APPENDIX 6
Memorandum submitted by the Disasters
Emergency Committee
I write in response to your request dated 28
March.
The member agencies participating in the appeal
are: ActionAid, British Red Cross, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Concern,
Help the Aged, Merlin, Oxfam, Save the Children, Tearfund and
World Vision. Participation in an appeal follows submission to
the Secretariat of an outline Plan of Action by each agency within
48 hours of the decision to appeal. Plans are scrutinised and
approved by the DEC's Operations Sub-Committee. The outline Plan
is followed four weeks after launch of the appeal by a detailed
Plan and Budget.
To date the appeal has raised an estimated £28
million, of which some £6 million was donated directly to
individual agencies and will be spent by them without DEC involvement.
Remaining funds are collected in the DEC central pool and are
distributed to participating agencies on a pre-determined percentage
shares basis, based on an agreed "Indicator of Capacity".
This is an annual indicator calculated by using the overseas expenditure
of each agency average over the past three years on both diaster
relief (weighted at 100 per cent) and on other forms of aid (weighted
at 20 per cent).
All DEC appeals are subject to independent evaluation.
This is published on the DEC website and hard copies are available
to interested parties. The DEC norm for expenditure of shares
is six months, after which unspent funds are returned to the DEC
pool and distributed on a basis of priority relief needs for as
long as funds hold out.
With regard to agency activities, I attach a
summary of these as advised to us by 8 March based on the outline
48 Hour Plans. The detailed plans are not due until 7 April.
Disasters Emergency Committee
31 March 2000
ANNEX
DEC MOZAMBIQUE FLOODS APPEAL
AGENCY UPDATE: 8 MARCH 2000
| Agency | Areas of Activity
| Update | Response
| Beneficiaries/Co-ordination |
| Action Aid | Maputo—Manhica and Marracuene districts
| | Co-ordination—supported by AAMoz, district emergency co-ordination teams now working well/information sharing
Shelter
Non-food relief—In pipeline (dfid)
WatSan—monitoring and support for upgrading and ensuring hygiene practice improves through PCE programmes
Education—responding to requests to restart temporary school classes
Seeds and Tools—asked by MOA to help national seed distribution—
planting maize by the end of the month
| Working in temporary accomodation centres |
| BRC | Throughout the affected region. Maputo, Beira, Sofala, Gaza, Inhambane. Relief co-ordinator and health delegate in Maputo today.
| Relief co-ordinator and health delegate in Maputo today.
Flights today with non-food relief.
| Non-food relief—45 tonnes of relief goods flying today for immediate distribution and Beira—family flood packs (1,000 families)
Shelter materials
Water purification materials—Health and WatSan Departments in Maputo
Health—oral rehydration salts and malarial treatments—Health Officers in each province
First Aid and basic health care—Red Cross volunteers trained in the dissemination of health and hygiene awareness
Agricultural Support/Home rebuilding—to 5,000 families in Sofala (tbc)
| Working with government agencies in displaced centres around Mapuo/Gaza
|
| CAFOD | Maputo |
| Relief—food (w/WFP), clothing, hygiene
Plastic sheeting/tarpaulins
House reconstruction
WatSan
Agriculture
Relief— (UGC) to 5,000 families
| |
| Christian Aid1, 2, 3 | Gaza Inhambane Sofala Mauto
(prioritised areas being finalised)
| | Shelter and survival kits (blankets, clothing, household items)
Emergency food assistance
Health
WatSan
Agricultural Rehabilitation
Cash for work
Seeds and Tools— (6,000 families)
| Priority target groups—people who have lost their homes and have been resettled/
poorest
|
| Concern | Southern Sofala Province—Buzi district Manica Province—Machese
Maputo—
Manhica,
Maguanine
| Environmental health expert on ground and nurse within 24 hours
| Food
WatSan—rehabilitation of basic water supply and provision of temporary latrines
Shelter
Non-food relief
Seeds and Tools
Hygiene Promotion
Relocation—of 800 to 1,000 families (with government)
| ATAP identified priority families outside of accommodation centres
NGO Save working group headed by SCF (UK) and MSF Spain
|
| Help the Aged4 | Gaza
Maputo
| | Immediate basic needs—food, clothes, blankets, kitchen utensils
Reconstruction materials—building and roofing materials
Revival of agricultural and income generating activities
Training partners and grassroots groups of older people in related emergency preparedness and community organisation skills
| Vulnerable older persons, their carers and wider family members/dependants
|
| Merlin | Assessment team currently identifying needs—in Maputo
| | Public Health—clean water, health care and therapeutic/supplementary feeding etc
Disease control
Basic emergency health needs—control of diarrhoea and malaria reconstruction of health services (medium term)
| Displaced population |
1 Total reported deaths 400 with fears that these will
rise due to increased incidence of cholera, malaria and deaths
due to diarrhoea and dehydration (Christian Aid).
2 Estimated that there are 86 camps established for
displaced with 23,000-30,000 people in the camps (of an estimated
one million affected)—conditions overcrowded and have not
yet received essential supplies and "because until very recently
there were few medical personnel in the camps" there are
serious health problems.
3 The IMF has announced that it will not cancel Mozambique's
debt (US$.3 billion) but will consider suspending its debt service
for one year.
4 Chokwe—5 NGOs/UN agencies in 4 camps (Chokwe,
Chiakelane, Marcia, Bombofo)—WFP, Caritas, RC, Oxfam and
MSF. Food insufficient (WFP) and main diseases attacking older
people are malaria and diarrhoea—they have swollen legs
and eyes with skin infections and look emaciated and weak.
Oxfam—Macia in Maputo (majority of displaced are in Chiaquelane—40,000)
Surveys of Chibuto in the Limpopo and the Save and Buzi river
basins.
Xai-Xai—Working in collaboration with other NGOs to ensure
potable water for flood-affected communities.
With MSF-Spain in Chibuto.
With Unicef in Xai-Xai.
With CARE in Save region.—Search & Rescue—inflatable
boats.
WatSan—potable water, sanitation, hygiene education
Non-food relief—sheeting, buckets, blankets, clothing etc.
Public Health in flood affected communities (20,000 beneficiaries—estimate)—emergency
water tanks, pumping/disinfecting wells, rehabilitation of waters
supply systems, latrines (2,000 built in camps in and around Macia—most
in Chiaquelane
Install UNICEF-provided water treatment plants—Chokwe
Public Health Education—focused on cholera prevention
Distribution of family kits—food and non-food relief supplies
(500 to date)—Focus on displaced populations in MACIA most
affected zone in country—52,000 displaced
SCF—Inhambane—Pande and Save camps
Maputo—Public Health specialist undertaking assessment in
Maputo and Inhambane—looking at Health Information Systems,
cold chain management and malaria.—Food relief—including
food kitchens
Non-food relief—household kits for 20,000 people
Disease surveillance (with Government)
Health—essential drugs (for 30,000 people for three months)
Food security
Family tracing/reunification
Transport and Communications—Health adviser seconded to
Ministry of Health to assist national response
Tearfund—Maputo—Mataluine Chokwe Maputo
North of Save river
Beira—between Save and Zambezi——Blankets/clothing
Food
Non-food relief
Public Health Education
Seeds and tools for agricultural regeneration
Shelter materials for reconstruction
WatSan
World Vision—Maputo
Xai Xai province—Chonguene Manjaposi——Food distribution—up
to 3/3/00 delivered 23 tonnes WFP food aid to 6,500 people (1,700
families) in Inhacutse
Survival Kits—1,500 displaced families (600 delivered—3,000
people)
Recovery Kits—tools for 1,5000 displaced families
Chicumbane, Zonguene
Save River valley—Machanga
Search & Rescue—hired helicopter with private donation
and supplied fuel for boats (with Oxfam and MSF)
Seeds and Tools
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