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Conflict and Pandemic Preparedness and Response in Ethiopia Concerning ‘Conflict and Pandemic Preparedness and Response Capacity in Ethiopia’ The proposed Action will contribute to the delivery of a timely and principled humanitarian response to people affected by conflict and COVID-19 in Ethiopia, by strengthening the response preparedness capacity of the ERCS to deliver a timely and principled response to humanitarian needs in conflict and other hazards (including COVID-19). 

In January 2021 the project received a top-up of Euro 500,000 from ECHO for response activities in Tigray. Ethiopia is among countries highly vulnerable to man-made and natural hazards such as conflict, drought, flood, epidemic and pandemic. Conflict and violence in Ethiopia lead to massive displacement and high humanitarian needs. Government reforms have fueled the increasingly ethnically motivated and politicized tensions. There is a high risk that the national election in 2020 will ignite additional outbreaks of violence, likely affecting 3.3 million people nationwide. Moreover, the current COVID-19 pandemic is another risk the country is facing. Humanitarian agencies, including the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS), have minimum preparedness and response capacities in place to meet the immediate needs, while facing increased difficulty in accessing people in need due to shortage of PPEs, security constraints and the politicization of the situation. The proposed Action will contribute to the delivery of a timely and principled humanitarian response to people affected by conflict and COVID-19 in Ethiopia, by strengthening the response preparedness capacity of the ERCS to deliver a timely and principled response to humanitarian needs in conflict and other hazards (including COVID-19). The Action will target the ERCS branches in three regions: Amhara, Oromia and SNNP. Activities address technical capacity, systems and procedures, and logistics and include topics that are critical in a context of conflict and other hazards, such as contingency planning; communication and coordination; safer access and protection, and early warning/early action. By supporting the development and countrywide familiarization of key response preparedness policies and guidelines, the Action also contributes to the ERCS’s overall capacity. Strengthening the Preparedness and Response Capacity of ERCS in particular in Amhara, Oromiya and SNNP regions to deliver a timely and principled response to humanitarian needs of conflict-and pandemic/epidemic (COVID-19) affected populations with unreserved access. 2.290 direct beneficiaries Amhara Regional State Africa ETHIOPIA 
Oromia Regional State Africa ETHIOPIA 
Sidama Regional State Africa ETHIOPIA 
Southern National and Nationalities Regional State (SNNP) ETHIOPIA 
Tigray ETHIOPIA
2021 IFRC Support Emergency Head of Operations Contribution towards Emergency Head of Operations: G00373
Well prepared Red Cross/Red Crescent societies for disaster response: South Sudan The response preparedness programme in South Sudan seeks to reduce the impact of disaster by strengthening the capacities of Red Cross South Sudan through: ensuring a well-functioning national and local response mechanism is in place, relief stocks are strategically positioned and logistically supported, developing human disaster management capacity, and ensuring Red Cross South Sudan has sound operational disaster management plans. South Sudan gained independence in 2011 and has been host to internal conflict and disasters fueled by climate change, and its Red Cross/Red Crescent national society lacks the capacity to adequately response to these emergencies. Reponse preparadness support will be given through training of both Red Cross national and branch disaster management staff, equipment procurement, such as communications hardware and water and sanitation equipment, expanding warehouse storage capacity and transportation vehicles, and development of contingency plans. This programme seeks to provide support to Red Cross staff to help those affected by disaster. The programme in South Sudan is implemented throughout the country.
Living with Floods 2.0 In Mozambique, NLRC is supporting together with local partners and civil society organizations the identification of flood-related risks and the joint development of locally appropriate flood risk reduction measures in the city of Beira (e.g., cleaning storm drains). Vulnerable peri-urban communities in Beira, are dealing with recurring flood risks on a yearly basis. Unfortunately, due to climate change, flood risks and extreme weather events like cyclone Idai are an increasing reality in this low-laying, (peri-) urban area in Central Mozambique. The project, through local partners makes an effort to build community resilience and supporting communities to learn to ‘live with floods’. The project aims to strengthen community capacity in local (water-related) risk management and provide local partners and communities with the means and skills to identify, test, and validate local flood protection measures. As a door-opener, NLRC aims to help communities, local and global partners build partnerships and support viable approaches to water risk management, ensuring that flood-affected communities and local actors are at the center. Central to the approach is the creation of a platform for local stakeholders and communities to open dialogue, facilitate learning, and most importantly, initiate local flood risk reduction actions that are also supported by global actors. The platform is present in the local context, however more on a formal/city level Communities living within Beira (e.g. Munhave Matope) City of Beira, Mozambique
3FM Serious Request 2013: Reducing child mortality due to diarrhoea in Benin The goal of the project is to reduce diarrhoea and water-born disease deaths amongst children under five years of age, create positive behaviour changes around WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene), and strengthen Benin's Red Cross' WASH capacity. In Benin, diarrheal disease accounts for large numbers of child deaths. This is do to poor water, sanitation, and hygiene practices and infrastructures. The towns of Aguégués and Dangbo in Ouémé department are particularly notable in this regard, both having high child vulnerability for waterborne diseases, and poor sanitation and access to safe drinking water. Reduction in under-five mortality due to diarrhoea and water-born diseases is achieved through developing community resilience. Here, activities such as building bathrooms in the most vulnerable households, constructing hand-washing facilities, waste collection, increasing access to drinking water, and focusing on community-related hygiene in mother's clubs and schools are carried out. Additionally, Benin's Red Cross will undergo branch capacity assessments geared towards building aid capacities communities in water and sanitation. The project targets over 40,000 people, including women in mother's clubs and students. The project is located in the Kessounou (Dangbo town) and Zoungamé (Aguégués town) boroughs of the Ouémé department. Aguégués is a town sitting next to the Ouémé river, which floods from August to November. Some of the targeted areas of the project in Aguégués are only reachable by water. Dangbo is similarly water-saturated, with only two of the villages in the project being reachable by land.
Hurricane Matthew 2016, Top up Haiti Sud-Est This project is a top up of Echo project Haïti SUD-EST, to be able to answer on most urgent needs while not jeopardizing running projects (drillings of waterholes). The target areas is suffering immensely from the consequences of Hurricane Matthew. Sitrep 11 from OCHA shows that Sud is the 2nd most hit department after Grand Anse. There are serious needs on Food Security, Education, Health and Nutrition, WASH, Child Protection Early Recovery, Shelter and NFIs. Operation is made difficult through the damaged infrastructure and communication lines. This project improves acces to water by drilling of water holes as a result of a geo hydrological study that proved the presence of water in the area of Grand Gosier. This project is a cooperation with Haiti Red Cross. Grand Gosier, SUD-est region
Conflict and Pandemic Preparedness and Response Capacity in Ethiopia Ethiopia is among countries highly vulnerable to man-made and natural hazards such as conflict,
drought, flood, epidemic and pandemic. Conflict and violence in Ethiopia lead to massive displacement
and high humanitarian needs. Government reforms have fueled the increasingly ethnically motivated
and politicized tensions. There is a high risk that the national election in 2020 will ignite additional
outbreaks of violence, likely affecting 3.3 million people nationwide. Moreover, the current COVID-19
pandemic is another risk the country is facing. Humanitarian agencies, including the Ethiopian Red
Cross Society (ERCS), have minimum preparedness and response capacities in place to meet the
immediate needs, while facing increased difficulty in accessing people in need due to shortage of PPEs,
security constraints and the politicization of the situation. The proposed Action will contribute to the
delivery of a timely and principled humanitarian response to people affected by conflict and COVID-19 in
Ethiopia, by strengthening the response preparedness capacity of the ERCS to deliver a timely and
principled response to humanitarian needs in conflict and other hazards (including COVID-19). The
Action will target the ERCS branches in three regions: Amhara, Oromia and SNNP. Activities address
technical capacity, systems and procedures, and logistics and include topics that are critical in a context
of conflict and other hazards, such as contingency planning; communication and coordination; safer
access and protection, and early warning/early action. By supporting the development and countrywide
familiarization of key response preparedness policies and guidelines, the Action also contributes to the
ERCS’s overall capacity. This Action is a partnership between the Netherlands Red Cross (NLRC)
(lead), ERCS, Danish Red Cross (DRC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Ethiopia - Floods This project sees to the immediate survival needs of the disaster-affected population are met through the provision of essential emergency relief and shelter assistance, targeting a total of 2,103 displaced households (approx. 10,515 people) in Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, rainfall attributed to the kiremt rains, which began on 8 September 2017, has led to extensive flooding. The Ambeira zone in Afar region, and special zones surrounding Addis Ababa (the capital), Jima, South-east Shewa, and South-west Shewa in the Oromia region have been worst affected by the rains and flooding. It is estimated that a total of 18,628 households (93,140 people) have been affected from their homes, of which 7,270 households (36,350 people) have been displaced. The needs of disaster-affected populations will be met through distribution of non food items, shelter assistance, and supporting Ethiopia's Red Cross Society. This project targets 2,103 displaced households (approx. 10,515 people). This project takes place in Ethiopia's Oromia and Afar regions.
Combatting ebola in Nigeria 2014 In seeking to control Ebola and prevent its spread, the Nigeria Red Cross carried out the following activities: beneficiary and social mobilisation, contact tracing and surveillance, and psychosocial support. 2014's Ebola epidemic in West Africa is the largest to date, and the first ever outbreak in West Africa. The epidemic in the region began in Guinea and then spread to the neighbouring countries of Liberia and Sierra Leone. These three countries comprised the heart of the outbreak, having more than 11,000 deaths and over 28,000 cases between them. There were also smaller outbreaks in Senegal, Mali, and Nigeria. Nigeria had 21 Ebola cases and eight deaths, with 891 contacts that were followed up throughout the country. Nigeria was declared Ebola-free on 14 November 2014. Originally, the Nigeria Red Cross targeted five million people with its prevention messaging, which is critical to hindering the spread of the virus, but only 900,000 were reached due to the outbreak being contained early. At the Red Cross-level, volunteers were trained in Ebola prevention methods and deployed to key locations, as were volunteers who provided psychosocial social support for both Ebola survivors and the families of the deceased. Those visited with psychosocial supported reported that the Red Cross was the only organisation that visited them after Ebola was contained in September 2014. The targeted population were people from the communities where contacts were traced. Contact tracing was conducted in areas where there was either a case or a suspected case. The targeted population were people from the communities where contacts were traced, namely Lagos, Port Harcourt, Edo, Enugu, Kaduna, and Oyo.
Conflict in Syria: supporting affected population in Syria 2013-2014 The purpose of this project is provide emergency assistanceto Syrian civilians seeking refuge in Lebanon as result of armed conflict in Syria. Due to substantial human displacement caused by the Syrian conflict in 2011, refugees have spilled over borders, fleeing to Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon. The large numbers of refugees are established in unofficial camps in Lebanon, being scattered across its more than 1,500 municipalities, placing strain on the Lebanese support infrastructure, economy, and on the refugees who settle in already poverty-stricken areas. Providing support to Syrian refugees in Lebanon comes in the form of structural support from the Lebanese Red Cross. This support includes providing ambulance services, and access to emergency medical centres, mobile clinics, and blood transfusion centres. This project supports Syrian refugees and vulnerable members of the host population in Lebanon. This project takes place throughout Lebanon.
Myanmar: Mandalay floods A total of 4,000 households of 20,000 people in Mandalay are affected by the rapid onset flood that was caused by a broken geological sedimentary dike1 on 19 July 2020. Mandalay is an administrative division in central part of Myanmar and lies on the eastern bank of the Ayeyarwady River.
Bangladesh - Cyclone Mora (SEF) The overall objective of the operation is to support BDRCS on early warning dissemination and to ensure that immediate humanitarian needs of 8,000 families affected by Cyclone Mora in six most vulnerable districts among the cyclone catchment area are met through the provision of emergency food, shelter toolkits, safe drinking water and water storage items. On 28 May, 2017, a Signal 1 Level for an upcoming cyclonic storm was declared by Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD). The direction of the depression was heading north- northeast, due to make landfall in the coastal districts of Noakali, Laxmipur, Feni, Chandpur, Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar. The centre of the tropical depression was predicted to head further northeast through the districts of Cox’s Bazar and Chittagong.  
 
In the morning of 29 May 2017, the BMD declared Cyclonic Storm “Mora” with an upcoming wind speed of 88 km/h. The government of Bangladesh declared danger signal number seven (R)2 seven for coastal areas of the above six districts and, in parallel, the Government of Bangladesh declared danger signal number five (R) five in Bhola, Barguna, Patuakhali, Barisal, Pirozpur, Jhalokathi, Bagerhat, Khulna and Satkhira. Later that day, the BMD declared danger signal number ten (R) ten for those 6 districts where the signal number was seven (R) seven.  
 
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) was monitoring the situation and an early action on preparedness meeting was held in the morning of 29 May.  
 
Since the trajectory indicated that the storm would likely hit the south-east part of the country where the displaced persons from Myanmar are currently based, there were serious concerns on the impact that this storm could have on these vulnerable populations. As the probability of an imminent disaster was high, a DREF on early actions and preparedness was requested to support the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) district offices. 
 
The BDRCS with support from German Red Cross (GRC) has been monitoring the development of the tropical depression since 27 May 2017, in consultation with the Climate Centre, independent meteorological institutes and the BMD BDRCS/GRC project of Forecast-based Financing (FbF), and triggered early action for preparedness. This was initiated due to expected wind speeds above 63km/h according to project guidelines, approximately 30 to 48 hours prior landfall This project provides assistance in the form of water, sanitation, and hygiene support, food distributions, and shelter support. This project reaches 40,000 people. Six most vulnerable districts among the cyclone catchment area
Philippines - Measles Outbreak EA The number of cases of measles has been increasing in the Philippines over the past several years, but since late 2018 there has been a dramatic increase in cases nationally. There has been 261 deaths between 1 January and 2 March 2019 in comparison to 202 deaths in 2018. Between 2017 and 2018, there was a 547 per cent increase of measles cases reported nationwide1. This appeal seeks a total amount of CHF 2 million to enable the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to support Philippines Red Cross (PRC) to respond to the current measles outbreaks across the Philippines from March until September 2019. The number of measles cases continues to increase particularly in National Capital Region and isolated provinces. Health facilities and public health institutions are overwhelmed, due to influx of active measles cases particularly among children aged six months to five years. Health, WASH and PGI 260, 000 People Philippines
Bangladesh - Flash Flood Floods in the northeastern part of Bangladesh, and at the same time, floods in the Northern part (adjacent to the Jamuna River basin) of Bangladesh. Torrential rain and incessant downpours from upstream regions since 15 June 20221 have resulted in the worst flooding in living memory in the north-eastern districts of Bangladesh. Cherrapunji and Mawsynram in India’s Meghalaya district, bordering the northeast part of Bangladesh, have registered record-breaking rainfall which has resulted in overflowing of the Surma-Kushiyara river basin and flooded 80 percent of the north-eastern region of Bangladesh..
In the north: monsoon floods are occurring in the northern part of Bangladesh, particularly in the Jamuna River basin area. The flood waters inundated new areas in Kurigram, Jamalpur, Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat, Gaibandha, Bogura, Tangail and Sirajganj districts since 20 June 2022. In the initial response phase, the plan is to reach to more than 300,000 people with multipurpose cash grant, emergency shelter assistance, safe drinking water, hygiene promotion, emergency sanitation, facilities and emergency health service addressing protection issues by ensuring the full integration of Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA) and Protection, Gender, and Inclusion (PGI) considerations. More than 300,000 people Bangladesh
Uganda - Population Movement People fleeing from interethnic violence that erupted in the Ituri and North Kivu Provinces
of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) arrived in Uganda. Interethnic violence that erupted in the Ituri and North Kivu Provinces
of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Health, Shelter, Wash, Protection and PSS Kwangwali Refugees Kwangwali
Project Open Studio Gaza II Open Studio is an after-school recreational center located in PRCS’s Khan Younis Branch “Center of Ability” where both disabled and non-disabled children participate in a variety of activities designed to encourage creativity, self-expression, and exploration. Open Studio was first started in 1997 when PRCS invited a group of Dutch artists to work with local children in Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip, and it has since grown into a vital hub for children in the Khan Younis community. Open Studio has various activity areas, including: a studio for visual arts & puppetry, an art room, a music and dance room, a drama area, a computer room, a general activity and training room, a library, a toy library, and a sports hall/physical activity room. A multidisciplinary team of specialists from the PRCS Rehabilitation Center including a psychologist, social workers, a physiotherapist, and a speech therapist, together with PRCS’s Psychosocial Center staff, support Open Studio staff to work with the children. Across the oPt, 2.4 million Palestinians are in need of some form of humanitarian assistance, around three-quarters of whom live in Gaza. The most vulnerable families urgently need support to cope with the protracted humanitarian crisis. Within these families, the disabled remain among the most hidden, neglected, and socially excluded of all displaced people today. In particular, children with disabilities are one of the most marginalized and excluded groups in society. Facing daily discrimination in the form of negative attitudes, lack of adequate policies and legislation, they are effectively barred from realizing their rights to healthcare, education, and even survival During this project period, Open Studio staff will continue to support disabled and non-disabled children in the local community to play together and express themselves creatively in a safe and fun environment. The focus will be on increasing the children’s skills such as art, drama, creative writing, sports, and music. Children (both disabled and non-disabled) living in Gaza Open Studio, Gaza
EU Migration support Contribution to the Europe regional migration Appeal of the IFRC. Earmarked to the Resource Development delegate costs. Europe zone
Support to global Covid-19 immunisation Covid Immunisation Annex NLRC contribution 2021.
This Immunisation annex focuses on the pressing need of supporting COVID-19 vaccine roll-out globally. ADVOCATE for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines
TRUST: build community trust and acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines and help manage expectations
HEALTH: support the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines in health facilities and during outreach activities
REACH underserved communities
MAINTAIN other immunisation services
Localisation Alliance NLRC Coordination The Localisation Alliance is the consortium that is formed out of the different technical partners cooperating into 1 holistic and coordinated consortium. It exists out of Norcross, SwissRc, KenyaRC, NLRC and the 9 different participating partners. The localisation Alliance has a steering committee and a group of high level ambassadors/mentors and facilitators. The costs related to NLRC coordination fall in this project.