In Somalia, needs will be highest among IDPs and the pastoral destitute when the lean season approaches in October.

HIGHLIGHTS:

• COLOMBIA: First rainy season affects at least 70,000 people.

• PERU: The rainy season affects more than 176,000 people.

• LAC: The coffee rust epidemic causes losses of more than 441,000 jobs in Central America.

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Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to share the second edition of the Global CCCM Cluster Newsletter.

This edition provides an update on cluster tools, partners and operations, and highlights issues of current concern to the cluster. In particular, it focuses on the importance of effective partnerships in CCCM operations, and considers how global initiatives such as the Transformative Agenda will impact cluster strategies.

Highlights

• In Somalia, UNDP has facilitated the recruitment of more than 14,000 police officers and the creation of mobile courts, legal aid centres and sexual assault referral centres. This has increased the ability of people to access the formal justice system.

• In Afghanistan, UNDP supports the remuneration of the 137,000 strong Afghan National Police force and pioneered the development of the force’s first community security initiatives.

Américas - Desde 2005, las oficinas de la OIM en América del Norte y Central han prestado asistencia a 900 migrantes vulnerables, incluidos más de 500 menores, para retornar a sus países de origen. Estas operaciones han sido financiadas por el Fondo intrarregional para migrantes en situaciones de alta vulnerabilidad, creado por los miembros de la Conferencia Regional sobre Migración (CRM), a saber: Belice, Canadá, Costa Rica, república Dominicana, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, México, Nicaragua, Panamá y Estados Unidos, y gestionadas por la oficina regional de la OIM en Costa Rica.

Period covered by this update: 5 November to 12 December 2011.

I. Introduction

Millions in Aid to Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras

Amid rising concerns about outbreaks of water borne diseases and food shortages triggered by crisis-level flooding in Central America, AmeriCares is responding with medical aid and nutritional supplements to help survivors in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

The flooding, caused by heavy rains of a severe tropical depression, has affected 1.2 million people throughout the region, leaving hundreds of thousands displaced and in dire need of medical care.

Lifesaving Emergency Aid

UNITED NATIONS, New York

In response to the different states of high alert across Central America, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has been mobilizing resources to provide lifesaving reproductive health care in the region. Over 1.2 million people have been affected by Tropical Depression 12-E, which has caused heavy rain and severe flooding.