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CERF 2010 Annual Report 1 UNITED NATIONS CENTRAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE FUND 2010 ANNUAL REPORT UNITED NATIONS CENTRAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE FUND 2010 ANNUAL REPORT © OCHA, New York 2011 Editorial Team: OCHA wishes to acknowledge the contributions made in the preparation of this document, particularly by United Nations humanitarian agencies and the International Organization for Migration. Production Manager: Brian Grogan Publications Manager: Tomas de Mul Editors: Nina Doyle, Chris Simpson Photo Editor: Daniel DeLorenzo Design and layout: raven + crow studio Printing: United Nations Department of Public Information For additional information, please contact: External Relations and Partnerships Section Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs New York, NY 10017 1 212 963 2770 The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on the maps included in this report do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. A dotted line represents approximately the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir agreed upon by India and Pakistan. The final status of Jammu and Kashmir has not yet been agreed upon by the parties. CERF Secretariat United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) New York, NY 10017 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://cerf.un.org After a dzud struck Mongolia in the winter of 2010, CERF allocated US$3.6 million to support programmes for helping communities recover. © UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe Table of Contents Foreword......................................................................................................................1 What is the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF)?..............................................3 What is CERF? ..............................................................................................................4 How CERF works...........................................................................................................6 Where do CERF funds come from?.......................................................................................9 Who manages CERF?....................................................................................................10 CERF at Work............................................................................................................11 CERF Case Studies...................................................................................................17 Madagascar.......................................................................................................................18 Mongolia...................................................................................................................19 Niger......................................................................................................................20 Nigeria..................................................................................................................21 Pakistan.......................................................................................................................22 Philippines..................................................................................................................23 CERF Management: Constant Improvement.............................................................25 Growing Support for CERF........................................................................................31 Annexes.....................................................................................................................33 Cover photo: A child receives vitamin A at a health centre in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. © UNICEF/Roger LeMoyne Humanitarian agencies in Sudan have received some $129.3 million in support from CERF since 2006, the second highest of any country. © UNICEF/Georgina Cranston Foreword Environmental disasters including floods, earthquakes and drought will affect millions of people in 2011. Add to that those who will be displaced due to conflict or who will become infected by preventable diseases, and there will be millions more. Aid operations to save lives will cost billions of dollars — money that will be hard to find. That is why we need the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF). It cannot meet all the needs that will arise in 2011, but used wisely it will lead to more effective responses in dozens of countries. As an emergency fund, its focus is on the first phases of a crisis, ensuring that critical operations do not stall for lack of money. This annual report illustrates the difference CERF made in 2010. In Haiti, humanitarian agencies kick-started a massive aid operation within hours of the catastrophic January earthquake. In Yemen, $14 million bridged a critical gap be- tween needs and available resources. In Madagascar, a $4.7 million CERF contribution helped stop a locust outbreak that threatened hundreds of thousands of people with hunger. CERF is a fund for all, by all. In its first five years, some 122 General Assembly Member States and observers trusted us to manage $2.3 billion of their money to help us help others in nearly 80 countries and territories. CERF is a partnership between donors and beneficiaries, and I am keenly aware of the need to be accountable to both. I thank the dozens of Member States, corporations and private individuals who invested $428.7 million in CERF in 2010 — a remarkable show of support and solidarity in tough economic times. That money helped more than 22 million people in 45 different countries. This report shows how CERF contributions were used in 2010. And it shows that we were effective. I hope it convinces you that by trusting CERF with your contri- butions in what has already been an emergency-filled 2011, we will continue to deliver impressive results. Valerie Amos United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos in Pakistan. Emergency Relief Coordinator © Truls Brekke/FAO April 2011 CERF 2010 ANNUAL REPORT 1 CERF allocated $29.1 million to emergency programmes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2010. © UNICEF/Olivier Asselin WHAT IS CERF? CERF 2010 ANNUAL REPORT 3 What is the Central Emergency Response Fund? Five years ago, the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) was established to bring a new dynamic to tackling emergencies. CERF’s creation was an acknowledgement that the humanitarian system had become too slow and cumbersome in releasing funds. Confronted by a series of crises around the world, do- nors’ response had often been too limited and selec- tive, sometimes leaving serious funding shortfalls even in situations where needs were extreme and major assistance was required. For example, in 2005 it was clear that millions of people in Darfur were desperate for help, but humanitarian operations were slow to start CERF allocated some $51 million to life-saving programmes in Pakistan as agencies waited for adequate funding. In that same in 2010, more than in any other country. © Oxfam/Timothy Allen year, an emergency appeal for assistance after massive flooding in Guyana attracted minimal financial support, yet at the same time people and governments world- In 2010,* CERF funds wide donated billions to relief efforts for the Indian Ocean tsunami. achieved the following: The United Nations General Assembly created CERF • Provided food assistance to an estimated as a $500 million standby fund, with some $450 million 22 million disaster-affected people in 28 for grants and another $50 million for loans, that would countries. strive to eliminate such funding discrepancies. The idea Helped almost 19 million people through was to ensure that all those involved in emergencies • interventions aimed at providing clean received support as quickly as possible, and that there water, adequate sanitation and hygiene in would be no more forgotten crises. 24 countries. Over the past five years, CERF has played a critical role • Immunized some 19.5 million children. in supporting early responses to disasters that have caught the world’s attention, notably in Haiti, Pakistan • Provided more than 1.5 million people in and Myanmar. But just as crucially, CERF has dealt with 17 countries with emergency shelter and crises that could easily have been overlooked, helping non-food items. people as they confronted huge difficulties well away from the international spotlight. • Helped an estimated 1.1 million families in 29 countries with agricultural and liveli- hood support. This helped them become self-sufficient and reduce their depen- dence on humanitarian aid. • Provided nutritional assistance to more than 8 million malnourished children and some 4 million pregnant and breast-feed- ing women. * Approximate figures of beneficiaries as reported by UN humanitarian agencies based on information provided in approved project proposals. 4 CERF 2010 ANNUAL REPORT THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT WE ARE FACING A MAJOR HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY “AND THAT A MAJOR RELIEF EFFORT WILL BE REQUIRED… I URGE ALL MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY “ TO COME TO HAITI’S AID IN THIS HOUR OF NEED UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON CERF funds were allocated to humanitarian agencies in Haiti within hours of the devastating earthquake that struck Port-au- Prince on 12 January 2010. © Logan Abassi UN/MINUSTAH HOW CERF FIVE DAYS AFTER WORKS: Based on available reports and THE EARTHQUAKE assessments, and in coordination with the Haitian authorities, the United STRUCK, CERF was the RAPID Nations launches a Flash Appeal for largest single source of funding $575 million to support the 3 million people living in the quake-affected
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