This report covers the period of 01//01/2007 to 30/06/2007 for the 2006-2007 Appeal.
In a world of global challenges, continued poverty, inequity, and increasing vulnerability to disasters and disease, the International Federation with its global network, works to accomplish its Global Agenda, partnering with local community and civil society to prevent and alleviate human suffering from disasters, diseases and public health emergencies.
In brief
Programme Summary: The national societies of Central Africa focus their activities to meet the Federation's Global Agenda goals. In health and care, activities were carried out to combat HIV, measles, malaria, cholera, chikungunya, malnutrition and female genital mutilations. Efforts were also made in the area of water and sanitation (WatSan) and partnership development.
In Disaster Management (DM), the first half of 2007 was characterised by an unprecedented number of emergencies, which delayed implementation of activities planned for in the 2007 annual appeal. The DM team was busy managing floods (Congo Brazzaville, Central Africa Republic (CAR) and Cameroon), fire and shipwreck (Equatorial Guinea), plane crash and population movements (Cameroon), elections (Congo Brazzaville and Cameroon), and the finalization of the 2008-2009 Appeal process. DREF was allocated to manage most of these emergencies. This has prompted the revision of the 2007 Appeal, which is currently ongoing.
In Organizational Development (OD), efforts were made to strengthen the Cooperation Agreement Strategy (CAS) process in Cameroon and CAR. VCA was conducted in Gabon and CAR, and Equatorial Guinea Red Cross started the preparation of their strategic development plan. The Federation supported the NSs of Equatorial Guinea, STP and Cameroon to develop local partnerships. This process has been started in CAR and Gabon. The restructuring process is underway in CAR and Gabon.
In the Promotion of Humanitarian Values sector, efforts were made in Cameroon to sensitize parents in rural areas to send their daughters to school. In addition, a regional communication strategy was developed and discussed at zone level in Dakar.
Under Implementation and Management, the major activities included the restructuring of the Federation's regional representation for Central Africa. More staffs were recruited to fill the positions that were on standby, thus preventing the smooth functioning of the office. Partnership development efforts were made to make sure that NS programmes are well funded. A regional group was set up to coordinate Red Cross action in Central Africa. All of these achievements, most of which were not planned but appeared urgent, increased the level of expenditure substantially over the first half of 2007. This is the main reason why a revision of Appeal 2007 is currently being prepared.
Needs: Total 2006-2007 budget CHF 3,691,938 (USD 3,068,942 or EUR 2,245,704) out of which 74.6 percent covered. Outstanding needs from the initial amount are CHF 957,878 (USD 796,241 or EUR 582,650). However, the needs have increased and the appeal (narrative and financial) is currently being revised to match the reality.
No. of people we help: Vulnerable populations in Cameroon, CAR, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, Gabon and Congo Brazzaville. More specifically, 1,000,000 children below five years of age who are exposed to malaria and vaccine-preventable diseases, 3 000 "Filles Libres", 30 000 women, 1,000,000 young people, 1000 AIDS orphans, and 1000 PLWHIV benefited directly from the Federation's programme interventions from January to July 2007, and approximately 3,000,000 people in the same countries will benefit from activities planned for the rest of the year.
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Year
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Project Title
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Target Population
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Total # of
people we help |
% Women
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% Men
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% Children under 18
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% Elderly
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2007
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All the programmes,
including Health and Care, Disaster Management, Humanitarian Values and Organizational Development. |
Vulnerable
populations in Central Africa |
2,600,000
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40
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10
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40
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10
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Our Partners: The Federation's partners in Central Africa during the first half of 2007 included the various communities of beneficiaries in all eight National Societies (NSs), the eight NSs of Central Africa, associations of people living with HIV (AFASO) = associations of Filles Libres (CLAP = Club des amis de la prudence, AFID = Association des femmes dynamiques, and Horizons Femmes), the government ministries of Social Affairs and Health in all the eight countries, the Cameroon's DPC at MINATD (Direction de la Protection Civile au Ministère de l'Administration Territoriale et de la Décentralisation), the British and Canada High Commissions in Central Africa, the embassies of Japan and USA, the French Cooperation, the Central Africa Regional Network to Roll Back Malaria, World health organization (WHO), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), World Food Programme (WFP) (WFP), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Irish government, the British DFID, the Swedish, Japanese and Greek Red Cross Societies, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), as well as the Genevabased Federation's Secretariat General and decentralised structures.
For further information please contact:
Yaoundé: Javier MEDRANO, Federation's Head of Central Africa Sub-regional office; email: javier.medrano@ifrc.org ; Tel.: +237 629 87 89
Dakar: Alasan SENGHORE, Federation's Head of Zone for West and Central Africa ; email : alasan.senghore@ifrc.org , Tel : office : +221 86 93 640
Geneva: Jaime DURAN, Federation regional officer for Central Africa, email: jaime.duran@ifrc.org ;Tel +41.22.730.49.14; Fax +41.22.733.03.95