistance on activities under the Food, Shelter/NFI, Health, WASH, Protection, Logistics and Security sectors. As of 6 March, over 100 people were known to have died and many more injured and the earthquake and aftershocks have significantly affected children, women and girls, young people, persons living with disability and other vulnerable populations. Given the remoteness of the areas of impact, figures are expected to continue to increase as more areas become accessible. According to preliminary estimates and based on latest earthquake intensity mapping produced by the National Disaster Centre, around 544,000 people in five provinces were affected, exposed to strong to violent shaking, and more than 270,000 people are in immediate need of life-saving assistance.
Under this CERF application, some US$9.9 million are sought to provide urgent critical life-saving assistance for the first four months of the response targeting 172,846 beneficiaries, focusing on the seven most affected Local Level Government units in the two most affected provinces of Hela and Southern Highlands. CERF funds will support activities within the sectors of Food, Shelter/NFI, Health, WASH, Protection, Logistics and Security.18-RR-PNG-29464-NR01mary.konobo@undp.org#Mary KonoboEnglishPhilippe Decker2018-06-28T00:00:002018-08-28T00:00:002018-12-26T00:00:002019-04-22T00:00:002018-03-23T00:00:0018-RR-TCD-29154Chad RR Application Mar 2018 (Refugees from CAR)AfricaChadMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-03-14T00:00:002018-03-14T00:00:002018-03-20T00:00:002018-03-26T00:00:006285554.006765609125691308225651104191254222961229882562448612Since 26 December 2017, an influx of refugees from Central African Republic (CAR) entered in southern Chad, specifically in the region of Logone Oriental. This influx is due to recurrent clashes between armed groups in the north-west part of CAR. By end of February 2018, a total of 20,000 CAR refugees had arrived in Chad. These refugees are currently hosted in villages near the border and their presence is placing undue stress on the limited basic services available to the local Chadian population. Humanitarian actors have expended existing resources to respond to the needs of these refugees; however, the security situation in CAR remains volatile and unpredictable particularly in the Ouham-Pende region. The number of refugees is likely to increase and their presence in Chad could be prolonged due to the recurrence of fighting. This CERF application of $28.4 million is to respond to the needs of 20,000 CAR refugees, including a projected figure of 5,000 refugees for the next three months and 20,000 members of the host population.
Total amount of the requirement: $28,405,371
Total amount received: $370,321
Total amount requested: $6,822,009The CERF Secretariat commends the HCT for its good work on this application. The HCT followed CERF guidelines from the drafting of the concept note through the submission of the application. The CERF review was quick due to the good quality of the application. There was no need to send any documents back to the field. The proposals went directly to final budget review. Z - Not in use - Application - Refugee CAR crisis 2013-18-RR-TCD-29154-NR01sawadogoa@un.org#Abdoulaye SawadogoFrenchFabrizio Cesaretti2018-06-22T00:00:002018-10-02T00:00:002018-12-20T00:00:002019-06-22T00:00:002018-03-20T00:00:0018-RR-SOM-28714Somalia RR Application Mar 2018 (Drought)AfricaSomaliaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRDroughtMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20182018-03-21T00:00:002018-04-03T00:00:002018-04-12T00:00:002018-04-18T00:00:0013892172.001213544352595687981213935990797879157786112502166677279179Despite the early and massive scale up of humanitarian assistance in Somalia in 2017, parts of northern Somalia experienced less than 40 percent of rainfall signalling a fourth failed season with consequent poor harvests and loss of livestock assets. Without assistance, the prospects of a fifth below average upcoming season are likely to lead to a reversal of the gains made in food and nutrition security. The humanitarian response requires nearly US$ 100 million; US$ 13 million from CERF is requested to jumpstart early action required to mitigate the effects of the deterioration of both food security and malnutrition among communities that continue to demonstrate worrying food security and/or nutrition outcomes (GAM of over 15%) and whose conditions are expected to deteriorate between February and June 2018. Over 183,000 IDPs and people from host communities are expected to benefit from this intervention.18-RR-SOM-28714-NR01kovacm@un.org#Matija KovacEnglishAntje Lehmann2018-08-27T00:00:002018-09-27T00:00:002019-01-12T00:00:002019-01-25T00:00:002019-05-30T00:00:002018-04-12T00:00:0018-RR-LBY-30399Libya RR Application Apr 2018 (UNHAS)AfricaLibyaNorthern AfricaNorthern AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-04-20T00:00:002018-04-20T00:00:002018-05-02T00:00:002018-05-07T00:00:001000000.001153061000000000This CERF rapid response application of US$1.1 million is triggered by the reduction of the fleet of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), which is currently operating with only one aircraft prioritized for the SRSG’s missions and with irregular routes to Benghazi and other locations, coupled with the formal lifting of the evacuation status for Libya on 7 February 2018. A window of opportunity now presents itself for the humanitarian community to expand humanitarian operations in Libya and reach more people in need. WFP aims to establish a United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) operation that will enable the broader humanitarian community to regularly access beneficiaries and project sites through safe, secure and reliable air services.
In a memo on 9 February 2018 following the lifting of the evacuation status, the Secretary-General expressed his expectation of a swift return of agencies, funds and programmes (AFPs) to Libya, strongly encouraging AFPs to make full use of the facilities and security arrangements already in place at the UN compound in Tripoli, and to explore possibilities for further expansion on the basis of mandates.
Under the 2018 HRP, humanitarian partners aim to respond to the most basic needs of 940,000 people out of an estimated 1.1 million in need of life-saving humanitarian assistance and protection across Libya. The humanitarian situation remains fragile due to ongoing conflict, political instability, the disruption of markets and local food production, all of which damage livelihoods and their ability to meet basic needs. UNHAS is thus needed to establish initially 4 flights per week, from Tunis to Tripoli and Benghazi and other locations including Sabha, Misrata and Bani Waleed to enable humanitarian partners’ implementation more broadly across the country.18-RR-LBY-30399-NR01engborg@un.org#Kasper EngborgEnglishInga Christina Mueller2018-08-07T00:00:002018-10-03T00:00:002019-04-06T00:00:002019-04-09T00:00:002019-07-31T00:00:002018-05-02T00:00:0018-RR-NGA-30426Nigeria RR Application Apr 2018 (Lassa Fever)AfricaNigeriaWestern AfricaWestern AfricaRRUnspecified Health EmergencyBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20182018-04-20T00:00:002018-04-20T00:00:002018-05-10T00:00:002018-05-14T00:00:00780025.00655049000000000Nigeria is experiencing the largest Lassa fever outbreak on record. Since January 2018 there has been an increase in the detection of confirmed Lassa fever cases in 21 of the 36 states in the country. As of 6 May 2018, a total of 423 confirmed cases of Lassa fever, with 106 deaths have been recorded. In the non-Lassa fever endemic states, a total of 107 confirmed cases and 25 deaths have been reported. The CERF allocation will target 2,500 individuals (cases and their high-risk contacts) in the non-Lassa fever endemic states. Only the Health sector was prioritized by the HCT. The life-saving interventions will include the establishment/ scaling up emergency early warning and response system for early detection, training health workers on the case management, infection prevention and control, provision of supplies and drugs and risk communication.18-RR-NGA-30426-NR01haggarty@un.org#Alta BellEnglishInga Christina Mueller2018-08-24T00:00:002018-10-15T00:00:002019-02-10T00:00:002019-07-19T19:01:472018-05-10T00:00:0018-RR-PSE-30459oPt RR Application May 2018 (Gaza Fence Crisis)Asiaoccupied Palestinian territoryWestern AsiaWestern AsiaRRHuman RightsConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-05-03T00:00:002018-05-03T00:00:002018-05-10T00:00:002018-05-14T00:00:001255250.001260080209541896439918134363491148347343905387588265This CERF rapid response application of US$1.3 million is triggered by the need for an immediate scale-up in emergency health care in Gaza due to the significant increase in Palestinian casualties in the context of mass demonstrations taking place along its perimeter fence with Israel since 30 March 2018.
As of 3 May (date of application), a cumulative total of 44 people had been killed, including five children, and 6,793 people, including at least 701 children, have been injured by the response of Israeli forces, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health (MoH). From the total number of injured, approximately 59 per cent (4,003 people) have been hospitalized in Gaza at MoH and NGO hospitals, including 1,935 due to live ammunition injuries. If the current casualty rate continues and caseload projections become reality, the number of people sustaining injuries requiring hospitalization during this crisis may reach 10,500. The current surge in humanitarian needs takes place against a backdrop of an overall extremely precarious humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, expressed through a health system on the verge of collapse.
CERF rapid response funds are sought jointly by the HC on behalf of WHO and UNICEF for a period of four months to provide life-saving treatment for the projected 80,742 Palestinians in Gaza who require, but cannot access sufficient health care because of the crisis. CERF funds will support the strengthening of the trauma pathway in Gaza to reduce mortality, injury complication and disabilities caused by violence during mass demonstrations at the fence. The strengthening of the referral pathway will be achieved through rapid procurement and import of essential medical supplies to Gaza, distribution to critical hospitals providing trauma care, and regular monitoring of supply use and ongoing needs. Funds will also help meet the needs of other emergency cases amongst vulnerable groups, such as women, children and the elderly, who are currently being neglected due to hospital inability to care for both caseloads.18-RR-PSE-30459-NR02ritsema@un.org#Sheri Ritsema-AndersonEnglishMaria Kelly2018-08-13T00:00:002018-10-15T00:00:002019-02-10T00:00:002019-04-26T22:54:262018-05-10T00:00:0018-RR-LBN-30469Lebanon RR Application May 2018 (Measles)AsiaLebanonWestern AsiaWestern AsiaRRMeaslesBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20182018-05-04T00:00:002018-05-04T00:00:002018-05-14T00:00:002018-05-15T00:00:001159130.001127942129463124303253766000129463124303253766On 15 March 2018, the Ministry of Public Health declared a measles outbreak in Lebanon after clustered cases were reported in several areas in the Mount Lebanon and Beqaa governorates. By 21 April, more than 311 cases were reported from all over the country. This measles epidemic comes at a time when Lebanon continues to face extensive humanitarian needs as a consequence of the Syria crisis, which has triggered the arrival of more than one million Syrian refugees in this country of 4 million inhabitants. As of May 2018, 991,000 Syrian refugees are registered as refugees with UNHCR, along with 35,000 Palestine Refugees from Syria and a pre-existing population of more than 270,000 Palestine Refugees in Lebanon. A CERF allocation will enable the country to support mobile vaccination units, mass campaign, compulsory vaccination of children crossing the border and refugee children attending the UNHCR reception center in the Mount Lebanon, Beqaa, Baalbeck-Hermel and Nabatieh governorates. The HCT agreed on one sector of intervention, Health, and UNICEF will be the sole implementer of the response. Z - Not in use - Application - Refugee18-RR-LBN-30469-NR01salazar@un.org#Magalie SalazarEnglishMirna Loiferman2018-08-13T00:00:002018-10-19T00:00:002019-02-14T00:00:002019-04-24T00:00:002018-05-11T00:00:0018-RR-SOM-30443Somalia RR Application May 2018 (Floods)AfricaSomaliaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRFloodBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20182018-05-08T00:00:002018-05-08T00:00:002018-05-22T00:00:002018-05-24T00:00:005127150.0051335883245333927663803982841302811307228175229147510This CERF rapid response application of US$5.1 million is triggered by floods and continued heavy rains since mid-April across nine regions in South Central Somalia. The floods have affected 630,000 people and have caused the displacement of an estimated 215,000 others. More than 15,000 hectares of cropland have been damaged, 500 tonnes of household grain lost, and 2,500 latrines destroyed putting the population at risk of water and vector borne diseases in areas that are grappling with cholera outbreaks. The damages to shelters in IDP settlements have further exposed vulnerable communities, especially children and the elderly to hazardous conditions and raised protection concerns.
A CERF rapid response allocation is sought to support the scaling-up of response to mitigate the humanitarian impact of the floods on 101,172 people including 75,000 displaced persons, across the worst affected areas in nine regions over a period of three months. The interventions will target the Food Security and Livelihoods, Health, Shelter, NFI and WASH needs of vulnerable IDPs and host communities as well as essential logistics/UNHAS support.18-RR-SOM-30443-NR02kovacm@un.org#Matija KovacEnglishInga Christina Mueller2018-08-24T00:00:002018-11-28T00:00:002019-02-22T00:00:002019-06-12T00:00:002018-05-22T00:00:0018-RR-VZR-30453VZ Region RR Application May 2018 (Regional UNHCR/IOM allocation)AmericasVenezuela Regional Refugee and Migration CrisisLatin America and the CaribbeanSouth AmericaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-05-09T00:00:002018-05-22T00:00:002018-05-29T00:00:002018-05-31T00:00:006200000.006203340542663476689032113617125756239373167883160522328405In response to the increase of the Venezuelan exodus into neighbouring countries and beyond, the ERC has decided to allocate $6.2 million to UNHCR and IOM. This allocation represents 10% of UNHCR’s $46 million one-year plan and 5% of IOM’s $32 million two-year plan for the crisis. This joint CERF allocation will target 195,016 beneficiaries across Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Trinidad and Tobago. UNHCR and IOM have coordinated at the regional and country level and agreed on five response objectives: data production and dissemination, access to territory, legal stay arrangements, refugee status, and other/alternative forms of protection, identification and assistance of the most vulnerable, durable solutions including socio-economic integration, communications, capacity building and coordination. The CERF response will address three out of these five objectives and will enable IOM and UNHCR to support Venezuelans multi-cluster needs including DTM, provision of documentation, shelter, health care, direct cash-based assistance, and SGBV. Jointly drafted by UNHCR and IOM, this application was reviewed by the relevant HCs/RCs prior to submission to the ERC for his decision. Z - Not in use - Application - Refugee, Z - Not in use - Migrants Venezuela crisis 2018-18-RR-VZR-30453-NR01dubini@unhcr.org#Renata DubiniEnglishInga Christina Mueller2018-09-10T00:00:002018-11-13T00:00:002019-02-28T00:00:002019-07-19T00:00:002018-05-25T00:00:0018-RR-COD-30550DR Congo RR Application May 2018 (Ebola - Equateur)AfricaDemocratic Republic of the CongoMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaRREbolaMeteorological, Hydrological and Climatological20182018-05-15T00:00:002018-05-15T00:00:002018-05-29T00:00:002018-05-31T00:00:001997302.00199550411498172462874475061125918765190042850547509On 3 May 2018, an Ebola outbreak was declared in DRC. This is the ninth Ebola epidemic in the country since 1976. All of the precedent outbreaks were characterized by high levels of infectiousness, high mortality and a sharp deterioration in the socio-economic situation of the populations. The actual outbreak counts five cases and hundreds of contacts. The CERF Rapid Response grant application aims to contribute to the control and reduction of mortality and morbidity related to the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Equateur Province and to prevent the transmission of the disease. disease. virus in the rest of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The allocation supports the launch of rapid response activities to the epidemic in Equateur Province, with immediate priority given to areas directly affected by the virus that have already reported cases of infection and / or death . In the details, the funding will focus on the immediate implementation of key activities to: 1) contain the epidemic (medical care, surveillance, identification and referral of cases); 2) prevent the spread (secure burials, WASH and community mobilization); and 3) facilitate access of teams and equipment to areas affected by the epidemic, currently isolated by major constraints of physical access. Ebola in DRC and readiness in neighboring countries 2018-201918-RR-COD-30550-NR03macdiarmid@un.org#Charlotte MacDiarmidFrenchPhilippe Decker2018-09-21T00:00:002018-11-20T00:00:002019-02-28T00:00:002019-04-24T00:00:002018-05-25T00:00:0018-RR-KEN-30594Kenya RR Application May 2018 (floods in the Horn of Africa)AfricaKenyaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRFloodBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20182018-05-18T00:00:002018-06-05T00:00:002018-06-07T00:00:002018-06-11T00:00:004945502.004945502346686388298550543807807813245889048141960231008This CERF rapid response application of US$5 million is triggered by heavy rain and floods over the months of April and beginning of May causing the displacement of 311,000 people across 36 counties in Kenya and numbers are likely to increase. Based on initial estimates and ongoing rapid assessments, floods have caused the destruction of more than 20,000 acres of farmland; 33 health facilities are either inaccessible or submerged by water; major water distribution systems serving entire towns such as Mombasa and Malinivei have been washed away, potentially affecting an estimated 1.3 million people; and increased water levels have caused the collapse and overflowing of many latrines increasing the risk of water borne diseases in counties already experiencing cholera outbreaks. Protection needs are also of concern especially among the displaced population as children have been separated by their families and there are increased risks of gender based violence among vulnerable groups such as adolescent girls and women and single headed households.
Since the onset of the emergency, the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) has been the main provider of first line response in support of the government of Kenya (GoK). In view of the scale of humanitarian needs, a CERF rapid response allocation for some $5 million is sought by the Kenya Humanitarian Partnership Team (KHPT) to support the scaling-up of response to assist 243,140 flood affected people across the eight most affected counties over a period of 4.5 months. The interventions will target the WASH, Health, NFIs and Protection needs of vulnerable IDPs and host communities.18-RR-KEN-30594-NR01quacquarella@un.org#Giovanni QuacquarellaEnglishInga Christina Mueller2018-09-07T00:00:002018-11-14T00:00:002019-03-07T00:00:002019-05-31T00:00:002019-09-04T18:23:172018-06-06T00:00:0018-RR-TCD-30657Chad RR Application May 2018 (food insecurity)AfricaChadMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaRRDroughtMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20182018-05-21T00:00:002018-05-21T00:00:002018-06-05T00:00:002018-06-08T00:00:0010293509.0010216729953311029541982854565468643114297140985171597312582The 2017/2018 agricultural year was marked by a deficit rainfall in most of the Sahelian belt, resulting in an early and long lean season. In Chad cereal production has fallen sharply while pastoral resources, forage and water, are in critical condition. Coping strategies are getting stretched and nearly one million people need assistance during this upcoming lean season. About $36 million is required to provide immediate emergency assistance to respond early and avert a food security crisis. Of this, the RC/HC and humanitarian partners in Chad are requesting some $10 million from the CERF to scale-up emergency interventions in the sectors of food security, nutrition and WASH. Some 453,267 people including 71,961 children under 5 years and 19,000 pregnant and lactating women are targeted in the regions of Guera, Batha, Ouaddai, Wadi Fira, Kanem, Barh El Ghazal and the Lake.
The CERF allocation is part of a larger regional approach to the drought and worsening food security situation in the Sahel. A total of $30 million has been agreed by the ERC for immediate scale-up activities in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Mauritania. AA - ad-hoc AA or early action18-RR-TCD-30657-NR02sawadogoa@un.org#Abdoulaye SawadogoFrenchMirna Loiferman2018-09-18T00:00:002018-12-12T00:00:002019-03-05T00:00:002019-06-21T00:00:002018-06-04T00:00:0018-RR-BFA-30726Burkina Faso RR Application May 2018 (Drought)AfricaBurkina FasoWestern AfricaWestern AfricaRRDroughtMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20182018-05-24T00:00:002018-05-24T00:00:002018-06-07T00:00:002018-06-11T00:00:009000000.009015030790938134316043617726328945062096819114237211056The 2017/2018 agricultural year was marked by a deficit rainfall in most of the Sahelian belt, resulting in an early and long lean season. In Burkina Faso cereal production has fallen sharply while pastoral resources, forage and water, are in critical condition. Coping strategies are getting stretched and nearly one million people need assistance during the upcoming lean season, almost three times more than last year. In March, the Government, in collaboration with FAO, UNICEF, WFP and other humanitarian partners, developed the Emergency Food Security Response Plan with a cost of some $147 million. The RC and humanitarian partners in Burkina Faso are requesting $9 million from CERF to provide immediate emergency assistance in the areas of food security, through food aid and livestock interventions, and nutrition. 90,650 people are targeted in the Sahel, East and Centre-North regions.
The CERF allocation is part of a larger regional approach to the drought and worsening food security situation in the Sahel. A total of $30 million has been agreed by the ERC for immediate scale-up activities in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Mauritania. AA - ad-hoc AA or early action18-RR-BFA-30726-NR01knutson@un.org#Kristen KnutsonEnglishInga Christina Mueller2018-09-07T00:00:002018-11-15T00:00:002019-04-06T00:00:002019-10-11T00:00:002018-06-06T00:00:0018-RR-ETH-30739Ethiopia RR Application May 2018 (Floods in the Horn of Africa)AfricaEthiopiaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRFloodBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20182018-05-25T00:00:002018-06-12T00:00:002018-06-20T00:00:002018-06-20T00:00:005343942.005343942291612916158322188141693235746479754609394068This CERF rapid response application of US$5.3 million is triggered by flash flood incidences across Ethiopia since the second week of April 2018, affecting some 347,000 people, of which some 210,000 are displaced, not considering the results of ongoing flood assessments or impact of anticipated rains. According to the Somali region Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Bureau, some 324,000 individuals are affected, of which 187,000 are displaced. The floods have caused damage to 158 waterpoints, 76 health facilities, 123 schools and destruction of over 16,500 homes across the region, while 12,900 hectares of farmland are submerged and 12,500 heads of livestock are killed. In the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR), floods have affected 6,900 displaced individuals, all of whom reportedly have lost their homes and household items. In Oromia region, some 15,500 people are displaced along the Dawa River basin.
Most of the displaced are congregated in evacuation centres or along main roads in dire need of Emergency Shelter/Non-Food Items (ES/NFI) and food assistance, while several thousands are stranded, including some 13,000 people in cut-off parts of Somali region. Several assessments conducted in some of these evacuation centres show poor WASH conditions, raising the spectre for disease outbreaks including Acute Watery Disease. Most of the displaced have lost most, if not all, of their household items and are sharing scant resources with other displaced families or host communities.
A CERF rapid response application for US$5.3 million is sought to immediately target 19,000 displaced households, or 104,500 vulnerable IDPs, for six months in the flood affected regions of Afar, Oromia, Somali and SNNP through in-kind and cash ES/NFI assistance as well as immediate repair, rehabilitation and transitional shelter construction support.18-RR-ETH-30739-NR02Arefaines@un.org#Senait ArefaineEnglishMohit Khubchandani2018-09-24T00:00:002018-12-04T00:00:002019-03-20T00:00:002019-07-29T00:00:002018-06-18T00:00:0018-RR-MLI-30933Mali RR Application Jun 2018 (Drought)AfricaMaliWestern AfricaWestern AfricaRRDroughtMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20182018-06-08T00:00:002018-06-08T00:00:002018-06-25T00:00:002018-06-27T00:00:007000000.0069976631765971838053604022554977264102813202146261069463215The 2017/2018 agricultural year was marked by a deficit rainfall in most of the Sahelian belt, resulting in an early and long lean season. In January 2018, the Humanitarian Response Plan for Mali noted that 4.3 million people were in need, including almost 1 million were food insecure. According to humanitarian partners, food security indicators have worsened in the months since due to the poor rains and agriculture season. Cereal production has fallen sharply while pastoral resources, forage and water, are in critical condition. Coping strategies are getting stretched and nearly one million people need assistance during this upcoming lean season.
The food security and nutrition clusters require $150 million to assist food insecure people this year. Of this, the RC/HC and humanitarian partners in Mali are requesting some $7 million from the CERF to scale-up emergency interventions to mitigate the situation during the lean season. Some 457,795 people are targeted in the regions of Mopti, Gao and Tombouctou.
The CERF allocation is part of a larger regional approach to the drought and worsening food security situation in the Sahel. A total of $30 million has been agreed by the ERC for immediate scale-up activities in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Mauritania AA - ad-hoc AA or early action18-RR-MLI-30933-NR02cibonga@un.org#David CibongaFrenchPhilippe Decker2018-09-25T00:00:002018-12-13T00:00:002019-03-25T00:00:002019-06-25T00:00:002018-06-24T00:00:0018-RR-DJI-30969Djibouti RR Application Jun 2018 (Tropical Cyclone Sagar)AfricaDjiboutiEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRStormBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20182018-06-13T00:00:002018-06-20T00:00:002018-06-25T00:00:002018-06-27T00:00:001200000.001196791132601074024000163801462031000296402536055000This CERF rapid response application of US$1.2 million is triggered by Cyclone Sagar, which hit Djibouti on 20 May 2018. The cyclone caused heavy rains and flooding across Djibouti City and surrounding areas including Arta region, that hosts the Damerjog IDP site of 4,500 people. The Government of Djibouti estimates that the cyclone and subsequent floods have affected between 25,000 to 50,000 people who are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance, including an already vulnerable caseload of 5,000 refugees and over 3,800 migrant families.
An interagency assessment on 26 May indicated an urgent need for emergency WASH and Health interventions as the WASH infrastructure has been severely damaged and to avoid a major water-borne disease outbreak. Some AWD cases have already been reported; there is an active Malaria outbreak and the risk of Cholera and Dengue outbreaks is increasing.
An emergency response appeal for Djibouti Cyclone Sagar of some US$ 4.66 million has been organized internally with UN agencies and NGO partners, while UN Agencies and NGO partners have been able to mobilize all their internal funding resources available, up to approximately $1.8 million.
A CERF rapid response application for US$1.2 million is sought to support life-saving WASH and Health assistance to 47,822 vulnerable men, women, girls and boys affected by Cyclone Sagar for a period of six months. Interventions will help increase critical access to safe sanitation, water and hygiene and enhance disease surveillance activities to ensure prevention, rapid identification and response to water-borne and vector-borne disease outbreaks.18-RR-DJI-30969-NR01harbi.omar@undp.org#Harbi OmarEnglishInga Christina Mueller2018-09-25T00:00:002018-12-04T00:00:002019-04-09T00:00:002019-07-08T00:00:002018-06-24T00:00:0018-RR-GTM-30994Guatemala RR Application Jun 2018 (Volcano)AmericasGuatemalaLatin America and the CaribbeanCentral AmericaRRVolcanoBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20182018-06-15T00:00:002018-06-15T00:00:002018-07-11T00:00:002018-07-11T00:00:001559967.0015599674861531810179491771921210997781251022288This CERF rapid response application of US$1.7 million is triggered by the eruption of the de Fuego Vulcano in Guatemala on 3 June, expelling a huge pyroclastic flow from the crater. The flow destroyed everything on its path, including houses, infrastructure, vegetation, and people. One community, San Miguel Los Lotes, was totally buried killing more than 110 people with around 800 people missing. An estimated total of 1.7 million people have been affected by the eruption, including 1.1 million people in Guatemala City and surrounding cities due to ash fall. In the sorrunding regions of Guatemala, an estimated 600,000 people are affected. According to government reports, some 13,000 individuals have been evacuated of which around 6,000 individuals are currently staying in more than 23 shelters located primarily in the municipality of Escuintla. Some 19 informal shelters have also been organized by local leaders and churches in which 2,000 additional people are located while 21,000 families are residing with near-by communities.
On 15 June, the RC for Guatemala submitted a CERF request for $1.7 million to provide life-saving humanitarian assistance to some 6,500 vulnerable men, women, girls and boys (a number that increased to 21,700 following revisions made my agencies) in official shelters as well as informal shelters and in near-by communities for a period of three months through Health, Protection, including Child Protection, Food Security and Nutrition, WASH, Education, and CCCM interventions. The activities will be targeted the most vulnerable people in the Departments of Escuintla, Chimaltenango, Santa Rosa, Suchitepequez, and Sacatepequez.Interim report note: UNHCR update notes a delayed procurement and delivery timeframe. In the proposal, UNHCR expected procurement to take one week and distribution to take one month and the entire project activities would be completed within three months. However, the interim report states that supplies were expected to arrive in Guatemala on 22 October, which is about 3 ½ months into the implementation period.18-RR-GTM-30994-NR01barillase@un.org#Edy Manolo BarillasEnglishInga Christina Mueller2018-10-22T00:00:002019-01-07T00:00:002019-04-11T00:00:002019-07-09T00:00:002018-07-07T00:00:0018-RR-UKR-30772Ukraine RR Application Jun 2018 (New access)EuropeUkraineEastern EuropeEastern EuropeRRPost-conflict NeedsConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-06-18T00:00:002018-06-18T00:00:002018-06-29T00:00:002018-07-02T00:00:006068450.005904612346914032275013120763100724221487155454141046296500This CERF Rapid Response application of US$6 million is triggered by the recent opening of humanitarian access for UN agencies in the non-Government controlled areas (NGCA) of eastern Ukraine after three years of negotiation. It is critical to quickly demonstrate tangible results to maintain and increase the access into the future for the UN and partners. The cumulative impact of severe restrictions on the movement of civilians across the 457 km “contact line” which divides the NGCA and Government Controlled Areas (GCA), active hostilities and limited humanitarian access have resulted in 2.2 million people in dire need of humanitarian assistance and protection in the NGCA. With the increasingly protracted nature of the armed conflict, living conditions have markedly deteriorated with limited livelihood and economic opportunities exacerbating pre-existing vulnerabilities. While the NGCA has been increasingly isolated, barriers to people’s access to protection and basic services have risen, limiting the population’s ability to meet their basic needs.
In view of the scale of humanitarian needs, a CERF Rapid Response allocation for some US$6 million is sought by the Humanitarian Country Team to jumpstart an emergency response to reach the 134,000 most vulnerable people in the NGCA of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts over a period of six months. The interventions will target the education, health, livelihood, protection, shelter/NFI and WASH needs of highly vulnerable people who have been isolated for the past three years.18-RR-UKR-30772-NR01bochorishvili@un.org#Ivane BochorishviliEnglishAntje Lehmann2018-10-08T00:00:002018-12-04T00:00:002019-03-29T00:00:002019-06-18T00:00:002018-06-28T00:00:0018-RR-COL-30738Colombia RR Application Jun 2018 (Venezuela regional emergency)AmericasColombiaLatin America and the CaribbeanSouth AmericaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-06-18T00:00:002018-06-18T00:00:002018-07-11T00:00:002018-07-13T00:00:005929493.0059294932799636707647032433041150654805232677857130183This CERF rapid response application of US$6 million is triggered by the migration flow from Venezuela which in the first five months of 2018 has seen 700,000 migrants reported by the Colombian migration authority, in addition to the 800,000 migrants that have remained in Colombia since 2017. The people have arrived in need of humanitarian assistance and needs have exceeded the government’s coping capacities. The CERF request is based on the results of the multi-sectoral assessments of the mixed flows of population from Venezuela carried out by the end of 2017 and early 2018, between IOM, UNHCR, WFP and with the support of OCHA.
The assessments reported that 66% of Venezuelans families living in Colombia and for 42% of Colombians who have lived for decades in Venezuela and have returned in Colombia due to situation have not received any health care assistance; more than 90% of infants and children under 2 years of age are not breast-fed; 90% of the population that left Venezuela has declared that the one of the main reason for migrating was lack of food; 46% of households interviewed do not have access to sanitation and water supply systems; one third of the households do not have access to formal education representing a major risk for the children and adolescents that could be recruited by illegal armed groups; and almost 20% of the families feel insecure in the environment where they currently live due to the proximity with illegal armed groups and manifested suffering from xenophobic situations.
On 18 June, the RC/HC for Colombia submitted a CERF request to provide life-saving humanitarian assistance to 63,000 vulnerable men, women, girls and boys for a period of five months through Health, Food Security and Nutrition, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Education in Emergency, Protection and Shelter interventions. The activities will be targeted the most vulnerable people, including the Venezuelan population, Colombians returnees, Venezuelan refugees, host communities and mixed families in the border areas (Arauca, La Guajira and Norte de Santander) and other regions, where mixed migrants have arrived (Atlántico, Magdalena, Bolivar, and Nariño).
The DERC and ERC endorsed the allocation of up to $6 million for this response based on a concept note previously submitted by the RC/HC in May. Z - Not in use - Application - Refugee, Z - Not in use - Migrants Venezuela crisis 2018-18-RR-COL-30738-NR01andres.romero@one.un.org#Andres RomeroEnglishMohit Khubchandani2018-10-19T00:00:002018-12-17T00:00:002019-04-11T00:00:002019-07-11T00:00:002018-07-10T00:00:0018-RR-ETH-31283Ethiopia RR Application Jul 2018 (Gedeo-West Guji insecurity)AfricaEthiopiaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-07-08T00:00:002018-07-11T00:00:002018-07-16T00:00:002018-07-19T00:00:0015000000.0015014257388292392100780392409854344784432429277435547864824Inter-communal violence along the border of Gedeo (SNNP Region) and West Guji (Oromia Region) administrative zones has led to the displacement of over 818,250 people since April 2018. This influx of IDPs doubled the population of districts already densely populated and overwhelmed public infrastructures and services. This large-scale displacement follows the lean season, when household food resources are most constrained or depleted, and malnutrition levels on the rise – especially amongst the poorest households.
On 8 September, the RC/HC for Ethiopia submitted a rapid response request to scale up emergency response to the displacement crisis. A total of $15 million is requested from CERF to assist the IDPs with lifesaving interventions related to nutrition, health, WASH and non-food items. The ERC agreed to an allocation of $15 million based on information provided in an exchange of emails with the RC/HC and OCHA Ethiopia.18-RR-ETH-31283-NR03Arefaines@un.org#Senait ArefaineEnglishMohit Khubchandani2018-11-15T00:00:002019-01-08T00:00:002019-04-16T00:00:002019-07-17T00:00:002018-07-16T00:00:0018-RR-NER-31416Niger RR Application Jul 2018 (Displacement)AfricaNigerWestern AfricaWestern AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-07-23T00:00:002018-08-07T00:00:002018-08-08T00:00:002018-10-16T00:00:007207562.00711272111648119522360087361057419310203842252642910This CERF rapid response application of US$6 million is triggered by the sharp increase since April 2018 in the number of attacks by non-state armed groups against the civilian population in the regions of Tillabery and Tahoua and the intensification of intercommunity conflicts over cattle raiding and access to grazing land and water. These situations have led to a major destabilization of the area causing significant movements of populations. Additionally, restricted market access and movements under the state of emergency, the disruption of transhumance patterns and the arrival of herds from Mali and Burkina Faso as a result of insecurity, poor rains and food price increases are also contributing to the deterioration of the humanitarian situation faced by the IDPs, the host populations and the herders. In both regions, 39,258 displaced persons need urgent protection, WASH, shelter/NFIs as well as food assistance. A total of 4,036 households, representing a population of 28,252 people, with 50,450 small ruminants or 5,045 cattles, are also in need of immediate humanitarian assistance to mitigate the impact of the fodder deficit crisis.
A CERF rapid response allocation of $6 million was disbursed in August 2018 to provide immediate assistance within the Food Security and Livelihoods, Shelter/NFI, WASH, and Protection, including SGBV, sectors to meet the needs of 39,258 vulnerable IDPs and host communities and 28,252 herders. On 19 September, the RC/HC for Niger alerted the ERC of difficulties accessing the affected communities due to unusually heavy rains and requested additional CERF funding for a two-month UNHAS helicopter airlift operation to ensure the transport of humanitarian personnel and supplies to affected areas for the implementation the CERF projects. Boko Haram crisis 2014-18-RR-NER-31416-NR01emanuele.cidonelli@un.org#Emanuele CidonelliEnglishPhilippe Decker2018-11-15T00:00:002019-02-28T00:00:002019-05-08T00:00:002019-09-05T00:00:002018-10-11T00:00:0018-RR-AFG-31254Afghanistan RR Application Aug 2018 (Drought)AsiaAfghanistanSouthern AsiaSouthern AsiaRRDroughtMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20182018-08-03T00:00:002018-08-03T00:00:002018-08-15T00:00:002018-08-17T00:00:0012000000.0011937469193525188230381755124388124437248825317913312667630580The CERF rapid response application of US$12 million is to respond to the ongoing drought in 20 provinces of Afghanistan which has negatively impacted the food security of vulnerable households. According to the results of the IPC conducted in late 2017, most of the drought affected areas were at or beyond IPC 3. The impact of the drought has also resulted in a further deterioration of the nutritional status of affected communities, especially children under the age of five, due to their reduced access to safe water and increased likelihood of food insecurity in the coming months. Households relying on farming and livestock have also been directly affected by the below average rainfall, resulting in a negative impact on the agriculture season and the unavailability of vegetation in pastures and farmlands. Finally, the drought has had devastating effect on the pre-existing water sources with many areas experiencing acute water shortages. In the 20 provinces affected by the drought, 662,728 are in urgent need of assistance including 297,500 requiring food assistance, 204,708 in need of targeted WASH interventions, 52,720 children and women require targeted nutritional support and 53,900 individuals require agriculture and livestock assistance.
A CERF rapid response allocation is sought to provide immediate assistance within the Food Security and Livelihoods, WASH and Nutrition sectors to meet the needs of the 662,728 vulnerable individuals.18-RR-AFG-31254-NR01oppermann@un.org#Jens OppermannEnglishInga Christina Mueller2019-02-04T00:00:002019-02-05T00:00:002019-05-15T00:00:002019-08-22T00:00:002018-08-13T00:00:0018-RR-COD-31591DR Congo RR Application Aug 2018 (Ebola)AfricaDemocratic Republic of the CongoMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaRREbolaMeteorological, Hydrological and Climatological20182018-08-10T00:00:002018-08-10T00:00:002018-08-24T00:00:002018-08-27T00:00:002813099.002808736209592128042239227082305345761436674433388000On 1 August, a new Ebola outbreak was declared in North Kivu, DRC. Since the beginning of the epidemic, a total of 74 cases have been reported, including 16 confirmed cases. This outbreak is in North Kivu province, near to the Ugandan border and 2,500 km away from the last outbreak in Equateur. WHO confirmed the two outbreaks are unrelated.
This CERF Rapid Response application for a total of $ 2.8 million is to contribute to the control and reduction of mortality and morbidity related to the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri and to prevent transmission of the virus in the rest of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The allocation supports the scaling up of rapid response activities to the epidemic in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, with immediate priority given to areas directly affected by the virus that have already reported cases of infection. The funding will focus on the immediate implementation of key activities to: 1) contain the epidemic (medical care, surveillance, and identification of cases); 2) prevent the spread of the disease (secure burials, WASH and community mobilization); and 3) facilitate the access to the affected areas. Ebola in DRC and readiness in neighboring countries 2018-201918-RR-COD-31591-NR04Rawad El Zir#Rawad El ZirFrenchDaniel Edward William Whalley Ham2018-12-04T00:00:002019-02-27T00:00:002019-05-24T00:00:002019-07-31T00:00:002020-02-07T00:00:002018-08-23T00:00:0018-RR-CMR-31414Cameroon RR Application Aug 2018 (Displacement)AfricaCameroonMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-08-14T00:00:002018-08-14T00:00:002018-08-31T00:00:002018-09-05T00:00:005101665.0050969942764231590592323159040804723945923272394131626Since 2016, political and social instability, exacerbated by sporadic violence, has had a negative impact on civilians in Cameroon’s South-West and North-West regions. In November 2017, the socio-political crisis degenerated into insecurity and armed violence. Since then, the escalation of tension and upsurge in hostilities between non-state armed groups and defense and security forces have triggered humanitarian needs across the two regions owing to significant internal displacement. The rapid multi-sectoral assessment conducted by the UN agencies in March 2018 in the South-West and another conducted in April 2018 in the North-West region by Plan International showed that at least 160,000 people have been internally displaced in the two affected regions and need immediate humanitarian and protection assistance.
The humanitarian community launched an Emergency Response Plan in May in order to mobilize US$15 million for the crisis in the North-West and the South-West regions. The plan targeted 160,000 IDPs and aimed at covering the needs in Shelter/NFI, WASH, Health, Protection, Food and Agriculture and Education for an initial period of three months. The planning scenario has already been surpassed and needs have grown significantly. CERF funds are required to cover the protection, health, WASH, shelter/NFI, food security and common services of 110,000 beneficiaries for four months in the South-West and North-West regions of Cameroon.18-RR-CMR-31414-NR02martinezv@un.org#Victoria MartinezEnglishPatrick Francis Pascal David2019-03-18T00:00:002019-03-25T00:00:002019-06-30T00:00:002019-08-15T00:00:002019-11-25T00:00:002018-08-31T00:00:0018-RR-MMR-31712Myanmar RR Application Aug 2018 (Floods)AsiaMyanmarSouth-Eastern AsiaSouth-Eastern AsiaRRFloodBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20182018-08-24T00:00:002018-08-24T00:00:002018-09-10T00:00:002018-09-12T00:00:002963578.0029594462227722738450153741840258776765969562996122691The CERF rapid response application of $3 million is to respond to the impact of heavy monsoon rains that have resulted in flooding in many regions of Myanmar. Widespread flooding has caused the displacement of more than 167,000 individuals. Some 15,000 displaced individuals are still residing in 41 evacuation sites. The flooding has severely affected the agricultural livelihoods with the worst affected areas reporting over 617,000 acres lost or damaged. In the four most affected regions/states, 113,000 individuals are in need of food assistance including 14,000 households who require agricultural support, 47, 522 individuals in need of access to primary health care, 50,000 targeted for WASH interventions and 18,344 individuals targeted for protection services.
A CERF rapid response allocation is sought to provide immediate assistance within the Food Security, Health, Protection and WASH sectors to meet the needs of 113,000 vulnerable individuals. The CERF funds will complement $1 million in funds from the Myanmar Humanitarian Fund, primarily to NGOs, for activities in the Food Security, Shelter/NFI and Education sectors.18-RR-MMR-31712-NR02rosa-berlanga@un.org#Narciso Rosa-BerlangaEnglishMadoka Koide2018-12-17T00:00:002019-03-14T00:00:002019-06-10T00:00:002019-06-21T00:00:002019-07-18T00:00:002018-09-07T00:00:0018-UF-AGO-31870Angola UF Application Sep 2018 (refugees)AfricaAngolaMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-09-03T00:00:002018-09-03T00:00:002018-09-19T00:00:002018-09-24T00:00:002000000.00200095072967821151175103582610929123991364726046Since March 2017, over 35,000 Congolese refugees have fled violence and taken refuge in Angola. The escalation of violence in Kasai DRC triggered the internal displacement of some 1.4 million persons and the influx of refugees into Angola. As of 20 August 2018, the number of registered refugees in Angola is 35,837. The total refugee active population (population receiving food assistance) is 22,624. Around 61% of the active population is in Lóvua, while 39% are based in urban areas. An Angola Inter-Agency Appeal, as part of the DRC Regional Refugee Response Plan was launched for the period of January to December 2018 with requirements of $63,881,333. At the time of the CERF UFE analysis, humanitarian operations were 12% funded. This $2 million UFE CERF application targets approximately 22,624 refugees in the Lóvua Refugee Settlement in Lunda Norte Province. This area hosts the most vulnerable refugees who require food security, WASH and health (Primary Care and Sexual and Reproductive Health) responses.
Angola Underfunded Emergencies submission
Total envelope: $2 million (Round II allocation: $80 million for 9 countries)
Grant package received: 4 September 2018
Total # of projects submitted: 4 DRC conflict and refugees 2017-201818-UF-AGO-31870-NR01fatima.santos@one.un.org#Fatima SantosEnglishPatrick Francis Pascal David2019-04-08T00:00:002019-06-07T00:00:002019-09-30T00:00:002019-10-25T00:00:002020-02-07T00:00:002018-09-18T00:00:0018-UF-CAF-31872CAR UF Application Sep 2018 (Displacement)AfricaCentral African RepublicMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-09-03T00:00:002018-09-12T00:00:002018-10-09T00:00:002018-10-11T00:00:0010000000.009932158103442108138211580127997141343269340231439249481480920This CERF UFE $10 million allocation will focus on the emergency response in the areas most affected by the upsurge of violence and which require rapid intervention in several sectors based on the results of a needs, risks and vulnerabilities analysis by the country. The populations targeted by this allocation, include displaced persons, returnees and host families. The most vulnerable and critical areas are targeted: Bangassou-Rafai-Zémio; Bambari-Ippy-Bria; Bocaranga-Ngaoundaye-Paoua, Markounda; Bambari-Alindao-Mingala and Kaga-Bandoro-Mbrès. A total of 562,994 people (285,717 women, 277,277 men) will benefit from water, hygiene and sanitation, food security, nutrition , protection, CCCM / Shelter / NFI, education and health interventions.
Central African Republic Underfunded Emergencies submission
Total envelope: $10 million (Round II allocation: $80 million for 9 countries)
Grant package received: 3 September 2018
Total # of projects submitted: 10 CAR crisis 2013-18-UF-CAF-31872-NR01bruno1@un.org#Maria Rosaria BrunoFrenchDaniel Edward William Whalley Ham2019-04-01T00:00:002019-06-07T00:00:002019-09-30T00:00:002020-02-26T00:00:002018-10-09T00:00:0018-UF-BDI-31878Burundi UF Application Sep 2018 (Natural disasters and repatriation)AfricaBurundiEastern AfricaEastern AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-09-04T00:00:002018-09-04T00:00:002018-10-03T00:00:002018-10-09T00:00:005000000.00499929677541820971596386033961404121743137880143501281381The political crisis in Burundi continues to exacerbate the humanitarian emergency resulting in 3.6 million Burundians in need of assistance; while hosting 73,000 refugees. According to the July 2018 IPC results nearly 100,000 Burundians fall under IPC 4. The level of vulnerability is also due to widespread flooding caused by territorial rains negatively affecting the livelihoods of agriculturalists and damaging some 30% of houses requiring immediate repair.
The CERF UEF application of US$5 million for Burundi is to respond to the multifold of emergencies currently facing the country. The proposed CERF response targets 196,000 individuals across the country and includes support for the repatriation of refugees from Tanzania and Rwanda; people affected by natural disasters; and individuals facing high levels of food insecurity. It consists of seven projects by UNICEF, UNFPA, IOM, FAO, WFP and UNHCR in the Protection, Education, Nutrition, WASH, Food Security and Shelter clusters through a combination of both in kind and cash-based assistance.
Burundi Underfunded Emergencies submission
Total envelope: $5 million (Round 2 allocation: $80 million for 9 countries)
Grant package received: 4 September 2018
Total # of projects submitted: 6 Burundi political crisis 2015-202018-UF-BDI-31878-NR02simba@un.org#Lucien SimbaEnglishDaniel Edward William Whalley Ham2019-04-02T00:00:002019-06-07T00:00:002019-09-30T00:00:002019-10-31T00:00:002020-02-07T00:00:002018-10-02T00:00:0018-UF-BGD-31909Bangladesh UF Application Sep 2018 (refugees)AsiaBangladeshSouthern AsiaSouthern AsiaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-09-04T00:00:002018-09-04T00:00:002018-10-09T00:00:002018-10-15T00:00:0018000000.0018002515628406077912361946297100073146370109137160852269989The current Rohingya refugee crisis affects directly 1,300,000 persons, of which 900,000 are Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh and 336,000 members of the host communities in Cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh. Despite a large scale-up of interventions to meet the immediate needs of refugees, they continue facing additional threats and face critical humanitarian conditions. Before the on-going monsoon season, the Inter-Sector Coordination Group (ISCG) estimated that 246,600 individuals were at risk of landslide and/or flooding in both Ukhiya and Teknaf sub-districts of Cox’s Bazar.
This CERF UFE $18 million allocation will focus on the needs of Rohingya refugees facing particularly critical life-threatening situations in the Teknaf and Ukhiya sub-districts of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. The prioritized refugee caseload is directly affected by recurrent landslides and floods, notably due to the monsoon, the topography and soil properties of the site. As access to quality water and to notorious food remains poor, the targeted refugees are moreover at constant risk of being victims of disease outbreaks with epidemic potential and other health emergencies. A total number of 246,600 refugees (48% male; 52% female; including 55% children, 42% adults and 3% elderly) will benefit form joint interventions in Health, WASH and Food Security as well as through a multisector project on Shelter and Protection.
Total envelope: $18 million (Round 2 allocation: $80 million for 9 countries)
Grant package received: 6 September 2018
Total # of projects submitted: 1018-UF-BGD-31909-NR01henry.glorieux@one.un.org#Henry GlorieuxEnglishMadoka Koide2019-04-08T00:00:002019-06-07T00:00:002019-09-30T00:00:002020-03-11T00:00:002018-10-08T00:00:0018-UF-RWA-31913Rwanda UF Application Sep 2018 (refugees)AfricaRwandaEastern AfricaEastern AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-09-04T00:00:002018-09-04T00:00:002018-09-26T00:00:002018-10-01T00:00:003000000.0030000673552935412709413221639522717386774574934142679Rwanda is currently facing multiple emergencies including the drought in the east, floods in the north and west, as well as refugees from DRC and Burundi. There are 160,000 Burundian and Congolese refugees in Rwanda; some of whom have been in the country since the 1990s and others arriving during the post-election violence in Burundi in 2015.
The Rwanda Inter-Agency Appeal, as part of the DRC Regional Refugee Response Plan requires $57 million. The Rwanda Inter-Agency Appeal, as part of the Burundi Regional Refugee Response Plan requires $74 million. The UN’s humanitarian operations in Rwanda were 11% funded at the time of CERF’s analysis.
Rwanda Underfunded Emergencies submission
Total envelope: $3 million (Round II allocation: $80 million for 9 countries)
Grant package received: 4 September 2018
Total # of projects submitted: 3 Burundi political crisis 2015-2020, DRC conflict and refugees 2017-201818-UF-RWA-31913-NR01deborah.gribaudo@one.un.org#Deborah GribaudoEnglishKatia Petion2019-04-08T00:00:002019-06-07T00:00:002019-09-30T00:00:002020-05-29T17:22:582018-09-25T00:00:0018-RR-IND-31935India RR Application Sep 2018 (Floods in Kerala)AsiaIndiaSouthern AsiaSouthern AsiaRRFloodBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20182018-09-05T00:00:002018-09-13T00:00:002018-09-21T00:00:002018-09-25T00:00:005947506.00497918617459121231138690261681075230113691117914019646121756013The CERF rapid response application of $5 million is to respond to the impact of flooding in the coastal state of Kerela due to excessive rainfall between June and August 2018. The floods have displaced 1.4 million people, taken over 486 lives and affected a total population of 5.4 million people across the state of Kerela. More than 50,000 houses have been damaged and thousands of individuals have lost their livelihoods due to destruction to crops, stored produce and loss of livestock. In the most affected districts, 1.2 million people are in need of assistance including, 1 million requiring WASH and Health assistance, 24,000 individuals needing support for emergency shelter and NFIs and 30,000 in need of support for their agricultural based livelihoods. A CERF rapid response allocation is sought to provide immediate assistance within the Health, WASH, Food Security and Shelter sectors to meet the needs of the 1.2 million vulnerable individuals. The CERF funds will complement the funds already put forward by the Government of India to support the State of Kerela.18-RR-IND-31935-NR01ranjini.mukherjee@one.un.org#Ranjini MukherjeeEnglishDaniel Edward William Whalley Ham2019-01-11T00:00:002019-02-27T00:00:002019-07-24T00:00:002020-02-26T21:58:232018-09-19T00:00:0018-UF-COG-31951Congo UF Application Sep 2018 (conflict)AfricaRepublic of CongoMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-09-05T00:00:002018-09-05T00:00:002018-10-11T00:00:002018-10-19T00:00:003999127.0039768822263025529481592708445385724694971470914120628This CERF UFE $7 million allocation will focus on the emergency response of two crisis: internally displaced people in the South region and refugees from Central African Republic in the North region. Based on the needs in the field, the CERF response will target the IDPs in the districts of Kinkala, Mindouli, Kindamba, Vindza, Kimba, Goma Tse Tse in the Pool department and the refugees in the department of Likouala. A total of 86,577 people (48,496 women, 38,081 men) will benefit from health, nutrition, agriculture, and multi-sector interventions.
Republic of Congo Underfunded Emergencies submission
Total envelope: $4 million (Round II allocation: $80 million for 9 countries)
Grant package received: 5 September 2018
Total # of projects submitted: 7 CAR crisis 2013-18-UF-COG-31951-NR01elna.yama@one.un.org#Elna Jocelyne Sandra YamaEnglishKatia Petion2019-04-08T00:00:002019-06-07T00:00:002019-09-30T00:00:002020-02-07T18:08:542018-10-10T00:00:0018-RR-PER-32095Peru RR Application Sep 2018 (Venezuela regional emergency)AmericasPeruLatin America and the CaribbeanSouth AmericaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-09-17T00:00:002018-10-09T00:00:002018-10-05T00:00:002018-10-10T00:00:001975196.001975196128751253825413164943868455178293695122280591In response to the increase of the Venezuelan exodus into neighboring countries and beyond, the ERC agreed to allocate up to $1.5 million to Brazil, $1.5 million to Ecuador, and $2 million to Peru. The allocations are in addition to $6.2 million already released to UNHCR and IOM in April to jumpstart their regional operations, including in these three countries. The CERF has also provided $5.9 million to the HCT in Colombia to scale up response efforts to assist arriving Venezuelans.
With this allocation, the UN Country Team in Peru will provide humanitarian assistance to 61,114 Venezuelan migrants and asylum seekers entering the country in vulnerable conditions through the Binational Border Service Centre on the Peruvian side of the northern border (CEBAF Peru), and in Tumbes Region. According to UNCT members, the arrival is the most vulnerable phase in the migration route and people in this stage require urgent response. Health, protection, food assistance, nutrition, and hygiene needs will be addressed covering existing critical gaps, in coordination with state and international present services. The intervention will help Venezuelan migrants and asylum seekers to continue their route and, if staying in the country, to have better conditions to start their social integration. Z - Not in use - Application - Refugee, Z - Not in use - Migrants Venezuela crisis 2018-18-RR-PER-32095-NR01rebaza@un.org#Ana Maria Rebaza DelgadoEnglishAntje Lehmann2019-01-11T00:00:002019-03-15T00:00:002019-07-05T00:00:002019-07-10T00:00:002018-10-04T00:00:0018-RR-ECU-32097Ecuador RR Application Sep 2018 (Venezuela regional emergency)AmericasEcuadorLatin America and the CaribbeanCentral AmericaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-09-17T00:00:002018-09-18T00:00:002018-10-08T00:00:002018-10-05T00:00:001499917.0014999152339421573449672685737758646155025159331109582In response to the increase of the Venezuelan exodus into neighboring countries and beyond, the ERC agreed to allocate up to $1.5 million to Brazil, $1.5 million to Ecuador, and $2 million to Peru. The allocations are in addition to $6.2 million already released to UNHCR and IOM in April to jumpstart their regional operations, including in these three countries. The CERF has also provided $5.9 million to the HCT in Colombia to scale up response efforts to assist arriving Venezuelans.
The CERF rapid response application of US$1.5 million is to respond to the needs of Venezuelan migrants and asylum seekers arriving in Ecuador. The political, humanitarian and economic crisis in Venezuela has caused thousands of individuals to flee into neighbouring South American countries. In 2018, Ecuador has received 657,557 Venezuelans, of which 22% remain in Ecuador and the remainder transit to other countries such as Colombia and Peru. Many of the arriving Venezuelans lack proper shelter, food and medical services and are exposed to various protection concerns including trafficking and sexual exploitation. The CERF allocation seeks to ensure that the lifesaving needs of the Venezuelan migrants are met by guaranteeing access to health, food and essential basic services. It consists of 8 projects implemented by WFP, UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO and UNWOMEN in the Food Security, Protection, Health, WASH and Nutrition clusters. The response will focus on the main points of entry notably in San Miguel and Rumichaca and assist 60,750 individuals. The allocation complements the CERF regional response funding availed to IOM and UNHCR and allows for other urgent projects to expand in the transit site areas. Z - Not in use - Application - Refugee, Z - Not in use - Migrants Venezuela crisis 2018-18-RR-ECU-32097-NR01galarza@un.org#Pablo GalarzaEnglishAntje Lehmann2019-01-24T00:00:002019-03-18T00:00:002019-07-08T00:00:002019-07-15T00:00:002019-08-07T00:00:002018-10-03T00:00:0018-UF-SDN-32210Sudan UF Application Sep 2018 (food insecurity and malnutrition)AfricaRepublic of the SudanNorthern AfricaNorthern AfricaUFPost-conflict NeedsConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-09-20T00:00:002018-09-20T00:00:002018-10-17T00:00:002018-10-18T00:00:0020000000.00199978762781923110315892232116452565924682374898375676231057460Sudan continues to confront significant and protracted humanitarian needs. 7.1 million people require humanitarian assistance, including at least 2 million IDPs. The economic situation is leading to higher needs, with up to 6 million people facing food insecurity in the coming months. Sudan also hosts over 760,000 South Sudanese refugees.
The Sudan HRP requirement is US$ 1.2 billion. At the time of the CERF UFE analysis, the HRP was approximately 30% funded.
This UFE CERF application targets approximately 736,482 people in South Kordofan, Blue Nile, North Darfur, Central Darfur, Red Sea, and White Nile. These areas are among the most affected by displacement and IDPs and people in host communities require food security and livelihoods, health, nutrition, WASH, and education responses.
Sudan Underfunded Emergencies submission
Total envelope: $20 million (Round II allocation: $100 million for 9 countries)
Grant package received: 20 September 2018
Total # of projects submitted: 818-UF-SDN-32210-NR01elhassan2@un.org#Tarig ElhassanEnglishTeodor Stefan Gherman2019-04-08T00:00:002019-06-07T00:00:002019-11-30T00:00:002019-12-19T00:00:002020-06-04T16:11:482018-10-15T00:00:0018-RR-LBY-32227Libya RR Application Sep 2018 (Measles)AfricaLibyaNorthern AfricaNorthern AfricaRRMeaslesBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20182018-09-21T00:00:002018-10-01T00:00:002018-10-08T00:00:002018-10-09T00:00:002500000.002500000135377813006892654467000135377813006892654467Since July 2018, Libya is experiencing a steady increase of number of measles cases. As of mid-September, there were a total of 591 cases notified with two deaths. High-level of immunization coverage is essential to interrupt the spread of the disease and save lives. The national health authorities could not mobilize local resources to carry out an outbreak response national campaign due to the political fragmentation, ongoing conflict, insecurity and weaken health system. As the number of cases is increasing with new cases being reported every week, a CERF intervention is necessary. A CERF allocation will enable the country to procure the vaccines, vitamin A and the commodities. CERF will also support the transportation of the goods to the country. UNICEF will coordinate with WHO and the national authorities for the implementation of the national campaign under the coordination and oversight of the health sector working group. Of the 2,750,000 children in need, CERF intervention will cover 1,965,250 most vulnerable children from 6 months to 15 years in the Western and Southern parts of the country. The HCT agreed on one sector of intervention, Health, and UNICEF will be the sole implementer of the response.18-RR-LBY-32227-NR02engborg@un.org#Kasper EngborgEnglishMohit Khubchandani2019-02-28T00:00:002019-03-15T00:00:002019-07-08T00:00:002019-09-16T00:00:002018-10-04T00:00:0018-RR-BRA-32278Brazil RR Application Sep 2018 (Venezuela regional emergency)AmericasBrazilLatin America and the CaribbeanCentral AmericaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-09-24T00:00:002018-09-24T00:00:002018-10-08T00:00:002018-10-09T00:00:001500000.001502535115531231023863101851418924374217382649948237In response to the increase of the Venezuelan exodus into neighboring countries and beyond, the ERC agreed to allocate up to $1.5 million to Brazil, $1.5 million to Ecuador, and $2 million to Peru. The allocations are in addition to $6.2 million already released to UNHCR and IOM in April to jumpstart their regional operations, including in these three countries. The CERF has also provided $5.9 million to the HCT in Colombia to scale up response efforts to assist arriving Venezuelans.
The CERF rapid response application of $1.5 million is to respond to the needs of migrants and asylum seekers arriving in Brazil. As of August 2018, more than 150,000 Venezuelans had entered Brazil, half of whom stayed in Brazil and the remaining had transited to other neighboring countries. In recent months, the number of Venezuelans entering through the Northern border has seen an increase and this has placed a strain on the national public services and resulted in increased tensions amongst the host community. The arriving Venezuelans have faced difficulties accessing emergency shelters, food and non-food items, health and insufficient assistance and referral services to facilitate support managing cases of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). The allocation will support the provision of lifesaving assistance through the implementation of 4 projects in the food, shelter, protection, health and nutrition clusters by IOM, UNICEF, UNFPA and UN Women. The allocation will support 27,000 individuals over a period of six months. Z - Not in use - Application - Refugee, Z - Not in use - Migrants Venezuela crisis 2018-18-RR-BRA-32278-NR01larissa.leite@one.un.org#Larissa Vieira LeiteEnglishSamir Mahmoud2019-01-11T00:00:002019-03-14T00:00:002019-07-30T00:00:002019-07-30T00:00:002020-05-19T18:38:242018-10-04T00:00:0018-RR-ZWE-32288Zimbabwe RR Application Sep 2018 (cholera)AfricaZimbabweEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRCholeraBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20182018-09-24T00:00:002018-10-02T00:00:002018-10-10T00:00:002018-10-15T00:00:003484051.003099371144064172820316884149106163198312304293170336018629188On 6 September, the Ministry of Health and Child Care of Zimbabwe declared a cholera outbreak in the city of Harare. This declaration followed the confirmation of cases in Glenview and Budiriro suburbs of Harare. As of 21 September, a cumulative 5,891 suspected cases (including 83 confirmed cases) were reported in Harare’s high-density areas and other parts of the country, with 38 deaths (36 of which in Harare).
CERF funding is needed to ensure immediate rapid scale-up of cholera outbreak response activities, increasing access to life-saving treatment, awareness of cholera prevention among the affected and at-risk communities while resource mobilization efforts continue. CERF funds will target children, women and men of Harare city, directly benefiting 50,000 people at risk of immediate contamination and 600,000 people at risk of infection, mainly in 10 districts of Harare.18-RR-ZWE-32288-NR01Kanako.Mabuchi@one.un.org#Kanako MabuchiEnglishKatia Petion2019-01-24T00:00:002019-03-14T00:00:002019-07-10T00:00:002019-07-23T00:00:002020-03-10T00:00:002018-10-08T00:00:0018-UF-LBY-32468Libya UF Application Oct 2018 (displacement)AfricaLibyaNorthern AfricaNorthern AfricaUFDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-10-01T00:00:002018-10-15T00:00:002018-10-24T00:00:002018-10-30T00:00:008100000.0081053309935490714190068203172194376397548302526285090588360Conflict in Libya has led to civilian casualties, damage to infrastructure, displacement and deterioration in basic services provision. An estimated 1.1 million people require life-saving assistance and protection, many of whom are migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
The CERF-funded response will target some 217,000 IDPs, IDP returnees, refugees, migrants and host communities in 11 locations in the East, South and West of Libya. Ten projects will be implemented by FAO, IOM, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNMAS, WFP and UNHCR in the Food Security, Health, Protection, WASH, Emergency Telecommunications and Logistics clusters.
Libya Underfunded Emergencies submission
Total envelope: $8 million (Round 2 allocation: $80 million for 9 countries)
Grant package received: 1 October 2018
Total # of projects submitted: 1018-UF-LBY-32468-NR03engborg@un.org#Kasper EngborgEnglishTeodor Stefan Gherman2019-04-02T00:00:002019-08-19T00:00:002020-02-29T00:00:002020-05-18T17:56:222018-10-23T00:00:0018-RR-LAO-32635Lao PDR RR Application Oct 2018 (Floods)AsiaLao People's Democratic RepublicSouth-Eastern AsiaSouth-Eastern AsiaRRFloodBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20182018-10-05T00:00:002018-10-05T00:00:002018-10-17T00:00:002018-10-22T00:00:003526592.0035094106735665123132479104465105806210271171821170929342750The CERF rapid response application of $3.5 million was triggered by the impact of flooding that occurred in August and September 2018. In mid-July the tropical storm Son-Tin flooded 55 districts in 13 out of the 17 provinces in Laos, resulting in a dam outburst in Attapeu Province on 23 July. Following this incident subsequent flooding occurred affecting 116 districts and 2,442 villages in all provinces, resulting in far more widespread and varied effects than the dam outburst. As of 28 September, 133,405 households (648,605 persons) have been affected including 56 fatalities and the evaluation of 17,000 individuals. The flooding has resulted in extensive infrastructure damage including the destruction and/or damage of 2,214 homes, 7,877 wells, 227 schools, 16 hospitals, 487 km of roads and 47 bridges.
As a response to the flooding, the CERF allocation will help support flood affected households in the sectors of Food Security, Livelihoods and Health implemented by UNDP, FAO, WFP and WHO. The allocation will directly assist 136,565 individuals, including 44, 205 with food assistance and livelihoods support and 136,565 with health care including detection of Beriberi cases. The funding will also allow for the repair of more than 17,000 hectares of farm land and removal of UXO unearthered due to the flooding. The CERF allocation will help to kick start the Government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic's $42million Disaster Response Plan aimed at assisting 600,000 individuals.18-RR-LAO-32635-NR01jakob.schemel@one.un.org#Jakob SchemelEnglishMadoka Koide2019-02-13T00:00:002019-03-18T00:00:002019-07-17T00:00:002019-07-31T00:00:002018-10-16T00:00:0018-RR-IDN-32543Indonesia RR Application Oct 2018 (Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami)AsiaIndonesiaSouth-Eastern AsiaSouth-Eastern AsiaRREarthquakeGeophysicalNatural Disaster20182018-10-07T00:00:002018-10-07T00:00:002018-10-19T00:00:002018-10-19T00:00:0014679220.00144250201160041113282273327726974297151566193273185625378898On 28 September, a series of strong earthquakes struck Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province; the strongest was a 7.4 magnitude earthquake only 10 km deep and with its epicentre close to the provincial capital, Palu. The earthquake triggered a tsunami whose waves reached up to three metres in some areas, striking beaches in Palu and Donggala. The earthquakes, tsunami and resulting liquefaction and landslides have caused significant damage and loss of life in affected areas. As of 7 October, 1,763 people are known to have died following the earthquake and tsunami in Central Sulawesi. A further 2,632 people have been seriously injured and are hospitalized, and 265 people are still missing, according to figures released by Indonesia’s national disaster management agency, BNPB. On 1 October, the Government of Indonesia announced that it would accept offers of international assistance.
In response to the Government’s decision to accept international assistance in identified areas, as well as the sector-specific requests by the line ministries, the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) in Indonesia developed and launched the Central Sulawesi Earthquake Response Plan on 5 October 2018. The Response Plan (RP) is focused on providing targeted technical assistance in support of the Government-led response in the areas prioritized and requested by Government, including Early Recovery, Education, Food Security, Health, Logistics, Protection, Shelter and Camp Management, and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH). Targeting some 191,000 of the most vulnterable people among the 537,000 people directly affected by the earthquake, tsunami and landslides / liquefaction, the plan requests US$ 50.5 millon to fund urgent action over the next three months.
On 7 October, the RC for Indonesia submitted a CERF rapid response application for $14.7 million. The CERF funding will be used to kick-start the most urgent, life-saving activities included in the HCT Response Plan launched on 5 October 2018 in the priority areas identified by the Government of Indonesia – Shelter & Camp Management, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Health, Protection, Logistics, Food Security and Early Recovery. At the request of the Resident Coordinator, and as endorsed by the HCT, the funds requested from CERF are to be used in the first three months of the response to target the needs of the most vulnerable people affected by the earthquake, and resulting tsunami and landslides. CERF funds will benefit an estimated 191,000 individuals, including 93,020 women and girls.18-RR-IDN-32543-NR01saiz-omenaca@un.org#Victoria Saiz-OmenacaEnglishMadoka Koide2019-02-14T00:00:002019-03-21T00:00:002019-07-19T00:00:002019-07-22T00:00:002019-10-03T00:00:002018-10-17T00:00:0018-UF-PRK-32725DPR Korea UF Application Oct 2018 (health)AsiaDemocratic People's Republic of KoreaEastern AsiaEastern AsiaUFMultiple EmergenciesInternal strifeMultiple20182018-10-09T00:00:002018-10-19T00:00:002018-10-24T00:00:002018-10-26T00:00:0010000000.001000376814132614722528855181767187184268951223093334409557502More than 40 per cent (10.3 million) of the population require humanitarian assistance. One in five children is stunted. Over 9 million people lack access to essential health services. A severe shortage of basic drugs persists. The
humanitarian response focuses on the vulnerable, children, and pregnant and lactating women. Some 77 per cent of health assistance and 74 per cent of
nutrition assistance is aimed at children under-five.
On 9 October, the RC DPRK submitted an underfunded emergencies application for $10 million to strengthen the health status of the most vulnerable people in need of assistance, particularly under-five children, pregnant and breast-feeding women, and people suffering from multi drug-resistant tuberculosis. Some 495,760 people are targeted in six provinces through six projects by UNICEF, FAO, WFP and WHO will be implemented in the Health, Nutrition, WASH and Food Security sectors.
Democratic People's Republic of North Korea Underfunded Emergencies submission
Total envelope: $10 million (Round 2 allocation: $80 million for 9 countries)
Grant package received: 9 October 2018
Total # of projects submitted: 618-UF-PRK-32725-NR01prorovskaya@un.org#Olga Prorovskaya EnglishInga Christina Mueller2019-04-01T00:00:002019-06-07T00:00:002020-01-31T00:00:002020-07-24T19:22:572018-10-23T00:00:0018-RR-NGA-32765Nigeria RR Application Oct 2018 (Cholera)AfricaNigeriaWestern AfricaWestern AfricaRRCholeraBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20182018-10-11T00:00:002018-10-26T00:00:002018-11-02T00:00:002018-11-05T00:00:002451454.002252605178040192050370090179406180334359740357446372384729830As of 15 October 2018, Nigeria has been experiencing its largest Cholera outbreak in recent years with a total of 40,771 suspected cases including 812 deaths and more than 25 per cent of the cases occurring among children aged 5 to 14 years. This overall situation stands in contrast with the total of 18,243 suspected cases reported in the country over the last 3 years between 2015 and 2017.
In the north-east, where the HRP is currently implemented, the states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe (BAY) have reported a total of 10,468 suspected and confirmed cases of cholera as of week 41. Since the declaration of the outbreak on 5 September in Borno State, more than eighteen Local Government Areas (LGAs) are currently affected. Yobe state has also declared a cholera outbreak in six LGAs. In Adamawa state, 2,498 cases have been reported from 5 LGAs.
In north-west and north-central Nigeria (non-HRP states) the situation is equally alarming. Eight states are more particularly affected by the outbreak with a total of 29,056 suspected and confirmed cases including 570 deaths. The affected states are Bauchi, Zamfara, Katsina, Kano, Sokoto, Niger, Kaduna and Plateau.
Due to the scale of the outbreak, limitations in the current response capacity (both financial and human resources) and existence of critical gaps (e.g. surveillance, case management), the HCT has prioritized a two-pronged approach, based on the respective critical lifesaving gaps identified for each geographical group (HRP and non-HRP states). In the north-east (HRP states), the lifesaving interventions will be implemented within a humanitarian context to scale up a mutli-sectoral approach, including the strengthening of both the WASH and health response in accordance with the HRP objectives. Outside the north-east (non-HRP states), lifesaving interventions will address critical gaps in the health component of the outbreak response to support Government in disease surveillance, early reporting, case management, and risk communication. A CERF intervention is necessary to prevent avoidable deaths and contain the spread of the outbreak.18-RR-NGA-32765-NR02haggarty@un.org#Alta BellEnglishKatia Petion2019-02-28T00:00:002019-04-05T00:00:002019-08-02T00:00:002020-01-17T23:26:352018-11-01T00:00:0018-RR-NER-32834Niger RR Application Oct 2018 (Cholera)AfricaNigerWestern AfricaWestern AfricaRRCholeraBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20182018-10-10T00:00:002018-10-10T00:00:002018-10-24T00:00:002018-10-30T00:00:002626981.002274186160589167144327733121146126091247237281735293235574970The CERF rapid response application of $2.6 million is to respond to the outbreak of cholera in Niger. On 15 July 2018, the Ministry of Health in Niger officially declared a cholera outbreak. As of 1 October, 3,692 cases had been reported including 68 deaths in 12 affected districts. Concerns that the outbreak could further spread are mounting as the country is experiencing the rainy season and an increased number of cases in neighbouring Nigeria. Urgent assistance is required to contain the outbreak and support the health structures in early case detection and improved the quality of surveillance and care.
The CERF allocation will target the 12 affected districts with Health, WASH and UNHAS support implemented through UNICEF, WHO and WFP. The health interventions will target 574,970 individuals whilst the WASH interventions will reach some 177,084 individuals. UNHAS will be utilized to kickstart the response to ensure that the appropriate personnel and supplies are on the ground in a timely manner.18-RR-NER-32834-NR02emanuele.cidonelli@un.org#Emanuele CidonelliEnglishKatia Petion2019-03-06T00:00:002019-03-27T00:00:002019-07-24T00:00:002020-03-05T00:00:002018-10-23T00:00:0018-RR-VEN-33275Venezuela RR Application Nov 2018 (disruption of services)AmericasVenezuelaLatin America and the CaribbeanCentral AmericaRRPost-conflict NeedsConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-11-01T00:00:002018-11-01T00:00:002018-11-23T00:00:002018-11-26T00:00:008996184.0092027612086222449374535594287754145438433186373976594801296877Venezuela’s political, social and economic situation has deteriorated over the last two years. The economic crisis is leading to triple digit monthly hyperinflation. Moreover, the loss of oil revenue and imposed economic sanctions have resulted in import reductions that are causing shortages of medical, food and other basic supplies. Production capacities have decreased in most economically productive industries and there is serious disruption of basic services (mainly electricity, water and transport), as a result, the population is facing severe challenges related to health, nutrition and protection.
A CERF allocation is needed to alleviate negative consequences of the crisis for the most vulnerable population. The main CERF activities will be to contain the nutritional deterioration and to reduce its impact particularly on infants, pregnant and lactating women; to help ensure access to treatment and continuity of priority health programs; and to strengthen pre-existing protection networks.
This is the sixth allocation to the Venezuela mixed migratory crisis in 2018. Indeed, in response to the increase of the Venezuelan exodus into neighboring countries and beyond, the ERC allocated up to $5.9 million to Colombia, $1.5 million to Brazil, $1.5 million to Ecuador, and $2 million to Peru. The allocations are in addition to $6.2 million already released to UNHCR and IOM in April 2018 to jumpstart their regional operations, including in these four countries. Venezuela crisis 2018-18-RR-VEN-33275-NR01batistab@un.org#Barbara BatistaEnglishSamir Mahmoud2019-03-05T00:00:002019-04-23T00:00:002019-09-25T00:00:002020-05-19T22:27:152018-11-21T00:00:0018-RR-MDG-33194Madagascar RR Application Nov 2018 (Plague outbreak)AfricaMadagascarEastern AfricaEastern AfricaRRUnspecified Health EmergencyBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20182018-11-02T00:00:002018-11-09T00:00:002018-11-20T00:00:002018-11-26T00:00:001000000.0010000004294154143738437887217107891821510892115112512035552354680From August to 25 October 2018, a total of 97 confirmed and suspected cases of plague, including 9 deaths (case fatality rate 9.3%), have been reported in 22 out of 114 districts in Madagascar. Of the nine deaths registered, five cases were pneumonic and four bubonic. The disease is endemic in Madagascar and the current number of cases is within the annual averages and is still manageable. However, there is concern that due to aggravating factors such an ongoing measles outbreak, the occurrence of cases near populated urban areas, and presidential campaign activities which present opportunities for crowds could increase the risk of spreading the disease. Using the basis of plague cases reported last year, 1,411 plague cases could be reported over the three-month peak (November-January) of this plague season, including 974 pneumonic and 437 bubonic plague cases (for the most optimistic scenario).
A CERF rapid response allocation of US$1 million is needed to support the most urgent and lifesaving activities of the national response plan for the three-month peak of the plague season. The objectives of the CERF response will be: (i) to contain the outbreak in currently affected districts and; (ii) to implement effective early actions to prevent the spread of the outbreak. Priority activities to be implemented will be case management, infection prevention and control, disease surveillance, vector and reservoir control, risk communication, and community engagement. Some 1,460,000 individuals will be assisted over three months. AA - ad-hoc AA or early action18-RR-MDG-33194-NR01rakotoson@un.org#Rija RakotosonEnglishKatia Petion2019-02-28T00:00:002019-04-22T00:00:002019-08-20T00:00:002019-11-08T00:00:002018-11-16T00:00:0018-RR-NGA-33345Nigeria RR Application Nov 2018 (Floods)AfricaNigeriaWestern AfricaWestern AfricaRRFloodBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20182018-11-30T00:00:002018-12-24T00:00:002018-12-27T00:00:002018-12-26T00:00:004493561.00395922376063772341532977023471185141419146297148419294716Heavy rains since August 2018 triggered large-scale floods along two major rivers of Nigeria (Niger and Benue), affecting over 2.3 million people in 12 states by 27 October. A state of emergency has been declared in nine states and over 700,000 people have been internally displaced due to the floods, staying in camps and host communities. Government-led and other sectoral assessments revealed an immediate impact on health including rises in infectious disease cases among the affected population, destruction of water and sanitation facilities and services, and widespread damages to social and economic infrastructure. Shelter, food, medicines, and NFIs were noted as priority needs.
The Government has so far allocated US$15 million towards an estimated $34 million requirement for the overall response to the floods. However, field assessments have highlighted critical gaps in the response, including in urgent life-saving interventions, caused by delays in the disbursement of the federal financial assistance and in the deployment of relief materials to the affected population.
This CERF application for $4.5 million aims to support immediate scale up of the response in the sectors of WASH (UNICEF), health (UNFPA and WHO), emergency shelter and NFIs (IOM), and education (UNICEF), targeting some 311,079 flood-affected people in six priority states of Kogi, Anambra, Niger, Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta over six months. The CERF funds will support localized interventions by the appealing agencies in partnership with their government and local implementing partners. The health component of the response will be coordinated with the ongoing cholera response supported by a recent CERF rapid response allocation of $2.3 million to ensure complementarity.
Internal note: The ERC on 16 November agreed to allocate up to $4.5 million under this allocation based on the CERF review of the draft application chapeau submitted on 12 November with an original request for $5.2 million. Given the late timing of the application submission, it was recommended that the allocation would focus on highly prioritized, time-critical interventions that meet life-saving criteria and can be implemented immediately. Upon reviewing the formal application submitted on 30 November, the CERF secretariat on 4 December recommended the RC/HC to withdraw the education project, which was not accompanied with strong justification for prioritization and was neither planned for immediate implementation nor interlinked with other life-saving activities. On 23 December, CERF secretariat was notified of the withdrawal of the education project. This brought down the overall allocation amount to about $4 million, targeting 301,401 beneficiaries.18-RR-NGA-33345-NR03omuga@un.org#Vincent OmugaEnglishTeodor Stefan Gherman2019-04-02T00:00:002019-05-28T00:00:002019-09-27T00:00:002019-10-16T00:00:002020-03-06T00:00:002018-12-21T00:00:0018-RR-COD-33492DR Congo RR Application Dec 2018 (Angolan returnees)AfricaDemocratic Republic of the CongoMiddle AfricaMiddle AfricaRRDisplacementConflict-relatedMan-made20182018-12-06T00:00:002018-12-17T00:00:002019-01-16T00:00:002019-01-17T00:00:0010045932.009823584401092461464723702264997512020111033574589184924Since October 2018, more than 362,097 Congolese have returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo from Angola following the expiration of their legal status in the country. The massive return of this population requires a scale up of assistance to ensure the safe return to their villages of origin. Returnees require emergency assistance to facilitate their return as the majority lack social networks and/or livelihood opportunities in DRC. They will be returning to villages that are already facing significant humanitarian challenges, notably in the Kasai Region, which places a further strain on their ability to be self-sufficient upon arrival.
The HCT in DRC has developed an emergency response plan to: 1) facilitate the actual return process of the affected population to their villages of origin, and 2) provide emergency assistance upon arrival in their villages together with support to the host population. The overall response plan requires US$52 million to support the estimated 656,620 affected individuals (both returnees and host population). The US$10million CERF allocation is aimed to kick start the activities through interventions in Protection, Food Security, Shelter and WASH. The allocation will provide assistance for 200,000 returnees through the implementation of activities over 3 to 6 months. Z - not in use - Returnees DRC conflict and refugees 2017-201818-RR-COD-33492-NR01Rawad El Zir#Rawad El ZirEnglishInga Christina Mueller2019-04-16T00:00:002019-06-20T00:00:002019-10-16T00:00:002020-03-31T00:00:002020-06-04T00:00:002019-01-15T00:00:0018-RR-HTI-33497Haiti RR Application Dec 2018 (Earthquake)AmericasHaitiLatin America and the CaribbeanCaribbeanRREarthquakeGeophysicalNatural Disaster20182018-12-10T00:00:002018-12-10T00:00:002018-12-27T00:00:002018-12-27T00:00:003292837.00315766012573164192899287581995728715213313637657707A 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck the North-Western, Artibonite and Northern Haitian departments on 6 October 2018 causing significant loss of life and material damage. Initially, the government did not request assistance from the humanitarian community. The national authorities mobilized state resources to provide basic assistance to the affected populations. While the official partial damage assessment of the authorities as at 10 October 2018 showed 18 deaths, 548 wounded and nearly 11,134 families affected, these figures more than doubled as reports from the various municipalities reached the national level. At that point, the government solicited support from national and international organizations. In parallel, there were several socio-political unrests and demonstrations which hindered partners’ efforts to assess the situation. The final official figures issued in late November, indicated a total of 31,500 families were affected, 2,668 houses were destroyed and 29,433 houses damaged, 8 schools were totally destroyed, and 171 severely damaged.
According to various reports and supplementary assessments, the sectors that have been most affected are health, education, shelter and access to water and sanitation. The HC and HCT agreed to solicit CERF rapid response to address unmet critical needs in shelter, education and health.18-RR-HTI-33497-NR02nijimbere@un.org#Alix NijimbereEnglishSamir Mahmoud2019-04-02T00:00:002019-05-29T00:00:002019-09-27T00:00:002019-10-31T00:00:002020-03-25T00:00:002018-12-24T00:00:0018-RR-LSO-33695Lesotho RR Application Dec 2018 (Drought)AfricaLesothoSouthern AfricaSouthern AfricaRRDroughtMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20182018-12-27T00:00:002018-12-27T00:00:002019-01-18T00:00:002019-01-22T00:00:005626261.00555053348487464119489896556104032200588145043150443295486Lesotho has experienced the impact of late onset rains and dry spells between September and November 2018, which has had an effect on the start of the 2018/19 agriculture season. Though, not officially declared an El Nino event, Southern Africa has been experiencing lower than average rainfall that could be the start of El Nino. The situation is further exacerbating underlying health vulnerabilities including prevalence of HIV and malnutrition. Overall, agencies require US$29 million to respond to the immediate life-saving activities and protection of livelihoods for the 320,000 individuals affected (20% of the country’s population) by the drought.
The US$5.4 million CERF application was developed by the UNCT using the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) of November 2018, early warning information from LMS, FEWSNET, SARCOF, GIEWS, baseline information as well as lessons learned from previous emergencies. The overall objective of the CERF response is to save lives, reduce the impact of the shocks on the well-being of affected population in the four districts that are IPC 3 and above and ensure that vulnerable populations, including women, children, the elderly and people with disabilities have access to adequate food, safe water, and protection during the emergency period. Some 273,635 individuals will be supported over a period of 6 months through the sectors of WASH, food security and agriculture, protection, nutrition and health. Southern Africa drought 2018-202018-RR-LSO-33695-NR01asel.abdurahmanova@one.un.org#Asel AbdurahmanovaEnglishSamir Mahmoud2019-04-22T00:00:002019-08-19T00:00:002019-11-15T00:00:002020-05-19T21:02:092019-01-18T00:00:0019-RR-GTM-37683Guatemala RR Application Jun 2019 (Drought)AmericasGuatemalaLatin America and the CaribbeanCentral AmericaRRDroughtMeteorological, Hydrological and ClimatologicalNatural Disaster20192019-06-26T00:00:002019-06-27T00:00:002019-07-10T00:00:002019-07-08T00:00:001986599.001986599Between June and August of 2018, Guatemala was affected, for the sixth consecutive year, by a prolonged heat wave associated with the El Niño phenomenon that directly impacted subsistence farmers and indirectly agricultural day laborers. At the request of the National Food Security Secretariat, the World Food Program (WFP), in coordination with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), conducted a Food and Nutrition Security Assessment between September and October 2018. The evaluation determined that some 538,735 families, or about 3 million people, were in a situation of moderate to severe food insecurity. The departments with the highest levels were Alta Verapaz (81%), Quiché and Quetzaltenango (58%) and Sololá (54%). In Alta Verapaz, around 800,000 individuals (160,000 families) are in-need of food assistance, including around 225,000 children under five. Poverty, inequality, and lack of access to basic services (health, education, sanitation) exacerbated this humanitarian situation. Based on the assessment, the National Food Security Secretariat requested support from the Humanitarian Country Team to target Alta Verapaz as the area with the highest priority for humanitarian support. A comprehensive Strategic Response Plan (SRP) was formulated for a total requirement of USD 22 million for 105,000 beneficiaries for 18 months. This CERF request includes life-saving interventions for six months from UNICEF (Nutrition), PAHO (Health and WASH), WFP (Food Assistance), and FAO (Food Security) for a total of USD 2,000,00.19-RR-GTM-37683-NR01barillase@un.org#Edy Manolo BarillasEnglishKristine Hansen2019-11-11T00:00:002020-01-20T00:00:002020-04-10T00:00:002020-07-02T13:17:332019-07-03T00:00:0019-RR-WSM-40060Samoa RR Application Dec 2019 (Measles)OceaniaSamoaPolynesiaPolynesiaRRMeaslesBiological (human disease outbreak and other health emergency)Natural Disaster20192019-12-08T00:00:002019-12-30T00:00:002019-12-20T00:00:002019-12-23T00:00:002707068.00270706819-RR-WSM-40060-NR01Anne Colquhoun#Anne ColquhounEnglishSamir Mahmoud2020-10-17T00:00:002020-10-17T00:00:002021-03-11T00:00:002019-12-18T00:00:00