Humanitarian Response Fund Ethiopia Credit: Photo by FHE, 2013 Annual Report 2013 Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Annual Report 2013 Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Humanitarian Response Fund – Ethiopia Annual Report 2013 Table of Contents I. NOTE FROM THE HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR ................................................. 2 II. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ................................................................................................. 3 III. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................... 5 IV. HUMANITARIAN CONTEXT ........................................................................................ 7 COUNTRY MAP ................................................................................................................... 9 HRF-SUPPORTED PROJECTS BY REGION (AS OF 31 DECEMBER 2013) .................................. 10 V. INFORMATION ON CONTRIBUTIONS ...................................................................... 11 VI. FUND OVERVIEW ...................................................................................................... 12 6.1.1 HRF ALLOCATION BY SECTOR ....................................................................................... 12 6.1.2 HRF ALLOCATION BY REGION ....................................................................................... 12 6.1.3 HRF ALLOCATION (BY TYPE OF AGENCY AND NUMBER OF PROJECTS) ...................... 13 6.1.4 ACCEPTANCE VERSUS REJECTION RATE ....................................................................... 13 6.1.5 HRF CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HUMANITARIAN REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT ................ 14 6.2 RESULTS OF HRF-SUPPORTED PROJECTS PER CLUSTER/SECTOR ............ 15 VII. PROJECT MONITORING .......................................................................................... 34 VIII. CROSS CUTTING ISSUES ...................................................................................... 36 IX. HRF STAKEHOLDER SURVEY ................................................................................. 39 X. RISK MANAGEMENT .................................................................................................. 40 XI. ACHIEVEMENTS AND CONCLUSION ..................................................................... 41 XII. GLOSSARY ............................................................................................................... 44 1 Humanitarian Response Fund – Ethiopia Annual Report 2013 II. Acknowledgments The Government of Ethiopia government is essential to making the Fund The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian transparent and accountable to all stakeholders. Affairs (OCHA) commends the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) for promoting a collaborative This year, the Board met 27 times to review and environment that enables all humanitarian partners provide funding recommendations to 53 to supports its efforts to provide emergency applications. The Board also reviewed and assistance to disaster-affected populations and to supported no-cost extensions and reprogramming build national capacity for disaster prevention, requests. OCHA acknowledges the contributions mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery and made by International Medical Corps (IMC), whose rehabilitation. Two key events, including the two-year tenure concluded at the end of the year government’s decision to replace the bi-annual HRD and who was replaced by World Vision. with one annual document (released on 24 January Clusters 2014) and the endorsement of the Disaster Risk The HRF gratefully acknowledges the important role Management (DRM) Policy by the Council of played by Cluster leads who are an important Ministers (August 2013) illustrate the government’s technical partner to the HRF. Cluster leads drive the continued commitment to provide a key leadership review process and compile and submit comments role in this arena. on the technical merit of the proposals made by Donors Review Group members. They also provide close OCHA gratefully acknowledges the generous follow-up of the recommendations made to the financial support of donors to the HRF which applicant organizations. Appreciation is also allowed time-critical humanitarian interventions to extended to World Food Programme (WFP) and the support chronic water, nutrition and livelihood United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for needs. Donor funding also alleviated critical vaccine managing the supply pipelines (Corn-Soya Blend shortages for meningococcal meningitis, supported (CSB)/Oil) and Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food regional and national polio immunization campaigns (RUTF) which were critical in ensuring minimum and helped finance the repatriation of thousands of preparedness for rapid humanitarian response. Ethiopian migrants deported from Saudi Arabia and Implementing Partners stranded in Yemen. As in past years, the UK was The HRF could not have fulfilled its mandate without HRF’s largest supporter, contributing 64 per cent of the active involvement of its NGO and UN partners total funds received for the year, followed by the who responded to the needs of disaster-affected Governments of Sweden (10 per cent), Switzerland communities across Ethiopia, helping people and (8.5 per cent) and the Netherlands (8.4 per cent). families to survive and rebuild their lives, and Ireland and Norway who are amongst regular restoring safety, dignity and hope. The active contributors to the Fund also provided funding in participation of HRF partners in ‘peer-to-peer’ 2013. monitoring missions, an essential feature of HRF- Review Board supported projects, was consistently cited as OCHA extends its appreciation to Review Board contributing to the successful outcome of projects members who, through their dedicated participation by facilitating smooth engagement with government in proposal review meetings, ensured a timely and authorities, promoting the achievement of common needs-based response to emergencies throughout deliverables and advancing learning opportunities Ethiopia. The collective effort of Review Board within the sector. members, who include Cluster Leads (UN OCHA Staff and Management Agencies) and representatives from Humanitarian OCHA acknowledges colleagues in the country International Non-Governmental Organizations office (including sub-offices) for their expertise and (HINGOs), the Red Cross Movement, the timely input to project applications, in OCHA Consortium of Christian Relief and Development Geneva headquarters for the valuable Association (CCRDA) and the Ethiopian administrative services they provided, including 3 Humanitarian Response Fund – Ethiopia Annual Report 2013 processing of Memorandum of Understandings York headquarters for the high-level advisory (MOUs) and disbursement of payments, and in services provided to the HRF in the administration Funding Coordination Section (FCS) in OCHA New and management of pooled funds. 4 Humanitarian Response Fund – Ethiopia Annual Report 2013 III. Executive Summary The HRF funding strategy during the first half of promote recovery of livestock conditions and 2013 was to prioritize livelihood interventions, by thereby improved the nutrition status of the linking beneficiary targeting between livelihood widely pastoralist communities. and ongoing emergency nutrition activities in The HRF supported its first stand-alone order to enhance the sustainability of the Education in Emergencies (EiE) project in humanitarian response. This strategy was conflict-affected areas of Meyu and Kumbi revised during the mid-year review of the HRF woredas of East Hararge zone, Oromia Region. as a low funding balance required prioritization The activities provided access to basic of urgent humanitarian needs. education to 7,676 school-age children out of Fifty-three projects valued at US$ 27.9 million which 37 per cent were girls. and covering a wide range of emergency In collaboration with the Department for response activities were funded, including post- International Development (DFID), the HRF arrival assistance to thousands of Ethiopians Section developed the Business Case and Log- from Saudi Arabia and Yemen, support to Frame. The adoption of the Log-frame will malnourished children and the displaced, strengthen OCHA’s partnership with donors and national and regional vaccination campaigns, also potentially inform a standardized emergency WASH projects and ensuring accountability framework for all Country-Based humanitarian air services. The Fund ended the Pooled Funds (CBPF). year with a balance of only US$ 5.7 million, the lowest level in several years. Contributions of Staff support to other CBPF programmes, US$ 2.2 million received in December from the Emergency Response Funds (ERF) and Governments of Sweden and Switzerland Common Humanitarian Funds (CHF), was increased the end of year balance. provided by the HRF during the year. The HRF Manager supported the CHF Somalia During the year, the HRF was the first point of management for six months, while the response for unforeseen emergencies, Monitoring officer provided extended support to particularly during the unprecedented large the ERF in Syria. Such missions are encouraged scale return of Ethiopian migrants deported from as it promotes experience sharing between Saudi Arabia in November. The HRF was the different CBPFs. first to quickly redirect the first tranche of funds from unexpended costs of a previous allocation As part of the UN Board of Auditor’s (BoA) provided