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Humanitarian Response Fund Ethiopia Annual Report 2014 Office for Coorddination of Humanitarian Affairs 1 | P age CONTENTS NOTE FROM THE HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR ................................................................ 3 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................................................................................... 5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................................. 7 HUMANITARIAN CONTEXT ........................................................................................................ 9 CHAPTER 1 ................................................................................................................................ 12 INFORMATION ON CONTRIBUTORS ................................................................................... 12 CHAPTER 2 ................................................................................................................................ 15 ALLOCATION OVERVIEW ..................................................................................................... 15 2.1 Allocation Strategy ......................................................................................................... 15 2.2 Allocation Breakdown .................................................................................................... 18 2.2.1 Allocation by Agency Type ...................................................................................... 18 2.2.2 Allocation by Location ............................................................................................. 18 2.2.3 Allocation by Sector ................................................................................................ 19 2.2.4 Acceptance versus Rejection Rate ......................................................................... 19 2.3 Fund Performance ......................................................................................................... 20 CHAPTER 3 ............................................................................................................................... 22 ALLOCATION RESULTS ........................................................................................................ 22 Nutrition ................................................................................................................................... 22 WASH ...................................................................................................................................... 26 Health ...................................................................................................................................... 29 Agriculture ............................................................................................................................... 30 Protection (Refugee Response) .............................................................................................. 33 Non-Food Items and Emergency Shelter ................................................................................ 36 Common Services ................................................................................................................... 37 CHAPTER 4 ................................................................................................................................ 40 ACCOUNTABILITY AND RISK MANAGEMENT..................................................................... 40 CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSIONS AND WAY FORWARD ............................................................... 43 CONCLUSIONS AND WAY FORWARD .................................................................................... 43 GLOSSARY ................................................................................................................................ 44 ANNEXES: .................................................................................................................................. 46 2 | Page ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Government of Ethiopia Review Board The Office for the Coordination of OCHA extends its appreciation to Review Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) commends Board members who, through their the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) for dedicated participation in proposal review promoting a collaborative environment that meetings, ensured a timely and needs-based enables all humanitarian partners to supports response to emergencies throughout its efforts to provide emergency assistance Ethiopia. The collective effort of Review to disaster-affected populations and to build Board members, who include Cluster Leads national capacity for disaster prevention, (UN Agencies) and representatives from mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery Humanitarian International Non- and rehabilitation. The Disaster Risk Governmental Organizations (HINGOs1), Management (DRM) – Strategic Programme the Red Cross Movement, the Consortium of and Investment Framework (DRM-SPIF), a Christian Relief and Development tool developed to facilitate an effective Association (CCRDA) and the Ethiopian implementation of the National DRM Government is essential to making the Fund policy, was launched in 2014. A DRM-SPIF transparent and accountable to all Steering Committee and Taskforces have stakeholders. been established to support the Government This year, the Board met 24 times to review in operationalizing the DRM policy and and provide funding recommendations to 38 DRM-SPIF including development of applications. The Board also reviewed and guidelines and operational documents. A supported no-cost extensions and comprehensive risk assessment data for the reprogramming requests. OCHA Woreda Disaster Risk Profile was collected acknowledges the contributions made by from 300 woredas, of which profiles were Save the Children Fund, whose two-year developed for 200 woredas and Contingency tenure concluded at the end of the year and Plans for 50 woredas. who was replaced by HelpAge International. Donors Clusters OCHA gratefully acknowledges the The HRF gratefully acknowledges the generous financial support of donors to the important role played by Cluster leads who HRF which allowed time-critical are an important technical partner to the humanitarian interventions to support HRF. Cluster leads drive the review process chronic water, nutrition and agricultural and compile and submit comments on the needs. Donor funding also supported the technical merit of the proposals made by national effort in controlling the sudden Review Group members. They also provide outbreak of desert locust and help finance to close follow-up of the recommendations kick start the response efforts of made to the applicant organizations. accommodating the first arrivals of South Appreciation is also extended to World Food Sudanese refugees. As in past years, the UK Programme (WFP) and the United Nations was HRF’s largest supporter, contributing Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for managing 74 per cent of total funds received for the the supply pipelines (Corn-Soya Blend year, followed by the Governments of (CSB)/Oil) and Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Sweden (18 per cent), Switzerland (5 percent) and Ireland (3 percent). 1 HelpAge, World Vision Ethiopia and Child Fund. 5 | Page Food (RUTF) which are critical in ensuring achievement of common deliverables and minimum preparedness for rapid advancing learning opportunities within the humanitarian response. sector. Implementing Partners OCHA Staff and Management The HRF could not have fulfilled its OCHA acknowledges colleagues in the mandate without the active involvement of country office (including sub-offices) for its NGO and UN partners who responded to their expertise and timely input to project the needs of disaster-affected communities applications, in OCHA headquarters for the across Ethiopia, helping people and families valuable administrative services they to survive and rebuild their lives, and provided, including processing of restoring safety, dignity and hope. The very Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs) active participation of HRF partners in and disbursement of payments, and in ‘peer-to-peer’ monitoring missions in 2014, Funding Coordination Section (FCS) in an essential feature of HRF-supported OCHA New York headquarters for the high- projects, was consistently cited as level advisory services provided to the HRF contributing to the successful outcome of in the administration and management of projects by facilitating smooth engagement pooled funds. with government authorities, promoting the 6 | Page EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The 2014 Humanitarian Response Fund • 169,417 refugees were supported (HRF) funding strategy prioritized lifesaving through nutrition, WASH, health and interventions with limited engagements in emergency shelter/non-food items livelihood support. Despite significant needs interventions. across all sectors, the humanitarian response in Ethiopia remained underfunded given Complementarity with the Central more high-profile emergencies around the Emergency Response Fund (CERF) world during the year. As a result, the continued. In 2014, the HRF in support of national Humanitarian Requirements the Humanitarian Coordinator facilitated the Document (HRD) was only 58 per cent allocation of $33 million from CERF ($21 funded at the end of the year. million through the Rapid Response window and $12 million from the Underfunded The numbers of HRF donors declined from window). This included a $15 million nine in 2011 to four in 2014 with a donor special CERF allocation to countries income of