Strengthening Humanitarian Coordination and Advocacy in the Horn of Africa



Contract partner: UNOCHA - United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Switzerland Country: Subsahara-Afrika, regional/länderübergreifend Funding amount: € 1.000.000,00 Project start: 01.12.2011 End: 30.11.2012

Short Description:

Overall goal


In response to the growing drought and famine crisis in the Horn of Africa, OCHA streamlined its presence in Nairobi in 2011 into an office for Eastern Africa, aimed to provide first-line surge support to crisis-affected countries where there is no OCHA presence, such as Burundi, Djibouti, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. This office also provides intensified support services to Kenya as one of the countries hardest hit by the current drought. In addition,

OCHA maintains three other offices in the Horn of Africa – OCHA Somalia, OCHA Ethiopia and OCHA Eritrea - to which this grant contributes.


To ensure coordinated, effective and principled humanitarian action to vulnerable people in all the countries of the Horn of Africa to which the OCHA activities extend, OCHA strives to achieve the following:


1: Humanitarian coordination leaders are enabled to respond to emergencies in a timely and coordinated fashion.

2: Reliable and timely information is used to support vulnerability analysis for better preparedness and response.

3: Regional bodies and national Governments are willing and better able to access and utilize international humanitarian response services and tools before, during and after crises.

4: Resources and support are available from a wider group of Member States, private-sector organizations and civil society for emergency response and preparedness.

5: Clusters and cluster working groups are established and functioning

6: Overall coordination, information management, contingency planning and advocacy.

7: The Regional Office in Kenya is equipped to rapidly support emergency response capacity in crisis-affected countries.

project number 2676-06/2011
source of funding OEZA
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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