The European CommissionHumanitarian Aid department

DG ECHO

European solidarity with the world’s most vulnerable

people

The European Union’s mandate to ECHO [Regulation (CE) n° 1257/96] is to provide emergency assistance and relief to the victims of natural disasters or armed conflict outside the European Union.

ECHO mandate

ECHO’s Mandate

Values: respect for human dignity, solidarityMandate: save lives, assist the most vulnerable people, victims of natural or man-made disastersPrinciples: provide free and direct assistance to people in needs, regardless of their race,

ethnic group, religion, gender, age, nationality, or political affiliation

Surveillance

Mission to the disaster site

Disaster

Recommendations for ECHO Brussels

Decision to release funds

Monitoring

How do we respond?

Cyclone Nargis 2008 - 2010

Primary Emergency: 2 M EuroFood Aid: 5 M EuroEmergency: 10 M EuroAd Hoc: 22 M Euro

Conflict in Mindanao

8 M Euro

Primary Emergency: 2 M EuroEmergency: 7 M Euro

Typhoon Ketsana

ECHO DEPLOYMENTS in E/SEA and the Pacific 2009 – 2010

European Commission DG-ECHO, Regional Support Office for East and South-East Asia

Typhoon Ketsana

Primary Emergency: 2 M Euro Emergency Decision: 7 M Vietnam , Laos, Cambodia

Earthquake IndonesiaPrimary Emergency Decision 3 M Euro

High Sea Levels

Emergency Decision 0.7 M, PNG and Fiji (0.45 M for PNG)

Cholera Outbreak- PNG

Emergency: 0.65 M Euro

Laos : Rodent infestationEmergency Decision 1.5 M Euro

Samoa - Tsunami

Emergency: 0.15 M Euro

Burma/Myanmar Thailand

Global Plan: 35.7 M Euro

ECHO operations in East, South East Asia and the Pacific 2009 - 2010

Working through partnersWorking through partners

And more…

NEEDS ASSESSMENTs: the challenge

Currently:Insufficient experienced human resource capacity to pull together information-gathering efforts Responses often developed without sufficiently comprehensive picture of needs

Results in:Fragmented picture of needSignificant duplication of time, effort and fundsAssessment fatigue amongst beneficiaries

NEEDS ASSESSMENTS: Recurrent issues

-Baseline data not up to date-Multiple methodologies butno data comparability

-No consensus among field actors,

-N.A linked to fundraising,

-Potential conflict of interest

-Issue in coordination

-Non integrated information system -Assessment fatigue

-Limited transparency, reliability, credibility and objectivity of sources

-Biased information because of access difficulties to certain problem areas

-Etc ..

NEEDS ASSESSMENTS:The main problems!

The lack of a consistent use of common needs assessments, particularly in the initial phases of

sudden onset emergencies

The lack of a standard template or tool for initial assessments to be used by country teams

Ideal situation (CNA) = an assessment carried out by joint teams composed of different cluster representatives, as opposed to assessments carried out by different agencies according to different methodologies, with overlap and contradictions

Objectives Common Needs Assessment:

Strengthen coordination amongst donors and partners >>> promote joint needs assessments >>> integrate all resources from different sources!Respect multi sectoral scopeShare results and bring results into one master priority list and deduct action plan from thisInclude capacity of affected population and governments Disconnect assessments from funding requests? >>> Independent assessors? Better Assessments = Better Aid

Global Needs Assessment Framework

Phase: 0 Phase: 1 Phase: 2 Phase: 3 Phase: 4Disaster

Annual programming for recovery

GNA (ECHO), CIDA (Canada)

IPC NAF

SPHERE …SMART

Humanitarian Dashbord

COMMON NEEDS ASSESSMENT (CNA)

Common Classification system

Data collection tool

Common assessment Standards

NICS ..

INAC: Initial Needs Assessment INAC: Initial Needs Assessment ChecklistChecklist

THANK YOU

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