Executive summary
The Eastern Africa region covers 14 National Societies (NS) - Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. The region has four country representations in Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia and two other representations covering the Indian Ocean Islands and east Africa countries. Initially, this region was known as the Eastern Africa Zone (EAZ). With the restructuring, three former Africa zones (Eastern Africa, Southern Africa as well as the Western and Central Africa Zone), have been merged into one zone. Thus, an Africa Zone plan will be established once the restructuring has been completed. This will be done through a process of budget and plan revision. As a result, this plan will be referred to as the “Eastern Africa sub-Zone Plan”. The Eastern Africa region continues to experience major disasters which claim many lives, destroy property and erode the already weak livelihoods of the communities affected. Disasters experienced in the recent past include floods, heavy rains and land slides, cyclones, earthquakes and drought. Conflict and clashes are also common in the region.
The disaster management (DM) programme, in line with Global Agenda 1, will focus on the following outcomes to address some of these challenges: (a) the sub-Zone and NS have structural and human capacities to respond effectively to disasters; (b) the resilience of individuals and communities to mitigate disaster risks is strengthened and their vulnerability reduced;(c) the response to disasters and/or emergencies is effective and timely and recovery is promoted through appropriate livelihood programmes and (d) coordination and networking between sub-Zone and NS is strengthened for effective disaster response and preparedness.
In line with Global Agenda 2, the health and care programme will focus on the following outcomes: (a) vulnerability to HIV and AIDS and its impact is reduced through preventing further infection, expanding care, treatment and support, and reducing stigma and discrimination; (b) strengthened water and sanitation (WatSan) programming and emergency response capacities at NS level;(c) strengthened community and emergency health programming at NS level;(d) strengthened community health programming at NS level and;(e) human morbidity and mortality, massive social disruption and related suffering caused by a pandemic minimized.
Within the overall vision of inspiring, encouraging, facilitating and promoting humanitarian activities by National Societies1, the Organisational Development (OD) plan is a response to the needs expressed by the National Societies in the sub-Zone. The OD plan aims at delivering support around four (4) main outcomes, namely, (a) NS are supported towards becoming strong and sustainable organisations that provide quality services to vulnerable nationwide, (b) governance and management of NS are strengthened for effective leadership and service delivery, (c) NS are supported with tools and resources for volunteer management and grassroots development, and (d) the base of youth volunteers in NS are strengthened.
PMER will continue to focus on the following outcomes: (a) improved understanding of key programming elements in the core Federation programmes by National Societies and sub-Zone staff; (b) effective and efficient management of programmes by NS and the sub-Zone through effective PMER systems and structures; (c) increased compliance to donor reporting requirements among NS and the Federation Secretariat staff; (d) enhanced skills, capacity and learning in NS and sub-Zone units to deliver quality programmes. The sub-Zone Communications Unit will focus on enhancing structural and human capacity to profile IFRC/NS operations and activities; enhance communications capacity of NS and improve the understanding of Red Cross and Red Crescent actions.
The total 2010-2011 budget is CHF 6,655,075 (USD 6,278,373 or EUR 4,378,339)
