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Democratic Republic of Congo: Population Movement Emergency Appeal N° MDRCD013 12-months summary update

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Period covered by this Ops Update: 27 March 2013 to 28 March, 2014.

Appeal target (current): CHF 1,011,511

Appeal coverage: 89 %

Appeal history:

  • This Emergency Appeal was initially launched on 27 March, 2013 for CHF 1,122,910 for 6 months to assist 15,000 beneficiaries.

  • Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF): CHF150,000 was initially allocated from the Federation’s DREF to support the national society to respond.

  • Operations update n° 1 and n° 2 were published on16 May and 17 June 2013 respectively providing the status and progress of the response operation.

  • Operations update n° 3 was published on 30 September, 2013, extending the timeframe by 1 month, to October 2013, and adjusting the budget downwards to CHF 1,011,511 from CHF 1,122,910.

  • Operations update n° 4 was published on 30 October, 2013 to provide an update on the progress of the operation and to further extend the timeframe for an additional three months to enable the Red Cross of DRC provide shelter to CAR refugees with the new funding received from U.S. Department of State.

  • Operations update n° 5 was published on 19 December 2013, and outlined a new shelter objective and related activities to provide 300 families with semi-permanent shelters with the recently received additional financial support, following an assessment conducted by the national society and after discussions with UNHCR in Kinshasa and in Gbadolite. To enable the national society complete this activity, this update further extended the operation timeframe for an additional three months. The operation was therefore to be completed by 30 April 2014, and a final report made available by 30 July 2014.

  • This update represents a twelve-month summary of the operation that highlights progress on the construction of 150 additional shelters, for 150 most vulnerable families, funded by the US Department of State.

Summary: In response to the influx of Central African refugees fleeing the armed conflict that has been pitting various armed factions in the Central African Republic, since March 2013, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) launched an Emergency Appeal to address the priority needs of the most vulnerable segments of the 21,352 Central African Republic (CAR) refugees and host communities. After a thorough assessment of the situation on the ground, an operations manager was deployed to oversee this operation. This operation consisted of life and dignity-sustaining interventions in the areas of emergency shelter and non-food items distribution, health and care, water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion, disaster preparedness and risk reduction and the restoration of family links (RFL), for the benefit of pre-identified pockets of refugee populations. These services have been provided for both refugees and host communities along the Ubangi River, and to date, 22,315 beneficiaries have been reached.The operation was expected to be completed by the end of January 2014, but was extended by a further 3 months, to enable the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Red Cross implement a new shelter objective and related activities to provide 150 families with semi-permanent shelters, with the recently received additional financial support, following an assessment conducted by the national society, and after discussions with UNHCR in Kinshasa and Gbadolite. The operation, therefore, had to be completed by 30 April 2014, and a final report made available by 30 July 2014.

The Appeal budget remains the same at CHF 1,011,511 but a revision of the budget lines has been made.

The following is an explanation of the budget variances

Construction Materials.
The construction materials was procured in order to build some shelter for the refugees. The entry will be moved to the budget line Shelter before issuing final report.

*Others Machinery & Equipment
This budget line was initially CHF 51,000, the Program Manager while revising the budget last December reduced it up to the actual expenses. However there were a late booking from Geneva related to procurement of vehicles which came later.

Logistics Services
The Logistic services related to procurement and importation of vehicles was unfortunately not budgeted.

International Staff
The variance here is due to the booking of the salaries of the Regional Operation Coordinator who was fully funded by Canadian RC, his salaries was not initially budgeted in there but he was the one managing the operation.

National Staff
The Appeal was extending for couple of months, however the budget did not capture the additional running cost needed.

Professional Fees
This represent the security cost of the storage in the field and the custom clearance fees for a vehicle. The entry will be moved to respectively the budget line of Storage and Distribution & Monitoring before issuing final report.

General Expenditures
The Appeal was extending for couple of months, however the budget did not capture the additional running cost needed