Physical Rehabilitation Projects for Mine Victims and Disabled People in Africa



Contract partner: ICRC - International Committee of the Red Cross - Switzerland Country: Afrika, regional/länderübergreifend Funding amount: € 200.000,00 Project start: 01.12.2005 End: 30.06.2006

Short Description:

Overall goal


By providing low cost and high-quality polypropylene materials and equipment for protheses, the Special Fund for the Disabled (SFD) of the International Comittee of the Red Cross (ICRC) provides quality services to low-income mine victims and disabled people. In addition to its training programme in Ethiopia, the SFD continues to provide both material and financial assistance to amputees through some 33 other centres in 17 African countries, amongst them several partner countries of the Austrian Development cooperation: Ethiopia (1 center), Kenya (4), Mozambique (1), Morocco (2), Namibia (1), Tanzania (2), and Zimbabwe (2). All these aid programmes are organized by local partner organisations, but closely monitored by the SFD. By the end of 2005, the SFD is planning to have provided all the centres with sufficient equipment, tools, raw materials and components, thus contributing to fit some 7.000 physically disabled people with protheses and orthoses.

project number 2378-00/2005
source of funding OEZA
sector Gesundheit allgemein
tied
modality
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    • 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.
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