Purpose of this pack

This guide is for those staff who would like to learn more about how to implement activities that are accountable to people and communities. It is primarily aimed at country-level staff responsible for implementing development or humanitarian projects and programmes.

Executive Summary

• February is the post‐harvest period, when food availability at household level typically improves and cereal prices are comparatively lower due to availability of food from production at household level. However, crop production in the 2011/12 agricultural season was poor, with findings from a post‐harvest assessment conducted in December 2011, estimating a cereal gap of 147,830 metric tones (MT).

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The focus of the assessment was to understand awareness of the INEE Minimum Standards (MS), how they are being used, and how they are institutionalized in plans and policies1. In particular, the assessment aimed to measure the value added of the INEE Minimum Standards Handbook to date as a tool for:

• Advocacy

• Coordination

• Program planning and response

• Research

• Institutional change

In the remote Jebel Si area of North Darfur, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs a hospital, five health posts, and a mobile clinic. These are the only health facilities in the area, and they serve a permanent population of 100,000, as well as about 10,000 seasonal nomads. The majority of MSF’s patients in Jebel Si are women and children.

I. Introduction

In post-conflict Liberia, the National Health Plan set out a process for transitioning from emergency to sustainability under government leadership.

The Liberia Health Sector Pool Fund, which consists of DfID, Irish Aid, UNICEF, and UNHCR, was established to fund this plan and mitigate this transition by increasing institutional capacity, reducing the transaction costs associated with managing multiple donor projects, and fostering the leadership of the Liberian Health Ministry by allocating funds to national priorities.

The infamous 2007/8 post-election violent conflict that engulfed Kenya and attracted global attention was by no means unprecedented. Indeed, the country’s history includes episodes of violent conflict, some of the causes of which are still unresolved. A repeated failure to address the root causes of these violent conflicts has occasioned their reoccurrence and further entrenched their underlying factors, such as impunity, weak accountability in governance, corruption, politicised ethnicity, inequitable resource distribution, poverty and marginalisation.

Access - The ability to approach, obtain and make use of goods and services (GPCWG 2011).

Affected areas - Provinces or municipalities affected by the hazard…Not all people in those areas [will] necessarily require humanitarian response – normally only a percentage of the people in the affected area require humanitarian assistance (IASC 2011).

Affected population - People requiring immediate assistance during an emergency, including basic survival needs such as food, water, shelter, sanitation and immediate medical assistance (GPCWG 2011).