Contribution to ICRC Budget Extension Appeal Pakistan



Contract partner: ICRC - International Committee of the Red Cross - Switzerland Country: Pakistan Funding amount: € 400.000,00 Project start: 01.08.2010 End: 31.12.2010

Short Description:

Overall goal


Pakistan is facing a humanitarian crisis of an unprecedented magnitude in geographical terms - the inundations of more than a third of the country since end-July 2010 has come on top of already large-scale displacement of civilians particularly in Balochistan, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Khyber Paktunkhwa (KP).

In response to this crisis, the ICRC has expanded its activities in Pakistan and on 31 August 2010 launched a "Budget-Extension Appeal", to which this grant contributes.

Relief activities in response to the floods aim to support up to 350,000 people (50,000 households) in some of the most affected regions of the country, including the most affected districts of Balochistan, FATA, and KP in the areas of:

Relief items: provision of food rations, essential household items, including when necessary mosquito nets;

Livelihoods: provision of seeds, fertilizer and tools to enable people to resume basic livelihood activities;

Health: improved access to health care, with a particular focus on water-borne infectious diseases, mother and child health and vaccination, and strengthening the referral system for patients who need hospital care;

Water and habitat: provision of emergency shelter kits or tents and ensuring access to safe drinking water through the distribution of 35,000 water filters, water trucking or the cleaning and repair of water points and irrigation systems.

project number 2659-04/2010
source of funding AKF
sector Humanitäre Hilfe: Sofortmaßnahmen
tied
modality
marker
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
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  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.