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Overseas Aid Committee of the Council of Ministers Overseas Aid Committee of the Council Of Ministers

Annual Report 2010 - 2011 Annual Report 2006-2007 External Relations Division Chief Secretary‟s Office Government Office, Bucks Road Douglas, IM1 3PN

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Contents

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1. Foreword by the Chief Minister 5 2. Introduction by the Chairman of the Overseas Aid Committee 7 3. Overview of the Overseas Aid Committee‟s activities in 2009 – 2010 9 4. Case Studies 11

a) Case study one 11 Charity: One World Centre Project: Charity Challenge 2010

b) Case study two 13 Charity: Excellent Development Project: Water and food security and wider sand dam adoption, Mozambique

c) Case study three 15 Charity: Tackle Africa Project: “One Game Saves Lives” HIV education through football coaching

d) Case study four 17 Charity: Save the Children Project: Emergency supplies for families in Valle de Cauca, Colombia

e) Case study five 19 Charity: Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) Project: DEC Disasters – Pakistan Floods Appeal

5. Synopses of projects supported 2010 – 2011 21 6. Appendices a. Appendix A Overseas Aid Expenditure 2010 – 2011 38 b. Appendix B Definitions for the nine development aid categories 39

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To the Hon Clare Christian MLC, President of Tynwald, and the Hon Council and Keys in Tynwald assembled

1. Foreword by the Chief Minister

The Isle of Man Government has supported development projects overseas and provided aid in response to international emergencies for over twenty years, through the work of the Council of Ministers‟ Overseas Aid Committee. Such support has helped international efforts to alleviate poverty around the world, demonstrating the Isle of Man‟s commitment as a responsible and caring nation.

The following Annual Report gives an overview of the Committee‟s work during the financial year 2010/11, along with a more detailed look at particular projects, and summaries of each project funded by the Committee, alongside their cost.

The Committee supported a wide range of charities during the period, with the largest recipients being: Oxfam - £218,823 Disasters Emergency Committee - £185,000 Christian Aid - £178,000 CAFOD - £122,040 Plan - £120,000

The Committee is appointed by the Council of Ministers, and membership during the period of this report was as follows1 – Hon P A Gawne, MHK, Chairman Hon D Anderson, MHK Mr E Lowey, MLC Mr H Green (lay member) Ms C Bader (lay member)

I would like to thank the Committee members for the work they have done. We are indebted to their enthusiasm and commitment to helping those less fortunate than ourselves in developing countries across the world.

______Hon A R Bell MHK Chief Minister December 2011

1 Hon Phil Gawne MHK replaced Mr Waft MLC as Chairman in summer 2010. Hon David Anderson MHK and Mr Lowey MLC also joined the Committee in summer 2010. Ms Allison Burden stood down in 2010 and was replaced by Ms Clare Bader in December 2010. 5

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2. Introduction by the Chairman of the Overseas Aid Committee

Since our last Overseas Aid Committee report, the Committee has continued to fund development aid projects in the world‟s less developed countries and provided support to international disaster appeals.

During the financial year covered by this report the Committee consolidated the changes brought in by the 2008 report “The Policy and Funding of Overseas Aid”. Following the recommendations of the report, the Committee now uses the internationally recognised Millennium Development Goals to guide its consideration of applications. The Committee also now focuses its funding on countries ranked as “low” on the United Nations Human Development Index.

Unfortunately it was not possible to put into effect all the changes recommended in the report. Owing to spending pressures the Committee‟s budget was not increased as envisaged and as a result the Partnership Programme Agreements (PPAs) were not put into operation as expected2

Almost 220 applications from charities based in the Isle of Man and the UK were received over the period. Of those 220, only 38 were successful, demonstrating the level of competition for Committee grants. Of those successful applications 21 were for funding from the small grant scheme, and 17 were for emergency aid, which is usually apportioned on a monthly basis.

Once again, the Committee‟s budget for 2010/11 was £2.4 million. Of this, just over £875,000 was spent on development aid (“small grants”), around £921,000 was spent on the multi-year projects and around £600,000 was spent on emergency funding.

Funding for projects by charities based on the Isle of Man is prioritised and the Committee was particularly pleased to fund projects by charities based on the Isle of Man such as the Call to Business project in Sierra Leone which provided a home for disabled children, the Pahar Trust Nepal project to provide a new school for Sikles village, and Friends of the Curraghs Wildlife Park project in Manombo and Menabe districts in Madagascar which focused on community development and sustainable natural resource management.

The Committee also funded projects such as that by Excellent Development in Mozambique towards the support of a national food and water security programme, Tackle Africa‟s HIV education through football coaching project in Uganda, and Save the Children‟s project in Colombia to provide emergency supplies for families affected by the flooding there. The year also saw a major international disaster with the

2 PPAs were intended to be agreements between the Isle of Man Government and charities which were tied to goals and outcomes, rather than particular projects, allowing the charities greater flexibility and the ability to plan longer-term. Each agreement would have been for £2.5 million in total for five years.

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flooding that affected millions in Pakistan and the Committee provided a total of £185,000 to support the response there. More information about the response can be found in the Case Studies section.

Finally, I would like to thank my fellow Committee members for their hard work over the period.

______Hon P A Gawne MHK Chairman December 2011

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3. Overview of the Overseas Aid Committee’s activities in 2010/2011

The Overseas Aid Committee of the Council of the Ministers is responsible for the allocation of funding for development and emergency aid projects.

For the 2010/11 financial year the Committee received an allocation of £2.4 million. The budget was split into three main types of expenditure – small grants, of up to £100,000, for which £860,000 was allocated, multi-year grants, with an allocation of £916,718, and emergency aid, with £600,000. The way in which the Committee targets its budget and selected projects for the small and multi-year grants funds is closely aligned to the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG).

In total, 46 projects were funded, 21 under the small grants scheme, 15 under the emergency grants scheme and 10 multi-year projects.

The figure below shows the breakdown of expenditure on small grant and multi-year grant projects according to the particular development goal addressed (emergency aid funding is excluded from the chart as these are not judged on the basis of the MDG‟s). As can be seen, the largest proportion of funding (45%) has addressed the goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, while 20% has been devoted to addressing each of the project goals of ensuring environmental stability and reducing child mortality rates. 4% of funds have been devoted to addressing each of the project goals of: combating HIV/AIDs, malaria and other diseases; achieving universal primary education; and improving maternal health. The remaining 3% of funds was allocated to the goal of promoting gender equality and empowering women.

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As can be seen from the figure above3, which breaks down the Committee‟s expenditure by region, the vast majority of expenditure (79%) went to Africa. This reflects the fact that many of the world‟s least development countries are to be found in this region (according to the United Nation‟s Human Development Index). Projects in Asia received 18% of the Committee‟s funding, while 2% was awarded to projects concerning Central America (this is accounted for by the emergency aid donated by the Committee for the earthquake in Haiti and the tropical storm in Guatemala during this period). The remaining 1% went to projects in South America.

More detail about individual projects can be found in the following sections.

3 Certain spending by the Committee, such as funding for the One World Charity Challenge, is excluded from this table, as there is no one region on which it is focused. 10

4. Case studies

Charity Challenge 2010 Case Study 1:

Charities working in the developing world have benefited from awards totalling £23,000 thanks to this year‟s One World Charity Challenge.

A Freedom to Flourish initiative that aims to encourage Year 12 students gain a broader understanding of development issues, the One World Charity Challenge sees student teams research Manx-registered charities working overseas or ones supported by the Overseas Aid Committee. Following a series of in- school presentations to decide which charities are to be represented, the finalists make their presentations at an awards ceremony before a panel of judges who determine each team‟s share of the grant pool.

The One World Charity Challenge is co-ordinated by the One World Centre and sponsored by the H&S Davidson Trust which donated £11,500 to the grant fund, a sum matched by the Isle of Man Overseas Aid Committee, swelling the total to £23,000.

At the final held at the Manx Museum lecture theatre on March 23 before an invited audience that included Chief Minister Tony Brown, MHK and Education Minister Anne Craine MHK, who presented the awards, £14,500 of the grant pool was distributed to the six finalist teams. Ballakermeen High School, representing Ro-Man-Aid, Isle of Man College representing Queen‟s and King‟s School and Queen Elizabeth II High School representing Hope HIV each received £1,500, while Castle Rushen High School, representing Grace Third World Fund and St Ninian‟s High School representing Namaste Children‟s House were each awarded £3000. The largest share of the grant pool was awarded to King William‟s College for their presentation of the work of Malawi Mission Projects. The team were also presented with the Frances Davidson Cup, donated by chairman of the H&S Davidson Trust Hugh Davidson in honour of his late aunt Manx-born Frances Davidson.

The remaining £8,500 was allocated to the other 18 teams that took part but were not selected for the final.

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One World Centre co-ordinator Cheryl Cousins said: „Every student is a winner for taking the initiative to participate in the One World Charity Challenge, through which they learn a lot about themselves and about the developing world.‟

All the presentations were sensitive interpretations of the charities‟ work, said Cheryl who praised the teams‟ „focus and passion‟. Ballakermeen High School‟s presentation was „succinct and coherent‟ and invited audience participation; Castle Rushen High School demonstrated teamwork and used a conversational style with which to engage the audience; Isle of Man College used drama and role play to great effect; Queen Elizabeth II High School‟s presentation had visual impact and appealed directly to the audience, and the team from King William‟s College were praised for their confident and creative delivery and use of live music to introduce a more reflective mood.

In her closing remarks Cheryl said: „Tonight these students have spoken for the poor and forgotten people in the world; those who have no voice. Tonight you, the students, spoke up for them and have given them an opportunity for a better life.‟

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Case Study 2: Water and food security and wider sand dam adoption, Mozambique

Here at Excellent we are passionate about sand dams. They vastly improve people‟s lives and transform dry environments into places where animals, plants and people can thrive. They are also the world‟s lowest cost way of capturing rainwater in dry rural areas. We sometimes refer to „the miracle of sand dams‟ because the amount of water they make available seems unbelievable.

In April 2010, the Isle of Man Overseas Aid Committee granted £61,536 towards the support of a national water and food security programme in Mozambique, involving the dissemination of sand dam technology. This programme implemented in partnership with CCM (Christian Council of Mozambique) is called “Agua Seguranca Alimentar” acronym ASA, which means “wing” in Portuguese. Sand dams were first introduced in 2007 following a learning visit from CCM staff to our established project in Kenya. 20 sand dams were built in 2 Provinces in Mozambique (Tete & Manica) with financial support from the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in Mozambique.

Thanks to the support of the Isle of Man in 2010, Excellent Development has supported CCM to set up a National Office to improve the sand dam design and to extend the implementation of this technology to all the 13 provinces of the country. The scalable impact of the ASA programme aims to maximise opportunities for subsistence farmers across the country to understand and benefit from the link between the increased water availability provided by sand dams and increased food production. 13

In 2010, 10 new sand dams were built in Tete Province. Excellent‟s visit in August had an immediate influence and technical improvements in the design of sand dams were implemented immediately afterwards. Please see here a few examples of the work undertaken. Note that given the geographic conditions of the area, an important part of the dam is built under the surface of the ground to reach the rock base.

Building the underwater part of a dam, Marara, Tete

In late November/December 2010, Excellent organised a 7-day workshop for CCM‟s national and provincial staff to support the design and development of the ASA Strategy in Maputo. Topics included community engagement as well as programme management, together with fundraising, reporting, monitoring and evaluation.

The next step of the ASA programme is a learning visit from CCM management and technical staff to our established projects in Kenya from 24th January to 6th February 2011. Learning visits are an essential step in the application of sand dam technology in a new context. Technical staff from CCM will gain firsthand experience of sand dam building. CCM programme management staff will learn about the wider application of sand dams in an integrated water and food security programme at strategy level. They will also learn about Excellent‟s community engagement processes in the area.

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Case Study 3: "One Game Saves Lives" HIV Education through Football Coaching Project

Isle of Man resident Graeme Sears (centre) with graduates of the Tackle Africa coaching course in Ketante (Kampala)

A further development of Tackle Africa‟s work in Uganda, this project started in January 2011 and involved training workshops and testing events at two sites in Uganda: Kampala, with local partner Kamwokya Christian Caring Community (KCCC), and Ssenyi in Ssi sub county of rural Uganda near Lake Victoria with local partner African Social Development and Health Initiatives (ASDHI).

The project was delivered by Tackle Africa Head of Coaching Development Yianny Ioannou, Isle of Man resident and volunteer Coach Educator Graeme Sears, UK volunteer Coach Educator Rachel Zipfel and Tackle Africa Kenya Project Officer Ndunda Mukonyo. This team worked closely with volunteers and staff of our local partners and Ugandan project officer Mpoza Dennis, who continues to work on the follow up support to the Uganda coaches trained during the course of the coaching project.

Yianny Ioannou carries a set of IoM-funded footballs to a makeshift football pitch in Ssenyi, Uganda

The project took the form of a 5 day Tackle Africa Level 1 coaching course in Kampala and a 4 day course in Ssenyi followed by a 1-2 day „Test your team‟ football tournament. Teams could score

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additional points by having their players engage with Voluntary HIV Testing and Counselling services provided by Tackle Africa and our local partners. The coaching course, delivered with the support of the FUFA (the Federation of Ugandan Football Associations), trained local coaches, schoolteachers and youth leaders in delivering HIV education through football coaching to young people using Tackle Africa‟s manuals and other resources.

Summary of progress against objectives:

1. Increase the numbers of coaches, teachers and peer educators in the communities of Ssi and Kamwoyka who can use our HIV awareness football coaching manual in their work with young people Rachel Zipfel and Mpoza Dennis running a practical coaches workshop near Lake Achieved. 20 coaches in Kampala completed an assessed 5 day Victoria workshop in delivering HIV education through football coaching and 12 coaches in Ssenyi were reached with a 4 day course. These 32 coaches – including 8 females – are now engaged in a long term coaching support programme and are expected to reach approximately 2,000 young Ugandans with regular HIV education through football coaching.

2. Increase the numbers of young people in Kamwoyka being tested for HIV and receiving counselling about their status

Achieved. A total of 638 young people tested for HIV at the tournaments and received counselling about their status.

3. Reduce stigma and discrimination attached to HIV within target communities

Though difficult to measure conclusively, the numbers of young people testing openly at football tournaments is a strong indication that the challenging of stigma and discrimination has been successful. The success of both events led to members of the community who could not be tested being asked to return during the next testing event. In addition, we have provided in-depth training to 32 community leaders on the facts around HIV and the importance of challenging myths and stigma, and we will be supporting them to impart this learning to approximately 2,000 young people.

4. Deliver good quality football coaching to members of the All Stars Academy

Achieved – 2 All Stars Academy coaches and 2 academy graduates attended the Kamwokya coaching course, but it was not possible due to time constraints to deliver direct football coaching to the Academy as a whole. The feedback from the Academy was that increasing the football coaching skills of the coaches would have a more sustainable impact.

Players assembling at the HIV testing Football Tournament in Kampala

5. Deliver training to local coaches in partnership with Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA) to build capacity and skills in both football coaching and HIV education in the local areas.

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Achieved. As outlined above, the Kamwokya course was accredited and part-attended by FUFA and was delivered to 20 coaches.

Case Study 4:

Emergency supplies for families in Valle de Cauca, Colombia

A Rainwater Harvesting System under construction in a village in Buenaventura municipality, Colombia.

By ensuring that children have a source of clean water, your support is helping prevent children dying of waterborne illnesses.

In late 2010, severe and prolonged rains across Colombia caused widespread flooding, with the national government declaring a state of emergency in 28 of the country‟s 32 regions. The consequence of the „La Niña‟ weather pattern, the floods affected 2.8 million children and their families in 561 municipalities, damaged over 200,000 homes and completely destroying around 1,700 more. Children in remote, inaccessible villages in the countries conflict affected southern coast were left more vulnerable: left out of the government response, hundreds of families were left without adequate shelter, access to clean water and hygiene supplies, putting children‟s lives at risk. Save the Children has been working with 22 communities in Buenaventura in the Valle de Cauca region. In these communities, predominantly inhabited by indigenous and Afro-Colombian families, 71% of people in the affected areas were living with unmet basic needs (such as overcrowding or lack of water or sanitation). Sanitary conditions, which were very basic prior to the rainfall, have been further degraded by pollution of water sources, causing diseases such as diarrhoea, respiratory infections and dermatitis. High levels of standing water provided breeding grounds for mosquitoes, dramatically increasing rates of malaria and dengue fever in the worst affected areas.

Installation of a Rainwater Harvesting System outside a home in Buenaventura municipality, Colombia.

Isle of Man Overseas Aid Committee have supported the construction of 94 of these, reaching 564 children and their families.

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Our overall response has reached over 7,000 children and their families through improving access to clean water and sanitation, keeping children safe from injury, abuse and exploitation, and helping children to go back to school. The support of the Isle of Man Overseas Aid Committee has provided invaluable support to work in water and hygiene, both helping 3,600 children and family members to stay healthy in the immediate aftermath through contributing to 600 hygiene kits, and also providing 94 families with a reliable source of clean water for the long term through the provision of rainwater collection systems. Save the Children‟s teams have had to brave armed conflict between guerrillas and the army, prolonged heavy rains and long boat journeys on swollen rivers to reach the most vulnerable children in riverside communities. With our experience of working in the Valle de Cauca region and global experience of working in challenging situations we have worked closely with communities to ensure we can deliver lifesaving humanitarian aid while keeping our staff and beneficiaries safe. The communities have been extremely receptive and appreciative of our response, telling us how they felt supported and were not left alone to cope with the flooding. While much more remains to be done, the support of the Isle of Man Overseas Aid Committee has helped save the lives of some of Colombia‟s most vulnerable children.

Children with their Back to School kits containing stationery and learning materials. Thousands of children in Colombia’s most vulnerable communities lost all of their possessions – and these kits help them get back into the classroom.

Possible future developments Thanks to our timely response and the close relationships that we have developed with the communities, Save the Children has been able to secure longer-term funding to continue working with these communities to help them recover and prepare for future emergencies. We know that every year there is flooding but the community capacity to respond to the floods is low both due to high levels of poverty and an absence of training and organisation to respond. To mitigate this, Save the Children will work with communities to prevent and mitigate disasters rather than simply responding to a disaster once it has hit.

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Case Study 5: DEC Disasters – Pakistan Floods Appeal

The DEC reported that its Pakistan Floods Appeal raised a final total of £71m, the third highest total ever raised by the DEC after the appeals for the 2004 tsunami and 2010 Haiti earthquake. The DEC itself raised £41m and member agencies raised £30m towards the appeal. Member agencies spent £17m of the £41m collected by the DEC in the first six months after the disaster to help 1.8 million people.

The assistance provided included:

 Emergency shelter for 290,000 people  Clean water for 510,000 people  Safe toilets for 160,000 people  Medical consultations for 37,000 patients  Help to restart farming for 26,000 people

The monsoon rains which began to hit Pakistan in late July 2010 were the most severe in the country‟s 80 year history. They caused immediate flash flooding in the mountains of the north west of the country and ultimately flood waters worked their way south, through the Indus and other river systems, to engulf an area the size of the UK.

Although the UK public and government have been generous in their support of those affected by the floods, the report noted that the most serious risks in the early aid effort arose from the mismatch between the massive scale of the disaster and the relatively paucity of global funding available in the early stages of the response.

This early funding gap contributed to delays of several weeks in DEC members extending a large scale response from the north west of the country into the more southerly provinces of Punjab, Balochistan and Sindh, which were also badly affected as the flood waters spread down the river Indus.

The report also found that DEC agencies initially struggled to meet the most urgent needs of the worst affected survivors as they began returning in vast numbers from temporary camps to their ruined villages within weeks of being displaced.

DEC Chief Executive Brendan Gormley said:

“All disasters are a tragedy for those caught up in them but the Pakistan floods were exceptional because of the vast number of people affected.

“The response to our appeal was extremely generous and the UK public can be proud that the massive aid effort they helped fund has already provided support to 1.8 million people.

“Our real time evaluations are part of our commitment to learn from everything we do. They focus not on our achievements but on what we could do better, even in the challenging circumstances we face in places such as Pakistan.”

“The DEC and its members are committed to publishing these reviews because we believe in sharing what we learn, and in being open with and accountable to both disaster affected communities and donors.”

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“The new website that we will shortly launch and our forthcoming 2010-11 annual report will help us make details of how we spend donor money not just more available but also more accessible.”

Up to 21 million people were affected by the Pakistan Floods with 12 million seeing their homes damaged or completely destroyed. The vast scale of the tragedy means that many people still need very substantial help to rebuild their lives. The report‟s authors noted these numbers exceeded “...the combined total of individuals affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake”.

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5. Synopses

Organisation A Call to Business ACORD British Red Cross Society Build Africa CAFOD Care International UK Child In Need India Christian Aid Concern Universal Development of Nations Economy Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) Excellent Development Friends of the Curraghs Wildlife Park IMPACT Foundation International Refugee Trust (IRT) Koru Hospital Fund LEPRA Health in Action Mission Aviation Fellowship One World Action Oxfam Pahar Trust Nepal Plan UK Pump Aid Save the Children Fund Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF) Self Help Africa Send a Cow Sightsavers International Tackle Africa Tearfund UNICEF Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) WaterAid Y Care International

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A Call to Business Mahanaim Orphanage, Rogbere, Sierra Leone File Ref: SG 099.10/Aid Category: Small Grants Scheme Beneficiaries: 280 Funding requested: £15,000.00 Funding awarded: £15,000.00 The aim of this project was to provide a purpose-built home for up to 30 disabled children (24 residents at the time) together with their house-mother and carers, creating an environment for the children to flourish. Bedrooms will house a maximum of 4 children, each with their own bed and bed net. The dining and other communal areas will be big enough to accommodate free movement for wheelchairs and a play area will be created to aid stimulation and play. Improving women’s self 22sufficiency in Logone Birni district, Cameroon

File Ref: SG 054.10/Aid Category: Small Grants Scheme Beneficiaries: 12,250 Funding requested: £54, 689.00 Funding awarded: £54,689.00 This project was designed to directly improve the livelihoods and food security of 500 households across 15 villages in Logone Birni district through direct interventions. Specifically this project was planning to support 500 poor and vulnerable households to access much needed agricultural inputs and storage facilities as well as relevant trainings to improve crop production and generate revenue. As a direct result of these activities targeted households were expected to increase their income and livelihood opportunities. This project is near completion. Community Based Health Programme, Sierra Leone File Ref: SG 094.10/Aid category: Small Grant Beneficiaries: 39,000 Funding requested: £41,215.00 Funding awarded: £41,215.00 This grant towards the community based health programme in Sierra Leone, has helped to ensure over 50,000 people have benefitted via a range of interventions including safe water and sanitation, improved food security and nutrition, prevent and control of communicable diseases, and reproductive and child health services. By training local volunteers the programme will also help to build the capacity of communities in managing their own response to their health care needs going forward. Libya and Region Appeal

File Ref: EMR 035.10/Aid Category: Emergency Beneficiaries: 100,000 Funding requested: £15,000.00 Funding awarded: £4,443.00 Due to the ongoing political unrest and increased numbers of violent clashes, thousands of Libyans and Egyptian/Tunisian migrant workers were feeling Libya in search of refuge. Tens of thousands of migrants were stranded near Libya‟s Tunisian border with 1,000 new arrivals every hour. Over 100,000 were estimated to have fled hostilities in Libya over the past week in search of safety. This project helped support the Libyan, Tunisian and Egyptian Red Crescent Societies by providing health care, food and water. Welcome camps were also set up at key points providing counselling, tents, essential non-food items such as kitchen sets, hygiene kits and medical supplies to displaced people.

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Education Quality Improvement Programme

File Ref: SG 165.10 Beneficiaries:67,647 Funding requested: 10,000.00 Funding awarded: £10,000.00 This project was able to undertake it‟s community based education quality improvement programme at 41 rural primary schools in four Districts of Uganda. The project enabled 23,063 children and teachers to benefit from a comprehensive training and support programme designed to increase management and teaching quality and community involvement across the schools. Through the project a total of 208 teachers and management committee members received training enabling make vital improvements to how the schools are run. Schools were also supplied with materials and training to enable them to integrate sports into their timetabls, providing an avenue for children to learn vital skills such as teamwork and leadership. This has all contribted towards increased attendance, improved academic performance and increased community inolvement at the schools. Addressing disaster risk through sustainable environment management in Sierra Leone File Ref: MYG 027.09/Aid category: Multi Year Grants Beneficiaries: 29,203 Funding requested: £ 81,720.00 Funding awarded: £81,720.00 The aims of this project were to reduce the vulnerability of target communities to drought, bush fires and wind storms through sustainable environmental management. The project will improve the target community‟s understanding and implementation of sustainable environmental management and agricultural practices that will reduce the target community‟s vulnerability to hazards, improve their food security, reduce hunger and poverty, and ensure long term environmental sustainability. The project will support 10 target communities to implement sustainable agricultural activities including the use of drought resistant crops. The project will enable these communities to take practical steps such as planting trees to create windbreaks and stabilise the soil, providing them with eco-stoves and water storage facilities. The Project will also help support 10 communities to develop community disaster risk reduction action plans, enable the Community to evaluate the hazards and the links between these hazards and their existing land use management practices. Within the first year an action plan has been developed to address the problems. Key implementation plans including the provision livelihood support, seeds and working tools, and planting of Forest Trees. The acute water shortage has been minimised through the planting of trees and seedling from the current planting season have already been supplied. Sustainably improving the food security of small scale farmers, in Ituri District DRC

File Ref: SG 062.10/Aid category: Small Grants Scheme Beneficiaries: 17,280 Funding requested: £40,320.00 Funding awarded: £40,320.00 Following the return of peace and relative security, there was an essential need to use the window of opportunity to improve the food security of the local population. This makes up the global objective of the project, which aimed to improve the food security and restore income levels of 5,760 vulnerable in 16 communities (Djungu and

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Irumu territories). This has been achieved by increasing the agricultural production of beneficiaries, mainly women. Raising the quantity of subsistence crops being produced allows them to have access to enough quality food for their own consumption, as well as to increase their income by growing and selling cash crops on local markets. Weather changes caused a poor yield at harvest time, but for many families, production levels of key vegetables were raised 20% and 30% during the year, which has increased food security and nutrition among vulnerable groups. Emergency Relief for Flood Affected Families in Sri Lanka

File Ref: EMR 033.10/Aid category: Emergency Beneficiaries: 3,200 Funding requested: £23,766.00 Funding awarded: £23,766.00 This project aimed to help relieve the suffering and reduce the vulnerability of 235 displaced families (940 people) affected by the Sri Lanka floods through the provision of essential shelter items. With the support of CARE shleter experts, families with damaged houses will be able to make critical repairs, and those whose homes were completely destroyed in the floods will be able to construct shleters durable for a minimum of 2 years whilst more longer-tem solutions are sought. CARE has provided 235 families with shelter items including roofing sheets, bricks and cement this has complented other agencies operating in the areas to avoid duplication and ensure that familes rceive a comprehsnive package. This project is near completion. Working towards ending hazardous child labour in Kashimnagar

Child In Need India File Ref: SG 130.10/Aid category: Small Grants Beneficiaries: 3,200 Funding requested: £31,588.00 Funding awarded: £31,588.00 This project achieved its objectives, benefitting children and parents living in Kashimnagar Village through empowerment and education. CINI‟s education centres have provided all the support needed for these children to access formal education. Gender discrimination, which has been a major problem due to pressure on girls to drop out and engage in domestic labour, has been addressed. CINI has undertaken generation awareness activities like rallies, cultural events to engage the local communities in realising the importance of education. Throughout the project, consultation with the local community have been maintained. Parents have been assisted with enrolment paperwork, regular meetings have been held with parents to discuss their children‟s progress. Parents unable to afford books and uniforms have also given support. Improving food security for small-scale farming households in Sierra Leone File Ref: MYG 008.09/Aid category: Multi Year Grants Beneficiaries: 153,659 Funding requested: £247,000.00 Funding awarded: £79,000.00 This project will contribute to improved food security and progress towards the MDGs of the population of Bonthe District, Sierra Leone, focusing specifically on small-scale farming and fishing households in three chiefdoms of Bonthe. The work targets some 24

of the poorest and most marginalised community members and these activities will directly strengthen their ability to provide food and nutrition for themselves and their families. Since the project started 3,887 community members have taken part in 70 awareness raising sessions, key outcomes from the sessions include increased participation in project activities by beneficiary communities, increased participation by group members in planning and implementation of field activities, improved rate of seed recovery and in-kind repayments by rice production groups and increased support from community leaders. 42 new crop production groups were formed involving a total of 975 vulnerable household members, total of 30 women‟s groups engaged in vegetable production and 15 bee-keeping groups with a total membership of 150 individuals had been formed. Cyclone Laila - May 2010

File Ref: EMR 006.10/Aid category: Emergency Beneficiaries:18,325 Funding requested: £30,000.00 Funding awarded: £14,000.00 On Thursday 20th May 2010, the worst storm to hit south-east India for 14 years brought heavy rain, flooding and winds of up to 75mph to coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh. This project worked in some of the worst-affected areas to reach those most in need, support focused initially on providing people with cooked food and emergency relief packs containing dry food and other basic necessities. The main activities of the project were providing 3,785 people in eight villages with cooked food, 2,540 of the worst affected families (approx 15,240 people) received emergency relief packs, 200 pregnant and lactating mothers received additional nutritional support and 567 children received nutritional support. Conflict in Kyrgyzstan - June 2010

File Ref: EMR 008.10/Aid category: Emergency Beneficiaries:123,945 Funding requested: £50,000.00 Funding awarded: £50,000.00 In June 2010, over 400,000 people in Kyrgyzstan were forced to flee their homes without any food, shelter or basic items. Thousands were left traumatised by the violence they witnessed and experienced. The funding from the Overseas Aid Committee has helped to provide 5,000 families (approximately 30,000 people) with essential food and non-food items as well as longer term livelihood and psychosocial support to help them recover from this extremely difficult and painful time. Food items included 12 kilos of onions, 23 kilos of rice, 27 kilos of potatoes as well as other food items. The non food items included hygiene kits, kitchen sets, warms clothes and clothing items for children Flooding in El Salvador – November 2009

File Ref: EMR 016.10/Aid category: Emergency Beneficiaries:448,602 Funding requested: £35,000.00 Funding awarded: £35,000.00 At the end of July intense storms caused flooding across Burkina Faso, the floods destroyed thousands of homes, leaving approximately 60,000 people homeless. Many of those affected were among the poorest and most vulnerable, and already faced the prospect of severe food shortages. This response was particularly challenging given that the populations had already been suffering from prolonged periods of drought and a food crisis before the floods arrived, this project was able to deliver emergency food and non-food items such as packs of kitchen utensils, blankets, sleeping mats to 2,000 people affected by the flood to help them cope during this very difficult time. Training sessions were also given to the beneficiaries addressing how to prepare food with nutritional supplements for babies, and hygiene and sanitation practices to avoid 25

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Upper river region livelihood improvement and poverty reduction project File Ref: MYG 067.09/Aid category: Multi Year Grant Beneficiaries: 63,079 Funding requested: £300,000.00 Funding awarded: £100,000.00 The project seeks to reduce the level of poverty and enhance the livelihoods of the poor and peri-urban population within the Upper River Region of the Gambia, through skills training, small sustainable enterprise development, and through access to appropriate and affordable irrigation technologies. During the first year of the Project a training session was facilitated on how to effectively and appropriately operate and maintain a hydraulic drilling machine purchased with this grant. Already, the project has benefited more than 360 direct beneficiaries and more than 3,000 indirect beneficiaries for tube well and irrigation technologies. 4 tube wells with rope pumps and reservoir irrigation system in 4 communities have already been completed and its objectives achieved. More than 80 direct beneficiaries have already benefited from the trainings and are now conducting step down trainings for their communities.

DEC Disasters - Pakistan Floods Appeal

File Ref: EMR 019.10/Aid category: Emergency Beneficiaries: - Donation Funding awarded: £185,000.00 This DEC appeal was launched in August 2010 and in total has raised £71 million reaching over £2.5 million within 12 hours of the first television appeal. Member agencies had spent £17m of the £41m collected within six months after the disaster to help 1.8 million people. The monsoon rains which began to hit Pakistan in late July 2010 were the most severe in the country‟s 80 year history. They caused immediate flash flooding in the mountains of the north west of the country and ultimately flood waters worked their way south, through the Indus and other river systems, to engulf an area the size of the UK. Among the main activities carried out in Pakistan 290,000 people were provided with emergency shelter, 510,000 people were provided with clean water, 160,000 were supplied with safe toilets, 37,000 patients received medical consultations and 26,000 received help to restart farming. Improving Maternal Health and Child Mortality

File Ref: SG 014.10/Aid category: Small Grants Beneficiaries:105,910 Funding requested: £71,498.00 Funding awarded: £71,498.00 The project was set out as 3 objectives all with different activities, objective 1 was to ensure greater health improvements for women and children under five years by distrbuting Insecticides Treated Nets a total of 40,035 were successfully distributed throughout four project communities benefiting 39,755 households protecting from malaria. Objective 2 was provision of safer, cleaner water sources by constrructing bore holes at the completion of the water project, four bore holes were constructed within the four different communities to serve the water need of 65,910 households. Finally objective 3 a hygiene and sanitation enlightenment programme by holding an hygiene and saniation enlightenment campaign resident of the project communities 26

were made to be aware of safe hygiene practices. Water and food security and wider sand dam adoption, Mozambique File Ref: SG 148.10/Aid category: Small Grant Beneficiaries: 29,500 Funding requested: £61,536.00 Funding awarded: £61,536.00 This grant helped towards the support of national water and food security programme in Mozambique, involving the dissemination of sand dam technology. Excellent Development has been able to support Christian Council of Mozambique (CCM) to set up a National Office to improve the sand dam design and to extend the implementation of this technology to all the 13 provinces of the country. The scalable impact of the programme aims to maximise opportunities for subsistence farmers across the country to understand and benefit from the link between the increased water availability provided by sand dams and increased food production. When Excellent visited in August to provide technical support it had an immediate influence and technical improvements in the design of sand dams were implemented immediately afterwards. In summary, the CCM are far better equipped technically, organisationally and strategically to be able to support communities in Mozambique to increase their access to water and food utilising sand dam technology, thousands of community members lives in Mozambique are being transformed. Community development and sustainable natural resource management in Madagascar – improving local livelihoods through sustainable natural

resource management File Ref: SG 089.10/Aid category: Small Grant Beneficiaries:7,800 Funding requested: £52,770.00 Funding awarded: £52,770.00 This project reached 35 communities in the regions of Manombo and Menabe, providng them with the tools, education and food security, to develop alternative sources of income and infrastructure to improve community health. Primary school buidlings were either built, refurbished or extended in 16 villages, which has increased the number of children attending school and greatly reduced the distances children have to travel to attend school. New equipment was provided to farmers and fishermen in nearly all villages, to continue to increase the efficiency of food production. Alternative livelihoods, such as handicraft production, fish farming, apiculture, vegetable and peanut cultivation were supported throughout the two regions. The support has been used to enhance the lives and livelihoods of people in 16 villages around the Manombo forest. Activities were determined by the local village association, which were established through Durrell support, and ranged from apiculture to primary health and education. Agricultural activities aimed to increase household income by providing tools, seeds and plants. Given the productivity of soils in the areas, the plants should be generating market incomes next year. Durrell continued for longstanding programme to suport primary education through the provision of resouces for schools and repairs to school buildings. Gwailor Children’s Charity Snehalaya Home Acess Road File Ref: SG 171.10/Aid category: Small Grant Beneficiaries: 280 Funding requested: £5,000.00 Funding awarded: £5,000.00 The aim of this project was to reinforce, improve drainage and resurface the 300m of the access road from the Gwalior Children’s Home to the main Jhansi Road. Due to the State Government rebuilding the Jhansi Road as a dual carriageway, the Snehalaya access road has had to be diverted and a new entrance to the main road 27

made. The hardcore base has been laid and rolled, and the final surfacing will be complete by the end of the year. Corrective orthopaedic and plastic surgery for disabled children through outreach service File Ref: SG 022.10/Aid category: Small Grant Beneficiaries:1,150 Funding requested: £30,640.00 Funding awarded: £30,640.00 This project has enabled 52 children wih orthopaedic conditions, such as club foot and skeletal flurosis undergo surgery to restore their movement, 50 children suffering from severe burns have had operations to release burn scar contractures and restore their movement, 48 children have undergone plastic surgery to repair cleft lip or palate originally it wsas anticipated that 50 children would undergo surgery but onyl 48 children deemed as suitable cases for surgery. Recovering following surgery can be a set back if children are returned too quickly to their villages, so following the operations each child was caref for whithin the nurturing environment of our partner‟s special rehabilitative unit, the „Plaster House‟. The after-care package included extensive physiotherapy for orthopaedic patients and mobility aids to help them regain their independence; multiple dressing changes for burns patients and laboratory and x-ray tests to ensure healing was on track. Fuel wood efficiency and forestry nutrition for 1000 women affected by hunger and climate change in Gash-Barka region, Eritrea File Ref: SG 090.10/Aid category: Small Grant Beneficiaries: 30,000 Funding requested: £44,252.00 Funding awarded: £44,252.00 The purpose of this project was to provide sustainable improvement in the livelihood and nutritional status of 1000 women and returnee households in Gash-Barka region through effiecient utilisation of biomass energy and community management of forestry nutrtion resources. The project embraced three main activities i) Distribution of 1,000 fuel-efficient stoves to 1,000 poor female-headed households ii) Distribition of 3,000 Moringa seedlings to 1,000 beneficiaries so that each beneficiary could plant three seedlings in its compound and when fully grown the plants would be used as food sources for the beneficiaries iii) Capacity building focused mainly on training beneficiaries on the construction and installation of stoves, food preparation and preservation skils from Moringa tree parts and provision of office material to partners. Koru Hospital Fund Koguta Community Empowerment Project (KOCEP) File Ref: SG 040.10/Aid category: Small Grant Beneficiaries:7,100 Funding requested: £50,000.00 Funding awarded: £50,000.00 The objective of the project was to provide Koguta with a community-based health centre and to give pre-school children a suitable, safe facility for play, learning and development. Changes to the project have meant that it is still ongoing, and is now due to be completed by March 2012. Fighting TB through Community Based Education

File Ref: SG 119.10/Aid category: Small Grant Beneficiaries:480,000 Funding requested: £61,097.00 Funding awarded: £61,097.00 28

This project has helped significantly in approving knowledge of people in rural areas of district Sirajgonj, Pana and Natore which led to increase TB suspect referrals and case detection. Where the project has had successes there are still challenges such as change of community attitude and practices towards TB control at community level, which probably will take more time. The Project has helped to develop capacity of community volunteers, Imams (religious leaders), village local doctors, school teachers and children in knowing sign and symptoms of TB and where to seek treatment. They have then started spreading the message in their local communities which resulted in increased TB suspect referrals. It is highly likely that these community volunteers will continue referring TB patients and spreading health messages especially on TB within their communities. School Science Equipment

File Ref: SG 173.10/Aid category: Small Grant Beneficiaries: 600 Funding requested: £1,000.00 Funding awarded: £1,000.00 The aim of this project was to expand the capacity for practical science and IT teaching at Hallmark school, Madhya radish, North India in line with the requirements of the State curriculum. Over 500 children are taught by 25 professional graduate teachers, the children are from nearby villages where poverty is endemic so tuition fees must be kept affordable, in order to do so this project helped increase stock of consumable equipment for practical science, increase stock of science and IT text book and provide special equipment such as a Digital Camera. Critical Flight Support – Uganda

File Ref: SG 029.10/Aid category: Small Grant Beneficiaries:145,000 Funding requested: £97,950.00 Funding awarded: £97,950.00 Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) desires to see isloated people‟s life-situations transformed, through the use of light aircraft. Tragically, thousands of Ugandans are forced to seek safety and refuge in IDP camps along the borders of Uganda and Sudan, and many others stuggle daily without the basic necessities for sustiainable life. For those remote people groups, MAF offers hope by providing access to medical care and essential support services. MAF has committeed 23% of its Ugandan flight resources to support health and relief initiatives, to help uplift and strengthen vulnerable communities. These flights have carried and supported a range of humanitarian aid agencies and have enabled hundreds of communities to benefit from improved access to medical care, education and essential relief services. MAF‟s fleet of five aircraft, based near to Kampala in the south of Uganda undertook approximately 1,503 critical flights. Improving the health and welfare of girls at risk of FGM and child marriage in Mara and Mwanza regions, Tanzania File Ref: SG 144.10/Aid category: Small Grant Beneficiaries:4,485 Funding requested: £13,364.00 Funding awarded: £13,364.00 The aim of the project was to build the decision-making, leadership skills and 29

confidence of girls affected by child marriage (child bridges, child widows and girls at risk of child marriage) and female genital mutiliation (FGM). The project specifically assisted 83 affected girls aged between 13-17 years to organise themselves into peer support groups, train them in how to manage their clubs and provide them with skills, knowledge and information to improve their quality of life and that of their peers. Supported girls to start group income generating projects and with the income establish an emergency fund to assist vulnerbale child brides, child widows and those living in extreme poverty to access medical treatment, legal assistance and education. It also established a Girls Marriage Network to raise awareness to enable the girls amongst their peer group and campaign for the eradication of child marriage in their communities. One World Charity Challenge Match £ to £ the Awards at the Charity Challenge

File Ref: SG 193.09/DONATION Beneficiaries: N/A Funding requested: £10,500.00 Funding awarded: £10,500.00 The One World Charity Challenge is a secondary school project coordinated by the One World Centre as a Freedom to Flourish initiative supported by the H&S Davidson Trust. It challenges year 12 students across the Island to research either the work of a Manx charity operating overseas, or a charity supported by the IoM Overseas Aid Budget and to put together a presentation that will convince a panel of judges of the effectiveness of that charity and its impact upon the life of a young person living in the developing world.

The largest share of the grant pool was awarded to King William‟s College for their presentation of the work of Malawi Mission Projects. The team were also presented with the Frances Davidson Cup, donated by chairman of the H&S Davidson Trust Hugh Davidson in honour of his late aunt Manx-born Frances Davidson. Increasing access to water and sanitation in conflict affected communities

File Ref: MYG 125.09/Aid category: Multi Year Grant Beneficiaries: 410,000 Funding requested: £273,498 Funding awarded: £99,444.00 Oxfam is supporting reconstruction in the former conflict area of Kailahun in Sierra Leone by building sustainable, community driven, water and sanitation systems. This project aims to rehabilitate ten gravity-fed systems, install rainwater harvesting systems and latrines in 15 schools and 10 health centres, rehabilitate 20 wells and train school and community health clubs to implement community-wide disease prevention campaigns. Reducing hunger by supporting farmers to expand and increase rice productivity

File Ref: MYG 126.09/Aid category: Multi Year Grant Beneficiaries:119,850 Funding requested: £280,495.00 Funding awarded: £94,640.00 This project seeks to significantly increase and expand rice production, train farmers and support their unions/technical capacity, establish a central rice production facility and create rice stocks to see the poorest people through food insecure periods. 755 acres of land has been identified, Irrigation system has been designed and is being implemented, concrete dams sites defined and rice processing centre is being constructed. The project so far has leased a further 100 acres of land, has repaired and strengthened the existing 1970‟s irrigation system by installing six concrete dams,

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water distribution channels and slipways. Once completed the system will irrigate 1,500 additional acres of rice and enable harvests to increase from one to two or even three per year. The project has trained local volunteer field facilitators in new agricultural techniques who have in turn set up Farmer Field Schools and trained over 400 farmers, also to increase the efficiency of soil preparation four petrol tillers have been brought. Tropical Storm Agatha Response in Guatemala

File Ref: EMR 007.10/Aid category: Emergency Beneficiaries: 12,500 Funding requested: £25,000.00 Funding awarded: £25,000.00 The Tropical Storm Agatha hit Guatemala on 29 May 2010, the storm brought with it the heaviest rainfall in 60 years causing widespread mudslides and flooding, leaving 29,000 people homeless and over 180 people dead. This project aimed to support 12,500 men, women and children in the poor areas, providing clean water and sanitation in evacuation centres and in communities. Sewage and water systems were destroyed with the distribution of hygiene kits and undertaking health promotion activities in communities this would stop the spread of water borne diseases. Seeds were distributed to farmers to replant crops lost in the storm and materials and tools were distributed to enable families to rehabilitate their homes.

Sikles School, Kaski

File Ref: SG 100.10/Aid category: Small Grant Beneficiaries: 400 Funding requested: £24,000.00 Funding awarded: £24,000.00 The aim of this project was to provide a safe and comfortable new school for the children of Sikles Village. The school can accommodate 400 children from Sikles and Panche, a nearby small village. The school was completed on budget and represented exceptional value for money, costs have been kept to a minimum with the dedicated work and commitment of local villagers. Kaski Landslide

File Ref: EMR 020.10/Aid category: Emergency Beneficiaries: 200 Fundng requested: £5,000.00 Funding awarded: £5,000.00 Three Communities have suffered a significant loss of property and agricultural land due to a huge landslide during the monsoon rains. All three villages Taprang, Sodha and Sikles have strong links with the Isle of Man as their three schools were funded by the Isle of Man Government and individuals who reside on the Island. Five people lost their lives and another five are in hospital. Two of the victims were school children from Sodha, this school has a link with Onchan Primary School. The grant provided medical care for those who required treatment and emergency food and shelter for a considerable number of people within the community. A proportion of the grant was used to provide financial support for several families who had their house washed away in the landslide.

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Emergency Appeal – Food Crisis in Niger

File Ref: EMR 001.10/Aid category: Emergency Beneficiaries:250,000 Funding requested: £50,000.00 Funding awarded: £50,000.00 The purpose of the project was to provide emergency relief for a minimum of 250,000 people affected nu a food crisis in Dosso and Tillaberi Districts, Niger, West Africa. The project targeted the most vulnerable, including a focus on children under 5, pregnant and nursing women. The donation awarded from the Committee contributed to the distribution of 2,500MT of maize, purchased directly by Plan, and distributed to a total of 174,898 people. The project achieved its aim of providing the people of Dosso and Tillaberi with emergency relief and immediate assistance to vulnerable populations, especially children and young people. However, working in this fragile and complex political environment the nature of the response had to adapt to meet local requirements to work in co-ordination with other agencies. Emergency Appeal – Cholera in Haiti

File Ref: EMR 025.10/Aid category: Emergency Beneficiaries:739,000 Funding requested: £50,000.00 Funding awarded: £20,000.00 The purpose of this project was to provide emergency relief to over 739,000 children and their families affected by or at risk of cholera epidemic ravaging Haiti. Absent from Haiti for 100 years, community awareness of what to do and how to treat the waterborne bacteria is almost non-existent. This project will support a widespread programme of health and hygiene education in 350 schools, 8 temporary camps and 42 communities. It will also provide treatment, facilities and supplies through Cholera Treatment Units, in addition to materials for water purification, safe water storage and hygiene to support public health education. This project is near completion. Emergency food supply and livelihood rehabilitation

File Ref: EMR 028.10/Aid category: Emergency Beneficiaries:390,000 Funding requested: £50,000.00 Funding awarded: £50,000.00 The purpose of this project was to provide emergency food relief and livelihood rehabilitation to 170,000 people in the Dosso and Tilbury Districts Niger, West Africa. Specific activities were nutrition support, including health services and treatment for the most severe cases of malnutrition, the setting up of community gardens to re- establish livelihoods, and stoking cereal and seed banks. The project was to target the most vulnerable, including a focus on food provision for children under five, pregnant and nursing women. Figures from December 2010 show that Niger is continuing in the grip of a food crisis. In the majority of regions acute malnutrition is at emergency levels of 15%, with 7% of children aged under two experiencing severe

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malnutrition. This project is near completion. Sustainable clean water sources in Liberia

File Ref: MYG 104.09/Aid category: Multi Year Grant Beneficiaries: 12,550 Funding requested: £ 297,593.23 Funding awarded: £99,859.47 This project has a dual purpose; firstly it will train 50 former Liberian child soldiers in the construction of the Elephant Toilet, a low cost, easy to build technology designed by and unique to Pump Aid. This will give them the skills to take back to their communities which will allow them to gain employment and contribute to the reconstruction of their country. Secondly they will employ trainees and install 500 Elephant Toilets providing approximately 12,500 people with a sustainable sanitation facility. The simple technology and community mobilisation and training will ensure that the toilets can be maintained without further assistance from Pump Aid. Since the project started the sanitation teams have installed 289 Elephant Toilets which has provided approximately 5,495 people with clean and safe sanitation facilities.

Emergency supplies for families in Valle de Cauca, Colombia File Ref: EMR 024.10/Aid category: Emergency Beneficiaries: 4,320 Funding requested: £29,677.00 Funding awarded: £29,677.00 This project originally approved in December 2010 aimed to reach 4,320 children and their families in Valle de Cauca, Colombia through distributing 720 household kits and 720 hygiene kits. Upon closer analysis of the situation, Save the Children‟s team in Colombia discovered that, while families were able to return to their homes relatively quickly, the main ongoing threat to their children‟s survival and wellbeing was access to clean water and sanitation. With approval from the Overseas Aid Committee the project was amended to distribute 600 hygiene kits, helping 3,600 children and family members stay clean and free from diseases and illnesses. Also provided 94 rainwater harvesting systems in houses to allow 564 children and family members to enjoy sustainable access to clean water. This will help to prevent children from catching waterborne diseases like diarrhoea both now and long into the future. Support to women affected by sexual and gender based violence (SGBV)

File Ref: SG 033.10/Aid Category: Small Grants Scheme Beneficiaries:16,210 Funding requested: £35,420 Funding awarded: £35,420.00 The aims of this project were to provide care and support to women and girls who have been subjected to rape and sexual violence by members of the military and rebel factions still operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Some of the activities included 2,303 women survivors received medical assistance, 2,568 women received psychological counselling, 153 women received prenatal care and 86 survivors have been reintegrated into their families and communities. Children born of rape are healthy, have access to healthcare, and are cared for in a family environment and have gained their legal birth registration this including immunisation to 252 children born of rape and 51 children born of rape received legal assistance to obtain legal birth registration. Women that survived were enabled to pursue legal redress against those responsible, 49 women were given legal advice, 46 were supported to pursue

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legal redress (court cases) against those responsible. The Perpetrators received prison sentences ranging from 2 to 10 years. People were made aware of the rights of women and girls and their protection under the relevant national law and took specific initiatives to uphold the legislation. SODO II Integrated Rural Development Project, Ethiopia

File Ref: SG 015.10/Aid Category: Small Grant Beneficiaries: 42,000 Funding requested: £35,000.00 Funding awarded: £35,000.00 The project has contributed to improve livelihoods for participating farmers and their families, by promoting sustainable agriculture techniques, on farm enterprise and supporting the development of local organisation. 3,336 households took part in at least one of the activities to help crop production, 1,961 households took part in activities for livestock productivity and 4,402 households took part in activities to help natural resource management such as production of 321,715 seedlings – coffee, fruit trees, assorted forest trees and tress for animal fodder. As a result of this project all households were able to produce more food than the previous season, households involved in apple farming have seen their income increase by 33% while households growing high value cash crops have seen an average increase of 125%. Natural resource management has been a key focus and more and more households are expected to start adopting soil and water conservation measures in the coming year. In addition 17,240 people infected or affected by HIV and AIDS took part in activities including awareness raising and behaviour change. HIV positive members of the community were encouraged to join a support group and were given access to small loans to set up small business activities such as beekeeping, poultry farming and vegetable gardens. Food and livelihoods for people living with HIV/AIDS

File Ref: MYG 038.09/Aid category: Multi Year Grant Beneficiaries: 11,550 Funding requested: £194,127.00 Funding awarded: £67,400.00 This project will empower 350 families living in Morija district of Lesotho to life themselves out of poverty, grow sufficient food and generate income for their needs. Lesotho has the third highest HIV/AIDS infection rate in the world and this has resulted in significant loss of labour and many widows, orphans and vulnerable children needing assistance. This project will build the capacity of 14 community groups of vulnerable farming families so they can manage the project for themselves. Training in sustainable organic agriculture and improved animal husbandry will provide skills needed to increase production from the land in a sustainable manner. Social development workshops will address issues such as gender, health and HIV/AIDS to bring about gender equity, better relationships, and improved health. Training in improved natural resource management will teach families how to reverse the effects of environmental degradation and regenerate soil, land, water and trees. At the end of the first stage of the project significant progress had been made, Group members were growing vegetables and have fresh food to eat, some have managed to sell surplus and are making a little money. The benefits of the project, both social and practical will increase over the next two years. Reducing poverty through improved eye health in the Health for Peace Initiative sub-region File Ref: MYG 118.09/Aid category: Multi Year Grant Beneficiaries:3,270,000 Funding requested: £300,000.00 Funding awarded: 34

£100,000.00 This project aims to develop human resources for health and infrastructure in Gambia and Guinea Bissau within a larger EC funded programme to establish comprehensive, good-quality eye care services to reduce the prevalence of blindness. Support from this project will make a very specific and real contribution towards achieving the overall purpose of this project training and deploying eye care personnel to deliver much needed cataract, trachoma and refractive error services as well as village and schools screening and outreach surgical services to the door step of the rural poor. This project will directly benefit 270,000 mainly women and children and the marginalised and indirectly the general population of the Gambia and Guinea Bissau which is estimated to be 3,000,000 people. Within the first year the grant has supported the training and deployment of 2 cataract surgeons, 1 ophthalmologist, 2 refractionnists, 11 trichiasis lid surgeons, as well as the procurement of relevant equipment including 4 slit lamps, 10 cataract sets, 22 trichiasis sets and 2 autoclaves to address critical issues linked to eye health affected impoverished populations in both countries. “One Game Saves Lives” HIV Education through Football Coaching Project

File Ref: SG 066.10/Aid category: Small Grant Beneficiaries: 6,500 Funding requested: £10,076.00 Funding awarded: £10,076.00 This project was delivered by various Coaches including Isle of Man resident and volunteer Coach Educator Graeme Sears, this team worked closely with volunteers and staff of the local partners. The project took the form of a 5 day Tackle Africa Level 1 coaching course in Kampala and a 4 day course in Ssenyi followed by a 1-2 „Test your Team‟ football tournament. The coaching course, delivered with the support of the Federation of Ugandan Football Associations (FUFA), trained local coaches, schoolteachers and youth leaders in delivering HIV education through football coaching to young people using Tackle Africa‟s manuals and other resources. 20 coaches in Kampala completed an assessed 5 day workshop in delivering HIV education through football coaching and 12 coaches in Ssenyi were reached with a 4 day course. These 32 coaches – including 8 females0 are now engaged in a long term coaching support programme and are expected to reach approximately 2,000 young Ugandans with regular HIV education through football coaching. A total of 638 young people tested for HIV at the tournaments and received counselling about their status. A total of 638 young people tested for HIV at the tournaments and received counselling about their status. Emergency Provision of water and sanitation facilities and distribution of non-food items to Internally Displaced People in Fizi territory File Ref: EMR 003.10/Aid category: Emergency Beneficiaries: 10,644 Funding requested: £36,000.00 Funding awarded: £36,000.00 In April 2009 conflict broke out in Fizi Centre, which led to a sudden and unexpected displacement of approximately 20,000 people. The project aimed to improve access to clean water and reduce the risk of water borne diseases amongst communities. All activities outlined in the project proposal were achieved and Tearfund has successful

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rehabilitated 11 existing shallow wells, constructed 6 new shallow wells, captured and protected 6 new spring sources and constructed 100 household latrines. There were significant rise in costs of certain materials between the proposal submission and the project implementation, for example the cement. The budget for new water points went over budget by £7,097, savings were recovered from support costs to ensure that all proposed activities were achieved and the project was completed within budget. Immunisation for children and pregnant women to reduce under-five mortality rates and to improve maternal health in Liberia File Ref: MYG 069.09/Aid category: Multi Year Grant Beneficiaries:735,000 Funding requested: £297,831.00 Funding awarded: £99,277.00 This project aims to protect children and women in Liberia against preventable diseases providing regular immunisation services to children and women in 200 fixed and 500 outreach sites (targeting 143, 471 children under the age of 1 and 179,338 pregnant women every year over a 3 year period), working with governments, health workers and community leaders to encourage parents to immunize their children. Train 750 health professionals across the nation to build knowledge about immunisation this capacity-building approach which will create a pool of potential trainers, improve the cold chain through the maintenance of 250 solar powered refrigerators so that vaccines are stored safely. Establish waste disposal units in the 6 countries with no waste management systems so that health risks are reduced, as well as providing life-saving vaccines to children and women in Liberia. This project has already enabled hundreds of thousands of children and women to be reached by the nationwide immunisation programme. Liberia Emergency Appeal

File Ref: EMR 034.10/Aid category: Emergency Beneficiaries: 2,000 Funding requested: £50,000.00 Funding awarded: £8,640.00 Continued political turmoil in Côte d‟Ivoire has led to more than 38,000 Ivoirians fleeing to neighbouring Liberia. If current trends continue, there will be 100,000 refugees by the end of April. To date, refugees have been absorbed into host communities in Liberia. This is creating a huge burden on the local population who already have limited resources and are still recovering from years of conflict in Liberia itself.

UNICEF is leading the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), nutrition and education response in Liberia, in addition to playing a major role in child protection and health. UNICEF is urgently seeking funds to increase the provision of life-saving supplies to the most vulnerable children and families caught up in the crisis. Activities include distributing emergency food supplies to children and providing treatment to child with malnutrition. This Project is near completion. Cote D'Ivoire Children's Emergency Appeal

File Ref: EMR 037.10/Aid category: Emergency Beneficiaries: 25,000 Funding requested: £50,000.00 Funding awarded: £50,000.00 In March 2011, the humanitarian impact of continued political turmoil in Côte d‟Ivorie had worsened rapidly, over 300,000 Ivoirians, 60% of whom were women and

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children had been displaced. Basic services including health and education had been paralysed, putting children‟s survival and livelihoods at risk. 1.5 million people had lost access to clean water in the central, northern and western region of the country. UNICEF provided essential life-saving supplies to vulnerable children and families including clean water, sanitation, food, healthcare, protection and education. This project is near completion. Making Pregnancy Safer: Reducing maternal and neonatal mortality in four regions of Ethiopia

File Ref: SG 061.10/Aid category: Small Grant Beneficiaries: 25,600 Funding requested: £78,287.00 Funding awarded: £78,287.00 This project has been extremely effective in addressing the lack of trained health workers. Professional volunteers have provided training and lectures on the key aspects of maternal and newborn health and have provided ongoing professional development both of which were based on the gaps and needs of the students and health workers. The project was focused on the country priority area of maternal and child health and because it was needs based it is envisioned that this will enable the work to become sustainable in the long term. Through forming stronger partnerships with the government it is hoped that the success of the project will be used by the health service. VSO will also contnue to implement maternal and newborn health programmes and will use the learning from this project to inform work in the long term. VSO could not operate in one of the targeted regions as it was too inseucure for volunteers to work and the hospital wasn‟t responsive to the project. VSO worked in the Orommia region instead. Improving access to water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) services in Pujehun and Kenema Districts in Sierra Leone File Ref: MYG 122.09/Aid category: Multi Year Grant Beneficiaries: 28,000 Funding requested: £300,000.00 Funding awarded: £100,000.00 This project directly supported 8,000 vulnerable people to access improved sanitation, and will indirectly support at least a further 20,000 people in the surrounding areas of intervention communities through improved capacity of local government to meet their WASH needs. The project will link with regional learning centres specialising in sanitation and LMDGI to learn from and share experiences gained in this project with other sector stakeholders for the increased benefit of WASH delivery in Sierra Leone. This project has already enabled improved environmental and sanitary conditions for vulnerable, poor and marginalised people. The project has implemented Community- Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in 60 communities, 30 in each Kenema and Pumjehun. This has reached 8,630 beneficiaries (3,630 in Pujehun and 5,000 in Kenema). Beneficiaries are identified as those where communities have already been certified to be of ODF (Open Defecation Free) status. In total 34 of the 60 communities have been certified, so the final beneficiary number is expected to be much higher. Sri Lanka

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YMCAs in Sri Lanka, supported by Y Care International, to provide immediate relief to 3,550 families (approximately 17,750 people) who had been displaced or otherwise affected by the severe floods which had hit the country in January and renewed flooding since early February. The urgent priorities for the YMCA emergency response were to provide essential food and non-food items to those affected, support the cleanup of the area to protect against waterborne diseases and support displaced families to return home. This project is near completion.

Appendix A

Overseas Aid Expenditure 2010 - 2011

Overseas Aid Budget

Expenditure on development aid grants £875,202.00

Expenditure on emergency aid grants and donations £604,120.00

Expenditure on multi-year grants £921,340.47 Expenditure from the Chief Minister‟s Emergency Fund Nil Total Expenditure 2009 - 2010 £2,400,662.474 As a percentage of Gross Government Income5 0.27

4 Spending exceeded the Committee‟s £2.4 million budget owing to the return of funding by Save the Children for a project from a previous financial year. The Save the Children project underspent by £689.83 and this was used for emergency funding by the Committee. 5 Recommendation 2.3.2 of the Council of Minister‟s report „The Policy and Funding of Overseas Aid‟ (June 2008) gives a target for overseas aid expenditure of 0.7% of Gross Government Income (GGI) by 2015. GGI for 2010/11 was £853 million. 38

Appendix B

Definitions of the eight Millennium Development Goals

Projects or programmes supported by the Committee must seek to address the Millennium Development Goals which are the international targets agreed during the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000. These goals, which are to be achieved by 2015, provide a blueprint for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women.

Goal 1 – Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Goal 2 – Achieve universal primary education

Goal 3 – Promote gender equality and empower women

Goal 4 – Reduce child mortality

Goal 5 – Improve maternal health

Goal 6 – Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

Goal 7 – Ensure environmental sustainability

Goal 8 – Develop a global partnership for development

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