Humanitarian Coordination and Advocacy for Pakistan Floods Response



Contract partner: UNOCHA - United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Switzerland Country: Pakistan Funding amount: € 1.300.000,00 Project start: 01.08.2010 End: 31.07.2011

Short Description:

Overall goal


Over the course of the 2010 monsoon season, Pakistan experienced the worst floods in its history. Heavy rainfall, flash floods and riverine floods combined to create a moving body of water equal in dimension to the land mass of the United Kingdom. The floods have affected 84 districts out of a total of 121 districts in Pakistan, and more than 20 million people - one-tenth of Pakistan's population - devastating villages from the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea. More than 1,700 men, women and children have lost their lives, and at least 1.8 million homes have been damaged or destroyed.


The overarching goal of the UN's Revised Floods Emergency Response Plan (total funding requested: 2 billion USD) is to prevent excess morbidity and mortality and to enable flood-affected communities to return to their normal lives.


This funding agreement provides a contribution to OCHA's humanitarian coordination activities in Pakistan under this Revised Emergency Response Plan.


In response to the floods, OCHA identified the need to continue to improve the humanitarian situation by enhancing coordination mechanisms, steering the response of the present and incoming humanitarian actors and preparing humanitarian information products to provide effective and principled humanitarian assistance. OCHA appeals for a total of 10,900.000 million USD to provide these coordination and support services.


Based on its mandate, OCHA will continue to provide leadership and support the work of the Humanitarian Coordinator, United Nations Agencies, Funds and Programs, NGOs and the Government by:


" Strengthening effective coordination, targeted information management and strategic planning between relevant stakeholders at all levels.

" Support the Humanitarian Coordinator to take a strong lead in humanitarian advocacy. Humanitarian access to the population affected by the floods, the inclusion of all cross cutting issues, including gender and human rights& an awareness of int'l. humanit. law.

project number 2659-08/2010
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.
  • Type of Aid – Aid modalities: classifies transfers from the donor to the first recipient of funds such as budget support, core contributions and pooled programmes and funds to CSOs and multilateral organisations, project-type interventions, experts and other technical assistance, scholarships and student costs in donor countries, debt relief, administrative costs and other in-donor expenditures.
  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • 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.
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