Period covered by this Operations Update: 1 April 2009 to 30 September 2009

Appeal target (current): CHF 32,667,430 (USD 31.68 million or EUR 21.42 million)

Appeal coverage: 105 per cent

Appeal history:

- Preliminary appeal launched on 27 May 2006 for CHF 12,834,000 (USD 10.4 million or EUR 8.2 million) to assist 200,000 beneficiaries for eight months.

- Revised appeal launched on 6 June 2006 for CHF 38,045,439 (USD 31 million or EUR 24 million) to assist 325,000 beneficiaries for 12 months.

- Revised appeal is extended to 31 December 2007 on 6 June 2007

- Revised appeal is extended to 31 December 2008 on 17 January 2008

- Revised appeal is extended to 31 March 2010 on 25 April 2008

- Revised appeal is extended to 31 December 2010 with a revised plan of action on 30 April 2009. The budget has been revised down to CHF 32,667,430 (USD 31.68 million or EUR 21.42 million)

Summary:

During this reporting period, the Japanese Red Cross and German Red Cross completed their Yogyakarta earthquake recovery programmes and closed their programme offices. A comprehensive external evaluation of the Japanese Red Cross programme has been completed but the final evaluation report in English will not be available until the end of October.

The Danish Red Cross-managed integrated community-based risk reduction (ICBDRR) programme funded by the International Federation is the only remaining programme activity in Yogyakarta. This programme started in the second half of 2007 with the implementation of International Federation community organized and -based programme activities. The programme worked with PMI branches in five districts in Yogyakarta province and one district, Klaten, in Central Java province. Since the programme start-up, PMI Central Java has requested the addition of five more of its branches (Boyolali, Magelang, Temanggung, Karanganyar and Purworejo) in the programme. To accommodate the expansion of the programme a revised budget of CHF 3,700,000 has been agreed between the International Federation, Danish Red Cross and PMI. In addition, the programme period has been extended to December 2010 to allow for implementation of the complete programme cycle in the five new districts.

A peer review of accountability to disaster affected communities in the International Federation Yogyakarta programme was undertaken in April and May 2009 as part of the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR) global review. Global findings will be published in the last quarter of 2009.

The unspent balance of CHF 4.5 million as a result of the budget revision as mentioned in Operations Update no. 22, has now been reduced to CHF1.2 million following discussions with donors, an amount less than 5 per cent of the total programme budget. This amount will now be reallocated to the Indonesia Country Plan 2010-2011.

Partners who have made contributions to the appeal include the Albanian Red Cross, American Red Cross/ American government, Andorra Red Cross/ Andorra government, Australian Red Cross/ Australian government, Austrian Red Cross, Belgium Red Cross (Flanders)/ Belgian government, Bosnia and Herzegovina Red Cross, British Red Cross, Cambodia Red Cross, Canadian Red Cross/ Canadian government, Hong Kong branch of the Red Cross Society of China, Macau branch of the Red Cross Society of China, Croatian Red Cross, Cyprus Red Cross, Czech Red Cross, Danish Red Cross/ Danish government, Egyptian Red Crescent, Finnish Red Cross/ Finnish government, French Red Cross, German Red Cross/ German government, Hellenic Red Cross, Irish Red Cross/ Irish government, Japanese Red Cross/ Japanese government, Republic of Korea Red Cross, Latvian Red Cross, Libyan Red Crescent, Liechtenstein Red Cross, Luxemburg Red Cross/ Luxemburg government, Monaco Red Cross, Netherlands Red Cross/ Netherlands government, New Zealand Red Cross/ New Zealand government, Norwegian Red Cross/ Norwegian government, Qatar Red Crescent, Singapore Red Cross/ Singapore government, Spanish Red Cross, Swedish Red Cross/ Swedish government and Swiss Red Cross. Other partners include the Estonian government, the Italian government, the Slovenia government, the European Communities Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO), OPEC Fund for International Development, and other private donors.

Bilateral support was also provided to PMI by the French Red Cross, Iran Red Crescent, Japanese Red Cross, Singapore Red Cross, Swiss Red Cross and the United Arab Emirates Red Crescent.

The International Federation, on behalf of Palang Merah Indonesia (Indonesian Red Cross - PMI), would like to thank all partners for their generous response to this appeal.