Page 1 PILOT PROJECT FOR EMERGENCY HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE TO THE INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN THE LIMBE II SUB-DIVISION FIRST PHASE REPORT A family living in the bush Limbé, December 2018 Quartier général: Rail Ngousso- Santa Barbara - Yaoundé Tél. : +237-243 572 456 / +237-679 967 303 B.P. 33805 Yaoundé Email : [email protected] [email protected] Site web : www.cohebinternational.org Bureau Régional Extrême-Nord: Tél.: +237-674 900 303 E-mail: [email protected] Bureau Régional Sud-Ouest: Tél.: +237-651 973 747 E-mail: [email protected] Bureau Régional Nord-Ouest: Tél.: +237-697 143 004 E-mail: [email protected] Emergency response to Limbe II IDPs - December 2018 Page 2 TABLE OF CONTENT PRESENTATION OF COHEB INT’L ................................................................. 3 SOME OF OUR EMERGENCY ACTIVITIES ......................................................... 4 CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT .......................................................................... 5 OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT ........................................................................ 6 EXECUTION OF THE PROJECT .................................................................... 7-9 CONCLUSION ............................................................................................ 10 ANNEX 1: IDP’S SETTLEMENT CAMP MUKUNDANGE LIMBE II SUB-DIVISION......................................................... 11 ANNEX 2: COHEB PROJECT OFFICE SOKOLO, LIMBE II OUR AGRO-FORESTRY TRANSFORMATION FACTORY AND LOGISTICS CENTER —MOLIWE, LIMBE I ...................................................... 12 Emergency response to Limbe II IDPs - December 2018 Page 3 PRESENTATION OF COHEB INT’L COHEB International is a non-governmental, non-profit making and non political humanitarian volunteer- ing organization, created to respond to divers humanitarian crisis and to provide charitable humanitarian services, physically and spiritually to the people of Africa and the rest of the crisis world. Created in Limbe in the Republic of Cameroon in 2008, with a liaison office at Sokolo, warehouse and agro-forestry transformation economic empowerment center in Moliwe Limbe I Sub-Division and head- quarter in Yaounde-Cameroon. We are operational in three main domains: Health, Protection and Community Development; and each Domain is divided into several Departments. Over the years we have been carrying out our activities with- in the CEMAC/ECOWAS Region. In Cameroon we have been working in the Far North for two years and for the pass four months we have been positioning ourselves in the SW and NW Regions Crisis. Drugs donation Malnutrition Screening Assisting Refugees Adapted literacy in a crisis zone Practical Trainings in Food Security Promoting Agriculture in crisis affected communities Emergency response to Limbe II IDPs - December 2018 Page 4 SOME OF OUR EMERGENCY ACTIVITIES Emergency response to Limbe II IDPs - December 2018 Page 5 CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT The South-Westand North-West regions crisis in Cameroon, locally termed the “Anglophone cri- sis” started in 2016 and escalated as an armed conflict by 2017 between government forces and local activists. The ongoing crisis is characterized by lots of violence, burning of villages and schools, burning of offices, health centers to begin with. The violence and insecurity has in- creased immensely in these regions such that some communities like Buea, Ekona, Muyuka, Mbonge, Yumunjock Ndian, Mundemba, Mamfe, etc. are totally evacuated, with people running into the bushes, to neighboring countries, and others running within a circle. Subsequently some of the crisis inclusive towns like Limbe, Buea, Kumba and other communities in Fako Division have become host towns of large and increasing number of dis- placed persons. Following the rising and enormous effects of this cri- sis on the displace population, COHEB International took interest to provide emergency humanitarian supports necessary and critical for the survival and safety of families displaced from various villages/ Towns within the South-West Region. On this note, COHEB is embarking on series of projects, ranging from distribution of food and non-food items to provi- sion of shelter and health care services, just to name a few. In December 2018, this project phase was designed and has begun with ten IDPs families of at least four persons per family in villages within the Limbe II sub -Division who were coming in from Ekata, Munyenge, Muyuka, Ekona and Mundemba; and are taking refuge in Mukundange, Batoke, Mokindi/ Isokolo and Limbola in the Limbe II Sub-Division bushes. Wehave designed a six months self sponsored emergency humanitarian response project in order tomeet the basic food and non-food items, accom- modations, healthcare, farm lands, farming tools, seedlings and farming financial assistance for them in the Limbe II Sub-Division. Emergency response to Limbe II IDPs - December 2018 Page 6 OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT The core of this project is to provide food security, protec- tion, and health relief, through food distribution programs, food cultivation programs, shelter provision and health care services to IDPs in Limbe II Sub-Division. The project will be implemented in many phases: Phase 1: 1. Rapid field assessment of the life conditions of the IDPs in Limbe II Sub-Division 2. Elaboration of the criteria of selection of the benefi- ciaries 3. Selection of some families according to the criteria 4. Preparation of the Settlement Camp to receive the families 5. Relocation of the selected families in the resettlement camp 6. Distribution of food and NFI to the families. Phase 2: Allocation of lands to the families for agriculture Phase 3: Replication of the project in a larger scale. EVALUATION AND DATA COLLECTION The COHEB evaluation team visited IDPs in different vil- lages in the Limbe IISub-Division ( Batoke, Limbola, Mukundange, Isokolo and Ngeme) under the close collab- oration of the local community heads. They looked into the different conditions and magnitude of the IDP’s unfortu- nate predicaments. After assessing the conditions of about 100 families, 10 most critical cases were selected and handed over twenty-six food and non food items per family to begin with as beneficiaries of the “phase 1” of the Emergency response to Limbe II IDPs - December 2018 Page 7 EXECUTION OF THE PROJECT N° Items distributed 1 Rice 2 Palm oil Food items 3 salt 4 Maggi cubes 5 Toilet tissue 6 Toilet wash 7 Disinfectant Essential toiletries 8 Pads 9 Soap 10 Bathing buckets 11 Pots 12 Plates 13 Water drinking buckets 14 Kitchen utensils Cups 15 Spoons/forks 16 Kerosene stoves 17 kerosene 18 Beds 19 Mattress 20 Pillows Complete beddings 21 Bed sheets and pillow cases 22 Loin cloths 23 Mosquito Tents 24 Cutlass 25 Farming tools File for metals 26 Hoes 27 Agricultural and cash Farm lands 28 assistance Financial Assistance PROVISION OF SHELTER COHEB International has rented a health friendly six semi apartments permanent building for the first six beneficiaries for a period of six months in Mokundange Village in the Limbe II Sub-Division. Each family is entitled to an apart- Emergency response to Limbe II IDPs - December 2018 Page 8 ment that has an inner kitchen and water system toilet. PROVISION OF FARM LANDS AND TOOLS A farming land of about 3000 square metersand seed- lings of (corn, vegetable, cassava, egussi and ground- nuts) alongside farming tools (cutlass, hoes and filers) have been provided to them by COHEB in Bwando Vil- lage within the same community to farm for the next one year. FOOD AND NON-FOOD ITEMS Each family was supported with a family bed, matrass, bed sheets, two pillows, pillow cases, 25 kgs bag of rice, 2 pots, half a bag of salt, drinking and washing buckets, cocking stoves, packets of Maggi cubes, toilet disinfectants, washing soaps, 5 liters of palm oil, 5 liters of kerosene, a dozen of spoons, a dozen of plates, toi- let tissues, drinking cups, mosquito tent and a complete female hygienic kits. FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT Financial supports of 10,000 CFA francs per familyhas been handed to help them bounce on their feet. STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION The items were transported from the COHEB’s ware- house in Limbe (I) to the IDP’s Camp in Mokundange. HEALTH CARE All the IDPs in our settlement camps have been medi- cally consulted, deeply screened by our medical team. Some emergency cases have been admitted and are receiving treatments in the Bota Hospital Limbe. Emergency response to Limbe II IDPs - December 2018 Page 9 HUMAN RESOURCES The team for the South West Crisis is composed of the COHEB Coordinator for the South-West with seven ex- patriate staff. ORGANISATION OF THE DISTRIBUTION The IDP’s were transported to the distribution site using COHEB cars. They were verified and confirmed by evalu- ators before taken into the compound. They were all pro- vided hygienic kits. When it was time for distribution the family heads were called to step forward showing their ID cards and bringing their family members as were regis- tered during evaluation and receiving their kits and the keys to their equipped settlement apartments. DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED COHEB had a hard time convincing the population to re- ceive humanitarian help since most of the affected popu- lation has alleged not to receive any form of help from the government. They have a hard time differentiating what is of the government and what is from the non- governmental organizations and so need to be sensitized on what humanitarians are out