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Psychosocial support  and protection of  women and girls IDPs,  in host communities, victims /survivors of SGBV, in the Far-North Region of Cameroon In coordination with other protection actors in Cameroon, UN Women will carry out GBV prevention and treatment interventions targeting 2,000 refugees, 15,000 IDPs, and 3,000 host community members.  In particular, UN Women will establish three mobile counselling units; set up two refuge centers; create a network of 20 GBV/rape relays; and establish three SGBV committees amongst community members.  The activities will take place in the localities of Mora, Mokolo and Mayo Mostoka where there is a high concentration of IDPs as well as the Gawar refugee camp.
Improve access to emergency health services in high risk provinces The UNICEF project (part of a joint project) focuses on the provision of emergency health services for displaced populations and returnees, and trauma care enhanced in areas affected by disasters with special focus on the needs of women and children.  UNICEF will support the sub health centre functioning inside the Gulan refugee camp in Matun district of Khost province with supply of 10,000 new born kit (with necessary awareness creation) that would prevent the new born from neonatal infections and related complications and mortality.  The activities will be coordinated with the implementing partners through the UNICEF regional office and the country office.
Enhanced protection of vulnerable girls, boys and women in areas of return in South Waziristan Agency (SWA) and Kurram Agency, FATA The project objective is to enhance the protection and psychosocial wellbeing of vulnerable children and women, including children with disabilities in areas of return in South Waziristan Agency and Kurram Agency through community-based life-saving and psychosocial assistance adopting UNICEF’s model of Protective Learning and Community Emergency Services (“PLaCES”) and outreach services for six months emergency response. The project aims to ensure affected children and women are protected through community-based protective and lifesaving critical services in areas of return, i.e. South Waziristan Agency and Kurram Agency, FATA.

Total requirement:  $3,310,000
Funding to date:  $1,190,000
CERF requested: $380,000
Protecting IDPs and other vulnerable communities in Somalia The objective of this joint project by UNFPA, IOM, UNICEF and UNHCR is to fill gaps in protection and provide services to 48,168 vulnerable people in South-Central Somalia, including 39,143 IDPs. This includes support for survivors of gender-based violence, support to people affected by human rights violations, and support to child rights. UNHCR and its partners will train medical staff to provide assistance to rape survivors and conduct training and awareness raising campaigns on GBV. They will also support a human rights monitoring network with 42 partner organizations and provide grants to 5,000 people affected by rights violations.
Emergency critical life-saving Water, Sanitation and Hygiene response to new displacements and underserved populations in North Darfur The main objective is to reduce morbidity and suffering among IDPs and conflict-affected communities through provision of emergency life-saving WASH assistance.  IOM will use CERF funds to 1) construct and rehabilitate water yards, handpumps and hand-dug wells, 2) construct and rehabilitate latrines and 3) conducte WASH promotion activities.  44,260 IDPs in the Tawilla and Kabkabiya localities will benefit from this support for 9 months.
Provision of core relief items, onward transportation, and temporary accommodation for vulnerable Yemen arrivals The project objectives are to provide shelter at reception centres and support the logistical costs of transport from reception centres and one time cash grants to purchase core relief items to vulnerable Somali returnees willing to return to their areas of origin in Somalia over a period of three months; and provide assistance to Yemeni and third country nationality refugees as they wait for determination of their status by the Federal Government of Somalia.
Providing international legal protection and life-saving humanitarian assistance including safe transportation to Nyaragusu refugee camp to Burundian refugees in Tanzania. UNHCR, IOM, UNICEF and other sector partners aim to ensure that the Burundian arrivals have access to basic social services as well as international protection.  Immediate screening, registration and documentation processing will take place at transit centres by UNHCR while UNICEF will work towards identification and tracing to reunify unaccompanied and separated children.  IOM is providing onward transportation from border area transit centres to Nyarugusu refugee camp ensuring people with special needs receive the attention required.
Life-Saving Assistance to Vulnerable IDPs through Provision of Essential Relief Items In this CERF project, UNHCR will provide NFIs to 7,500 newly displaced vulnerable families in the form of essential relief items in priority governorates of Amran, Hajjah, Sa’ada, Taizz, Al Dhale’e, Ibb, and Lahj. The package of NFIs consists of the following per household as per the cluster guidelines: seven blankets, seven mattresses, two buckets, two sleeping mats, and one kitchen set. This will complement contemporaneous emergency shelter activities.
Protecting IDPs and other vulnerable communities in Somalia The objective of this joint project by UNFPA, IOM, UNICEF and UNHCR is to fill gaps in protection and provide services to 48,168 vulnerable people in South-Central Somalia, including 39,143 IDPs. This includes support for survivors of gender-based violence, support to people affected by human rights violations, and support to child rights. UNICEF and its partners will support children that are unaccompanied or separated or have been affected by armed conflict. They will also train medical staff to provide emergency care to 19,579 GBV survivors, distribute rape kits, conduct awareness campaigns, and will provide psychosocial support and case management for survivors of sexual violence.
Cash for work intervention to address critical needs of affected households in the 4th district of Bangui With CERF funding, UNDP will aim to provide emergency assistance through organizing labor based work. The project will address the basic needs of 1,750 vulnerable and displaced people, while rehabilitating 3.5 km of roads. The cash for work project will improve and increase humanitarian access to allow relief support to displaced and host communities, while also injecting some cash in thelocal economy.
Providing life-saving nutritional support to expectant and lactating mothers, and newborns through maternity waiting homes in Eritrea UNFPA proposes to provide nutritional support and other supplies to 600 pregnant women in 41 maternity waiting homes across five regions of Eritrea. Some 400 of the women and their newborn children will also receive post-partum assistance. Assistance includes food, household items, and clean delivery kits. With this project, UNFPA aims to increase the percentage of women who deliver at health facilities from the current 37% to 40% in the target areas. The project will allow UNFPA to increase the number of maternity waiting homes it supports from the current 39 to 41. UNFPA will work with the Ministry of Health, which will implement most of the project activities.
Safeguarding Lives, Improving Food Security and Nutrition, and Building Resilience The CERF contribution will enable WFP to accept the in-kind contribution of 400 mt of canned tuna fish, 1200 mt of rice and 700 mt of wheat flour. These commodities will contribute to the food basket distributed to conflict affected population and will be enough to cover needs of 133,000 people for one month in two districts in Sa’ada. A household will receive 100 kg of rice or 100 kg of wheat flour and 4.9 kg of tuna per month.
Emergency assistance to vulnerable households affected by drought in the South-East department WFP proposes to use CERF funds for ongoing Cash for Assets activities allowing most vulnerable households to meet their food needs while benefiting from water sources and irrigation canals which are being constructed.  At the same time, following the drought WFP is initiating general food distributions and CERF funds will be used to help cover additional distribution costs.   Around 120,000 and 5,000 beneficiaries will be provided GFD and CFA respectively.
Access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene practices for rural communities and families affected by complex emergencies The main objective is to increase access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene practices for rural communities and families affected by conflict.  UNICEF will use CERF funds to 1) rehabilitate and improve a community water supply system, 2) distribute water treatment systems in homes and containers, 3) supply family and school hygiene kits and 4) deliver workshops on water, sanitation and hygiene.  11,278 people in Valle del Cauca, Chocó and Putumayo will benefit from this support for 9 months.
Telecommunications augmentation in response to Cyclone Pam Vanuatu's communications infrastructure (including cellular phone networks, landlines, access to internet and government internal networks) have either been disrupted or destroyed as a result of the cyclone. This is hampering relef efforts.  The Emergency Telecommunications Cluster aims to connect affected populations with local authorities and humanitarian actors.  Small mobile satelite communication devices will be deployed.  The cluster will also provide temporary voice and data connectivity across 6 provinces.  The duration of the project is limited to 3 months.
Profilage, enregistrement et assistance psychosociale des populations déplacées et retournées de la région du Lac au Tchad (Baga Sola, Bol, Liwa, Daboua) IOM and UNHCR in this joint project are proposing to profile and register displaced people affected by the crisis.  Survivors of violence will benefit from psychosocial support from that will be established through community based mechanisms that are being set up.  UNHCR will focus on data collection for field profiling and registration if IDPs and returnees, while IOM will focus on provision of psychosocial support. Approximately 23,000 will benefit from CERF funded support over a 4 month period.
Food assistance to vulnerable Syrian refugee families with children under the age of five in Lebanon 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 e-vouchers to displaced people to increase their access to food supplies.  125,595 Syrian refugees in Akkar, North Lebanon and the Bekaa will benefit from this support for 1 month.
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 WHO, UNHCR will use CERF funds to 1) rent two ambulances and recruit technical staff (surgeons and midwife) to support districts hospitals, 2) provide medical referral expenses for 300 refugees and 3) procure and distribute malaria and mosquito nets.  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 response in support of Burundian households expelled from Tanzania FAO aims to improve the food security status of expelled Burundian migrants from Tanzania by providing rapid agricultural assistance.  Approximately 25,000 expellees will recieve emergency agricutlural start up kits which includes inputs such as seeds and tools.  The beneficiaries will also recieve technical training on best agricultural practices.  Some 10,000 will also be trained in kithcen garden and mushtroom farming techniques to improve production capacity.  This will be a 9 month project.
Provision of Emergency Survival Kits to conflict affected households in remote locations of Greater Upper Nile Region CERF funds will support an inter-agency effort by IOM, WFP/UNHAS, FAO and UNICEF to deliver survival kits to 30,000 households displaced by conflict in Unity, Upper Nile and Jonglei states.  IOM will coordinate the initiative, procure NFIs for the kits, and manage the warehousing, packaging and delivery of the kits.  FAO will procure agricultural inputs (seeds) and fishing tools.  UNICEF will provide emergency WASH items (jerry cans and chlorine tabs) health supplies (oral rehydration salts) and high energy biscuits.  Lastly, WFP/UNHAS will contract a helicopter to ensure dedicated delivery capacity during the four-month operation.
Logistics support for the urgent delivery humanitarian cargo in the far flung earthquake-affected areas of Nepal Through the Remote Access Operation (RAO), WFP will provide logistics support to the humanitarian community through that will allow remote communities to receive humanitarian relief. WFP will establish ‘last mile transport’, rehabilitate trails to bring food, shelter, sanitary health and medical supplies to up to 83,000 remote people.  Humanitarian cardo will be transported as trails become useable over a period of 6 months.
Emergency Food Assistance to Burundian Refugees in Tanzania WFP is providing food assistance to 40,000refugees over a three-month period.  The assistance includes general food distribution, blanket supplementary feeding, targeted supplementary feeding, and food aid to hospital patients.  In all some 2,200 metric tons of food commodities (maize, oil, salt, sugar, and SuperCereal) will be procured and distributed with CERF funding.
Integrated management of severe acute malnutrition in the 10 districts most affected by malnutrition The objective of this joint nutrition projectis to provide life-saving aid in the 10 districts most affected by malnutrition in southern Mauritania for four months. This includes therapeutic food and drinking water to treat 9,794 SAM children (UNICEF and WHO); supplementary feeding for 2,664 MAM children and supplementary feeding for 23,562 people (WFP); drinking water for 9,000 people in the most affected villages (UNICEF); psycho-social for 500 SAM children (UNICEF and WHO); and micronutrients and enriched food for 2,000 malnourished pregnant and breastfeeding women (UNFPA).
Improving access to equitable and sustainable Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services to refugees and host populations in the refugee camps and communities around the Guereda and Iriba sub-prefectures in the Wadi Fira region, Chad The main objective is to provide emergency assistance to refugees and people in host communities in the 5 camps in Eastern Chad with provision of safe drinking water, safe hygiene and sanitation promotion.  In this joint project with UNHCR, UNICEF will use CERF funds to 1) construct 15 new boreholes and rehabilitate 55 boreholes 2) train 70 water management committees, 3) implement Community Led Total Sanitation in 35 villages, and 4) distribute hygiene and sanitation kits.  73,102 refugees and 41,650 people in host communities in the Iriba sub-prefecture (Iridimi, Toulom, Amnaback Camps and host communities around the camps) and Guereda sub-prefecture (Mile, Kounougon) will benefit from this support for 9 months.
Emergency support to increase soybean production during the main cropping season 2015 The key objective of the project is to safeguard the nutritional status of vulnerable households by increasing the production of soybean during the 2015 main cropping season through the provision soybean seed and plastic sheets. Nutrition will be improved by the increase of soybean production as 80,000 vulnerable households have access to soybean products.  In addition the soybean produced in the four FAO targeted cereal bowl provinces will be distributed in the four north-eastern provinces targeted by WFP, UNICEF and WHO, meaning that FAO’s intervention will complement the interventions of these agencies. 

Total project budget: US$2,500,000
Total funds received to date: US$0
Amount requested from the CERF: US$300,000
Promote and conserve personal hygiene of affected men and women This project aims to enhance the dignity and personal hygiene condition of newly displaced population through procurement and distribution of female and male dignity kits. UNFPA will contribute to the collective WASH sector approach to support 30,400 new IDPs as a continuation to its previous contribution which resulted in providing 132,000 IDPs with dignity kits. The project will target displaced people in Aleppo, Homs, Rural-Damascus, Deir-Ezzor and Daraa.

Total project budget: US$180,000,000
Total funds received to date: US$0
Amount requested from the CERF: US$839,287
Providing therapeutic nutritional support to nutrition centers to ensure the management of severe acute malnutrition cases amongst U5 children refugees and IDP in affected areas in the Far North region Project Summary
This project aims to address the nutrition needs for severe acute malnourished children infants in the areas affected crisis and refugees camp by reinforcing SAM treatment of health facilities for severe acute malnourished children. Specifically, UNICEF will provide 2,250 severe acute malnourished children have access to RUTF and therapeutic food (SAM treatment).

Total project budget: US$7,400,000
Total funds received to date: US$1,104,162
Amount requested from the CERF: US$149,832

Recommendation:  The CERF Programme Section believes the project adheres to the CERF Life-Saving Criteria and recommends it for funding.
Emergency Food Assistance to Populations Affected by Prolonged Dry Spells in Malawi WFP proposes to use CERF funds to cover the associated costs of transporting and distributing 22,000 mt of maize which has been donated by the Government of Malawi through its strategic grain reserve for the relief response. This is enough to meet the needs of 1.2 million for one month.  It will also support the needs 726,000 people for two months who live in areas that will be cut off between December and March.  WFP will ensure that the food is transported to those areas before the roads get cut off.  WFP will further use CERF funds to procure 1,100 mt of pulses and 400 mt of Super Cereal which meets about 50% of one month requirements for those commodities.
Assistance to improve the livelihood of food-insecure Returnee households in the Far North region following the insurgency of Boko Haram The main objective is to improve the livelihoods of food-insecure returnee households in through the supply of agricultural inputs to enable them to increase production and improve their food security.  FAO will use CERF funds to identify and provide inputs (improved seeds, fertilizers and bio pesticide) to target households, 15,000 returnees (3,000 households) in the Far North region will benefit from this support for 6 months.
ALGERIA PRRO 200301 : Support to Refugees from Western Sahara With CERF funding, WFP aims to ensure food is distributed to 124,960 beneficiaries through general food distributions. WFP willprocure 5,000 metric tons of wheat flour and other staple grains, 428 metric tons of vegetable oil, 500 metric tons of lentils, 405 metric of sugar and 405 metric tons of corn soya blend.  This will provide 3 months worth of food rations.
Réponse d’urgence aux besoins en matière d’eau potable, d’hygiène et d’assainissement des déplacés nigérians, des déplacés internes et des communautés hôtes, dans la région de Diffa Access to water was cited as the highest priority in terms of needs by refugees and internally displaced people in Niger.  UNICEF proposes to use CERF funds to increase the access to water and to improve the hygiene and sanitation needs for those who fled the Boko Haram in Niger as part of a multi sectoral approach.  15 water points will be constructed benefiting 60,000 people.  CERF funded activities will take place over 4 months
Emergency nutrition response to new influx of South Sudanese refugees in White Nile State WFP, together with UNICEF in this joint project, aims to prevent mortality and morbidity associated with acute malnutrition in children under 5 years and pregnant or lactating women.  WFP will ensure children aged 6-59 months and pregnant and lactating women (PLW) have access and utilize services for the treatment of moderate acute malnutrition; and all newly arrived children aged 6-59 months and PLW are enrolled in emergency blanket supplementary feeding for the prevention of acute malnutrition.  UNICEF will ensure children aged 6-59 months access and utilize quality services for the treatment of severe acute malnutrition; and the number of mothers support groups providing Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) counselling services in target localities.
Provision of Emergency Survival Kits to conflict affected households in remote locations CERF funds will support an inter-agency effort by IOM, WFP/UNHAS, FAO and UNICEF to deliver survival kits to 30,000 households displaced by conflict in Unity, Upper Nile and Jonglei states.  IOM will coordinate the initiative, procure NFIs for the kits, and manage the warehousing, packaging and delivery of the kits.  FAO will procure agricultural inputs (seeds) and fishing tools.  UNICEF will provide emergency WASH items (jerry cans and chlorine tabs) health supplies (oral rehydration salts) and high energy biscuits.  Lastly, WFP/UNHAS will contract a helicopter to ensure dedicated delivery capacity during the four-month operation.
Logistics Augmentation and Coordination to Support Humanitarian Operations in Yemen including provision of Humanitarian Air Services With CERF support, WFP will provide UNHAS and common logistics services to humanitarian partners throughout Yemen.  In particular, the Logistics Cluster will procure/transport and import the requirement fuel need it for the partners to operate lifesaving projects including 500,000 liters per month for the food delivery from the storage hubs to the distribution points, 200,000 liters to the health facilities, hospitals, cold chain, medical transportation, 200,000 liters to the NFIs transportation and distribution, 138,117 liters for the operation support to run the generators and vehicles.  In addition, UNHAS will serve six destinations within Yemen for a total of 140 flight hours for passenger and cargo services.  Lastly, WFP will install mobile storage units in the Hodeidah port to increase humanitarian cargo off loading capacity.
Risk Education and Reporting in Katanga and North Kivu Project Summary
This project seeks to provide an increased protective environment to internally displaced persons and host communities affected by armed conflict, with a focus on children and victims of conflict-related violence.  The project seeks to increase awareness of ERW hazards within the displaced population thus reducing ERW related incidents in the affected areas by 30%. 500,000 displaced people in North Kivu and 250,000 displaced people in Katanga (north) will receive ERW Risk Education Messages. 

Total project budget: US$5,500,000
Total funds received to date: US$4,500,000
Amount requested from the CERF: US$400,000

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

Application Summary
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has long been affected by multiple acute crises. Multiple crises related to violence and armed conflict account for the vast majority of needs – approximately 67%. An estimated 7 million people are in need of some form of humanitarian assistance.

The Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) requirement is US$ 692,000,000. At the time of the CERF UFE application, the HRP was only 9% funded ($50,455,755).

DRC Underfunded submission:
Total envelope: $9 million (round I allocation: $100 million for 12 countries)
Grant package received: 24 February 2015
Total # of projects submitted: 4