Period covered by this Final Report: 12 November 2010 to 30 September 2011.
Appeal target: CHF 3,030,275.
Appeal coverage: Final appeal coverage is 51 per cent
Appeal history:
An Emergency Appeal was initially launched on 12 November 2010 for CHF 2,765, to assist 60,000 people(12,000 households) for 8 months.
CHF 200,000 was initially allocated from the Federation’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to support the national society in responding by delivering assistance.
Operations Update no. 1 was issued on 23 December 2010.
- Operations Update no. 2 was issued on 15 March 2011 and revised the budget to CHF 3,030,275 to increase the target population to 105,000 people (21,000 households) and absorb additional technical staff.
Summary: This emergency appeal provided assistance to affected persons in need during the Sudan Referendum on the independence of South Sudan as well as South Sudan’s Independence Day. Up to 6,109 people received first aid services from trained Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS) volunteers. This was done with support from IFRC, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). In addition, 48,090 returnees and internally displaced persons (approximately 9,600 households) from the North and South received non-food items that included blankets, sleeping mats; insecticide treated mosquito nets (ITNs), tarpaulins and jerry cans. Hygiene promotion was conducted by volunteers through education sessions, hygiene campaigns and door-to-door sensitizations that created awareness on hygienic practices reaching approximately 4,000 people. Specifically, a total of 4,211 volunteers were trained on first aid, 100 on water and sanitation and 100 on early warning. Several staff and volunteers were also trained on security to ensure that safety precautions were observed during the operation.
As a result of combined efforts from hygiene promotion and water and sanitation activities carried out by other partner national societies such as Austrian Red Cross in Aweil, diarrhoeal diseases were contained due to behavioural change among most residents of the camps, such as hand washing before eating and after use of toilets.