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Nutrition sensitive livelihood support to drought affected pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in selected woredas of Afar and SNNP Regions FAO proposes to provide livelihood and life-saving support to pastoral, agro-pastoral, smallholder farming communities affected by the current drought in Afar and SNNP Regions. Support will focus on providing crop seed, livestock feed, water and veterinary services. This is believed to reduce the need for forced sale of household assets, help maintain household food security, reduce under-nutrition and protect life. In particular, FAO and its partners will vaccinate 600,000 animals, treat 200,000 for parasites and infections, provide fodder for 6,000 animals, rehabilitate 7 water points, train 56 community leaders, and distribute seeds and planting materials to 10,723 households. Some 280,635 people will benefit from these activities.
Safe water supply, improved sanitation and hygiene practices in Nugaal, Mudug, Middle Shabelle, Banadir, Gedo, and Lower Juba regions in Somalia With this joint project, UNICEF and IOM propose to provide WASH services to 164,150 people in several regions of South-Central Somalia and Puntland, including 84,200 IDPs and 79,950 people from host communities. UNICEF and its partners will build or rehabilitate water points to provide sustained access to drinking water for 69,400 people, install WASH facilities at 22 schools and health facilities, distribute WASH hygiene kits to 42,000 people. This includes the rehabilitation and extension of five strategically located boreholes, establishment of 16 solar-powered water supply systems, and rehabilitation of 56 shallow wells.
Réponse d’urgence aux besoins sanitaires de base  des populations affectées par la crise nigériane dans la région de Diffa au Niger WHO is proposing to provide health facilities in Diffa, Nguimi and Maine Some with emergency health kits as well as trauma kits designed to meet primary health care needs of a displaced population.  Further, due to high rates, diagnostic kits for malaria and cholera will also be supplies.  With high risk of measles in bordering areas in Nigeria, WHO will also be working with the ministry of public health for emergency vaccinations against measles for children between 9 months and 15 years of age.  Overall, this support will benefit approximately 65,000 people for four months.
Health emergency response to Burundian refugees in Rwanda With CERF funds, WHO will procure and deliver essential medicines and supplies to health centers inside Mahama refugee camp and to the Bukora health center and Kirehe District Hospital that are receiving referral cases.  In particular, WHO will replenish vaccines and other emergency medicines loaned by the Rwandan Ministry of Health for immunization activities for newly arrived refugees from Burundi.  Supplies and medicines will be delivered and utilized within four months.  In addition, WHO will support disease surveillance activities for early detection and response to potential disease outbreaks in the camp.
Child protection services for Kobane refugee children and other children at risk The main objective is to provide quality and equitable child protection services to boys and girls affected by the Syria crisis.  UNICEF will use CERF funds to 1) expand services in 5 child friendly and adolescent friendly spaces, 2) provide psychosocial services to refuge children, distressed families, parents and care givers, 3) identify and document all cases that are of child protection concern of refugee children and 4) provide family tracing and reunification services.  6,800 Syrian refugees in the Basirma, Qushtapa and Kawergosk refugee camps (Erbil) and Gawel refugee camp (Duhok) will benefit from this support for 9 months.
Joint Humanitarian response to water, sanitation and hygiene needs in communities affected by the drought UNICEF will improve sanitary conditions of the most vulnerable people affected by the drought in ten prioritized municipalities through increased access to secure water and rapid training of good hygiene practices, at home and community level.  Drought-affected people will be supported with domestic filters, and improvement of existing wells to ensure access to safe water.  UNICEF's implementing partners will procure water filters, improve wells, organize rapid hygiene training, and mobilize health promoters.  CERF funds will support the initial 6 months of the response and will benefit approximately 9,000 people.
Providing primary health care in Shamlapur and Leda make-shift camps and immediate surrounding host communities IOM proposes to provide access to primary and secondary healthcare for 25,000 Rohingya refugees ("undocumented Myanmar nationals") at two makeshift settlements, Leda and Shamlapur, and 15,000 people from host communities living in the vicinity of the settlements. IOM also proposes to raise health awareness among 103,000 people (including the 40,000 with access to healthcare). IOM will support the Shamlapur Family Welfare Center to provide general clinical services, essential trauma care, child healthcare, care for communicable diseases, and sexual and reproductive healthcare.
Provision of emergency livelihood assistance to respond to new critical needs of host families and IDPs that have arisen in the recent crisis in Bangui The violence that occurred in Bangui end of September 2015 has led to serious humanitarian consequences by destroying the livelihoods of thousands of families. The recent clashes in the midst of harvests have prevented many peri-urban farmers access to their fields when others were victims of the plunder of their crops. Around 42,000 people moved causing a worsening of their food and nutrition situations. With CERF funding, FAO will: distribute kits consisting of short-cycle seeds (vegetables) and tools; distribute vouchers  for the purchase of market gardening kits in local markets using the existing system already in place and; distribute vouchers to support the transport of agricultural products to the markets of Bangui. The targeted beneficiaries are 11,500 people and the project duration is four months.
Emergency Agricultural Assistance to Support Food Insecure Rural Households who’s Food Production Cycle was Severely Disrupted by Drought During the 2014 – 2015 Cropping Season in Malawi. FAO proposes to use CERF funds to support 231,000 beneficiaries in six of the most drought affected districts. Beneficiaries targeted with CERF funds  will receive an assortment of inputs will receive cow peas, improved sorghum and millet seed, high yielding maize seed, and small scale irrigation equipmentint in order to ensure tinely food access.  Target beneficiaries will revieve vouchers which will be used to procure seeds at the seed fairs.  Activities will be completed by March 2016.
Rapid response to food security needs of Burundian refugees and vulnerable host families FAO proposes to support refugees and host communities outside the refugee settlement areas with the purpose of maintaining harmony between refugees and communities and also to support with subsistence production for the upcoming agricultural season.  This will be achieved through providing vegetable and fishing kits to targeted, vulnerable households.  Vegetable kits will include seeds and tools while fishing kits will consistent of fish needs, lines and ropes.  Sweet potatoes vines will also be provided.  Some 19,000 people will benefit from this support.
Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) The main objective is to reduce malnutrition related morbidity and mortality among children through Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition.  In this joint project with UNICEF, WFP will use CERF funds to procure and distribute fortified blended food for children 6 to 59 months.  5,200 both displaced and non-displaced people in Maungdaw and Buthidaung Townships of Rakhine State will benefit from this support for 9 months.
Critical food and Nutrition assistance to Burundian Refugees (WFP PRRO 200744: Food and Nutrition Assistance to Refugees and Returnees) CERF funds will support WFP's monthly dry rations through general food distribution to some 30,000 refugees at Bugesera and Nyanza reception centers and Mahama refugee camp over a four-month period.  In addition, funds will support the procurement of supplementary feeding commodities and High Energy Biscuits to complement the dry rations and to treat moderately acute malnourished children.  In total, some 1,900 metric tons of food commodities will be procured and distributed in four months starting from May to August 2015.
Emergency Child Protection support to boys and girls affected by the Nigeria crisis (IDPs and host vulnerable population) The main objective is to protect girls and boys affected by the Nigerian displacement crisis.  UNICEF will use CERF funds to 1) identify unaccompanied and separated boys and girls in host communities and refer them to Family Tracing and Reunification
services, 2) provide emergency temporary care to children victims and 3) provide recreational and psychosocial support activities among other activities.  11,000 IDPs and 16,000 people in host communities in the Far North region will benefit from this support for 6 months.
Maternal and New born Health This proposal will support antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care to 310,000 pregnant and lactating mothers and to 250,000 new-borns at the community level in 101 districts in seven governorates. Capacity building for Community Midwifes (CMW) and arranging referral services in cases of serious complications are the main assistance modalities. Governorate Health Offices’ Reproductive Health teams will be the main implementing partners. NGOs will also be involved in service provision and monitoring and evaluation through mobile teams.
Nutrition assistance to boys, girls, pregnant and lactating women affected by armed conflict in Putumayo The main objective is to address the urgent nutritional needs of 1,800 families with vulnerable indigenous and rural boys, girls, pregnant and lactating women.  UNICEF will use CERF funds to 1) provide treatment for SAM and MAM, 2) provide RUTF and micronutrients, 3) distribute nutritional equipment and educational materials and 4) train health workers from targeted public hospitals and mobile health units.  8,000 people in Putumayo will benefit from this support for 9 months.
Protective environment for Rohingya children alongside with children from host communities in Teknaf and Ukhiya UNICER proposes to provide protection services fro 15,000 children, including 2,576 Rohingya refugees and 12,424 from host communities. This will include the provision of five equipped child-friendly spaces. In each space, trained social workers will provide basic psychosocial counseling. The cases of an estimated 3,060 children who are at risk of or have been affected by violence, abuse, or exploitation will be referred to statutory services to provide psychosocial first aid, school re-enrolment or retention, and other services. Activities with adolescent groups and communities will aim at reducing child labor, child marriage, and violence.
Emergency Health Care to refugees and host populations affected by the Darfur crisis in the Eastern part of Chad The main objective is to improve the health status of refugees and their host communities through the provision of integrated package of quality health interventions.  In this joint project with UNICEF and UNHCR, WHO will use CERF funds to procure Inter Agency Emergency Health Kits, Diarrhoeal Kits, medical  kits and supplies, and distibute them to health facilities.  169,904 IDPs and people in host communities in the Wadi-Fira, Ennedi East and Sila Regions will benefit from this support for 9 months.
Emergency water and sanitation service provisions for displaced and returnees in the Bagasola district in Lac region, Western Chad UNICEF proposes to use CERF funds for the construction of 10 new boreholes and rehabilitation of 10 other boreholes.  Also 75 latrines and 75 bathing rooms will be constructed.  Alongside this, UNICEF and partners will distribute sanitation kits to displaced and returned people and will also sensitize and engage affected people in hygiene and sanitation promotion.   Almost 33,000 will benefit from these WASH services provided by UNICEF and partners.
Humanitarian Support for Newly Displaced Conflict-IDPs The project delivers critical Non-Food Items to people directly displaced due to conflict. UNHCR’s NFI package consists of (per family) 6 blankets, 1 plastic sheet, 2 jerry cans, 5-kg fuel, kitchen set (cooking pot, 2 steel bowl, 1 cooking pot, 6 plastic cups, 1 large pan), 6 bars of soap, 1 plastic bucket as well as sanitary materials for women. This meets the CERF life-saving criteria as it delivers assistance within a short time-span – within the first two months of displacement – and helps prevent exposure to the elements, provides hygiene materials, contributes to safe WASH practices and helps prevent a loss of dignity.
Emergency nutrition response through integrated community-based management of severe acute malnutrition among children in prefectures the most affected by the conflict in CAR UNICEF, through this nutrition project aims to improve the nutritional status of children under 5 affected by Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM).  At least 7,000 children will be treated and will benefit from appropriate therapeutic care through out-patient and in-patient treatment programmes.  UNICEF will also use funds to procure therapeutic food and essential drugs needed to manage SAM.  Activities will continue for 5 months.
Improve access to emergency health services in high risk provinces The WHO project focuses on the provision of emergency health services for displaced populations and returnees, and trauma care enhanced in areas affected by disasters (natural and societal) with special focus on the needs of women and children. The main project components included: Men, women and children living in areas affected by mass displacement and or cross-border movements (IDPs, returnees and refugees) have access to basic emergency services; Men, women and children living in areas of active fighting and high number of civilian casualties have access to life-saving trauma services; Response to public health emergencies /hazards enhanced especially among conflict affected, displaced and vulnerable population with special consideration for the diverse needs of men, women and children.
Release of children from armed groups and provision of psychosocial support to children in the most affected conflict areas Using CERF funds UNICEF aims to provide psychosocial support and access to child friendly spaces to 10,000 children in IDP camps.  Some 500 children who have had a history with armed groups will also be identified, documented and will benefit from interim care and also through family reunification efforts.  100 separated and unaccompanied children will be supported in host families or benefit from family reunification.
Direct Psychosocial Support for the affected persons such as IDPs, returnees, host community members and TCNs in the region of Lac This project objective is to provide direct psychosocial assistance to 24,000 IDPs, returnees, host community members and third country nationals in the Lac region. Activities include continuous individual support to people in need and collective support through community helplines to strengthen community ties and also offer a hosting space and less formal exchange.

Total project budget:  $2,054,400
Total funds received to date:  $209,399
Amount requested from CERF:$150,000
Ensuring continued provision of nutrition services, and reduce morbidity and mortality associated with malnutrition WHO through its 10 mobile teams will be providing services for children suffering from both severe acute malnutrition and moderate acute malnutrition in the geographic areas it operates in.  WHO expects with CERF funds to finance the mobile teams as well as procure supplies for the mobile clinics.  UNICEF, WHO, IOM and WFP are collaborating: each is working in areas where they have presence; WFP and UNICEF provide the commodities RUSF and RUTF respectively and WHO the medical supplies.
Essential emergency primary health care services including emergency reproductive health to vulnerable populations (men, women, boys and girls) affected by conflict in North Darfur The main objective is to improve the health status of IDPs and host communities through delivery of essential primary health care including emergence reproductive health care and referral services and implementation of public health interventions.  In this joint project with WHO and UNFPA, UNICEF will use CERF funds to 1) procure and distribute 3.600 Oral Polio Vaccines, 6,787 measles and 900 Tetanus vaccines and 2) procure 20 PHC, 50 IMCI kits, 20,000 LLINs and 10,000 strips of ACT anti-Malaria among other activities.  125,410 IDPs and 57,400 people in host communities in North Darfur and 70,000 IDPs and their host families outstide of camps will benefit from this support for 9 months.
Food assistance to vulnerable Syrian populations in Iraq affected by conflict in Syria The main objective is to save lives and protect livelihoods in the protracted crisis situation through food assistance.  WFP will use CERF funds to distribute food vouchers to Syrian refugees in Erbil and Dohuk governorates.  53,015 people will benefit from this support for 6 months.
Appui en WASH aux familles ayant des enfants malnutris Project Summary
This project aims to meet the water needs of the affected population; supply enough water to meet the hygiene and sanitation needs of the affected population and provide better hygiene to the affected population as outlined in the drought response sector plan.

Total project budget: US$324,000
Total funds received to date: US$0
Amount requested from the CERF: US$104,004

Recommendation:  The CERF Programme Section believes the project adheres to the CERF Life-Saving Criteria and recommends it for funding.

Application Summary
As a result of drought since December 2015 in Southern Madagascar, an estimated 200,000 people are currently affected by food and nutrition insecurity, including 40,000 children < 5 years. According to the indicators in the national contingency plan for drought seven districts are affected by this emergency (Bekily, Beloha, Ambovombe and Tsihombe in the region of Androy, Amboassary in the region of Anosy and Ampanihy and Betioky in the region of Atsimo Andrefana) - three districts (Amboasary, Ambovombe and Bekily) are severely affected. A multi-sectorial rapid assessment was conducted in mid-February jointly by the Clusters (Nutrition, Health, Food security, WASH), The Ministry of Public Health (MOH), the National Nutrition Office (ONN) and the National Bureau for the Management of crises and natural disasters (BNGRC) supported by OCHA.  On 9 March the Resident Coordinator submitted a concept note to the CERF. CERF requested the Country team to provide further information regarding the impact of the drought and focus more tightly on drought related needs. The Country Team reverted with a revised concept note on 13 March and official submission on 23 March 2015.
Life-saving Protection interventions and Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons in North Darfur The main objective is to provide immediate support to meet the most basic and critical needs of PSN for a medium to long term impact on their lives. UNHCR will use CERF funds to 1) refer people with specific needs to relevant services or provision of direct protection support among other activites.  15,000 IDPs in El Fasher Locality (including ZamZam IDP camp), Kabkabiya, Mellit, Tawilla, and Dar Elsalam will benefit from this support for 9 months.
Ensuring lifesaving sexual reproductive health including GBV services in cyclone affected provinces CERF assistance will support an estimate 6,738 women at any time who require reproductive health care, including antenatal and postnatal care.  In particular, UNFPA will procure and deliver reproductive health kits and essential medical supplies to four hospitals.  Additionally, UNFPA will provide medical equipment such as delivery and hospital beds, lights, and solar panels to four hospitals and five rural health facilities.  Lastly, UNFPA partners will support GBV and reproductive health support through mobile clinics and village aid posts.
Provision of life-saving curative and preventive services to children under 5 and pregnant and lactating women in selected regions of South-Central Somalia WFP proposes to provide curative and preventive nutrition services to 38,250 children and 12,854 pregnant and breastfeeding women (PLW). This includes: (1) Treatment for 13,500 children under five and 4,500 PLW who have moderate acute malnutrition. For this, WFP aims for a cure rate of at least 75 per cent, a default rate of not more than 15 per cent and a death rate of lower than 10 per cent. (2) Preventive blanket supplementary feeding programme for 16,000 children under three. (3) Preventive supplementary rations for 8,750 children under two and 8,354 PLW.
Access to an equitable and inclusive education in emergencies for IDPs, and host community children in the Lake Region – Mamdi department - affected by the Nigeria crisis This project objective is to provide physical, psychosocial and cognitive protection through education for 30,000 school age children among IDPs, returnees and with host communities in Mamdi Department.  Activities include establishment of 40 temporary learning spaces; rehabilitate 34 classrooms in 17 schools; rehabilitate 17 school fences in existing schools; provide pedagogical and recreational materials to all the preschool and primary school aged pupils; train 500 teachers; and provide 12,500 vulnerable girl students in the department of Mamdi with age and gender-sensitive dignity kits. 

Total project budget:  $3,601,348
Total funds received to date:  $209,399
Amount requested from CERF:$698,350
Emergency agriculture assistance for food and nutrition security of smallholder livestock keepers and vulnerable households affected by crisis in Syria The project aims to strengthen the food and nutrition security of the crisis-affected people by protecting the productive assets and improve the productivity of 80,000 livestock-dependant households or 480,000 people. More than four million sheep and goats in  seven governorates (Aleppo, Deir-Ez-Zor, Lattakia, Quneitra, Rural Damascus, Tartous and Sweida) will be treated against animal ecto/endo parasites, which are a serious threat to livestock populations. FAO will  also purchase 3,000 head of sheep and 300 tonnes of animal feed and 20,000 laying hens with feed for 1,500 households to support food security and nutrition at the household level in order to avoid further deterioration of the quality of diet and micronutrient intake.

Total project budget: US$23,400,000
Total funds received to date: US$1,750,000
Amount requested from the CERF: US$2,000,000
Logistics Augmentation and Cluster Coordination in Response to Crisis in Ukraine The project aims to meet formulated and assessed needs by providing last resort logistics services to humanitarian and disaster relief agencies involved in the emergency response in Ukraine. In particular, WFP will provide cargo transport of supplies and common warehouses for four months.  In addition, WFP will perform manage the shared logistics services, providing information management, maps, situation reports and other information on logistics to all humanitarian partners.
Réponse d’urgence aux déplacés en provenance du Nigeria et aux déplacés internes (région de Diffa – Niger) UNHCR proposes to respond to the current crisis through border monitoring, general protection monitoring alongside documentation assistance for refugees/returnees crossing into Niger from Nigeria.  Further UNHCR and partners will provide emergency shelter and basic NFI kits to approximately 18,000 people in the camps.  UNHCR will also use CERF funds to provide camp multi sector camp management services in the camps.  Approximately 70,000 refugees and 50,000 IDPs will benefit from this 4 month intervention.