Summary

The present report is submitted to the General Assembly pursuant to resolution 64/226. It provides a status report and an analysis of the current challenges to the delivery of relief and rehabilitation assistance by the United Nations and its partners to survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

I. Introduction

The purpose of this external evaluation is to assess the performance and whenever possible the outcome and impact of the activities carried out by IOM, with a main focus on funding received from Sida, in order to identify lessons learnt and good practices for IOM’s implementation of projects and management. The evaluation was planned to take place during the implementation in order to provide IOM Haiti programme managers with useful inputs that could be used as suggestions before the end of the project itself and for the implementation of other projects.

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This month saw an increase in goods delivered to Gaza. International projects are ongoing: 163 approved, 35 completed and 57 under implementation.

Communicated by the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT)

The following is a report on the civilian and humanitarian activities carried out by the Israeli authorities during the month of August 2011:

Main Points

Highlights

• No Cholera cases reported

• 16 suspected measles cases were reported

Contents

A.General context

B.Epidemic prone diseases

C.Events of public health importance in the region

D.Preparedness

E. Timeliness and completeness of data

F. Recommendations for action/follow up G.Annexes:

1: Standard case definitions and alert/action epidemic thresholds

2: National summary of cases/deaths by condition by week

FAITS MARQUANTS

• Situation sécuritaire tendue à Masisi suite à la nomination d’un nouveau commandant de la PNC.

• Survenance de cas de gastroentérite dans les zones de santé de Kyondo et Mutwanga (Grand Nord)

• Impraticabilité du tronçon routier Itebero – Musenge (36 km) rendant l’accès impossible sur l’ensemble de l’axe Walikale Centre – Hombo.

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Cali (ICRC) – On 26 August the lnternational Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) distributed emergency aid to over 1,000 displaced people in Playa Rica, in the municipality of El Tambo (Cauca Department). The beneficiaries, who had arrived in the area in recent weeks from four different villages, had fled their homes owing to the fighting.

Goods, people and construction materials continue to cross through to the Gaza Strip, despite the rockets launched at Israeli civilian targets and even at the crossings themselves.

COGAT - Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories

From March 2011 until August, nearly 500 000 people have been supported by ACF teams over the Horn of Africa.

SOMALIA

Number of Nutrition beneficiaries from March to July 2011: 9 497 people

Number of Health beneficiaries from March to July 2011: 19 627 people

Number of WASH beneficiaries from March to July: more than 223 000 people

Number of Food security beneficiaries from March to now: 12 500 people

Total number of beneficiaries from March to July in Somalia: 265 000 people

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