Common Humanitarian Fund, DRC Annual Report 2014
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Common Humanitarian Fund, DRC Annual Report 2014 Annual Report 2014 Annual DRC Common Humanitarian Fund Humanitarian DRCCommon 1 Common Humanitarian Fund, DRC Annual Report 2014 Please send your questions and comments to : Alain Decoux, Joint Humanitarian Finance Unit (JFHU) + 243 81 706 12 00, [email protected] For the latest on-line version of this report and more on the CHF DRC, please visit: www.unocha.org/DRC or www.humanitarianresponse.info/fr/operations/democratic-republic-congo Cover photo: OCHA/Alain Decoux A displaced woman grinding cassava leaves in Tuungane spontaneous site, Komanda, Irumu Territory where more than 20,000 people were displaced due to conflict in the province. Oriental 02/2015. Kinshasa, DRC May, 2015 1 Common Humanitarian Fund, DRC Annual Report 2014 Table of contents Forword by the Humanitarian Coordinator....................................................................................... 3 1 Executive Summary ................................................................................................................. 4 2 Humanitarian Response Plan .................................................................................................. 7 3 Information on Contributions .................................................................................................... 8 4 Overview of Allocations .......................................................................................................... 10 4.1 Allocation strategy .......................................................................................................... 12 4.2 Fund performance .......................................................................................................... 16 5 Allocation Results .................................................................................................................. 19 5.1 Beneficiaries ................................................................................................................... 19 5.2 Clusters approach ........................................................................................................... 19 5.2.1 Protection ............................................................................................................................... 20 5.2.2 Education ............................................................................................................................... 21 5.2.3 Food Security ........................................................................................................................ 22 5.2.4 Nutrition .................................................................................................................................. 23 5.2.5 Health ...................................................................................................................................... 24 5.2.6 WASH (Water, Sanitation & Hygiene) ............................................................................... 26 5.2.7 Shelters & NFI ....................................................................................................................... 27 5.2.8 Logistic .................................................................................................................................... 28 6 Risk management .................................................................................................................. 29 7 Challenges & Priorities ........................................................................................................... 31 8 Conclusions and way forward ................................................................................................ 32 Annexes ........................................................................................................................................ 34 Annex 1: MPTF Report .............................................................................................................. 34 Annex 2: List of projects ............................................................................................................ 36 Annex 3: Glossary of Acronyms ................................................................................................ 42 Annex 4: List of donors 2014 ..................................................................................................... 44 Annex 5: References ................................................................................................................. 45 2 Common Humanitarian Fund, DRC Annual Report 2014 FORWORD BY THE HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR 2014 continued to be another challenging year source of humanitarian finance in the country as the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the and represented around 10% of the total Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) marked contributions to the HRP in the same year. by armed violence in the East resulted in I would like to thank all our partners who another influx of internal displacement. This continue to contribute to the success of the general context of instability has taken a toll on CHF: our donors, implementing partners, the civilian population requiring increased clusters, national and international NGOs, humanitarian intervention to reinforce 1 agencies, Board members, CPIAs and the protection of IDPs, returnees and host HCT at large. I would also like to invite new communities. Compounding the issues of partners to take part in our humanitarian work instability were prevalent acute malnutrition, in the DRC and make a commitment to segue epidemics and security related access from easing the social strife to finding durable restrictions. The latter pose a major challenge solutions to end the humanitarian plight in the for humanitarians trying to reach vulnerable DRC. Donors’ support enables the CHF to communities. continue financing our implementers to deliver The Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF) has humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable been instrumental in supporting prioritized while we simultaneously tackle the challenges humanitarian needs identified in the of coordinating large scale humanitarian Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) thereby operations in a volatile and evolving enabling the Humanitarian Community to meet environment. I would like to thank all of you for its objectives in responding to the protracted your dedication and your commitments without crisis in the DRC. Accordingly, the crux was to which our life saving operations of prioritized strengthen the protection of civilians, reduce interventions would not be possible. morbidity and mortality of the affected is To the entire CHF team, the UNDP and OCHA communities and to improve living conditions field offices in the DRC, I would like to express by restoring livelihoods and preserving human my gratitude for the team spirit and dignity. To this end the CHF in the DRC professionalism that you have displayed in continues to support its humanitarian partners, carrying out your respective duties. The year Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) as has ended successfully in achieving goals and well as United Nations (UN) agencies by allocating additional resources to respond to providing flexible and predictable financing for new and existing crisis in the East and South the implementation of various intervention of the country. The lessons of years past will programs across clusters in the conflict zones help us raise our own expectations to address as well as the stabilized areas in the country. the humanitarian demands of the year ahead The CHF as a multi-donor funding mechanism and bring value added to our stakeholders uses two funding modalities to support starting with our beneficiaries and to all assistance programs for critical humanitarian humanitarian partners whose contributions needs. During 2014, CHF provided funding for save lives. a total of US$ 60.5 million to support 120 projects to bring relief to over 3.5 million beneficiaries. Stefano Severe, In 2014, the CHF received funding from Humanitarian Coordinator a.i. Member State contributions including Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Donors continued to lend their support to the CHF but their contributions have been declining for the past five years despite a growing demand for increased humanitarian assistance. In 2014 new contributions from donors were lower by 18 percent than in the previous year. Nonetheless, the CHF remains an important 1 CPIA = Inter Agencies Provincial Committee 3 Common Humanitarian Fund, DRC Annual Report 2014 Between 2006 and 2014, the CHF received 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY $881 million in contributions from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, The Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF) in the Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), known Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Because the as the Pooled Fund, was established as an DRC 'donors fatigue' (overall decline of the initial pilot CHF. It has been in place since 2006 level of humanitarian funding in DRC) but also and has made important humanitarian response the mismanagement of few projects, the DRC contributions to the crises in the country during CHF did not receive the amount expected the last nine years. (between 75 and 100 million for 2014). With the In 2014, the DRC CHF continued to play an establishment of new mechanisms and new important role in ensuring that essential procedures (fraud, M&E, communication, etc.), humanitarian assistance is provided to the most DRC CHF donors are encouraged to