Period covered by this Ops Update: May to July 2013
Appeal target (current): CHF 3,711,427
Appeal coverage: 4%;
Appeal history:
This Emergency Appeal was initially launched on 16 May 2013 for CHF 3,711,427 to assist 150,000 beneficiaries (25,000 families) for eight months.
An operations update n°1 was issued on 22 July 2013 to provide an update of the donor response to the appeal as well as request for continued donor support for appeal.
This operation update n°2 provides an overview of the operations progress to date, an update on the donor response as well as a summary of the main recommendations from the evaluation of the emergency appeals from 2011 and 2012.
Summary: Through this appeal, the IFRC aims to support the SRCS Branches and National Disaster Response Teams (BDRTs and NDRTs) to respond to acute humanitarian needs of disasters through provision of rapid and effective lifesaving assistance to an estimated 150,000 beneficiaries, with particular focus on internally displaced people across eleven disasters prone states of Sudan (the five states of Darfur, Blue Nile, South Kordofan, North Kordofan, White Nile, Sennar and Khartoum states). The appeal also aims to consolidate the capacities of the National Societies and its branches and promote humanitarian diplomacy in building peace and promotion of the Red Cross Red Crescent Fundamental Principles.
So far the funding limitations have impacted on the progress response operation and the main achievement has been the bilateral engagement and agreements with UN agencies outside the appeal, which will enable support to the affected communities. SRCS has entered into agreements with UN special agencies as follows:
With WFP to distribute food items totalling to 9,855.961 Metric Tonnes in Bau, Kurmuk, Rosaries locations of Blue Nile State for 8,758 households (41,618 People with 60 percent of them being Female)
With WHO to provide health services for 31,000 people for three and a half months in Kurmuk, Jorot and Dindiro in Kurmuk locality and in Deireng and Bau in Bau locality of Blue Nile State
With UNHCR to provide NFIs for approximately 10,000 people in Blue Nile State.
This appeal has received pledges from Japanese Red Cross and Red Cross of Monaco and advanced discussions underway for funding by USAID. The appeal has also received bileteral support from Swiss Red Cross to cover the targeted beneficiaries in Sennar State.
The IFRC, on behalf of Sudan Red Crescent Society, would like to extend thanks to all partners for their generous contributions.