From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Thu Oct 15 2009 - 11:47:25 EDT
Djibouti and Eritrea: Plan 2010-2011 (MAA64005)
Source: International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies
(IFRC)
Date: 14 Oct 2009
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Executive Summary
Djibouti is situated at the southern entrance to the Red Sea, forming a
cross-road of major international maritime routes. With a surface area
of approximately 23,000 Km˛, Djibouti borders Somalia to the South-East,
Ethiopia to the West and South-West, and Eritrea to the North-West. The
country is poorly endowed with natural resources although a few
important minerals such as salt, limestone and gypsum can be found.
The Red Crescent Society of Djibouti (RCSD) has been providing
humanitarian services to populations in Djibouti for approximately 30
years. Initially, the National Society aimed at responding to
emergencies but has expanded its scope of activity over time to address
various emerging challenges continuing to affect the most vulnerable
populations, and in view of the complexities, the RCSD expects to remain
relevant for the years to come.
In order to sustain its role in effective response to the needs of the
most vulnerable populations of Djibouti, the RCSD has undertaken a
strategic planning process to guide its long-term vision. This process
consists of keeping abreast with trends and issues linked to the
humanitarian assistance in the field. During this process, the RCSD team
has adopted a mission, vision and strategic objectives that are
measurable and attainable. The health and care programme will focus on
water, sanitation and public hygiene and will aim at having improving
access to water, sanitation and hygiene for the vulnerable communities.
The Organizational Development (OD) will focus on attaining the
following outcomes: strong, reliable and visible National Society (NS)
across the national territory; improved competency in governance and
management for better functioning of operations; functional PMER
system/unit and; having sufficient financial resources to manage its
programmes.
The National Society’s approach in addressing humanitarian challenges is
based on the benchmarks of the Humanitarian Values decree within the
Fundamental Principles, respect and dignity, integrity and transparency.
The NS targets about 60 percent of Balbala community who lack access to
clean water; administrative and customary authorities from targeted
communities; the communities at field operational levels; National
Society staff and volunteers; members of the central committee of the
RCSD, and various partners including Government ministries and NGOs.
The Red Cross Society of Eritrea (RCSE) programmes are designed in line
with the Federation’s Global Agenda goals to enable the RCSE to achieve
its recognition by its Government. As a result, the National Society
would acquire a strong leadership that could lead to a well functioning
National Society.
The RCSE plan for the year 2010-2011 is to strengthen disaster
preparedness, response and recovery capacities, and in turn, strengthen
community resilience. The RCSE programmes will emphasize on promoting
longer-term and sustainable development activities that will involve
community participation to upgrade the capacity building among women,
volunteers and the community at large.
The plan will focus on disaster management programme to contribute to
the scaling up of response to increased vulnerability to risks/disasters
and food insecurity; and to the response to common disasters of drought,
flooding, road accidents and fire accidents by strengthening the
National Society’s disaster preparedness, response and recovery
capacities. The programme aims at achieving improved ability of
community members in Eritrea to predict and plan for disasters, to
mitigate their impact on vulnerable communities, or effectively cope
with their consequences. Community members will have improved ability to
reduce loss of life and disabilities caused by disasters and improved
capacity of RCSE core staff and volunteers to respond effectively during
disaster; strengthened RCSE logistical capacity of RCSE; improved food
production, accessibility and food utilization at household and;
increased awareness on climate change as well as increased community
resilience to the impacts of climate change.
The Community Based Health Development Programme (CBHDP) is the backbone
of the RCSE health and care programme. The programme attempts to build
the local capacities to deal with most common health risks and support
basic and introductory training on Community-Based First Aid (CBFA).
Additionally, training on prevention and control of prevailing
infectious and endemic diseases with a focus on: malaria, water borne
and water related diseases; training of Red Cross Action Team (RCAT) to
respond to the needs of those affected by disaster; community-based
action to reduce the risk of HIV and AIDS transmission (peer education,
improved care and support for people infected and affected by the
disease); community-based action to increase access to safe water and
sanitation via water drilling, well and latrine construction, and
community education.
The Organizational Development programme will focus on ensuring that
RCSE is a well functioning organization with sustainable systems,
procedures and staff with desired level of managerial and technical
competencies; strengthening new partnerships and forming new ones. To
ensure a coordinated and realistic implementation, the programmes will
also address the concepts of sustainability, programme resources and
expenses, monitoring and evaluation, implementation and management
arrangements as well as risk identification. Furthermore, all programmes
will promote gender equity and diversity as a cross cutting element, Red
Cross/Red Crescent collaboration, partnership and civil society
management, accountability and quality assurance, in addition to
capacity building and knowledge sharing. Current Movement partners of
RCSE include the Federation, the International Committee of the Red
Cross (ICRC), Danish, Finish, Netherlands, Swedish and Spanish Red Cross
Societies.
The total 2010-2011 budget is CHF 2,322,442 (USD 2,188,902 or EUR
1,530,489)
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