On 25 November the UN Country Team in Madagascar has appealed for $6 million in donations to stockpile emergency supplies, including tarpaulins, medicines and water purification tablets against the imminent cyclone season that annually devastates the island ..

The cyclone season usually starts in December and runs through April and coincides with the main growing season for rice, the main staple food crop in the country. In the last two years five cyclones struck Madagascar affecting over 463,000 people and caused

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Intervention post-cyclonique

La CRM redonne le sourire aux sinistrés de Menabe et Sofia

Il est 6h du matin, Donald, un jeune volontaire de la CRM Menabe se prépare á se rendre á l'endroit o=F9 va se tenir la distribution des dons pour les sinistrés de Morondava, région Menabe. D'autres volontaires étaient déjá sur place en train de constituer les kits á distribuer. Après avoir enfilé lon gilet Croix-Rouge, Donal se met tout de suite á l'ouvrage.

En effet, après le passages des cyclones Eric et Fanèle au mois de février, plusieurs personnes sont encore dans

This report covers the period 01/01/2009 to 30/06/09.

In brief

Programme purpose: The Indian Ocean Sub Zone provides support through capacity building of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies of Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles in Organisational Development (OD) and Disaster Management (DM), in order to reduce the impact of emergencies on the lives of vulnerable communities in the region.

Programme summary: The DM delegate in Madagascar facilitated the completion of the cyclone Ivan operation, which included the pre-positioning of emergency stock for the next cyclone.

General Assembly
Sixty-fourth session
Item 72 (a) of the provisional agenda
Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and
disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including
special economic assistance: strengthening of the coordination
of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations

Summary

The present report on the Central Emergency Response Fund is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 63/139 of 11 December 2008 and covers activities from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009.

Le Bureau de la coordination des affaires humanitaires (OCHA) a décidé de réviser à la baisse son appel de fonds pour Madagascar (en anglais) mais a prévenu que la population de ce pays restait toujours très vulnérable à l'impact des cyclones, de la sécheresse et des tensions politiques persistantes.

OCHA affirme avoir besoin de 22,3 millions de dollars pour Madagascar, alors qu'il réclamait 35,7 millions de dollars en avril. Jusqu'à présent, 11,7 millions de dollars ont été fournis et

Foreword

Hunger in the world is projected to reach an historic high in 2009, with 1.02 billion people going hungry every day-an increase of nearly 100 million people. The United Nations' World Food Programme is working to extend food assistance to 108 million among the poorest people in 74 countries. WFP is deeply concerned by the growing impact of the world's financial crisis on the poorest part of the world, which is causing lower incomes, increased unemployment, lower remittances and higher levels of poverty. This results in less access to food for the most vulnerable people.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Madagascar field office and the Malagasy government on Tuesday, 16 June, 2009 in Antananarivo, signed a grant agreement of US$ 1 million as emergency humanitarian aid for victims of the floods caused by cyclone Fanele. The humanitarian assistance operation comes as a supplement to the Bas Mangoky Rice Perimetre Rehabilitation project (PRBM) financed by the Bank Group. The specific objective of the emergency humanitarian aid is to repair the perimeter's protection dyke damaged by the Mangoky river floods caused by cyclone Fanele. AfDB is very

Context

The situation in Madagascar remains unstable and unresolved, if relatively calm. The resulting climate of on­going uncertainty is exacerbating an already fragile economy, which has been suffering from the impact of the global economic situation, against a background of chronic poverty.

In the drought-affected south of the country, intermittent rain during the months of April and May has enabled planting of counter-season crops in certain areas. However, due to the patchwork of micro-climates which characterizes this region, the quality

The United Nations humanitarian arm said today it has allocated $6.45 million to help 190,000 people in the rural southern regions of Madagascar who are suffering from the combined effects of drought, cyclones, and political instability.

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the money would be shared by the World Food Programme (WFP), the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) for emergency work in the island nation.

Madagascar has suffered the effects of