Preliminary Appeal Target: US$ 220,497

Balance Requested: US$ 220,497

Geneva, 13 May 2013

Dear Colleagues,

Overview

Across the East Africa region, consecutive good seasons transformed food security conditions from the initial low point in 2011, which was a great relief coming out of a severe drought. However, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) continued working with other players including government and regional bodies such as the Inter-Governmental Climate Information, Prediction,

Faits marquants de l’UNHCR

• Face à l’arrivée de congolais au Burundi, l’UNHCR a ouvert deux nouveaux centres de transit (l’un à Cishemere en province de Cibitoke, et l’autre à Kajaga en Mairie de Bujumbura) et un nouveau camp de réfugiés (à Kavumu en province de Cankuzo). Le nouveau camp, ayant une capacité de 13 000 réfugiés, devrait en accueillir 5000 d’ici la fin 2013. Il sera inauguré le 15 mai 2013.

CONTEXT

Overview

Ongoing instability, human rights violations and violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continue to displace people internally and across borders into Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda. The upsurge in violence started in North Kivu, in eastern DRC, in March 2012 and caused considerable displacement in the affected provinces of North and South Kivu and Province Orientale.

100 families affected by cases of Ebola are identified in a timely manner and provided with essential items support to re-build their livelihoods.

Summary: CHF 111,629 was allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to support the Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) deliver immediate assistance to some 3,480 beneficiaries.

Sunday 24th June 2012, a landslide caused by heavy rains buried the villages of Namanga and Bunakasala in Bududa district. The landslide covered approximately 5 acres of land and left a devastating effect on the people and the environment in the area. 18 people were killed, 15 houses were completely buried in the mudslide, and crops and property were destroyed.

The activities proposed hereafter are subject to the adoption of the financing decision ECHO/WWD/ BUD/2013/01000

1. CONTEXT

DROUGHT CRISIS AND CONFLICT IN THE HORN OF AFRICA – STATE OF PLAY

The Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) has today published a report on the Department for International Development’s (DFID’s) oversight of the European Union’s (EU’s) aid to low-income countries.

ACT members have been working around the clock to craft a unified strategy to address the deepening humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since the strategically critical eastern town of Goma fell to rebels on Tuesday, November 20th.

Several ACT members have taken significant steps both to expand aid efforts on the ground and to speak out on the political dynamics that have hampered the creation of a sustainable peace in the region, which could go a long way to mitigate the large-scale humanitarian suffering.