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Operational Plan for the Support of People OPERATIONS PLAN IN SUPPORT OF THE POPULATIONS AFFECTED BY DROUGHT GRAND SUD ANOSY ANDROY AND ATSIMO ANDREFANA 2018-2020 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ACRONYM MEANING AC Community Agent ACN Community Nutrition Agent ACTP Cash for Productive Work ADRA Adventist Development and Relief Association ARC African Risk Capacity ARV Africa RiskView BNGRC National Risk and Disaster Management Office CARE Cooperation and Relief Every where CERF Central Emergency Response Fund CFSAM Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission CNGRC National Committee of Risk and Disaster Management CPC Civil Protection Body (Ministry of Defense) CPGU Emergency Prevention and Management Unit CRENIS/CRENAS Intensive Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre / Ambulatory Centre for Nutritional Rehabilitation and Education CRIC Reflection Committee of Disaster Stakeholders DRAE Regional Directorate for Agriculture and Livestock EAM-SA Comprehensive Multisectoral Evaluation of Food Security ENA Emergency Nutrition Assessment EWS Early Warning System FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FEWSNET Famine Early Warning Systems Network FID Intervention Fund for Development (or Development Intervention Fund) 1 FIP Final Implementation Plan GRC Risk and Disaster Management ICAM Marine animals consumption intoxication IMCI Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (and at community level) INSTAT National Institute for Statistic IPC Integrated Food Security Classification Framework MAG Global Acute Malnutrition MAM Moderate Acute Malnutrition MAS Severe Acute Malnutrition MDG Millennium Development Goal MEN Ministry of National Education MID Ministry of Interior and Devolution MinAE Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock MInSanP Ministry of Public Health MPPFPS Ministry of Population, social protection and women promotion MTM Ministry of transport and meteorology NGO Non-Governmental Organization NVAC National Vulnerability Assessment Committee ONN National Nutrition Office OP Operational Plan PB Brachial Perimeter PEC Nutrition Treatment PECMAM MAM Support SMART Standardized Monitoring and Assessment of Relief and Transitions SNUT Nutrition Unit (MINSANP) SSN Nutritional Monitoring System SURECA Emergency and Response to Disaster Unit TIAC Collective Food Poisoning 2 UE European Union UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund WASH Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene WFP World Food Program WHO World Health Organisation 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 1 GENERAL INFORMATION .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 STATUS OF MADAGASCAR IN TERMS OF RISK .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 6 PURPOSE OF THE OPERATIONAL PLAN ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 2 COUNTRY DROUGHT PROFILE ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 15 GENERAL GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF DROUGHTS .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 15 GENERAL RAINFALL FEATURES OF THE COUNTRY ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 16 SEASONAL AGRICULTURE CALENDAR ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 18 HISTORICAL DROUGHT IMPACT (IN TERMS OF NUMBER OF AFFECTED INDIVIDUALS/CATTLE) .................................................................................................................................. 22 HISTORICAL DROUGHT RESPONSES ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 23 2.6 DISCUSSION OF THE HISTORICAL DROUGHT CONDITIONS, VULNERABLE, AND RESPONSE .............................................................................................................................................................. 24 3 INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 25 3.1 EXISTING NATIONAL POLICIES OR LEGISLATION ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 25 3.2 EXISTING ASSESSMENT PROCESSES .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 26 3.3 CONTINGENCY PLANNING PROCEDURES FOR DROUGHT .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 28 3.4 DROUGHT RESPONSE COORDINATION MECHANISM ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 29 3.5 PROPOSED FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS AND COORDINATION OF ARC PAYOUT ............................................................................................................................................................. 30 4 4 RISK TRANSFER PARAMETERS ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 34 5 SCENARIO DEFINITION AND GEORGRAPHIC COVERAGE ............................................................................................................................................................ 35 DROUGHT MODEL SCENARIOS ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 36 6 INTERVENTION DETAILS ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 37 FIRST INTERVENTION ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 39 SECOND INTERVENTION ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 46 THIRD INTERVENTION ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 54 FOURTH INTERVENTION ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 60 7 M&E FRAMEWORK AND PLAN ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 67 8 PROGRAM RISKS AND ASSUMPTIONS ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 71 9 DEFINITION OF STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES ............................................................................................................................................................. 72 5 1 GENERAL INFORMATION Name of Country: REPUBLIC OF MADAGASCAR Legal representative (permanent Name: GBA RAZAKANAIVO Mamy Nirina secretary/ministry) for plan: Title: EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF THE CPGU Ministry/department: PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE Email: [email protected], [email protected] Telephone: +261 32 02 173 57, +261 20 22 644 72 Focal point (or primary
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