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Humanitarian Response Fund Ethiopia Credit: IMC Ethiopia Annual Report 2012 Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Humanitarian Response Fund – Ethiopia Annual Report 2012 Table of Contents Note from the Humanitarian Coordinator ................................................................................................. 2 Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................................... 3 Executive Summary .................................................................................................................................. 4 1. Humanitarian Context ........................................................................................................................... 5 1.1 Country Map ................................................................................................................................... 7 2. Information on Contributors ................................................................................................................. 8 2.1 Donor Contributions ....................................................................................................................... 8 3. Fund Overview ...................................................................................................................................... 9 3.1 Summary of HRF Allocations in 2012 ........................................................................................... 9 3.1.1 HRF Allocation by Sector ....................................................................................................... 9 3.1.2 HRF Allocation by Region ..................................................................................................... 9 3.1.3 HRF Allocation (by type of Agency and number of projects) .............................................. 10 3.1.4 Acceptance versus rejection rate ........................................................................................... 10 3.1.5 HRF Contributions to the HRD ............................................................................................ 11 3.2 Results of HRF Projects per Cluster / Sector ............................................................................... 12 3.2.1. Nutrition: .............................................................................................................................. 12 3.2.2 Emergency Food Security and Livelihood: .......................................................................... 13 3.2.3 Health .................................................................................................................................... 16 3.2.4 WASH ................................................................................................................................... 17 3.2.6 Support to Refugees .............................................................................................................. 19 3.2.7 Common Services ................................................................................................................. 20 4. Summary and analysis of achievements ............................................................................................. 22 4.1) HRF’s Effort in Resilience Building ........................................................................................... 22 4.2) Strategic Engagement with Clusters ........................................................................................... 23 4.3) HRF hired new auditors .............................................................................................................. 23 5. Project Monitoring .............................................................................................................................. 24 6. Gender Consideration ......................................................................................................................... 27 7. Conclusion and Way Forward............................................................................................................. 29 Glossary/Acronyms ................................................................................................................................. 31 1 | Page Humanitarian Response Fund – Ethiopia Annual Report 2012 Acknowledgements The Government of Ethiopia: Recognition is extended for the key role the improvements to the process. Their openness and Government of Ethiopia played in enhancing willingness to support the HRF made the HRF team collaboration between different agencies within the very confident in making the Cluster leads and humanitarian community to ensure effective and timely members the focal points for receiving applications and humanitarian response. for their critical engagement in technical reviews of the numerous proposals received for funding. The Cluster Donors: leads were instrumental in taking the lead to review OCHA expresses gratitude to HRF donors for their and compile the comments and recommendations made financial support that allowed rapid responses to by their Review Group members and ensure follow-up critical situations in the country. The HRF is also by the applicant organizations. Appreciation is also grateful for the important role donors played on the extended to agencies that managed supply pipelines Advisory Board. During the year, the United Kingdom (CSB/Oil and RUTF), which were critical in ensuring was the biggest contributor to the HRF, providing 46 minimum preparedness for rapid humanitarian per cent of total funds received for the year, followed response. by contributions of the Netherlands and Sweden with 23 and 16 per cent respectively. OCHA also extends its Implementing Partners: appreciation to the Governments of Norway, The HRF could not have carried out its mandate Switzerland, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Denmark who without the collaboration of its implementing NGO and are amongst our regular contributors to the Fund. UN partners, who submitted proposals to respond to Without the help of our donors the Fund clearly would humanitarian emergencies and helped people survive not have been able to achieve its purpose as a key and rebuild their lives, restoring safety, dignity and player in the humanitarian community. hope among the affected communities. Furthermore, OCHA extends gratitude to those implementing Review Board: partners who actively participated in peer to peer OCHA appreciates the Review Board members who monitoring missions during the year that promoted dedicated their time and expertise to help the HRF cross-learning opportunities. processes work smoothly, efficiently and effectively. In 2012, the Review Board met 28 times to review and OCHA staff and management: deliberate on proposals. Members reviewed Lastly, the HRF team would like to acknowledge applications, engaged in discussions on high-level colleagues in OCHA for their valuable feedback on policy issues, and initiated innovative ideas. The applications and updates from the field, the collective effort of the Review Board members was headquarters (HQ) office in Geneva for its vital in making the Fund transparent and accountable to administrative support including processing all stakeholders. The HRF is grateful to Concern, who Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs) and served as a member of the Board for two years after transferring payments; and OCHA’s Funding which it was replaced by Child Fund. The HRF Coordination Section (FCS) in New York (NY) for benefitted significantly from Concern’s tireless work providing overall guidance and for sharing the pooled and expertise. fund learning process. Clusters: The HRF team extends its sincere appreciation for the The Cluster leads and their respective members are collaborative support of all stakeholders and looks major contributors to the funding decisions of the HRF; forward to continued partnership in humanitarian their ideas and inputs were most helpful in making programming. valuable 3 | Page Humanitarian Response Fund – Ethiopia Annual Report 2012 Executive Summary In 2012, the HRF continued its position in the In 2012, the HRF began implementation of the Global humanitarian response arena, responding to emergency ERF Guidelines. A familiarization workshop was held needs and supporting linkages with resilience building with HRF stakeholders to understand the changes programmes. introduced in policies and procedures. Although the initial introduction met certain delays in agreement Although the year started with a large carryover processing, the guidelines provided a common balance, resources were quickly depleted around May reference tool between the Ethiopia country office and 2012 due to funds provided for needs arising from the HQ. deteriorated food and nutrition conditions mainly in the south and south-eastern parts of the country. The HRF also conducted a number of meetings and workshops during 2012. Earlier in the year, HRF met The HRF allocated US$ 38 million to 66 projects with over 20 National NGOs to discuss ways of across the country. The United Kingdom remained the opening direct access to the Fund. In addition, biggest contributor to the Fund, donating 46 per cent of induction workshops for HRF implementing partners the total funds, followed by Netherlands and Sweden. on the newly effected Global ERF Guidelines and Overall, eight donors provided US$ 27.6 million to accompanying templates were conducted. Furthermore, support emergency life-saving interventions for the the