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Activity under preparation Special Measure for Syria 2021 The Overall Objective of the action is to address resilience and self-reliance needs of communities and local agents for change in Syria in manner that promotes inclusive and active citizenship, preserves social fabric and ultimately creates conditio | Significant |
#TogetherWeCanEndTorture IRCT 2022-24 Outcome 1 - Healing: Torture Survivors receive the best possible support to rebuild their lives and have more space to make their voices heard:
• IRCT member capacity improved to provide rehabilitation through use of Global Rehabilitation Standards to over 50,000 torture survivors, of whom at least 50% are women, annually worldwide;
• Survivors’ rehabilitation improved through IRCT members integrating livelihood support into rehabilitation;
• Survivor agency improved through IRCT members engaging survivors through provision of safe and inclusive spaces.
Outcome 2 - Justice: States improve their laws, policies and practice on justice, reparation, and prevention of torture:
• IRCT forensic evidence and expert opinions contribute to increased State accountability and justice for survivors through public exposure of violations, strategic litigation, public advocacy;
• Global, regional, and national anti-torture laws, policies and mechanisms are improved based on IRCT advocacy;
• Civil society actors and state institutions have capacity, tools and resources to be effective and influential in the fight against torture;
• IRCT is a strong and ethical organisation in the anti-torture ecosystem.
Justification for support:
• The fight against torture is an important part of Denmark’s efforts to protect and promote human rights as well as a priority in the new Development Cooperation Strategy;
• Torture is still practised in more than 100 countries and its impact is felt in every place there is a survivor. IRCT’s members have a unique knowledge of rehabilitation gained through decades of clinical practice and human rights advocacy. | Principal |
PEGASE: Direct Financial Support to Recurrent Expenditures of the Palestinian Authority 2022 The PEGASE programme aims at contributing to a democratic, accountable, economically viable Palestinian state as well as the fulfilment of social rights. The specific objectives are: (1) improved access to social public services for all; (2) improved inclusiveness, effectiveness, efficiency and transparency in policy making and budgeting. The action's objectives and policy related outputs (indirect outputs) are underpinned by the following direct outputs: eased financing for social public services; enhanced administrative and technical capacity of the PA institutions; improved coordination with government, development partners and CSOs for enhanced policy dialogue at global and sector level; improved rights-based, and adaptive social systemsThe overall contribution of the EU for 2022 amounts to EUR 113 000 000. Key components of this Action are: a contribution to the payments of the salaries and pensions of civil servants (CSP, EUR 50 000 000), part of which is triggered by the fulfilment of the defined targets related to the agreed reforms in the following indicative areas of PFM, water, energy and health; a contribution to the social allowances to vulnerable families (cash transfer programme ¿ CTP, EUR 40 000 000); and a contribution to the payment for the referrals to the East Jerusalem Hospitals (EJH, EUR 13 000 000).In continuity with the PEGASE AD 2021, this AD aims at ensuring: a.) an increased weight of the results based component to stimulate reforms; b.) a stringent governance system to enhance policy dialogue and monitoring of implementation through a dedicated Steering Committee, c.) a more solid assessment of the reform process and its achievements through a system of external oversight, d.) strengthening the synergies with complementary capacity development activities and e.) the perspective of a multi annual reform agenda for key sectors as part of the overall policy discussion. In line with the overall ambition to contribute to the building of accountable, democratic, effective institutions ready for final statehood, the programme will engage in a constant policy dialogue with the authorities to ensure that progress is taking place in the broader area of democratic governance.PEGASE strong safeguard system of ex-ante and ex-post controls will be maintained. | Significant |
Sahel crisis 2021 - Save the Children Sweden HUM Project 2021-2025 Detta beslut och tillhörande beredning avser en ny insats (Beslut om insats, Insatshanteringsregeln 2.9 §) mellan Sida och Rädda Barnens Riksförbund (Rädda Barnen) för avtalsperioden 2021-2025. Beslut och tillhörande beredningar avser dessutom stöd till Rädda Barnens humanitära verksamhet under 2021-2024 (stöd för avtalsåren 2025 är avhängligt Sidas godkännande av Rädda Barnens fullständiga ansökan för respektive år enligt att-satserna ovan).
Aktuellt beslut omfattar finansiellt stöd till Rädda Barnen om 97 317 333 SEK under 2024.
Målet med insatsen (2021-2025) är att bidra till tre "Förändringar" (Breakthroughs) som identifierats inom Save the Children-rörelsen som del av dess vision för 2030. Dessa är att barn ska:
1. Överleva - inga barn dör av orsaker som kan förebyggas innan de fyllt fem år.
2. Lära - alla barn får del av kvalitativ grundläggande utbildning.
3. Vara skyddade - våld mot barn tolereras inte längre.
I ljuset av Sveriges "Strategi för Sveriges humanitära bistånd genom Styrelsen för internationellt utvecklingssamarbete (Sida) 2021-2025" kommer särskilt den tredje Förändringen - vara skyddade - att vara central, eftersom ett av strategins huvudmål är "Förbättrad förmåga att tillgodose skydd och assistans för krisdrabbade människor". Rädda Barnen kommer dessutom i hög utsträckning att integrera skyddskomponenter i sin multisektoriella assistans inom ramen för insatsens tema "Centrality of Protection". Detta tema syftar till att på ett holistiskt sätt minska skyddsrelaterade risker och svara upp mot skyddsrelaterade behov hos barn i kombination med andra projektkomponenter, snarare än att betrakta skydd som isolerat från andra delmål. During 2020, Sida's Unit for Humanitarian Assistance conducted an overview of ongoing strategic partnerships in order to ensure that partnerships were established with the most relevant and effective humanitarian actors to carry out Sida's Humanitarian Strategy. As a result of the overview, Sida has decided to appraise a new contribution and enter into a new strategic partnership agreement with Save the Children Sweden (SCS) for the period 2021-2025 (see archive number 2021-000057).
The total initial contribution to SCS in 2024 amounts to SEK 97 317 333.
The overall objective of the intervention is to contribute to the promotion of three Breakthroughs in the way children are treated in the world: Survive, Learn and Be Protected. These are part of the Save the Children movement's Vision for 2030 and are defined as remarkable and sustainable shifts from current trends that Save the Children aspires to work to achieve for children. Their respective objective is the following:
1. Survive: No child dies of preventable causes before their fifth birthday.
2. Learn: All children learn from quality basic education.
3. Be Protected: Violence against children is no longer tolerated.
One of the main comparative advantages of Save the Children is its competence in addressing protection-related concerns. For this reason, Centrality of Protection has been proposed as the thematic frame, making the Be Protected Breakthrough particularly central for its interventions during the agreement period.
Finally, in addition to these three Breakthroughs, the proposed contribution also aligns with Sweden's newly adopted "Strategy for Sweden’s humanitarian assistance provided through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) 2021–2025". Vision, Humanitarian Policy and Humanitarian Plan
The overall objective of the intervention is to contribute to the promotion of three Breakthroughs in the way children are treated in the world: Survive, Learn and Be Protected. These are part of the Save the Children movement's Vision for 2030 and are defined as remarkable and sustainable shifts from current trends that Save the Children aspires to work to achieve for children. Their respective objective is the following:
Survive: No child dies of preventable causes before their fifth birthday.
Learn: All children learn from quality basic education.
Be Protected: Violence against children is no longer tolerated.
For the upcoming agreement period 2021-2025, SCS has identified several aims under each breakthrough that it seeks to promote with Sida's humanitarian funding.
All Country Offices within Save the Children are to be held accountable for their contribution to the Breakthroughs through a combination of programming, promotion, advocacy, funding and public mobilization. This is assessed to require integrated expertise in health, nutrition, education, child protection, child poverty and child rights governance. The work will be undertaken by SCS as part of both its development and humanitarian programming.
The humanitarian sphere of work related to the Breakthroughs is anchored in the Save the Children movement's Humanitarian Policy - Our Approach to Humanitarian Action, adopted in 2019. It stipulates that Save the Children aims to deliver humanitarian assistance that is timely, appropriate, effective and accountable to the most vulnerable children, their families and communities. Furthermore, during 2021, the work is guided in particular by its Humanitarian Plan 2021 - Children Cannot Wait. The plan is structured around four pillars, of which the first three align with the three strategic Breakthroughs: Child Survival, Access to Education, and Child Protection. The fourth pillar is Avoid Negative Coping Mechanisms, which sets out the aim for Save the Children to promote increased income opportunities, CVA for basic needs, in-kind food when CVA is not appropriate, as well as government social protection schemes. The overarching ambition of the Plan is for Save the Children to respond to the humanitarian needs of 15.7 million people, including 9.4 million children, in 2021.
Finally, to achieve the Breakthroughs, Save the Children emphasizes the importance of standards in its programming. For this reason, its Humanitarian Policy commits the organization to ensure that its programming consistently aligns with and integrates the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), the Sphere standards, the Inter- Agency Network for Education In Emergencies (INEE) minimum standards, and the Child Protection Minimum Standards (CPMS).
Centrality of Protection
In 2019, a Centrality of Protection policy and strategy was endorsed in line with the Interagency Standing Committee (IASC) Principles Statement on the Centrality of Protection in Humanitarian Action (2013). Through the statement, protection became recognized as the purpose and intended outcome of humanitarian action. For Save the Children, the commitment to Centrality of Protection is built around six policy statements:
1. Ensure capacity of humanitarian staff to understand, recognise and respond to violations of International Humanitarian Law/International Human Rights Law/International Refugee Law/International Criminal Law and uphold humanitarian principles in humanitarian crises.
2. Adopt a conflict-sensitive approach to the centrality of protection.
3. Systematize the approach to child protection analysis and integration in humanitarian crises.
4. Commit to the identification, response, monitoring and reporting of grave and other serious child rights violations.
5. Define the organizational position and develop an appropriate response when identifying the erosion of the international legal framework for upholding child rights in humanitarian contexts.
6. Strengthen interagency collaboration, including as a Cluster Lead agency, and use that to promote child rights within the humanitarian protection architecture.
For SCS's Sida-funded Humanitarian Program 2021-2025, Centrality of Protection has been proposed as the thematic frame, making the Be Protected breakthrough particularly central for its interventions. It would entail a broader conceptualization of protection than during the agreement period 2017-2020, which had the thematic frame Children and Armed Conflict, with a specific focus on Protecting Children in Conflict. The key difference would be moving beyond preventing protection risks faced by children through child protection-focused interventions, towards integrating the mitigation of protection risks into all SCS's sectors of work whenever relevant. The ambition is to promote a more comprehensive and holistic approach to addressing child protection concerns in contrast to doing so in isolation.
Initial Allocation 2021
In alignment with Save the Children's ambitions related to its Vision for 2030 and the three strategic Breakthroughs, its Humanitarian Policy, its Humanitarian Plan, as well as Sida's Humanitarian Strategy, SCS has submitted a Full Project Proposal to Sida for 2021. Sida has reviewed these proposals and drawn the conclusion that they align well with the abovementioned priorities as well as the proposed Centrality of Protection thematic frame. Below, a short description is provided for the proposed projects to be supported by Sida as part of the initial allocation 2021. The activity period for each project is 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022, which corresponds to the 2021 work year.
I. Annual Projects (in line with the most recent Humanitarian Response Plans)
Iraq - SEK 15,000,000
Three years after the end of Iraq’s conflict against ISIS, the impacts of fighting remain high. In 2020, more than 4.1 million people were in need of some form of humanitarian assistance, and it is estimated that over 2.3. million individuals will be in need of protection services in 2021. Moreover, 1.3 million people are estimated to be internally displaced, many of whom facing additional vulnerabilities as a result of the Government of Iraq's announcement in October 2020 that all camps and informal locations for Internally Displaced People (IDP) are to be closed.
Save the Children has significant experience of addressing humanitarian needs in Iraq. In their activities, they include capacity strengthening for the Department of Labour and Social Affairs and other local actors working with child protection-related issues. Furthermore, Save the Children has a strong localization focus, with 40 % of the funds designated for the proposed intervention planned for to be forwarded to the three local implementing partners: Harikar; Al Sorouh for Sustainable Development Foundation; and Sahara Economic Development Organization.
Save the Children has previously reported good results from their interventions in Iraq and has contributed to the reduction of protection risks that vulnerable girls and boys and their caregivers face. Moreover, Save the Children is co-lead in the Child Protection sub-cluster and has a role to play in the future transition to development interventions in this area of work.
The project would be implemented in Ninewa (Mosul), Diyala (Mugidadia) and Dohuk (Sakho) with IDPs, recent returnees and vulnerable host communities as the targeted groups. The overall objective is to support the most vulnerable conflict-affected and displaced to survive and be protected through integrated protection, mental health and psychosocial support services, livelihoods and health actions. In alignment with the three Strategic Objectives of the draft HRP for 2021, this would be done by, inter alia, providing case management and positive parenting support services (benefitting 3,420 children and youth), multipurpose cash grants (1,320 children and 660 adults), life skills trainings (300 youth), promoting health awareness (3,000 children and 10,000 community members) and capacitating local actors to lead protection-oriented responses (520 persons).
Mali - SEK 7,000,000
Of the estimated 13.5 million crisis-affected Malians, around 7.1 million are projected to be in need of humanitarian assistance in 2021 - an increase of 39 percent compared to 2020. Of these people, 3.5 million are estimated to be children. The worst affected region is Mopti, where approximately 42 % of the country's 311,193 IDPs reside (55 % of whom are women), food insecurity is pervasive and severe protection risks exist. The dire situation is mainly a result of different types of ongoing armed violence, but is compounded by poverty, weak state presence and climate change.
In alignment with the first three Strategic Objectives of the 2020 HRP, the proposed intervention targets 8,940 people living in Koro and Bankass circles in Mopti region (4,700 children and 3,790 adults). It is an integrated protection intervention with a strong focus on promoting sustained outcomes. The objective is to restore the psychosocial well-being and addressing the basic needs of populations affected by the armed violence as well as to strengthen the protective environment in the region. This would be done through the provision of protection and education services, cash assistance during the lean season, and the implementation of the protection cluster's Centrality of Protection action plan.
Of the budget, 60 % is designated for direct implementation by Save the Children, and the remainder for a planned partnership with a local organization. The partner organization is yet to be identified, and Sida is currently in dialogue with SCS related to this risk and potential contingency planning.
Capacity building and material support is also planned for to local state actors and community groups for them to sustain the protection support structure in Mopti following the finalization of the project. This includes developing an exit plan to be implemented during the last three months of the project (January to March 2022).
Mozambique - SEK 6,000,000
Ever since cyclone Kenneth struck the Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique in April 2019 causing widespread destruction, humanitarian needs have continued to increase. The main reason for this has been the parallel escalation of an armed conflict in the province that dawned in 2017. Between March and November 2020 alone, the number of IDPs quadrupled from around 110,400 to nearly 530,000. In total, over 1.3 million people are projected to be in need of humanitarian support in the province during 2021.
Sida has provided support to Save the Children for responding to humanitarian needs in Cabo Delgado since cyclone Kenneth in 2019 and is diversifying its partner portfolio from 2021. The proposed support for Save the Children aligns specifically with the third strategic objective of the 2021 HRP - addressing protection risks and needs of crisis-affected people. As such, it is foremostly a focused rather than an integrated intervention, and targets 33,346 people (13,338 children) in the districts of Chuire, Metuge, Montepuez and Pemba.
The intervention is planned for to be implemented in partnership with CARE International throught he COSACA consortium, which has been operating in Mozambique since 2007. It is focused around two Outcomes: child protection (led by Save the Children) and gender-based violence (led by CARE International. The overarching aim is to ensure crisis-affected people are protected and better able to withstand protection risks of current and future crises. Activities include case management support for unaccompanied and separated children as well as children exposed to Gender-Based Violence (GBV), and the provision of Psychosocial Support Services at Child Friendly Spaces.
South Sudan - SEK 10,000,000
In South Sudan, approximately 80 % of the population of 11.8 million live on less than USD 1 per day, with an estimated 8.3 million to be in need of humanitarian assistance and 7.7 million to experience food insecurity (IPC 3 or worse). One of the worst affected states is Jonglei where the armed conflict intensified in 2020, and where needs were compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic as well as floods. The latter in particular, and volatile weather and climate change in general, pose significant threats to many South Sudanese as the majority of the population rely on subsistence farming.
The objective of the proposed intervention is to improve food and income security of crisis affected people - including IDPs - in Bor South and Nyirol Counties of Jonglei State. The total number of people targeted is 52,183. The intervention would be integrated with an ongoing education project with the aim of building a safe and protective environment for children, which is currently receiving development support from Sida. This would foremostly be done by preventing dropout rates through cash assistance and livelihoods trainings, and by meeting nutritional needs of children under the age of five in order to prevent them from suffering physical or cognitive damages ahead of enrolling in school. The humanitarian project would be multisectoral - food security and livelihood, nutrition, child protection, mental health and psychosocial support, and with indirect links to education.
The project would contribute to the three Strategic Objectives of the 2020 South Sudan HRP: reducing morbidity and mortality; facilitating safe, equitable and dignified access to basic services; and enabling vulnerable people to recover from crisis, seek solutions to displacement and build resilience to acute shocks and chronic stresses. Save the Children would partner with the local organization Christian Recovery and Development Agency (CRADA) in Nyirol for part of the food security and livelihood component, and cooperate with the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Health, County Health Department, and Ministry of Gender.
Syria - SEK 10,000,000
About to enter its tenth year, the war in Syria has devastated the country, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to live in overcrowded camps with insufficient services and imminent protection risks. In two of these camps located in northeast Syria - Al Hol and Roj - over 64,400 people live. In Al Hol, 94 % of the residents are women and children, and 53 % are below the age of 12. Around 60 % of children are not receiving education, with Covid-19 having further exacerbated this situation. In Roj, 64 % of the residents are below 18 years old, many similarly missing out on education opportunities.
A barrier analysis conducted by Save the Children in mid-2020 indicated lacking access to services as a major concern, in particular for vulnerable groups such as girls and children with disabilities. The proposed intervention would address this issue through the provision of integrated protection, mental health, psychosocial, and education support reaching a targeted 1,700 children, 140 caregivers and 22 education facilitators. Activities include providing case management and psychosocial support services, making referrals, supporting child protection committees and promoting protective education opportunities.
The intervention would contribute specifically to Strategic Objective 2 - enhance protection and Strategic Objective 3 - increase resilience and access to services, of the 2020 HRP for Syria, published in late 2020. Being one of few NGOs with access to operate in the camps, Save the Children would be conducting all implementation, while seeking to advocate with camp authorities on child-related issues and strengthen community structures such as child protection committees and parent teachers associations to promote resilience.
Yemen - SEK 15,000,000
OCHA estimates that 24.1 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance (as of December 2020), which corresponds to around 80 % of the entire population. One of the governorates most severely affected by the war is Hajjah, with frontlines in Abs, Mustaba and Aslem where people suffer from severe deprivations and increased protection risks. In February 2019, for example, 62 % of cases of recruitment and use of children and 37 % of child casualties verified across the country were from Hajjah. In addition to the hostilities, displacement and lack of access are the main drivers of humanitarian needs, in particular food insecurity. Moreover, 5.5 million children were estimated to be in need of education assistance in 2020, with 161 schools in Hajjah unfit for use and girls being two times more likely th be withdrawn from school than boys.
The proposed support is for an integrated food security and livelihoods, child protection and education intervention to 7,800 people (no double counting) in Abs district and Hajjah city. This will be done by, inter alia, providing multipurpose cash grants to adolescents and caregivers to cover basic needs, most of whom would also receive complementary vocational training with the aim to improve their livelihoods resilience. With regards to child protection, moreover, support services would complement education efforts by targeting children attending temporary learning spaces with psychosocial support and case management when needed.
Save the Children's operations have previously suffered severely from restricted access - in 2019, merely 13 % of targeted beneficiaries for a Sida-funded project were reached in four northern provinces (including Hajjah), prompting Save the Children to shift its operations to southern Yemen in 2020. The outlook is currently that Save the Children would be able to conduct the intervention as planned for 2021, but Sida will need to engage in close dialogue with SCS during the year to ensure operations are running smoothly and that Sida is promptly informed otherwise.
Finally, Ansar Allah, largely in control of north Yemen, has been subjected to a terrorist designation by the US as of 19 January 2021. Sida, Unit for Humanitarian Assistance is therefore in close contact with its partners on the potential impact of the designation on the humanitarian situation in the country, as well as the SCS’s specific activities and presence. Moreover, a risk analysis is being developed by each partner to identify challenges and mitigation measures.
II. Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) - SEK 25,000,000
Part of the annual humanitarian budget is set aside for sudden onsets of humanitarian crises and as well as deteriorations of major ongoing ones. For these situations, Sida has a Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) that makes it possible to allow for the release of disbursed (but unallocated) funds for SPOs within 24 hours in order for them to swiftly respond when humanitarian needs suddenly emerge or severely deteriorate.
SCS has been assessed by Sida to have a strong capacity to respond to sudden onset crises in complex humanitarian contexts. For this reason, it is proposed that SCS receives SEK 25 million in RRM support for 2021.
III. Capacity Building and Method Development Support
Strengthening Humanitarian Access - SEK 3,409,000
As raised above, the latest Annual Report of the UN Secretary General on Children and Armed Conflict outlined an increase of 453 percent in incidents of denial of humanitarian access in 2019, representing a total of more than 4,400 incidents. In recent years, the respect for norms governing armed conflict and humanitarian action has eroded, which undermines the ability of humanitarian organizations to reach people in need of assistance and places the onus on communities themselves to ensure access to assistance and services. Moreover, access restrictions are sometimes further compounded by counterterrorism and sanction measures preventing engagement with actors that might be in partial or direct control over areas where humanitarian needs exist.
The objective of this intervention is to address these issues by strengthening access for humanitarians and communities in hard-to-reach areas. It is divided along three objectives:
1. Promote systematization of how Save the Children staff and partners engage in dialogue with armed actors. This includes providing, inter alia, capacity-building support for field workers and frontline teams in structuring their humanitarian negotiations.
2. Facilitate communities to access services. 2021 would be the first year of a two-year effort to assemble knowledge and understanding and develop guidance to promote community-led child protection. The ambition is for this to then be piloted in selected constituencies during 2022 (no such funding for year two proposed for in this Appraisal Memo).
3. Measuring the impact of denial of humanitarian access to children, including the effects of counterterrorism legislation. This would be done as a research project in partnership with Watchlist and the Fordham University's Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA) and be used for advocacy purposes.
This proposed project aligns with several objectives of Sida's Humanitarian Strategy's, in particular "Humanitarian assistance and protection activities reach people in hard-to-reach areas" and "Humanitarian actors have safe, unhindered and sustained humanitarian access to reach crisis-affected people".
Interagency Child Protection Programming - SEK 2,184,000
In a constantly evolving humanitarian landscape there is a need to ensure humanitarian actors respond to crises with quality and reach. To this effect, humanitarian standards are central instruments. Departing from this notion, the project aims to strengthen quality, accountability and efficiency in interagency child protection programming. It is based on two components: the Child Protection Minimum Standards (CPMS) and Cash and Voucher (CVA) assistance.
First, together with the Sphere Protection Principles, the CPMS provide for a foundation of advancing Centrality of Protection in humanitarian programming, which was incorporated in the CPMS during 2019. However, funding for child protection is limited and prioritization of Centrality of Protection across sectors is oftentimes lacking. The proposed project seeks to address this by supporting innovation and local leadership through the CPMS Innovation Fund - granting financial support to national and local actors to lead implementation of the CPMS. Moreover, advocacy is planned for at the global level on how multi-sectoral actors' commitment to the Centrality of Protection can be realized and trickle down to programming at the country level.
The second component seeks to strengthen the use and evidence base for CVA in interagency child protection programming, which in part is a continuation of activities funded by Sida in 2020. It includes (i) the finalization and dissemination of an integrated CVA and Child Protection Monitoring, Evaluation, Assessment and Learning (MEAL) toolkit, (ii) undertaking a desk review on CVA for child-headed households and unaccompanied children, and (iii) finalizing guidance on conditions and capacities required to work with child protection using CVA.
This proposed project also aligns with several objectives of Sida's humanitarian Strategy's, including "Reduced risk of violence, threats and abuse for crisis-affected people", and "Increased effectiveness and efficiency of the humanitarian system in line with Grand Bargain commitments".
IV. Global Surge Deployments - SEK 800,000
In 2017, a review was undertaken of the surge structure across the Save the Children movement, which resulted in a decision to transition it from a decentralized model where surge teams were hosted by different Members, to a centralized model hosted by SCI under what is called a Global Humanitarian Surge Platform (GHSP). The purpose was to increase the quality, speed and effectiveness of the global surge capacity, reducing the complexity of deployment procedures and increasing the visibility of supply and demand of staff. The GHSP was formally established in 2019, and managed 342 deployments in 2020.
The objective of Sida's proposed support to the GHSP is to ensure that Save the Children's humanitarian responses have access to rapidly deployable skilled and experienced staff needed to deliver high quality and timely humanitarian responses. During 2021, an estimated ten deployments of four weeks respectively are expected to be funded through Sida's support.
V. Operational and Technical Support - SEK 5 000 000
This support is provided to SCS's HQ in Stockholm in order to engender high-quality management of - and compliance with - the draft Agreement during 2021. The support is divided between "Operational Support", "Thematic and Quality Support", "Grants Management & Monitoring", and "Financial Management and Donor Relations".
Sida's assessment of this support is provided in more detail in section 5.1. below. | Significant |
Improving the living standards of the most vulnerable refugees through basic needs support (C-ESSN) <p>This Action intends to improve the living standards of the most vulnerable refugees under both temporary and international protection as well as humanitarian residency holders in Turkey through the provision of regular cash assistance to cover basic needs</p> | Significant |
COVID-19 Fund_AID_10943: Amhara Trachoma Elimination Program (ATEP) Fondo COVID-19_AID_10943: Amhara Trachoma Elimination Program (ATEP) COVID-19 Fund_AID_10943: The project aims at reducing trachoma prevalence rate by adopting the WHO SAFE strategy, with a particular focus on women, children and person with disability Fondo COVID-19_AID_10943: Il progetto mira a ridurre il tasso di prevalenza del tracoma, applicando la Strategia SAFE (WHO), con particolare attenzione alle donne, ai bambini e persone con disabilità | Principal |
Royal Academy of Sciences SIGHT - ”Beyond Building Back Better” 2020 Kungl. Vetenskapskademiens SIGHT - ”Beyond Building Back Better” 2020 Kungl. Vetenskapskademiens SIGHT - ”Beyond Building Back Better” 2020 Royal Academy of Sciences SIGHT - ”Beyond Building Back Better” 2020 | Significant |
Projet de Promotion de l'entrepreneuriat agricole, para-agricole et urbain auprès des jeunes et de Renforcement de la Société Civile Congolaise Contract related to: Projet de Promotion de l'entrepreneuriat agricole, para-agricole et urbain auprès des jeunes et de Renforcement de la Société Civile Congolaise - The proposed Action intents to contribute to Specific-Objective 1.3: Support CSOs as actors of good governance and development in partner countries and to the achievement of the related result 1.3: Civil Society Organisations¿ (CSOs) ability to engage as actors of good governance and development at country level is improved.The Action rolls out the EU support to country-level CSO initiatives aimed at implementing priorities reflected in the NDICI-GLOBAL Europe, Annex III CSO Thematic Programme and the subsequent draft Multiannual Indicative Plan for the same. In line with the policy of geographisation, a majority of funds under the CSO MAAP 2021-2024, will be allocated under the Action to support civil society in partner countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and Caribbean, and in Neighbourhood countries and Russia. Activities funded under the Action will support a broad range of civil society actors including and prioritising, but not limited to, women and youth organisations, In the framework of the Country Roadmaps for EU and Member States engagement with civil society (CSO Roadmaps), all initiatives under the Action will aim at and contribute to strengthening civil society partner¿s institutional and operational capacity through a comprehensive approach; enabling and ensuring their participation; and on improving the environment in which they operate. Particular attention will be paid to CSOs capacities to benefit from the digital transformation which will pay attention to accessible digital technology and reduce the gap on access to ICT. | Significant |
Quality Basic Education Pathways for Children (QBEP4Children) Following the double crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic and the military coup of February 2021, Myanmar and its people continue to suffer from a highly volatile and unstable political situation and an increasing socio-economic deterioration. As a consequence of the military coup conflict has, in addition, expanded into areas that were formerly stable, affecting an increasing number of people. This situation has a major impact on access of children and youth to basic education. Myanmar is facing an acute learning crisis, affecting particularly the most vulnerable children and youth. Schools closures, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the coup of February 2021, in combination with the resulting political and socio-economic crisis have negatively affected the learning of millions of children. The context is characterised by an increased politisation of education, and a deteriorating security situation, resulting in a number of barriers preventing the most vulnerable children¿s access to basic education. The Overall Objective of this action is to contribute to re-engagement with learning and continuity of access to quality, inclusive and equity-focused basic education for the most vulnerable children and youth in Myanmar. The Specific Objectives of this action are to:1) Improve safe and equitable access to learning for the most vulnerable children and youth in the targeted areas; 2) Increase availability of equity-focused quality teaching and learning for the most vulnerable children and youth in the targeted areas;3) Strengthen community, coordination, management and data systems to support the most vulnerable children and youth to access quality basic education. This action will contribute to the operationalisation of the Joint Response Framework (JRF) for the education sector, which has been prepared by development partners in response to the education crisis in Myanmar. More specifically, the action contributes to the basic education component of the JRF and has been jointly developed with Finland, who is also co-financing it. The action will be closely coordinated with other programmes funded by other donors in support of the JRF. The action will ensure a do no harm and conflict sensitive methodology, while a specific focus will be on ensuring an inclusive and gender balanced approach aiming at equity, strongly reflecting human rights-based considerations. In the absence of a MIP 2021-27 for Myanmar, this action is prepared as a Special Measure for adoption in 2022. This action contributes to SDG 4 `Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all¿. It also contributes to SDG 5 on gender equality, SDG 8 on decent work and economic growth, and SDG10 on reduced inequalities. | Significant |
Leave No-one Behind Programme in Ghana Extreme poor and marginalised women, men, girls and boys, including all people with disability and mental health conditions, are engaged, empowered and able to enjoy improved wellbeing, social and economic outcomes and rights. | Principal |
Ethiopia 2024 - NRC Humanitarian Country programmes 2021-2025 Norwegian Refugee Council - Norska flyktingrådet (NRC) - har ansökt om ett förnyat partnerskap med Sida 2021-2025.
2021
NRC har dessutom ansökt om finansiering på 364,5 miljoner SEK för att genomföra humanitära insatser i 26 humanitära krisområden under 2021: Afghanistan, Kamerun, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Demokratiska Republiken Kongo, Eritrea, Etiopien, Iran, Irak, Jordanien, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexiko, Palestina, Somalia, Sydsudan, Sudan, Tanzania / Burundi, Uganda, Venezuela och Jemen. Ansökan inkluderar även 40 miljoner kronor för den humanitära snabbmekanismen (RRM) och 20 miljoner kronor i stöd till sju projekt för metodstöd, kapacitetsuppbyggnad och samordning.
Den aktuella budgeten för NRC:s hela humanitära program 2021 uppgår till 4 263 200 000 NOK, varav Sidas del för närvarande utgör ca 8%. Sida ger NRC möjligheten att nyttja resurser flexibelt inom varje enskilt landprogram, (enligt så kallad Programme-Based Approach – PBA)
Humanitär-Utveckling-Fred Nexus
NRC bidrar i hög grad till arbetet för att sammankoppla humanitärt bistånd med freds- och utvecklingsinsatser. Organisationens strävan att effektivisera biståndet genom katalytiskt stöd till samordning och kapacitetsbyggande insatser bidrar till denna ansats. I samarbetet med andra organisationer möjliggör och bidrar NRC:s verksamhet och påverkansarbete till att stärka hållbara lösningar för flyktingar och människor som har blivit tvångsfördrivna och bidrar därmed till att på sikt minska de humanitära behoven. Även krisdrabbade människors möjligheter till självförsörjning prioriteras. NRC:s analyskapacitet är en styrka som bidrar till att programmeringen anpassas till en nexus-ansats och den analys som genomförs av NRC:s internationella center för övervakning av tvångsförflyttning (IDMC) är av stor vikt för dessa analyser. 19 av de 26 kriser i NRC:s portfölj som Sida finansierar avser länder där Sverige även bedriver utvecklingssamarbete vilket öppnar för möjligheter till synergier med humanitärt bistånd.
2022
NRC ska få totalt 455,5 miljoner kronor av Sidas humanitära finansiering, enligt följande fördelning:
- Sida kommer att stödja NRC:s humanitära program i 23 krissituationer som Sida har prioriterat genom sin behovsbaserade allokeringsmodell för 2022, med 288,5 miljoner kronor :Afghanistan, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia och
regionen (Ecuador, Panamà), Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jemen,
Jordanien, Kamerun, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria,
Palestina, Somalia, Sudan, Sydsudan, Syrien, Uganda, Venezuela.
- Flerårig finansiering för NRC :s humanitära program i Demokratiska
republiken Kongo, Mali och Nigeria inleds 2022 och Sida har för ändamålet att ta i anspråk 104 miljoner kronor från kommande års anslag från erhållen Bemyndiganderam förutsatt att Riksdagen anvisar tillräckliga medel.
- NRC:s akuta insatser vid plötsligt uppkomna kriser kommer att stödjas genom Sidas snabbinsatsmekanism (RRM) under 2022 med 50 miljoner kronor.
- NRC:s metod- och kapacitetsstärkande projekt för skydd, miljö och IDMC (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre) kommer under 2022 att få 13 miljoner kronor, varav 3 miljoner kronor från Sida/Globen för IDMC.
Sidas bidrag till NRC för 2022 kommer att täcka cirka 6,5 % av NRC:s totala finansiella behov för de stödda programmen och projekten. Det kommer att tillhandahålla humanitära tjänster till nästan 9 miljoner människor (53 % kvinnor) i Afghanistan, Kamerun, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia och regionen, Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jordanien, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria, Palestina, Somalia, Sydsudan, Sudan, Syrien, Uganda, Venezuela och Jemen.
HUM lägger till 50 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Ukraina som gynnar 90,000 människor med skydd, tak över huvudet, WaSH samt kontantbistånd. Beslut 5 April. Avtalförändring nr 5.
HUM lägger till 7,5 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Kamerun från halvsårsanslaget 2022 (livsmedelsförsörjning, juridik rådgivning för 600 husshållen/4200 individer i Logone-et-Chari, Mayo Sava och Mayo Tsanaga). Beslut 9 juni 2022. Avtalförändring nr 6.
HUM lägger till 10 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Sydsudan från slutsåranslaget. Beslut 16 november 2022, 2022-002341. Avtalförändring nr 7.
2023
NRC får totalt 659.5 miljoner kronor (2023-2025) av Sidas humanitära finansiering för att genomföra:
- humanitära insatser i 23
krisområden under 2023: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Centralafrikanska
republiken, Colombia, Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jemen,
Jordanien, Kamerun, Kenya, Libanon, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Palestina, Sudan,
Sydsudan, Syrien, Uganda, Ukraina och Venezuela.
NRC har dessutom ansökt om 244
miljoner kronor för att kunna fortsätta sina humanitära program i Jemen, Kamerun,
Sydsudan, Syria och Venezuela under 2024 och 2025.
- ansökan inkluderar även 50
miljoner kronor till den humanitära snabbinsatsmekanismen (RRM)
- och 40 miljoner kronor i stöd till fyra fleråriga projekt för metodstöd och kapacitetsuppbyggnad: Miljö, Skydd, Tillträde, IDMC (18,5 under 2023, 21,5 under 2024-2025). NRC has applied as well to Sida for funding of 364.5 million SEK to carry out “the Humanitarian Programme for 2021” in 26 humanitarian crisis settings: Afghanistan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Palestine, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania/Burundi, Uganda, Venezuela, Yemen. The application includes provision of 40 million SEK to replenish the Rapid Response Mechanism funding instrument and 7 individual projects for method, capacity-building and coordination.
The intervention’s tentative total budget is 4 263 200 000 Norwegian krona (NOK), that the organisation is financing with Sida’s funding in a proportion of 8% approximately. Other donors, like the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DG ECHO, UNHCR, etc. are the largest contributors, besides a dozen of other donors in agreement with NRC. Sida provides NRC with the opportunity to allocate resources flexibly within individual country programmes (Programme-Based Approach – PBA).
NRC's catalytic support for coordination and capacity building contributes greatly to the link between humanitarian aid, development and peace. NRC's advocacy work and activities enable, at least contribute to, sustainable solutions for refugees and displaced people in a significant way in cooperation with other actors. In the long run, the NRC will reduce humanitarian needs. The NRC prioritizes self-sufficiency in its programs. The NRC's analysis capability, not least through its Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC), is an advantage for relevant programming according to the nexus orientations. Among the 26 crises in NRC's portfolio that Sida prioritizes, there are 15 where Sida implements Sweden's development strategies in synergy with humanitarian aid.
Sida’s contribution to NRC for 2022 will cover around 6.5% of NRC’s total financial requirements of the supported programmes and projects. It will provides humanitarian services to almost 9 million persons (53% female). HUM adds 50 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in Ukraine benefiting 90,000 people with protection, shelter, WaSH and cash assistance. Decision 5 April. Amendment nr. 5.
HUM adds 7.5 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in Cameroon from the 2022 mid-year allocation (food security, legal advice for 600 households/4200 individuals in Logone-et-Chari, Mayo Sava and Mayo Tsanaga). Decision 9 June 2022. Contract amendment No 6.
HUM adds 10 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in South Sudan from the end-of-the-year allocation. Decision 16 November 2022 nr 2022-002341. Contract amendment No 7.
NRC targets 7.7 million unique beneficiaries in total within Sida-funded humanitarian programmes in 2023, (52% female), who will receive protection and humanitarian services from NRC: Education, WASH, Shelter and settlement, Food security and livelihoods, including multi-purpose cash assistance, Protection, Legal assistance, Humanitarian mediation (community-based peace-building). Advocacy and support to humanitarian coordination and durable solution to displacements working groups in the field are part of NRC's engagement that Sida is funding. NRC's annual budget 2023 in the settings and thematics prioritized by Sida amounts to 5620 million Norwegian crowns in total. Sida's share weighs so far 8% of it: NRC's third largest donor whose cumulated 2021-2025 grant is 80% softly earmarked (programme-based approach) and 34% multi-year.
Earlier granted multi-year funding for 2023 was disbursed in January (52 MSEK) in support to continued humanitarian operations in DR Congo, Mali and Nigeria with strong emphasis on emergency response. Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is Norway's largest international humanitarian organisation and widely recognized as a leading field-based displacement agency within the international humanitarian community. NRC is the INGO receiving the largest contribution from Sida's Humanitarian Unit to INGOs so far, based on experience of successful partnerships, NRC's capacities to respond at scale and its coverage of crises that Sida is prioritizing through the needs-based allocation approach. NRC receives approximately 8% of Sida's humanitarian unit's annual budget appropriation.
The objectives of NRC can be summarized as follows: "To protect the rights of displaced and vulnerable people during crisis, to provide assistance meeting their immediate humanitarian needs, to prevent further displacement and to contribute to durable solutions, and to provide expertise as a strategic partner to humanitarian systems and actors." NRCs main activity is delivery of humanitarian assistance through programme activities in the field. NRC specializes in six areas of expertise, or "core competencies": shelter and settlements; livelihoods and food security; information, counselling and legal assistance (ICLA); education; camp management; and water, sanitation and hygiene promotion (WASH). Protection is lifted up as a new core competency of NRC since 2021. NRC engages closely with the affected populations to understand their needs and capacities, ensuring it tailors its assistance accordingly and involve them in the entire programme cycle, from design through implementation to evaluation. NRC advocates for respect for the rights of displaced and vulnerable people.
In 2021, the NRC Board approved the Global Strategy 20222025. The strategy
sets out four sub-objectives for areas that NRC will continue to strengthen and further institutionalize, namely, 1. assistance to hard-to-reach populations, 2. humanitarian policy, 3. protection, and 4. durable solutions. It also points to four areas of work that will be accelerated through expanded engagement and investments: i) advocacy, ii) climate and environment, iii) collaboration with local actors, and iv) quality programming.
NRCs work is divided into three pillars: humanitarian assistance, advocacy and expert deployment. Sida's Humanitarian Unit funding will continue prioritizing mainly the first pillar through funding of the humanitarian country programmes in line with HRPs and the RRPs and through the RRM funding. To some extent, Sida will support as well the second pillar of advocacy which is integrated in the humanitarian country programmes and implemented by NRC's method, thematic and capacity development projects supported by Sida. Sida will provide NRC with only a punctual support to the third pillar, through funding to CashCap which is deploying experts to the field for invigorating cash assistance working groups (17 in 2020 to 16 countries).
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has applied for a renewed strategic partnership with Sida during 2021-2025.
The interventions tentative total budget is 4 263 200 000 Norwegian krona (NOK), that the organisation is financing with Sidas funding in a proportion of 8% approximately. Other donors, like the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DG ECHO, UNHCR, etc. are the largest contributors, besides a dozen of other donors in agreement with NRC. Sida provides NRC with the opportunity to allocate resources flexibly within individual country programmes (Programme-Based Approach PBA).
NRC was granted funding to carry out the Humanitarian Programme for 2022 in 24 humanitarian crisis settings: Afghanistan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Irak, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria, Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Ukraina, Venezuela and Yemen. The grant includes provision of funding replenish the Rapid Response Mechanism funding instrument and four individual projects for method, capacity-building and coordination.
Sida's assessment on performance and results
Alike many other actors in the sector, NRC excels in reporting activities and outputs, but should be better in catching what changes and impacts its interventions have resulted to ultimately on assisted communities. The reporting of data and results does not provide necessarily an accurate and consolidated overview of what NRC has achieved. Sida has notified NRC that it should provide dis-aggregated data by age in targeting and reporting which is a norm.
It is assumed that NRC will achieve its objectives in 2023 again, but the global stress on the current resource mobilisation system supporting humanitarian action may affect NRC as well, similarly to large humanitarian actors such as the ICRC. | Significant |
Decent Jobs for Egypt's Young People Des emplois convenables pour les jeunes de l'Égypte The project supports the Government of Egypt’s efforts to stimulate sustainable economic growth and provide appropriate jobs for young people, especially among groups such as women-headed households, people with disabilities, poor people living in rural areas and unemployed graduates. This project provides assistance to key government ministries, private sector partners, and not-for-profit organizations in implementing youth employment policies and programs. The project focuses on providing training and expertise aimed at helping young people secure jobs and start businesses. The project is implemented both at the national and regional level and through pilot projects on the ground; the project is expected to strengthen local capacities for implementing policy frameworks and best practices that can be scaled up at the national level. Le but du projet est de contribuer aux efforts du gouvernement égyptien de stimuler une croissance économique durable et de fournir des emplois appropriés pour les jeunes, surtout parmi les groupes tels que les ménages dirigés par des femmes, les personnes handicapées, les personnes pauvres vivant dans les zones rurales et les diplômés sans emplois. Ce projet aide les ministères clés du gouvernement, les partenaires du secteur privé, ainsi que les organismes sans but lucratif dans la mise en œuvre des politiques et programmes concernant l'emploi des jeunes. Le projet fournit de la formation et de l’expertise visant à aider les jeunes à trouver des emplois et démarrer des entreprises. Le projet contribue également à faire correspondre les compétences des employés avec les besoins des employeurs et ainsi renforcer le système du marché du travail. Le projet est mis en œuvre tant au niveau national et régional et grâce à des initiatives pilotes sur le terrain, le projet devrait renforcer les capacités locales pour la mise en œuvre des cadres stratégiques et favoriser les meilleures pratiques pouvant ensuite être étendues au niveau national. | Significant |
Activity under preparation EU Justice and Legal Empowerment Programme - Phase II (EU JULE ¿ Phase II) The Action aimsis to strengthen the Rule of law and promote human rights through an increasingly qualified, transparent, more inclusive, and independent justice system in line with international human rights standards. The Action is expected to have a long-term impact on developing a more egalitarian society in Vietnam, where people have access to justice and the rule of law through efficient, coordinated, and result-oriented justice and legal services. | Significant |
Activity under preparation YSB2: Technical Assistance to the 2nd Team Europe Youth Sounding Board for Zimbabwe <p>The overall objective of the project is to contribute to enhanced youth engagement and youth inclusion in the EU Delegation to Zimbabwe¿s programmes and policies. This will be achieved through two specific objectives:</p><p>To provide technical and administrative assistance to the Team Europe YSB to efficiently and effectively implement its role and fulfil its mandate.</p><p>To assist the EU Delegation in setting up the 3rd Youth Sounding Board by the end of the tenure of the 2nd Board in December 2026.</p> | Significant |
Jobs Compact Ethiopia The ‘Ethiopian Jobs Compact’ will support the Government of Ethiopia’s industrialisation efforts, creating over 100,000 jobs for Ethiopians and refugees residing in the country. The Compact will match international support for job creation in Ethiopia to the gradual relaxation of the limitations on labour market access for 30,000 refugees. The job creation elements of the Compact would focus on Ethiopia’s ambitious industrialisation plans. This would support improvements in the investment climate, investment promotion, and improving environmental and social standards in the manufacturing sector. This would create over 100,000 jobs, mainly for young women, in global value chains such as garments and textiles. Support to refugees would include the necessary legislative changes but also training, relocation, rehousing and protection measures for this vulnerable group. It is anticipated that some of these employment opportunities for refugees would be in the manufacturing sector. | Significant |
EEF: Engagerande medborgare, bemyndigande samhällen 2021-2025 EEF: Engaging Citizens, Empowering Communities 2021-2025 - New Strategy Engaging Citizens, Empowering Communities 2021-2025 Initiativet, med titeln "Engaging Citizens, Empowering Communities", kommer att bidra till utformningen och genomförandet av mer inkluderande offentlig policy på nationell och lokal nivå och kommer att erbjuda bättre möjligheter för missgynnade människor.
Detta femåriga projekt riktar sig till följande grupper: arbetslösa kvinnor och män från landsbygden, kvinnor och män i informell sysselsättning, unga kvinnor och män utan anställning eller i utbildning (NEET-ungdom); kvinnor och män med funktionsnedsättning; HBTQ; romska kvinnor och män; äldre kvinnor och män med låg inkomst. Dessutom kommer projektet att främja hållbarheten för utvecklad medborgarinfrastruktur samt integrera jämställdhet, miljöskydd och inkludering av kvinnor och män som bor i regionen Transnistrien. The initiative, titled “Engaging Citizens, Empowering Communities”, will contribute to the design and implementation of more inclusive public policies at national and local level and will offer better opportunities for the disadvantaged people.
In the context of this five-years project, the following groups are targeted: unemployed women and men from rural areas, women and men in informal employment, young women and men not in employment, education or training (NEET youth); women and men with disabilities; LGBT; Roma women and men; older women and men with low income. In addition, the project will pay due attention to fostering sustainability of developed civic infrastructure and mainstreaming gender equality, environmental protection, inclusion of women and men living in the Transnistrian region. Overall objective of the intervention is:
Vulnerable men and women are empowered and benefit from responsive policy-making and fulfilment of their human rights. In the context of this project, vulnerable groups are: rural population, unemployed, NEET youth, vulnerable older people, informal workers, persons with disabilities, Roma, LGBT.
The project is built around two impact outcomes corresponding to the two programmes of the project:
1) Vulnerable women and men enjoy civil and political rights and opportunities to exercise democratic influence.
2) Vulnerable men and women in targeted communities enjoy socio-economic rights and sustainable development opportunities.
Further the programmes will be implemented via 6 components.
Within the first component, Civil and political rights and democratic governance, three components will be conducted: 1) Civil society participation and oversight, 2) Community Journalism, 3) Free and Fair elections. Within the second component, Socio-economic rights, sustainable local development, another three components will be implemented: 1) Community mobilization, 2) Youth participation and Economic Empowerment, 3) Social Services and Economic Development.
All the components will build upon previously achieved results, such as:
Over 160 CSOs representing the vulnerable actively advocated for greater decisional transparency. They analysed over 80 public policies and monitored implementation of 10 public policies from the perspective of inclusion. By 2020 they managed to influence 29 policies (around 25% of targeted policies influenced to date).
CSOs that are part of the Press Council promoted pluralism and freedom of expression, and firmly demanded observance of ethical standards by Media institutions. Over 40 trained community journalists started to post articles about the issues faced in their communities.
Over 30 CSOs, united under the umbrella of the Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections, demanded fairer and more inclusive elections, reacting to abuses or misconduct of electoral authorities, electoral contestants, law-enforcement bodies.
Around 300 representatives of under-represented groups were empowered to stand as candidates in the elections; 97 of them (44 women, 42 Roma, 11 empowered youth from Gagauzia) ran for office; 38 beneficiaries succeeded (12 Roma, 24 women, 2 youth from Gagauzia).
Over 5000 mobilised men and women in over 74 communities increasingly scrutinised the work of public authorities, demanding greater transparency and accountability along with fairer allocation of available public resources for basic social rights.
Building on these results, the project will further strive for fulfilment of civil and political rights of vulnerable women and men
This development paradigm will guide the EEF intervention towards the fulfilment of civil and political rights of vulnerable women and men (Impact Outcome 1):
Opportunities to exercise democratic influence will be expanded by enabling inclusive CSO platforms representing vulnerable groups to actively provide evidence-based input into design and implementation of selected public policies. Continuous CSO engagement in policy dialogue will determine national authorities to accept more recommendations during policy design but also to up-scale policy implementation.
Capitalising on the network of partners throughout the country and the developed online platform for journalists (jurnalist.md), EEF will grow a new generation of community journalists, enabling them to report issues identified in their communities (corruption, unfair distribution of resources, unemployment, discrimination, etc.). Articulation of such issues, combined with local community mobilisation efforts, will increase critical thinking and pressure on national and local authorities to discharge their obligations.
EEF and its partners will build upon the achieved results in the area of inclusive elections, advocating for political inclusion (political funding, inclusion of minorities and persons with disabilities) and strengthening the decision-making capacity of elected women, Roma, persons with disabilities. Improved legislation will determine political parties - to be more inclusive, Central Electoral Commission - to hold democratic elections and local authorities - to ensure accessibility of polling stations.
Similarly, the above-mentioned considerations will also be employed for advancing implementation of social and economic rights and Sustainable Development Goals (Impact Outcome 2):
Rights of vulnerable women and men and basic needs in targeted communities will be better addressed through local NGOs representing vulnerable groups that actively mobilize disadvantaged women and men to (i) constructively engage with duty bearers, (ii) oversee local authorities’ performance, (iii) define and addressing most stringent community needs.
The program will enable local youth CSOs to facilitate involvement of young women and men in community assessment, fundraising, outreach, grant-making. Empowered youth groups will be supported to engage in meaningful policy dialogue with local authorities in order to demand fairer distribution of available resources, increased transparency and accountability. Due attention will be paid to working with employment services and pilot innovative actions designed to better target and facilitate employment of NEET young women and men. These approaches, coupled with seed funding for youth entrepreneurship ideas will lead to increased participation and economic empowerment of the young women and men in at least 10 districts.
Building on good practices achieved to date, EEF will empower local CSOs to engage in social service delivery and economic development targeting most vulnerable women and men. Due attention will be paid to preventing and fighting domestic and gender-based violence through local policy advocacy, legal, psychological counselling, as well economic empowerment of most vulnerable women and girls. EEF will support CSOs to develop work integration social enterprises (WISE). Additional efforts will be made to assist SMEs run by vulnerable groups to develop and reap the benefits provided by the AA/DCFTA by means of digitalisation, business assessment and support packages, matchmaking. This infrastructure will contribute to empowering vulnerable women and men to become active agents in their communities and demand from national and local authorities a more favourable environment for business and social enterprises. | Significant |
Mali 2022 - UNICEF Humanitarian Support 2022-2025 The proposed contribution aims to support United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) humanitarian programmes globally through the UNICEF Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) appeals which are in line with the UNICEF Strategic Plan for 2022-2025 and the Core Commitments for Children (CCCs) in Humanitarian Action. UNICEF’s humanitarian work is focused on interventions that saves lives, alleviates suffering, maintains human dignity and protects the rights of affected populations, wherever there are humanitarian needs due to e.g. armed conflicts, natural disasters, public health emergencies. UNICEF plays a central role in the global humanitarian response and leads the clusters of WASH and nutrition and co-leads the cluster of education. Within protection, it leads the child protection cluster. Children are not the only beneficiaries of UNICEF but also women and disabled persons, as examples. Within health, UNICEF e.g. more specifically works on Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH). In February, a major amendment to the agreement was conducted to provide UNICEF with additional funds to be able to respond to the crisis in Ukraine as a result of Russia’s aggression. Sida funded UNICEF under previous contribution ”UNICEF Humanitarian Support 2018-2021”. Insatsen avser stöd till FN:s barnfond (UNICEF) i syfte att svara upp humanitärt. UNICEF:s arbete fokuserar på att rädda liv, minska lidande, bibehålla mänsklig värdighet och skydda rättigheter för befolkningen där det råder humanitära behov till exempel på grund av konflikt, naturkatastrofer eller hälsokriser. UNICEF spelar vidare en central roll i den humanitära responsen globalt och leder kluster inom WASH och nutrition samt leder tillsammans med Rädda Barnen utbildningsklustret. Inom skyddsklustret, leder UNICEF banskyddsklustret. Det är inte endast barn som är mottagare av humanitärt stöd utan också kvinnor och funktionshindrade individer. Inom hälsa arbetar UNICEF också t.ex. med reproduktiv, mödravård, nyfödda samt barnhälsa. Sida beviljade extra stöd till UNICEF i februari 2022 med anledning av Rysslands anfallskrig mot Ukraina. Sida har finansierat UNICEF under ”UNICEF Humanitarian Support 2018-2021”. The Strategy Plan 2022-2025 of UNICEF applies an approach that supports programming across the humanitarian-development nexus, where it systematically applies a humanitarian lens to the theories of change underlying work on all Goal Areas, cross-cutting programmes, change strategies and enablers, and reflects UNICEF humanitarian work throughout the plan itself and in the Integrated Results and Resources Framework of the SP 2021-2025. The result areas of the SP include:
Goal Area 1: Every child, including adolescents, survives and thrives with access to nutrition diets, quality primary health care, nurturing practices and essential supplies.
a. Strengthening primary health care and high-impact health interventions.
b. Immunization services as part of primary health care.
c. Fast-track the end of HIV/AIDS.
d. Health and development in early childhood and adolescents.
e. Mental health and psychosocial well-being.
f. Nutrition in early childhood.
g. Nutrition of adolescents and women.
h. Early detection and treatment of malnutrition.
Goal Area 2: Every child, including adolescents, learns and acquires skills for the future.
a. Access to quality learning opportunities.
b. Learning, skills, participation and engagement.
Goal Area 3: Every child, including adolescents, is protected from violence, exploitation, abuse, neglect and harmful practices.
a. Protection from violence, abuse and exploitation.
b. Promotion of care, mental health and psychosocial well-being and justice.
c. Prevention of harmful practices.
Goal Area 4: Every child, including adolescents has access to safe and equitable water, sanitation and hygiene services and supplies, and lives in a safe and sustainable climate and environment.
a. Safe and equitable water, sanitation and hygiene services and practices.
b. Water, sanitation and hygiene systems and empowerment of communities.
c. Climate change, disaster risks and environmental degradation.
Goal Area 5: Every child, including adolescents, has access to inclusive social protection and lives free from poverty.
a. Reducing child poverty.
b. Access to inclusive social protection. | Significant |
Hlonipheka - thriving for dignity <p>The action will use a human rights based approach to contribute to two strategic objectives: create and support safe communities that actively pursue social justice and protect women and girls, and persons with disability as well as improve human rights and well-being of GBV survivors and PWDs. To reach these goals, the IP will work in collaboration with seven grassroots level organisations and in synergy with ongoing EU funded projects.</p> | Significant |
CAR 2021 - IRC HUM 2021-2025 International Rescue Committee, IRC, is a non-profit international organisation, working with humanitarian and development work in more than 40 countries world-wide. As per IRC’s mission statement, their goal is “to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster, including by the climate crisis, to survive, recover and gain control of their future” in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Their focus is on activities with the sectors of health, safety/protection, education, livelihoods and ensuring people have the power to influence decisions that affect their lives. Their main target group is people who flee from war, conflict and disaster, and the host communities that support them.
Currently, IRC is mainly a self-implementing organisation who conduct the bulk of their work through their 17 000 global staff members. However, IRC is striving to increase their cooperation with local partners (authorities, organisation, community groups) to reach a goal of sub-granting 25 % of their means through third party, and will continue to work towards achieving this target during 2024 and 2025.
In 2024, the IRC will receive humanitarian programme-based support in 17 countries, as well as funding for the IRC's Rapid Response Mechanism, whose function is to rapidly channel funds to emerging or worsening crises. In addition to the ongoing methodology and capacity projects, the IRC is starting two new 2-year projects this year, focusing on protection for one, and localisation for the other. International Rescue Committee (IRC) är en enskild internationell organisation, aktiv i humanitär respons och resiliens i mer än 40 länder globalt. Deras huvudsakliga syfte är att bistå människor vars liv och försörjningsmöjligheter slagits i spillror till följd av konflikter, naturkatastrofer och klimatförändringar genom att erbjuda överlevnadsstöd och aktiviteter för återhämtning. Fokus ligger på aktiviteter inom hälsa, skydd, utbildning, försörjningsmöjligheter samt människors stärkta egenmakt och beslutsförmåga. Huvudsaklig målgrupp är människor som flyr från krig och katastrofer, samt de värdsamhällen som bistår dem.
I dagsläget är IRC huvudsakligen självimplementerande och utför sitt arbete med hjälp av sina 17 000 medarbetare världen över. IRC har däremot ett mål om att utöka sitt samarbete med lokala partners (myndigheter, organisationer, organiserade samhällsgrupper) för att på sikt kanalisera 25 % av finansiella medel genom tredje part, och kommer under 2024 och 2025 att försätta arbeta för att detta ska bli verklighet.
År 2024 får IRC humanitärt programbaserat stöd i 17 länder, samt medel till IRCs snabbfinansieringsmekanism ”Rapid Response Mechanism” vars funktion är att snabbt kunna kanalisera medel till hastigt uppkomna eller kraftigt förvärrade kriser. Utöver de pågående metod och kapacitet projekt börjar IRC två nya 2-åriga projekt i år, med fokus på skydd för den ena, och lokalisering för den andra. IRC respond to the worlds worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic well being and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Their mission is to help people whose lives and livelihoods have been shattered by conflict and disaster, including the climate crisis, to survive, recover and gain control of their future.
IRC consider their interventions successful when their clients see improvement in their safety from physical, sexual and psychological harm; in their health status, including physical and mental well-being; in education, including literacy and numeracy, social-emotional, and life skills (including safe schools); in economic well-being, including ability to provide basic material needs and income asset growth; and in power to have influence over the decisions that affect their lives. IRC strive to reach these goals while continuously trying to tackle gender inequalities in and through all of their work.
As Sida supports IRC in a variety of countries, not one specific objective can be identified for the whole contribution, but for the sake of exemplifying, a number of country specific goals are outlined below:
Ukraine: People are safe in their homes and receive support when they experience harm, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of gender-based violence, adolescents and adults are physically and mentally healthy, people meet their basic needs and protect livelihoods during emergencies, people develop their livelihoods and recover from shocks.
Myanmar: People are safe in their communities and receive support when they experience harm, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of
gender-based violence, women and girls achieve their sexual and reproductive health and rights, adolescents and adults are physically and mentally healthy, people access water, sanitation and hygiene services and live in an enhanced environment, people meet their basic needs and protect livelihoods during emergencies, people lead their recovery and development.
Central African Republic: People are safe in their communities and receive support when they experience harm, children survive and are healthy, women and girls achieve their sexual and reproductive health and rights, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of gender-based violence, people develop their livelihoods and recover from shocks, people lead their own recovery and development.
Across the country programmes relevant for Sida funding in 2024, IRC will engage i formal and informal partnerships with local and national actors. The cash modality will be explored in all contexts. | Significant |
Quality education for children in Tunisia Un'educazione di qualità per i bambini in Tunisia The aim of the program is to contribute to the success of the children in Tunisia, particulary thr most disadvanted, in terms of education, well-being, employability and social inclusion. To this end, a series of activities are envisaged by this program with thr specific objective of strenghthening the capacities of the Tunisian Ministry of Education through a transfer of experise, allowing a more trasparent, efficient and decentralized management of the education sector since the preparatory class and an improvement in teacher training and children skills. L'iniziativa intende contribuire al successo scolastico ed alla riuscita delle giovani e dei giovani tunisini, migliorando la loro educazione ed il loro benessere, dando loro più opportunità di trovare un'occupazione e favorendo, di conseguenza, la lor5o inclusione sociale ed economica, in particolare per coloro che appartengono a gruppi più vulnerabili e maggiormente a rischio di esclusione. | Significant |
Support to International Documentary Human Rights Festival DocudaysUA Support to International Documentary Human Rights Festival DocudaysUA Omprogrammerade medel för att lindra konsekvenserna av covid-19
Den planerade biståndsinsatsen omfattar två huvudsyften. För det första kommer arbetet under de kommande 12 månaderna att fokuseras på organisationsutveckling. En omstart av organisationen planeras genom att strukturera om vissa delar samt eventuellt skapa nya funktioner i organisationen i enlighet med de rekommendationer som framkom i effektivitetsrevisionen utförd av konsultföretaget NCG. Det andra syftet i insatsen innebär, liksom tidigare, att organisationen DocuDaysUA kommer att driva och genomföra sin årliga internationella dokumentärfilmfestival med fokus på mänskliga rättigheter. Festivalen genomförs i Kiev samt turnerar runt i Ukraina.
Trots det omvälvande skiftet som skedde i det ukrainska folkets medvetande efter "Euromaidan" / Revolution of Dignity, så innebär arbetet med respekt för de mänskliga rättigheterna och åtnjutande av grundläggande fri- och rättigheter, jämställdhet samt skapande av en grundläggande förståelse av mänskliga rättigheter hos ansvarsbärarna (duty bearers) fortfarande stora utmaningar i Ukraina. Projektets bidrag för att Ukraina ska kunna komma närmare de värderingar och normer som gäller inom EU blir således att dra uppmärksamhet till kränkningar av mänskliga rättigheter, diskriminering och övergrepp inklusive hatbrott och att utbilda allmänheten inom mänskliga rättigheter samt att uppmuntra till social dialog.
Under de föregående åren har initiativet utvecklats till en nationell plattform för att kunna diskutera vikten av de mänskliga rättigheterna i Ukraina såväl som utomlands samt har bidragit till att öka den allmänna medvetenheten om de globala trenderna kring mänskliga rättigheter. Denna plattform har således blivit en inflytelserik aktör vilken omfattar ett brett spektrum av inhemska och internationella intressenter.
Den svenska ambassaden i Ukraina har stött Docudays UA – den internationella dokumentärfilmfestivalen för mänskliga rättigheter sedan 2012. Stödet är i linje med Resultatstrategin för Sveriges reformsamarbete med Östeuropa, västra Balkan och Turkiet 2014-2020.
Festivalen bidrar med synlighet för svenskt reformsamarbete i Ukraina och är nära sammankopplat med andra pågående stöd för arbetet med mänskliga rättigheter. Efter filmfestivalen i huvudstaden Kiev kommer även verksamheten och festivalens budskap att få en bred spridning till Ukrainas mindre städer och olika regioner. Den del av festivaldeltagarna som bland annat arbetar inom kriminalvården och socialtjänsten kommer även att involveras i diskussioner, rundabordssamtal, utbildningstillfällen och seminarier om många svåra aspekter av i livet i Ukraina såsom jämställdhet, miljö- och klimatfrågor, konflikthantering samt respekt för mänskliga rättigheter med mera.
Festivalens popularitet har spritt sig utanför Ukraina, till Baltikum och Sverige samt andra delar av Norden. Reprogrammed funds to mitigate the impact of COVID-19
The current phase on the contribution encompasses 2 purposes. Firstly, the work during the upcoming 12 months will concentrate on organizational development, rebooting the institution by redesigning some or inventing new elements of the organization per the recommendations issues by the team of consultants during the Efficiency Audit. Secondly, the organization will pursue it original goal of holding annual international documentary human rights festival in Kyiv and country-wide.
Despite the tectonic shift in the minds of the Ukrainian people after the “Euromaidan”/Revolution of Dignity, the question of respect for human rights and full enjoyment of basic rights and fundamental freedoms, sensitivity of gender, understanding of human rights by the duty bearers still remains an issue in Ukraine. To draw attention to violations of HR, discrimination and abuse, including hate crimes, to educate the general public on HR issues as well as to encourage the societal dialogue on these matters would be the project contribution to the country's progress towards EU values and norms.
Throughout the preceding years, the initiative has turned into the national platform for discussing human rights situation in the country and abroad, raise awareness of the global trends issues with human rights, this platform had evolved into an influential trend-setter embracing a wide range of stakeholders and interested parties both domestic and international.
The Swedish Embassy has been supporting the Docudays UA – International Documentary Human Rights Festival since 2012. The support is fully in line with the Result Strategy for Sweden's reform cooperation with eastern Europe, Western Balkans and Turkey 2014 - 2020.
The festival provides visibility to Swedish Reform Cooperation and is closely linked to other human rights work. After the film festival in the capital, the programme ensures a wide outreach across Ukraine, its regions and small cities. The audience from the penitentiary institutions, social services units is being engaged into discussions, round table, seminars and master classes on the many difficult issues of life in Ukraine, including gender, environment, conflict resolution, respect to human rights, etc.
The Festival's popularity has reverberated outside Ukraine, in the Baltic and Nordic countries, including in Sweden. The intervention objective is three-fold.
Objective 1: To enhance the organizational basis of NGO “South” and Docudays UA Festival through reorganization of the governance, management and organizational structure, as well as setting up all the needed systems and procedures in accordance with good practices, so that to be able to further transform into the resource center
Objective 2: To set out a new clear comprehensive strategy of Docudays UA transformation, and integrate the tools to track its implementation.
Objective 3: To promote the human rights and fundamental freedoms in Ukraine via holding a series of focused human rights and cultural events on the specified topics every year; with a perspective to set up the Center for human rights documentaries in Kyiv. | Significant |
Partnership for Learning for All in Nigerian Education - PLANE PLANE programme will support achievement of the UK Aid Strategy’s strategic objectives, particularly in relation to tackling extreme poverty and helping the world’s most vulnerable. The programme will also work to strengthen resilience and response to crises, support prosperity in Nigeria and strengthen governance in the education sector. The Programme will benefit up to 2 million children by supporting the Government of Nigeria (GoN) in selected states and non-state partners to improve teaching, school quality, education management and efficient delivery of education. This brings together a short term focus on improving the life chances of Nigeria’s most vulnerable children with medium term goals to support recovery and stability and longer term development goals to improve the overall education system | Significant |
Improving Mental Health in Low Income Countries To generate evidence on the implementation and scaling up of integrated packages of care for priority mental disorders in primary and maternal health care contexts. Includes generating evidence that helps to get mental health better reflected in annual operational plans at the district and national level. | Principal |
Human rights approach and disability mainstreaming in policy creation in Bosnia and Herzegovina Contract related to: Human rights approach and disability mainstreaming in policy creation in Bosnia and Herzegovina - The overall objective of the present action is to contribute to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms, democracy and the rule of law worldwide. The action will achieve this objective by supporting and strengthening civil society organisations (CSOs), democracy activists and human-rights defenders working on critical human rights and democracy issues in non-EU countries. It may also cover, where relevant, the promotion of international humanitarian law. Consequently, it will contribute to the 5 priorities of the Multiannual Indicative programme 2021-2027[1] as well as the specific priorities set out for the additional funding coming from the cushion.This action will mainly be implemented by EU Delegations in-country so as to: (i) better respond to the country-specific contexts; (ii) be as close as possible to the needs of the rights holders; and (iii) promote a sense of `ownership¿ of the action among local actors. The actions financed at country level will be in line with: (i) the EU action plan for human rights and democracy; (ii) EU guidelines on human rights; and (iii) the respective Human Rights and Democracy country strategies or priorities under the EU accession process. All actions will follow a human rights based approach putting people at the centre of actions and also focusing on promoting gender equality. [1] HR&D Multiannual Indicative Programme | Significant |
Yemen 2023 - UNICEF Humanitarian Support 2022-2025 The proposed contribution aims to support United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) humanitarian programmes globally through the UNICEF Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) appeals which are in line with the UNICEF Strategic Plan for 2022-2025 and the Core Commitments for Children (CCCs) in Humanitarian Action. UNICEF’s humanitarian work is focused on interventions that saves lives, alleviates suffering, maintains human dignity and protects the rights of affected populations, wherever there are humanitarian needs due to e.g. armed conflicts, natural disasters, public health emergencies. UNICEF plays a central role in the global humanitarian response and leads the clusters of WASH and nutrition and co-leads the cluster of education. Within protection, it leads the child protection cluster. Children are not the only beneficiaries of UNICEF but also women and disabled persons, as examples. Within health, UNICEF e.g. more specifically works on Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH). In February, a major amendment to the agreement was conducted to provide UNICEF with additional funds to be able to respond to the crisis in Ukraine as a result of Russia’s aggression. Sida funded UNICEF under previous contribution ”UNICEF Humanitarian Support 2018-2021”. Insatsen avser stöd till FN:s barnfond (UNICEF) i syfte att svara upp humanitärt. UNICEF:s arbete fokuserar på att rädda liv, minska lidande, bibehålla mänsklig värdighet och skydda rättigheter för befolkningen där det råder humanitära behov till exempel på grund av konflikt, naturkatastrofer eller hälsokriser. UNICEF spelar vidare en central roll i den humanitära responsen globalt och leder kluster inom WASH och nutrition samt leder tillsammans med Rädda Barnen utbildningsklustret. Inom skyddsklustret, leder UNICEF banskyddsklustret. Det är inte endast barn som är mottagare av humanitärt stöd utan också kvinnor och funktionshindrade individer. Inom hälsa arbetar UNICEF också t.ex. med reproduktiv, mödravård, nyfödda samt barnhälsa. Sida beviljade extra stöd till UNICEF i februari 2022 med anledning av Rysslands anfallskrig mot Ukraina. Sida har finansierat UNICEF under ”UNICEF Humanitarian Support 2018-2021”. The Strategy Plan 2022-2025 of UNICEF applies an approach that supports programming across the humanitarian-development nexus, where it systematically applies a humanitarian lens to the theories of change underlying work on all Goal Areas, cross-cutting programmes, change strategies and enablers, and reflects UNICEF humanitarian work throughout the plan itself and in the Integrated Results and Resources Framework of the SP 2021-2025. The result areas of the SP include:
Goal Area 1: Every child, including adolescents, survives and thrives with access to nutrition diets, quality primary health care, nurturing practices and essential supplies.
a. Strengthening primary health care and high-impact health interventions.
b. Immunization services as part of primary health care.
c. Fast-track the end of HIV/AIDS.
d. Health and development in early childhood and adolescents.
e. Mental health and psychosocial well-being.
f. Nutrition in early childhood.
g. Nutrition of adolescents and women.
h. Early detection and treatment of malnutrition.
Goal Area 2: Every child, including adolescents, learns and acquires skills for the future.
a. Access to quality learning opportunities.
b. Learning, skills, participation and engagement.
Goal Area 3: Every child, including adolescents, is protected from violence, exploitation, abuse, neglect and harmful practices.
a. Protection from violence, abuse and exploitation.
b. Promotion of care, mental health and psychosocial well-being and justice.
c. Prevention of harmful practices.
Goal Area 4: Every child, including adolescents has access to safe and equitable water, sanitation and hygiene services and supplies, and lives in a safe and sustainable climate and environment.
a. Safe and equitable water, sanitation and hygiene services and practices.
b. Water, sanitation and hygiene systems and empowerment of communities.
c. Climate change, disaster risks and environmental degradation.
Goal Area 5: Every child, including adolescents, has access to inclusive social protection and lives free from poverty.
a. Reducing child poverty.
b. Access to inclusive social protection. | Significant |
Emergency humanitarian mine action to reduce explosive risk to civilians in Palestine <h2>Impact</h2><p>The threat of explosive ordnance is minimized for vulnerable populations and the UN family in Palestine</p><h2>Results</h2><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong>Outcome 1:</strong></p><p class="ql-align-justify">The United Nations, and its humanitarian partners in Gaza, maintain critical functions, uninhibited by explosive hazards</p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong>Outcome 2:</strong><span style="color: gray;"> </span></p><p class="ql-align-justify">Conflict affected people know how to mitigate the risk of explosive ordnance</p><h1><br></h1><h2><br></h2> | Significant |
PATHS : Enhancing School Readiness through Inclusive Quality Early Childhood Care and Education for Crisis Affected Children in Ethiopia Contract related to: PATHS : Enhancing School Readiness through Inclusive Quality Early Childhood Care and Education for Crisis Affected Children in Ethiopia - Since November 2020, Ethiopia has been engulfed in a civil war. While the conflict is mainly affecting Ethiopia¿s northern regions, spill over effects and smaller pockets of interrelated conflicts increased significantly the geographical area with population affected by the conflict. This has disturbed significantly the education of children, in particular girls, as has been seen by decreasing enrolment rates, increasing dropout rates, and a significant number of destroyed or damaged schools. The present Action aims at contributing to improve the provision of education specifically for conflict affected children in Ethiopia. Ensuring access to quality education for children in a crisis situation, and reducing dropout rates in primary and secondary education in conflict affected areas will be the two specific objectives of this Action.The Action has a budget of EUR 39.5 million, and will have a duration of 36 months. It will be implemented through indirect management, by UN agencies, and through direct management, by an international NGO.The main beneficiaries of this Action will be children of school-age living in conflict affected areas, mainly in the northern regions (Tigray, Amhara and Afar) as well as other conflict affected areas. Their families and the communities in which they live and study will as well be key stakeholders, and will benefit from parts of this Action.This Action is the first of its kind in the education sector to be funded by the EU in Ethiopia. It will benefit from synergies with the Action on Health under the same Special Measure, in particular with what relates to youth¿s awareness raising on sexual and reproductive health and family planning. | Significant |
Yemen 2024 - IRC HUM 2021-2025 International Rescue Committee, IRC, is a non-profit international organisation, working with humanitarian and development work in more than 40 countries world-wide. As per IRC’s mission statement, their goal is “to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster, including by the climate crisis, to survive, recover and gain control of their future” in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Their focus is on activities with the sectors of health, safety/protection, education, livelihoods and ensuring people have the power to influence decisions that affect their lives. Their main target group is people who flee from war, conflict and disaster, and the host communities that support them.
Currently, IRC is mainly a self-implementing organisation who conduct the bulk of their work through their 17 000 global staff members. However, IRC is striving to increase their cooperation with local partners (authorities, organisation, community groups) to reach a goal of sub-granting 25 % of their means through third party, and will continue to work towards achieving this target during 2024 and 2025.
In 2024, the IRC will receive humanitarian programme-based support in 17 countries, as well as funding for the IRC's Rapid Response Mechanism, whose function is to rapidly channel funds to emerging or worsening crises. In addition to the ongoing methodology and capacity projects, the IRC is starting two new 2-year projects this year, focusing on protection for one, and localisation for the other. International Rescue Committee (IRC) är en enskild internationell organisation, aktiv i humanitär respons och resiliens i mer än 40 länder globalt. Deras huvudsakliga syfte är att bistå människor vars liv och försörjningsmöjligheter slagits i spillror till följd av konflikter, naturkatastrofer och klimatförändringar genom att erbjuda överlevnadsstöd och aktiviteter för återhämtning. Fokus ligger på aktiviteter inom hälsa, skydd, utbildning, försörjningsmöjligheter samt människors stärkta egenmakt och beslutsförmåga. Huvudsaklig målgrupp är människor som flyr från krig och katastrofer, samt de värdsamhällen som bistår dem.
I dagsläget är IRC huvudsakligen självimplementerande och utför sitt arbete med hjälp av sina 17 000 medarbetare världen över. IRC har däremot ett mål om att utöka sitt samarbete med lokala partners (myndigheter, organisationer, organiserade samhällsgrupper) för att på sikt kanalisera 25 % av finansiella medel genom tredje part, och kommer under 2024 och 2025 att försätta arbeta för att detta ska bli verklighet.
År 2024 får IRC humanitärt programbaserat stöd i 17 länder, samt medel till IRCs snabbfinansieringsmekanism ”Rapid Response Mechanism” vars funktion är att snabbt kunna kanalisera medel till hastigt uppkomna eller kraftigt förvärrade kriser. Utöver de pågående metod och kapacitet projekt börjar IRC två nya 2-åriga projekt i år, med fokus på skydd för den ena, och lokalisering för den andra. IRC respond to the worlds worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic well being and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Their mission is to help people whose lives and livelihoods have been shattered by conflict and disaster, including the climate crisis, to survive, recover and gain control of their future.
IRC consider their interventions successful when their clients see improvement in their safety from physical, sexual and psychological harm; in their health status, including physical and mental well-being; in education, including literacy and numeracy, social-emotional, and life skills (including safe schools); in economic well-being, including ability to provide basic material needs and income asset growth; and in power to have influence over the decisions that affect their lives. IRC strive to reach these goals while continuously trying to tackle gender inequalities in and through all of their work.
As Sida supports IRC in a variety of countries, not one specific objective can be identified for the whole contribution, but for the sake of exemplifying, a number of country specific goals are outlined below:
Ukraine: People are safe in their homes and receive support when they experience harm, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of gender-based violence, adolescents and adults are physically and mentally healthy, people meet their basic needs and protect livelihoods during emergencies, people develop their livelihoods and recover from shocks.
Myanmar: People are safe in their communities and receive support when they experience harm, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of
gender-based violence, women and girls achieve their sexual and reproductive health and rights, adolescents and adults are physically and mentally healthy, people access water, sanitation and hygiene services and live in an enhanced environment, people meet their basic needs and protect livelihoods during emergencies, people lead their recovery and development.
Central African Republic: People are safe in their communities and receive support when they experience harm, children survive and are healthy, women and girls achieve their sexual and reproductive health and rights, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of gender-based violence, people develop their livelihoods and recover from shocks, people lead their own recovery and development.
Across the country programmes relevant for Sida funding in 2024, IRC will engage i formal and informal partnerships with local and national actors. The cash modality will be explored in all contexts. | Significant |
Sudan 2023 - UNICEF Humanitarian Support 2022-2025 The proposed contribution aims to support United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) humanitarian programmes globally through the UNICEF Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) appeals which are in line with the UNICEF Strategic Plan for 2022-2025 and the Core Commitments for Children (CCCs) in Humanitarian Action. UNICEF’s humanitarian work is focused on interventions that saves lives, alleviates suffering, maintains human dignity and protects the rights of affected populations, wherever there are humanitarian needs due to e.g. armed conflicts, natural disasters, public health emergencies. UNICEF plays a central role in the global humanitarian response and leads the clusters of WASH and nutrition and co-leads the cluster of education. Within protection, it leads the child protection cluster. Children are not the only beneficiaries of UNICEF but also women and disabled persons, as examples. Within health, UNICEF e.g. more specifically works on Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH). In February, a major amendment to the agreement was conducted to provide UNICEF with additional funds to be able to respond to the crisis in Ukraine as a result of Russia’s aggression. Sida funded UNICEF under previous contribution ”UNICEF Humanitarian Support 2018-2021”. Insatsen avser stöd till FN:s barnfond (UNICEF) i syfte att svara upp humanitärt. UNICEF:s arbete fokuserar på att rädda liv, minska lidande, bibehålla mänsklig värdighet och skydda rättigheter för befolkningen där det råder humanitära behov till exempel på grund av konflikt, naturkatastrofer eller hälsokriser. UNICEF spelar vidare en central roll i den humanitära responsen globalt och leder kluster inom WASH och nutrition samt leder tillsammans med Rädda Barnen utbildningsklustret. Inom skyddsklustret, leder UNICEF banskyddsklustret. Det är inte endast barn som är mottagare av humanitärt stöd utan också kvinnor och funktionshindrade individer. Inom hälsa arbetar UNICEF också t.ex. med reproduktiv, mödravård, nyfödda samt barnhälsa. Sida beviljade extra stöd till UNICEF i februari 2022 med anledning av Rysslands anfallskrig mot Ukraina. Sida har finansierat UNICEF under ”UNICEF Humanitarian Support 2018-2021”. The Strategy Plan 2022-2025 of UNICEF applies an approach that supports programming across the humanitarian-development nexus, where it systematically applies a humanitarian lens to the theories of change underlying work on all Goal Areas, cross-cutting programmes, change strategies and enablers, and reflects UNICEF humanitarian work throughout the plan itself and in the Integrated Results and Resources Framework of the SP 2021-2025. The result areas of the SP include:
Goal Area 1: Every child, including adolescents, survives and thrives with access to nutrition diets, quality primary health care, nurturing practices and essential supplies.
a. Strengthening primary health care and high-impact health interventions.
b. Immunization services as part of primary health care.
c. Fast-track the end of HIV/AIDS.
d. Health and development in early childhood and adolescents.
e. Mental health and psychosocial well-being.
f. Nutrition in early childhood.
g. Nutrition of adolescents and women.
h. Early detection and treatment of malnutrition.
Goal Area 2: Every child, including adolescents, learns and acquires skills for the future.
a. Access to quality learning opportunities.
b. Learning, skills, participation and engagement.
Goal Area 3: Every child, including adolescents, is protected from violence, exploitation, abuse, neglect and harmful practices.
a. Protection from violence, abuse and exploitation.
b. Promotion of care, mental health and psychosocial well-being and justice.
c. Prevention of harmful practices.
Goal Area 4: Every child, including adolescents has access to safe and equitable water, sanitation and hygiene services and supplies, and lives in a safe and sustainable climate and environment.
a. Safe and equitable water, sanitation and hygiene services and practices.
b. Water, sanitation and hygiene systems and empowerment of communities.
c. Climate change, disaster risks and environmental degradation.
Goal Area 5: Every child, including adolescents, has access to inclusive social protection and lives free from poverty.
a. Reducing child poverty.
b. Access to inclusive social protection. | Significant |
Making the Past a Digital Reality. Strategies, Tools and Activities for the Digital Preservation of Eritrea's Cultural Heritage Contract related to: Making the Past a Digital Reality. Strategies, Tools and Activities for the Digital Preservation of Eritrea's Cultural Heritage - The proposed Action intents to contribute to Specific-Objective 1.3: Support CSOs as actors of good governance and development in partner countries and to the achievement of the related result 1.3: Civil Society Organisations¿ (CSOs) ability to engage as actors of good governance and development at country level is improved.The Action rolls out the EU support to country-level CSO initiatives aimed at implementing priorities reflected in the NDICI-GLOBAL Europe, Annex III CSO Thematic Programme and the subsequent draft Multiannual Indicative Plan for the same. In line with the policy of geographisation, a majority of funds under the CSO MAAP 2021-2024, will be allocated under the Action to support civil society in partner countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and Caribbean, and in Neighbourhood countries and Russia. Activities funded under the Action will support a broad range of civil society actors including and prioritising, but not limited to, women and youth organisations, In the framework of the Country Roadmaps for EU and Member States engagement with civil society (CSO Roadmaps), all initiatives under the Action will aim at and contribute to strengthening civil society partner¿s institutional and operational capacity through a comprehensive approach; enabling and ensuring their participation; and on improving the environment in which they operate. Particular attention will be paid to CSOs capacities to benefit from the digital transformation which will pay attention to accessible digital technology and reduce the gap on access to ICT. | Significant |
Mozambique 2022 - NRC Humanitarian Country programmes 2021-2025 NRC has applied as well to Sida for funding of 364.5 million SEK to carry out “the Humanitarian Programme for 2021” in 26 humanitarian crisis settings: Afghanistan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Palestine, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania/Burundi, Uganda, Venezuela, Yemen. The application includes provision of 40 million SEK to replenish the Rapid Response Mechanism funding instrument and 7 individual projects for method, capacity-building and coordination.
The intervention’s tentative total budget is 4 263 200 000 Norwegian krona (NOK), that the organisation is financing with Sida’s funding in a proportion of 8% approximately. Other donors, like the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DG ECHO, UNHCR, etc. are the largest contributors, besides a dozen of other donors in agreement with NRC. Sida provides NRC with the opportunity to allocate resources flexibly within individual country programmes (Programme-Based Approach – PBA).
NRC's catalytic support for coordination and capacity building contributes greatly to the link between humanitarian aid, development and peace. NRC's advocacy work and activities enable, at least contribute to, sustainable solutions for refugees and displaced people in a significant way in cooperation with other actors. In the long run, the NRC will reduce humanitarian needs. The NRC prioritizes self-sufficiency in its programs. The NRC's analysis capability, not least through its Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC), is an advantage for relevant programming according to the nexus orientations. Among the 26 crises in NRC's portfolio that Sida prioritizes, there are 15 where Sida implements Sweden's development strategies in synergy with humanitarian aid.
Sida’s contribution to NRC for 2022 will cover around 6.5% of NRC’s total financial requirements of the supported programmes and projects. It will provides humanitarian services to almost 9 million persons (53% female). HUM adds 50 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in Ukraine benefiting 90,000 people with protection, shelter, WaSH and cash assistance. Decision 5 April. Amendment nr. 5.
HUM adds 7.5 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in Cameroon from the 2022 mid-year allocation (food security, legal advice for 600 households/4200 individuals in Logone-et-Chari, Mayo Sava and Mayo Tsanaga). Decision 9 June 2022. Contract amendment No 6.
HUM adds 10 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in South Sudan from the end-of-the-year allocation. Decision 16 November 2022 nr 2022-002341. Contract amendment No 7.
NRC targets 7.7 million unique beneficiaries in total within Sida-funded humanitarian programmes in 2023, (52% female), who will receive protection and humanitarian services from NRC: Education, WASH, Shelter and settlement, Food security and livelihoods, including multi-purpose cash assistance, Protection, Legal assistance, Humanitarian mediation (community-based peace-building). Advocacy and support to humanitarian coordination and durable solution to displacements working groups in the field are part of NRC's engagement that Sida is funding. NRC's annual budget 2023 in the settings and thematics prioritized by Sida amounts to 5620 million Norwegian crowns in total. Sida's share weighs so far 8% of it: NRC's third largest donor whose cumulated 2021-2025 grant is 80% softly earmarked (programme-based approach) and 34% multi-year.
Earlier granted multi-year funding for 2023 was disbursed in January (52 MSEK) in support to continued humanitarian operations in DR Congo, Mali and Nigeria with strong emphasis on emergency response. Norwegian Refugee Council - Norska flyktingrådet (NRC) - har ansökt om ett förnyat partnerskap med Sida 2021-2025.
2021
NRC har dessutom ansökt om finansiering på 364,5 miljoner SEK för att genomföra humanitära insatser i 26 humanitära krisområden under 2021: Afghanistan, Kamerun, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Demokratiska Republiken Kongo, Eritrea, Etiopien, Iran, Irak, Jordanien, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexiko, Palestina, Somalia, Sydsudan, Sudan, Tanzania / Burundi, Uganda, Venezuela och Jemen. Ansökan inkluderar även 40 miljoner kronor för den humanitära snabbmekanismen (RRM) och 20 miljoner kronor i stöd till sju projekt för metodstöd, kapacitetsuppbyggnad och samordning.
Den aktuella budgeten för NRC:s hela humanitära program 2021 uppgår till 4 263 200 000 NOK, varav Sidas del för närvarande utgör ca 8%. Sida ger NRC möjligheten att nyttja resurser flexibelt inom varje enskilt landprogram, (enligt så kallad Programme-Based Approach – PBA)
Humanitär-Utveckling-Fred Nexus
NRC bidrar i hög grad till arbetet för att sammankoppla humanitärt bistånd med freds- och utvecklingsinsatser. Organisationens strävan att effektivisera biståndet genom katalytiskt stöd till samordning och kapacitetsbyggande insatser bidrar till denna ansats. I samarbetet med andra organisationer möjliggör och bidrar NRC:s verksamhet och påverkansarbete till att stärka hållbara lösningar för flyktingar och människor som har blivit tvångsfördrivna och bidrar därmed till att på sikt minska de humanitära behoven. Även krisdrabbade människors möjligheter till självförsörjning prioriteras. NRC:s analyskapacitet är en styrka som bidrar till att programmeringen anpassas till en nexus-ansats och den analys som genomförs av NRC:s internationella center för övervakning av tvångsförflyttning (IDMC) är av stor vikt för dessa analyser. 19 av de 26 kriser i NRC:s portfölj som Sida finansierar avser länder där Sverige även bedriver utvecklingssamarbete vilket öppnar för möjligheter till synergier med humanitärt bistånd.
2022
NRC ska få totalt 455,5 miljoner kronor av Sidas humanitära finansiering, enligt följande fördelning:
- Sida kommer att stödja NRC:s humanitära program i 23 krissituationer som Sida har prioriterat genom sin behovsbaserade allokeringsmodell för 2022, med 288,5 miljoner kronor :Afghanistan, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia och
regionen (Ecuador, Panamà), Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jemen,
Jordanien, Kamerun, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria,
Palestina, Somalia, Sudan, Sydsudan, Syrien, Uganda, Venezuela.
- Flerårig finansiering för NRC :s humanitära program i Demokratiska
republiken Kongo, Mali och Nigeria inleds 2022 och Sida har för ändamålet att ta i anspråk 104 miljoner kronor från kommande års anslag från erhållen Bemyndiganderam förutsatt att Riksdagen anvisar tillräckliga medel.
- NRC:s akuta insatser vid plötsligt uppkomna kriser kommer att stödjas genom Sidas snabbinsatsmekanism (RRM) under 2022 med 50 miljoner kronor.
- NRC:s metod- och kapacitetsstärkande projekt för skydd, miljö och IDMC (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre) kommer under 2022 att få 13 miljoner kronor, varav 3 miljoner kronor från Sida/Globen för IDMC.
Sidas bidrag till NRC för 2022 kommer att täcka cirka 6,5 % av NRC:s totala finansiella behov för de stödda programmen och projekten. Det kommer att tillhandahålla humanitära tjänster till nästan 9 miljoner människor (53 % kvinnor) i Afghanistan, Kamerun, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia och regionen, Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jordanien, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria, Palestina, Somalia, Sydsudan, Sudan, Syrien, Uganda, Venezuela och Jemen.
HUM lägger till 50 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Ukraina som gynnar 90,000 människor med skydd, tak över huvudet, WaSH samt kontantbistånd. Beslut 5 April. Avtalförändring nr 5.
HUM lägger till 7,5 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Kamerun från halvsårsanslaget 2022 (livsmedelsförsörjning, juridik rådgivning för 600 husshållen/4200 individer i Logone-et-Chari, Mayo Sava och Mayo Tsanaga). Beslut 9 juni 2022. Avtalförändring nr 6.
HUM lägger till 10 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Sydsudan från slutsåranslaget. Beslut 16 november 2022, 2022-002341. Avtalförändring nr 7.
2023
NRC får totalt 659.5 miljoner kronor (2023-2025) av Sidas humanitära finansiering för att genomföra:
- humanitära insatser i 23
krisområden under 2023: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Centralafrikanska
republiken, Colombia, Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jemen,
Jordanien, Kamerun, Kenya, Libanon, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Palestina, Sudan,
Sydsudan, Syrien, Uganda, Ukraina och Venezuela.
NRC har dessutom ansökt om 244
miljoner kronor för att kunna fortsätta sina humanitära program i Jemen, Kamerun,
Sydsudan, Syria och Venezuela under 2024 och 2025.
- ansökan inkluderar även 50
miljoner kronor till den humanitära snabbinsatsmekanismen (RRM)
- och 40 miljoner kronor i stöd till fyra fleråriga projekt för metodstöd och kapacitetsuppbyggnad: Miljö, Skydd, Tillträde, IDMC (18,5 under 2023, 21,5 under 2024-2025). Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is Norway's largest international humanitarian organisation and widely recognized as a leading field-based displacement agency within the international humanitarian community. NRC is the INGO receiving the largest contribution from Sida's Humanitarian Unit to INGOs so far, based on experience of successful partnerships, NRC's capacities to respond at scale and its coverage of crises that Sida is prioritizing through the needs-based allocation approach. NRC receives approximately 8% of Sida's humanitarian unit's annual budget appropriation.
The objectives of NRC can be summarized as follows: "To protect the rights of displaced and vulnerable people during crisis, to provide assistance meeting their immediate humanitarian needs, to prevent further displacement and to contribute to durable solutions, and to provide expertise as a strategic partner to humanitarian systems and actors." NRCs main activity is delivery of humanitarian assistance through programme activities in the field. NRC specializes in six areas of expertise, or "core competencies": shelter and settlements; livelihoods and food security; information, counselling and legal assistance (ICLA); education; camp management; and water, sanitation and hygiene promotion (WASH). Protection is lifted up as a new core competency of NRC since 2021. NRC engages closely with the affected populations to understand their needs and capacities, ensuring it tailors its assistance accordingly and involve them in the entire programme cycle, from design through implementation to evaluation. NRC advocates for respect for the rights of displaced and vulnerable people.
In 2021, the NRC Board approved the Global Strategy 20222025. The strategy
sets out four sub-objectives for areas that NRC will continue to strengthen and further institutionalize, namely, 1. assistance to hard-to-reach populations, 2. humanitarian policy, 3. protection, and 4. durable solutions. It also points to four areas of work that will be accelerated through expanded engagement and investments: i) advocacy, ii) climate and environment, iii) collaboration with local actors, and iv) quality programming.
NRCs work is divided into three pillars: humanitarian assistance, advocacy and expert deployment. Sida's Humanitarian Unit funding will continue prioritizing mainly the first pillar through funding of the humanitarian country programmes in line with HRPs and the RRPs and through the RRM funding. To some extent, Sida will support as well the second pillar of advocacy which is integrated in the humanitarian country programmes and implemented by NRC's method, thematic and capacity development projects supported by Sida. Sida will provide NRC with only a punctual support to the third pillar, through funding to CashCap which is deploying experts to the field for invigorating cash assistance working groups (17 in 2020 to 16 countries).
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has applied for a renewed strategic partnership with Sida during 2021-2025.
The interventions tentative total budget is 4 263 200 000 Norwegian krona (NOK), that the organisation is financing with Sidas funding in a proportion of 8% approximately. Other donors, like the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DG ECHO, UNHCR, etc. are the largest contributors, besides a dozen of other donors in agreement with NRC. Sida provides NRC with the opportunity to allocate resources flexibly within individual country programmes (Programme-Based Approach PBA).
NRC was granted funding to carry out the Humanitarian Programme for 2022 in 24 humanitarian crisis settings: Afghanistan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Irak, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria, Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Ukraina, Venezuela and Yemen. The grant includes provision of funding replenish the Rapid Response Mechanism funding instrument and four individual projects for method, capacity-building and coordination.
Sida's assessment on performance and results
Alike many other actors in the sector, NRC excels in reporting activities and outputs, but should be better in catching what changes and impacts its interventions have resulted to ultimately on assisted communities. The reporting of data and results does not provide necessarily an accurate and consolidated overview of what NRC has achieved. Sida has notified NRC that it should provide dis-aggregated data by age in targeting and reporting which is a norm.
It is assumed that NRC will achieve its objectives in 2023 again, but the global stress on the current resource mobilisation system supporting humanitarian action may affect NRC as well, similarly to large humanitarian actors such as the ICRC. | Significant |
Activity under preparation Scaling-up Early Childhood Development in Rwanda The action aims to deliver a comprehensive support to the pre-primary sector in Rwanda (countrywide), a key priority area for education in the country. In the last 30 years, the country has established a pre-primary education (ages 3-6) sector as part of its public education system, with clear key targets enshrined in its main policy documents, to increase access and quality in this area. Several key challenges have been identified as key to address in order to uplift this sub-sector. For the expansion of access and in order to reach the government targets, there is a need to expand infrastructure, quality training for teachers, support the current national school feeding programme to reduce costs for families, and support the development and access to learning materials. As a young sub-sector, with the Early Childhood Development Policy having only been adopted in 2016, policy development, costing, curriculum, standards and assessments, still have to be further developed or implemented in order to further enhance quality. Lastly, the policy and implementation of this sub-sector also spread across several ministries and agencies, with need for further coordination. Based on the aforementioned challenges, this action will unfold into three components: a) access to pre-primary education, b) enhancing the quality of pre-primary education and c) good governance, including through promotion of integrated approaches across key sectors.In its first component, it will support classroom construction and school feeding. In its quality education component, it will support teacher-training, materials, assessments, training on inclusive education and methods, community interventions and links to key areas such as nutrition, health and parenting practices. In its good governance component, it will support better coordination amongst ministries, agencies, and better planning and strategy. Both gender equality and inclusiveness will be mainstreamed all throughout this action.This action is aligned with the European Consensus for Development, which recognises the importance of pre-primary education and quality education for long-lasting development, as well as the importance of children¿s needs, rights and aspirations, including in the context of comprehensive early childhood interventions. The intervention will also assist Rwanda to transform its education system and address deficits in teaching, training, and learning at all levels, thus contributing to implement the ¿Global Gateway¿ communication. The action will primarily contribute to SDG 4 (Quality Education), but also to 5 (Gender Equality), 10 (Reduced Inequality), 2 (Zero Hunger), 6 (Clean water and sanitation) and 3 (Good Health and Well Being). It will also contribute to OECD DAC codes 4.2.; 4.5; 4 a. and 4 c. under ¿Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all¿. This action is fully aligned to the government¿s priorities in this sub-sector and supports an overall increase of EU financing for education from 7% to 10%.This action should be delivered in a Team Europe approach through a twinning operation with the Ministry of Education for the governance part, as well as a blending operation with an EU development finance institution, further positioning the EU at the centre of this, mostly still unaddressed at scale, sub-sector. | Significant |
Ethiopia 2024 - UNICEF Humanitarian Support 2022-2025 The proposed contribution aims to support United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) humanitarian programmes globally through the UNICEF Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) appeals which are in line with the UNICEF Strategic Plan for 2022-2025 and the Core Commitments for Children (CCCs) in Humanitarian Action. UNICEF’s humanitarian work is focused on interventions that saves lives, alleviates suffering, maintains human dignity and protects the rights of affected populations, wherever there are humanitarian needs due to e.g. armed conflicts, natural disasters, public health emergencies. UNICEF plays a central role in the global humanitarian response and leads the clusters of WASH and nutrition and co-leads the cluster of education. Within protection, it leads the child protection cluster. Children are not the only beneficiaries of UNICEF but also women and disabled persons, as examples. Within health, UNICEF e.g. more specifically works on Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH). In February, a major amendment to the agreement was conducted to provide UNICEF with additional funds to be able to respond to the crisis in Ukraine as a result of Russia’s aggression. Sida funded UNICEF under previous contribution ”UNICEF Humanitarian Support 2018-2021”. Insatsen avser stöd till FN:s barnfond (UNICEF) i syfte att svara upp humanitärt. UNICEF:s arbete fokuserar på att rädda liv, minska lidande, bibehålla mänsklig värdighet och skydda rättigheter för befolkningen där det råder humanitära behov till exempel på grund av konflikt, naturkatastrofer eller hälsokriser. UNICEF spelar vidare en central roll i den humanitära responsen globalt och leder kluster inom WASH och nutrition samt leder tillsammans med Rädda Barnen utbildningsklustret. Inom skyddsklustret, leder UNICEF banskyddsklustret. Det är inte endast barn som är mottagare av humanitärt stöd utan också kvinnor och funktionshindrade individer. Inom hälsa arbetar UNICEF också t.ex. med reproduktiv, mödravård, nyfödda samt barnhälsa. Sida beviljade extra stöd till UNICEF i februari 2022 med anledning av Rysslands anfallskrig mot Ukraina. Sida har finansierat UNICEF under ”UNICEF Humanitarian Support 2018-2021”. The Strategy Plan 2022-2025 of UNICEF applies an approach that supports programming across the humanitarian-development nexus, where it systematically applies a humanitarian lens to the theories of change underlying work on all Goal Areas, cross-cutting programmes, change strategies and enablers, and reflects UNICEF humanitarian work throughout the plan itself and in the Integrated Results and Resources Framework of the SP 2021-2025. The result areas of the SP include:
Goal Area 1: Every child, including adolescents, survives and thrives with access to nutrition diets, quality primary health care, nurturing practices and essential supplies.
a. Strengthening primary health care and high-impact health interventions.
b. Immunization services as part of primary health care.
c. Fast-track the end of HIV/AIDS.
d. Health and development in early childhood and adolescents.
e. Mental health and psychosocial well-being.
f. Nutrition in early childhood.
g. Nutrition of adolescents and women.
h. Early detection and treatment of malnutrition.
Goal Area 2: Every child, including adolescents, learns and acquires skills for the future.
a. Access to quality learning opportunities.
b. Learning, skills, participation and engagement.
Goal Area 3: Every child, including adolescents, is protected from violence, exploitation, abuse, neglect and harmful practices.
a. Protection from violence, abuse and exploitation.
b. Promotion of care, mental health and psychosocial well-being and justice.
c. Prevention of harmful practices.
Goal Area 4: Every child, including adolescents has access to safe and equitable water, sanitation and hygiene services and supplies, and lives in a safe and sustainable climate and environment.
a. Safe and equitable water, sanitation and hygiene services and practices.
b. Water, sanitation and hygiene systems and empowerment of communities.
c. Climate change, disaster risks and environmental degradation.
Goal Area 5: Every child, including adolescents, has access to inclusive social protection and lives free from poverty.
a. Reducing child poverty.
b. Access to inclusive social protection. | Significant |
UNICEF Child Protection (CPF) III Zimbabwe 2023 -2026 UNICEF Child Protection Zimbabwe (CPF) III 2023 -2026 ”Programmet strävar efter att skydda de grundläggande rättigheterna för de mest sårbara barnen i Zimbabwe. Programmet tillämpar en mångdimensionell ansats till barns utsatthet genom att stärka barnskyddssystem som kan leverera samordnade kvalitetstjänster som förebygger och reagerar på våld mot barn.” The main purpose of CPF III is to contribute to the UNICEF Country Programme Document (CPD) 2022- 2026 which is aimed at contributing to sustainable socioeconomic development that provides all children, including adolescents, with opportunities to fulfill their potential, lead a healthy life, access quality learning and protection and meaningfully participate in society is to strengthen and maintain the functionality of the child protection system especially in the face of limited fiscal resources from the State. In particular the CPF III will contribute to the realization of the Child Protection programme outcome that seeks to ensure that: by 2026, children, adolescents and young people are better protected from violence, abuse and exploitation, are registered in a timely manner and benefit from improved prevention and response systems in development and humanitarian settings.
In order to achieve this outcome, realise this vision, the CPF III project will provide support across four Result Areas. These are described below.
Result Area 1.
Access to child protection and welfare services including birth registration for the most vulnerable children through the National Case Management System. UNICEF will support protection and welfare response interventions to address violence against girls, boys and women in 10 high priority CP districts. It will also ensure that all children and adolescents, including those most vulnerable, have access to birth registration services.
Result area 2.
Prevention of VAC and GBV through interventions that address harmful practices, social and gender norms and behavioural drivers of violence. The focus of this result area is to ensure that: Communities, caregivers, children, adolescents and young people have the information, knowledge and skills that address harmful social and gender norms, promote positive care giving and early detection and response of protection risks.
Result area 3.
Access to child-friendly justice system and services
Under this result area, UNICEF will support the Government to implement its child-related justice delivery commitments, through strengthening of relevant institutions, decentralizing institutions for justice delivery including the Legal Aid Directorate and the courts, improving access to justice for vulnerable people including women, children and persons with disabilities, aligning laws to the Constitution, and establishing integrated electronic case management system, among others.
Result area 4.
Policy, legal and regulatory framework improvements and reform, coordination and institutional capacity strengthening.
The focus of this result area is to ensure that: An effective child protection and GBV legal, regulatory and policy framework is in place to prevent and respond to child protection and GBV risks, and institutional capacity to enforce it. The CPF III will contribute to the realization of the Child Protection programme outcome that seeks to ensure that: by 2026, children, adolescents and young people are better protected from violence, abuse and exploitation, are registered in a timely manner and benefit from improved prevention and response systems in development and humanitarian settings.
Access to child protection and welfare services including birth registration for the most vulnerable children through the National Case Management System
Prevention of VAC and GBV through interventions that address harmful practices, social and gender norms and behavioural drivers of violence.
Access to child-friendly justice system and services
Policy, legal and regulatory framework improvements and reform, coordination and institutional capacity strengthening | Significant |
Haiti 2022 - Save the Children Sweden HUM Project 2021-2025 Detta beslut och tillhörande beredning avser en ny insats (Beslut om insats, Insatshanteringsregeln 2.9 §) mellan Sida och Rädda Barnens Riksförbund (Rädda Barnen) för avtalsperioden 2021-2025. Beslut och tillhörande beredningar avser dessutom stöd till Rädda Barnens humanitära verksamhet under 2021-2024 (stöd för avtalsåren 2025 är avhängligt Sidas godkännande av Rädda Barnens fullständiga ansökan för respektive år enligt att-satserna ovan).
Aktuellt beslut omfattar finansiellt stöd till Rädda Barnen om 97 317 333 SEK under 2024.
Målet med insatsen (2021-2025) är att bidra till tre "Förändringar" (Breakthroughs) som identifierats inom Save the Children-rörelsen som del av dess vision för 2030. Dessa är att barn ska:
1. Överleva - inga barn dör av orsaker som kan förebyggas innan de fyllt fem år.
2. Lära - alla barn får del av kvalitativ grundläggande utbildning.
3. Vara skyddade - våld mot barn tolereras inte längre.
I ljuset av Sveriges "Strategi för Sveriges humanitära bistånd genom Styrelsen för internationellt utvecklingssamarbete (Sida) 2021-2025" kommer särskilt den tredje Förändringen - vara skyddade - att vara central, eftersom ett av strategins huvudmål är "Förbättrad förmåga att tillgodose skydd och assistans för krisdrabbade människor". Rädda Barnen kommer dessutom i hög utsträckning att integrera skyddskomponenter i sin multisektoriella assistans inom ramen för insatsens tema "Centrality of Protection". Detta tema syftar till att på ett holistiskt sätt minska skyddsrelaterade risker och svara upp mot skyddsrelaterade behov hos barn i kombination med andra projektkomponenter, snarare än att betrakta skydd som isolerat från andra delmål. During 2020, Sida's Unit for Humanitarian Assistance conducted an overview of ongoing strategic partnerships in order to ensure that partnerships were established with the most relevant and effective humanitarian actors to carry out Sida's Humanitarian Strategy. As a result of the overview, Sida has decided to appraise a new contribution and enter into a new strategic partnership agreement with Save the Children Sweden (SCS) for the period 2021-2025 (see archive number 2021-000057).
The total initial contribution to SCS in 2024 amounts to SEK 97 317 333.
The overall objective of the intervention is to contribute to the promotion of three Breakthroughs in the way children are treated in the world: Survive, Learn and Be Protected. These are part of the Save the Children movement's Vision for 2030 and are defined as remarkable and sustainable shifts from current trends that Save the Children aspires to work to achieve for children. Their respective objective is the following:
1. Survive: No child dies of preventable causes before their fifth birthday.
2. Learn: All children learn from quality basic education.
3. Be Protected: Violence against children is no longer tolerated.
One of the main comparative advantages of Save the Children is its competence in addressing protection-related concerns. For this reason, Centrality of Protection has been proposed as the thematic frame, making the Be Protected Breakthrough particularly central for its interventions during the agreement period.
Finally, in addition to these three Breakthroughs, the proposed contribution also aligns with Sweden's newly adopted "Strategy for Sweden’s humanitarian assistance provided through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) 2021–2025". Vision, Humanitarian Policy and Humanitarian Plan
The overall objective of the intervention is to contribute to the promotion of three Breakthroughs in the way children are treated in the world: Survive, Learn and Be Protected. These are part of the Save the Children movement's Vision for 2030 and are defined as remarkable and sustainable shifts from current trends that Save the Children aspires to work to achieve for children. Their respective objective is the following:
Survive: No child dies of preventable causes before their fifth birthday.
Learn: All children learn from quality basic education.
Be Protected: Violence against children is no longer tolerated.
For the upcoming agreement period 2021-2025, SCS has identified several aims under each breakthrough that it seeks to promote with Sida's humanitarian funding.
All Country Offices within Save the Children are to be held accountable for their contribution to the Breakthroughs through a combination of programming, promotion, advocacy, funding and public mobilization. This is assessed to require integrated expertise in health, nutrition, education, child protection, child poverty and child rights governance. The work will be undertaken by SCS as part of both its development and humanitarian programming.
The humanitarian sphere of work related to the Breakthroughs is anchored in the Save the Children movement's Humanitarian Policy - Our Approach to Humanitarian Action, adopted in 2019. It stipulates that Save the Children aims to deliver humanitarian assistance that is timely, appropriate, effective and accountable to the most vulnerable children, their families and communities. Furthermore, during 2021, the work is guided in particular by its Humanitarian Plan 2021 - Children Cannot Wait. The plan is structured around four pillars, of which the first three align with the three strategic Breakthroughs: Child Survival, Access to Education, and Child Protection. The fourth pillar is Avoid Negative Coping Mechanisms, which sets out the aim for Save the Children to promote increased income opportunities, CVA for basic needs, in-kind food when CVA is not appropriate, as well as government social protection schemes. The overarching ambition of the Plan is for Save the Children to respond to the humanitarian needs of 15.7 million people, including 9.4 million children, in 2021.
Finally, to achieve the Breakthroughs, Save the Children emphasizes the importance of standards in its programming. For this reason, its Humanitarian Policy commits the organization to ensure that its programming consistently aligns with and integrates the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), the Sphere standards, the Inter- Agency Network for Education In Emergencies (INEE) minimum standards, and the Child Protection Minimum Standards (CPMS).
Centrality of Protection
In 2019, a Centrality of Protection policy and strategy was endorsed in line with the Interagency Standing Committee (IASC) Principles Statement on the Centrality of Protection in Humanitarian Action (2013). Through the statement, protection became recognized as the purpose and intended outcome of humanitarian action. For Save the Children, the commitment to Centrality of Protection is built around six policy statements:
1. Ensure capacity of humanitarian staff to understand, recognise and respond to violations of International Humanitarian Law/International Human Rights Law/International Refugee Law/International Criminal Law and uphold humanitarian principles in humanitarian crises.
2. Adopt a conflict-sensitive approach to the centrality of protection.
3. Systematize the approach to child protection analysis and integration in humanitarian crises.
4. Commit to the identification, response, monitoring and reporting of grave and other serious child rights violations.
5. Define the organizational position and develop an appropriate response when identifying the erosion of the international legal framework for upholding child rights in humanitarian contexts.
6. Strengthen interagency collaboration, including as a Cluster Lead agency, and use that to promote child rights within the humanitarian protection architecture.
For SCS's Sida-funded Humanitarian Program 2021-2025, Centrality of Protection has been proposed as the thematic frame, making the Be Protected breakthrough particularly central for its interventions. It would entail a broader conceptualization of protection than during the agreement period 2017-2020, which had the thematic frame Children and Armed Conflict, with a specific focus on Protecting Children in Conflict. The key difference would be moving beyond preventing protection risks faced by children through child protection-focused interventions, towards integrating the mitigation of protection risks into all SCS's sectors of work whenever relevant. The ambition is to promote a more comprehensive and holistic approach to addressing child protection concerns in contrast to doing so in isolation.
Initial Allocation 2021
In alignment with Save the Children's ambitions related to its Vision for 2030 and the three strategic Breakthroughs, its Humanitarian Policy, its Humanitarian Plan, as well as Sida's Humanitarian Strategy, SCS has submitted a Full Project Proposal to Sida for 2021. Sida has reviewed these proposals and drawn the conclusion that they align well with the abovementioned priorities as well as the proposed Centrality of Protection thematic frame. Below, a short description is provided for the proposed projects to be supported by Sida as part of the initial allocation 2021. The activity period for each project is 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022, which corresponds to the 2021 work year.
I. Annual Projects (in line with the most recent Humanitarian Response Plans)
Iraq - SEK 15,000,000
Three years after the end of Iraq’s conflict against ISIS, the impacts of fighting remain high. In 2020, more than 4.1 million people were in need of some form of humanitarian assistance, and it is estimated that over 2.3. million individuals will be in need of protection services in 2021. Moreover, 1.3 million people are estimated to be internally displaced, many of whom facing additional vulnerabilities as a result of the Government of Iraq's announcement in October 2020 that all camps and informal locations for Internally Displaced People (IDP) are to be closed.
Save the Children has significant experience of addressing humanitarian needs in Iraq. In their activities, they include capacity strengthening for the Department of Labour and Social Affairs and other local actors working with child protection-related issues. Furthermore, Save the Children has a strong localization focus, with 40 % of the funds designated for the proposed intervention planned for to be forwarded to the three local implementing partners: Harikar; Al Sorouh for Sustainable Development Foundation; and Sahara Economic Development Organization.
Save the Children has previously reported good results from their interventions in Iraq and has contributed to the reduction of protection risks that vulnerable girls and boys and their caregivers face. Moreover, Save the Children is co-lead in the Child Protection sub-cluster and has a role to play in the future transition to development interventions in this area of work.
The project would be implemented in Ninewa (Mosul), Diyala (Mugidadia) and Dohuk (Sakho) with IDPs, recent returnees and vulnerable host communities as the targeted groups. The overall objective is to support the most vulnerable conflict-affected and displaced to survive and be protected through integrated protection, mental health and psychosocial support services, livelihoods and health actions. In alignment with the three Strategic Objectives of the draft HRP for 2021, this would be done by, inter alia, providing case management and positive parenting support services (benefitting 3,420 children and youth), multipurpose cash grants (1,320 children and 660 adults), life skills trainings (300 youth), promoting health awareness (3,000 children and 10,000 community members) and capacitating local actors to lead protection-oriented responses (520 persons).
Mali - SEK 7,000,000
Of the estimated 13.5 million crisis-affected Malians, around 7.1 million are projected to be in need of humanitarian assistance in 2021 - an increase of 39 percent compared to 2020. Of these people, 3.5 million are estimated to be children. The worst affected region is Mopti, where approximately 42 % of the country's 311,193 IDPs reside (55 % of whom are women), food insecurity is pervasive and severe protection risks exist. The dire situation is mainly a result of different types of ongoing armed violence, but is compounded by poverty, weak state presence and climate change.
In alignment with the first three Strategic Objectives of the 2020 HRP, the proposed intervention targets 8,940 people living in Koro and Bankass circles in Mopti region (4,700 children and 3,790 adults). It is an integrated protection intervention with a strong focus on promoting sustained outcomes. The objective is to restore the psychosocial well-being and addressing the basic needs of populations affected by the armed violence as well as to strengthen the protective environment in the region. This would be done through the provision of protection and education services, cash assistance during the lean season, and the implementation of the protection cluster's Centrality of Protection action plan.
Of the budget, 60 % is designated for direct implementation by Save the Children, and the remainder for a planned partnership with a local organization. The partner organization is yet to be identified, and Sida is currently in dialogue with SCS related to this risk and potential contingency planning.
Capacity building and material support is also planned for to local state actors and community groups for them to sustain the protection support structure in Mopti following the finalization of the project. This includes developing an exit plan to be implemented during the last three months of the project (January to March 2022).
Mozambique - SEK 6,000,000
Ever since cyclone Kenneth struck the Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique in April 2019 causing widespread destruction, humanitarian needs have continued to increase. The main reason for this has been the parallel escalation of an armed conflict in the province that dawned in 2017. Between March and November 2020 alone, the number of IDPs quadrupled from around 110,400 to nearly 530,000. In total, over 1.3 million people are projected to be in need of humanitarian support in the province during 2021.
Sida has provided support to Save the Children for responding to humanitarian needs in Cabo Delgado since cyclone Kenneth in 2019 and is diversifying its partner portfolio from 2021. The proposed support for Save the Children aligns specifically with the third strategic objective of the 2021 HRP - addressing protection risks and needs of crisis-affected people. As such, it is foremostly a focused rather than an integrated intervention, and targets 33,346 people (13,338 children) in the districts of Chuire, Metuge, Montepuez and Pemba.
The intervention is planned for to be implemented in partnership with CARE International throught he COSACA consortium, which has been operating in Mozambique since 2007. It is focused around two Outcomes: child protection (led by Save the Children) and gender-based violence (led by CARE International. The overarching aim is to ensure crisis-affected people are protected and better able to withstand protection risks of current and future crises. Activities include case management support for unaccompanied and separated children as well as children exposed to Gender-Based Violence (GBV), and the provision of Psychosocial Support Services at Child Friendly Spaces.
South Sudan - SEK 10,000,000
In South Sudan, approximately 80 % of the population of 11.8 million live on less than USD 1 per day, with an estimated 8.3 million to be in need of humanitarian assistance and 7.7 million to experience food insecurity (IPC 3 or worse). One of the worst affected states is Jonglei where the armed conflict intensified in 2020, and where needs were compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic as well as floods. The latter in particular, and volatile weather and climate change in general, pose significant threats to many South Sudanese as the majority of the population rely on subsistence farming.
The objective of the proposed intervention is to improve food and income security of crisis affected people - including IDPs - in Bor South and Nyirol Counties of Jonglei State. The total number of people targeted is 52,183. The intervention would be integrated with an ongoing education project with the aim of building a safe and protective environment for children, which is currently receiving development support from Sida. This would foremostly be done by preventing dropout rates through cash assistance and livelihoods trainings, and by meeting nutritional needs of children under the age of five in order to prevent them from suffering physical or cognitive damages ahead of enrolling in school. The humanitarian project would be multisectoral - food security and livelihood, nutrition, child protection, mental health and psychosocial support, and with indirect links to education.
The project would contribute to the three Strategic Objectives of the 2020 South Sudan HRP: reducing morbidity and mortality; facilitating safe, equitable and dignified access to basic services; and enabling vulnerable people to recover from crisis, seek solutions to displacement and build resilience to acute shocks and chronic stresses. Save the Children would partner with the local organization Christian Recovery and Development Agency (CRADA) in Nyirol for part of the food security and livelihood component, and cooperate with the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Health, County Health Department, and Ministry of Gender.
Syria - SEK 10,000,000
About to enter its tenth year, the war in Syria has devastated the country, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to live in overcrowded camps with insufficient services and imminent protection risks. In two of these camps located in northeast Syria - Al Hol and Roj - over 64,400 people live. In Al Hol, 94 % of the residents are women and children, and 53 % are below the age of 12. Around 60 % of children are not receiving education, with Covid-19 having further exacerbated this situation. In Roj, 64 % of the residents are below 18 years old, many similarly missing out on education opportunities.
A barrier analysis conducted by Save the Children in mid-2020 indicated lacking access to services as a major concern, in particular for vulnerable groups such as girls and children with disabilities. The proposed intervention would address this issue through the provision of integrated protection, mental health, psychosocial, and education support reaching a targeted 1,700 children, 140 caregivers and 22 education facilitators. Activities include providing case management and psychosocial support services, making referrals, supporting child protection committees and promoting protective education opportunities.
The intervention would contribute specifically to Strategic Objective 2 - enhance protection and Strategic Objective 3 - increase resilience and access to services, of the 2020 HRP for Syria, published in late 2020. Being one of few NGOs with access to operate in the camps, Save the Children would be conducting all implementation, while seeking to advocate with camp authorities on child-related issues and strengthen community structures such as child protection committees and parent teachers associations to promote resilience.
Yemen - SEK 15,000,000
OCHA estimates that 24.1 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance (as of December 2020), which corresponds to around 80 % of the entire population. One of the governorates most severely affected by the war is Hajjah, with frontlines in Abs, Mustaba and Aslem where people suffer from severe deprivations and increased protection risks. In February 2019, for example, 62 % of cases of recruitment and use of children and 37 % of child casualties verified across the country were from Hajjah. In addition to the hostilities, displacement and lack of access are the main drivers of humanitarian needs, in particular food insecurity. Moreover, 5.5 million children were estimated to be in need of education assistance in 2020, with 161 schools in Hajjah unfit for use and girls being two times more likely th be withdrawn from school than boys.
The proposed support is for an integrated food security and livelihoods, child protection and education intervention to 7,800 people (no double counting) in Abs district and Hajjah city. This will be done by, inter alia, providing multipurpose cash grants to adolescents and caregivers to cover basic needs, most of whom would also receive complementary vocational training with the aim to improve their livelihoods resilience. With regards to child protection, moreover, support services would complement education efforts by targeting children attending temporary learning spaces with psychosocial support and case management when needed.
Save the Children's operations have previously suffered severely from restricted access - in 2019, merely 13 % of targeted beneficiaries for a Sida-funded project were reached in four northern provinces (including Hajjah), prompting Save the Children to shift its operations to southern Yemen in 2020. The outlook is currently that Save the Children would be able to conduct the intervention as planned for 2021, but Sida will need to engage in close dialogue with SCS during the year to ensure operations are running smoothly and that Sida is promptly informed otherwise.
Finally, Ansar Allah, largely in control of north Yemen, has been subjected to a terrorist designation by the US as of 19 January 2021. Sida, Unit for Humanitarian Assistance is therefore in close contact with its partners on the potential impact of the designation on the humanitarian situation in the country, as well as the SCS’s specific activities and presence. Moreover, a risk analysis is being developed by each partner to identify challenges and mitigation measures.
II. Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) - SEK 25,000,000
Part of the annual humanitarian budget is set aside for sudden onsets of humanitarian crises and as well as deteriorations of major ongoing ones. For these situations, Sida has a Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) that makes it possible to allow for the release of disbursed (but unallocated) funds for SPOs within 24 hours in order for them to swiftly respond when humanitarian needs suddenly emerge or severely deteriorate.
SCS has been assessed by Sida to have a strong capacity to respond to sudden onset crises in complex humanitarian contexts. For this reason, it is proposed that SCS receives SEK 25 million in RRM support for 2021.
III. Capacity Building and Method Development Support
Strengthening Humanitarian Access - SEK 3,409,000
As raised above, the latest Annual Report of the UN Secretary General on Children and Armed Conflict outlined an increase of 453 percent in incidents of denial of humanitarian access in 2019, representing a total of more than 4,400 incidents. In recent years, the respect for norms governing armed conflict and humanitarian action has eroded, which undermines the ability of humanitarian organizations to reach people in need of assistance and places the onus on communities themselves to ensure access to assistance and services. Moreover, access restrictions are sometimes further compounded by counterterrorism and sanction measures preventing engagement with actors that might be in partial or direct control over areas where humanitarian needs exist.
The objective of this intervention is to address these issues by strengthening access for humanitarians and communities in hard-to-reach areas. It is divided along three objectives:
1. Promote systematization of how Save the Children staff and partners engage in dialogue with armed actors. This includes providing, inter alia, capacity-building support for field workers and frontline teams in structuring their humanitarian negotiations.
2. Facilitate communities to access services. 2021 would be the first year of a two-year effort to assemble knowledge and understanding and develop guidance to promote community-led child protection. The ambition is for this to then be piloted in selected constituencies during 2022 (no such funding for year two proposed for in this Appraisal Memo).
3. Measuring the impact of denial of humanitarian access to children, including the effects of counterterrorism legislation. This would be done as a research project in partnership with Watchlist and the Fordham University's Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA) and be used for advocacy purposes.
This proposed project aligns with several objectives of Sida's Humanitarian Strategy's, in particular "Humanitarian assistance and protection activities reach people in hard-to-reach areas" and "Humanitarian actors have safe, unhindered and sustained humanitarian access to reach crisis-affected people".
Interagency Child Protection Programming - SEK 2,184,000
In a constantly evolving humanitarian landscape there is a need to ensure humanitarian actors respond to crises with quality and reach. To this effect, humanitarian standards are central instruments. Departing from this notion, the project aims to strengthen quality, accountability and efficiency in interagency child protection programming. It is based on two components: the Child Protection Minimum Standards (CPMS) and Cash and Voucher (CVA) assistance.
First, together with the Sphere Protection Principles, the CPMS provide for a foundation of advancing Centrality of Protection in humanitarian programming, which was incorporated in the CPMS during 2019. However, funding for child protection is limited and prioritization of Centrality of Protection across sectors is oftentimes lacking. The proposed project seeks to address this by supporting innovation and local leadership through the CPMS Innovation Fund - granting financial support to national and local actors to lead implementation of the CPMS. Moreover, advocacy is planned for at the global level on how multi-sectoral actors' commitment to the Centrality of Protection can be realized and trickle down to programming at the country level.
The second component seeks to strengthen the use and evidence base for CVA in interagency child protection programming, which in part is a continuation of activities funded by Sida in 2020. It includes (i) the finalization and dissemination of an integrated CVA and Child Protection Monitoring, Evaluation, Assessment and Learning (MEAL) toolkit, (ii) undertaking a desk review on CVA for child-headed households and unaccompanied children, and (iii) finalizing guidance on conditions and capacities required to work with child protection using CVA.
This proposed project also aligns with several objectives of Sida's humanitarian Strategy's, including "Reduced risk of violence, threats and abuse for crisis-affected people", and "Increased effectiveness and efficiency of the humanitarian system in line with Grand Bargain commitments".
IV. Global Surge Deployments - SEK 800,000
In 2017, a review was undertaken of the surge structure across the Save the Children movement, which resulted in a decision to transition it from a decentralized model where surge teams were hosted by different Members, to a centralized model hosted by SCI under what is called a Global Humanitarian Surge Platform (GHSP). The purpose was to increase the quality, speed and effectiveness of the global surge capacity, reducing the complexity of deployment procedures and increasing the visibility of supply and demand of staff. The GHSP was formally established in 2019, and managed 342 deployments in 2020.
The objective of Sida's proposed support to the GHSP is to ensure that Save the Children's humanitarian responses have access to rapidly deployable skilled and experienced staff needed to deliver high quality and timely humanitarian responses. During 2021, an estimated ten deployments of four weeks respectively are expected to be funded through Sida's support.
V. Operational and Technical Support - SEK 5 000 000
This support is provided to SCS's HQ in Stockholm in order to engender high-quality management of - and compliance with - the draft Agreement during 2021. The support is divided between "Operational Support", "Thematic and Quality Support", "Grants Management & Monitoring", and "Financial Management and Donor Relations".
Sida's assessment of this support is provided in more detail in section 5.1. below. | Significant |
DRC crisis 2021 - NRC Humanitarian Country programmes 2021-2025 Norwegian Refugee Council - Norska flyktingrådet (NRC) - har ansökt om ett förnyat partnerskap med Sida 2021-2025.
2021
NRC har dessutom ansökt om finansiering på 364,5 miljoner SEK för att genomföra humanitära insatser i 26 humanitära krisområden under 2021: Afghanistan, Kamerun, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Demokratiska Republiken Kongo, Eritrea, Etiopien, Iran, Irak, Jordanien, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexiko, Palestina, Somalia, Sydsudan, Sudan, Tanzania / Burundi, Uganda, Venezuela och Jemen. Ansökan inkluderar även 40 miljoner kronor för den humanitära snabbmekanismen (RRM) och 20 miljoner kronor i stöd till sju projekt för metodstöd, kapacitetsuppbyggnad och samordning.
Den aktuella budgeten för NRC:s hela humanitära program 2021 uppgår till 4 263 200 000 NOK, varav Sidas del för närvarande utgör ca 8%. Sida ger NRC möjligheten att nyttja resurser flexibelt inom varje enskilt landprogram, (enligt så kallad Programme-Based Approach – PBA)
Humanitär-Utveckling-Fred Nexus
NRC bidrar i hög grad till arbetet för att sammankoppla humanitärt bistånd med freds- och utvecklingsinsatser. Organisationens strävan att effektivisera biståndet genom katalytiskt stöd till samordning och kapacitetsbyggande insatser bidrar till denna ansats. I samarbetet med andra organisationer möjliggör och bidrar NRC:s verksamhet och påverkansarbete till att stärka hållbara lösningar för flyktingar och människor som har blivit tvångsfördrivna och bidrar därmed till att på sikt minska de humanitära behoven. Även krisdrabbade människors möjligheter till självförsörjning prioriteras. NRC:s analyskapacitet är en styrka som bidrar till att programmeringen anpassas till en nexus-ansats och den analys som genomförs av NRC:s internationella center för övervakning av tvångsförflyttning (IDMC) är av stor vikt för dessa analyser. 19 av de 26 kriser i NRC:s portfölj som Sida finansierar avser länder där Sverige även bedriver utvecklingssamarbete vilket öppnar för möjligheter till synergier med humanitärt bistånd.
2022
NRC ska få totalt 455,5 miljoner kronor av Sidas humanitära finansiering, enligt följande fördelning:
- Sida kommer att stödja NRC:s humanitära program i 23 krissituationer som Sida har prioriterat genom sin behovsbaserade allokeringsmodell för 2022, med 288,5 miljoner kronor :Afghanistan, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia och
regionen (Ecuador, Panamà), Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jemen,
Jordanien, Kamerun, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria,
Palestina, Somalia, Sudan, Sydsudan, Syrien, Uganda, Venezuela.
- Flerårig finansiering för NRC :s humanitära program i Demokratiska
republiken Kongo, Mali och Nigeria inleds 2022 och Sida har för ändamålet att ta i anspråk 104 miljoner kronor från kommande års anslag från erhållen Bemyndiganderam förutsatt att Riksdagen anvisar tillräckliga medel.
- NRC:s akuta insatser vid plötsligt uppkomna kriser kommer att stödjas genom Sidas snabbinsatsmekanism (RRM) under 2022 med 50 miljoner kronor.
- NRC:s metod- och kapacitetsstärkande projekt för skydd, miljö och IDMC (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre) kommer under 2022 att få 13 miljoner kronor, varav 3 miljoner kronor från Sida/Globen för IDMC.
Sidas bidrag till NRC för 2022 kommer att täcka cirka 6,5 % av NRC:s totala finansiella behov för de stödda programmen och projekten. Det kommer att tillhandahålla humanitära tjänster till nästan 9 miljoner människor (53 % kvinnor) i Afghanistan, Kamerun, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia och regionen, Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jordanien, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria, Palestina, Somalia, Sydsudan, Sudan, Syrien, Uganda, Venezuela och Jemen.
HUM lägger till 50 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Ukraina som gynnar 90,000 människor med skydd, tak över huvudet, WaSH samt kontantbistånd. Beslut 5 April. Avtalförändring nr 5.
HUM lägger till 7,5 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Kamerun från halvsårsanslaget 2022 (livsmedelsförsörjning, juridik rådgivning för 600 husshållen/4200 individer i Logone-et-Chari, Mayo Sava och Mayo Tsanaga). Beslut 9 juni 2022. Avtalförändring nr 6.
HUM lägger till 10 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Sydsudan från slutsåranslaget. Beslut 16 november 2022, 2022-002341. Avtalförändring nr 7.
2023
NRC får totalt 659.5 miljoner kronor (2023-2025) av Sidas humanitära finansiering för att genomföra:
- humanitära insatser i 23
krisområden under 2023: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Centralafrikanska
republiken, Colombia, Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jemen,
Jordanien, Kamerun, Kenya, Libanon, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Palestina, Sudan,
Sydsudan, Syrien, Uganda, Ukraina och Venezuela.
NRC har dessutom ansökt om 244
miljoner kronor för att kunna fortsätta sina humanitära program i Jemen, Kamerun,
Sydsudan, Syria och Venezuela under 2024 och 2025.
- ansökan inkluderar även 50
miljoner kronor till den humanitära snabbinsatsmekanismen (RRM)
- och 40 miljoner kronor i stöd till fyra fleråriga projekt för metodstöd och kapacitetsuppbyggnad: Miljö, Skydd, Tillträde, IDMC (18,5 under 2023, 21,5 under 2024-2025). NRC has applied as well to Sida for funding of 364.5 million SEK to carry out “the Humanitarian Programme for 2021” in 26 humanitarian crisis settings: Afghanistan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Palestine, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania/Burundi, Uganda, Venezuela, Yemen. The application includes provision of 40 million SEK to replenish the Rapid Response Mechanism funding instrument and 7 individual projects for method, capacity-building and coordination.
The intervention’s tentative total budget is 4 263 200 000 Norwegian krona (NOK), that the organisation is financing with Sida’s funding in a proportion of 8% approximately. Other donors, like the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DG ECHO, UNHCR, etc. are the largest contributors, besides a dozen of other donors in agreement with NRC. Sida provides NRC with the opportunity to allocate resources flexibly within individual country programmes (Programme-Based Approach – PBA).
NRC's catalytic support for coordination and capacity building contributes greatly to the link between humanitarian aid, development and peace. NRC's advocacy work and activities enable, at least contribute to, sustainable solutions for refugees and displaced people in a significant way in cooperation with other actors. In the long run, the NRC will reduce humanitarian needs. The NRC prioritizes self-sufficiency in its programs. The NRC's analysis capability, not least through its Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC), is an advantage for relevant programming according to the nexus orientations. Among the 26 crises in NRC's portfolio that Sida prioritizes, there are 15 where Sida implements Sweden's development strategies in synergy with humanitarian aid.
Sida’s contribution to NRC for 2022 will cover around 6.5% of NRC’s total financial requirements of the supported programmes and projects. It will provides humanitarian services to almost 9 million persons (53% female). HUM adds 50 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in Ukraine benefiting 90,000 people with protection, shelter, WaSH and cash assistance. Decision 5 April. Amendment nr. 5.
HUM adds 7.5 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in Cameroon from the 2022 mid-year allocation (food security, legal advice for 600 households/4200 individuals in Logone-et-Chari, Mayo Sava and Mayo Tsanaga). Decision 9 June 2022. Contract amendment No 6.
HUM adds 10 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in South Sudan from the end-of-the-year allocation. Decision 16 November 2022 nr 2022-002341. Contract amendment No 7.
NRC targets 7.7 million unique beneficiaries in total within Sida-funded humanitarian programmes in 2023, (52% female), who will receive protection and humanitarian services from NRC: Education, WASH, Shelter and settlement, Food security and livelihoods, including multi-purpose cash assistance, Protection, Legal assistance, Humanitarian mediation (community-based peace-building). Advocacy and support to humanitarian coordination and durable solution to displacements working groups in the field are part of NRC's engagement that Sida is funding. NRC's annual budget 2023 in the settings and thematics prioritized by Sida amounts to 5620 million Norwegian crowns in total. Sida's share weighs so far 8% of it: NRC's third largest donor whose cumulated 2021-2025 grant is 80% softly earmarked (programme-based approach) and 34% multi-year.
Earlier granted multi-year funding for 2023 was disbursed in January (52 MSEK) in support to continued humanitarian operations in DR Congo, Mali and Nigeria with strong emphasis on emergency response. Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is Norway's largest international humanitarian organisation and widely recognized as a leading field-based displacement agency within the international humanitarian community. NRC is the INGO receiving the largest contribution from Sida's Humanitarian Unit to INGOs so far, based on experience of successful partnerships, NRC's capacities to respond at scale and its coverage of crises that Sida is prioritizing through the needs-based allocation approach. NRC receives approximately 8% of Sida's humanitarian unit's annual budget appropriation.
The objectives of NRC can be summarized as follows: "To protect the rights of displaced and vulnerable people during crisis, to provide assistance meeting their immediate humanitarian needs, to prevent further displacement and to contribute to durable solutions, and to provide expertise as a strategic partner to humanitarian systems and actors." NRCs main activity is delivery of humanitarian assistance through programme activities in the field. NRC specializes in six areas of expertise, or "core competencies": shelter and settlements; livelihoods and food security; information, counselling and legal assistance (ICLA); education; camp management; and water, sanitation and hygiene promotion (WASH). Protection is lifted up as a new core competency of NRC since 2021. NRC engages closely with the affected populations to understand their needs and capacities, ensuring it tailors its assistance accordingly and involve them in the entire programme cycle, from design through implementation to evaluation. NRC advocates for respect for the rights of displaced and vulnerable people.
In 2021, the NRC Board approved the Global Strategy 20222025. The strategy
sets out four sub-objectives for areas that NRC will continue to strengthen and further institutionalize, namely, 1. assistance to hard-to-reach populations, 2. humanitarian policy, 3. protection, and 4. durable solutions. It also points to four areas of work that will be accelerated through expanded engagement and investments: i) advocacy, ii) climate and environment, iii) collaboration with local actors, and iv) quality programming.
NRCs work is divided into three pillars: humanitarian assistance, advocacy and expert deployment. Sida's Humanitarian Unit funding will continue prioritizing mainly the first pillar through funding of the humanitarian country programmes in line with HRPs and the RRPs and through the RRM funding. To some extent, Sida will support as well the second pillar of advocacy which is integrated in the humanitarian country programmes and implemented by NRC's method, thematic and capacity development projects supported by Sida. Sida will provide NRC with only a punctual support to the third pillar, through funding to CashCap which is deploying experts to the field for invigorating cash assistance working groups (17 in 2020 to 16 countries).
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has applied for a renewed strategic partnership with Sida during 2021-2025.
The interventions tentative total budget is 4 263 200 000 Norwegian krona (NOK), that the organisation is financing with Sidas funding in a proportion of 8% approximately. Other donors, like the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DG ECHO, UNHCR, etc. are the largest contributors, besides a dozen of other donors in agreement with NRC. Sida provides NRC with the opportunity to allocate resources flexibly within individual country programmes (Programme-Based Approach PBA).
NRC was granted funding to carry out the Humanitarian Programme for 2022 in 24 humanitarian crisis settings: Afghanistan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Irak, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria, Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Ukraina, Venezuela and Yemen. The grant includes provision of funding replenish the Rapid Response Mechanism funding instrument and four individual projects for method, capacity-building and coordination.
Sida's assessment on performance and results
Alike many other actors in the sector, NRC excels in reporting activities and outputs, but should be better in catching what changes and impacts its interventions have resulted to ultimately on assisted communities. The reporting of data and results does not provide necessarily an accurate and consolidated overview of what NRC has achieved. Sida has notified NRC that it should provide dis-aggregated data by age in targeting and reporting which is a norm.
It is assumed that NRC will achieve its objectives in 2023 again, but the global stress on the current resource mobilisation system supporting humanitarian action may affect NRC as well, similarly to large humanitarian actors such as the ICRC. | Significant |
Contribution to ICRC Assistance, Protection and Cooperation Activities in Niger Contributo al Comitato Internazionale della Croce Rossa per le attività di assistenza, protezione, prevenzione e cooperazione in Niger The Italian Agency for Development Cooperation is contributing to the implementation of the present initiative led by the International Red Cross Committee (ICRC), in collaboration with the Red Cross Society of Niger. This project aims to protect and assist people affected by armed conflicts, abuses and violence, while restoring or maintaining their livelihoods, making sure that the rule of law is respected. ICRC will ensure prompt and adequate health and nutrition assistance to victims of violence, paying particular attention to the most vulnerable population, which includes migrants, children, women, persons with disabilities and widows. Strategies will be adopted in order to ensure and enhance the standards imposed by International Humanitarian Law between authorities and armed groups, especially in areas along Niger's borders. Furthermore, the ICRC will facilitate restoring family links, reconnecting members of families separated by armed conflict, detention or migration; and it will ensure that families are informed of the death of relatives during armed conflicts or along the migration route. The ICRC aims to ease overcrowding prisons, a phenomenon that, together with inadequate health-care and poor hygienic conditions, causes high rates of malnutrition and frequent epidemics affecting the physical and psychological state of prisoners, ultimately compromising their living conditions. Moreover, prisoners in jails will be assisted to ensure that their judicial rights are respected. Once released, prisoners will be provided with money and clothes to enable them to return home. In order to prevent and limit the spread of hygiene-related diseases, the ICRC will promote good hygiene practices and will facilitate access to adequate and free health-care and physical rehabilitation, and will support health facilities providing technical and material support, including staff training. Furthermore, in collaboration with local authorities, the ICRC will install water points to increase water supply in rural and urban areas of the Diffa region and in border areas, which are currently hosting large numbers of displaced persons and migrants. L’Agenzia Italiana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo contribuisce alla realizzazione della presente iniziativa promossa da parte del Comitato della Croce Rossa Internazionale (CICR), in collaborazione con la Società della Croce Rossa Nigerina. Tale progetto si prefigge di proteggere e assistere le persone colpite da conflitti armati, abusi e violenze, ripristinando o mantenendo i loro mezzi di sussistenza, e accertandosi che norme e leggi siano rispettate. Il CIRC assicurerà pronta e adeguata assistenza sanitaria e alimentare alle vittime degli episodi di violenza, prestando particolare attenzione alla popolazione più vulnerabile, che include migranti, bambini, donne, persone con disabilità e vedove. Verranno adottate strategie al fine di assicurare gli standard imposti dal Diritto Umanitario Internazionale tra le autorità e i gruppi armati, soprattutto nelle zone lungo le frontiere del Niger. Il CICR agirà al fine di facilitare il ricongiungimento familiare tra le famiglie separate dal conflitto armato, dalla detenzione o dalla migrazione, assicurando che le famiglie siano informate della morte dei parenti durante gli scontri o lungo la rotta migratoria. Verranno prese misure per far fronte al sovraffollamento delle carceri, un fenomeno che insieme a un’insufficiente assistenza sanitaria provoca alti tassi di malnutrizione e frequenti epidemie ripercuotendosi negativamente sullo stato fisico e psicologico dei detenuti, compromettendone le condizioni di vita. Inoltre i prigionieri nelle carceri verranno assistiti al fine di garantire che i loro diritti giudiziari vengano rispettati e verranno loro forniti soldi e vestiti per consentir loro di rientrare a casa una volta rilasciati. Il CICR promuoverà buone pratiche igieniche per prevenire e limitare la diffusione di malattie legate all'igiene, facilitando l’accesso a un’adeguata e gratuita assistenza sanitaria e riabilitazione fisica, e sosterrà le strutture ospedaliere fornendo materiali e preparando il personale sanitario. Inoltre, in collaborazione con le autorità locali, il CICR installerà punti d'acqua per aumentare l'approvvigionamento idrico nelle aree rurali e urbane della regione di Diffa e nelle regioni di confine che ospitano un gran numero di sfollati e migranti. | Significant |
Urgent Action Fund Urgent Action Fund - Urgent Action Fund - Covid 19 Nya medel/medeltillägg för att lindra konsekvenserna av covid-19
Ökande konservatism, nationalism och extremism krymper det demokratiska utrymmet i stora delar av världen idag. Kvinnor och organisationer som främjar jämställdhet och alla kvinnors fulla åtnjutande av de mänskliga rättigheterna lever ofta under press och hot. Våld och hot mot kvinnors rättighetsförsvarare, kvinnliga journalister och aktivister för miljörätt är vanliga.
I Frontline Defenders rapport för 2018 kan vi läsa det år 2018 var 321 människorättsförsvarare i 27 länder som blev dödade för sitt arbete - det är det högsta antalet någonsin. Vidarestår det i rapporten att läsa att förutom de hot som också manliga kollegor upplever, möter kvinnliga människorättsförsvarare särskilda utmaningar och ytterligare hot just för att de är kvinnor. Sådana brott omfattar bortpetning från offentliga eller höga positioner i civilsamhällesorganisationer, fackföreningar och politiska partier, smutskastningskampanjer, ifrågasättande av deras roll som mödrar, sexuella övergrepp och våldtäkt, militariserat våld och trakasserier som också riktas mot deras barn.
URGENT Action Sister Funds är en global federation av fyra oberoende fonder som är verkar för att stärka motståndskraften och säkerheten hos kvinnliga människorättsförsvarare (WHRD) och deras organisationer och rörelser. Systerfonderna är; Urgent Action Fund - Afrika, Urgent Action Fund för kvinnors mänskliga rättigheter, Urgent Action Fund - Asien och Stillahavsområdet, och Urgent Action Fund - Latinamerika.
UAF-systerfonderna tillhandahåller tre typer av snabba bidrag (rapid response grants):
1) Security Grants - När säkerhet och säkerhet för kvinnor eller trans människorättsförsvarare / aktivister / organisationer hotas på grund av deras arbete för mänskliga rättigheter. Dessa bidrag ger omedelbara och flexibla resurser vid säkerhetshot som upplevs av WHRD, inklusive övervakning, våld, förtal och godtyckligt kvarhållande. Den genomsnittliga svarstiden är bara 24-48 timmar och de gör brådskande support tillgängligt via online, säkra, enkla applikationer som finns tillgängliga på flera språk 24/7/365. Dessa bidrag används ofta för att förbättra den digitala säkerheten, stödja tillfällig omlokalisering, rehabilitera ett vandaliserat kontor, sätta upp säkerhetskameror eller annan infrastruktur. Samt till att tillhandahålla traumarådgivning eller finansiera rättshjälp. Sammantaget tillhandahåller systerfonderna över 300 snabba bidrag, årligen och når tusentals kvinnor och transgenderaktivister över hela världen. UAF-systerfonderna accepterar ansökningar på alla språk som är specifika för de länder de tjänar (och UAF accepterar ansökningar på vilket språk som helst) med hjälp av online-, text- och mobilfinansieringsansökningar 365 dagar om året.
2) Opportunity Grants - När ett oväntat tillfälle eller möjligthet uppstår för påverkansarbete eller mobilisering som kan leda till framsteg för kvinnors och LGBTQI-personers rättigheter, såsom förändringar i rättsliga beslut, politik och lagar eller en förändring av offentliga attityder och praxis i ett lokalt sammanhang. Dessa bidrag stöder ofta engagemang i strategiska rättstvister, presskonferenser och kampanjer i sociala medier.
3) Resiliensbidrag: När mäniskorättsförsvarare vill genomföra ett initiativ som svarar på en oförutsedd möjlighet - på egen hand eller i samarbete med andra - som skulle bidra till stärkt motståndskraft för kvinnors mänskliga rättigheter och aktivister som försvarar mänskliga rättigheter.
Systerfonderna har gemensamt ansökt om finansiering från den globala strategin för jämställdhet och kvinnors och flickors mänskliga rättigheter. Programmet omfattar 1) Tillhandahållande av Rapid respons grants 2) Gemensamt påverkansarbete med och för kvinnliga människorättsförsvarare 3) Uppbyggnad av allianser och partnerskap för kvinnliga människorättsförsvarare 4) stärkt samarbete mellan de 4 systerfonderna.
Stöd till funktionshindrade integrerades under projektets gång, genom stöd till organisationer som främjar funktionshundrades rättigheter. New/additional funds to mitigate the impact of COVID-19
Increasing conservatism, nationalism and extremism are shrinking the democratic space in most parts of the world today. Women and organizations that promote gender equality and all women's full enjoyment of human rights often live under pressure and threats. Violence and threats to women's rights defenders, female journalists and environmental law activists are common.
In Frontline defenders report for 2018 we can read that; "In 2018, 321 human rights defenders in 27 countries were targeted and killed for their work – the highest number ever on record". And "in addition to the threats experienced by male colleagues, WHRDs face gendered and sexualized attacks from both state and non-state actors, as well as from within their own human rights movements. Such violations include removal from public or high-ranking positions in NGOs, trade unions, and political societies; smear campaigns questioning their commitment to their families; sexual assault and rape; militarized violence; and the harassment and targeting of their children."
The Urgent Action Fund Sister Funds (the UAFs) comprise a global federation of four independent funds each dedicated to strengthening the resilience and security of women human rights defenders (WHRDs) and their organizations and movements.
The Sister Funds are; Urgent Action Fund – Africa, Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights, Urgent Action Fund – Asia and Pacific, and Urgent Action Fund – Latin America.
The UAF Sister Funds provide three types of rapid response grants:
1) Security grants – When the safety and security of women or trans human rights defenders/activists/organizations is threatened due to their human rights work. These grants provide immediate, flexible resources in response to security threats experienced by WHRDs, including surveillance, violence, defamation and arbitrary detention. The average response time is just 24-48 hours and they make urgent support accessible via online, secure, simple applications that are available in multiple languages 24/7/365. These grants are often used to improve digital security, support temporary relocation, rehabilitate a vandalized office, add security cameras or other infrastructure, provide trauma counseling, or fund legal aid.
2) Opportunity grants – When an unexpected moment or opportunity arises for advocacy or mobilization that may result in advancements for women’s and LGBTQI rights, such as changes in legal decisions, policy and laws, or a shift in public attitudes and practices in a local context. These grants often support strategic litigation, press conferences, community organizing, social media campaigns, and other forms of rapid advocacy.
3) Resourcing resilience grants: When defenders seek to implement an initiative responding to an unanticipated opportunity - on their own or in collaboration with others - that would contribute towards resourcing resilience for women’s human rights and human rights activism.
The Sister funds have jointly approached Sida with a request for funding from the Global Strategy on Gender Equality and Women's and girls human rights.The program includes 1) provision of rapid response grants 2) joint advocacy with WHRDs 3) Building of alliances and partnerships in which WHRDs are consulted, respected and celebrated 4) strengthened alignment across the UAF Sister Funds.
Disability was integrated successfully at a later stage in the project, through support to disability rights organisations. Expected results
UAF Sister Funds support the work of WHRDs in the areas of security and well-being, advocacy, and access to convening spaces and solidarity networks. By fostering these capacities, the shared goals of the UAF Sister Funds include sustained resilience and efficacy of the feminist movements that WHRDs lead and their success in changing laws, policies, and social norms to realize equity and justice for all.
The objectives of the intervention are;
Objective 1: UAF Sister Funds provide increased and more accessible resources, through rapid response grant-making, to support and protect WHRDs
Goal 1 Each UAF Sister Fund maintains a 24/7/365 open, accessible, and secure application process for WHRDs.
Goal 2 Each UAF Sister Fund awards rapid security and opportunity or resourcing resilience grants to WHRDs that are more responsive to WHRDs needs.
Goal 3 Develop shared learning and aligned frameworks for the security and well-being of WHRDs. .
Objective 2: Advocate in partnership with WHRDs in philanthropic and policy spaces to foster an enabling environment for the defenders we support
Goal 1 Each UAF Sister Fund undertakes learning, listening, and capacity-building activities to create space for and gather perspectives of WHRDs.
Goal 2 Each UAF Sister Fund undertakes and/or supports regional or international advocacy with WHRDs.
Objective 3: Build alliances and partnerships in which WHRDs are consulted, respected, and celebrated
Goal 1 Joint UAF Sister Funds participation in selected philanthropic and human rights policy spaces..
Objective 4: Strengthened alignment across the UAF Sister Funds community to increase the communitys collective movement impact and resilience for WHRDs
Goal 1- Strong alignment in coordination of the program | Significant |
Myanmar crisis 2021 - IRC HUM 2021-2025 RRM International Rescue Committee, IRC, is a non-profit international organisation, working with humanitarian and development work in more than 40 countries world-wide. As per IRC’s mission statement, their goal is “to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster, including by the climate crisis, to survive, recover and gain control of their future” in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Their focus is on activities with the sectors of health, safety/protection, education, livelihoods and ensuring people have the power to influence decisions that affect their lives. Their main target group is people who flee from war, conflict and disaster, and the host communities that support them.
Currently, IRC is mainly a self-implementing organisation who conduct the bulk of their work through their 17 000 global staff members. However, IRC is striving to increase their cooperation with local partners (authorities, organisation, community groups) to reach a goal of sub-granting 25 % of their means through third party, and will continue to work towards achieving this target during 2024 and 2025.
In 2024, the IRC will receive humanitarian programme-based support in 17 countries, as well as funding for the IRC's Rapid Response Mechanism, whose function is to rapidly channel funds to emerging or worsening crises. In addition to the ongoing methodology and capacity projects, the IRC is starting two new 2-year projects this year, focusing on protection for one, and localisation for the other. International Rescue Committee (IRC) är en enskild internationell organisation, aktiv i humanitär respons och resiliens i mer än 40 länder globalt. Deras huvudsakliga syfte är att bistå människor vars liv och försörjningsmöjligheter slagits i spillror till följd av konflikter, naturkatastrofer och klimatförändringar genom att erbjuda överlevnadsstöd och aktiviteter för återhämtning. Fokus ligger på aktiviteter inom hälsa, skydd, utbildning, försörjningsmöjligheter samt människors stärkta egenmakt och beslutsförmåga. Huvudsaklig målgrupp är människor som flyr från krig och katastrofer, samt de värdsamhällen som bistår dem.
I dagsläget är IRC huvudsakligen självimplementerande och utför sitt arbete med hjälp av sina 17 000 medarbetare världen över. IRC har däremot ett mål om att utöka sitt samarbete med lokala partners (myndigheter, organisationer, organiserade samhällsgrupper) för att på sikt kanalisera 25 % av finansiella medel genom tredje part, och kommer under 2024 och 2025 att försätta arbeta för att detta ska bli verklighet.
År 2024 får IRC humanitärt programbaserat stöd i 17 länder, samt medel till IRCs snabbfinansieringsmekanism ”Rapid Response Mechanism” vars funktion är att snabbt kunna kanalisera medel till hastigt uppkomna eller kraftigt förvärrade kriser. Utöver de pågående metod och kapacitet projekt börjar IRC två nya 2-åriga projekt i år, med fokus på skydd för den ena, och lokalisering för den andra. IRC respond to the worlds worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic well being and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Their mission is to help people whose lives and livelihoods have been shattered by conflict and disaster, including the climate crisis, to survive, recover and gain control of their future.
IRC consider their interventions successful when their clients see improvement in their safety from physical, sexual and psychological harm; in their health status, including physical and mental well-being; in education, including literacy and numeracy, social-emotional, and life skills (including safe schools); in economic well-being, including ability to provide basic material needs and income asset growth; and in power to have influence over the decisions that affect their lives. IRC strive to reach these goals while continuously trying to tackle gender inequalities in and through all of their work.
As Sida supports IRC in a variety of countries, not one specific objective can be identified for the whole contribution, but for the sake of exemplifying, a number of country specific goals are outlined below:
Ukraine: People are safe in their homes and receive support when they experience harm, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of gender-based violence, adolescents and adults are physically and mentally healthy, people meet their basic needs and protect livelihoods during emergencies, people develop their livelihoods and recover from shocks.
Myanmar: People are safe in their communities and receive support when they experience harm, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of
gender-based violence, women and girls achieve their sexual and reproductive health and rights, adolescents and adults are physically and mentally healthy, people access water, sanitation and hygiene services and live in an enhanced environment, people meet their basic needs and protect livelihoods during emergencies, people lead their recovery and development.
Central African Republic: People are safe in their communities and receive support when they experience harm, children survive and are healthy, women and girls achieve their sexual and reproductive health and rights, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of gender-based violence, people develop their livelihoods and recover from shocks, people lead their own recovery and development.
Across the country programmes relevant for Sida funding in 2024, IRC will engage i formal and informal partnerships with local and national actors. The cash modality will be explored in all contexts. | Significant |
Education and protection for school-age children in Lebanon (Phase III) Istruzione e protezione per i bambini in età scolare in Libano (Fase III) The Programme is designed to respond to the specific needs identified in Education and Child Protection; promotes access to education and the protection and social inclusion of Lebanese, refugees and migrants’ children. The Programme also strengthens the capacities of the Lebanese national systems responsible for providing educational and social assistance services l’iniziativa intende rispondere ai bisogni specifici identificati nei settori Educazione e Tutela e inclusione dei minori; favorisce l’accesso all’istruzione e la tutela e l’inclusone sociale dei minori libanesi, rifugiati e migranti; rafforza le capacità dei sistemi nazionali libanesi preposti all’erogazione di servizi educativi e di assistenza sociale. | Significant |
Haiti 2023 - IRC HUM 2021-2025 RRM International Rescue Committee (IRC) är en enskild internationell organisation, aktiv i humanitär respons och resiliens i mer än 40 länder globalt. Deras huvudsakliga syfte är att bistå människor vars liv och försörjningsmöjligheter slagits i spillror till följd av konflikter, naturkatastrofer och klimatförändringar genom att erbjuda överlevnadsstöd och aktiviteter för återhämtning. Fokus ligger på aktiviteter inom hälsa, skydd, utbildning, försörjningsmöjligheter samt människors stärkta egenmakt och beslutsförmåga. Huvudsaklig målgrupp är människor som flyr från krig och katastrofer, samt de värdsamhällen som bistår dem.
I dagsläget är IRC huvudsakligen självimplementerande och utför sitt arbete med hjälp av sina 17 000 medarbetare världen över. IRC har däremot ett mål om att utöka sitt samarbete med lokala partners (myndigheter, organisationer, organiserade samhällsgrupper) för att på sikt kanalisera 25 % av finansiella medel genom tredje part, och kommer under 2024 och 2025 att försätta arbeta för att detta ska bli verklighet.
År 2024 får IRC humanitärt programbaserat stöd i 17 länder, samt medel till IRCs snabbfinansieringsmekanism ”Rapid Response Mechanism” vars funktion är att snabbt kunna kanalisera medel till hastigt uppkomna eller kraftigt förvärrade kriser. Utöver de pågående metod och kapacitet projekt börjar IRC två nya 2-åriga projekt i år, med fokus på skydd för den ena, och lokalisering för den andra. International Rescue Committee, IRC, is a non-profit international organisation, working with humanitarian and development work in more than 40 countries world-wide. As per IRC’s mission statement, their goal is “to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster, including by the climate crisis, to survive, recover and gain control of their future” in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Their focus is on activities with the sectors of health, safety/protection, education, livelihoods and ensuring people have the power to influence decisions that affect their lives. Their main target group is people who flee from war, conflict and disaster, and the host communities that support them.
Currently, IRC is mainly a self-implementing organisation who conduct the bulk of their work through their 17 000 global staff members. However, IRC is striving to increase their cooperation with local partners (authorities, organisation, community groups) to reach a goal of sub-granting 25 % of their means through third party, and will continue to work towards achieving this target during 2024 and 2025.
In 2024, the IRC will receive humanitarian programme-based support in 17 countries, as well as funding for the IRC's Rapid Response Mechanism, whose function is to rapidly channel funds to emerging or worsening crises. In addition to the ongoing methodology and capacity projects, the IRC is starting two new 2-year projects this year, focusing on protection for one, and localisation for the other. IRC respond to the worlds worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic well being and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Their mission is to help people whose lives and livelihoods have been shattered by conflict and disaster, including the climate crisis, to survive, recover and gain control of their future.
IRC consider their interventions successful when their clients see improvement in their safety from physical, sexual and psychological harm; in their health status, including physical and mental well-being; in education, including literacy and numeracy, social-emotional, and life skills (including safe schools); in economic well-being, including ability to provide basic material needs and income asset growth; and in power to have influence over the decisions that affect their lives. IRC strive to reach these goals while continuously trying to tackle gender inequalities in and through all of their work.
As Sida supports IRC in a variety of countries, not one specific objective can be identified for the whole contribution, but for the sake of exemplifying, a number of country specific goals are outlined below:
Ukraine: People are safe in their homes and receive support when they experience harm, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of gender-based violence, adolescents and adults are physically and mentally healthy, people meet their basic needs and protect livelihoods during emergencies, people develop their livelihoods and recover from shocks.
Myanmar: People are safe in their communities and receive support when they experience harm, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of
gender-based violence, women and girls achieve their sexual and reproductive health and rights, adolescents and adults are physically and mentally healthy, people access water, sanitation and hygiene services and live in an enhanced environment, people meet their basic needs and protect livelihoods during emergencies, people lead their recovery and development.
Central African Republic: People are safe in their communities and receive support when they experience harm, children survive and are healthy, women and girls achieve their sexual and reproductive health and rights, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of gender-based violence, people develop their livelihoods and recover from shocks, people lead their own recovery and development.
Across the country programmes relevant for Sida funding in 2024, IRC will engage i formal and informal partnerships with local and national actors. The cash modality will be explored in all contexts. | Significant |
Fortalecimiento de la Sociedad Civil para la promoci¿n de derechos y desarrollo social y econ¿mico de la poblaci¿n vulnerable en los distritos de Malabo y Luba, Isla de Bioko. Contract related to: Fortalecimiento de la Sociedad Civil para la promoci¿n de derechos y desarrollo social y econ¿mico de la poblaci¿n vulnerable en los distritos de Malabo y Luba, Isla de Bioko. - The proposed Action intents to contribute to Specific-Objective 1.3: Support CSOs as actors of good governance and development in partner countries and to the achievement of the related result 1.3: Civil Society Organisations¿ (CSOs) ability to engage as actors of good governance and development at country level is improved.The Action rolls out the EU support to country-level CSO initiatives aimed at implementing priorities reflected in the NDICI-GLOBAL Europe, Annex III CSO Thematic Programme and the subsequent draft Multiannual Indicative Plan for the same. In line with the policy of geographisation, a majority of funds under the CSO MAAP 2021-2024, will be allocated under the Action to support civil society in partner countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and Caribbean, and in Neighbourhood countries and Russia. Activities funded under the Action will support a broad range of civil society actors including and prioritising, but not limited to, women and youth organisations, In the framework of the Country Roadmaps for EU and Member States engagement with civil society (CSO Roadmaps), all initiatives under the Action will aim at and contribute to strengthening civil society partner¿s institutional and operational capacity through a comprehensive approach; enabling and ensuring their participation; and on improving the environment in which they operate. Particular attention will be paid to CSOs capacities to benefit from the digital transformation which will pay attention to accessible digital technology and reduce the gap on access to ICT. | Significant |
Fondo Covid 19_AID_011884: JUNTAS: empowerment of women in the Region of Gabu Fondo Covid 19_AID_011884: Juntas: empowerment femminile nella Regione di Gabù Fondo Covid 19_AID_011884: The overall objective of the proposal is to contribute to strengthening the most vulnerable people of Guinea Bissau in reducing poverty and exclusion. The specific objective is to facilitate the process of inclusion and empowerment of women and people with disabilities, with particular focus on those victims of violence. The first result is to increase the access opportunities of women and people with disabilities to income-generating activities (AGR) through micro-credit and entrepreneurial activities supported by an incubator of micro-enterprises (start-ups). Considering the prevalence of agricultural activities in the area, the agro-ecological activities that have already given excellent results in the pilot phase will be expanded.The second expected result is linked to the capitalization of the social networks of the SAC (Community Alarm System) in the Gabu region. As part of the AID10953, project managed by AIFO, a sensitization campaign has been launched on gender violence, women's and people with disabilities rights through an institutional dialogue with the Federation of Associations for the Defence of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Guinea Bissau (FADPD / GB).This initiative will expand activities in the field of gender-based violence prevention and inclusion of disability by enhancing dialogue mechanisms, increasing the number of self-help groups. These activities will serve as a hub to involve beneficiaries and families, in a path of behaviour change already successfully applied in many African countries for women's empowerment and prevention of violence, especially domestic violence.The impact of the initiative is not limited to produce direct benefits for families, linked to the improvement of the economic condition of women and the reduction of domestic violence. In fact, through the involvement and support of traditional authorities, it is expected to induce in the community a spirit of emulation that determines the change of gender roles. The change will have a very important impact on young people, obstructing gender-based violence, towards building a resilient, productive and respectful community of rights and equal opportunities. Fondo Covid 19_AID_011884: L'obiettivo generale della proposta è di contribuire al rafforzamento delle fasce più vulnerabili della Guinea Bissau nella lotta contro la povertà e l'esclusione. L'obiettivo specifico intende facilitare i processi d'inclusione e di empowerment delle donne e persone con disabilità, con focus particolare a quelle vittime di violenza. Il primo risultato prevede di aumentare le possibilità di accesso delle donne e persone con disabilità a attività generatrici di reddito (AGR) tramite il micro-credito e le attività imprenditoriali sostenute da un incubatore di microimprese (start up). Considerando la prevalenza di attività agricole della zona, saranno rinforzate le attività agro-ecologiche che hanno dato già degli ottimi risultati nella fase pilota. Il secondo risultato atteso è legato alla capitalizzazione delle reti sociali del sistema SAC (Sistema di Allarme Comunitario) nella Regione di Gabu. Nell'ambito del progetto AID10953 gestito da AIFO, è stato avviato un percorso di sensibilizzazione su temi riguardanti violenza di genere, diritti delle donne e persone con disabilità attraverso un dialogo istituzionale con la Federazione delle Associazioni per la difesa dei diritti delle persone con disabilità in Guinea Bissau (FADPD/GB). La presente iniziativa espanderà le attività nel campo della prevenzione della violenza di genere e l'inclusione della disabilità potenziando i meccanismi di dialogo, aumentando il numero dei gruppi di auto-aiuto. Queste attività serviranno da fulcro per coinvolgere i beneficiari e i nuclei familiari, in un percorso di cambiamento dei comportamenti già applicato con successo in numerosi paesi africani per l'empowerment delle donne e la prevenzione della violenza, soprattutto domestica. L'impatto dell'iniziativa, non si limita solo a produrre benefici diretti nei confronti dei nuclei familiari, legati al miglioramento della condizione economica femminile e alla diminuzione della violenza domestica. Infatti, tramite il coinvolgimento e il supporto delle autorità tradizionali, si prevede d'indurre nella comunità uno spirito di emulazione che determini il cambiamento dei ruoli di genere. Il cambiamento avrà un impatto molto importante sui giovani, ostracizzando la violenza di genere, verso la costruzione di una comunità resiliente, produttiva e rispettosa dei diritti e delle pari opportunità. | Significant |
IRC Jordan & Lebanon resilience project 2017-2020 - IRC Jordan & Lebanon resilience project 2019-2020 IRC Jordanien -Libanon resiliens projekt 2017-2020 Omprogrammerade medel för att lindra konsekvenserna av covid-19
IRC-UK kommer att främja jämställdhet genom att stödja fördrivna och lokala samhällen, med fokus på utsatta kvinnor och flickor, i Jordanien och Libanon 2017-2020, för att öka den sociala och ekonomiska återhämtningsförmågan. Projektet omfattar 54,7 MSEK totalt.
Projektet förlängs till nov 2020 med 51,8 MSEK tillägg. Reprogrammed funds to mitigate the impact of COVID-19
IRC-UK will promote gender equality by supporting displaced and local communities, with a focus on vulnerable women and girls, in Jordan and Lebanon in 2017-2020, to increase social and economic resilience. The project in total is budgeted 54.7 MSEK.
The project is extended to November 2020 with an additional contribution of 51.8 MSEK. Objectives:
1. Women generate income and assets, and are able to use and control resources
2. Women and girls shape and contribute to their communities and homes
3. Women and girls are protected from and supported to recover from the consequences
of GBV | Significant |
Inclusive Eye Health - Nampula Over the five-year period 2022–2026 we aim for approximately six million people living in rural areas including people with disabilities and marginalised groups to have access to quality and sustainable eye health services and restore sight to over 10,000 people in need of surgery to prevent blindness. | Principal |
Activity under preparation Institutional Reform of the Electricity Sector in Gaza - Phase II Contract related to: Institutional Reform of the Electricity Sector in Gaza - Phase II - The PEGASE programme aims at contributing to a democratic, accountable, economically viable Palestinian state as well as the fulfilment of social rights. The specific objectives are: (1) improved access to social public services for all; (2) improved inclusiveness, effectiveness, efficiency and transparency in policy making and budgeting. The action's objectives and policy related outputs (indirect outputs) are underpinned by the following direct outputs: eased financing for social public services; enhanced administrative and technical capacity of the PA institutions; improved coordination with government, development partners and CSOs for enhanced policy dialogue at global and sector level; improved rights-based, and adaptive social systemsThe overall contribution of the EU for 2022 amounts to EUR 113 000 000. Key components of this Action are: a contribution to the payments of the salaries and pensions of civil servants (CSP, EUR 50 000 000), part of which is triggered by the fulfilment of the defined targets related to the agreed reforms in the following indicative areas of PFM, water, energy and health; a contribution to the social allowances to vulnerable families (cash transfer programme ¿ CTP, EUR 40 000 000); and a contribution to the payment for the referrals to the East Jerusalem Hospitals (EJH, EUR 13 000 000).In continuity with the PEGASE AD 2021, this AD aims at ensuring: a.) an increased weight of the results based component to stimulate reforms; b.) a stringent governance system to enhance policy dialogue and monitoring of implementation through a dedicated Steering Committee, c.) a more solid assessment of the reform process and its achievements through a system of external oversight, d.) strengthening the synergies with complementary capacity development activities and e.) the perspective of a multi annual reform agenda for key sectors as part of the overall policy discussion. In line with the overall ambition to contribute to the building of accountable, democratic, effective institutions ready for final statehood, the programme will engage in a constant policy dialogue with the authorities to ensure that progress is taking place in the broader area of democratic governance.PEGASE strong safeguard system of ex-ante and ex-post controls will be maintained. | Significant |
Support to the Central Elections Commission (CEC) to enable efficient and inclusive electoral processes in Palestine Contract related to: Support to the Central Elections Commission (CEC) to enable efficient and inclusive electoral processes in Palestine - This action aims to promote Democracy, Rule of Law and Human Rights as foundations of state-building in the pursuit of a two-state solution and as conditions for inclusive growth and sustainable development. It will do so by contributing to improve access to justice and conditions for fair trial through enhanced services, legal aid, legal and judicial specialisation as well as strengthened judicial capacity. It also aims to promote fundamental Rule of Law reforms and enhance the protection of rights through improved institutional accountability as well as evidence-based planning and policy-making in the justice sector. Furthermore, it aims to strengthen democratic institutions and promote civic participation, with a particular focus on youth, women and people in marginalised areas. By targeting the different state and societal elements that contribute to and are affected by a functioning rule of law and democratic system, the action aims to achieve three outcomes that are mutually reinforcing and contributing to fulfil the SDGs 16. on Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions, 5. on Gender Equality; and 10. on Reduced Inequalities. The priority areas are also in line with those under Pillar 1- Democracy, Rule of Law and Human Rights of the European Joint Strategy in support of Palestine, 2021 ¿ 2024 to be adopted. The three outcomes are: 1. Enhanced accountability, independence, integrity and transparency of the justice system.2. Strengthened administration of justice in line with fair trial standards and improved access to justice for all, including women, children and vulnerable groups;3. Strengthen Democratic institutions and promote civic participation, with a particular focus on youth, women and people in marginalised areas. | Significant |
Contribution in support of people of concern to UNHCR in Ethiopia, Lebanon, Niger and Syria. Assistance de protection pour des réfugiés de Somali dans la Zone Doolo en Ethiopie Support to the interventions of UNHCR in Ethiopia, Lebanon, Niger and Syria. The project will provide monthly Multi-purpose cash assistance to 8617 of the most severely vulnerable Syrian refugee families to help them meet their basis needs such as shelter, food and medicine. The project will contribute to provide protection assitance to severly and highly vulnerable refugee families, by providing registration and documentation to the new arrivals as well as Gender Based Violend and Child Protection response and assistance to Persons with Specific Needs. The project will support community-based protection services for communities affected by the crises in Syria (refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displace people, returnees, and host communities) The project will contriubte to the strenghtening of the protection sesponse for refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced and host communities in the Maradi and Diffa regions of Niger through a comprehensive multisectoral protection response and the provision of support in terms of Core Relief Items (CRIs) and housing to new arrivals, as well as ensuring adequate hygiene conditions. The multi-purpose cash assistance is an integral part of UNHCR's comprehensive protection response to refugees in Lebanon. The overall goal is to improve the living conditions of vulnerable refugee families and reduce their susceptibility to exploitation and other protection risks such as child labour and survival sex. The project's goal is to enhance the protection environment for vulnerable populations, offering support in terms of CRIs and housing, while also ensuring proper hygiene and sufficient access to clean drinking water The objective of the project is to provide protection extremely vulnerable refugee families, by providing registration and documentation to the new arrivals. Throughout this process, UNHCR and protection partners will conduct vulnerability screening for groups at risk amongst new arrivals including unaccompanied and seperated children, pregnant and lactating women, the elderly, and persons with disability or serious medical conditions. The project will ensure the delivery of protection interventions through UNHCR's community-based protection networks to address the needs of refugees, asylum-seekers, returnees, IDPs and host communities. It also aims to enhance the engagement of communities and beneficiaries in the overall assistance delivery. 1. Strengthening child protection, reducin Gender Based Violence risks and improving response services
2. Ensuring refugees have sufficient basisc and domestic items
3. Ensuring refugees and asylum seekers live in satisfactory conditions of sanitation and hygiene
4. Providing shelters to refugees - Access to Asylum, documentation and registration
- Prevention and Response to Gender-Based Violence
- Child Protection Assistance
- Assistance to Persons ith Specific Needs - Delivering protection services through the community-based protection network
- Supporting community-led initiatives 8617 house holds of the most vulnerable Syrian refugee families (43.085 individuals): female-headed households, persons with serious medical conditions, the disabled, women at risk, persons with specific legal or physical protection needs, children at risk, signle parents, older persons at risk, unaccompanied children and minor-headed households. 100.000 Vulnerable Somali refugees in Ethiopia Approximatelly 14.500 individuals An estimated 133.635 refugees, IDP's asylum seekers and host community members in the regions of Maradi and Diffa | Significant |
Health Development Initiative 2023-2025 Health Development Initiative 2023-2025 Det treåriga stödet (2023–2025) ger kärnfinansiering till Health Development Initiative (HDI) – en lokal civilsamhällesorganisation i Rwanda som kämpar för främjandet av sexuell reproduktiv hälsa och rättigheter (SRHR) i landet och den östafrikanska regionen i stort. Stödet syftar till att stödja HDI:s tre strategiska insatser.
Strategiskt mål 1: Stödja HDI i att bli ett kompetenscentrum för hälsa och rättigheter
Detta kommer att omfatta tillhandahållandet av omfattande SRHR-information och tjänster till kvinnor, män, flickor, pojkar och människor oavsett könsidentitet, inklusive utsatta befolkningsgrupper, däribland människor som lever med HIV, sexarbetare, offer av GBV, HGBTIQ+-personer, flyktingar och fångar. Dessa tjänster inkluderar medicinska kontroller av sexuellt överförbara sjukdomar - HIV och AIDS, graviditetstest, familjeplaneringsrådgivning, tillhandahållande av akuta preventivmedel, rådgivning före och efter abort samt information, remiss och rättshjälp till kvinnor som söker säker abort. HDI har även avsikten att tillhandahålla direkta avstigmatiserade hälsotjänster som tillhandahåller fysiska kliniker och en krislinje – SRHR-respons. Detta är avgörande för HDI:s arbete med att göra rättighetsbaserade, icke-diskriminerande SRH-tjänster, vilket gör det tillgängligt för dem som behöver det mest. Det är även en integrerad del av HDI:s påverkansarbete eftersom det möjliggör för HDI att visa hur rättighetsbaserad klinisk vård ser ut och att förstå de unika behov och utmaningar som de ultimata förmånstagarna möter när det gäller att få tillgång till SRH-information och tjänster.
Strategiskt mål 2: Vara en stärkande röst för samhället om hälsa och rättigheter
Detta stöd kommer att möjliggöra HDI:s arbete med att stödja och ge samhällen möjlighet att känna till, kräva och förstå sina rättigheter, inklusive en omfattande icke-diskriminerande hälsa, SRH-information och vård. Det inkluderar att tillhandahålla omfattande sexualundervisning till ungdomar och ungdomar genom SHARE-klubbar, radioprogram och YouTube-videos. Det inkluderar även arbete med ansvariga – beslutsfattare, tjänsteleverantörer och rättsväsendet – för att säkerställa att de förstår och har kapacitet att uppfylla dessa rättigheter. Det inkluderar även arbete genom civilsamhällets partnerskap, för att förespråka på lokal, regional och nationell nivå för icke-diskriminerande, rättighetsbaserad SRH-policy och eliminera juridiska och politiska hinder i syfte att att få tillgång till SRH-vård, inklusive säker abort. Detta uppnås delvis genom HDI:s deltagande i den östafrikanska gemenskapen och internationella människorättsmekanismer som CEDAW, CRC och UPR. För att stödja detta syftar HDI till att bygga kapacitet för civilsamhället och koalitioner för att förespråka inkluderande, hälsovänliga policyer och tjänster för alla oavsett social, kulturell, ekonomisk eller annan status.
Strategiskt mål 3: Sträva efter institutionell tillväxt och lärande
Detta stöd, genom stöd av Sida, har även syftet till att förbättra HDI:s arbete med att utveckla organisationers förmåga att effektivt främja och förespråka ett mer inkluderande, avstigmatiserat samhälle där varje människa har möjlighet att uppnå högsta möjliga hälsa. Det inkluderar insatser för att stödja professionell utveckling av anställda, inklusive genustransformerande tillvägagångssätt samt att bygga interna system för kommunikation, övervakning och utvärdering (kunskapshantering). Det inkluderar även ansträngningar för att utöka bemanningen och finansieringen samt att bygga organisationssystem och processer som är i linje med organisationens tillväxt och framtidsutsikt. The three-year contribution (2023-2025) provides core funding to Health Development Initiative (HDI), a local Rwandan civil society organisation that champions the advancement of Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights in the country and the East African region at large. The contribution aims at supporting HDI’s three strategic interventions.
Strategic Objective 1: Supporting HDI in becoming a Center of excellence on health and rights which will encompasses the provision of comprehensive SRHR information and services to women, men, girls, boys and people of all gender identities, including vulnerable populations such as people living with HIV, sex workers, GBV victims, LGBTIQ+ people, refugees, and prisoners. These services include screening for STIs, HIV and AIDS, pregnancy testing, family planning counselling, provision of emergency contraceptives, pre¬ and post¬abortion counselling, and information, referral, and legal aid to women seeking safe abortion. HDI also aims at providing direct stigma free health services provision physical clinics and a Hotline – SRHR responsive, which is critical to HDI’s work to make rights¬based, non¬discriminatory SRH services, making it available to those who need them most. It is also integral to HDI's advocacy work as it allows HDI to demonstrate what rights¬based clinical care looks like and to understand the unique needs and challenges the ultimate beneficiaries face in accessing SRH information and services.
Strategic Objective 2: Be an empowering voice of the community on health and rights
This contribution will enable HDI’s work to support and empower communities to know, demand, and realize their rights, including to comprehensive, non-discriminatory health, SRH information and care. It includes providing comprehensive sexuality education to adolescents and young people through SHARE clubs, radio shows and YouTube videos. It also includes work with duty bearers – policymakers, service providers, law enforcement – to ensure they understand and have the capacity to fulfill these rights obligations. It also includes work through civil society partnerships, to advocate at local, national, and regional levels for non¬discriminatory, rights¬based SRH policies and to remove legal and policy barriers to accessing SRH care, including safe abortion. This is achieved in part through HDI's participation in the East African Community and international human rights mechanisms such as CEDAW, CRC, and the UPR. To support this, HDI aims at building civil society capacity and coalitions to advocate for inclusive, health¬friendly policies and services for everyone regardless of social, cultural, economic, or any other status.
Strategic Objective 3 : Pursue institutional growth and learning
This contribution through Sida’s support will also aim at improving HDI’s work to develop the organization’s capacity to effectively advance and advocate for a more inclusive, stigma¬free society in which every person is able to attain the highest standard of health. It includes efforts to support professional development of staff, including on gender transformative approaches, and to build internal systems on communication and monitoring and evaluation (knowledge management). It also includes efforts to expand staffing and funding and to build organizational systems and processes that align with the organization’s growth and trajectory. HDIs work is guided by their current Strategic Plan 2018-2024. The Strategic Plan is organized around achieving three Strategic Objectives:
Strategic Objective 1: Become a Center of excellence on health and rights
This objective encompasses the provision of comprehensive SRHR information and services to women, men, girls, boys and people of all gender identities, including vulnerable populations such as people living with HIV, sex workers, GBV victims, LGBTIQ people, refugees, and prisoners. These services include screening for STIs, HIV and AIDS, pregnancy testing, family planning counselling, provision of emergency contraceptives, pre- and post-abortion counselling, and information, referral, and legal aid to women seeking safe abortion. Direct service provision through HDI's two physical clinics and the SRHR Hotline is critical to HDIs work to make rights-based, non-discriminatory SRH services available to those who need them most. It is also integral to HDI's advocacy work as it allows HDI to demonstrate what rights-based clinical care looks like and to understand the unique needs and challenges the populations we serve face in accessing SRH information and services.
Strategic Objective 2: Be an empowering voice of the community on health and rights
This objective encompasses HDIs work to support and empower communities to know, demand, and realize their rights, including to comprehensive, non-discriminatory health, SRH information and care. It includes providing comprehensive sexuality education to adolescents and young people through SHARE clubs, radio shows and YouTube videos. It also includes work with duty-bearers policymakers, service providers, law enforcement to ensure they understand and have the capacity to fulfill these rights obligations. It also includes work through civil society partnerships to advocate at local, national and regional levels for non-discriminatory, rights-based SRH policies and to remove legal and policy barriers to accessing SRH care, including safe abortion. This is achieved in part through HDI's participation in the East African Community and international human rights mechanisms such as CEDAW, CRC, and the UPR. To support this, HDI builds civil society capacity and coalitions to advocate for inclusive, health-friendly policies and services for everyone regardless of social, cultural, economic, or any other status.
Strategic Objective 3: Pursue institutional growth and learning
This objective encompasses HDIs work to develop the organizations capacity to effectively advance and advocate for a more inclusive, stigma-free society in which every person is able to attain the highest standard of health. It includes efforts to support professional development of staff, including on gender transformative approaches, and to build internal systems on communication and monitoring and evaluation (knowledge management). It also includes efforts to expand staffing and funding and to build organizational systems and processes that align with the organizations growth and trajectory.
The three strategic objectives within HDI's Strategic Plan 2018-2024 are linked to HDI's vision: A society in which everyone has the opportunity to enjoy the highest attainable standard of health and well-being, regardless of social, cultural, economic or any other status, as well as to HDI's organisational mission: To empower individuals, communities, and institutions to improve community health and development in Rwanda. Using a rights-based approach, HDI builds sustainable alliances to advocate for and support inclusive, health-friendly policies and services for everyone regardless of social, cultural, economic or any other status.
Through providing un-earmarked support to HDI's overall Strategic Plan, the Embassy's objective is to localize the SRHR agenda and empower a leading local civil society organisation, which will enable institutional strengthening and sustainability. Supporting HDI's organizational capacity development, the Embassy aims to enable local ownership which is more sustainable and beneficial to the context, while at the same time addressing the SRHR needs of the most marginalized Rwandans. | Significant |
Activity under preparation Public Accountability and Transparency- CSO <p>Strengthen accountability and inclusive dialogue on financial governance to enhance enabling environment for sustainable development and growth in Tanzania.</p> | Significant |
Activity under preparation Hakawati theatre Contract related to: Hakawati theatre - The proposed Action aims at supporting the resilience of the Palestinian population of East Jerusalem and at safeguarding its Palestinian identity, in the absence of Palestinian institutions within the city. It seeks to prevent the Palestinian population in East Jerusalem from being further coerced into leaving the city, thus jeopardizing the possibility of Jerusalem serving as the future capital of both States. EU support to East Jerusalem is multi-sectoral and challenges are addressed in a cyclical manner. The programme targets interventions primarily in the four following sectors (i) Human rights protection; (ii) Socio-economic support; (iii) Education and culture and (iv) Protection of environment, urbanism and housing rights. The crosscutting themes under this action include good governance principles and gender equality. The Rights Based Approach is central to each project undertaken under this Action. Activities will support the community capacity to enhance the living conditions in East Jerusalem. It aims to respond to the continued deterioration of socio-political and economic trends, caused by discriminatory policies, insufficient and unbalanced investment in community services, minimal municipal public services, extreme poverty rates, low labour force participation, limited opportunities and protection for women and vulnerable groups, low private investment and minimal economic development. The proposed Action supports the implementation of the European Joint Strategy (EJS) in support of Palestine 2021-2024 ¿Towards a democratic and accountable Palestinian State¿. The EJS is closely aligned to the new Palestinian National Policy Agenda (NPA) 2017-2022 and to the Sustainable Development Goals especially Sustainable Development Goal n°10 ¿Reduced inequalities among the other mentioned above. The proposed action is closely aligned with the Palestinian Strategic Sectorial Development Plan for Jerusalem (SSDPJ 2018-2022) which contains 17 sectors of intervention for East Jerusalem. | Significant |
Humanitarian Programme for the protection of the Palestinian refugee population and at risk of forcible transfer Iniziativa di emergenza a protezione della popolazione palestinese rifugiata e a rischio di trasferimento forzato The Humanitarian Programme aims at protecting the most vulnerable Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, Area C of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Hebron H2 and UNRWA Camps, including refugees and those at risk of forcible transfer, strengthening their preparedness as well as their capacity to respond to the recurrent crises and shocks. The present proposal will be therefore focused on the main sector of protection, with three main subsectors: 1. Water, Hygiene, Environment, Natural Resource Management, Climate Change, 2. Protection (refugees, displaced persons, minorities, migrants, others), 3. Health La presente iniziativa si concentrerà nell’Area C della Cisgiordania, a Gerusalemme Est, in area H2, nella Striscia di Gaza e nei campi profughi di UNRWA, con l’obiettivo di contribuire alla protezione della popolazione palestinese più vulnerabile ivi residente e a rischio di trasferimento forzato, facilitando l’accesso ai servizi di base, cui hanno diritto, e migliorandone la preparedness alle crisi e agli shock ricorrenti. L’Iniziativa si propone di adottare un approccio integrato garantito anche da azioni sinergiche realizzate da più OSC in sottosettori complementari, sebbene il focus primario sia sul settore Protezione: 1.Acqua, Ambiente, Territorio, Gestione risorse naturali, Cambiamenti climatici 2.Protezione (rifugiati, sfollati, minoranze, migranti, altro 3.Salute Garantire condizioni di vita dignitose per gli sfollati e i rifugiati (inclusi quanti sono a rischio di sfollamento) oltre che a rafforzare i mezzi di sussistenza della popolazione più vulnerabile, con conseguente rafforzamento delle capacità di resilienza, contribuendo a gettare le basi per interventi di Linking relief, rehabilitation and development, aumentando l’efficacia dell’azione italiana nel contesto palestinese di crisi protratta. Contribuire alla protezione della popolazione palestinese più vulnerabile ivi residente, rafforzandone la capacità di resilienza e la preparedness alle crisi e alle ricorrenti violazioni dei diritti umani. | Significant |
TATWEER II (development) Civil Society Capacity Building Program Contract related to: TATWEER II (development) Civil Society Capacity Building Program - The proposed Action intents to contribute to Specific-Objective 1.3: Support CSOs as actors of good governance and development in partner countries and to the achievement of the related result 1.3: Civil Society Organisations¿ (CSOs) ability to engage as actors of good governance and development at country level is improved.The Action rolls out the EU support to country-level CSO initiatives aimed at implementing priorities reflected in the NDICI-GLOBAL Europe, Annex III CSO Thematic Programme and the subsequent draft Multiannual Indicative Plan for the same. In line with the policy of geographisation, a majority of funds under the CSO MAAP 2021-2024, will be allocated under the Action to support civil society in partner countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and Caribbean, and in Neighbourhood countries and Russia. Activities funded under the Action will support a broad range of civil society actors including and prioritising, but not limited to, women and youth organisations, In the framework of the Country Roadmaps for EU and Member States engagement with civil society (CSO Roadmaps), all initiatives under the Action will aim at and contribute to strengthening civil society partner¿s institutional and operational capacity through a comprehensive approach; enabling and ensuring their participation; and on improving the environment in which they operate. Particular attention will be paid to CSOs capacities to benefit from the digital transformation which will pay attention to accessible digital technology and reduce the gap on access to ICT. | Significant |
CAR 2022 - IRC HUM 2021-2025 International Rescue Committee, IRC, is a non-profit international organisation, working with humanitarian and development work in more than 40 countries world-wide. As per IRC’s mission statement, their goal is “to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster, including by the climate crisis, to survive, recover and gain control of their future” in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Their focus is on activities with the sectors of health, safety/protection, education, livelihoods and ensuring people have the power to influence decisions that affect their lives. Their main target group is people who flee from war, conflict and disaster, and the host communities that support them.
Currently, IRC is mainly a self-implementing organisation who conduct the bulk of their work through their 17 000 global staff members. However, IRC is striving to increase their cooperation with local partners (authorities, organisation, community groups) to reach a goal of sub-granting 25 % of their means through third party, and will continue to work towards achieving this target during 2024 and 2025.
In 2024, the IRC will receive humanitarian programme-based support in 17 countries, as well as funding for the IRC's Rapid Response Mechanism, whose function is to rapidly channel funds to emerging or worsening crises. In addition to the ongoing methodology and capacity projects, the IRC is starting two new 2-year projects this year, focusing on protection for one, and localisation for the other. International Rescue Committee (IRC) är en enskild internationell organisation, aktiv i humanitär respons och resiliens i mer än 40 länder globalt. Deras huvudsakliga syfte är att bistå människor vars liv och försörjningsmöjligheter slagits i spillror till följd av konflikter, naturkatastrofer och klimatförändringar genom att erbjuda överlevnadsstöd och aktiviteter för återhämtning. Fokus ligger på aktiviteter inom hälsa, skydd, utbildning, försörjningsmöjligheter samt människors stärkta egenmakt och beslutsförmåga. Huvudsaklig målgrupp är människor som flyr från krig och katastrofer, samt de värdsamhällen som bistår dem.
I dagsläget är IRC huvudsakligen självimplementerande och utför sitt arbete med hjälp av sina 17 000 medarbetare världen över. IRC har däremot ett mål om att utöka sitt samarbete med lokala partners (myndigheter, organisationer, organiserade samhällsgrupper) för att på sikt kanalisera 25 % av finansiella medel genom tredje part, och kommer under 2024 och 2025 att försätta arbeta för att detta ska bli verklighet.
År 2024 får IRC humanitärt programbaserat stöd i 17 länder, samt medel till IRCs snabbfinansieringsmekanism ”Rapid Response Mechanism” vars funktion är att snabbt kunna kanalisera medel till hastigt uppkomna eller kraftigt förvärrade kriser. Utöver de pågående metod och kapacitet projekt börjar IRC två nya 2-åriga projekt i år, med fokus på skydd för den ena, och lokalisering för den andra. IRC respond to the worlds worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic well being and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Their mission is to help people whose lives and livelihoods have been shattered by conflict and disaster, including the climate crisis, to survive, recover and gain control of their future.
IRC consider their interventions successful when their clients see improvement in their safety from physical, sexual and psychological harm; in their health status, including physical and mental well-being; in education, including literacy and numeracy, social-emotional, and life skills (including safe schools); in economic well-being, including ability to provide basic material needs and income asset growth; and in power to have influence over the decisions that affect their lives. IRC strive to reach these goals while continuously trying to tackle gender inequalities in and through all of their work.
As Sida supports IRC in a variety of countries, not one specific objective can be identified for the whole contribution, but for the sake of exemplifying, a number of country specific goals are outlined below:
Ukraine: People are safe in their homes and receive support when they experience harm, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of gender-based violence, adolescents and adults are physically and mentally healthy, people meet their basic needs and protect livelihoods during emergencies, people develop their livelihoods and recover from shocks.
Myanmar: People are safe in their communities and receive support when they experience harm, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of
gender-based violence, women and girls achieve their sexual and reproductive health and rights, adolescents and adults are physically and mentally healthy, people access water, sanitation and hygiene services and live in an enhanced environment, people meet their basic needs and protect livelihoods during emergencies, people lead their recovery and development.
Central African Republic: People are safe in their communities and receive support when they experience harm, children survive and are healthy, women and girls achieve their sexual and reproductive health and rights, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of gender-based violence, people develop their livelihoods and recover from shocks, people lead their own recovery and development.
Across the country programmes relevant for Sida funding in 2024, IRC will engage i formal and informal partnerships with local and national actors. The cash modality will be explored in all contexts. | Significant |
Peningkatan Kolaborasi Pemerintah Daerah & Masyarakat Sipil untuk Melokalkan dan Mencapai SDGs (PEDULI SDGs) / Improving Collaboration between Local Authorities & Civil Society Organisations in Localising & Achieving the SDGs The project aims to enhance multi-stakeholder partnership as a key driver for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular with a view to reach Goal 17, Goal 16, and Goal 5, through localising the SDGs and building the collective capacities of local authorities, CSOs, and communities (women, youth, and people with disabilities) in a collaboration towards improving their welfare. | Significant |
Let's develop networks and create opportunities for Hippotherapy To bring together associations with potential to contribute to the field of hippotherapy - associations of sports clubs, doctors, veterinarians, horse trainers, special education teachers, physiotherapists; and associations specialising in disabilities, the diseased and the elderly - in order to establish a network which will cooperate in enabling the implementation of science-based hippotherapy applications. | Principal |
Miftah Anajah - La cl¿ de la r¿ussite <p>Le projet entend favoriser une éducation et formation de qualité pour les apprenant·e·s au Maroc grâce à l¿engagement multi-acteur·trice·s à l¿échelle régionale et nationale en luttant contre les inégalités de genre, le décrochage scolaire et en promouvant l¿inclusion. En ayant une approche bottom-up pluri-acteur·trice·s, il s¿insère ainsi pleinement dans le renforcement des intervenant·e·s exerçant une influence dans la qualité d¿apprentissage des apprenant·e·s.</p> | Significant |
Primary Health Care provision for vulnerable populations affected by food insecurity and malnutrition in North Darfur and South Kordofan states, Sudan <p class="ql-align-justify">The proposed action aims to scale up EU support for Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) in Sudan. With protracted emergencies and continued political instability, the health system in Sudan remains weak and fragmented. Since 2020, the EU has been supporting GOAL to implement a project aimed at strengthening the decentralized health system in North Darfur State. The proposed Action draws on lessons from this ongoing project, as well as evaluation of prior projects. GOAL has also undertaken a broad consultative process in North Darfur (ND) and South Kordofan (SK) states. Evidence from the ongoing program in ND where GOAL has been implementing an EU-funded HSS project showed that, interventions aimed at strengthening the decentralized health system can be implemented with substantial success by building the capacities of Locality Health Departments (LHD), targeted support to health facilities, and community-based interventions to promote social health insurance and strengthen accountability mechanisms. The results have been particularly encouraging in terms of addressing critical gaps in health services delivery and management at locality level, engaging community structures in health service delivery, and transitioning from various models of service delivery to a uniform and more sustainable model, whereby local health system actors align their strategies and fully own health service delivery for their populations.</p><p class="ql-align-justify">The proposed Action intends to contribute to the EU¿s priority of Human Development through sustainable universal access to health products and services in a resilient and responsive health system. This will be attained through building institutional capacities for public health at local levels, fostering an enabling legal, political, and societal environment for sexual and reproductive health, and enhancing health security, preparedness, and response, among others.</p> | Significant |
DR Congo 2024 - NRC Humanitarian Country programmes 2021-2025 NRC has applied as well to Sida for funding of 364.5 million SEK to carry out “the Humanitarian Programme for 2021” in 26 humanitarian crisis settings: Afghanistan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Palestine, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania/Burundi, Uganda, Venezuela, Yemen. The application includes provision of 40 million SEK to replenish the Rapid Response Mechanism funding instrument and 7 individual projects for method, capacity-building and coordination.
The intervention’s tentative total budget is 4 263 200 000 Norwegian krona (NOK), that the organisation is financing with Sida’s funding in a proportion of 8% approximately. Other donors, like the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DG ECHO, UNHCR, etc. are the largest contributors, besides a dozen of other donors in agreement with NRC. Sida provides NRC with the opportunity to allocate resources flexibly within individual country programmes (Programme-Based Approach – PBA).
NRC's catalytic support for coordination and capacity building contributes greatly to the link between humanitarian aid, development and peace. NRC's advocacy work and activities enable, at least contribute to, sustainable solutions for refugees and displaced people in a significant way in cooperation with other actors. In the long run, the NRC will reduce humanitarian needs. The NRC prioritizes self-sufficiency in its programs. The NRC's analysis capability, not least through its Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC), is an advantage for relevant programming according to the nexus orientations. Among the 26 crises in NRC's portfolio that Sida prioritizes, there are 15 where Sida implements Sweden's development strategies in synergy with humanitarian aid.
Sida’s contribution to NRC for 2022 will cover around 6.5% of NRC’s total financial requirements of the supported programmes and projects. It will provides humanitarian services to almost 9 million persons (53% female). HUM adds 50 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in Ukraine benefiting 90,000 people with protection, shelter, WaSH and cash assistance. Decision 5 April. Amendment nr. 5.
HUM adds 7.5 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in Cameroon from the 2022 mid-year allocation (food security, legal advice for 600 households/4200 individuals in Logone-et-Chari, Mayo Sava and Mayo Tsanaga). Decision 9 June 2022. Contract amendment No 6.
HUM adds 10 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in South Sudan from the end-of-the-year allocation. Decision 16 November 2022 nr 2022-002341. Contract amendment No 7.
NRC targets 7.7 million unique beneficiaries in total within Sida-funded humanitarian programmes in 2023, (52% female), who will receive protection and humanitarian services from NRC: Education, WASH, Shelter and settlement, Food security and livelihoods, including multi-purpose cash assistance, Protection, Legal assistance, Humanitarian mediation (community-based peace-building). Advocacy and support to humanitarian coordination and durable solution to displacements working groups in the field are part of NRC's engagement that Sida is funding. NRC's annual budget 2023 in the settings and thematics prioritized by Sida amounts to 5620 million Norwegian crowns in total. Sida's share weighs so far 8% of it: NRC's third largest donor whose cumulated 2021-2025 grant is 80% softly earmarked (programme-based approach) and 34% multi-year.
Earlier granted multi-year funding for 2023 was disbursed in January (52 MSEK) in support to continued humanitarian operations in DR Congo, Mali and Nigeria with strong emphasis on emergency response. Norwegian Refugee Council - Norska flyktingrådet (NRC) - har ansökt om ett förnyat partnerskap med Sida 2021-2025.
2021
NRC har dessutom ansökt om finansiering på 364,5 miljoner SEK för att genomföra humanitära insatser i 26 humanitära krisområden under 2021: Afghanistan, Kamerun, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Demokratiska Republiken Kongo, Eritrea, Etiopien, Iran, Irak, Jordanien, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexiko, Palestina, Somalia, Sydsudan, Sudan, Tanzania / Burundi, Uganda, Venezuela och Jemen. Ansökan inkluderar även 40 miljoner kronor för den humanitära snabbmekanismen (RRM) och 20 miljoner kronor i stöd till sju projekt för metodstöd, kapacitetsuppbyggnad och samordning.
Den aktuella budgeten för NRC:s hela humanitära program 2021 uppgår till 4 263 200 000 NOK, varav Sidas del för närvarande utgör ca 8%. Sida ger NRC möjligheten att nyttja resurser flexibelt inom varje enskilt landprogram, (enligt så kallad Programme-Based Approach – PBA)
Humanitär-Utveckling-Fred Nexus
NRC bidrar i hög grad till arbetet för att sammankoppla humanitärt bistånd med freds- och utvecklingsinsatser. Organisationens strävan att effektivisera biståndet genom katalytiskt stöd till samordning och kapacitetsbyggande insatser bidrar till denna ansats. I samarbetet med andra organisationer möjliggör och bidrar NRC:s verksamhet och påverkansarbete till att stärka hållbara lösningar för flyktingar och människor som har blivit tvångsfördrivna och bidrar därmed till att på sikt minska de humanitära behoven. Även krisdrabbade människors möjligheter till självförsörjning prioriteras. NRC:s analyskapacitet är en styrka som bidrar till att programmeringen anpassas till en nexus-ansats och den analys som genomförs av NRC:s internationella center för övervakning av tvångsförflyttning (IDMC) är av stor vikt för dessa analyser. 19 av de 26 kriser i NRC:s portfölj som Sida finansierar avser länder där Sverige även bedriver utvecklingssamarbete vilket öppnar för möjligheter till synergier med humanitärt bistånd.
2022
NRC ska få totalt 455,5 miljoner kronor av Sidas humanitära finansiering, enligt följande fördelning:
- Sida kommer att stödja NRC:s humanitära program i 23 krissituationer som Sida har prioriterat genom sin behovsbaserade allokeringsmodell för 2022, med 288,5 miljoner kronor :Afghanistan, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia och
regionen (Ecuador, Panamà), Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jemen,
Jordanien, Kamerun, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria,
Palestina, Somalia, Sudan, Sydsudan, Syrien, Uganda, Venezuela.
- Flerårig finansiering för NRC :s humanitära program i Demokratiska
republiken Kongo, Mali och Nigeria inleds 2022 och Sida har för ändamålet att ta i anspråk 104 miljoner kronor från kommande års anslag från erhållen Bemyndiganderam förutsatt att Riksdagen anvisar tillräckliga medel.
- NRC:s akuta insatser vid plötsligt uppkomna kriser kommer att stödjas genom Sidas snabbinsatsmekanism (RRM) under 2022 med 50 miljoner kronor.
- NRC:s metod- och kapacitetsstärkande projekt för skydd, miljö och IDMC (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre) kommer under 2022 att få 13 miljoner kronor, varav 3 miljoner kronor från Sida/Globen för IDMC.
Sidas bidrag till NRC för 2022 kommer att täcka cirka 6,5 % av NRC:s totala finansiella behov för de stödda programmen och projekten. Det kommer att tillhandahålla humanitära tjänster till nästan 9 miljoner människor (53 % kvinnor) i Afghanistan, Kamerun, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia och regionen, Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jordanien, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria, Palestina, Somalia, Sydsudan, Sudan, Syrien, Uganda, Venezuela och Jemen.
HUM lägger till 50 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Ukraina som gynnar 90,000 människor med skydd, tak över huvudet, WaSH samt kontantbistånd. Beslut 5 April. Avtalförändring nr 5.
HUM lägger till 7,5 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Kamerun från halvsårsanslaget 2022 (livsmedelsförsörjning, juridik rådgivning för 600 husshållen/4200 individer i Logone-et-Chari, Mayo Sava och Mayo Tsanaga). Beslut 9 juni 2022. Avtalförändring nr 6.
HUM lägger till 10 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Sydsudan från slutsåranslaget. Beslut 16 november 2022, 2022-002341. Avtalförändring nr 7.
2023
NRC får totalt 659.5 miljoner kronor (2023-2025) av Sidas humanitära finansiering för att genomföra:
- humanitära insatser i 23
krisområden under 2023: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Centralafrikanska
republiken, Colombia, Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jemen,
Jordanien, Kamerun, Kenya, Libanon, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Palestina, Sudan,
Sydsudan, Syrien, Uganda, Ukraina och Venezuela.
NRC har dessutom ansökt om 244
miljoner kronor för att kunna fortsätta sina humanitära program i Jemen, Kamerun,
Sydsudan, Syria och Venezuela under 2024 och 2025.
- ansökan inkluderar även 50
miljoner kronor till den humanitära snabbinsatsmekanismen (RRM)
- och 40 miljoner kronor i stöd till fyra fleråriga projekt för metodstöd och kapacitetsuppbyggnad: Miljö, Skydd, Tillträde, IDMC (18,5 under 2023, 21,5 under 2024-2025). Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is Norway's largest international humanitarian organisation and widely recognized as a leading field-based displacement agency within the international humanitarian community. NRC is the INGO receiving the largest contribution from Sida's Humanitarian Unit to INGOs so far, based on experience of successful partnerships, NRC's capacities to respond at scale and its coverage of crises that Sida is prioritizing through the needs-based allocation approach. NRC receives approximately 8% of Sida's humanitarian unit's annual budget appropriation.
The objectives of NRC can be summarized as follows: "To protect the rights of displaced and vulnerable people during crisis, to provide assistance meeting their immediate humanitarian needs, to prevent further displacement and to contribute to durable solutions, and to provide expertise as a strategic partner to humanitarian systems and actors." NRCs main activity is delivery of humanitarian assistance through programme activities in the field. NRC specializes in six areas of expertise, or "core competencies": shelter and settlements; livelihoods and food security; information, counselling and legal assistance (ICLA); education; camp management; and water, sanitation and hygiene promotion (WASH). Protection is lifted up as a new core competency of NRC since 2021. NRC engages closely with the affected populations to understand their needs and capacities, ensuring it tailors its assistance accordingly and involve them in the entire programme cycle, from design through implementation to evaluation. NRC advocates for respect for the rights of displaced and vulnerable people.
In 2021, the NRC Board approved the Global Strategy 20222025. The strategy
sets out four sub-objectives for areas that NRC will continue to strengthen and further institutionalize, namely, 1. assistance to hard-to-reach populations, 2. humanitarian policy, 3. protection, and 4. durable solutions. It also points to four areas of work that will be accelerated through expanded engagement and investments: i) advocacy, ii) climate and environment, iii) collaboration with local actors, and iv) quality programming.
NRCs work is divided into three pillars: humanitarian assistance, advocacy and expert deployment. Sida's Humanitarian Unit funding will continue prioritizing mainly the first pillar through funding of the humanitarian country programmes in line with HRPs and the RRPs and through the RRM funding. To some extent, Sida will support as well the second pillar of advocacy which is integrated in the humanitarian country programmes and implemented by NRC's method, thematic and capacity development projects supported by Sida. Sida will provide NRC with only a punctual support to the third pillar, through funding to CashCap which is deploying experts to the field for invigorating cash assistance working groups (17 in 2020 to 16 countries).
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has applied for a renewed strategic partnership with Sida during 2021-2025.
The interventions tentative total budget is 4 263 200 000 Norwegian krona (NOK), that the organisation is financing with Sidas funding in a proportion of 8% approximately. Other donors, like the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DG ECHO, UNHCR, etc. are the largest contributors, besides a dozen of other donors in agreement with NRC. Sida provides NRC with the opportunity to allocate resources flexibly within individual country programmes (Programme-Based Approach PBA).
NRC was granted funding to carry out the Humanitarian Programme for 2022 in 24 humanitarian crisis settings: Afghanistan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Irak, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria, Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Ukraina, Venezuela and Yemen. The grant includes provision of funding replenish the Rapid Response Mechanism funding instrument and four individual projects for method, capacity-building and coordination.
Sida's assessment on performance and results
Alike many other actors in the sector, NRC excels in reporting activities and outputs, but should be better in catching what changes and impacts its interventions have resulted to ultimately on assisted communities. The reporting of data and results does not provide necessarily an accurate and consolidated overview of what NRC has achieved. Sida has notified NRC that it should provide dis-aggregated data by age in targeting and reporting which is a norm.
It is assumed that NRC will achieve its objectives in 2023 again, but the global stress on the current resource mobilisation system supporting humanitarian action may affect NRC as well, similarly to large humanitarian actors such as the ICRC. | Significant |
EQUAL (Enhancing the Quality of Uzbekistan's Application of international Law) Action aims is to promote, by supporting civil society, equal protection of ESC rights for groups particularly vulnerable to discrimination in UZ. Objectives 1) To equip the Uzbek civil society stakeholders with sufficient knowledge and skills to use international law and mechanisms on ESC rights especially for groups vulnerable to discrimination; 2) To foster, in co-operation with civil society, more effective implementation of international law and use of international mechanisms on ESC rights | Principal |
Emergency initiative to support youth and women, through capacity development and vocational training, as well as empowerment of basic services in ref Intervento di emergenza in favore di giovani e donne per il potenziamento delle competenze attraverso la formazione professionale e il miglioramento d The initiative is characterized by a multi-sectoral and holistic approach, in line with the plurality of needs and requirements found on the ground. It is proposed to launch a call addressed to CSOs active in the Sahrawi camps according to AICS emergency procedures for the implementation of activities targeting in particular women, children and youth, in the following areas: vocational training, social and health field, education, including inclusive education, as well as the activation of inclusive governance participation processes and dynamics. L’iniziativa si caratterizza per un approccio multisettoriale e olistico, in linea con la pluralità di bisogni ed esigenze riscontrati sul terreno. Si propone di lanciare un bando rivolto a OSC operanti nei campi Sahrawi secondo procedure emergenza AICS per la realizzazione di attività rivolte in particolare a donne, bambini e giovani, nei settori della formazione professionale, in ambito sociosanitario, dell’educazione, inclusa l’educazione inclusiva, oltre che all’attivazione di processi e dinamiche di partecipazione e governance inclusiva. | Significant |
Development & validation of a scalable mobile platform for screening of developmental neuropsychiatric disorders in low-resource settings GCRF Foundation NCDs 2016 developing a platform to evaluate Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in children in India. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. | Principal |
Not specified 2023 - NRC Method and Capacity-building projects 2023-2025 NRC has applied as well to Sida for funding of 364.5 million SEK to carry out “the Humanitarian Programme for 2021” in 26 humanitarian crisis settings: Afghanistan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Palestine, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania/Burundi, Uganda, Venezuela, Yemen. The application includes provision of 40 million SEK to replenish the Rapid Response Mechanism funding instrument and 7 individual projects for method, capacity-building and coordination.
The intervention’s tentative total budget is 4 263 200 000 Norwegian krona (NOK), that the organisation is financing with Sida’s funding in a proportion of 8% approximately. Other donors, like the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DG ECHO, UNHCR, etc. are the largest contributors, besides a dozen of other donors in agreement with NRC. Sida provides NRC with the opportunity to allocate resources flexibly within individual country programmes (Programme-Based Approach – PBA).
NRC's catalytic support for coordination and capacity building contributes greatly to the link between humanitarian aid, development and peace. NRC's advocacy work and activities enable, at least contribute to, sustainable solutions for refugees and displaced people in a significant way in cooperation with other actors. In the long run, the NRC will reduce humanitarian needs. The NRC prioritizes self-sufficiency in its programs. The NRC's analysis capability, not least through its Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC), is an advantage for relevant programming according to the nexus orientations. Among the 26 crises in NRC's portfolio that Sida prioritizes, there are 15 where Sida implements Sweden's development strategies in synergy with humanitarian aid.
Sida’s contribution to NRC for 2022 will cover around 6.5% of NRC’s total financial requirements of the supported programmes and projects. It will provides humanitarian services to almost 9 million persons (53% female). HUM adds 50 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in Ukraine benefiting 90,000 people with protection, shelter, WaSH and cash assistance. Decision 5 April. Amendment nr. 5.
HUM adds 7.5 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in Cameroon from the 2022 mid-year allocation (food security, legal advice for 600 households/4200 individuals in Logone-et-Chari, Mayo Sava and Mayo Tsanaga). Decision 9 June 2022. Contract amendment No 6.
HUM adds 10 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in South Sudan from the end-of-the-year allocation. Decision 16 November 2022 nr 2022-002341. Contract amendment No 7.
NRC targets 7.7 million unique beneficiaries in total within Sida-funded humanitarian programmes in 2023, (52% female), who will receive protection and humanitarian services from NRC: Education, WASH, Shelter and settlement, Food security and livelihoods, including multi-purpose cash assistance, Protection, Legal assistance, Humanitarian mediation (community-based peace-building). Advocacy and support to humanitarian coordination and durable solution to displacements working groups in the field are part of NRC's engagement that Sida is funding. NRC's annual budget 2023 in the settings and thematics prioritized by Sida amounts to 5620 million Norwegian crowns in total. Sida's share weighs so far 8% of it: NRC's third largest donor whose cumulated 2021-2025 grant is 80% softly earmarked (programme-based approach) and 34% multi-year.
Earlier granted multi-year funding for 2023 was disbursed in January (52 MSEK) in support to continued humanitarian operations in DR Congo, Mali and Nigeria with strong emphasis on emergency response. Norwegian Refugee Council - Norska flyktingrådet (NRC) - har ansökt om ett förnyat partnerskap med Sida 2021-2025.
2021
NRC har dessutom ansökt om finansiering på 364,5 miljoner SEK för att genomföra humanitära insatser i 26 humanitära krisområden under 2021: Afghanistan, Kamerun, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Demokratiska Republiken Kongo, Eritrea, Etiopien, Iran, Irak, Jordanien, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexiko, Palestina, Somalia, Sydsudan, Sudan, Tanzania / Burundi, Uganda, Venezuela och Jemen. Ansökan inkluderar även 40 miljoner kronor för den humanitära snabbmekanismen (RRM) och 20 miljoner kronor i stöd till sju projekt för metodstöd, kapacitetsuppbyggnad och samordning.
Den aktuella budgeten för NRC:s hela humanitära program 2021 uppgår till 4 263 200 000 NOK, varav Sidas del för närvarande utgör ca 8%. Sida ger NRC möjligheten att nyttja resurser flexibelt inom varje enskilt landprogram, (enligt så kallad Programme-Based Approach – PBA)
Humanitär-Utveckling-Fred Nexus
NRC bidrar i hög grad till arbetet för att sammankoppla humanitärt bistånd med freds- och utvecklingsinsatser. Organisationens strävan att effektivisera biståndet genom katalytiskt stöd till samordning och kapacitetsbyggande insatser bidrar till denna ansats. I samarbetet med andra organisationer möjliggör och bidrar NRC:s verksamhet och påverkansarbete till att stärka hållbara lösningar för flyktingar och människor som har blivit tvångsfördrivna och bidrar därmed till att på sikt minska de humanitära behoven. Även krisdrabbade människors möjligheter till självförsörjning prioriteras. NRC:s analyskapacitet är en styrka som bidrar till att programmeringen anpassas till en nexus-ansats och den analys som genomförs av NRC:s internationella center för övervakning av tvångsförflyttning (IDMC) är av stor vikt för dessa analyser. 19 av de 26 kriser i NRC:s portfölj som Sida finansierar avser länder där Sverige även bedriver utvecklingssamarbete vilket öppnar för möjligheter till synergier med humanitärt bistånd.
2022
NRC ska få totalt 455,5 miljoner kronor av Sidas humanitära finansiering, enligt följande fördelning:
- Sida kommer att stödja NRC:s humanitära program i 23 krissituationer som Sida har prioriterat genom sin behovsbaserade allokeringsmodell för 2022, med 288,5 miljoner kronor :Afghanistan, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia och
regionen (Ecuador, Panamà), Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jemen,
Jordanien, Kamerun, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria,
Palestina, Somalia, Sudan, Sydsudan, Syrien, Uganda, Venezuela.
- Flerårig finansiering för NRC :s humanitära program i Demokratiska
republiken Kongo, Mali och Nigeria inleds 2022 och Sida har för ändamålet att ta i anspråk 104 miljoner kronor från kommande års anslag från erhållen Bemyndiganderam förutsatt att Riksdagen anvisar tillräckliga medel.
- NRC:s akuta insatser vid plötsligt uppkomna kriser kommer att stödjas genom Sidas snabbinsatsmekanism (RRM) under 2022 med 50 miljoner kronor.
- NRC:s metod- och kapacitetsstärkande projekt för skydd, miljö och IDMC (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre) kommer under 2022 att få 13 miljoner kronor, varav 3 miljoner kronor från Sida/Globen för IDMC.
Sidas bidrag till NRC för 2022 kommer att täcka cirka 6,5 % av NRC:s totala finansiella behov för de stödda programmen och projekten. Det kommer att tillhandahålla humanitära tjänster till nästan 9 miljoner människor (53 % kvinnor) i Afghanistan, Kamerun, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia och regionen, Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jordanien, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria, Palestina, Somalia, Sydsudan, Sudan, Syrien, Uganda, Venezuela och Jemen.
HUM lägger till 50 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Ukraina som gynnar 90,000 människor med skydd, tak över huvudet, WaSH samt kontantbistånd. Beslut 5 April. Avtalförändring nr 5.
HUM lägger till 7,5 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Kamerun från halvsårsanslaget 2022 (livsmedelsförsörjning, juridik rådgivning för 600 husshållen/4200 individer i Logone-et-Chari, Mayo Sava och Mayo Tsanaga). Beslut 9 juni 2022. Avtalförändring nr 6.
HUM lägger till 10 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Sydsudan från slutsåranslaget. Beslut 16 november 2022, 2022-002341. Avtalförändring nr 7.
2023
NRC får totalt 659.5 miljoner kronor (2023-2025) av Sidas humanitära finansiering för att genomföra:
- humanitära insatser i 23
krisområden under 2023: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Centralafrikanska
republiken, Colombia, Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jemen,
Jordanien, Kamerun, Kenya, Libanon, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Palestina, Sudan,
Sydsudan, Syrien, Uganda, Ukraina och Venezuela.
NRC har dessutom ansökt om 244
miljoner kronor för att kunna fortsätta sina humanitära program i Jemen, Kamerun,
Sydsudan, Syria och Venezuela under 2024 och 2025.
- ansökan inkluderar även 50
miljoner kronor till den humanitära snabbinsatsmekanismen (RRM)
- och 40 miljoner kronor i stöd till fyra fleråriga projekt för metodstöd och kapacitetsuppbyggnad: Miljö, Skydd, Tillträde, IDMC (18,5 under 2023, 21,5 under 2024-2025). Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is Norway's largest international humanitarian organisation and widely recognized as a leading field-based displacement agency within the international humanitarian community. NRC is the INGO receiving the largest contribution from Sida's Humanitarian Unit to INGOs so far, based on experience of successful partnerships, NRC's capacities to respond at scale and its coverage of crises that Sida is prioritizing through the needs-based allocation approach. NRC receives approximately 8% of Sida's humanitarian unit's annual budget appropriation.
The objectives of NRC can be summarized as follows: "To protect the rights of displaced and vulnerable people during crisis, to provide assistance meeting their immediate humanitarian needs, to prevent further displacement and to contribute to durable solutions, and to provide expertise as a strategic partner to humanitarian systems and actors." NRCs main activity is delivery of humanitarian assistance through programme activities in the field. NRC specializes in six areas of expertise, or "core competencies": shelter and settlements; livelihoods and food security; information, counselling and legal assistance (ICLA); education; camp management; and water, sanitation and hygiene promotion (WASH). Protection is lifted up as a new core competency of NRC since 2021. NRC engages closely with the affected populations to understand their needs and capacities, ensuring it tailors its assistance accordingly and involve them in the entire programme cycle, from design through implementation to evaluation. NRC advocates for respect for the rights of displaced and vulnerable people.
In 2021, the NRC Board approved the Global Strategy 20222025. The strategy
sets out four sub-objectives for areas that NRC will continue to strengthen and further institutionalize, namely, 1. assistance to hard-to-reach populations, 2. humanitarian policy, 3. protection, and 4. durable solutions. It also points to four areas of work that will be accelerated through expanded engagement and investments: i) advocacy, ii) climate and environment, iii) collaboration with local actors, and iv) quality programming.
NRCs work is divided into three pillars: humanitarian assistance, advocacy and expert deployment. Sida's Humanitarian Unit funding will continue prioritizing mainly the first pillar through funding of the humanitarian country programmes in line with HRPs and the RRPs and through the RRM funding. To some extent, Sida will support as well the second pillar of advocacy which is integrated in the humanitarian country programmes and implemented by NRC's method, thematic and capacity development projects supported by Sida. Sida will provide NRC with only a punctual support to the third pillar, through funding to CashCap which is deploying experts to the field for invigorating cash assistance working groups (17 in 2020 to 16 countries).
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has applied for a renewed strategic partnership with Sida during 2021-2025.
The interventions tentative total budget is 4 263 200 000 Norwegian krona (NOK), that the organisation is financing with Sidas funding in a proportion of 8% approximately. Other donors, like the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DG ECHO, UNHCR, etc. are the largest contributors, besides a dozen of other donors in agreement with NRC. Sida provides NRC with the opportunity to allocate resources flexibly within individual country programmes (Programme-Based Approach PBA).
NRC was granted funding to carry out the Humanitarian Programme for 2022 in 24 humanitarian crisis settings: Afghanistan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Irak, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria, Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Ukraina, Venezuela and Yemen. The grant includes provision of funding replenish the Rapid Response Mechanism funding instrument and four individual projects for method, capacity-building and coordination.
Sida's assessment on performance and results
Alike many other actors in the sector, NRC excels in reporting activities and outputs, but should be better in catching what changes and impacts its interventions have resulted to ultimately on assisted communities. The reporting of data and results does not provide necessarily an accurate and consolidated overview of what NRC has achieved. Sida has notified NRC that it should provide dis-aggregated data by age in targeting and reporting which is a norm.
It is assumed that NRC will achieve its objectives in 2023 again, but the global stress on the current resource mobilisation system supporting humanitarian action may affect NRC as well, similarly to large humanitarian actors such as the ICRC. | Significant |
Strengthening Independent Media for a strong democratic Ukraine Contract related to: Strengthening Independent Media for a strong democratic Ukraine - On 24 February 2022, the Russian Federation launched a war of agression against Ukraine. The military agression has inflicted widespread suffering and casualties on the Ukrainian population, disrupted the provision of essential services, damaged civilian infrastructure and caused massive forced displacement. The European Union and the international community at large have firmly and unequivocally condemned Russia¿s war of aggression in the strongest possible terms and imposed sweeping economic sanctions as well as restrictive measures against individuals. The Action seeks to contribute to alleviating the suffering of the Ukrain¿s population caused by Russia¿s war of agression, including indiscriminate attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure by the Russian Armed Forces in blatant violation of international law, especially international humanitarian law. The Action¿s main objective is to provide infrastructure to secure access to basic goods and services as well as protection. The Action will also contribute to strengthening the country¿s resilience and resilience against hybrid threats by increasing the capacity of the government, economic actors, media and civil society to withstand the impact of the crisis and contribute to the recovery of the country. Focus will be also placed on the reconstruction of civilian infrastructure and its strategic planning as well as energy security.The Action, while contributing to advancing SDG 16 (Peace, justice and strong institutions), is in line with Priority Area 1 (A resilient, sustainable and integrated economy), Priority Area 4 (A resilient digital transformation) and Priority Area 5 (A resilient, gender-equal, fair and inclusive society) of the Multi-annual Indicative Programme (MIP) 2021-2027 for Ukraine, and is consistent with the wider European Union¿s goal of increasing the stability, prosperity and resilience of its neighbourhood, as set out in the Global Strategy for the Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union. | Significant |
Kvinna till Kvinna EU-North Macedonia 2022-2024 Kvinna till Kvinna EU-Nordmakedonien 2022-2024 Insatsen är en fortsättning på det EU-finansierade programmet med titeln ”Tillgång till rättvisa för marginaliserade samhällen”, färdigställd i mars 2022.
Det övergripande målet med "Tillgång till rättvisa för marginaliserade samhällen version 2.0" är att skapa en miljö som möjliggör tillgång till rättvisa för marginaliserade samhällen, särskilt kvinnor, könsidentitet och sexuella minoriteter i regionerna Polog, East och Vardar i Nordmakedonien. Åtgärden bygger på resultat från den tidigare åtgärden och gör det möjligt för det långsiktiga arbetet att fortsätta
hantera de identifierade utmaningarna.
Det övergripande målet är påverkansområdet som de specifika målen kommer att bidra till:
Specifikt mål 1: CSO från riktade regioner har ökat hållbarheten av gratis rättshjälp för marginaliserade samhällen;
Specifikt mål 2: Ökad användning av tillgängliga tjänster av marginaliserade samhällen i riktade regioner genom att nätverka med och stärka yrkesverksammas förmåga att svara på deras behov.
Projektet bidrar till Sidas CSO-strategi (i) stärkt kapacitet bland det civila samhällets aktörer i utvecklingsländer, särskilt för att:
• ”Större medvetenhet, engagemang och kapacitet bland människor som bor i fattigdom, vilket gör det möjligt för dem att arbeta för demokrati och organisera sig för att hävda sina mänskliga rättigheter”, och till (ii) en mer möjliggörande miljö för civilsamhällets organisationer i utvecklingsländer, särskilt för att:
• ”Ökade möjligheter för civilsamhället att främja en möjliggörande miljö för det civila samhället i utvecklingsländer.” The contribution is a continuation of the EU-funded program entitled "Access to
justice for marginalized communities",
completed in March 2022.
The overall goal of "Access to Justice for Marginalized Communities 2.0" is to create an environment that enables access to justice for the marginalized communities, especially women, gender identity and sexual minorities
in the regions of Polog, East and Vardar in North Macedonia. The measure is based on
results from the previous action and enables the long-term work to continue address the identified challenges. The overall goal is the area of ??influence which the specific objectives will contribute to:
Specific objective 1: CSOs from targeted regions have increased sustainability
of free legal aid for marginalized communities.
Specific objective 2: Increased use of accessible services by the marginalized
communities in targeted regions by networking with and empowering the ability of professionals to respond to their needs.
The project contributes to Sida's CSO strategy (i) strengthened capacity among civil society actors in developing countries, in particular to:
• “Greater awareness, commitment and capacity among people who live in poverty, enabling them to work for democracy and organize to assert their human rights,”
and to (ii) a more enabling environment for civil society organizations in developing countries, in particular to:
• “Increased opportunities for civil society to promote an enabling environment for civil society in developing countries.” Det övergripande målet med är att skapa en miljö som möjliggör tillgång till rättvisa för marginaliserade samhällen, särskilt kvinnor, könsidentitet och sexuella minoriteter i regionerna Polog, East och Vardar i Nordmakedonien. Åtgärden bygger på resultat från den tidigare åtgärden och gör det möjligt för det långsiktiga arbetet att fortsätta hantera de identifierade utmaningarna.
Det övergripande målet är påverkansområdet som de specifika målen kommer att bidra till:
Specifikt mål 1: CSO från riktade regioner har ökat hållbarheten av gratis rättshjälp för marginaliserade samhällen;
Specifikt mål 2: Ökad användning av tillgängliga tjänster av marginaliserade samhällen i riktade regioner genom att nätverka med och stärka yrkesverksammas förmåga att svara på deras behov. | Significant |
Agaciro kacu, Uburenganzira bwacu <p>L¿objectif spécifique est : Les conditions de vie des enfants et des jeunes handicapés physiques dans la Province de l¿Ouest sont améliorées.</p> | Significant |
GHANA: Promoting Credible Elections for transformational Development in Ghana (PCETDG) Projec Contract related to: GHANA: Promoting Credible Elections for transformational Development in Ghana (PCETDG) Projec - Human rights and democracy are founding values of the EU. Protecting and promoting HR&D is therefore a key priority of the EU¿s external action. It is also a precondition for sustainable development and for building more inclusive, open and resilient societies.Yet, recent data show that globally, most countries are far from having acceptable human rights and democracy track records. In this context, worsened by the COVID crisis, the EU re-affirmed its commitment to support human rights and democracy worldwide by adopting the `Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2020-2024¿. The Action Plan identifies priorities and key actions, to ensure that the EU plays a greater role in promoting and defending human rights and democracy throughout its external action. The Regulation (EU) 2021/947 (Global Europe) establishes the legal basis for the human rights and democracy actions. Particularly, its annex III details the areas of intervention for human rights and democracy.The overall objective of the present action is to contribute to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms, democracy and the rule of law worldwide. The action will achieve this objective by supporting and strengthening civil society organisations (CSOs), democracy activists and human-rights defenders working on critical human rights and democracy issues in non-EU countries. It may also cover, where relevant, the promotion of international humanitarian law. Consequently, it will contribute to the 5 priorities of the Multiannual Indicative programme 2021-2027 as well as the specific priorities set out for the additional funding coming from the cushion.This action will mainly be implemented by EU Delegations in-country so as to: (i) better respond to the country-specific contexts; (ii) be as close as possible to the needs of the rights holders; and (iii) promote a sense of `ownership¿ of the action among local actors. The actions financed at country level will be in line with: (i) the EU action plan for human rights and democracy; (ii) EU guidelines on human rights; and (iii) the respective Human Rights and Democracy country strategies or priorities under the EU accession process. All actions will follow a human rights based approach putting people at the centre of actions and also focusing on promoting gender equality. | Significant |
Yemen 2021 - OCHA CBPF 2021-2023 De humanitära landfonderna, Country Based Pooled Funds, härefter CBPFs, är en av de viktigaste kanalerna för snabba och effektiva humanitära insatser baserade på de humanitära principerna. Därför föreslås att Sida under 2021 bidrar till finansieringen i 16 CBPFs i länder med stora humanitära och komplexa behov.
CBPF’s främsta mervärde är att säkerställa ett effektivt humanitärt stöd genom att fonderna är landbaserade. CBPF gör det möjligt att möta humanitära behov med en hög grad av kunskap om de lokal förhållandena och ger de som finns närmast kriserna inflytande över prioriteringar och beslut.
Fonderna stärker också den humanitära samordningen genom att de har som strategiskt mål att säkerställa genomförandet av den humanitära responsplanen (HRP). Den humanitära samordnaren, som beslutar om insatser som finansieras genom fonden, kan därmed rikta finansiering till kritiska insatser inom HRP.
Den humanitära samordnaren kan också när som helst rikta humanitär finansiering till plötsligt uppkomna kriser eller snabbt försämrade kriser, genom den snabba finansieringsmekanismen ”Emergency Reserve Allocation”. CBPFs har dessutom goda möjligheter att nå de aktörer som har bäst förutsättningar att genomföra effektiva insatser. De lokala aktörerna har förutom den lokala expertisen som behövs ofta också tillträde till områden som inte är tillgängliga för internationella aktörer. Under 2020 fördelade CBPF 28 % av finansieringen direkt till lokala aktörer och i vissa länder tilldelas lokala partners upp till 50 %.
Dessutom arbetar CBPF med att säkerställa att olika behov och hinder bland kvinnor och män, flickor och pojkar tas i beaktning genom att främja jämställdhetsanalyser och integrerering av jämställdhet i alla projekt. Inom CBPF finns en arbetsgrupp som säkerställer inkludering av människor med funktionsnedsättning i samtliga CBPF-processer och allokeringar. Vissa insatser som fonderna finansierar syftar till att stärka människors motståndskraft mot framtida kriser, även om detta inte är det huvudsakliga målet med fondernas verksamhet.
OCHA är en central aktör i det humanitära systemet och har därmed god förståelse för de humanitära kontexterna, vilket inkluderar kunskap om konflikters dynamik och grundorsaker. Fonderna kräver av alla projekt att påvisa förståelse för kontexten och de humanitära konsekvenserna för projektdeltagarna baserat på en multi-sektoriell behovsbedömning, vilket inkluderar do-no-harm.
Sida har bidragit till de humanitära landfonderna sedan den allra första fonden inrättades i Angola 1999. Sedan dess har Sida varit en av de största givarna till CBPF. Under 2020 fick CBPF’s globalt 863 miljoner USD i finansiellt bidrag för att möta humanitära behov i 18 länder.
CBPF’s finansierar humanitära insatser som genomförs av FN, icke-statliga organisationer samt Röda korset / Röda halvmånen. Under åren har CBPF’s ökat sin finansiering till lokala aktörer. Idag uppgår finansieringen till lokala aktörer till 28% vilket är en betydande ökning från endast 11% år 2014.
CBPF’s förvaltas lokalt av FN: s kontor för samordning av humanitära frågor (UN OCHA) under ledning av den humanitära samordnaren och i samråd med det humanitära landteamet. Varje fond har en rådgivande styrelse (Advisory Board, AB) som ger råd om viktiga beslut och säkerställer en effektiv förvaltning av fonderna. Den dagliga förvaltningen sköts av en chef för varje landfond samt operationell- och finansiell personal. På global nivå finns arbetsgruppen ”Pooled Funding Working Group (PFWG)”, där nyckelintressenter så som givare, FN och NGOs finns representerade. I PFWG förs strategiska diskussioner kring CBPF’s. Sida has supported the CBPFs since the establishment of the very first fund in Angola, already back in 1999. Since then, Sida has been one of the largest donors to the CBPFs. During 2019, the CBPFs received 956 million USD in financial contributions to respond to humanitarian needs in 18 countries.
The CBPFs fund UN, NGOs and the Red Cross/Red Crescent Society. During the years, the CBPFs has increased its funding to local actors. In 2014 they reached 11% with direct funding, compared to todays 31 %.
CBPFs are locally managed by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) under the leadership of the Humanitarian Coordinator and in consultation with the humanitarian community. Advisory Boards oversee the Funds, providing advice on key decisions, and ensuring efficient and effective management. The daily management of the funds is overseen by a Fund Manager, monitoring officers and financial officers. At the global level, the Pooled Fund Working Group brings together key stakeholders (representing donors, NGOs and UN agencies) to provide policy guidance.
The main value added of the CBPF will be ensuring an efficient humanitarian response due to the specific strengths the fund entails:
1) Proximity to the response: The CBPFs aims to address humanitarian needs through a structure with high degree of local expertise of both the humanitarian situation and the humanitarian actors on the ground.
2) Humanitarian Coordination: The CBPF has a strategic objective of ensuring the implementation of the Humanitarian Response Plan and its various components/ programmes. The Humanitarian Coordinator can hence direct funding to critical components in the HRP that are underfunded. The Humanitarian Coordinator can also at any time direct humanitarian funding to sudden onset emergencies or quickly deteriorating crises, through the quick funding mechanism called “Emergency Reserve”. The overall coordination is naturally strengthened by the fact that the ultimate authority of the mandate lies with the Humanitarian Coordinator who is the overall coordinator of the UN lead humanitarian response in any given country.
3) Reach the best placed actors, which in many cases are local actors who has the expertise and humanitarian access. The CBPF can support local actors in responding to the humanitarian needs. This has been particularly useful when local actors have shown to have the local expertise needed to adequately formulate smaller local responses and also having humanitarian access to areas not accessible by international actors. During 2019, the CBPF allocated 25% directly to local actors and in some countries up to 50% is allocated directly to local partners.
Moreover, the CBPFs aim to ensure that projects consider the specific needs and constraints faced by women, girls, boys and men. The CBPFs do so by promoting sound gender analysis and gender integration in all projects. The Pooled Fund Disability Inclusion Contact Group composed of independent experts advise on how to improve the funds' work with people with disabilities. This is to ensure that disability inclusion is taken into account in all CBPF processes. Some of the funded projects aim to strengthen resilience of affected population, although this is not the main objective of the contribution.
OCHA as a central actor in the humanitarian system has a good understanding of the contexts OCHA and the CBPFs work in, including good understanding of the conflict, power dynamics, root causes and drivers of conflict. At CBPF level there is a mandatory part in the project template that implementing partners needs to show an understanding of the context and analyse the humanitarian consequences for the beneficiaries, including do-no-harm, based on multi-sectoral needs assessments. The United Nations Humanitarian Reform initiative (2005) and the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Transformative Agenda (2012) put increased emphasis on humanitarian financing as a critical component towards resourcing principled humanitarian action in a predictable and consistent manner. More specifically, the IASC Transformative Agenda focuses on improving the timeliness and effectiveness of the collective humanitarian response through stronger leadership, more effective coordination structures, and improved accountability. In this context, CBPFs provide a link between the pillars of the Transformative Agenda and humanitarian activities on the ground by supporting humanitarian response planning, mobilizing resources, promoting accountability and serving as a vehicle for setting strategic funding priorities for coordinated humanitarian action. The CBPFs are instrumental in delivering OCHAs mandate to mobilize and coordinate effective and principled humanitarian action in partnership with national and international actors.
CBPFs are guided by the fundamental humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence. CBPFs are also in line with recognized international standards as determined by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) and humanitarian financing principles as codified under the Good Humanitarian Donorship (GHD) Initiative.
The CBPFs allocate funding based on identified humanitarian needs and priorities at the country level in line with the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC). Allocations go to UN agencies, national and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and Red Cross/Red Crescent organizations. To avoid duplication and ensure a complementary use of available CBPF funding, allocations are made taking into account other funding sources, including bilateral contributions. In addition to the fundamental humanitarian principles that guide CBPFs and all humanitarian action, CBPFs are grounded in four specific principles that underpin their functioning:
1) Inclusiveness: A broad range of humanitarian partner organizations (UN agencies and NGOs) participates in CBPF processes and receive funding to implement projects addressing identified priority needs.
2) Flexibility: The programmatic focus and funding priorities of CBPFs are set at the country level and may shift rapidly, especially in volatile humanitarian contexts. CBPFs are able to adapt rapidly to changing priorities and allow humanitarian partners to identify appropriate solutions to address humanitarian needs in the most effective way.
3) Timeliness: CBPFs allocate funds and save lives as humanitarian needs emerge or escalate.
4) Efficiency: Management of all processes related to CBPFs enables timely and strategic responses to identified humanitarian needs. CBPFs seek to employ effective disbursement mechanisms, minimizing transaction costs while operating in a transparent and accountable manner.
Together with these principles, CBPFs have three expected outcomes:
1) Improve effectiveness of the humanitarian response by directing funding towards priority humanitarian needs. Priority needs are identified through an inclusive and participatory process, which includes national actors (e.g. NGOs).
2) Strengthen the leadership of the HC, while leveraging his/her humanitarian coordination role.
3) Mobilize resources and support coordination in support of the humanitarian planning framework (HRP/HPC).
These outcomes lead to the overall operational impact of CBPFs, i.e., the provision of timely, coordinated, principled assistance to save lives, alleviate suffering and maintain human dignity. | Significant |
ERRY Enhancing Rural Resilience in Yemen (Fas III) ERRY Enhancing Rural Resilience in Yemen (Phase III) - ERRY Enhancing Rural Resilience in Yemen (Phase III) OLD After almost seven years of war, Yemen is hosting one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world. In 2021, about 2/3 of the population, or some 20.7 million persons, were in need of some form of humanitarian assistance, according to the 2021 Humanitarian Response Plan for Yemen. Over 4 million persons have been displaced, and according to existing food security surveys, over half of the Yemeni population is estimated to face high food insecurity.
The ERRY III programme is a joint, integrated UN programme, designed and implemented by UNDP, FAO, WFP and ILO. ERRY III seeks to contribute to reduced vulnerability and strengthened resilience capacity of crisis-affected communities in Yemen through the creation of sustainable livelihoods and access to basic services.
The overall objective of the programme is reduced vulnerability and strengthened resilience capacity of crisis-affected communities in Yemen through creation of sustainable livelihoods and access to basic services. This will be achieved through economic recovery, employment opportunities and enhanced productive capacities to support food security will be addressed through the creation of sustainable livelihoods, improved food security, improved gender equality and women's economic empowerment, and access to basic services. The programme will seek to strengthen civic engagement at the local community level, enhance gender-sensitive service delivery and strengthen community conflict mitigation. The interventions will be reinforced by community level environmental protection and climate risk mitigation measures. Efter nästan sju års krig står Jemen värd för en av de största humanitära kriserna i världen. År 2021 var cirka 2/3 av befolkningen, eller cirka 20.7 miljoner personer, i behov av någon form av humanitärt bistånd, enligt 2021 års humanitära åtgärdsplan för Jemen. Över 4 miljoner människor har drivits på flykt, och enligt befintliga undersökningar om livsmedelsförsörjning beräknas över hälften av jemeniternas befolkning stå inför hög osäker livsmedelsförsörjning.
ERRY III-programmet är ett gemensamt, integrerat FN-program som utformats och genomförts av UNDP, FAO, WFP och ILO. ERRY III syftar till att bidra till minskad sårbarhet och stärkt motståndskraft hos krisdrabbade samhällen i Jemen genom att skapa hållbara försörjningsmöjligheter och tillgång till grundläggande tjänster.
Det övergripande målet med programmet är minskad sårbarhet och stärkt motståndskraft hos krisdrabbade samhällen i Jemen genom att skapa hållbara försörjningsmöjligheter och tillgång till grundläggande tjänster. Detta kommer att uppnås genom ekonomisk återhämtning, sysselsättningsmöjligheter och ökad produktionskapacitet för att stödja livsmedelstryggheten kommer att hanteras genom att skapa hållbara försörjningsmöjligheter, förbättra livsmedelstryggheten, förbättra jämställdheten och kvinnors ekonomiska egenmakt samt tillgång till grundläggande tjänster. Programmet kommer att sträva efter att stärka samhällsengagemanget på lokal samhällsnivå, förbättra tillhandahållandet av jämställdhetsmedvetna tjänster och stärka konflikten i samhället. Insatserna kommer att förstärkas genom miljöskydd och åtgärder för att begränsa klimatförändringarna på gemenskapsnivå. Overall objective
Reduced vulnerability and strengthened resilience capacity of crisis-affected communities
in Yemen through creation of sustainable livelihoods and access to basic services.
Specific objective
Crisis affected communities are better able to manage local risks and shocks through
increased resilience | Significant |
The impact of COVID-19 on people living with psychosocial disabilities in Ghana and Indonesia and priorities for inclusive recovery Explores the impact of COVID-19 on people with mental health conditions in Ghana and Indonesia to better inform guidelines to include them in recovery plans. Benefits people with psychosocial disabilities in Ghana and Indonesia. SDGs: 3, 8, 10 COVID-19 The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. | Principal |
Improving Foster Care System in T¿rkiye <p class="ql-align-justify">Purpose of the Action is to enhance inclusion of individuals in vulnerable situations through the output promoting social protection and social inclusion of vulnerable boys and girls in Turkey. This contribution will be made mainly through improving the capacity of the Child Protection System, focusing on the processes of identification, assessment and care planning for children, as well as and through the development and piloting of an `Emergency Foster Care System¿ model. It will target childrenboys and girls who need emergency state care and protection, either as a result of having been abandoned by or separated from their parent(s) or relatives, or having been otherwise identified as at immediate risk of significant harm (including as a result of abuse, neglect, trafficking, abduction or exploitation) if they remain in the care of their family. The secondary beneficiaries will be the parents or close relatives of these children.</p><p>Equality of men and women will be promoted in this action by ensuring that activities are designed and implemented in a sensitive manner, by identifying different needs of girls, boys, women and men to promote equal outcomes. Depending on the availability of data and evidence, related needs of girls and boys in need of emergency foster care will be taken into consideration; where possible, sex balance will be ensured in the composition of personnel teams; and monitoring tools will continue capturing sex disaggregation to document that girls¿ and boys¿ and female and male caregivers¿ benefit from the programmes. Capacity building components targeting foster carers and professionals in the foster care system will ensure that needs responsive parenting and care principles are integrated in learning tools.</p> | Significant |
Rural Eye Health Programme - Odisha Eye health programme | Significant |
Afghanistan 2022 - NRC Humanitarian Country programmes 2021-2025 NRC has applied as well to Sida for funding of 364.5 million SEK to carry out “the Humanitarian Programme for 2021” in 26 humanitarian crisis settings: Afghanistan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Palestine, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania/Burundi, Uganda, Venezuela, Yemen. The application includes provision of 40 million SEK to replenish the Rapid Response Mechanism funding instrument and 7 individual projects for method, capacity-building and coordination.
The intervention’s tentative total budget is 4 263 200 000 Norwegian krona (NOK), that the organisation is financing with Sida’s funding in a proportion of 8% approximately. Other donors, like the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DG ECHO, UNHCR, etc. are the largest contributors, besides a dozen of other donors in agreement with NRC. Sida provides NRC with the opportunity to allocate resources flexibly within individual country programmes (Programme-Based Approach – PBA).
NRC's catalytic support for coordination and capacity building contributes greatly to the link between humanitarian aid, development and peace. NRC's advocacy work and activities enable, at least contribute to, sustainable solutions for refugees and displaced people in a significant way in cooperation with other actors. In the long run, the NRC will reduce humanitarian needs. The NRC prioritizes self-sufficiency in its programs. The NRC's analysis capability, not least through its Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC), is an advantage for relevant programming according to the nexus orientations. Among the 26 crises in NRC's portfolio that Sida prioritizes, there are 15 where Sida implements Sweden's development strategies in synergy with humanitarian aid.
Sida’s contribution to NRC for 2022 will cover around 6.5% of NRC’s total financial requirements of the supported programmes and projects. It will provides humanitarian services to almost 9 million persons (53% female). HUM adds 50 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in Ukraine benefiting 90,000 people with protection, shelter, WaSH and cash assistance. Decision 5 April. Amendment nr. 5.
HUM adds 7.5 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in Cameroon from the 2022 mid-year allocation (food security, legal advice for 600 households/4200 individuals in Logone-et-Chari, Mayo Sava and Mayo Tsanaga). Decision 9 June 2022. Contract amendment No 6.
HUM adds 10 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in South Sudan from the end-of-the-year allocation. Decision 16 November 2022 nr 2022-002341. Contract amendment No 7.
NRC targets 7.7 million unique beneficiaries in total within Sida-funded humanitarian programmes in 2023, (52% female), who will receive protection and humanitarian services from NRC: Education, WASH, Shelter and settlement, Food security and livelihoods, including multi-purpose cash assistance, Protection, Legal assistance, Humanitarian mediation (community-based peace-building). Advocacy and support to humanitarian coordination and durable solution to displacements working groups in the field are part of NRC's engagement that Sida is funding. NRC's annual budget 2023 in the settings and thematics prioritized by Sida amounts to 5620 million Norwegian crowns in total. Sida's share weighs so far 8% of it: NRC's third largest donor whose cumulated 2021-2025 grant is 80% softly earmarked (programme-based approach) and 34% multi-year.
Earlier granted multi-year funding for 2023 was disbursed in January (52 MSEK) in support to continued humanitarian operations in DR Congo, Mali and Nigeria with strong emphasis on emergency response. Norwegian Refugee Council - Norska flyktingrådet (NRC) - har ansökt om ett förnyat partnerskap med Sida 2021-2025.
2021
NRC har dessutom ansökt om finansiering på 364,5 miljoner SEK för att genomföra humanitära insatser i 26 humanitära krisområden under 2021: Afghanistan, Kamerun, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Demokratiska Republiken Kongo, Eritrea, Etiopien, Iran, Irak, Jordanien, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexiko, Palestina, Somalia, Sydsudan, Sudan, Tanzania / Burundi, Uganda, Venezuela och Jemen. Ansökan inkluderar även 40 miljoner kronor för den humanitära snabbmekanismen (RRM) och 20 miljoner kronor i stöd till sju projekt för metodstöd, kapacitetsuppbyggnad och samordning.
Den aktuella budgeten för NRC:s hela humanitära program 2021 uppgår till 4 263 200 000 NOK, varav Sidas del för närvarande utgör ca 8%. Sida ger NRC möjligheten att nyttja resurser flexibelt inom varje enskilt landprogram, (enligt så kallad Programme-Based Approach – PBA)
Humanitär-Utveckling-Fred Nexus
NRC bidrar i hög grad till arbetet för att sammankoppla humanitärt bistånd med freds- och utvecklingsinsatser. Organisationens strävan att effektivisera biståndet genom katalytiskt stöd till samordning och kapacitetsbyggande insatser bidrar till denna ansats. I samarbetet med andra organisationer möjliggör och bidrar NRC:s verksamhet och påverkansarbete till att stärka hållbara lösningar för flyktingar och människor som har blivit tvångsfördrivna och bidrar därmed till att på sikt minska de humanitära behoven. Även krisdrabbade människors möjligheter till självförsörjning prioriteras. NRC:s analyskapacitet är en styrka som bidrar till att programmeringen anpassas till en nexus-ansats och den analys som genomförs av NRC:s internationella center för övervakning av tvångsförflyttning (IDMC) är av stor vikt för dessa analyser. 19 av de 26 kriser i NRC:s portfölj som Sida finansierar avser länder där Sverige även bedriver utvecklingssamarbete vilket öppnar för möjligheter till synergier med humanitärt bistånd.
2022
NRC ska få totalt 455,5 miljoner kronor av Sidas humanitära finansiering, enligt följande fördelning:
- Sida kommer att stödja NRC:s humanitära program i 23 krissituationer som Sida har prioriterat genom sin behovsbaserade allokeringsmodell för 2022, med 288,5 miljoner kronor :Afghanistan, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia och
regionen (Ecuador, Panamà), Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jemen,
Jordanien, Kamerun, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria,
Palestina, Somalia, Sudan, Sydsudan, Syrien, Uganda, Venezuela.
- Flerårig finansiering för NRC :s humanitära program i Demokratiska
republiken Kongo, Mali och Nigeria inleds 2022 och Sida har för ändamålet att ta i anspråk 104 miljoner kronor från kommande års anslag från erhållen Bemyndiganderam förutsatt att Riksdagen anvisar tillräckliga medel.
- NRC:s akuta insatser vid plötsligt uppkomna kriser kommer att stödjas genom Sidas snabbinsatsmekanism (RRM) under 2022 med 50 miljoner kronor.
- NRC:s metod- och kapacitetsstärkande projekt för skydd, miljö och IDMC (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre) kommer under 2022 att få 13 miljoner kronor, varav 3 miljoner kronor från Sida/Globen för IDMC.
Sidas bidrag till NRC för 2022 kommer att täcka cirka 6,5 % av NRC:s totala finansiella behov för de stödda programmen och projekten. Det kommer att tillhandahålla humanitära tjänster till nästan 9 miljoner människor (53 % kvinnor) i Afghanistan, Kamerun, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia och regionen, Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jordanien, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria, Palestina, Somalia, Sydsudan, Sudan, Syrien, Uganda, Venezuela och Jemen.
HUM lägger till 50 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Ukraina som gynnar 90,000 människor med skydd, tak över huvudet, WaSH samt kontantbistånd. Beslut 5 April. Avtalförändring nr 5.
HUM lägger till 7,5 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Kamerun från halvsårsanslaget 2022 (livsmedelsförsörjning, juridik rådgivning för 600 husshållen/4200 individer i Logone-et-Chari, Mayo Sava och Mayo Tsanaga). Beslut 9 juni 2022. Avtalförändring nr 6.
HUM lägger till 10 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Sydsudan från slutsåranslaget. Beslut 16 november 2022, 2022-002341. Avtalförändring nr 7.
2023
NRC får totalt 659.5 miljoner kronor (2023-2025) av Sidas humanitära finansiering för att genomföra:
- humanitära insatser i 23
krisområden under 2023: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Centralafrikanska
republiken, Colombia, Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jemen,
Jordanien, Kamerun, Kenya, Libanon, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Palestina, Sudan,
Sydsudan, Syrien, Uganda, Ukraina och Venezuela.
NRC har dessutom ansökt om 244
miljoner kronor för att kunna fortsätta sina humanitära program i Jemen, Kamerun,
Sydsudan, Syria och Venezuela under 2024 och 2025.
- ansökan inkluderar även 50
miljoner kronor till den humanitära snabbinsatsmekanismen (RRM)
- och 40 miljoner kronor i stöd till fyra fleråriga projekt för metodstöd och kapacitetsuppbyggnad: Miljö, Skydd, Tillträde, IDMC (18,5 under 2023, 21,5 under 2024-2025). Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is Norway's largest international humanitarian organisation and widely recognized as a leading field-based displacement agency within the international humanitarian community. NRC is the INGO receiving the largest contribution from Sida's Humanitarian Unit to INGOs so far, based on experience of successful partnerships, NRC's capacities to respond at scale and its coverage of crises that Sida is prioritizing through the needs-based allocation approach. NRC receives approximately 8% of Sida's humanitarian unit's annual budget appropriation.
The objectives of NRC can be summarized as follows: "To protect the rights of displaced and vulnerable people during crisis, to provide assistance meeting their immediate humanitarian needs, to prevent further displacement and to contribute to durable solutions, and to provide expertise as a strategic partner to humanitarian systems and actors." NRCs main activity is delivery of humanitarian assistance through programme activities in the field. NRC specializes in six areas of expertise, or "core competencies": shelter and settlements; livelihoods and food security; information, counselling and legal assistance (ICLA); education; camp management; and water, sanitation and hygiene promotion (WASH). Protection is lifted up as a new core competency of NRC since 2021. NRC engages closely with the affected populations to understand their needs and capacities, ensuring it tailors its assistance accordingly and involve them in the entire programme cycle, from design through implementation to evaluation. NRC advocates for respect for the rights of displaced and vulnerable people.
In 2021, the NRC Board approved the Global Strategy 20222025. The strategy
sets out four sub-objectives for areas that NRC will continue to strengthen and further institutionalize, namely, 1. assistance to hard-to-reach populations, 2. humanitarian policy, 3. protection, and 4. durable solutions. It also points to four areas of work that will be accelerated through expanded engagement and investments: i) advocacy, ii) climate and environment, iii) collaboration with local actors, and iv) quality programming.
NRCs work is divided into three pillars: humanitarian assistance, advocacy and expert deployment. Sida's Humanitarian Unit funding will continue prioritizing mainly the first pillar through funding of the humanitarian country programmes in line with HRPs and the RRPs and through the RRM funding. To some extent, Sida will support as well the second pillar of advocacy which is integrated in the humanitarian country programmes and implemented by NRC's method, thematic and capacity development projects supported by Sida. Sida will provide NRC with only a punctual support to the third pillar, through funding to CashCap which is deploying experts to the field for invigorating cash assistance working groups (17 in 2020 to 16 countries).
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has applied for a renewed strategic partnership with Sida during 2021-2025.
The interventions tentative total budget is 4 263 200 000 Norwegian krona (NOK), that the organisation is financing with Sidas funding in a proportion of 8% approximately. Other donors, like the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DG ECHO, UNHCR, etc. are the largest contributors, besides a dozen of other donors in agreement with NRC. Sida provides NRC with the opportunity to allocate resources flexibly within individual country programmes (Programme-Based Approach PBA).
NRC was granted funding to carry out the Humanitarian Programme for 2022 in 24 humanitarian crisis settings: Afghanistan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Irak, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria, Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Ukraina, Venezuela and Yemen. The grant includes provision of funding replenish the Rapid Response Mechanism funding instrument and four individual projects for method, capacity-building and coordination.
Sida's assessment on performance and results
Alike many other actors in the sector, NRC excels in reporting activities and outputs, but should be better in catching what changes and impacts its interventions have resulted to ultimately on assisted communities. The reporting of data and results does not provide necessarily an accurate and consolidated overview of what NRC has achieved. Sida has notified NRC that it should provide dis-aggregated data by age in targeting and reporting which is a norm.
It is assumed that NRC will achieve its objectives in 2023 again, but the global stress on the current resource mobilisation system supporting humanitarian action may affect NRC as well, similarly to large humanitarian actors such as the ICRC. | Significant |
Strengthening the civil society and democratic space in South Sudan Contract related to: Strengthening the civil society and democratic space in South Sudan - The proposed Action intents to contribute to Specific-Objective 1.3: Support CSOs as actors of good governance and development in partner countries and to the achievement of the related result 1.3: Civil Society Organisations¿ (CSOs) ability to engage as actors of good governance and development at country level is improved.The Action rolls out the EU support to country-level CSO initiatives aimed at implementing priorities reflected in the NDICI-GLOBAL Europe, Annex III CSO Thematic Programme and the subsequent draft Multiannual Indicative Plan for the same. In line with the policy of geographisation, a majority of funds under the CSO MAAP 2021-2024, will be allocated under the Action to support civil society in partner countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and Caribbean, and in Neighbourhood countries and Russia. Activities funded under the Action will support a broad range of civil society actors including and prioritising, but not limited to, women and youth organisations, In the framework of the Country Roadmaps for EU and Member States engagement with civil society (CSO Roadmaps), all initiatives under the Action will aim at and contribute to strengthening civil society partner¿s institutional and operational capacity through a comprehensive approach; enabling and ensuring their participation; and on improving the environment in which they operate. Particular attention will be paid to CSOs capacities to benefit from the digital transformation which will pay attention to accessible digital technology and reduce the gap on access to ICT. | Significant |
Improved access to eye care services South West Region, Malawi Improved sustainability and equity of access to affordable and quality eye care services for people, with and without disabilities, in the project areas in Malawi and Uganda. | Principal |
Vulnerable Lives Matter The project ''Vulnerable Lives Matter'' is a demand-driven and poverty alleviation initiative for the benefit of local communities in deprived regions of Belle Mare, Le Morne, Pointe aux Piments, Grand Bay ... through the following components:- Women employability and entrepreneurship- Youth employability - Supporting Youth for their participation in Duke of Edinburg's International Programme- Supporting and empowering adults with disabilities | Significant |
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE Community Based Rehabilitation Programme for children with disabilities in Nairobi slums. YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE Programma di riabilitazione su base comunitaria per bambini con disabilità negli slum di Nairobi Specifically, the project chose an holistic approach to disabilities by strengthening the main subjects that surround the children in their 0-5 first years of life, namely: the family, the community, the healthcare Nello specifico il progetto ha scelto un approccio olistico alla disabilità che prevede il rafforzamento dei principali soggetti che ruotano attorno alla figura del bambino 0-5 anni, ovvero: sistema sanitario, sistema familiare, sistema comunitario e sistema educativo. I bambini con disabilità non hanno la possibilità di tutelarsi autonomamente e di provvedere, sia per la loro età sia per la loro condizione, al proprio sviluppo sociale; è per questo che responsabile, capace e fornita di corretti strumenti deve essere l'intera comunità e in primis i familiari. Obiettivo generale: Contribuire al raggiungimento di condizioni di vita più dignitose per la popolazione infantile con disabilità degli insediamenti informali della periferia di Nairobi (Kenya). Obiettivo specifico: Migliorare l'accesso ai servizi di prevenzione, diagnosi, riabilitazione su base comunitaria e l'inclusione educativa dei bambini con disabilità (0-5 anni) negli insediamenti informali di Nairobi, rafforzando la partecipazione attiva e l'inclusione economica delle loro famiglie. | Principal |
Building the barricades: Three interdisciplinary studies on Mental and Substance Use Disorders in the context of armed violence in Brazil This research aims to understand the impact of armed conflict on the mental health and wellbeing of people living in the context of violence in the Complex of Maré - a conglomeration of 16 peripheral communities in Rio de Janeiro with a population of over 140,000 people*. By focusing on Brazil - a LMIC in which the state pursues a military-style intervention into peripheral urban territories (favelas) regulated by armed gangs trading drugs - the research seeks to locate an understanding of MNS disorders within the intensity of armed conflicts in peripheral territories that characterise many of the world's poorest and least developed countries. The research will seek to bring new understanding about the mental health and wellbeing of people living within a community subject to multiple stress factors (socio-economic exclusion, high levels of violence, limited access to cultural networks and institutions, etc) where daily lives are circumscribed by multi-faceted armed regulation and combat resulting from the so-called 'war on drugs'. While the situation of MNS disorders is acute in fragile territories on the peripheries of many major cities in LMICs, the favelas of Rio de Janeiro are characterized by a narcotic narrative of sale, consumption, conflict and abuse that makes the territorially-specific analysis at the heart of this research an appropriate means to open up new avenues for future research. In the absence of funding or state structures that can develop, evaluate and maintain complex mental health interventions in LMICs, civil society organizations that utilize existing personal and social resources that can be provided through trained lay people, volunteers, peers, and families. This proposal will learn from, and develop low-cost approaches that are found to be effective within the context of the urban battlefields of the war on drugs in Rio de Janeiro. Locating the research in Maré is significant since it allows the contextualization of the research questions in a territory where there are 15 areas used for the open dealing of crack, known locally as 'cracolandias'** [http://bit.ly/2moGPC4]; a lethality rate due to police actions in Maré in 2016 (12.8:100,000 inhabitants) eight times higher than that of Brazil (1.6:) and three times that of Rio de Janeiro state (3.9:) in 2015], as well as informal care networks for people living with MNS disorders. Maré is of the scale of a small city and has an organization, Redes da Maré, which has a long experience in the field of studies on violence and public safety and in the field of care for people who use crack, alcohol and other drugs. The research proposes 3 studies: Study 1 on 200 crack-cocaine users living on or at risk of living on streets within and on the borders of the Maré communities, investigating existing mental health of the respondents, their knowledge and perception about MNS disorders, possibilities of self- and community-based care, existence of informal care networks. Study 2: an investigation of the mental health and wellbeing of people affected by high levels of violence and insecurity, with a focus on their mental health, patterns of drug use (legal and illegal), family and educational background, income generation and access to social, health and drug treatment programmes. It will include a survey of 1,200 residents of Maré with respondents from each of the 16 communities and 20 semi-structured interviews with respondents from the survey who are living with mental disorders and/or substance abuse Study 3: Arts-based practices to produce narratives and images that challenge stigma and exclusion associated with MNS disorders, resulting in of life stories and a public photographic installation. * Population data source: IBGE - Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics' Profile of Brazilian Municipalities 2011 http://bit.ly/2mgzu6M ** RUI, Taniele. Usage of "Luz" and "cracolandia": fieldwork of spatial practices" The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world. | Principal |
ADPC Katastrofriskreducering 2017-2023 ADPC Disaster risk reduction 2017-2023 - ADPC Disaster risk reduction 2017-2022 Omprogrammerade medel för att lindra konsekvenserna av covid-19
Asia Disaster Preparedness Center, ADPC, har av Sida ansökt om ca 5 933 0000 USD (54 miljoner kronor) för att genomföra "Building resilience through inclusive and climate-adaptive disaster risk reduction in Asia-Pacific 2017-2021” i Asien och Stillahavsområdet under perioden 2017-2021.
ADPC är en icke-vinstdrivande regional organisation som grundades 1999 och arbetar för säkrare samhällen och en hållbar utveckling genom katastrofminskning i Asien och Stillahavsområdet. ADPC: s genomför genom projekt och program utbildning, information- och kunskapshantering samt annat tekniskt stöd avseende katastrofriskreduktion. ADPC samarbetar med lokala, nationella och regionala regeringar, statliga och icke-statliga organisationer, givare och utvecklingspartners för att uppnå sina mål inom katastrofriskreducering. ADPC’s regionala kontor ligger i Bangkok och man har landkontor i Bangladesh, Myanmar och Sri Lanka. ADPC är sedan år 2000 sekretariat för Regional Consultative Committee on disaster management (RCC) vilket består av National Disaster Management Organisations (NDMO’s) från 26 länder* i Asien och Stillahavsområdet. RCC är ett unikt forum som fokuserar på genomförandet av katastrof- och klimatriskhanteringsinitiativ samt samarbetar kring genomförandet av de globala och regionala ramverken inom utvecklingsagendan på nationell och regional nivå.
Det femåriga programmet syftar till att förbättra den regionala kapaciteten för samarbete gällande katastrof- och klimatriskhantering med det övergripande målet att bygga motståndskraft och anpassningsförmåga hos människor i Asien och Stillahavsområdet. Programmet arbetar med nationella myndigheter, civilsamhälls-organisationer och regionala organisationer genom Regional Consultative Committee on Disaster Management’s (RCC’s) vars medlemmar är katastrofhanteringsmyndigheter i 26 Asiatiska länder. Programmets huvudfokusområden är: katastrofberedskap och hantering av humanitär respons; ökad användning av riskinformation och data uppdelat efter gender, ålder och handikapp; integrering av katastrof- och klimatfrågor i nationella och regionala utvecklingsprogram och i policy; ökad användning av inkluderande tillvägagångssätt inom riskreducering och katastrofberedskap; främjande av jämställdhet och kvinnligt ledarskap inom riskhantering, samt stärkande av Regional Consultative Committee on Disaster Management’s (RCC’s) och dess regionala roll som stöd till medlemsländerna i genomförandet av globala överenskommelser och facilitator för syd-syd-lärande, gränsöverskridande riskreducering och kunskapsdelning. Direkt målgrupp för programmet är framförallt nationella katastrofmyndigheter genom RCC. Slutlig målgrupp är kvinnor och andra särskilt utsatta grupper. Förslaget nämner inte ursprungsbefolkningar per se men fokuserar på mest riskutsatta grupper. ADPC kommer att genomföra programmet tillsammans med Myndigheten för Samhällsskydd och Bevarande (MSB), Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI-Asia) och Raul Wallenberg-institutet (RWI).
*Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor Leste, Vietnam Reprogrammed funds to mitigate the impact of COVID-19
Asia Disaster Preparedness Center, ADPC, has applied to Sida for funding of 5 933 000 USD (54 million SEK) to carry out the "Building resilience through inclusive and climate-adaptive disaster risk reduction in Asia-Pacific" in Asia and Pacific during the period 2017-2022.
The five-year program aims to enhance regional capacity for cooperation on disaster and climate risk management with an overall objective of building resilience of people in the Asia-Pacific region. This will be achieved by building on current good practices and providing technical assistance to select governments, civil society organizations and regional bodies. Key focus areas of the program include: emergency preparedness and humanitarian response management; facilitating the use of risk information and sex-age-disability-disaggregated data by policy makers and disaster managers; integrating disaster and climate change concerns into development policy and programs; promoting inclusion and protection-sensitive approaches in risk reduction and disaster preparedness, promoting gender equality and women leadership for risk resilience; and enhancing the role of the Regional Consultative Committee on Disaster Management (RCC) to support member countries on implementing global frameworks and serving as a conduit for South-South learning, transboundary risk reduction and knowledge sharing. ADPC will implement the intervention together with the Swedish Contingency Agency, MSB, Stockholm Environment Institute –Asia, and the Raul Wallenberg Institute. Strengthened regional cooperation to protect development gains and build resilience of people in Asia-Pacific to disaster and climate risks through inclusive and gender responsive risk reduction measures. | Significant |
Mali 2024 - NRC Humanitarian Country programmes 2021-2025 NRC has applied as well to Sida for funding of 364.5 million SEK to carry out “the Humanitarian Programme for 2021” in 26 humanitarian crisis settings: Afghanistan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Palestine, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania/Burundi, Uganda, Venezuela, Yemen. The application includes provision of 40 million SEK to replenish the Rapid Response Mechanism funding instrument and 7 individual projects for method, capacity-building and coordination.
The intervention’s tentative total budget is 4 263 200 000 Norwegian krona (NOK), that the organisation is financing with Sida’s funding in a proportion of 8% approximately. Other donors, like the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DG ECHO, UNHCR, etc. are the largest contributors, besides a dozen of other donors in agreement with NRC. Sida provides NRC with the opportunity to allocate resources flexibly within individual country programmes (Programme-Based Approach – PBA).
NRC's catalytic support for coordination and capacity building contributes greatly to the link between humanitarian aid, development and peace. NRC's advocacy work and activities enable, at least contribute to, sustainable solutions for refugees and displaced people in a significant way in cooperation with other actors. In the long run, the NRC will reduce humanitarian needs. The NRC prioritizes self-sufficiency in its programs. The NRC's analysis capability, not least through its Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC), is an advantage for relevant programming according to the nexus orientations. Among the 26 crises in NRC's portfolio that Sida prioritizes, there are 15 where Sida implements Sweden's development strategies in synergy with humanitarian aid.
Sida’s contribution to NRC for 2022 will cover around 6.5% of NRC’s total financial requirements of the supported programmes and projects. It will provides humanitarian services to almost 9 million persons (53% female). HUM adds 50 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in Ukraine benefiting 90,000 people with protection, shelter, WaSH and cash assistance. Decision 5 April. Amendment nr. 5.
HUM adds 7.5 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in Cameroon from the 2022 mid-year allocation (food security, legal advice for 600 households/4200 individuals in Logone-et-Chari, Mayo Sava and Mayo Tsanaga). Decision 9 June 2022. Contract amendment No 6.
HUM adds 10 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in South Sudan from the end-of-the-year allocation. Decision 16 November 2022 nr 2022-002341. Contract amendment No 7.
NRC targets 7.7 million unique beneficiaries in total within Sida-funded humanitarian programmes in 2023, (52% female), who will receive protection and humanitarian services from NRC: Education, WASH, Shelter and settlement, Food security and livelihoods, including multi-purpose cash assistance, Protection, Legal assistance, Humanitarian mediation (community-based peace-building). Advocacy and support to humanitarian coordination and durable solution to displacements working groups in the field are part of NRC's engagement that Sida is funding. NRC's annual budget 2023 in the settings and thematics prioritized by Sida amounts to 5620 million Norwegian crowns in total. Sida's share weighs so far 8% of it: NRC's third largest donor whose cumulated 2021-2025 grant is 80% softly earmarked (programme-based approach) and 34% multi-year.
Earlier granted multi-year funding for 2023 was disbursed in January (52 MSEK) in support to continued humanitarian operations in DR Congo, Mali and Nigeria with strong emphasis on emergency response. Norwegian Refugee Council - Norska flyktingrådet (NRC) - har ansökt om ett förnyat partnerskap med Sida 2021-2025.
2021
NRC har dessutom ansökt om finansiering på 364,5 miljoner SEK för att genomföra humanitära insatser i 26 humanitära krisområden under 2021: Afghanistan, Kamerun, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Demokratiska Republiken Kongo, Eritrea, Etiopien, Iran, Irak, Jordanien, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexiko, Palestina, Somalia, Sydsudan, Sudan, Tanzania / Burundi, Uganda, Venezuela och Jemen. Ansökan inkluderar även 40 miljoner kronor för den humanitära snabbmekanismen (RRM) och 20 miljoner kronor i stöd till sju projekt för metodstöd, kapacitetsuppbyggnad och samordning.
Den aktuella budgeten för NRC:s hela humanitära program 2021 uppgår till 4 263 200 000 NOK, varav Sidas del för närvarande utgör ca 8%. Sida ger NRC möjligheten att nyttja resurser flexibelt inom varje enskilt landprogram, (enligt så kallad Programme-Based Approach – PBA)
Humanitär-Utveckling-Fred Nexus
NRC bidrar i hög grad till arbetet för att sammankoppla humanitärt bistånd med freds- och utvecklingsinsatser. Organisationens strävan att effektivisera biståndet genom katalytiskt stöd till samordning och kapacitetsbyggande insatser bidrar till denna ansats. I samarbetet med andra organisationer möjliggör och bidrar NRC:s verksamhet och påverkansarbete till att stärka hållbara lösningar för flyktingar och människor som har blivit tvångsfördrivna och bidrar därmed till att på sikt minska de humanitära behoven. Även krisdrabbade människors möjligheter till självförsörjning prioriteras. NRC:s analyskapacitet är en styrka som bidrar till att programmeringen anpassas till en nexus-ansats och den analys som genomförs av NRC:s internationella center för övervakning av tvångsförflyttning (IDMC) är av stor vikt för dessa analyser. 19 av de 26 kriser i NRC:s portfölj som Sida finansierar avser länder där Sverige även bedriver utvecklingssamarbete vilket öppnar för möjligheter till synergier med humanitärt bistånd.
2022
NRC ska få totalt 455,5 miljoner kronor av Sidas humanitära finansiering, enligt följande fördelning:
- Sida kommer att stödja NRC:s humanitära program i 23 krissituationer som Sida har prioriterat genom sin behovsbaserade allokeringsmodell för 2022, med 288,5 miljoner kronor :Afghanistan, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia och
regionen (Ecuador, Panamà), Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jemen,
Jordanien, Kamerun, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria,
Palestina, Somalia, Sudan, Sydsudan, Syrien, Uganda, Venezuela.
- Flerårig finansiering för NRC :s humanitära program i Demokratiska
republiken Kongo, Mali och Nigeria inleds 2022 och Sida har för ändamålet att ta i anspråk 104 miljoner kronor från kommande års anslag från erhållen Bemyndiganderam förutsatt att Riksdagen anvisar tillräckliga medel.
- NRC:s akuta insatser vid plötsligt uppkomna kriser kommer att stödjas genom Sidas snabbinsatsmekanism (RRM) under 2022 med 50 miljoner kronor.
- NRC:s metod- och kapacitetsstärkande projekt för skydd, miljö och IDMC (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre) kommer under 2022 att få 13 miljoner kronor, varav 3 miljoner kronor från Sida/Globen för IDMC.
Sidas bidrag till NRC för 2022 kommer att täcka cirka 6,5 % av NRC:s totala finansiella behov för de stödda programmen och projekten. Det kommer att tillhandahålla humanitära tjänster till nästan 9 miljoner människor (53 % kvinnor) i Afghanistan, Kamerun, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia och regionen, Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jordanien, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria, Palestina, Somalia, Sydsudan, Sudan, Syrien, Uganda, Venezuela och Jemen.
HUM lägger till 50 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Ukraina som gynnar 90,000 människor med skydd, tak över huvudet, WaSH samt kontantbistånd. Beslut 5 April. Avtalförändring nr 5.
HUM lägger till 7,5 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Kamerun från halvsårsanslaget 2022 (livsmedelsförsörjning, juridik rådgivning för 600 husshållen/4200 individer i Logone-et-Chari, Mayo Sava och Mayo Tsanaga). Beslut 9 juni 2022. Avtalförändring nr 6.
HUM lägger till 10 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Sydsudan från slutsåranslaget. Beslut 16 november 2022, 2022-002341. Avtalförändring nr 7.
2023
NRC får totalt 659.5 miljoner kronor (2023-2025) av Sidas humanitära finansiering för att genomföra:
- humanitära insatser i 23
krisområden under 2023: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Centralafrikanska
republiken, Colombia, Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jemen,
Jordanien, Kamerun, Kenya, Libanon, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Palestina, Sudan,
Sydsudan, Syrien, Uganda, Ukraina och Venezuela.
NRC har dessutom ansökt om 244
miljoner kronor för att kunna fortsätta sina humanitära program i Jemen, Kamerun,
Sydsudan, Syria och Venezuela under 2024 och 2025.
- ansökan inkluderar även 50
miljoner kronor till den humanitära snabbinsatsmekanismen (RRM)
- och 40 miljoner kronor i stöd till fyra fleråriga projekt för metodstöd och kapacitetsuppbyggnad: Miljö, Skydd, Tillträde, IDMC (18,5 under 2023, 21,5 under 2024-2025). Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is Norway's largest international humanitarian organisation and widely recognized as a leading field-based displacement agency within the international humanitarian community. NRC is the INGO receiving the largest contribution from Sida's Humanitarian Unit to INGOs so far, based on experience of successful partnerships, NRC's capacities to respond at scale and its coverage of crises that Sida is prioritizing through the needs-based allocation approach. NRC receives approximately 8% of Sida's humanitarian unit's annual budget appropriation.
The objectives of NRC can be summarized as follows: "To protect the rights of displaced and vulnerable people during crisis, to provide assistance meeting their immediate humanitarian needs, to prevent further displacement and to contribute to durable solutions, and to provide expertise as a strategic partner to humanitarian systems and actors." NRCs main activity is delivery of humanitarian assistance through programme activities in the field. NRC specializes in six areas of expertise, or "core competencies": shelter and settlements; livelihoods and food security; information, counselling and legal assistance (ICLA); education; camp management; and water, sanitation and hygiene promotion (WASH). Protection is lifted up as a new core competency of NRC since 2021. NRC engages closely with the affected populations to understand their needs and capacities, ensuring it tailors its assistance accordingly and involve them in the entire programme cycle, from design through implementation to evaluation. NRC advocates for respect for the rights of displaced and vulnerable people.
In 2021, the NRC Board approved the Global Strategy 20222025. The strategy
sets out four sub-objectives for areas that NRC will continue to strengthen and further institutionalize, namely, 1. assistance to hard-to-reach populations, 2. humanitarian policy, 3. protection, and 4. durable solutions. It also points to four areas of work that will be accelerated through expanded engagement and investments: i) advocacy, ii) climate and environment, iii) collaboration with local actors, and iv) quality programming.
NRCs work is divided into three pillars: humanitarian assistance, advocacy and expert deployment. Sida's Humanitarian Unit funding will continue prioritizing mainly the first pillar through funding of the humanitarian country programmes in line with HRPs and the RRPs and through the RRM funding. To some extent, Sida will support as well the second pillar of advocacy which is integrated in the humanitarian country programmes and implemented by NRC's method, thematic and capacity development projects supported by Sida. Sida will provide NRC with only a punctual support to the third pillar, through funding to CashCap which is deploying experts to the field for invigorating cash assistance working groups (17 in 2020 to 16 countries).
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has applied for a renewed strategic partnership with Sida during 2021-2025.
The interventions tentative total budget is 4 263 200 000 Norwegian krona (NOK), that the organisation is financing with Sidas funding in a proportion of 8% approximately. Other donors, like the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DG ECHO, UNHCR, etc. are the largest contributors, besides a dozen of other donors in agreement with NRC. Sida provides NRC with the opportunity to allocate resources flexibly within individual country programmes (Programme-Based Approach PBA).
NRC was granted funding to carry out the Humanitarian Programme for 2022 in 24 humanitarian crisis settings: Afghanistan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Irak, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria, Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Ukraina, Venezuela and Yemen. The grant includes provision of funding replenish the Rapid Response Mechanism funding instrument and four individual projects for method, capacity-building and coordination.
Sida's assessment on performance and results
Alike many other actors in the sector, NRC excels in reporting activities and outputs, but should be better in catching what changes and impacts its interventions have resulted to ultimately on assisted communities. The reporting of data and results does not provide necessarily an accurate and consolidated overview of what NRC has achieved. Sida has notified NRC that it should provide dis-aggregated data by age in targeting and reporting which is a norm.
It is assumed that NRC will achieve its objectives in 2023 again, but the global stress on the current resource mobilisation system supporting humanitarian action may affect NRC as well, similarly to large humanitarian actors such as the ICRC. | Significant |
INCLUSION OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN KINDERGARTEN AND PRIMARY SCHOOL IN KOSOVO. SOCIAL SECURITY CHARGES AND INSURANCE FOR VOLUNTEERS INCLUSIONE DEI BAMBINI CON DISABILIT NELLA SCUOLA DELL'INFANZIA E PRIMARIA IN KOSOVO THE PROJECT AIM TO IMPROVE THE SCHOOL INCLUSION FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES TROUGH THE STRENGTHENING OF TEACHING LEVEL, AND THE SOCIAL AWARENESS IL PROGETTO SI PROPONE, COME OBIETTIVO GENERALE, DI CONTRIBUIRE ALL'INSERIMENTO DEI GRUPPI PI VULNERABILI NELLA VITA ECONOMICA E SOCIALE IN KOSOVO A PARTIRE DALLA SCUOLA | Principal |
Chad 2022 - IRC HUM 2021-2025 International Rescue Committee (IRC) är en enskild internationell organisation, aktiv i humanitär respons och resiliens i mer än 40 länder globalt. Deras huvudsakliga syfte är att bistå människor vars liv och försörjningsmöjligheter slagits i spillror till följd av konflikter, naturkatastrofer och klimatförändringar genom att erbjuda överlevnadsstöd och aktiviteter för återhämtning. Fokus ligger på aktiviteter inom hälsa, skydd, utbildning, försörjningsmöjligheter samt människors stärkta egenmakt och beslutsförmåga. Huvudsaklig målgrupp är människor som flyr från krig och katastrofer, samt de värdsamhällen som bistår dem.
I dagsläget är IRC huvudsakligen självimplementerande och utför sitt arbete med hjälp av sina 17 000 medarbetare världen över. IRC har däremot ett mål om att utöka sitt samarbete med lokala partners (myndigheter, organisationer, organiserade samhällsgrupper) för att på sikt kanalisera 25 % av finansiella medel genom tredje part, och kommer under 2024 och 2025 att försätta arbeta för att detta ska bli verklighet.
År 2024 får IRC humanitärt programbaserat stöd i 17 länder, samt medel till IRCs snabbfinansieringsmekanism ”Rapid Response Mechanism” vars funktion är att snabbt kunna kanalisera medel till hastigt uppkomna eller kraftigt förvärrade kriser. Utöver de pågående metod och kapacitet projekt börjar IRC två nya 2-åriga projekt i år, med fokus på skydd för den ena, och lokalisering för den andra. International Rescue Committee, IRC, is a non-profit international organisation, working with humanitarian and development work in more than 40 countries world-wide. As per IRC’s mission statement, their goal is “to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster, including by the climate crisis, to survive, recover and gain control of their future” in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Their focus is on activities with the sectors of health, safety/protection, education, livelihoods and ensuring people have the power to influence decisions that affect their lives. Their main target group is people who flee from war, conflict and disaster, and the host communities that support them.
Currently, IRC is mainly a self-implementing organisation who conduct the bulk of their work through their 17 000 global staff members. However, IRC is striving to increase their cooperation with local partners (authorities, organisation, community groups) to reach a goal of sub-granting 25 % of their means through third party, and will continue to work towards achieving this target during 2024 and 2025.
In 2024, the IRC will receive humanitarian programme-based support in 17 countries, as well as funding for the IRC's Rapid Response Mechanism, whose function is to rapidly channel funds to emerging or worsening crises. In addition to the ongoing methodology and capacity projects, the IRC is starting two new 2-year projects this year, focusing on protection for one, and localisation for the other. IRC respond to the worlds worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic well being and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Their mission is to help people whose lives and livelihoods have been shattered by conflict and disaster, including the climate crisis, to survive, recover and gain control of their future.
IRC consider their interventions successful when their clients see improvement in their safety from physical, sexual and psychological harm; in their health status, including physical and mental well-being; in education, including literacy and numeracy, social-emotional, and life skills (including safe schools); in economic well-being, including ability to provide basic material needs and income asset growth; and in power to have influence over the decisions that affect their lives. IRC strive to reach these goals while continuously trying to tackle gender inequalities in and through all of their work.
As Sida supports IRC in a variety of countries, not one specific objective can be identified for the whole contribution, but for the sake of exemplifying, a number of country specific goals are outlined below:
Ukraine: People are safe in their homes and receive support when they experience harm, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of gender-based violence, adolescents and adults are physically and mentally healthy, people meet their basic needs and protect livelihoods during emergencies, people develop their livelihoods and recover from shocks.
Myanmar: People are safe in their communities and receive support when they experience harm, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of
gender-based violence, women and girls achieve their sexual and reproductive health and rights, adolescents and adults are physically and mentally healthy, people access water, sanitation and hygiene services and live in an enhanced environment, people meet their basic needs and protect livelihoods during emergencies, people lead their recovery and development.
Central African Republic: People are safe in their communities and receive support when they experience harm, children survive and are healthy, women and girls achieve their sexual and reproductive health and rights, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of gender-based violence, people develop their livelihoods and recover from shocks, people lead their own recovery and development.
Across the country programmes relevant for Sida funding in 2024, IRC will engage i formal and informal partnerships with local and national actors. The cash modality will be explored in all contexts. | Significant |
Italian contribution to the 2022 ICRC Special Appeal on “Disability and Mine Action” - Mali component Contributo italiano all’Appello Speciale 2022 del CICR su “Disabilità e Sminamento Umanitario” - Componente Mali The project aims to contribute to the implementation of the Mali component envisaged under the ICRC Special Appeal 2022 on Disability and Mine Action through specialized health care and socio-economic inclusion activities for disabled people, especially victims of anti-personnel mines and other unexploded ordnance. Il progetto intende contribuire alla realizzazione della componente Mali prevista nell’ambito dell’Appello Speciale 2022 del CICR su “Disabilità e Sminamento Umanitario” mediante attività di assistenza sanitaria specialistica e di inclusione socio-economica dei disabili, in particolar modo vittime di mine anti-persona ed altri ordigni bellici inesplosi. | Principal |
Röda Korset -Bygga ett hållbart Liberian National Röda Korsföreningen Swedish Red Cross - Building a Sustainable Liberian National Red Cross Society - Swedish Red Cross Resilience Building Project in support of Liberian Red Cross Reprogrammed funds to address COVID-19
The Building a Sustainable Liberian National Red Cross Society (LNRCS) for Community Resilience project is a 3-year (June 2019 - July 2022), 20 000 000 SEK intervention to the Swedish Red Cross (SRC) to support ongoing reform and capacity-building process for LNRCS. The goal of the project is an increasingly sustainable LNRCS, with active and well-functioning branches and chapters supporting communities in resilience-building activities. There are four outcomes: (i) Active and well-functioning LNRCS chapters and branches able to provide relevant support to vulnerable communities; (ii) LNRCS volunteers are well organized and supported and have the knowledge and skills needed to support and implement community-based activities; (iii) Women, girls, boys and men including marginalized groups in targeted communities have equal opportunities to participate and decide;and (iv) Increased financial sustainability of LNRCS enabling core costs to be covered and own activities to be undertaken.
The project was developed in partnership between SRC and LNRCS. It is based on LNRCS' organizational development plan, which was produced as part of an ongoing internal reform process. LNRCS has developed a 13-point organizational development plan, of which this project responds to: #1: Improve accountability, credibility and professionalism of the National Society leadership and staff; #3: Develop and strengthen the finance department, systems and staff; #8: Develop resource mobilization capacities, strategy and plan of action; and #13: Improving human resources and human resource management at the National Society. It also partially responds to #10: Develop youth and volunteer management systems, in the rehabilitation of LNRCS’ volunteer systems. As such, the change process is driven by LNRCS’ own priorities.
Specifically, the intervention will work to strengthen the capacities of LNRCS for disaster risk preparedness and management at the national and local level while at the same time supporting local communities in three counties to develop community-based disaster risk reduction action plans. At local level, the focus will be on strengthening the capacities and accountability of three pilot chapters (county-level) and six branches (community-level) in Rivercess, Sinoe and Grand Kru counties in southeastern Liberia, to ensure that they have the necessary structures, systems and competencies in place to be self-sustaining. It will also build capacity for resilience within the target communities and increase gender awareness. In addition, the project will directly target inclusivity, and promote the leadership and participation of women and girls. There are four components: (i) Chapter and Branch Development, (ii) Volunteer Management (iii) Gender and Diversity, and (iv) Resource Mobilization. In support of these four components, the project will also develop LNRCS' human resource capacity. Omprogrammerade medel för att bekämpa covid-19
Building a Sustainable Liberian National Red Cross Society (LNRCS) for Community Resilience är ett treårigt projekt (juni 2019-juli 2022) på 20 000 000 SEK till Svenska Röda Korset (SRK) för att stödja den pågående reformen och kapacitetsuppbyggnadsprocessen av LNRCS. Projektets mål är att åstadkomma ett mer hållbart LNRCS, med aktiva och välfungerande Röda Kors-föreningar i länen och lokalsamhällena som stöder resiliensbyggandet i Liberia. Projektet fokuserar på fyra resultatområden: (i) Aktiva och välfungerande LNRCS-föreningar på läns- och lokalsamhällesnivå som kan tillhandahålla relevant stöd till utsatta samhällen (ii) LNRCS-volontärer är välorganiserade och har den kunskap och de färdigheter som behövs för att stödja och genomföra samhällsbaserade aktiviteter, (iii) kvinnor, flickor, pojkar och män inklusive marginaliserade grupper i utvalda områden ges samma möjligheter att delta och fatta beslut, och (iv) ökad finansiell hållbarhet för LNRCS som gör det möjligt för LNRCS att täcka kärnkostnader och egna aktiviteter som ska genomföras.
Projektet utvecklades i partnerskap mellan SRK och LNRCS. Det bygger på LNRCS organisationsutvecklingsplan, som togs fram i syfte att stödja den pågående reformprocess av LNRCS. LNRCS har utvecklat en 13-punkts organisationsutvecklingsplan, varav detta projekt svarar på: # 1: Förbättra ansvarlighet, trovärdighet och professionalism hos LNRCS; # 3: Utveckla och stärka finansavdelningen, system och personal; # 8: Utveckla resursmobiliseringskapacitet, strategi och handlingsplan; och # 13: Förbättra mänskliga resurser och personalhantering på LNRCS. Det svarar också delvis på # 10: Utveckla ungdoms- och volontärhanteringssystem, vid rehabilitering av LNRCSs volontärsystem. Således drivs förändringsprocessen av LNRCS egna prioriteringar.
Insatsen kommer specifikt att verka för att stärka LNRCS: s kapacitet för katastrofberedskap och organisationskapaciteten på nationell och lokal nivå samtidigt stödjer insatsen lokala samhällen i tre län för att utveckla lokala handlingsplaner för katastrofreducering. På lokal nivå är fokus för projektet stärkt kapacitet och ansvarsutkrävande hos tre pilotföreningar på länsnivå och sex i lokalsamhällena i Rivercess, Sinoe och Grand Kru i sydöstra Liberia, för att säkerställa att de har de strukturer, system och kompetenser som krävs för att vara självbärande. Projektet syftar också till ökad kapacitet för motståndskraft och medvetenhet kring könsroller i utvalda lokalsamhällen. Projektet har fyra komponenter för att stärka kapaciteten hos LNRCS: (i) utveckling av föreningarna på läns- och lokalsamhällesnivå (ii) volontärledning (iii) genus och mångfald, och (iv) resursmobilisering. Till stöd för dessa fyra komponenter kommer projektet också att utveckla LNRCS personalkapacitet. The project 'Building a Sustainable Liberian National Red Cross Society (LNRCS) for Community Resilience' has the following overall and specific objectives and corresponding outcomes:
Overall Objective:
More resilient communities able to respond to their needs and advocate for their rights.
Project Objective:
Developing an increasing sustainable LNRCS with active and well-functioning branches and chapters supporting communities in resilience-building activities.
Corresponding outcomes:
1. Active and well-functioning LNRCS chapters and branches able to provide relevant support to vulnerable communities.
2. LNRCS' volunteers are well organized and supported and have the knowledge and skills needed to support and implement community-based activities.
3. Increased participation of women, girls and boys and men including marginalised groups in LNRCS activities in targeted communities.
4. Increased financial sustainability of LNRCS enabling core costs to be covered and own activities to be undertaken.
5. Increase health awareness to prevent further spread and reduce the psychological effects of Covid19. | Significant |
KARAMA: Dignity. Interventions for the empowerment of vulnerable women in the state of Khartoum Sudan KARAMA: Dignità. Interventi di empowerment per le donne vulnerabili dello Stato di Khartoum. The project has the overall objective of promoting the right to health care, education and a dignified life for the most vulnerable women and girls with disabilities and in charge of people with disabilities, who live in the peripheral areas of Khartoum, Umbedda and Jabel Aulia. The first ones are doubly discriminated, both because women and because of people with disabilities. The second ones, as primary caregivers, are marginalized and are often excluded from work and education. Thus, the intervention will aim at promoting access to health, education and employment services by offering tools to improve the beneficiaries’ quality of life, by directly improving the prevention and early diagnosis of situations that could lead to chronic diseases or disabilities, as well as by facilitating the school and work inclusion of girls and/or girls with disabilities. Thus, the activation and consolidation of free basic pediatric services as well as pre and post natal services and health education is foreseen. The training of health personnel is also foreseen. The activation of an inclusive education system for people with disabilities and in particular for women and girls will be articulated through the strengthening of the activities of the promoters of the Community Based Inclusive Development. CBID mainly consists in home visits to the families of the selected areas, allowing volunteers to collect the needs of families by reporting the presence or absence of girls and boys with disabilities. In addition, training and awareness-raising on disability for school teachers continues the process of identifying and starting support teaching. Consequently, CBID teachers and promoters support the accompaniment of children with disabilities in school, at home and in orphanages. An innovative start-up for business, aimed at young people and young people with disabilities and training school staff will be created . From the implementation of the project we are expecting to reach: - 6400 women and 25,250 underage patients, of which 12,000 girls and 2% with disabilities, through the expansion of health services; - 300 health professionals trained on the Family Health Approach; - 12 schools and 60 teachers trained in inclusive education for children with disabilities; - 60 young people with disabilities who acquire technical and professional skills and are placed in the world of work as self-employed and/or employees Il progetto promuove una vita dignitosa delle donne che abitano nelle aree periferiche delle località di Khartoum, Umbedda e Jabel Aulia: target privilegiato saranno le giovani e le bambine con disabilità - doppiamente discriminate sia come donne che come persone con disabilità - e le donne deputate alla cura delle persone con disabilità che, in quanto caregiver principali, vengono marginalizzate e sono spesso escluse dal mondo del lavoro e dall’educazione. L’analisi dei bisogni è stata possibile grazie all’esperienza ventennale dell’Ente proponente nel territorio d’intervento e dall’accesso ai Report sull’aiuto umanitario in cui si evidenziano le criticità legate all’accesso alle cure sanitarie, all’istruzione e all’occupazione delle donne. OVCI gestisce due Centri riabilitativi e collabora alla gestione con il partner USADC di un Centro sanitario: è una realtà molto conosciuta e apprezzata nello stato di Khartoum. Ciò ha rappresentato un indubbio valore aggiunto per realizzare un’analisi dei bisogni e delle criticità anche grazie ai dati forniti dai Ministeri della Sanità e dell’Educazione. Alla luce dei bisogni raccolti si è deciso di indirizzare l’intervento verso la promozione dell’accesso ai servizi sanitari, educativi e all’occupazione lavorativa offrendo ai beneficiari gli strumenti per migliorare la propria qualità della vita. OVCI intende sostenere direttamente aspetti legati a prevenzione e diagnosi precoce di situazioni che potrebbero portare a malattie croniche o disabilità, l’inclusione scolastica e lavorativa delle bambine e ragazze con disabilità. Il progetto di durata triennale prevede di contribuire positivamente la qualità della vita della donna ed in particolare della donna con disabilità nelle principali fasi della vita: la giovane in gravidanza viene accompagnata ad una maternità sicura, inserendola in percorsi di prevenzione della disabilità fin dal concepimento e di parto sicuro, i bambini e le bambine con disabilità sono sostenuti da un sistema educativo integrato fino all’inserimento lavorativo e all’avvio di imprese autonome che promuovano indipendenza. Tale percorso è reso possibile grazie al rafforzamento dei servizi presenti sul territorio e alla promozione di una cultura di inclusione della persona con disabilità. Le esperienze realizzate fino ad ora dimostrano infatti che il rafforzamento della rete socio sanitaria e formativa sta producendo cambiamenti positivi sulla popolazione in termini di inclusione della persona con disabilità. Tale cambiamento verrà perciò rafforzato dall’attivazione e dal consolidamento di servizi pediatrici di base gratuiti, servizi pre e post natale ed educazione sanitaria. Partendo da una ormai consolidata collaborazione con il Ministero della Sanità e con associazioni locali si prevede quindi di organizzare la formazione del personale sanitario sull’approccio del Medico di Famiglia (Family Health Approach) estendendo la supervisione ad un centro sanitario gestito dal Ministero della Salute nelle zone di Assafa (Khartoum Sud). L’attivazione di un sistema di educazione inclusiva alla persona con disabilità e in particolare alle donne e bambine disabili si articolerà attraverso il rafforzamento delle attività dei promotori dello Sviluppo Inclusivo su Base Comunitaria, che consiste principalmente nella visita domiciliare alle famiglie delle aree selezionate, permettendo ai volontari di raccogliere i bisogni dei nuclei familiari segnalando la presenza o meno di bambine e bambini con disabilità. Inoltre, la formazione e sensibilizzazione sulla disabilità rivolta agli insegnanti delle scuole prosegue il percorso di identificazione e avvio dell’insegnamento di sostegno. Di conseguenza, gli insegnanti e i promotori SIBC sostengono l’accompagnamento dei bambini e delle bambine con disabilità a scuola, a casa e negli orfanatrofi. Il partner locale di progetto USADC gestisce un Vocational Training Center dal 1999 e in collaborazione | Principal |
Activity under preparation Strengthening the Palestinian Health Financing System including the Medical Referrals towards a more efficient and equitable system <p>The project aims is to strengthen the Palestinian health financing system and improve Outside Medical Referrals (OMRs) towards a more efficient and equitable system to contribute to universal health coverage (UHC), while preventing financial hardship for the poor and vulnerable population.</p><p>The project aims to address the unsustainable financing of the health sector and the increasing burden of the cost of medical referrals amid fiscal constraints. The project will focus on; ensuring evidence and strategy guidance made available for policy makers to make decisions for rationalizing health expenditures and will support Outside Medical Referral governance reform, it will allow for a revised process, procedures and updated protocols adding more equity, efficiency and transparency to the referral process. The health benefit package will be revised and costed, which will support in redesigning the levels of care and organization of services leading eventually to meeting population needs in an efficient manner. Much focus is given to building the capacity of MoH in data analytics and financial risk protection for informed health care policies and for better monitoring and transparency of the referral system. In addition, efforts will be invested in developing capacities of physicians in specific specializations, which shall help case treatment at public hospitals and reduce OMRs.</p> | Significant |
Chad 2024 - UNICEF Humanitarian Support 2022-2025 Insatsen avser stöd till FN:s barnfond (UNICEF) i syfte att svara upp humanitärt. UNICEF:s arbete fokuserar på att rädda liv, minska lidande, bibehålla mänsklig värdighet och skydda rättigheter för befolkningen där det råder humanitära behov till exempel på grund av konflikt, naturkatastrofer eller hälsokriser. UNICEF spelar vidare en central roll i den humanitära responsen globalt och leder kluster inom WASH och nutrition samt leder tillsammans med Rädda Barnen utbildningsklustret. Inom skyddsklustret, leder UNICEF banskyddsklustret. Det är inte endast barn som är mottagare av humanitärt stöd utan också kvinnor och funktionshindrade individer. Inom hälsa arbetar UNICEF också t.ex. med reproduktiv, mödravård, nyfödda samt barnhälsa. Sida beviljade extra stöd till UNICEF i februari 2022 med anledning av Rysslands anfallskrig mot Ukraina. Sida har finansierat UNICEF under ”UNICEF Humanitarian Support 2018-2021”. The proposed contribution aims to support United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) humanitarian programmes globally through the UNICEF Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) appeals which are in line with the UNICEF Strategic Plan for 2022-2025 and the Core Commitments for Children (CCCs) in Humanitarian Action. UNICEF’s humanitarian work is focused on interventions that saves lives, alleviates suffering, maintains human dignity and protects the rights of affected populations, wherever there are humanitarian needs due to e.g. armed conflicts, natural disasters, public health emergencies. UNICEF plays a central role in the global humanitarian response and leads the clusters of WASH and nutrition and co-leads the cluster of education. Within protection, it leads the child protection cluster. Children are not the only beneficiaries of UNICEF but also women and disabled persons, as examples. Within health, UNICEF e.g. more specifically works on Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH). In February, a major amendment to the agreement was conducted to provide UNICEF with additional funds to be able to respond to the crisis in Ukraine as a result of Russia’s aggression. Sida funded UNICEF under previous contribution ”UNICEF Humanitarian Support 2018-2021”. The Strategy Plan 2022-2025 of UNICEF applies an approach that supports programming across the humanitarian-development nexus, where it systematically applies a humanitarian lens to the theories of change underlying work on all Goal Areas, cross-cutting programmes, change strategies and enablers, and reflects UNICEF humanitarian work throughout the plan itself and in the Integrated Results and Resources Framework of the SP 2021-2025. The result areas of the SP include:
Goal Area 1: Every child, including adolescents, survives and thrives with access to nutrition diets, quality primary health care, nurturing practices and essential supplies.
a. Strengthening primary health care and high-impact health interventions.
b. Immunization services as part of primary health care.
c. Fast-track the end of HIV/AIDS.
d. Health and development in early childhood and adolescents.
e. Mental health and psychosocial well-being.
f. Nutrition in early childhood.
g. Nutrition of adolescents and women.
h. Early detection and treatment of malnutrition.
Goal Area 2: Every child, including adolescents, learns and acquires skills for the future.
a. Access to quality learning opportunities.
b. Learning, skills, participation and engagement.
Goal Area 3: Every child, including adolescents, is protected from violence, exploitation, abuse, neglect and harmful practices.
a. Protection from violence, abuse and exploitation.
b. Promotion of care, mental health and psychosocial well-being and justice.
c. Prevention of harmful practices.
Goal Area 4: Every child, including adolescents has access to safe and equitable water, sanitation and hygiene services and supplies, and lives in a safe and sustainable climate and environment.
a. Safe and equitable water, sanitation and hygiene services and practices.
b. Water, sanitation and hygiene systems and empowerment of communities.
c. Climate change, disaster risks and environmental degradation.
Goal Area 5: Every child, including adolescents, has access to inclusive social protection and lives free from poverty.
a. Reducing child poverty.
b. Access to inclusive social protection. | Significant |
CAR 2023 - IRC HUM 2021-2025 International Rescue Committee, IRC, is a non-profit international organisation, working with humanitarian and development work in more than 40 countries world-wide. As per IRC’s mission statement, their goal is “to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster, including by the climate crisis, to survive, recover and gain control of their future” in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Their focus is on activities with the sectors of health, safety/protection, education, livelihoods and ensuring people have the power to influence decisions that affect their lives. Their main target group is people who flee from war, conflict and disaster, and the host communities that support them.
Currently, IRC is mainly a self-implementing organisation who conduct the bulk of their work through their 17 000 global staff members. However, IRC is striving to increase their cooperation with local partners (authorities, organisation, community groups) to reach a goal of sub-granting 25 % of their means through third party, and will continue to work towards achieving this target during 2024 and 2025.
In 2024, the IRC will receive humanitarian programme-based support in 17 countries, as well as funding for the IRC's Rapid Response Mechanism, whose function is to rapidly channel funds to emerging or worsening crises. In addition to the ongoing methodology and capacity projects, the IRC is starting two new 2-year projects this year, focusing on protection for one, and localisation for the other. International Rescue Committee (IRC) är en enskild internationell organisation, aktiv i humanitär respons och resiliens i mer än 40 länder globalt. Deras huvudsakliga syfte är att bistå människor vars liv och försörjningsmöjligheter slagits i spillror till följd av konflikter, naturkatastrofer och klimatförändringar genom att erbjuda överlevnadsstöd och aktiviteter för återhämtning. Fokus ligger på aktiviteter inom hälsa, skydd, utbildning, försörjningsmöjligheter samt människors stärkta egenmakt och beslutsförmåga. Huvudsaklig målgrupp är människor som flyr från krig och katastrofer, samt de värdsamhällen som bistår dem.
I dagsläget är IRC huvudsakligen självimplementerande och utför sitt arbete med hjälp av sina 17 000 medarbetare världen över. IRC har däremot ett mål om att utöka sitt samarbete med lokala partners (myndigheter, organisationer, organiserade samhällsgrupper) för att på sikt kanalisera 25 % av finansiella medel genom tredje part, och kommer under 2024 och 2025 att försätta arbeta för att detta ska bli verklighet.
År 2024 får IRC humanitärt programbaserat stöd i 17 länder, samt medel till IRCs snabbfinansieringsmekanism ”Rapid Response Mechanism” vars funktion är att snabbt kunna kanalisera medel till hastigt uppkomna eller kraftigt förvärrade kriser. Utöver de pågående metod och kapacitet projekt börjar IRC två nya 2-åriga projekt i år, med fokus på skydd för den ena, och lokalisering för den andra. IRC respond to the worlds worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic well being and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Their mission is to help people whose lives and livelihoods have been shattered by conflict and disaster, including the climate crisis, to survive, recover and gain control of their future.
IRC consider their interventions successful when their clients see improvement in their safety from physical, sexual and psychological harm; in their health status, including physical and mental well-being; in education, including literacy and numeracy, social-emotional, and life skills (including safe schools); in economic well-being, including ability to provide basic material needs and income asset growth; and in power to have influence over the decisions that affect their lives. IRC strive to reach these goals while continuously trying to tackle gender inequalities in and through all of their work.
As Sida supports IRC in a variety of countries, not one specific objective can be identified for the whole contribution, but for the sake of exemplifying, a number of country specific goals are outlined below:
Ukraine: People are safe in their homes and receive support when they experience harm, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of gender-based violence, adolescents and adults are physically and mentally healthy, people meet their basic needs and protect livelihoods during emergencies, people develop their livelihoods and recover from shocks.
Myanmar: People are safe in their communities and receive support when they experience harm, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of
gender-based violence, women and girls achieve their sexual and reproductive health and rights, adolescents and adults are physically and mentally healthy, people access water, sanitation and hygiene services and live in an enhanced environment, people meet their basic needs and protect livelihoods during emergencies, people lead their recovery and development.
Central African Republic: People are safe in their communities and receive support when they experience harm, children survive and are healthy, women and girls achieve their sexual and reproductive health and rights, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of gender-based violence, people develop their livelihoods and recover from shocks, people lead their own recovery and development.
Across the country programmes relevant for Sida funding in 2024, IRC will engage i formal and informal partnerships with local and national actors. The cash modality will be explored in all contexts. | Significant |
Accessible and inclusive transport Multi-annual country Action Programme for Turkey on Transport-Accessible and inclusive transport | Significant |
EU Support to Migration Management in Serbia - Access to Health Services III Contract related to: EU Support to Migration Management in Serbia - Access to Health Services III - This Action is designed to respond to the most urgent needs such as food, accommodation, medical assistance and access to education and social protection. The Action will contribute to further upgrade reception centres. Special attention will be put on the specific needs of vulnerable groups.The Action also aims at enhancing social cohesion, improving the resilience of local communities. Finally, the Action will strengthen border and migration control capabilities, returns, in line with fundamental rights. | Significant |
Activity under preparation Acces to credit for MSMEs and coopertaives in Guatemala Contract related to: Acces to credit for MSMEs and coopertaives in Guatemala - The action seeks a transformation of the current economic model in the long term by addressing some of the structural issues currently faced. The EU will provide support in areas such as: economic integration and trade; sustainable and inclusive growth; the transition from an informal to a formal economy, taking advantage of digitalisation and supporting the transition to a greener and a sustainable economy, giving priority to innovative sectors and start-ups; supporting the creation of green and decent jobs in particular for women, indigenous communities and disadvantaged people; financial inclusion for poor people; and the design of institutional frameworks that enable investments and business environments, and ensure MSMEs competitiveness. Moreover, the action will favour entrepreneurship in rural areas promoting sustainable economic development beyond the capital or urban areas and greater equity in the distribution of economic growth in Guatemala. Promotion of green entrepreneurship and greentech could have potential for an operation under the EFSD+. | Significant |
Palestinian territory, occupied 2021 - NRC Humanitarian Country programmes 2021-2025 Norwegian Refugee Council - Norska flyktingrådet (NRC) - har ansökt om ett förnyat partnerskap med Sida 2021-2025.
2021
NRC har dessutom ansökt om finansiering på 364,5 miljoner SEK för att genomföra humanitära insatser i 26 humanitära krisområden under 2021: Afghanistan, Kamerun, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Demokratiska Republiken Kongo, Eritrea, Etiopien, Iran, Irak, Jordanien, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexiko, Palestina, Somalia, Sydsudan, Sudan, Tanzania / Burundi, Uganda, Venezuela och Jemen. Ansökan inkluderar även 40 miljoner kronor för den humanitära snabbmekanismen (RRM) och 20 miljoner kronor i stöd till sju projekt för metodstöd, kapacitetsuppbyggnad och samordning.
Den aktuella budgeten för NRC:s hela humanitära program 2021 uppgår till 4 263 200 000 NOK, varav Sidas del för närvarande utgör ca 8%. Sida ger NRC möjligheten att nyttja resurser flexibelt inom varje enskilt landprogram, (enligt så kallad Programme-Based Approach – PBA)
Humanitär-Utveckling-Fred Nexus
NRC bidrar i hög grad till arbetet för att sammankoppla humanitärt bistånd med freds- och utvecklingsinsatser. Organisationens strävan att effektivisera biståndet genom katalytiskt stöd till samordning och kapacitetsbyggande insatser bidrar till denna ansats. I samarbetet med andra organisationer möjliggör och bidrar NRC:s verksamhet och påverkansarbete till att stärka hållbara lösningar för flyktingar och människor som har blivit tvångsfördrivna och bidrar därmed till att på sikt minska de humanitära behoven. Även krisdrabbade människors möjligheter till självförsörjning prioriteras. NRC:s analyskapacitet är en styrka som bidrar till att programmeringen anpassas till en nexus-ansats och den analys som genomförs av NRC:s internationella center för övervakning av tvångsförflyttning (IDMC) är av stor vikt för dessa analyser. 19 av de 26 kriser i NRC:s portfölj som Sida finansierar avser länder där Sverige även bedriver utvecklingssamarbete vilket öppnar för möjligheter till synergier med humanitärt bistånd.
2022
NRC ska få totalt 455,5 miljoner kronor av Sidas humanitära finansiering, enligt följande fördelning:
- Sida kommer att stödja NRC:s humanitära program i 23 krissituationer som Sida har prioriterat genom sin behovsbaserade allokeringsmodell för 2022, med 288,5 miljoner kronor :Afghanistan, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia och
regionen (Ecuador, Panamà), Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jemen,
Jordanien, Kamerun, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria,
Palestina, Somalia, Sudan, Sydsudan, Syrien, Uganda, Venezuela.
- Flerårig finansiering för NRC :s humanitära program i Demokratiska
republiken Kongo, Mali och Nigeria inleds 2022 och Sida har för ändamålet att ta i anspråk 104 miljoner kronor från kommande års anslag från erhållen Bemyndiganderam förutsatt att Riksdagen anvisar tillräckliga medel.
- NRC:s akuta insatser vid plötsligt uppkomna kriser kommer att stödjas genom Sidas snabbinsatsmekanism (RRM) under 2022 med 50 miljoner kronor.
- NRC:s metod- och kapacitetsstärkande projekt för skydd, miljö och IDMC (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre) kommer under 2022 att få 13 miljoner kronor, varav 3 miljoner kronor från Sida/Globen för IDMC.
Sidas bidrag till NRC för 2022 kommer att täcka cirka 6,5 % av NRC:s totala finansiella behov för de stödda programmen och projekten. Det kommer att tillhandahålla humanitära tjänster till nästan 9 miljoner människor (53 % kvinnor) i Afghanistan, Kamerun, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia och regionen, Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jordanien, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria, Palestina, Somalia, Sydsudan, Sudan, Syrien, Uganda, Venezuela och Jemen.
HUM lägger till 50 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Ukraina som gynnar 90,000 människor med skydd, tak över huvudet, WaSH samt kontantbistånd. Beslut 5 April. Avtalförändring nr 5.
HUM lägger till 7,5 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Kamerun från halvsårsanslaget 2022 (livsmedelsförsörjning, juridik rådgivning för 600 husshållen/4200 individer i Logone-et-Chari, Mayo Sava och Mayo Tsanaga). Beslut 9 juni 2022. Avtalförändring nr 6.
HUM lägger till 10 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Sydsudan från slutsåranslaget. Beslut 16 november 2022, 2022-002341. Avtalförändring nr 7.
2023
NRC får totalt 659.5 miljoner kronor (2023-2025) av Sidas humanitära finansiering för att genomföra:
- humanitära insatser i 23
krisområden under 2023: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Centralafrikanska
republiken, Colombia, Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jemen,
Jordanien, Kamerun, Kenya, Libanon, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Palestina, Sudan,
Sydsudan, Syrien, Uganda, Ukraina och Venezuela.
NRC har dessutom ansökt om 244
miljoner kronor för att kunna fortsätta sina humanitära program i Jemen, Kamerun,
Sydsudan, Syria och Venezuela under 2024 och 2025.
- ansökan inkluderar även 50
miljoner kronor till den humanitära snabbinsatsmekanismen (RRM)
- och 40 miljoner kronor i stöd till fyra fleråriga projekt för metodstöd och kapacitetsuppbyggnad: Miljö, Skydd, Tillträde, IDMC (18,5 under 2023, 21,5 under 2024-2025). NRC has applied as well to Sida for funding of 364.5 million SEK to carry out “the Humanitarian Programme for 2021” in 26 humanitarian crisis settings: Afghanistan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Palestine, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania/Burundi, Uganda, Venezuela, Yemen. The application includes provision of 40 million SEK to replenish the Rapid Response Mechanism funding instrument and 7 individual projects for method, capacity-building and coordination.
The intervention’s tentative total budget is 4 263 200 000 Norwegian krona (NOK), that the organisation is financing with Sida’s funding in a proportion of 8% approximately. Other donors, like the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DG ECHO, UNHCR, etc. are the largest contributors, besides a dozen of other donors in agreement with NRC. Sida provides NRC with the opportunity to allocate resources flexibly within individual country programmes (Programme-Based Approach – PBA).
NRC's catalytic support for coordination and capacity building contributes greatly to the link between humanitarian aid, development and peace. NRC's advocacy work and activities enable, at least contribute to, sustainable solutions for refugees and displaced people in a significant way in cooperation with other actors. In the long run, the NRC will reduce humanitarian needs. The NRC prioritizes self-sufficiency in its programs. The NRC's analysis capability, not least through its Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC), is an advantage for relevant programming according to the nexus orientations. Among the 26 crises in NRC's portfolio that Sida prioritizes, there are 15 where Sida implements Sweden's development strategies in synergy with humanitarian aid.
Sida’s contribution to NRC for 2022 will cover around 6.5% of NRC’s total financial requirements of the supported programmes and projects. It will provides humanitarian services to almost 9 million persons (53% female). HUM adds 50 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in Ukraine benefiting 90,000 people with protection, shelter, WaSH and cash assistance. Decision 5 April. Amendment nr. 5.
HUM adds 7.5 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in Cameroon from the 2022 mid-year allocation (food security, legal advice for 600 households/4200 individuals in Logone-et-Chari, Mayo Sava and Mayo Tsanaga). Decision 9 June 2022. Contract amendment No 6.
HUM adds 10 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in South Sudan from the end-of-the-year allocation. Decision 16 November 2022 nr 2022-002341. Contract amendment No 7.
NRC targets 7.7 million unique beneficiaries in total within Sida-funded humanitarian programmes in 2023, (52% female), who will receive protection and humanitarian services from NRC: Education, WASH, Shelter and settlement, Food security and livelihoods, including multi-purpose cash assistance, Protection, Legal assistance, Humanitarian mediation (community-based peace-building). Advocacy and support to humanitarian coordination and durable solution to displacements working groups in the field are part of NRC's engagement that Sida is funding. NRC's annual budget 2023 in the settings and thematics prioritized by Sida amounts to 5620 million Norwegian crowns in total. Sida's share weighs so far 8% of it: NRC's third largest donor whose cumulated 2021-2025 grant is 80% softly earmarked (programme-based approach) and 34% multi-year.
Earlier granted multi-year funding for 2023 was disbursed in January (52 MSEK) in support to continued humanitarian operations in DR Congo, Mali and Nigeria with strong emphasis on emergency response. Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is Norway's largest international humanitarian organisation and widely recognized as a leading field-based displacement agency within the international humanitarian community. NRC is the INGO receiving the largest contribution from Sida's Humanitarian Unit to INGOs so far, based on experience of successful partnerships, NRC's capacities to respond at scale and its coverage of crises that Sida is prioritizing through the needs-based allocation approach. NRC receives approximately 8% of Sida's humanitarian unit's annual budget appropriation.
The objectives of NRC can be summarized as follows: "To protect the rights of displaced and vulnerable people during crisis, to provide assistance meeting their immediate humanitarian needs, to prevent further displacement and to contribute to durable solutions, and to provide expertise as a strategic partner to humanitarian systems and actors." NRCs main activity is delivery of humanitarian assistance through programme activities in the field. NRC specializes in six areas of expertise, or "core competencies": shelter and settlements; livelihoods and food security; information, counselling and legal assistance (ICLA); education; camp management; and water, sanitation and hygiene promotion (WASH). Protection is lifted up as a new core competency of NRC since 2021. NRC engages closely with the affected populations to understand their needs and capacities, ensuring it tailors its assistance accordingly and involve them in the entire programme cycle, from design through implementation to evaluation. NRC advocates for respect for the rights of displaced and vulnerable people.
In 2021, the NRC Board approved the Global Strategy 20222025. The strategy
sets out four sub-objectives for areas that NRC will continue to strengthen and further institutionalize, namely, 1. assistance to hard-to-reach populations, 2. humanitarian policy, 3. protection, and 4. durable solutions. It also points to four areas of work that will be accelerated through expanded engagement and investments: i) advocacy, ii) climate and environment, iii) collaboration with local actors, and iv) quality programming.
NRCs work is divided into three pillars: humanitarian assistance, advocacy and expert deployment. Sida's Humanitarian Unit funding will continue prioritizing mainly the first pillar through funding of the humanitarian country programmes in line with HRPs and the RRPs and through the RRM funding. To some extent, Sida will support as well the second pillar of advocacy which is integrated in the humanitarian country programmes and implemented by NRC's method, thematic and capacity development projects supported by Sida. Sida will provide NRC with only a punctual support to the third pillar, through funding to CashCap which is deploying experts to the field for invigorating cash assistance working groups (17 in 2020 to 16 countries).
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has applied for a renewed strategic partnership with Sida during 2021-2025.
The interventions tentative total budget is 4 263 200 000 Norwegian krona (NOK), that the organisation is financing with Sidas funding in a proportion of 8% approximately. Other donors, like the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DG ECHO, UNHCR, etc. are the largest contributors, besides a dozen of other donors in agreement with NRC. Sida provides NRC with the opportunity to allocate resources flexibly within individual country programmes (Programme-Based Approach PBA).
NRC was granted funding to carry out the Humanitarian Programme for 2022 in 24 humanitarian crisis settings: Afghanistan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Irak, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria, Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Ukraina, Venezuela and Yemen. The grant includes provision of funding replenish the Rapid Response Mechanism funding instrument and four individual projects for method, capacity-building and coordination.
Sida's assessment on performance and results
Alike many other actors in the sector, NRC excels in reporting activities and outputs, but should be better in catching what changes and impacts its interventions have resulted to ultimately on assisted communities. The reporting of data and results does not provide necessarily an accurate and consolidated overview of what NRC has achieved. Sida has notified NRC that it should provide dis-aggregated data by age in targeting and reporting which is a norm.
It is assumed that NRC will achieve its objectives in 2023 again, but the global stress on the current resource mobilisation system supporting humanitarian action may affect NRC as well, similarly to large humanitarian actors such as the ICRC. | Significant |
EU 4 Local Communities improving conditions for vulnerable groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina The Action aims to improve the awareness and visibility of EU by implementing small/medium size infrastructure related interventions in local communities in BiH linked to EU projects and/or EU policies. It foresees adaptation and/or (re)construction of local communities facilities and/or public areas and/or provide with needed equipment and/or supplies to be conducive for more comfortable learning/community environment for schooling children, youth, senior citizens, vulnerable groups.etc. | Significant |
Contribution to the programme OAS-AICMA "Assistance to landmine survivors and their socio-economic reintegration in Colombia" Contributo al programma OSA-AICMA "Assistenza per i sopravvissuti ad incidenti con mine antiuomo in Colombia e loro reinserimento socio-produttivo" The project aims to identify victims of mines and other explosive devices in order to allow their physical and psychological rehabilitation, improve training processes and educational opportunities, implement micro-projects to strengthen socio-economic reintegration processes in their communities and families. L'iniziativa propone di identificare le vittime delle mine e di altri ordigni esplosivi al fine di facilitare l'assistenza integrale per favorire la loro riabilitazione fisica e psicologica, migliorare i processi di formazione e le opportunità educative, attuare microprogetti destinati a rafforzare i processi di reinserimento socioeconomico nelle loro comunità e nelle loro famiglie. L'iniziativa propone di identificare le vittime delle mine e di altri ordigni esplosivi al fine di facilitare l'assistenza integrale per favorire la loro riabilitazione fisica e psicologica, migliorare i processi di formazione e le opportunità educative, attuare microprogetti destinati a rafforzare i processi di reinserimento socioeconomico nelle loro comunità e nelle loro famiglie. L'iniziativa propone di identificare le vittime delle mine e di altri ordigni esplosivi al fine di facilitare l'assistenza integrale per favorire la loro riabilitazione fisica e psicologica, migliorare i processi di formazione e le opportunità educative, attuare microprogetti destinati a rafforzare i processi di reinserimento socioeconomico nelle loro comunità e nelle loro famiglie. | Significant |
CONTRIBUTO VOLONTARIO 2023 CICR/ICRC - progetti CONTRIBUTO VOLONTARIO 2023 CICR/ICRC - progetti Voluntary contribution to the activities that ICRC implements in order to protect and assist vulnerable people involved in armed conflicts and other situations of violence, to promote the respect for international humanitarian law, and to restore family links Contributo volontario alle attività che il CICR attua al fine di proteggere e assistere le persone vulnerabili coinvolte in conflitti armati e altre situazioni di violenza, promuovere il rispetto del diritto internazionale umanitario e ripristinare i legami familiari. | Significant |
Mali 2024 - IRC HUM 2021-2025 RRM International Rescue Committee, IRC, is a non-profit international organisation, working with humanitarian and development work in more than 40 countries world-wide. As per IRC’s mission statement, their goal is “to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster, including by the climate crisis, to survive, recover and gain control of their future” in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Their focus is on activities with the sectors of health, safety/protection, education, livelihoods and ensuring people have the power to influence decisions that affect their lives. Their main target group is people who flee from war, conflict and disaster, and the host communities that support them.
Currently, IRC is mainly a self-implementing organisation who conduct the bulk of their work through their 17 000 global staff members. However, IRC is striving to increase their cooperation with local partners (authorities, organisation, community groups) to reach a goal of sub-granting 25 % of their means through third party, and will continue to work towards achieving this target during 2024 and 2025.
In 2024, the IRC will receive humanitarian programme-based support in 17 countries, as well as funding for the IRC's Rapid Response Mechanism, whose function is to rapidly channel funds to emerging or worsening crises. In addition to the ongoing methodology and capacity projects, the IRC is starting two new 2-year projects this year, focusing on protection for one, and localisation for the other. International Rescue Committee (IRC) är en enskild internationell organisation, aktiv i humanitär respons och resiliens i mer än 40 länder globalt. Deras huvudsakliga syfte är att bistå människor vars liv och försörjningsmöjligheter slagits i spillror till följd av konflikter, naturkatastrofer och klimatförändringar genom att erbjuda överlevnadsstöd och aktiviteter för återhämtning. Fokus ligger på aktiviteter inom hälsa, skydd, utbildning, försörjningsmöjligheter samt människors stärkta egenmakt och beslutsförmåga. Huvudsaklig målgrupp är människor som flyr från krig och katastrofer, samt de värdsamhällen som bistår dem.
I dagsläget är IRC huvudsakligen självimplementerande och utför sitt arbete med hjälp av sina 17 000 medarbetare världen över. IRC har däremot ett mål om att utöka sitt samarbete med lokala partners (myndigheter, organisationer, organiserade samhällsgrupper) för att på sikt kanalisera 25 % av finansiella medel genom tredje part, och kommer under 2024 och 2025 att försätta arbeta för att detta ska bli verklighet.
År 2024 får IRC humanitärt programbaserat stöd i 17 länder, samt medel till IRCs snabbfinansieringsmekanism ”Rapid Response Mechanism” vars funktion är att snabbt kunna kanalisera medel till hastigt uppkomna eller kraftigt förvärrade kriser. Utöver de pågående metod och kapacitet projekt börjar IRC två nya 2-åriga projekt i år, med fokus på skydd för den ena, och lokalisering för den andra. IRC respond to the worlds worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic well being and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Their mission is to help people whose lives and livelihoods have been shattered by conflict and disaster, including the climate crisis, to survive, recover and gain control of their future.
IRC consider their interventions successful when their clients see improvement in their safety from physical, sexual and psychological harm; in their health status, including physical and mental well-being; in education, including literacy and numeracy, social-emotional, and life skills (including safe schools); in economic well-being, including ability to provide basic material needs and income asset growth; and in power to have influence over the decisions that affect their lives. IRC strive to reach these goals while continuously trying to tackle gender inequalities in and through all of their work.
As Sida supports IRC in a variety of countries, not one specific objective can be identified for the whole contribution, but for the sake of exemplifying, a number of country specific goals are outlined below:
Ukraine: People are safe in their homes and receive support when they experience harm, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of gender-based violence, adolescents and adults are physically and mentally healthy, people meet their basic needs and protect livelihoods during emergencies, people develop their livelihoods and recover from shocks.
Myanmar: People are safe in their communities and receive support when they experience harm, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of
gender-based violence, women and girls achieve their sexual and reproductive health and rights, adolescents and adults are physically and mentally healthy, people access water, sanitation and hygiene services and live in an enhanced environment, people meet their basic needs and protect livelihoods during emergencies, people lead their recovery and development.
Central African Republic: People are safe in their communities and receive support when they experience harm, children survive and are healthy, women and girls achieve their sexual and reproductive health and rights, women and girls are protected from and treated for the consequences of gender-based violence, people develop their livelihoods and recover from shocks, people lead their own recovery and development.
Across the country programmes relevant for Sida funding in 2024, IRC will engage i formal and informal partnerships with local and national actors. The cash modality will be explored in all contexts. | Significant |
Provide Physical and mental rehabilitation services for the conflict affected population from Ninewa Accesso ai servizi di riabilitazione fisica e mentale a favore della popolazione del governatorato di Ninive vittima del conflitto The present project focuses on patient victims of the conflict in Ninewa governorate in need of physical and mental rehabilitation. The overall objective is to improve access and quality of mental and physical rehabilitation services for victims of the war in Iraq. The intervention will consist in two main components: a) physical rehabilitation activities will strengthen the referral system for amputees between Mosul and Sulemania Rehabilitation centres and at the same time increase technical capacity of health personnel through trainings and coordination between major rehabilitation centres in north Iraq; b) mental health and psychological support activities will focus on outreach services and increasing technical capacity of Dohuk directorate of Health to monitor, promote and coordinate MHPS services from primary health centres to secondary and tertiary structures. <br>The overall strategy of the project is to integrate a short-term humanitarian assistance in a longer term approach, aiming to meet the urgent need of durable solutions for victims of the conflict and supporting resilience and institutional capacity development.<br> Obiettivo specifico dell’iniziativa è il miglioramento dell’accessibilità e della qualità dei servizi di riabilitazione mentale e fisica per la popolazione del governatorato di Ninive vittima del conflitto con Daesh. | Principal |
Provision of critical treatment and lifesaving healthcare to the most vulnerable people in Yemen through the delivery of the Minimum Service Package Prestazione di terapie intensive e cure salva vita alla popolazione più vulnerabile dello Yemen The operation will reduce morbidity and mortality by improving access to integrated primary health care services, providing timely emergency care. WHO will equip health facilities with appropriate infrastructure, equipment, drugs and supplies, with trained staff skilled to provide critical services in order to operate safely and effectively during all working hours L’iniziativa OMS “Provision of critical treatment and lifesaving healthcare to the most vulnerable people in Yemen through the delivery of the Minimum Service Package(MSP)”, ha lo scopo di rispondere ai bisogni delle comunità identificate come le più vulnerabili migliorando l’accesso ai servizi sanitari essenziali e rafforzando la risposta all’epidemia di colera nei governatorati colpiti. | Significant |
Method/Capacity/Other Support 2024 - NRC Method and Capacity-building projects 2023-2025 Norwegian Refugee Council - Norska flyktingrådet (NRC) - har ansökt om ett förnyat partnerskap med Sida 2021-2025.
2021
NRC har dessutom ansökt om finansiering på 364,5 miljoner SEK för att genomföra humanitära insatser i 26 humanitära krisområden under 2021: Afghanistan, Kamerun, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Demokratiska Republiken Kongo, Eritrea, Etiopien, Iran, Irak, Jordanien, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexiko, Palestina, Somalia, Sydsudan, Sudan, Tanzania / Burundi, Uganda, Venezuela och Jemen. Ansökan inkluderar även 40 miljoner kronor för den humanitära snabbmekanismen (RRM) och 20 miljoner kronor i stöd till sju projekt för metodstöd, kapacitetsuppbyggnad och samordning.
Den aktuella budgeten för NRC:s hela humanitära program 2021 uppgår till 4 263 200 000 NOK, varav Sidas del för närvarande utgör ca 8%. Sida ger NRC möjligheten att nyttja resurser flexibelt inom varje enskilt landprogram, (enligt så kallad Programme-Based Approach – PBA)
Humanitär-Utveckling-Fred Nexus
NRC bidrar i hög grad till arbetet för att sammankoppla humanitärt bistånd med freds- och utvecklingsinsatser. Organisationens strävan att effektivisera biståndet genom katalytiskt stöd till samordning och kapacitetsbyggande insatser bidrar till denna ansats. I samarbetet med andra organisationer möjliggör och bidrar NRC:s verksamhet och påverkansarbete till att stärka hållbara lösningar för flyktingar och människor som har blivit tvångsfördrivna och bidrar därmed till att på sikt minska de humanitära behoven. Även krisdrabbade människors möjligheter till självförsörjning prioriteras. NRC:s analyskapacitet är en styrka som bidrar till att programmeringen anpassas till en nexus-ansats och den analys som genomförs av NRC:s internationella center för övervakning av tvångsförflyttning (IDMC) är av stor vikt för dessa analyser. 19 av de 26 kriser i NRC:s portfölj som Sida finansierar avser länder där Sverige även bedriver utvecklingssamarbete vilket öppnar för möjligheter till synergier med humanitärt bistånd.
2022
NRC ska få totalt 455,5 miljoner kronor av Sidas humanitära finansiering, enligt följande fördelning:
- Sida kommer att stödja NRC:s humanitära program i 23 krissituationer som Sida har prioriterat genom sin behovsbaserade allokeringsmodell för 2022, med 288,5 miljoner kronor :Afghanistan, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia och
regionen (Ecuador, Panamà), Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jemen,
Jordanien, Kamerun, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria,
Palestina, Somalia, Sudan, Sydsudan, Syrien, Uganda, Venezuela.
- Flerårig finansiering för NRC :s humanitära program i Demokratiska
republiken Kongo, Mali och Nigeria inleds 2022 och Sida har för ändamålet att ta i anspråk 104 miljoner kronor från kommande års anslag från erhållen Bemyndiganderam förutsatt att Riksdagen anvisar tillräckliga medel.
- NRC:s akuta insatser vid plötsligt uppkomna kriser kommer att stödjas genom Sidas snabbinsatsmekanism (RRM) under 2022 med 50 miljoner kronor.
- NRC:s metod- och kapacitetsstärkande projekt för skydd, miljö och IDMC (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre) kommer under 2022 att få 13 miljoner kronor, varav 3 miljoner kronor från Sida/Globen för IDMC.
Sidas bidrag till NRC för 2022 kommer att täcka cirka 6,5 % av NRC:s totala finansiella behov för de stödda programmen och projekten. Det kommer att tillhandahålla humanitära tjänster till nästan 9 miljoner människor (53 % kvinnor) i Afghanistan, Kamerun, Centralafrikanska republiken, Colombia och regionen, Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jordanien, Kenya, Libanon, Libyen, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria, Palestina, Somalia, Sydsudan, Sudan, Syrien, Uganda, Venezuela och Jemen.
HUM lägger till 50 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Ukraina som gynnar 90,000 människor med skydd, tak över huvudet, WaSH samt kontantbistånd. Beslut 5 April. Avtalförändring nr 5.
HUM lägger till 7,5 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Kamerun från halvsårsanslaget 2022 (livsmedelsförsörjning, juridik rådgivning för 600 husshållen/4200 individer i Logone-et-Chari, Mayo Sava och Mayo Tsanaga). Beslut 9 juni 2022. Avtalförändring nr 6.
HUM lägger till 10 MSEK för NRC:s landprogram 2022 i Sydsudan från slutsåranslaget. Beslut 16 november 2022, 2022-002341. Avtalförändring nr 7.
2023
NRC får totalt 659.5 miljoner kronor (2023-2025) av Sidas humanitära finansiering för att genomföra:
- humanitära insatser i 23
krisområden under 2023: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Centralafrikanska
republiken, Colombia, Demokratiska republiken Kongo, Etiopien, Irak, Jemen,
Jordanien, Kamerun, Kenya, Libanon, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Palestina, Sudan,
Sydsudan, Syrien, Uganda, Ukraina och Venezuela.
NRC har dessutom ansökt om 244
miljoner kronor för att kunna fortsätta sina humanitära program i Jemen, Kamerun,
Sydsudan, Syria och Venezuela under 2024 och 2025.
- ansökan inkluderar även 50
miljoner kronor till den humanitära snabbinsatsmekanismen (RRM)
- och 40 miljoner kronor i stöd till fyra fleråriga projekt för metodstöd och kapacitetsuppbyggnad: Miljö, Skydd, Tillträde, IDMC (18,5 under 2023, 21,5 under 2024-2025). NRC has applied as well to Sida for funding of 364.5 million SEK to carry out “the Humanitarian Programme for 2021” in 26 humanitarian crisis settings: Afghanistan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Palestine, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania/Burundi, Uganda, Venezuela, Yemen. The application includes provision of 40 million SEK to replenish the Rapid Response Mechanism funding instrument and 7 individual projects for method, capacity-building and coordination.
The intervention’s tentative total budget is 4 263 200 000 Norwegian krona (NOK), that the organisation is financing with Sida’s funding in a proportion of 8% approximately. Other donors, like the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DG ECHO, UNHCR, etc. are the largest contributors, besides a dozen of other donors in agreement with NRC. Sida provides NRC with the opportunity to allocate resources flexibly within individual country programmes (Programme-Based Approach – PBA).
NRC's catalytic support for coordination and capacity building contributes greatly to the link between humanitarian aid, development and peace. NRC's advocacy work and activities enable, at least contribute to, sustainable solutions for refugees and displaced people in a significant way in cooperation with other actors. In the long run, the NRC will reduce humanitarian needs. The NRC prioritizes self-sufficiency in its programs. The NRC's analysis capability, not least through its Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC), is an advantage for relevant programming according to the nexus orientations. Among the 26 crises in NRC's portfolio that Sida prioritizes, there are 15 where Sida implements Sweden's development strategies in synergy with humanitarian aid.
Sida’s contribution to NRC for 2022 will cover around 6.5% of NRC’s total financial requirements of the supported programmes and projects. It will provides humanitarian services to almost 9 million persons (53% female). HUM adds 50 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in Ukraine benefiting 90,000 people with protection, shelter, WaSH and cash assistance. Decision 5 April. Amendment nr. 5.
HUM adds 7.5 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in Cameroon from the 2022 mid-year allocation (food security, legal advice for 600 households/4200 individuals in Logone-et-Chari, Mayo Sava and Mayo Tsanaga). Decision 9 June 2022. Contract amendment No 6.
HUM adds 10 MSEK for NRC's 2022 country programme in South Sudan from the end-of-the-year allocation. Decision 16 November 2022 nr 2022-002341. Contract amendment No 7.
NRC targets 7.7 million unique beneficiaries in total within Sida-funded humanitarian programmes in 2023, (52% female), who will receive protection and humanitarian services from NRC: Education, WASH, Shelter and settlement, Food security and livelihoods, including multi-purpose cash assistance, Protection, Legal assistance, Humanitarian mediation (community-based peace-building). Advocacy and support to humanitarian coordination and durable solution to displacements working groups in the field are part of NRC's engagement that Sida is funding. NRC's annual budget 2023 in the settings and thematics prioritized by Sida amounts to 5620 million Norwegian crowns in total. Sida's share weighs so far 8% of it: NRC's third largest donor whose cumulated 2021-2025 grant is 80% softly earmarked (programme-based approach) and 34% multi-year.
Earlier granted multi-year funding for 2023 was disbursed in January (52 MSEK) in support to continued humanitarian operations in DR Congo, Mali and Nigeria with strong emphasis on emergency response. Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is Norway's largest international humanitarian organisation and widely recognized as a leading field-based displacement agency within the international humanitarian community. NRC is the INGO receiving the largest contribution from Sida's Humanitarian Unit to INGOs so far, based on experience of successful partnerships, NRC's capacities to respond at scale and its coverage of crises that Sida is prioritizing through the needs-based allocation approach. NRC receives approximately 8% of Sida's humanitarian unit's annual budget appropriation.
The objectives of NRC can be summarized as follows: "To protect the rights of displaced and vulnerable people during crisis, to provide assistance meeting their immediate humanitarian needs, to prevent further displacement and to contribute to durable solutions, and to provide expertise as a strategic partner to humanitarian systems and actors." NRCs main activity is delivery of humanitarian assistance through programme activities in the field. NRC specializes in six areas of expertise, or "core competencies": shelter and settlements; livelihoods and food security; information, counselling and legal assistance (ICLA); education; camp management; and water, sanitation and hygiene promotion (WASH). Protection is lifted up as a new core competency of NRC since 2021. NRC engages closely with the affected populations to understand their needs and capacities, ensuring it tailors its assistance accordingly and involve them in the entire programme cycle, from design through implementation to evaluation. NRC advocates for respect for the rights of displaced and vulnerable people.
In 2021, the NRC Board approved the Global Strategy 20222025. The strategy
sets out four sub-objectives for areas that NRC will continue to strengthen and further institutionalize, namely, 1. assistance to hard-to-reach populations, 2. humanitarian policy, 3. protection, and 4. durable solutions. It also points to four areas of work that will be accelerated through expanded engagement and investments: i) advocacy, ii) climate and environment, iii) collaboration with local actors, and iv) quality programming.
NRCs work is divided into three pillars: humanitarian assistance, advocacy and expert deployment. Sida's Humanitarian Unit funding will continue prioritizing mainly the first pillar through funding of the humanitarian country programmes in line with HRPs and the RRPs and through the RRM funding. To some extent, Sida will support as well the second pillar of advocacy which is integrated in the humanitarian country programmes and implemented by NRC's method, thematic and capacity development projects supported by Sida. Sida will provide NRC with only a punctual support to the third pillar, through funding to CashCap which is deploying experts to the field for invigorating cash assistance working groups (17 in 2020 to 16 countries).
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has applied for a renewed strategic partnership with Sida during 2021-2025.
The interventions tentative total budget is 4 263 200 000 Norwegian krona (NOK), that the organisation is financing with Sidas funding in a proportion of 8% approximately. Other donors, like the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DG ECHO, UNHCR, etc. are the largest contributors, besides a dozen of other donors in agreement with NRC. Sida provides NRC with the opportunity to allocate resources flexibly within individual country programmes (Programme-Based Approach PBA).
NRC was granted funding to carry out the Humanitarian Programme for 2022 in 24 humanitarian crisis settings: Afghanistan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Irak, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Moçambique, Niger, Nigeria, Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Ukraina, Venezuela and Yemen. The grant includes provision of funding replenish the Rapid Response Mechanism funding instrument and four individual projects for method, capacity-building and coordination.
Sida's assessment on performance and results
Alike many other actors in the sector, NRC excels in reporting activities and outputs, but should be better in catching what changes and impacts its interventions have resulted to ultimately on assisted communities. The reporting of data and results does not provide necessarily an accurate and consolidated overview of what NRC has achieved. Sida has notified NRC that it should provide dis-aggregated data by age in targeting and reporting which is a norm.
It is assumed that NRC will achieve its objectives in 2023 again, but the global stress on the current resource mobilisation system supporting humanitarian action may affect NRC as well, similarly to large humanitarian actors such as the ICRC. | Significant |
Gaza - World Health Organization Interagency Flash Appeal - 2023 Gaza - Appel éclair interinstitutions de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé - 2023 October 2023 - the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) issued a three-month interagency Flash Appeal for USD 294 million to address the most urgent needs of affected populations in West Bank and Gaza, and neighboring countries, including Egypt and Lebanon, including food, shelter, emergency health assistance, water sanitation and hygiene, protection services and other life-saving humanitarian assistance. With GAC’s support, the World Health Organization (WHO) will respond to immediate health needs in West Bank and Gaza, and neighboring countries, including Egypt and Lebanon. This project is expected to help meet the health and nutrition needs of up to 600,000 people. Project activities include: (1) treating the wounded, trauma-affected and others in need of heath care, prioritizing emergency medical services people with disabilities, older persons, children and other vulnerable groups; (2) providing life-saving sexual and reproductive health services, including prenatal care; and (3) coordinating the health cluster response to emergency health needs. Octobre 2023 - Le Bureau de la coordination des affaires humanitaires (OCHA) a lancé un appel éclair interinstitutions de trois mois pour un montant de 294 millions USD afin de répondre aux besoins les plus urgents des populations touchées en Cisjordanie et à Gaza, ainsi que dans les pays voisins, notamment l'Égypte et le Liban, notamment en matière de nourriture, d'abris, d'aide sanitaire d'urgence, d'eau, d'assainissement et d'hygiène, de services de protection et d'autres formes d'aide humanitaire vitale. Avec le soutien du GAC, l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) répondra aux besoins immédiats en matière de santé en Cisjordanie et à Gaza, ainsi que dans les pays voisins, notamment l'Égypte et le Liban. Ce projet devrait permettre de répondre aux besoins sanitaires et nutritionnels de 600 000 personnes. Les activités du projet comprennent : 1) le traitement des blessés, des personnes ayant subi un traumatisme et des autres personnes ayant besoin de soins de santé, en accordant la priorité aux services médicaux d'urgence, aux personnes handicapées, aux personnes âgées, aux enfants et aux autres groupes vulnérables; 2) la fourniture de services de santé sexuelle et génésique vitaux, y compris les soins prénataux; 3) la coordination de la réponse du groupe de santé aux besoins sanitaires d'urgence. | Significant |