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Appeal Coordinating Office

Burundi

Assistance to Returnees AFBI81 Appeal Target: US$ 826,589

Geneva, 10 July 2008

Dear Colleagues,

Returning Burundian populations from neighboring countries require specific support during the return process and in the initial phase of settlement. ACT members in Burundi: CNEB (Conseil National des Eglises du Burundi), LWF (Lutheran World Federation), Burundi Programme and the Province of the Anglican Church in Burundi have come together to respond and assist critical populations in vulnerable situations in a number of provinces in Burundi receiving large numbers of returnees.

The returnees need varying kinds of assistance, and can be loosely classified into the three categories of facilitated repatriates, spontaneous repatriates, and expellees. The facilitated returnees under the UNHCR auspices are given food, non-food items, and 50,000 BIF (US$45). However, the spontaneous returnees and the expellees do not receive this assistance package and are in greatest need of external assistance. Persons in these categories typically arrive in Burundi empty handed with hardly anything to help them to restart their lives. There is no substantial assistance provided to them and they are living in extreme conditions of poverty. According to testimonies by the expellees interviewed by ACT members in Burundi, some expelled persons were threatened, beaten and had their property looted. They claim to have been forcefully evicted from their homes and many of them say they have left part of their families in Tanzania. It is these case loads that members of ACT in Burundi will provide humanitarian aid through this appeal in the sectors of food, seeds, shelter, provision of non-food items and other support to vulnerable population groups in Burundi. This appeal will run for a period of six months ending January 2009.

Name of ACT member/partner:

• CNEB (Conseil National des Eglises du Burundi/National Council of Churches of Burundi) • LWF (Lutheran World Federation), Burundi Programme • Province of the Anglican Church in Burundi

ACT is a global alliance of churches and related agencies working to save lives and support communities in emergencies worldwide. The ACT Coordinating Office is based with the World Council of Churches (WCC) and The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in Switzerland.

Assistance to Returnees – Burundi 2 AFBI81 Project Completion Date: 31 December 2008 (CNEB & LWF) and 31 January 2009 (Province of the Anglican Church in Burundi)

Reporting schedule:

Province of the Anglican Reports due ACT CO CNEB LWF Church in Burundi Final narrative & financial 28 February 2009 28 February 2009 31 March2009 Audit 31 March 2009 31 March 2009 30 April 2009

Summary of Appeal Targets, Pledges/Contributions Received and Balance Requested

Province of the Total Target CNEB LWF Anglican Church US$ in Burundi Appeal Targets 514,976 189,293 122,400 826,589 Less: Pledges/Contributions 00 0 0 Received Balance Requested from 514,976 189,293 122,400 826,589 ACT Alliance

Please kindly send your contributions to either of the following ACT bank accounts:

US dollar Account Number - 240-432629.60A IBAN No: CH46 0024 0240 4326 2960A

Euro Euro Bank Account Number - 240-432629.50Z IBAN No: CH84 0024 0240 4326 2950Z

Account Name: ACT - Action by Churches Together UBS AG 8, rue du Rhône P.O. Box 2600 1211 Geneva 4, SWITZERLAND Swift address: UBSWCHZH80A

Please also inform the Finance Officer Jessie Kgoroeadira ([email protected]) and the Programme Officer Michael Hyden ([email protected]), of all pledges/contributions and transfers, including funds sent direct to the implementers, now that the Pledge Form is no longer attached to the Appeal.

We would appreciate being informed of any intent to submit applications for EU, USAID and/or other back donor funding and the subsequent results. We thank you in advance for your kind cooperation.

For further information please contact: Director, John Nduna (phone +41 22 791 6033 or mobile phone + 41 79 203 6055) or ACT Program Officer, Michael Hyden (phone +41 22 791 6040 or mobile +41 79 433 0592) ACT Web Site address: http://www.act-intl.org

John Nduna

Director, ACT Co-ordinating Office

Assistance to Returnees – Burundi 3 AFBI81 I. REQUESTING ACT MEMBER INFORMATION

The ACT members for this emergency application are:

• CNEB (Conseil National des Eglises du Burundi/ational Council of Churches of Burundi) • LWF (Lutheran World Federation), Burundi Programme • Province of the Anglican Church in Burundi

This is a united appeal for four distinct intervention projects. Because each project has its own unique situation and intervention area, this appeal is broken down into four sections in order to specify the local operational differences.

Christian Aid will not serve as direct implementer for the current appeal, but work through local NGO’s. This agency was involved in emergency application preparation meetings but didn’t prepare its own individual appeal. It however endorsed the present emergency application submission and will participate in the coordination.

The ACT Forum Burundi has set up several mechanisms which will oversee the management of the appeal, using resource sharing, peer monitoring and evaluation, collaboration in reports writing and advocacy. These mechanisms will also allow the ACT Forum Burundi to abide by the different ACT policies such as the Sphere standards, the Code of Conduct on Sexual Exploitation, Abuse of Power and Corruption for staff members of the Forum for a proper implementation of the appeal.

II. IMPLEMENTING ACT MEMBER & PARTNER INFORMATION

Conseil National des Eglises Du Burundi (CNEB) was established in Burundi in 1935. It is represented mostly by the mainstream Protestant churches in the country: the five Anglican Dioceses, the United Methodist Church, the Free Methodist Church, the Baptist Church, the Friends Church and the Kimbanguist Church.

The Council has many years of experience in implementing relief programmes through its network of co- ordinators who are nominated by member churches, and located in all the provinces of the country. Specific rehabilitation and development projects are carried out by particular churches according to their capacities.

LWF has been assisting Burundian refugees in Tanzania since 1993 through TCRS. When the political situation in Burundi began to improve in 2003, and most refugees started returning to Burundi, LWF/TCRS established the possibility of partnering with the Conseil National des Eglises du Burundi (CNEB) for resettlement and rehabilitation work with Burundian returnees from Tanzania in August 2004.

On November 16, 2004, the LWF Standing Committee Meeting approved the development of plans for such an intervention. Cross-border operations were conducted by TCRS in Tanzania, and by LWF in Burundi, in close collaboration with CNEB. The LWF program objectives are to:

ƒ promote a situation of unity and acceptance between returnees and the people in the receiving communities. ƒ encourage the community members to engage in the development in their collines.1 ƒ improve access to social services and contribute to community welfare and reintegration.

The primary focus groups are the marginalized and vulnerable individuals in communities with high percentages of returnees. LWF is conscious that singling out returnees for support activities would be counterproductive to the building of harmony in society, and so assistance was made available to any community members who demonstrated need.

1 The Communes of Burundi are divided into 2,639 collines. Colline means "hill" In French, one of the two official languages of the country. Assistance to Returnees – Burundi 4 AFBI81 Province of the Anglican Church in Burundi. The church has currently five dioceses, and a sixth one is in the process of being created.. Among its main concerns are peace and reconciliation, repatriation of refugees and displaced people, community development, literacy and education, and HIV/AIDS.

III. DESCRIPTION OF THE EMERGENCY SITUATION

Background

Burundi is a small, densely populated, landlocked country in Central Africa with an estimated population of 7.5 millions in an area of 27,834 km2. Since its independence from Belgian colonial rule in 1962, Burundi has faced several waves of inter-ethnic violence and political upheavals which have profoundly impacted both the social and economic fabric of the country. For example, several hundred thousands of people were killed in the 1993 civil war, causing a massive movement of internally displaced people (IDP), and an exodus of 600,000 refugees to neighbouring countries, mostly to Tanzania but also to DRC and Rwanda.

The civil war, coupled with three years of embargo from 1996 to 1999, has deeply affected the local economy. In 2005, the per capita gross domestic product (GDP) of Burundi was $677, placing it 167th out of 177 countries in the world (HDR 2007-08, UNDP). The GDP, increasing inflation and dwindling public revenue, combined with a dramatic drop in foreign assistance, force 58% of Burundi’s population to survive on less than one USD per day. Nearly 90% of the population lives on less than two USD per day. Population density is extremely high, as is the proportion of people under the age of 14 (about 41%). Due to the high mortality rate among men during the conflicts, the number of woman-headed and minor-headed households has increased substantially. Consequently, labor for agriculture is very much depleted and the speed of production recovery severely constrained. Primary school enrolment has plummeted due to the destruction of infrastructure and loss of teachers. Much of the healthcare system and its basic infrastructure have also been destroyed. Disability and death from a number of diseases, including malaria and Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), has increased significantly. Life expectancy decreased from 51 years in 1993 to 42 years in 2000, when only 48% of the population had access to safe water and only 2% to health services.

The thousands of Burundian refugees who fled the country and lived in camps and local communities in Tanzania are now massively returning to Burundi as the political situation continues to improve, and this, unfortunately, is creating a humanitarian crisis. Since the 2005 general elections, Burundi has had a new political environment and the first democratically led government since 1993, which has helped to create a situation that former refugees can return to. The improved security in Burundi was among the reasons for the government of Tanzania to issue a mandate ordering all Burundians to leave Tanzania by the end of 2008. In order to meet this goal, Tanzanian officials are stepping up efforts that began in August 2006 to expel Burundians living outside the refugee camps in Kagera and Kigoma regions, many of whom may qualify as refugees or temporary migrants. Tanzanian authorities have deemed them as “illegal immigrants.” In addition to these refugees and migrants, thousands of others are expected to be expelled. Humanitarian organizations are preparing for this influx. Due to the current influx of former refugees and the anticipated increase of movement, Burundi is challenged to facilitating and assisting this rapid, mass movement of returnees into the country.

Returnees need varying amounts of assistance; they are generally classified into the three categories - facilitated repatriates, spontaneous repatriates and expellees. The facilitated repatriates are given food, non- food items, and 50,000 BIF (US$45) by the UNHCR. The spontaneous repatriates and the expellees do not receive this assistance package and are in greatest need of external aid. Persons in these categories typically arrive in Burundi empty handed with hardly anything to help them to restart their lives. There is no substantial assistance provided to them and they are living in inhumane and extreme conditions of poverty. According to testimonies by the expellees interviewed, some expelled persons were threatened, beaten and saw their property looted. They claimed to have been forcefully evicted from their homes and many of them say they have left part of their families in Tanzania. The expelled persons (including some who were recognised as refugees and others who were naturalized Tanzanians) were thus driven from their homes without any semblance of legal procedure. Most of them were caught far away from their homes and families, transported to the nearest police stations and loaded into trucks to the Burundian border. This situation continues to date. Assistance to Returnees – Burundi 5 AFBI81 The Government of Burundi, through the project for the reintegration of war-affected persons (PARESI), receives and assists the expellees for sensitization, registration and transfer to their collines of origin. The expellees who are without reference and therefore landless have been transferred to the settlement sites and have been provided with a three- month food stock and some basic supplies like a kitchen set, plastic sheeting and clothes for children and mothers. Mwiruzi commune in Mishiha is typically one such settlement site and is discussed in greater detail below under “LWF—Gisuru and Ruyigi.” This process has been going on since February 2007, but assistance has proven to be sporadic and insufficient. Except for the three-month food assistance provided to expellees before their transfer to the receiving communities, the Government and its partners have not clearly defined the needs of the expellees who have joined their collines of origin or the settlement sites. As a result, these expellees are now experiencing food shortages, suffer from a lack of clean and safe water and inadequate shelter, which has led to a rapid spread of illnesses like acute malnutrition, malaria and diarrhoea diseases. Furthermore, they lack the essential non-food items such as clothes, blankets, mosquito nets, soaps, cooking sets etc. The majority of the expellees are women, children, and elderly persons. They have been left behind by the men or were forced to repatriate when the men were out to work in neighboring villages. The families sleep in small 3m x 4m huts, in unsanitary conditions, and are left to the mercy of rain, hunger and illnesses.

The population in general and the children, pregnant and lactating mothers in particular, are negatively affected by this all-encompassing food insecurity and poor living conditions. There is no hope that these conditions of extreme poverty will improve before the end of this year. Since the expellees were not assisted with seeds but only with emergency food supplies they are not expecting to harvest, which will perpetuate the hunger. Those who are the physically disabled, the children and women- headed households and the elderly heads of households are particularly affected by this situation. If these vulnerable groups are provided with assistance, their living conditions will improve until a permanent solution is found. Furthermore, if they are provided with seeds, they will be able to feed themselves by planting and harvesting food during the upcoming, short growing season.

CNEB—Kirundo, Ngozi, Muyinga, and Rutana The provinces of Kirundo, Ngozi, Muyinga (which are situated in the Northern part of Burundi) and Rutana Province (which is located in the South-East of the country) were threatened by nation-wide crises that occurred over the last two decades, and are now being threatened by emergency food insecurity. Thousands of people from these provinces fled the fighting which erupted in 1993, and most went to Tanzania.

Additionally, many persons from the provinces of Kirundo, Ngozi and Muyinga fled to neighboring countries because of widespread hunger caused by drought, in the 2000s. Prior to and during the widespread hunger experienced in the 2000s, in Ngozi province, thousands of Burundians fled this over-populated province since the 1980s for Tanzania to seek cultivation lands and green pastures. Because of the large exodus out of all four of these provinces, they are now among those receiving the largest number of returnees, many of whom are expellees who receive no support from UNHCR. In addition to receiving former residents, the provinces of Rutana and Muyinga are also receiving Burundians who are originally from other parts of the country, thus increasing the number of persons they must care for. Many returnees and expellees prefer to settle in these provinces rather than their provinces of origin because Rutana and Muyinga border the United Republic of Tanzania and have fertile farming lands. The CNEB and its church partners have been involved in emergency assistance to alleviate the poverty and lack of amenities in the communities among the most vulnerable in these provinces since the crisis of 1993. It is now in a privileged position to assist the expellees and spontaneous repatriates.

LWF—Cankuzo and Ruyigi The provinces of Cankuzo and Ruyigi are situated in the Eastern and North-Eastern parts of Burundi, bordering Tanzania in the East and North-East, the provinces of Muyinga and Karusi in the North-West and West respectively and the provinces of Gitega and Rutana respectively in the South-West and South. These provinces have suffered greatly from the Burundi crisis especially those of 1972, 1988, 1991 and 1993. A large number of population sought refuge in Tanzania while others became internally displaced. Thousands of them were settled into refugee camps while some preferred to move to Tanzanian villages around the camps to offer low-wage manual labor to secure additional financial support for their family. Another group of Burundians crossed the border to the neighbouring countries, mainly to Tanzania, in search for cultivation lands, green pastures and employment. Most of them were illegally dispersed in the Tanzanian villages, Assistance to Returnees – Burundi 6 AFBI81 towns and woodlands. These Burundians mingled with the local population through mixed marriages and various other bonds. Many Burundian communities prospered in Tanzania, the majority dealing with farming and breeding, others with trading and business. Some Burundians were granted citizenship which has allowed them to pursue further education, business and other economic activities. Since 1972, these Burundians lived smoothly with local populations in Tanzanian villages even though some local administration leaders and local security guards called “Wanamgambo” or “Sungu sungu”, have from time to time been asking for some money and cattle by way of a bribe on the pretext of the protection of the illegal immigrants. This phenomenon was experienced most often during the harvesting periods.

The LWF Programme for Peace in Burundi covers the communes of Cendajuru, Gisagara and Mishiha in Cankuzo province, and the commune of Gisuru in Ruyigi province. The Government of Burundi, in partnership with UNICEF and Implementing Partners has established reception transit centres along the border with Tanzania. Two of them are in Gisuru in Ruyigi province and in Munzenze in Cankuzo province, and are thus part of the LWF project zone. To date, the LWF project area has received 280 expellee families of which 265 are settled in Mishiha commune, a stunning total of 94.6 percent of the expellees in all of LWF operational zone. Two factors explain the extraordinary popularity of this commune. Firstly, over 30,000 Rwandan refugees (around 90 percent of the commune population) have been residing in Mishiha commune since 1959. They returned to Rwanda after 1994 when the Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF) seized power, thus freeing up most of the fertile lands. The Mishiha commune has therefore attracted a lot of returnees; it now has a low population density as well as favourable land and climate conditions. Secondly, in 1984 the Government of Burundi decided to create a national park alongside the Ruvubu River, forcing thousands of families from the commune of Kigamba, which borders Mishiha, to leave their lands. Most of them fled to neighboring communes or to Tanzania, in search of farming lands and greener pastures. They hope to return to the same lands as before, and thus often settle in Mishiha commune.

Province of Anglican Church of Burundi—Makamba and Bururi The Provinces of Bururi and Makamba are situated in the South and South-West of Burundi. Those areas suffered greatly from the South War of 1972 during which many residents fled en masse to Tanzania. In addition to the population influx in Tanzania, more residents fled during the 1993 conflict. Of all returnees, more than 50 % of the are from the communes of Nyanzalac, Makamba province and Rumonge, Bururi province. The reintegration will be very hard for many of the returnees due to the many years of war which have divested social infrastructures and disrupted services in the communes. During an assessment by the Province of Anglican Church, most of the spontaneous repatriates and expellees interviewed said that they did not regret returning to Burundi, but they did complain about their bad living conditions: lack of food, bad shelter conditions, poor health care, lack of schools materials, difficulties related to access to land, etc.

These returnees’ poor living conditions are worsened by the increasing food insecurity throughout the country, and specifically in the regions of Moso and Imbo. Most of the proposed intervention area is part of these threatened regions. According to a May food security rapid assessment conducted by a joint mission organised by FAO, WFP, and the Ministry of Agriculture in the provinces of Kayanza, Cankuzo, Ruyigi, Muyinga, Makamba, Gitega and Karuzi, the expected food production from the B season will be poor. In fact, a household survey revealed that of all legume crops grown, 30% of those crops are damaged, and that of all cereal crops grown, 23% of those crops are damaged.

Concerning the food availability, the country is facing a generalised significant increase in food prices. FAO representatives indicate that food production will decrease to 40% in Buyogoma and 60% in Mosso from season B expectations.

IV. DESCRIPTION of the SITUATION in the AREA of PROPOSED RESPONSE

CNEB Kirundo, Ngozi, Muyinga, and Rutana The provinces of CNEB proposed response are Kirundo, Ngozi, Muyinga, and Rutana, and these provinces are among the ones receiving thousands of returnees. These returnees include facilitated repatriates, spontaneous returnees and expelled persons. As stated above, facilitated repatriates are given UNHCR assistance to enable them to restart their normal lives into their receiving communities. However, the spontaneous repatriates are not assisted by the UNHCR and they live in extreme conditions of poverty. Concerning the expellees, apart from clothes on their bodies, they arrive with nothing. These persons lack Assistance to Returnees – Burundi 7 AFBI81 essential things such as kitchen materials, clothings and bedding. As the Government and its partners are not providing assistance to alleviate the suffering and extreme poverty of the spontaneous repatriates and expellees, their vulnerability is worsening daily. Because the government is not providing assistance to this group, in December 2007 CNEB provided bean and maize seeds to returnees through the emergency ACT appeal.

While the assistance was appreciated, and did improve the living conditions of these people, the needs are still great. Furthermore, many of the current spontaneous and expelled returnees did not receive these seeds as they arrived after the seeds distribution. Due to the droughts and heavy rains of the 2008 crops were damaged and even those who received CNEB seed assistance didn’t get good harvests.

Currently, the four provinces targeted by the proposed CNEB response are heading to a food shortage since the food production will significantly decrease compared to last year due to droughts. For example, the province of Rutana was renowned for its food production during the past years. The head of the Provincial Agriculture and Livestock Direction announced on the May 24th that, the expected harvest from the current B season will be 60 to 80 percent lower than last season’s harvest. Thus, the population is in need of emergency food assistance.

During the needs assessment conducted by the CNEB and its partner churches on field, the returnees asked to be provided with maize and bean seeds for the C planting season as well as non- food items.

LWF—Cankuzo and Ruyigi The settlement site of Mishiha commune hosts expellees and is in a desperate situation. The accessibility to potable water is limited to one water source shared by both sites and the nearby village. The temporary shelters are built on plots of 15m x 20 m and sized of 3m x 4m, too small to hold families of five members. Other expellees are scattered throughout all the communes of LWF project, in their collines of origin and are living in similar conditions as those in settlement sites.

A needs assessment conducted by LWF on a sample of 30 households showed that 75 percent didn’t have any assistance except medical assistance since their transfer from the transit sites; 85 percent of the interviewed have hardly one meal per day and five percent of the expellees preferred to return to Tanzania to escape hunger despite of the ill-treatment awaiting for them over the border. Seven percent have improved shelter and only six percent of the interviewed households received mosquito nets, which means that most of the vulnerable are exposed to diseases like malaria.

The severity of the emergency is apparent in their extreme poverty-stricken living conditions, with cold, hunger, illnesses and lack of basic materials. The assistance provided up to now is not enough to cover the needs of the expellees. Most of the non-food items distributed like plastic sheets and jerry cans were sold to purchase food stuff for the families. The insufficient shelter and the hostile environment coupled with the lack of clean water and food resulted in the spreading of illnesses like malaria, skin diseases and diarrhoea. Ten percent of the expellees are not able to provide the labor due to their health and family conditions. This group includes the physically disabled, widows, orphans, elderly persons and unaccompanied children, who, in addition to their vulnerability, are heads of households. Most of them are forced to beg for food from their neighbors in order to survive. All the families with school aged children asked for assistance on school material. While their children have access to primary schools, their parents are not able to provide school material like uniforms, notebooks, pen and pencils, to enable them to study in humane conditions.

The nutritional situation is alarming. In February 2007, the Government distributed farming plots to the landless expellees. While they immediately ploughed, they could not sow because they did not receive seeds. According to the information from the expellees contacted at the site and confirmed by PARESI and the local administration, the assistance they have received from October 2007 onwards has consisted of two hoes, one plastic sheeting, 11 kg of rice, 15 kg of maize from PARESI, 10 kg of beans and 10 kg of maize of poor quality seeds from a national NGO Solidarité pour la Promotion de l’Assistance et du Développement (SOPRAD).

Assistance to Returnees – Burundi 8 AFBI81 In a May focal point meeting held in Ruyigi, FAO representative advised provincial authorities to write a memorandum to be sent to the UN to win eligibility for direct food, seeds and farm implements assistance. According to the WFP May report, the prices key commodities including foodstuff have increased compared to 2007: bean prices have increased 52% and cassava flour prices increased 22%.

According to the expellees’ needs assessment conducted by LWF, 89 percent currently have cultivation lands and are ready to farm if they were provided with agriculture inputs, but 75 percent of the population is currently selling their labour to generate income for their family. They are organized into associations to provide labour but lack support to initiate sustainable emergency livelihood. Instead of engaging in emergency livelihood recovery, the expellees now walk more than five kilometres in search for the milling or sewing services and are paying too much whereas they could manage these activities in the site at reasonable prices and save additional resources if they were supported.

While some seeds and agriculture material were provided in the past, most of the cultivation plots distributed to the expellees are poor and need to be improved with fertilizers. The Government allocated plots of land of 50 m x 100m for cultivation in February 2008. These lands were immediately cultivated but all the expellees were able to plant was cassava, which will only be ready for harvest after February 2009. There are also available marsh lands near the site that would be cultivated for the coming C planting seasons if seeds and cuttings are provided. Furthermore, while the region of the expellees is one of the rare regions with natural vegetation these expellees have destroyed tens of hectares for the construction of sites for fire wood requirements. This situation is worsened by using charcoal making as a source of additional income. The expellees are thus facing imminent manmade disasters if nothing is done to stop the environmental destruction.

Despite the complexity and severity of the emergency that expellees face in the LWF operational communes there is no adequate funding response to provide for emergency livelihood recovery for the expellees. Based on the assessment conducted by LWF which shows that expellees are living in conditions of extreme poverty, and taking into consideration that the expellees possess no capacity whatsoever to survive in the long term, LWF Burundi is issuing the present emergency appeal for emergency livelihood recovery.

Province of Anglican Church of Burundi—Makamba and Bururi Makamba and Bururi are the target intervention areas for the Anglican Church of Burundi. Most of the Burundians returning to this area are those who fled in 1972 and lived in permanent settlements (often referred to as the Old Settlements) in Tanzania. After being out of the country for as many as 36 years, the biggest problem facing the 1972 group is recovering or locating land and houses. There has been and will be conflict over land and house ownership, as land and houses returnees claim are oftentimes occupied by someone else. Reasons for difficulty in recovering land and homes are numerous, and include the following: - Their neighbors may use force to keep them from recovering what the returnees claim - The Government may have facilitated land occupation for land exploitation - Siblings of the returnees may have bought the land from the refugees - The refugees may have sold their lands before they went into exile and may want to dishonestly recuperate the property as they return home.

Returnees need basic material assistance from external sources to make it through the return phase as it has become an emergency situation. Unlike the repatriates who are coming from Tanzanian camps, these Old Settlement returnees experience land problems at their return to Burundi, in addition of the problems of extreme poverty and vulnerability. We propose that seeds should be provided to the returnees. This seeds assistance will allow them to be grow and produce while land issues are being resolved by the "Commission Terre et Autres Biens" ( a national land and other belongings commissions in charge of solving such problems). Seeds will provide returnees with needed items to begin the process of feeding themselves to improve their livelihoods. This assistance cannot be provided by the government as it does not have the capacity to distribute these items, so it needs to come from external sources

Impact on human lives in the area of proposed response

CNEB—Kirundo, Ngozi, Muyinga, and Rutana Assistance to Returnees – Burundi 9 AFBI81 The major issues that affect returnees include food shortage, lack of basic materials such as cooking materials, and clothing, especially for the expellees’ whose children are even naked. Seeds are needed to enable them to produce more food for the coming seasons. Expellees and spontaneous repatriates are exposed to cold and mosquitoes which leads to the spread of illnesses such as malaria and respiratory track infections among the returnees, especially among children and pregnant and lactating mothers.

LWF—Cankuzo and Ruyigi The flushing out movement of the Burundians from Tanzania and the disruption of social ties and sense of community in this post conflict period is a challenge for Burundi and has a negative impact on the expellees’ life and livelihood. Their traditional ways of living and their traditional industry have been undermined. They were evicted from homes and their properties were confiscated. They have lost their economic assets and any other form of wealth to lead a normal life. The pregnant and lactating mothers as well as children present signs of malnutrition and 55 of them were admitted to the different nutritional rehabilitation services according to health facilities’ records in LWF operations zone. The health facilities’ morbidity statistics show that expellees consult mostly for drugs and services for the sicknesses linked to the poor living conditions. The main pathologies are malaria, diarrhea diseases, gastroenteritis, worms, malnutrition, skin conditions, etc. The most vulnerable to these diseases are children, pregnant and lactating mothers and elderly. Concerning these vulnerable, the site comprises 42 women headed households, 28 children under 16 years of age who are the heads of households, 16 handicapped persons, and 45 elderly headed households.

The summary of the vulnerable is outlined in the table bellow:

Women Heads of the Children Heads Elderly Heads Handicapped households of the households of households persons Total 42 28 45 16 131

Provinces of Anglican Church of Burundi—Makamba and Bururi The returnees in Bururi and Makamba are mostly affected by land and houses issues as well as food crisis and illnesses. Many of them are from the Old settlements of 1972. The local administration agreed to temporary allocate cultivation lands to these returnees. They are currently receiving food assistance from NGOs but are in urgent need of seeds assistance for the C planting season to enable them to produce for their food self sufficiency, as the Government is progressively addressing the land, houses and other economic assets issues.

Description of the damages in the area of proposed response

CNEB—Kirundo, Ngozi, Muyinga, and Rutana The insufficient rains of end April- starting May seriously damaged crops and mostly affected the natural regions of regions of the proposed response area. According to the report from a FAO, WFP and MINAGRI joint mission report conducted in mid May, 30 % and 23 % of the surveyed households have respectively their legumes and cereal crops damaged. Expected production will decrease to 80 %- 60% in most of the areas of proposed response.

LWF—Cankuzo and Ruyigi The insufficient rains of end April- starting May seriously damaged crops and mostly affected the natural regions of the proposed response area. According to the report from a FAO, WFP and MINAGRI joint mission report conducted in mid May, 30 % and 23 % of the surveyed households have respectively their legumes and cereal crops damaged. Expected production will decrease to 80 %- 60% in most of the areas of proposed response.

The expellees’ settlement site was established on a bush and wooded zone thus completely destroying around 5 hectares of natural vegetation. The temporarily shelters construction and fire wood requirements have caused deforestation and many other serious damages to the environment. The clearing of the cultivation Assistance to Returnees – Burundi 10 AFBI81 lands destroyed around 50 ha of the vegetation. As said above, this deforestation is worsened by the expellees’ charcoal making which they do to get money for their survival. The major issue that affects returnees include food shortage, lack of basic material like cooking material to cook the little food they were able to produce, the clothes especially for the expellees’ whose children are even naked. They really need seeds to enable them to produce more for the coming seasons and therefore restart their normal lives. Expellees and spontaneous repatriates are exposed to cold and mosquitoes which leads to the spreading of illnesses such as malaria and respiratory track infections among the returnees in general and in children, pregnant and lactating mothers in particular.

The Province of Anglican Church of Burundi—Makamba and Bururi Like in other parts of the country, the rains were insufficient from the end of April to Mid May. Crops were seriously damaged specifically in the natural regions of the proposed response area which are Imbo and part of Kumoso. According to the report from a FAO, WFP and MINAGRI joint mission report conducted in mid May, 30 % and 23 % of the surveyed households have respectively their legumes and cereal crops damaged. Expected production will decrease to 80 %- 60% in most of the areas of proposed response. The food production will decrease 60% Mosso (Rutana, Muyinga) and 40% in Buyogoma from the from B season expectations.

Security situation in the area of proposed response There are no major security constraints that would hamper the appeal implementation in proposed response provinces except some theft reported sporadically. Standard security precautions will be taken for the better implementation of the appeal. The distribution sites as well as other appeal activities are accessible because roads are relatively well kept and passable. The communication by telephone is possible for all the eight provinces through Burundian UCOM, ONAMOB and AFRICEL networks. For some areas bordering Tanzania especially for the province of Makamba, Rutana, Cankuzo, Ruyigi and Muyinga, communication is possible through Tanzanian CELTEL network.

V. TARGETED BENEFICIARIES

Location for the proposed response

As stated in the appeal requesting member information, the appeal was designed as a joint appeal for four rd distinct intervention areas. In fact, after an ACT forum Burundi meeting held on June 13 , it was proposed that each ACT forum Burundi member participating in the application covers provinces where it has a maximum presence for implementation, including staff presence or existence of current programs in order to maximize the response effectiveness and efficiency. LWF is in a good position to intervene in the provinces of Ruyigi and Cankuzo where it is running a program for peace; EAB plans to intervene in the communes of Nyanza Lac and Rumonge in the provinces of Makamba and Bururi because it has a strong presence in that region; CNEB has a strong experience working in the provinces of Muyinga, Kirundo, Ngozi and Rutana. Furthermore, the appeal design took into consideration the inputs of the expellees and recent repatriates during the needs assessments conducted in the different zones of intervention. The findings showed that each area has its own unique situation and therefore needs a unique intervention. Several strategies are however in place to oversee the joint management of the appeal (see Project Implementation Methodology below).

CNEB—Kirundo, Ngozi, Muyinga, and Rutana The CNEB will intervene in all the communes of the provinces of Rutana, Muyinga, Kirundo and Ngozi. The provinces of Ngozi, Kirundo and Muyinga are situated in the North of Burundi whereas the province of Rutana is located in the South-East of the country. The three provinces of Rutana, Muyinga and Kirundo border Tanzania in their Eastern parts. All these provinces were seriously threatened by the Burundi crises and their populations fled the fighting, the hunger or the poverty. These provinces are now receiving a large number of returnees. Among the returnees are spontaneous repatriates and expellees, who are assisted neither by the UNHCR nor by the other Government’s partners, like the facilitated repatriates.

LWF—Cankuzo and Ruyigi Assistance to Returnees – Burundi 11 AFBI81 The first group of expellees are located in Mwiruzi settlement site, located in Munzenze zone, in Mishiha commune of Cankuzo province. The settlement is permanent and is established on a plain and non fertile land. The site was constructed one kilometer from Munzenze village which holds the office of the zone, a health centre, a primary school and a local market. The expellees don’t have to walk longer for health and education services.

The second group is of expellees spread throughout communities in the communes of Cendajuru, Gisagara, and Mishiha communes in Cankuzo province and Gisuru in Ruyigi province. All these communes are bordering Tanzania and are expected to receive many returnees.

LWF Burundi is active in these communes and works as a development facilitator within local communities in general, and returnees in particular. It is a witness of the problems and endemic needs that expellees are experiencing daily. LWF in partnership with the National Council of Churches in Burundi, CNEB, is implementing an ongoing program for peace in these communes and has assessed the needs of these expellees.

The Province of Anglican Church—Makamba and Bururi The Province of the Anglican Church of Burundi intends to intervene in the Dioceses of Makamba, Bururi and Bujumbura, in the administrative provinces of Bururi and Makamba. Those areas are facing a very big challenge concerning the repatriation movement which is still going on. Most of the repatriates and expellees are from the communes of Rumonge (Bururi province) and Nyanza-lac (Makamba province) which are the neighboring of the United Republic of Tanzania. The region experienced a severe crisis in 1972. Today, the Government of Tanzania is pushing for Burundians living on its soil to return Home. The Province of the Anglican Church of Burundi wants to contribute to the government effort in assisting the returnees and would like to be involved in the assistance of a targeted number of 4000 families of recent expellees and spontaneous repatriates throughout the provinces of Makamba and Bururi.

Target groups CNEB—Kirundo, Ngozi, Muyinga, and Rutana The CNEB target group for this assistance is 9,580 households of spontaneous repatriates and expellees from mainly Tanzania, but also those from Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Number and group Province Returnee Male Female Total households persons Kirundo 2,292 5 277 5 750 11,027 Muyinga 2,353 6 120 6 725 12,845 Ngozi 2,785 5 502 5773 11,275 Rutana 2,150 4 520 4 724 9,244

Total 9,580 HHs 21 419 22 972 44,391

Criteria for selection The field coordinators of the CNEB Churches partners, in conjunction with the CNEB Principal Coordinator, visited the provinces of proposed response to assess the needs of the spontaneous repatriates and expellees.

At the same time, beneficiary selection criteria were set up in close collaboration with the beneficiaries committee, the local churches leaders and the local administration representatives. Criteria selection took into consideration the Sphere Standard. The Selection criterion is: ƒ Being Burundian expelled or spontaneous repatriate from Tanzania, Rwanda and DRC within the last two years.

Number of beneficiaries according to proposed assistance i) Seeds, cuttings and vine Province Total Seeds Returnee Beans Maize HHS Kirundo 2,292 34,380 kg 14,460 kg

Muyinga 2,353 35,295 kg 11,765 kg

Ngozi 2,785 41,775 kg 13,925 kg

Rutana 2,150 32,250 kg 10,750 kg

TOTAL 9,580 143,700 kg 50,900 kg ii) Non Food Items

Province Total Blanket Jerry can Cooking Plates Cups Soaps Returnee Pans HHS Kirundo 2 292 6 876 pcs 4 584 pcs 4 584 pcs 4 584 pcs 4584 pcs 4 584 pcs

Muyinga 2 353 7 059 pcs 4706 pcs 4 706 pcs 4 706 pcs 4 706 pcs 4706 pcs

Ngozi 2 785 8 355 pcs 5 570 pcs 5 570 pcs 5 570 pcs 5 570 pcs 5 570 pcs

Rutana 2 150 6 450 pcs 4 300 pcs 4 300 pcs 4 300 pcs 4 300 pcs 4 300 pcs

Total 9 580 28 740 pcs 19 160 pcs 19 160 pcs 19 160 pcs 19 160 pcs 19 160 pcs

Note: The quantities were calculated on a family basis as follows: Seeds: 15 kg of beans, 5 kg of maize, Other non food items Blanket: 3 pieces per family Jerry can: 2 pieces per family Cooking pans: 3 pieces per family Plates: 2 pieces per family Cups: 2 pieces per family Soap: 2 pieces per family

LWF—Cankuzo and Ruyigi The targeted population for this project will be mainly the expellees as direct beneficiaries but the whole receiving communities will also benefit indirectly.

Number and group The present appeal aims to support 280 families of 1,336 persons all expelled from the United Republic of Tanzania. These persons include 579 children less than 16 years of age, of whom 28 are head of households, 391 women of whom 42 are head of households, 314 men and 52 elderly of whom 45 are head of households and 16 handicapped persons.

Location This appeal targets the expellees living in the LWF operation communes from the Eastern provinces of Cankuzo and Ruyigi. The details on the expellees, beneficiaries of the present appeal are outlined in the table below:

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The expellees, beneficiaries of the present appeal in LWF interventions zone:

Commune Total Total Women Men Total Children Elderly expellees Families children Girls Boys Cendajuru 38 6 8 4 24 15 9 2 Gisagara 33 7 10 8 12 7 5 3

Mishiha: Scatted in villages 820 171 262 226 309 168 141 23 Mwiruzi settlement 433 94 108 74 227 118 109 24 site Total for the commune 1253 265 366 300 536 286 250 47 Gisuru 12 2 3 2 7 4 3 0 1336 280 391 314 579 312 267 52 Total

Criteria for selection The selection criteria were set up by the LWF staff in collaboration with the expellees’ representatives, the receiving community representatives, and local authority leaders. All the expellees need food, seeds and basic materials, potable drinking water, and adequate shelter and emergency livelihood to reconstruct their lives. However, returnees were categorized into three groups according to their needs and ability.

ƒ The expellees living in their communities of origin, in their properties and families ƒ The landless expellees living in the settlement site of Mwiruzi. ƒ The women, children and elderly heads of households and physically disabled persons from the two first categories who are the most vulnerable.

The first category needs food, seeds, cassava cuttings, cultivation tools and small livestock assistance for the two coming seasons. Even though they are in need of food assistance, they share the little food that they receive.

The second category needs food assistance as well as agriculture inputs and other basic materials like cooking sets, beddings, mosquito nets, clothes, and school materials, etc. The plots for cultivation distributed by the Government are of poor soil quality. The appeal will provide organic fertilizer for the C planting season while the expellees will be taught how to make fertilizer in their communities. Small livestock like goats will be distributed and followed up so that the expellees get manure, meat, and extra income in the future.

The third category is of the most vulnerable and therefore needs particular attention. Even though seeds and cultivation material assistance is provided, many of them are not able to cultivate or to work for their living. They are in a constant need of extra money to reach self-sufficiency. The appeal will enable them to initiate the small scale income generating activities like small business, sewing and milling machines to the most vulnerable groups organized into associations. Technical support, varying and depending on the livelihood chosen, will be provided to the associations for its better management and action sustainability.

A needs’ assessment was carried out by the LWF in that area. This appeal is based on the field compiled needs expressed by the expellees, the receiving community representatives and the local administration.

Number of beneficiaries according to proposed assistance

Food items LWF Project area Food Expellees households Total expellees Cereal Legumes Oil Salt Assistance to Returnees - Burundi 14 AFBI81

280 1,336 40.5 MT 20 MT 6.1 MT 3 MT

Agriculture assistance Small animals Seeds, seedlings, cuttings and fertilizer Goats Animal Cereal Legumes Cassav Potato Vegetables Organic Chemical drugs a Fertilizer fertilizer 280 heads 280 sets 5.6 MT 5.6 MT 5,6 MT 5, 6MT 8.4 kgs 47 MT 3 MT

Non food items; Milling Sewing Mosquito Hoes & School School Clothes Blankets Cooking sets machine machine nets machetes uniform Kits

2 pcs 10 pcs 840 pcs 840 pcs 200 pcs 1000 560pcs 840 pcs 280 sets kits

Note: Calculations of quantities are based on the following: ƒ Food for each family could consist of 30 kg of cereals; 15 kg of Pulses; 2.25 liters of cooking oil and 0,50 kg of salt of food per month for 3 months while cultivation starts. ƒ Each family will receive 1 goat plus a set of animal vaccines ƒ Seed and fertilizer distribution depending on the area of land cultivated/repaired by the respective families. Seeds assistance could consist of 20 kgs of cereal (15 kg of maize, 5 kg of rice, 5 kg of sorghum); 20 kg of legumes (15 kg of beans, 5 kg of ground peanuts); 10 kg of cassava cuttings; sweat potato cuttings, mixed vegetables seeds of 30 grams for home gardening, 1 MT of organic fertilizer and 60 kg of chemical fertilizer while expellees are leaning how to produce organic fertiliser in their communities.

Province of Anglican Church of Burundi—Makamba and Bururi Number of target households: 4,000 households of recent expellees and spontaneous repatriates in the provinces of Bururi and Makamba.

Number and group: Province Returnees Total Individuals Male Female Total households returnees Bururi 2,000 8,550 4,150 4,400 8,550 Makamba 2,000 9,300 4,408 4,892 9,300

Total 4 000 17,850 8,558 9,292 17,850

Criteria for the selection: The field coordinators of the Dioceses of Makamba, Matana in conjunction with the Provincial Coordinator officer visited the provinces of proposed response to assess the needs of the returnees. At the same time, beneficiary selection criteria were set up in close collaboration with the beneficiaries committee, the local churches leaders and the local administration representatives. Criteria selection took into account the Sphere standards. Selection criteria were defined as follows:

ƒ Being expelled from Tanzania, within the last two years; ƒ Being spontaneous repatriated from Tanzania, Rwanda and Congo within the last two years, who didn’t beneficiate of assistance.

Number of beneficiaries according to proposed assistance

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Improved seeds and cuttings

Province Returnees Total Improved Improved sweat Vegetable seeds households returnees beans seeds potatoes cuttings Bururi 2,000 8,550 30 000 kg 80 000 kg 60 kg

Makamba 2,000 9,300 30 000 kg 80 000 kg 60 kg

Total 4,000 17,850 60 000 kg 160 000 kg 120 kg

Note: Each family will receive the following amount of seeds: 1. Seeds: 15 kg of beans; 2. Cuttings Sweet potatoes: 40 kg in a bundle. 3. Mixed vegetable seeds 30 grams per households

Criteria of selection Province of Anglican Church of Burundi’s partners Union Baptist Church and United Methodist Church, the local administration, beneficiaries among them male and female, will select the most vulnerable group among the returnees from Rwanda and Tanzania and other members of the community. Those to be selected will be persons without any shelter and those with shelter covered with grass thatching. Those also eligible are the physically disabled persons, orphans, single mothers, widows and the elderly.

VI. PROPOSED EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE & IMPLEMENTATION

CNEB—Kirundo, Ngozi, Muyinga, and Rutana

Overall Objective: To contribute to the improvement of the food security and the socio- economic reintegration of the non assisted returnees in the provinces of Kirundo, Muyinga, Ngozi and Rutana.

Specific objectives: ƒ To contribute to the food security improvement among the spontaneous repatriates and the expellees’ households recently returned from Tanzania in the CNEB proposed response area. ƒ To enable the spontaneous repatriates and expellees recently returned from Tanzania to maintain a minimum of comfort and hygiene with basic domestic items assistance in the 4 provinces of the proposed response.

Activities The CNEB will undertake the following activities in order to achieve the proposed objectives: ƒ purchase non-food items through tendering committees, to ensure the quality, quantity and availability checking (warehousing and costs) from at least three companies. ƒ hire guards and warehouse and ensure the better stocking and security conditions of the purchased items, ƒ check the lists of the selected needy beneficiaries and inform of the distribution sites and times in advance ƒ provide logistics support and distribution of items based on selection criteria agreed upon, carry out peace and reconciliation messages to groups gathered at the distribution points, ƒ prepare reports on the distribution monitoring following each distribution.

LWF—Cankuzo and Ruyigi

Goal To provide emergency livelihood assistances to the expelled persons returning to LWF operational areas. Assistance to Returnees - Burundi 16 AFBI81

Objectives ƒ To provide food assistance to the expellees in order to improve their nutritional status ƒ To provide agriculture input to improve food security and promote food security among expellees families in LWF operations zone. ƒ To initiate small scale livestock to allow the expellees to improve the cultivation land soil fertility, to provide animal origin proteins to their children and mothers and to create capital income. ƒ To initiate emergency livelihood to the expellees most vulnerable households to enable them to reconstruct their lives. ƒ To restore the environment in and around the IDP camps by planting trees and train the returnees on environment and DRR

Activities The main activities consist of purchasing food items and distributing them to the expellees, as well as procuring agriculture inputs. Some other activities include the procurement of basic non-food items such as mosquito nets, clothes and blankets; cooking sets, school uniform for children. Milling and sewing machines will be initiated and start up funds and will be provided to the most vulnerable associations in order to improve their livelihood. LWF will continue to mobilize the returnees in order to encourage them to participate on the community development initiatives, they will be sensitized on food security; environment protection and DRR, conflict management, nutrition, HIV AIDS etc. These mobilization activities will be conducted by the LWF community facilitator on field. LWF would furthermore introduce fast growing agro forestry and fruit trees to reforest the settlement site at Mwiruzi and would mobilise expellees for environment and Disaster Risk Reduction.

The appeal furthermore seeks to facilitate the purchase and the distribution of small livestock to the expellees so that they get organic fertilizer and meat for the families. The appeal would enable the most vulnerable organized into associations to improve their income by running small businesses and managing the milling and sewing activities. The returnees will also need semi-permanent and adequate shelter, more potable water sources as well as basic material and school material for their children.

Fortunately, LWF has already gathered some funds for this and will address decent housing and clean water through its DCA/DANIDA program in the summer. All these activities will serve as a contribution to other actions conducted by LWF project or other interveners in other sectors such as food security, gender issues, health and nutrition, HIV/ AIDS, water and sanitation etc. in order to maximize the action impact.

The present appeal aims to help the expellees in LWF project zone to restart normal lives, to start the food production for the self sufficiency and to participate in the socio economic development. To achieve the objectives, some specific activities will be undertaken: ƒ Purchase and distribution of food items, ƒ Purchase and distribution of agriculture inputs, ƒ Purchase and distribution of the non-food items, including, mosquito net, cooking sets, clothes and blankets, ƒ Purchase and distribution of the goats, ƒ Procure and distribute of the milling and sewing machines and provide start up funds and sets, provide small business start up funds and technical support for the better management and sustainability of the most vulnerable association livelihood recovery. ƒ Establishment of two nurseries for the reforestation of the settlement site and sensitization on environment ƒ Capacity building sessions on livelihood management, emergency preparedness, HIV/AIDS, nutrition, good heath practices, ƒ Peace building and reconciliation among the returnees committees.

The reforestation of the settlement site as well as the introduction of the agro-forestry should restore the good environment conditions in and around the settlement. The present appeal proposes to introduce new fast growing agro-forestry trees and fruit trees in order to cope with the environment deterioration, to manage adequately the disasters and to allow the expellees to have firewood, fruits and construction material in the future. Two nurseries, one for fruit trees and another for agro-forestry trees will be established at the settlement to provide seedlings to the expellees. They will be mobilized and trained on environment and Assistance to Returnees - Burundi 17 AFBI81

DRR management. The appeal will provide expellees’ children with school material and clothes in order for them to be able to resume their studies.

The food and seeds distribution activities will start as soon as the appeal is approved and funded. The other non food items distribution activities will be completed within six week after the Appeal approval funding whereas the complementary activities like the environment restoration and capacity building and sensitization sessions will gradually be implemented for a period of 6 months and will be integrated in the ongoing Peace programme activities.

Province of Anglican Church of Burundi—Makamba and Bururi

Overall Objective: The overall Goal of this project is to contribute to the strengthening of the livelihoods and the socio- economic reintegration of the expellees and the spontaneous repatriates in the target areas of Makamba, and Bururi provinces.

Specific objectives: ƒ To contribute to the food security improvement among the recently spontaneous repatriates and expellees’ households in the proposed response area; ƒ To build the capacity of 180 trainers in emergency contingency to the target areas of this project.

Activities: The specific activities for specific program outputs are: - Seeds distribution: a) the 4 000 target people participatory selected will have access to seeds. b) distribution of different types of seeds, c) training of trainers in contingence situation

Project implementation methodology

The ACT appeal implementers will work in a partnership based on the following principles of partnership endorsed by the global humanitarian platform on equality, transparency, result oriented approach, responsibility and complementarity. They will also work in line with the Memorendum of Understanding of the Burundi ACT members which is now being finalized. Moreover, efforts will be made to further expand the already existing collaboration within the ACT Forum Burundi members. The four implementer partners will work closely on the following areas in order to maximize the impact of the appeal action:

Resource sharing: Regarding logistics, members of the ACT Forum Burundi will continue sharing assets and other facilities whenever possible. The same efforts will be made when processing procurement. The appeal bid invitation, the envelopes opening, the selection of the suppliers and the items quality control will be jointly done by the four implementers.

Advocacy: ACT Forum Burundi members are raising attention to the Government, local and international NGOs, UN agencies and various Churches, on the emergency situations and the ACT response. As expellees and repatriates currently consitute the major relief beneficiaries who need both emergency and transitional development interventions, advocacy will continue to address challenges on their livelihoods improvements and proper social integration. All interventions will abide by the ACT policies.

Gender mainstreaming: this special issue has been taken into account from the design phase on and will continue throughout the implementation and evaluation stage. The assessment took into account the diverse needs of women and men. The teams which will implement distributions will be gender balanced as well and most of the beneficiaries will be women. Sensitisation on gender will continue as a cross-cutting issue during the implementation of the appeal.

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ACT policies including Sphere standards and Code Of Conduct On Sexual Exploitation, Abuse Of Power And Corruption for Staff Members of the ACT International Alliance were taken into consideration in the designing of the appeal, and will be used for the implantation, monitoring and the evaluation in the communities. Under the present appeal, CNEB will take the lead to conduct training and refresher sessions on Sphere for staff and other partners involved in the implementation.

The Code of Conduct on Sexual Exploitation, Abuse of Power and Corruption was disseminated to all ACT Forum Burundi staff members. However, some partners might not be aware of it. Under the present appeal, these policies and other humanitarian aid standards will be translated into Kirundi and disseminated to other collaborators such as local churches, administration leaders, etc. All ACT Forum Burundi members will adopt a peer monitoring approach to ensure that this policy is being used during relief operations.

CNEB—Kirundo, Ngozi, Muyinga, and Rutana The ultimate responsibility for the implementation of the appeal activities verse on the CNEB Principal Coordinator. Prior consultations with the beneficiary representatives, the local church leaders and the local administration were conducted to set up the beneficiary selection criteria and to identity the most needy, to assess the returnees’ needs and to design the appropriate response activities.

The CNEB will implement the appeal activities in conjunction with its partner churches on the field. The CNEB emergency, humanitarian and development office will handle the procurement, the transportation and the coordination of the appeal activities including the monitoring, evaluation and reporting. The CNEB churches partners on field will supervise the beneficiary list checking, will organise and supervise the distribution activities. The CNEB and its churches partners will conduct the distribution in close collaboration with all the stakeholders.

LWF—Cankuzo and Ruyigi All assistances will be used to ensure maximum participation of the rights bearers in an effort to secure self- reliance at the end of the intervention period. The LWF will handle the implementation of both hardware and software activities of the present appeal activities. These activities include the logistics; the procurement, and the distribution of the food items, agriculture input, goats, milling and sewing machines and other basic non-food items on one hand, and the capacity building on livelihood initiatives management, mobilization on HIV /AIDS, environment protection and peace and reconciliation activities at the other hand.

The target beneficiaries of the appeal activities participated in the needs assessment and the conception of the project took into account their ideas and outputs. Their participation in the implementation of the project was defined according to the ability for each target category. Those physically able will provide labor for the nurseries establishment and management, those with physical difficulties will help the LWF staff on the distribution of food and non food items as well as on the beneficiaries’ registration verification.

Food will be distribution will be organized with the involvement of the communities and will consist of a group system where the beneficiates take the lead in ensuring that which individuals received a fair amount. Further more agriculture inputs such as seeds and fertilizer will only be provided to household as per actual type and actual land tilled or prepared. Our Agricultural Technical staff will supervise to ensure maximum returns of the inputs provided.

All the expellees and the receiving communities will participate on HIV/AIDS, environment education and protection, DRR and good health practices awareness sessions.

Special issues such as gender, HIV/AIDS, peace and reconciliation, environment protection etc were taken into consideration for the better planning and implementation of the project.

Meetings will be held with the local authorities and the expellees’ representatives to discuss about the appeal implementation process.

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The overall identification phase and management of the program used project cycle management methodology. The proposed response is based on the results from an assessment conducted at field level. Extensive consultations with the targeted communities and administration took place in order to identify roles, responsibilities and expected outputs and define the long- term strategies for sustainability. Our approach will seek to empower primary stakeholders to design their own action plans and to have an effective ownership of the program. This will allow us to develop a proactive approach and to determine issues that are not necessarily in the immediate scope of the proposed program that may have an impact on further activities and then help to identify alternatives.

Input for the implementation

CNEB—Kirundo, Ngozi, Muyinga, and Rutana Four members of the CNEB emergency, humanitarian and development office are trained on emergency assistance and SPHERE project and are available for the appeal activities implementation. One pick up is available for the appeal activities supervision, monitoring and evaluation. The partner churches field coordinators and their assistants are trained on the SPHERE projects and available for the implementation of this appeal.

LWF—Cankuzo and Ruyigi The logistics, the livelihoods and the Community facilitation departments will be available for this project. The project coordinator will the field implementation and the Country Representative will guide the whole action. A pickup truck will be available for the necessary transportation support to the project.

Province of Anglican Church of Burundi The Province of Anglican Church disposes of a strong field presence and experienced emergency workers, logistics, training materials and specialist trainers in contingence situation available for the implementation of the appeal.

Planning assumptions, constraints and prioritisation

CNEB—Kirundo, Ngozi, Muyinga, and Rutana The main risks and assumptions are listed below: The prices of key commodities and other input are changing significantly due to the surge of the fuel prices and the inflation of the Burundian money. Another risk is that the appeal is funded late whereas more needy returnees would have been arrived in our working area.

LWF—Cankuzo and Ruyigi The main assumption during the planning period is that the security and climate remains good for the implementation of the appeal, and that the number of expellees doesn’t drastically increase. Another assumption is that the appeal is approved and fully funded immediately so that food, seeds and basic material are procured and distributed as soon as possible, not altering the operational area in the rapidly deteriorating conditions.

The main constraint for the planning period is that LWF is not able to know the exact number of expellees in LWF intervention zone when the appeal will get funded since the expelled persons arrive on an irregular basis.

If the project is not fully funded, or if the number of returnees drastically increases, the project will review the activities to emphasize on the most vulnerable.

Province of Anglican Church of Burundi—Makamba and Bururi ƒ The security situation remains stable and allows movement to sites of the appeal; ƒ Effective beneficiaries emerge and are adequately organised; funds are totally and timely allocated and improved inputs and materials are timely procured; ƒ Active participation of the target population and others stakeholders; ƒ Large population movement; ƒ A lot of returnees, pushed people a lot of needs and poor Funds; Assistance to Returnees - Burundi 20 AFBI81

ƒ Significant changes in prices of key commodities and others inputs; ƒ Unfavourable weather conditions; ƒ Commodities available on the markets ƒ The general assumption is that the assistance activities can start in July, and will last a maximum of six months.

Implementation timetable

CNEB—Kirundo, Ngozi, Muyinga, and Rutana

Activities Month Jul. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. 1. Training on SPHERE standards X 2. Meeting with coordinators, checking the lists of beneficiaries, invite bids and opening bids, ordering X X articles, renting stores and storage. 3. Distribution schedule, items transportation to the X X X provinces, communication of the distribution schedule to the stakeholders, distribution of the food and NFI 4; Peace and reconciliation messages X X X X X 5. Monitoring and evaluation X X X X X X 6. Field distribution reports, reports compilation, narrative and financial report preparation X X X X X 7. Final report submission X 8. Audit X

LWF—Cankuzo and Ruyigi. Activity Month

July Aug Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.

1. Food purchase and distribution X X X 2. Agriculture inputs , distribution and farming activities X X X X X follow up 3. Goats purchase, distribution and breeding follow up X X X X X 4. Grinding and sewing machine procurement and fixing X X 5. Start up funds and sets providing X X 6. Nurseries establishment and management and X X X X X X reforestation 7. Capacity building on livelihood management, X X X X X X environment management, emergency preparedness, HIV/AIDS, nutrition, and good health practices etc. 8. Livelihood initiatives supervision X X X X X X 9. Expellees’ sensitization and mobilization on peace X X X X X building and reconciliation. 10. Monitoring and evaluation X X X X X X 11. Audit X

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Activity Month

Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan

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1. Meeting with Administration authorities, UNHCR, X others relief organisations and Diocesans staff, checking the lists of beneficiaries, invite bids and opening bids, ordering items 3. Capacity building X X X X X 3. Distribution schedule, Communication distribution X X X X schedule to the stakeholders, items transportation to the Dioceses and distribution to the beneficiaries. 4.Field distribution reports, reports compilation, narrative X X X and financial report 5. Monitoring and evaluation X X X X X 6. Final report submission X 7. Audit X

Transition or Exit strategy

CNEB CNEB will implement this appeal in an operational area where it has a strong presence for a number of years. CNEB will cooperate with partner churches present in the area and will use its development agents in the area to conduct capacity building training and provide long term support to the beneficiary communities, including the returnees and expellees.

Province of Anglican Church of Burundi—Makamba and Bururi Supporting activities will be undertaken to promote a responsible transition and exit strategy. These activities will include advocacy, capacity building, linking the targeted communities to the Government structures, etc.

LWF—Cankuzo and Ruyigi The LWF Programme for Peace in Burundi is implemented in the area of the targeted beneficiaries. It will therefore provide long term support to the expellees as part of the communities served by LWF Burundi interventions.

VII. ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE

CNEB—Kirundo, Ngozi, Muyinga, and Rutana The appeal activities will be managed from the CNEB emergency, humanitarian and development office. The CNEB Principal Emergency Coordinator and his team will be responsible for the administration, financial transactions, logistics and procurement. Under the CNEB supervision, the partner churches’ teams will be directly responsible for the field items distribution.

The CNEB will collaborate with LWF for the bids invitation and local suppliers’ selection. Each distribution team will have to report to the CNEB, which will compiles both narrative and financial reports from all the provinces and thereafter prepare the final report to be submitted to ACT headquarter.

LWF—Cankuzo and Ruyigi Reporting on the appeal implementation on field is the responsibility of the Emergency Field Officer. He will report to the project coordinator and his concerned staff for logistic and administration issues, who will submit their report to the country representative. The country representative will coordinate with the other ACT forum members to prepare consolidated narrative and financial reports for submission to ACT CO.

Province of Anglican Church The field activities will be managed by the Dioceses of Bujumbura, Makamba and Matana. The Diocesans development coordinators will be responsible for the management of this appeal’s activities. The Provincial development officer and the finance manager based in Bujumbura will supervise its implementation. The Dioceses, the technical departments of Government at field level and local communities will work together in the implementation of the project. A separate account will be finally opened for this project as recommended by ACT and auditor.

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VIII. MONITORING, REPORTING & EVALUATIONS

Peer monitoring and evaluation: members of ACT Forum Burundi has already set up regular meetings to share experiences, challenges and best practices. Through these meetings suggestions for further actions to provide the best services are made and followed up. Specifically for this appeal all partners will conduct peer monitoring and evaluation through field staff exchange visits during the implementation. Comments and suggestions for future improvements will also be discussed in the ACT Forum meetings.

CNEB—Kirundo, Ngozi, Muyinga, and Rutana The CNEB emergency humanitarian and development team will carry out monitoring and evaluation activities during all the appeal implementation period. An external independent evaluator will be hired to evaluate the activities implementation as well as the appeal impact on the beneficiaries.

LWF—Cankuzo and Ruyigi LWF will hire a temporary experienced Emergency Field Based Officer for the daily monitoring and supervision of the appeal implementation, as the action consists of varied activities requiring more care and follow up in all the communes of LWF operations. He/she will work in close collaboration with the LWF Community facilitators, the LWF livelihood (agriculture technicians) and logistics department staffs in order to maximize the appeal action’s impact. The monitoring work will be guided by the project coordinator, who will make regular field visits for this purpose.

Province of Anglican Church of Burundi—Makamba and Bururi Continuous field monitoring and evaluation will be done by field staff and parish committees permanently on the field and on a day to day basis in contact with the farmers. All the information regarding the progress of the program towards the objectives will be compiled in the final report from the Province and will be shared with other members of ACT Burundi. The information on numbers of beneficiaries, items and quantity distributed size of land cultivations, productions; impacts will be compiled each quarter. Act forum Burundi will set up a working group for supporting the field staff on monitoring and evaluation at area of intervention.

Reporting schedule:

CNEB and LWF ƒ Final narrative and financial reports due at ACT CO by 28 February 2009 - within two months of end of project. ƒ Audit report to be received by ACT CO no later than 31 March 2009 - within three months of end of project.

Province of Anglican Church of Burundi ƒ Final narrative and financial reports due at ACT CO by 31 March 2009 - within two months of end of project. ƒ Audit report to be received by ACT CO no later than 30 April 2009 - within three months of end of project.

IX. CO-ORDINATION

Coordination within the project

CNEB—Kirundo, Ngozi, Muyinga, and Rutana The diocesan development coordinators of the churches partners will be responsible for coordinating activities at the provincial levels. The CNEB principal coordinator will be responsible for the coordination of the present appeal implementation in the four provinces of the proposed response.

LWF—Cankuzo and Ruyigi Under the supervision of the respective country representative, and the Project Coordinator, the Emergency Field Officer will be responsible for coordination at project level, particularly with the agriculture and logistics departments and finance staff, and concerned local partner agencies. Assistance to Returnees - Burundi 23 AFBI81

Province of Anglican Church of Burundi—Makamba and Bururi The implementation is done through partners (churches, Dioceses) and coordination is needed to reach a harmonised response. Under the supervision of the respective head of organisations, the program managers, Diocesan Coordinators will be responsible for coordinating the implementation at partner field level, particularly in regard to the procurement procedures, quantities per person/household, etc.

Coordination with the other ACT members

CNEB, LWF and The Province of Anglican Church of Burundi The CNEB organised an ACT forum Burundi coordination meeting on March 13 rd to discuss among other issues the repatriates and expellees’ situation, especially in the provinces bordering Tanzania. It was agreed by all ACT members that an appeal was required and should be focussed on returnees’ assistance. In relation to this appeal, all partners shall continue to coordinate with other ACT members for the better implementation of the appeal activities. At each monthly ACT meeting, each actor will report and present the progress. The partner will share data and experience on best practises. The ACT forum will act as peer evaluation and monitoring mechanism. Even Christian Aid, partner whom is not part of this appeal will participate in the coordination and monitoring of the activities.

Coordination with other organisations in the area of intervention

CNEB, LWF and The Province of Anglican Church of Burundi.

All the NGOs, CSOs, Church leaders and Government are aware of this emergency situation. It has been discussed in different meetings, but the challenge is the lack of a platform of interventions after leaving the transit centres when they are already in the communities or settlement sites. To ensure visibility of ACT, the Forum will collectivelly, but in stages, inform local partners like churches, UN agencies and Government officials once funding is secured. As far as advocacy is concerned, ACT Forum Burundi will also continue seeking for collaboration and contribution from other local partners to address other returnees’ challenges like sexual and gender based violence, land issues, judiciary assistance to name but a few.

ACT Forum Burundi will coordinate with the Government authorities and other interveners like CARE international, WFP, and other relief NGOs in order to maximize benefits from the appeal. This project is part of the joint appeal of the ACT Burundi forum, and close coordination will be undertaken with other ACT members for the implementation of this project. The partners attend all coordination meetings where they discuss the implementation of the project. Coordination with other organisations in the area of monitoring, evaluation, reporting and auditing will be done to minimise costs and give opportunity for peer learning process. Coordination with government authorities, FAO, WFP, HCR and other relief NGOs will be undertaken at provincial and community levels.

X. BUDGET

CONSEIL NATIONAL DES EGLISES DU BURUNDI

Description Unit/type Unit Unit Total

Number cost USD Budget USD Seeds Beans kilos 143,700 1.00 143,700 Maize kilos 50,900 0.60 30,540 Sub-total seed 174,240 Non-food items Blanket piece 28,740 5.00 143,700 Jerry can piece 19,160 3.00 57,480 Assistance to Returnees - Burundi 24 AFBI81

Cooking pans piece 19,160 3.00 57,480 Cups piece 19,160 0.40 7,664 plates piece 19,160 0.40 7,664 Soaps piece 19,160 0.30 5,748 Sub Total Non-food items 279,736 Transport Items Transportation fees 20 tones truck 26.0 1,000.00 26,000 Warehouse rental month 300 3.00 900 Loading/ unloading lumpsum 1,000 Fuel coordination vehicles liters 1.8 1,000.00 1,800 Subtotal Transport 29,700 Administration costs Guards persons 3 100.00 300 Coordination meetings meetings 4 250.00 1,000 Training on SPHERE standards lumpsum 5,000.00 5,000 (facilitators and materials) Communication fees lumpsum 1,000.00 1,000 Independent monitor lumpsum 1,000.00 1,000 Stationery lumpsum 3,000.00 3,000 Head of project month 6 700.00 4,200 Logistician month 6 400.00 2,400 Secretary month 6 400.00 2,400 Accountant month 6 700.00 4,200 Driver month 6 300.00 1,800 Audit lumpsum 5,000 Sub total Administration costs 30,300

TOTAL CNEB 514,976

LUTHERIAN WORLD FEDERATION

Description Unit/type Unit Unit Total

Number cost USD Budget USD Food Maize kilos 20,250 0.60 12,150 Rice kilos 20,250 0.75 15,188 Beans kilos 10,000 1.00 10,000 peas kilos 10,000 1.20 12,000 Oil kilos 6,100 1.50 9,150 Salt kilos 3,035 0.50 1,518 Sub-total Food 60,005

Improved seeds, cuttings and fertilizer

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Rice Kilos 1,400 0.80 1,120 Maize Kilos 4,200 0.60 2,520 Beans Kilos 4,200 1.20 5,040 Ground peanuts Kilos 1,400 1.20 1,680 Mixed Vegetables Kilos 8 80.00 672 Cassava cuttings Kilos 5,600 0.03 168 Sweat potatoes vine Kilos 5,600 0.03 168 Chemical fertilizer Kilos 3,000 1.20 3,600 Organic fertilizer ( including Kilos 43,000 0.30 12,900 transportation) Sub-total Improved seeds, cuttings and fertilizer 27,868

Improved small livestock Goats heads 280 40.00 11,200 Goat drugs sets 280 5.00 1,400 Sub-total Improved small livestock 12,600

Other non-food items Hoes piece 840 2.00 1,680 Machete piece 840 1.50 1,260 Mosquito nets piece 840 2.00 1,680 Blankets piece 840 8.00 6,720 Cooking sets set 280 50.00 14,000 Clothes piece 560 10.00 5,600 School uniform piece 400 8.00 3,200 School Kits kits 1,000 5.00 5,000 Sub-total Other non-food items 39,140

Livelihood Start up Sewing machines and start up sets piece 10 500.00 5,000 Milling machine purchase, fixing and piece 2 3,500.00 7,000 start up fuel Start up for small commerce association 4 1,000.00 4,000 Sub-total Livelihood Start up 16,000 Environment Two nurseries nursery 2 4,000.00 8,000 Sub-total Environment 8,000 Administration costs Distributions fees (including Lumpsum 3,000 3,000 transportation contribution) Fuel Liters 2.00 1,000 2,000 Office rent (contribution) month 6.00 300 1,800 Bank charges month 6.00 200 1,200 Communication month 6.00 150 900 Assistance to Returnees - Burundi 26 AFBI81

Office supplies month 6.00 100 600 Sub total Administration costs 9,500 Staff salaries Representative month 6.00 500 3,000 Project coordinator month 6.00 250 1,500 Finance Officer month 6.00 150 900 Casher month 6.00 100 600 Logistician month 6.00 150 900

Storekeeper month 6.00 100 600

Agronomist month 6.00 250 1,500 Community mobilizer month 6.00 150 900 Emergency ACT officer ( 100% paid month 6.00 600 3,600 from the appeal budget)

Driver month 6.00 100 600

Sub total Staff salaries 14,100

Audit fees 2,000

TOTAL LWF 189,213

PROVINCE OF ANGLICAN CHURCH OF BURUNDI

Description Unit/type Unit Unit Total

Number cost USD Budget USD Improved Seed Assistance Improved sweet potato seeds Kg 160,000 0.03 4,800 Improved bean seeds Kg 60,000 1.20 72,000 Vegetable seeds Kg 120 80.00 9,600 Subtotal 1 86,400 Logistics Costs Renting trucks truck 8 1,000.00 8,000 Sacks piece 3,000 1.00 3,000 Fuel for vehicles Liter 600 2.00 1,200 Subtotal 2 12,200 Capacity Building Accommodation fees of beneficiaries Persons 180 30.00 5,400 (3 days) Training materials Kits 6 10.00 60 Transport for participants (2 times) Persons 180 20.00 3,600 Facilitators fees ( for 3 days) Facilitators 6 300.00 1,800 Subtotal 3 10,860 Loading Costs Distribution costs Distribution 8 30.00 240 Assistance to Returnees - Burundi 27 AFBI81

Communication costs Lump-sum 1 1,000.00 1,000 Administration costs Lump-sum 1 5,000.00 5,000 Emergency coordinator (2 months) Month 2 600.00 1,200 Accountants Month 2 1,500.00 3,000 Independent evaluation Lump-sum 1 1,000.00 1,000 Subtotal 4 11,440 Audit fees Lump-sum 1,500 1,500 TOTAL PROVINCE OF ANGLICAN CHURCH OF 122,400 BURUNDI

BALANCE REQUESTED: CNEB, LWF &

PROVINCE OF ANGLICAN CHURCH OF 826,589 BURUNDI