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West and Central AfricaChildren and women in crisisHumanitarianfunding at work:Highlights from 2010UNICEF estimated thatUS$40,025,300 was neededto fund its humanitarian workin West and Central Africa in2010. As of October 2010, atotal of US$4,911,757 had beenreceived, representing 12 percent of the goal. Nonetheless,UNICEF developed regionalsupply hubs in Douala andAccra to ensure rapid deliveryof ready-to-use therapeuticfood for the Sahel nutritioncrisis. Over US$1 million wasraised via the ConsolidatedAppeals Process (CAP) tovaccinate 1,178,000 peopleagainst meningitis andincrease vaccine stocks inChad and Burkina Faso.Regional emergency fundswere deployed for the firstphase of flood interventionsin Benin and Burkina Fasoand for pre-election preparednessin the Central AfricanRepublic and Guinea. Regionalteams provided training onminimizing school disruptionsduring emergencies forgovernment and NGO partnersand country office staff (Benin,Gambia, Ghana, Mauritania,Senegal, Sierra Leone andTogo) and on protectingchildren separated fromfamilies in displacements forpolice forces and governmentpartners (Chad, Côte d’Ivoire,Ghana, Senegal, Sierra Leoneand Togo).Life in West and Central Africa is marked by chronic poverty, recurringfood insecurity and poor diets that have left a generation of childrenundernourished. Cyclical drought, severe pressure on limited naturalresources and outdated farming practices cripple food production inthe Sahel region; in 2010, nearly 10 million people faced a seriousfood crisis, while 859,000 children under 5 years old needed treatmentfor severe acute malnutrition. 1 Natural and human-made hazards multiplythese needs and have taken a toll on infrastructure and accessto basic services, hastening the spread of epidemics: during 2010,cholera, meningitis, measles and polio epidemics occurred in at least20 countries in the region. The death rate among infants and childrenunder age 5 in West and Central Africa is the highest in the world, 2 andmore than a dozen countries in the region rank at the bottom levels ofthe Human Development Index. 3Meeting urgent needs and building resilience in 2011UNICEF’s West and Central Africa Regional Office will continue to provide technical, coordinationand planning support to help country offices assist millions of vulnerable people throughoutthe region. The regional office will also distribute funds to country teams in several countriesto cope with ongoing, smaller-scale emergencies that nevertheless require a coordinatedresponse and adequate resources.• To enhance disaster risk reduction, an emergency regional fund will be established and usedto increase surge capacity and maintain regional supply hubs in Douala, Cameroon, and theUN Humanitarian Response Depot in Accra.• The regional office will monitor nutrition conditions by providing assistance withmethodology, training or analysis for at least one nutrition survey, using SMART (specific,measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound) methods, in each country.• Technical support will bolster assistance to governments trying to control outbreaks ofmeningitis, cholera and measles. To have vaccine stocks ready, UNICEF will map areas athigh risk for cholera, focusing on the central area (Cameroon, Chad, the Niger and Nigeria),and the coastal area (Benin, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Togo).• UNICEF will develop home-based water treatment and storage strategies. The regionalteam will reinforce national and local preparedness by promoting hygiene, includingadequate hand-washing practices and water treatment strategies in areas at high riskfor cholera.• In anticipation of a potential humanitarian crisis resulting from the referendum in SouthernSudan, country offices in the Central African Republic, Chad and the Democratic Republic ofthe Congo are updating their multi-hazard preparedness plans based on UNHCR planningfigures. The regional office is seeking funding to pre-position emergency supplies and deploysurge resources for the early phase of any potential emergency response.• The West and Central Africa Regional Office will channel funds and surge resources tosupport country offices as they coordinate emergency response, with a focus on rapidonsetemergencies, particularly in countries without access to resources through a separateHumanitarian Action for Children appeal.60 2011 UNICEF Humanitarian Action FOR CHILDREN | www.unicef.org/hac2011
Funding requirements for 2011 4The UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office is requesting US$18,044,000 to providetechnical support, coordination, planning and other assistance to further UNICEF’s humanitarianresponse in the region. This includes US$9,751,000 to support countries not separatelyprofiled in this Humanitarian Action for Children publication.More information about achievements during 2010 and UNICEF’s humanitarian actionplanned by the West and Central Africa Regional Office in 2011 can be found atwww.unicef.org/hac2011 and at the regional office website, www.unicef.org/wcaro.1. ReliefWeb, ‘Sahel: Snapshot on the food crisis’, United Nations Office for the Coordination of HumanitarianAffairs, Geneva, 19 April 2010, p. 1.2. United Nations Children’s Fund, et al., ‘Levels & Trends in Child Mortality: Report 2010 – Estimates developedfor the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation’, UNICEF, New York, 2010, p. 16.3. United Nations Development Programme, ‘International Human Development Indicators’, UNDP, New York,2010, , accessed 2 December 2010.4. Six-month Emergency Humanitarian Action Plans (EHAP) for Liberia and for Côte d’Ivoire and neighbouringcountries (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, and Mali) were launched on 14 January 2011 in response to thehumanitarian consequences of the political crisis in Côte d’Ivoire. The UNICEF requirements of US$5,715,593and US$5,696,627 through the respective EHAPs are in addition to the Humanitarian Action for Children requirementsfor these countries. Humanitarian needs are likely to be reviewed as inter-agency assessments are carriedout and as the volatile situation changes.UNICEF EMERGENCY NEEDS FOR 2011 (in US dollars)Total $18,044,0002,950,000 Nutrition5,725,000 WASH2,689,000 Education3,225,000 Emergencypreparedness andresponse planning1,300,000Health1,355,000Child protection800,000HIV and AIDSWest and Central Africawww.unicef.org/hac2011 | 2011 UNICEF Humanitarian Action FOR CHILDREN 61
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