1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Humanitarian needs in Afghanistan continue to mount while financial resources to respond are declining, as reflected in funding to actions coordinated in the 2012 Consolidated Appeal (CAP) and contributions to the Emergency Response Fund. Funding shortfalls are most likely to affect internally displaced people (IDPs), chronically vulnerable people coping with the consequences of the harshest winter for 15 years, victims of sudden-onset and natural disasters, and communities exposed to communicable disease.

Several years after a massive influx of Iraqi refugees prompted the humanitarian community to build its first comprehensive and coordinated protection and assistance response, Iraqi refugees continue to constitute one of the largest urban refugee populations in the world.

The 2011 Regional Response Plan for Iraqi Refugees builds on the 2010 process, and aims to provide a strategic framework for responding to the immediate needs of Iraqi refugees in twelve countries: Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, Iran and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. It represents the efforts made by all agencies to agree about common objectives, enhance coordination and ensure complementarity in responding to the needs of Iraqi refugees in the region.

The 2010 Regional Response Plan for Iraqi Refugees (RRP) continues a process initiated by the interagency consolidated appeal for Iraq and the Region in 2009. Drawing upon lessons learned during the 2009 CAP process, the RRP seeks to provide the most appropriate and effective protection and assistance for Iraqi refugees. It establishes a framework for collaboration on behalf of Iraqi refugees scattered across 12 countries - primarily Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, but also Egypt, Turkey, Iran and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states.1 Reflecting its urban

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

WFP is deeply concerned that the scourge of hunger and malnutrition is on the increase across the developing world, with now over a billion hungry people on the planet. The global economic downturn is exacerbating the impact of the food crisis and increasing food insecurity for the world's most vulnerable people, reversing progress toward the Millennium Development Goals. This threatens human well-being, peace and stability, and puts an entire generation at risk in many countries.

In 2008, the number of people in need

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) zone has developed three major strategic management priorities which are based on a firm commitment to the Federation of the Future framework and a thorough needs-based assessment of stakeholder interests, most notably that of the National Societies in the MENA region representing the beneficiaries in local communities.

1. A strategic dialogue co-organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation's MENA zone with leaders of the National Societies in the region

Introduction

UNHCR's Global Appeal is published yearly to alert governmental and private sector donors, Executive Committee (ExCom) members and Standing Committee observers, Governments and their Permanent Missions in Geneva, the UN Secretariat, UN agencies, intergovernmental agencies, NGOs, regional organizations and other institutions and interested individuals to the plight of millions of refugees and others of concern to UNHCR. This tenth Global Appeal outlines the Office's strategies and programmes for 2007, and will be launched officially at UNHCR's annual

Appeal Target: US$ 3,133,786

Balance Requested from ACT Network: US$599,794

Geneva, 7 December 2004

Dear Colleagues,

The earthquake in Bam that left behind 26,000 casualties, 75,600 homeless and 5,204 orphans is approaching its first anniversary.