Welcome to ECA

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Welcome to ECA
East and Central Africa Team Burundi, CAR, Chad
, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Egypt, Democratic Republic
of Congo, Djibouti, Kenya, Republic of Congo,
Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
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Team Personnel - Washington

• Regional Coordinator- Ian MacNairn
• Disaster Operation Specialists Kasey Channell,
  David Lillie, Tim McRae, Pia
  Wanek
  
• Information Officers Ngoc Clark, Colin
  Thomas-Jenson, Marian
  Spivey-Estrada, Shannon Rogers
  
• Expanded Team Caroline Abla (Nutrition), Nancy
  Egbert (Health),
  
  Marion Pratt (Social Science and gender),
  Laura Powers and Julie
  March (Food Security)

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Team Personnel Field

• East and Central Africa Regional Office (ECARO),
  Kenya
  
• Principal Regional Advisor Jack Myer
• Regional Information Officer Sonya Laurence
  Green
  
• Sudan Field Officer -- John Kimbrough
• Ethiopia
• Emergency Disaster Response Coordinator Heather
  Evans
  
• Sudan
• Senior Humanitarian Advisor -- Kate Farnsworth
• Program Officers Jacquelyn Poole-Galdas, Jim
  Conway
  
• DRC
• Program Officers Jay Nash, Victor Bushamuka
• Burundi
• Emergency Disaster Response Coordinator Denise
  Gordon
  

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ECA FY 2004 Disaster Overview

• FY 2004 activities focused on meeting needs in
• Sudan
• Darfur (DART/RMT)
• Ethiopia
• DRC
• Burundi
• Uganda

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FY 2004 ECA Summary by Country
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FY 2004 ECA Summary by Sector
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FY 2004 Darfur Complex Emergency Response
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FY 2005 Outlook - Darfur

• Prioritize efforts to reduce and prevent excess
  mortality.
  
• Strongly encourage the submission of creative,
  innovative proposal ideas.
  
• Continue to focus assistance support to IDPs.
• Expand staff presence and technical capacity to
  support Darfur response.
  
• Continue to develop longer-term strategies for
  Darfur.

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Darfur Response

• OFDA provided more than 71.6 million to support
  health, nutrition, food, water and sanitation,
  security, emergency relief commodities, shelter,
  logistics, and coordination in Darfur.

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FY 2004 Sudan Complex Emergency Response
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Sudan FY 2005 Program Vision
IDP Focus integrated into all programming Progr
am sectors health/nutrition, water/sanitation,
livelihoods, food security/agriculture, animal
services, relief commodities Key geographical are
as transition zones, garrison towns, NE Sudan
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USAID Sudan Management Structure

• Sudan Field Office, Khartoum, Darfur, Washington
• Juba Plan
• Fragile States Strategy

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FY 2005 Ethiopia Complex Emergency Concerns
6 to 8 million vulnerable and require food
assistance 15 million would require assistance if
main rains fail Resettlement GFDRE taxation and
trade policies - livestock cross-border
Land Poor market linkages Insufficient infrastru
cture and government capacity
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FY 2005 Outlook - Ethiopia

• Geographical focus Southern Nations, Somali,
  Oromiya, Gambella
  
• FY 2005 focus water/sanitation,
  health/nutrition/rapid response, food
  security/livelihoods interventions
  
• Recovery initiatives vs. cyclical nature of
  drought emergencies

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FY 2004 Ethiopia Complex Emergency Response
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FY 2005 Response - DRC

• Food security seeds/tools, seed multiplication,
  FFW, CFW, road/rail/barge/ferry rehab to
  facilitate market access/livelihoods support
  
• Health PHC, vaccinations, water/sanitation,
  TFC/SFC, nutrition

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FY 2004 DRC Complex Emergency Response
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FY 2005 Concerns - Burundi

• Political processes next six months
• Reinstallation of returning populations
• Limited health access, malaria
• Food insecurity, malnutrition
• Insufficient water/sanitation coverage
• Cassava Mosaic Disease (CMD) in the north

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FY 2004 Burundi Complex Emergency Response
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Burundi FY 2005 Response Framework

• Annual Program Statement (APS) Linking Food
  Security and Nutrition proposals due December 10,
  2004
  
• Support to displaced/returnees
• Linkages to transitional, conflict mitigation
  activities

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FY 2005 - Uganda

• Peace process, LRA, NUPI
• IDP support is a priority, given the 1.5 million
  displaced night commuters
  
• Focused Water/sanitation, Health, Nutrition,
  Emergency Relief Items
  
• Linking with USAID/Uganda planning for possible
  post-conflict reintegration, agriculture,
  public health
  

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FY 2004 Uganda Complex Emergency Response
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Greater Horn of Africa

• Kenya
• Somalia
• Eritrea
• Djibouti

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Regional Horn of Africa Issues

• Rains/Food Insecurity
• Cross border concerns and implications
• Pastoralist initiative and Annual Program
  Statement (APS)