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21 Dec 2001

Belize + 4 others
WFP alerts international community to worsening food crisis in Central America

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— World Food Programme
Managua. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is making an urgent call to help over 100,000 malnourished children in Guatemala, who could die of hunger in the coming months if rapid action is not taken to attend to them.
"We must do everything possible to ensure that 100,000 children at nutritional risk do not die of hunger," emphasized Francisco Roque Castro, Regional Director of WFP for Latin America and the Caribbean, in a press conference today in Managua.

The impact of the earthquakes, droughts,

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21 Dec 2001

Belize + 4 others
2001: Food insecurity and disasters in Central America fact sheet

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— World Food Programme
World Food Programme
Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (ODM)
Managua, Nicaragua
1. During 2001 Central America has suffered from the worst natural disasters since Hurricane Mitch in 1998. A combination of droughts, earthquakes, floods and hurricanes affected Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, devastating crops, destroying livelihoods and seriously damaging infrastructure, leaving hundreds of thousands of families in food insecurity. Most affected families were
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21 Dec 2001

El Salvador + 3 others
Central America: Drought and food insecurity appeal No. 31/01 operations update No. 1

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— IFRC


This Ops Update is intended for reporting on emergency appeals.
Launched on 19 September 2001 for CHF 3,507,865 for 6 months. Revised appeal issued 19 October 2001.
Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF)
Allocated: CHF 100, 000
Beneficiaries: 59,136
Period covered: 20 October - 19 December 2001

"At a Glance"

Appeal coverage: 50.7%
Related Appeals: 01.26/01 - Central America
Outstanding needs: CHF 1,727,769

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20 Dec 2001

Honduras
COPECO traslada a instituciones del estado fondos para rehabilitación de obras en el país

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— Comisión Permanente de Contingencias
Tegucigalpa. 20 de diciembre del 2001

La Comisión Permanente de Contingencias (COPECO) entregó a diferentes instituciones del Estado más de33 millones de lempiras, que servirán para la ejecución de diversos proyectos de rehabilitación, luego de los daños causados por las inundaciones que dejaron las lluvias en la Zona Norte del país.

Como se recordará el Gobierno de Japón decidió trasladar al Gobierno de Honduras un fondo para ser utilizado en la rehabilitación de las zonas afectadas por las inundaciones que

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19 Dec 2001

Honduras
Christian Children's Fund : Success stories - Honduras

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— Christian Children's Fund
extract from Childwire
CCF has supported Honduras's national campaign for immunization by encouraging mothers to participate and by covering the extensive transportation costs for government health personnel. As a result, 8,000 children in CCF-assisted projects have received the vaccinations they need to stave off disease.

To address rampant malnutrition, 20 drought-afflicted projects participated in an initiative to increase food production. CCF Honduras staffers taught families new methods of growing vegetables, raising

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19 Dec 2001

El Salvador + 3 others
Centroamérica comienza a recuperarse tres años después del huracán Mitch

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— Cruz Roja Española
Cruz Roja Española puso en marcha más de 400 proyectos de cooperación tras el huracán
Medio millón de personas de las zonas más castigadas por el Mitch participan en los trabajos de reconstrucción y desarrollo que se están llevando a cabo.

A finales de octubre de 1998, los desbordamientos de ríos y las inundaciones causadas por el Huracán Mitch afectaron a tres millones de personas de Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala y El Salvador, causando la muerte de 10.000 personas y dejando sin hogar a más de un millón y medio. Las pérdidas económicas ascendieron a unos 900.000 millones de pesetas.

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18 Dec 2001

Afghanistan + 18 others
WMO statement on the status of the global climate in 2001

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— World Meteorological Organization
Global temperature in 2001: second warmest on record
The global average surface temperature in 2001 is expected to be the second warmest on record, 0.42=B0C above the 1961-1990 average. The warmest year in the 1860 to present record occurred in 1998, according to records maintained by Members of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Nine of the ten warmest years have occurred since 1990, including 1999 and 2000, when the cooling influence of the tropical Pacific La Niña contributed to a somewhat lower global average (0.29=B0C and 0.26=B0C
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17 Dec 2001

Afghanistan + 30 others
FAO/GIEWS Food Outlook No. 5, 2001

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— Food and Agriculture Organization
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Rome, December 2001
Highlights

Latest information indicates a slightly larger global cereal output in 2001, of 1 870 million tonnes (including rice in milled terms). However, even at this level, production would still be less than the anticipated utilization requirements in 2001/02, leading to a significant draw-down of cereal stocks.

While Afghanistan currently faces a grave food supply situation, food emergencies persist in many other countries (see box on page 6).

World cereal trade in 2001/02 is forecast at 233 million tonnes, unchanged from the previous season's

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14 Dec 2001

Bosnia and Herzegovina + 15 others
General Assembly adopts 14 resolutions on strengthening coordination of humanitarian, disaster relief assistance

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— UN General Assembly
GA/10000
Plenary 87th Meeting (PM)
The General Assembly this afternoon adopted 14 resolutions on strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance. It adopted those texts without a vote.

By a resolution on assistance to the Palestinian people, introduced by the representative of Belgium (speaking on behalf of the European Union and associated States), the Assembly urged Member States, international financial institutions, intergovernmental

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14 Dec 2001

Bahamas + 15 others
Summary of the hurricane season 2001

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— Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency


The 2001 hurricane season was above average.

In December 2000 Professor William M Gray et al, forecasted that the 2001 hurricane season would be a below average hurricane season. However, at the beginning of the 2001 hurricane season, this team updated their forecast on June 07, 2001 to indicate that the season would be above average consisting of 12 named storms, 7 hurricanes and 3 intense hurricanes. The long-term averages are: Tropical Storms-10, Hurricanes-6 and Major Hurricanes-2. (NOAA, 2001).

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14 Dec 2001

Afghanistan + 19 others
WFP Emergency Report No. 50 of 2001

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— World Food Programme


(A) West and Central Asia: (1) Regional overview, (2) Afghanistan, (3) Pakistan, (4) Iran, (5) Tajikistan
(1) Regional overview

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12 Dec 2001

El Salvador + 3 others
WFP seeks long-term response to Central America hunger

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— World Food Programme
Central America's subsistence farmers are struggling to cope with the consequences of a serious drought - the latest in a long line of natural disasters that have exhausted their food reserves.
Local WFP officials are calling for a long-term plan that looks beyond emergency aid and helps reduce the vulnerability of poor farming communities in Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

December 12, 2001 - With hundreds of thousands of subsistence farmers still relying on food aid to survive Central America's latest drought, WFP has called for long-term planning

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11 Dec 2001

Nicaragua + 1 other
WFP ODM Emergency situation report 11 Dec 2001

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— World Food Programme
Honduras
Honduras continues to be involved in two emergency situations: droughts that affected this year's crops and floods caused by tropical storm Michelle.

WFP completed the goal of distributing 4,500 MT of food between August and November, having distributed to date up to 4,780 MT. Over 30,000 families have been assisted with over one million rations of maize, beans, oil, fish and CSB. Some of the more affected districts in the Francisco Morazan and Choluteca provinces will continue to be assisted during December.

Regarding the floods caused by tropical

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10 Dec 2001

Honduras
Drought prompts drastic rationing in Honduran capital

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— Agencia EFE
Tegucigalpa, Dec 10, 2001 (EFE via COMTEX) -- The drought affecting the central Honduran region this year has forced authorities to impose stricter water rationing measures in the capital city of this Central American country, an official said Monday.

Humberto de Jesus Puerto, head of the National Aqueduct and Sewage Autonomous Service (SANAA) told reporters that the new rationing measure enacted Monday will remain in effect through July since it is impossible to forecast the amount of rain that might fall during the rainy season that is expected to begin next May or June.

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07 Dec 2001

Afghanistan + 15 others
WFP Emergency Report No. 49 of 2001

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— World Food Programme
This report includes:
(A) West and Central Asia Region: (1) Regional overview, (2) Afghanistan, (3) Pakistan, (4) Iran

(B) Latin America and Caribbean Region: (1) Peru, (2) El Salvador, (3) Guatemala, (4) Nicaragua

(C) East and Southern Africa Region: (1) Burundi, (2) Somalia, (3) Eritrea

(D) West Africa Region: (1) Liberia, (2) Sierra Leone, (3) Guinea

(E) Central Africa Region: Angola

(F) Eastern Europe Region: Northern Caucasus: (1) Regional overview, (2) Ingushetia, (3) Chechnya

From Francesco Strippoli, Senior Humanitarian

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06 Dec 2001

Honduras + 2 others
Emergency humanitarian aid for Central America: EUR 2.3 million from the Commission for drought victims

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— European Commission Humanitarian Aid department
IP/01/1757
Brussels, 6 December 2001 - Responding to the prolonged drought in Central America, the Commission has allocated €2.3 million via ECHO, the Humanitarian Aid Office, under the responsibility of Commissioner Poul Nielson, to provide food aid for the most vulnerable sections of the population. This drought is the latest in a series of natural disasters, after Hurricane Mitch in 1998 and the earthquakes that repeatedly hit El Salvador at the beginning of 2001, and comes on top of a particularly difficult economic climate.

The drought has so far lasted two years

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06 Dec 2001

Cuba + 3 others
Central America, Cuba and Jamaica: the Commission grants EUR 1 million in emergency humanitarian aid for victims of Hurricane Michelle

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— European Commission Humanitarian Aid department
IP/01/1756
Brussels, 6 December 2001 - In the wake of Hurricane Michelle, which swept through Central America and Cuba in early November, the Commission has decided to grant €1 050 000 in emergency humanitarian aid through the Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) headed by Commissioner Poul Nielson. The impact of gales and heavy rain on some communities in the region is comparable to that of Hurricane Mitch in October 1998. This has been the most violent hurricane to hit Cuba since 1944.

The worst-hit regions are Nicaragua's

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06 Dec 2001

Honduras
Mercy Corps helping Honduran families hit by hurricane

Report
— Mercy Corps
Funding still needed to help communities devastated by Hurricane Michelle
Mercy Corps and its local partner, Proyecto Aldea Global (PAG), is helping families and farmers in Honduras trying to recover from last month's Hurricane Michelle which dumped heavy rain and caused widespread damage in impoverished rural communities.

According to Mercy Corps/PAG country director Chet Thomas, additional funding is still needed to help affected people in the municipalities of Sulaco, Victoria and Yorito where many residents describe the damage as being even worse than that caused by Hurricane

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04 Dec 2001

Afghanistan + 35 others
IFRC Appeal 2002-2003: Strategies and Programmes

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— IFRC
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Power of humanity
The International Federation 's collective mission 'to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilising the power of humanity ' is an ambitious goal, but one rarely more needed than now. The tragic events over the latter months of 2001 have shown how much the world requires a global, neutral, unified and able humanitarian organisation such as the Red Cross and Red Crescent. Fear and uncertainty grip our world, as they have not done for many decades. Labels of nationality, ethnicity and religion appear to be becoming more important in the minds of many.
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30 Nov 2001

Afghanistan + 17 others
WFP Emergency Report No. 48 of 2001

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— World Food Programme
This report includes:
(A) United Nations Consolidated Appeals

(B) West and Central Asia Region: (1) Regional Overview, (2) Afghanistan, (3) Pakistan, (4) Iran, (5) Tajikistan, (6) Uzbekistan

(C) Latin America and Caribbean Region: (1) Guatemala, (2) Honduras, (3) Belize, (4) Peru, (5) Colombia

(D) Central Africa Region: (1) Angola, (2) Namibia, (3) Democratic Republic of Congo

(E) West Africa Region: Sierra Leone

(F) Eastern Europe Region (Balkans): (1) Kosovo, (2) Serbia, (3) Montenegro, (4) Albania

From Francesco Strippoli, Senior Humanitarian

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