Period covered by this Final Report: 16 December 2011 to 30 July 2013.
Appeal target (current): CHF 2,093,813
Appeal coverage: 90%;
Appeal history:
· Disaster Relief Emergency Funds (DREF) of CHF 113,532 was allocated on 16 December 2011 to support Burkina Faso Red Cross (BRCS) to assist 5,500 beneficiaries with two months’ worth of food vouchers in Tin Akoff in the province of Oudalan in the Sahel region.
· An Emergency Appeal was launched on 16 April 2012 and sought CHF 3,952,739 to assist 120,000 agro-pastoral beneficiaries in six regions.
· A Revised Emergency Appeal was issued on 5 December 2012 reducing to budget to CHF 2,093,612 and the number of beneficiaries to 105,000 that include new beneficiaries (17,500 households, including refugees from Mali and host communities) in four regions: Sahel, Centre-Nord, Nord and Boucle du Mouhoun.
· An Operations update n°1 was issued on 18 March 2013 to announce a four months’ operation timeframe extension in order to complete another food voucher distribution and implement some delayed activities such as seeds and tools distributions on time for the planting season of June 2013.
Summary: Due to low donor response, the appeal was revised downwards to focus mainly on food vouchers, seed distribution, and sensitization sessions on food hygiene and food management education. The implementation of the appeal plan of action was delayed until the arrival of the operations manager in mid-July 2012 and despite the appeal revision which included new needs identified by the Burkina Faso Red Cross including support to refugees from Mali and the host community, people affected by floods and an outbreak of cholera, no additional funding was made available to support the implementation of these additional activities. The revised objective was to reach 11,000 agro-pastoralist families plus an additional 1,500 families hosting Malian refugees has been reached with up to 11,522 households receiving food assistance and livelihood assistance as follows:
· 1,100 households (5,500 beneficiaries received emergency assistance through DREF start-up funding of CHF 113,532 for the distribution of the first food vouchers for two months rations in Tin Akoff, in the province Oudalan, in the Sahel region only.
· Between September 2012 and June 2013, three food voucher distributions took place for the same beneficiary households in the four regions:
o In September 2012, 11,522 agro-pastoralist households (76,734 beneficiaries) received 51,634 food vouchers to purchase cereals during the emergency response phase
o In February 2013, 10,449 households (74,340 beneficiaries) received another month’s worth of 47,064 food voucher distributed for the recovery.
o In June 2013, 10,610 households (74,982 beneficiaries) received a final batch of 47,825 food voucher distribution combined with certified seeds to cover the loan season and on time for the main 2013 planting season.
· 50,000 beneficiaries and community members received appropriate sensitization and awareness sessions on good nutritional practices, food management and hygiene promotion on site during the food voucher distributions.
· 23,501 students and teachers from 90 primary schools targeting children have benefited sessions on: disaster risk reduction; on food insecurity sensitization and preparedness; on improved nutritional practices and sanitation and hygiene promotion.
· 120 trained community based volunteers supported the process of beneficiary identification in the six originally targeted regions. In addition the training also benefited the following BRCS’ staff and volunteers: 10 supervisors; 33 team leaders, 10 social action agents.
· 240 volunteers have been involved in the food voucher distributions in the four target regions and received training on food management and hygiene education.
· 9 team leaders have received in February 2013 training and briefing on vulnerability capacity assessments (VCA) and new evaluation tools in order to continue monitoring the vulnerable targeted communities and take part in a food security VCA mission that took place in three districts (9 villages) s during the month of June 2013.
· 175 women-led market-garden associations received 175 donkey driven ploughs on time for use for the coming main 2013 planting season, ultimately benefiting 5,500 households.
Financial situation: A total of CHF 1,881,934 was received out of the CHF 2,093,813 sought by the revised appeal which represents 90 per cent coverage. However since the appeal revision no additional funding was received to fund the cholera or shelter needs. The activities therefore focused solely on the revised plan of action for food security.
Contributions to the appeal have been received from the Finnish Red Cross/ Government , Netherlands Red Cross/ Government/Emergency Silent Fund, Canadian Red Cross/ Government, British, Japanese and Monaco Red Cross Societies for which we are most grateful.
