SAN SALVADOR–Luego de 20 meses de trabajo, residentes de cinco municipios del departamento de San Vicente, afectados en 2009 por la tormenta tropical Ida, cuentan ahora con mejores sistemas y procesos para reducir su vulnerabilidad ante fenómenos climatológicos adversos y afrontar los riesgos derivados de los mismos.

Period covered by this Final Report: 12 November 2009 to 31 December 2010.

Appeal target: CHF 1,680,178.

Appeal coverage: 92%;

Appeal history:

• Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF): CHF 182,501 were allocated from the IFRC’s DREF to support the Salvadoran Red Cross Society (SRCS) to respond to the floods.

• An Emergency Appeal was launched on 16 November 2009 for CHF 1,701,194 – including CHF 173,262 for Shelter Cluster coordination – for 9 months to assist 10,000 people.

1 . BACKGROUND

During November 7 and 8, 2009, the passage of Tropical Storm Ida through Central America, which coincided with a low pressure system over the Pacific coast of El Salvador and Guatemala, caused heavy rainfall in El Salvador. Mudslides buried towns and overflowing rivers swept through different areas destroying water, electrical and telecommunications systems, damaging roads, health and educational centers and houses. Thus, the Salvadoran President decreed a state of national emergency on 8 November. 9,000 people were sheltered in 131 collective centers on Nov 8th.

El convenio fue firmado por el Vice Ministro de Hacienda y Crédito P=FAblico, Iván Acosta Montalván; el Secretario Ejecutivo de SINAPRED, Rafael Alfonso Ramírez, y el Representante del PMA, Helmut W. Rauch.

El convenio establece la cooperación

SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica (January 5) - Fifty families whose homes were devastated by Tropical Storm Ida in November of 2009 spent Christmas in a new, safe and adequate house. A total of 983 national and international volunteers had labored alongside the families to build the homes.

The project was possible thanks to the

Appeal target (current): 1,680,178 Swiss francs (1,567,840 US dollars/1,145,120 euro).

Appeal coverage: 92%;

Appeal history:

- This Emergency Appeal was initially launched 17 November 2009 for 1,701,194 Swiss francs - including 173,262 Swiss francs for Shelter Cluster coordination - for 9 months to assist 10,000 beneficiaries.

- Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF): 182,501 Swiss francs were initially allocated from the Federation's DREF to support the Salvadoran Red Cross Society (SRCS) to respond to the floods.

Item 70 (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 has been prepared pursuant to General Assembly resolution 64/251, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to continue to improve the international response to natural disasters and to report thereon to the Assembly at its sixty-fifth

Point 70 d) de l'ordre du jour provisoire

Renforcement de la coordination de l'aide humanitaire et des secours en cas de catastrophe fournis par les organismes des Nations Unies, y compris l'assistance économique spéciale : assistance économique spéciale à certains pays et à certaines régions

Résumé

Le présent rapport est soumis à l'Assemblée générale conformément aux demandes qu'elle a formulées dans ses résolutions 64/74 et 64/250. Il dresse un bilan de la situation et analyse les difficultés

Item 70 (a) of the provisional agenda*

Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations

Summary

The present report covers activities from 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010. Within this period, the Emergency Relief Coordinator allocated $448.3 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund to implement life-saving activities in 52 countries and territories. Funding was provided to 15 humanitarian agencies, many of which carried out their programmes in conjunction with non-governmental partners. The