This report covers the period: 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013
Overview Programme outcome The Africa Zone comprises the Africa Zone Office, plus 15 regional and country representations, which in turn support 49 African National Societies. The broad objectives address IFRC business lines to help raise humanitarian standards (Business Line 1), strengthen National Societies (Business Line 3), and deepen the Red Cross Red Crescent’s tradition of togetherness (Business Line 5). It also provides technical assistance to services in disaster and crisis management (Business Line 2) and sustainable development (Business Line 3). The strategic direction for the period 2012-2015 is spelled out in the Long –Term Planning Framework, which was updated for 2014. The current document reports against objectives of the previous LTPF in force in 2013. The revised LTPF for 2014-2015 is available online at: http://adore.ifrc.org/Download.aspx?FileId=53557.
Overall in Africa in 2013, highlights include:
Response to 47 emergency operations (11 Emergency appeals; 36 DREF operations) --totalling CHF29M.
Development programmes totalling CHF 32M, mainly in disaster preparedness and risk reduction, as well as in health and social services.
Initiation of supplemental services of IFRC as principle recipient under Global Fund Niger Round 10 Tuberculosis and Central African Republic Round 8 Malaria, pointing the way to future external partnerships.
Unrestricted/Statutory funding of staff and offices at Zone and regional level, providing representation, technical assistance and a range of other support totalling CHF 5M
As follow up to the 2012 Pan African Conference agreements, establishment of the innovative peer support and accountability African Governance Group (AGG) system, including the AGG-African Governors Board (AGB), targeting 9 priority African National Societies in trouble to help them recover.
Dissemination of the Africa DM Framework and Standard Operating Procedures for emergency response
Reviews/evaluations/ lesson learned after disaster response operations
Development of an RDRT strategy for Africa and increased number of RDRT/NDRT/ERU-trained members in the zone
Strengthened support for Senegal River Basin initiative
Transition for Niger, Nigeria and Liberia to be established as fully-fledged country representations.
Representation in IFRC General Assembly in Sydney.