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
Questions?