Inside Haiti Red Cross EQ operation? Martha Wirtenberger December 2011
General complex conditions in Haiti More than 280.000 persons died in the earthquake of January 12th 2010 Political instability and low national capacity to coordinate EQ assistance/recovery 2/3 of the population lives with less than 2 USD/day, one fourth in slums of the densely populated, and highly damaged capital Port-au-Prince (PaP) Biggest source of income are private money remittances from abroad, qualified manpower is scarce due to brain drain to wealthier countries Internationale Katastrophenhilfe 2
General complex conditions in Haiti International Community pledged 8,75 bn. USD for the recovery 1,8 bn. USD allocated to date via the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission Newly elected President Michel Martelly has been trying since months to form a functional government, Haitian state institutions are weak, the security situation remains challenging Main strategic direction is to faciliate people (appr. 630.000) to move from camps back to safe communities in an integrated neighbourhood approach Prolonged emergency phase parallel to recovery Heavy rains and hurrican season from July to November, Cholera to date 3
RC/RC Movement in Haiti Biggest assistance operation in the history of the RC/RC Movement supporting one single country 3 operational pillars: EQ Operation, Disaster Risk Reduction, Capacity Building RC total budget for Haiti CHF 1,142 bn. (= EUR 1,01 bn.) 40% spent for relief and recovery activities (shelter, watsan, health, livelihood, DRR), and more than 1.700 RC delegates deployed to Haiti to date Federation wide strategy: From camps to communities - aligned with the Haitian government, and the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission Vision: Strengtheing the resilience of the communities 4
AutRC Assistance for Haiti Disaster Relief operation Deployement of the ERU Mass Sanitation Module (MSM 20) Relief goods to IFRC/ICRC through AutRC E&S Restoring family links (AutRC personnel seconded to ICRC) Deployment of bilateral delegates to IFRC and GRC field hospital Recovery Rehabilitation of selected earthquake affected villages 3 year recovery programme with the GRC AutRC programme Location: Leogane, west of PaP 5
AutRC Assistance for Haiti - Partners The AutRC works as part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and coordinates with the UN cluster in Haiti. Principal AutRC supporters: the Austrian Government, Neighbour in Need, ECHO, the Austrian Youth RC, the provincial governments and provincial RC organisations in Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Vorarlberg, Vienna; the Croatian RC, Hungarian RC, Raiffeisen Zentralbank, Swarovski, private donors and companies. AutRC Haiti Reports: www.roteskreuz.at/entwicklungszusammenarbeit/haiti/ 6
AutRC Assistance for Haiti - Figures Disaster Relief: ERU Mass Sanitation (MSM 20): 1.032.000 AutRC relief goods/financial support via IFRC, ICRC 1.230.000 Deployment of personnel 175.000 Total Disaster Relief 2.437.000 Recovery AutRC share recovery 6.200.000 Total AutRC 8.637.000 7
AutRC Assistance for Haiti personnel Deployment of 56 AutRC delegates to date - 6 ERU team rotations with 28 delegates (regional branches Vorarlberg, Tyrol, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Vienna, and Styria; Cameroon, Canada and Croatia) - Secondment to the IFRC/ICRC: 1 - Secondment to the GRC field hospital: 3 - Other bilateral AutRC personnel deplyoment: 9 - Recovery Programme: 3 WatSan positions, 1 Finance position during 3 years 8
ERU Mass Sanitation Module 20 Mission: Prevention of diseases - Construction of latrines - Waste management - Hygiene trainings Usual capacity for 20.000 persons - ERU provision for 50.000 persons in Haiti July 2010: Phase-Out + handover of the ERU activities to IFRC (+ WatSan Delegate) Prolonged emergency phase: rainy- and hurrican season, Cholera 9
Haiti Recovery - experts and endurance The Austrian Red Cross supports 3.000 families in a rehabilitation programme: - Provision of 3.000 shelters (finalised first quarter 2012) - Water- and sanitation activities, hygiene promotion/cholera prevention (AutRC lead) - Reconstruction of social and communal infrastructure (schools, community centers) - Strengthening the coping mechanisms of the population (capacity building, First Aid, DRR) - Livelihood - integrated in shelter/watsan activities/teams (medium-) + VCA/KAP (long term) Abteilung 10
Haiti Recovery experts and endurance Kindergarten, school and faculty building reconstructed and handed over Ongoing large scale material procurement with installments to finalise 400 progressive shelters/month from August 2011 onwards + large scale latrine implementation Further construction of communal infrastructure (schools, health posts) ongoing GRC-AutRC delegation Leogane in place with 9 delegates (3 AutRC WatSan- and 1 AutRC Finance Delegate; 1 AutRC WatSan Delegate seconded to the Federation) Abteilung 11
Recovery programme - timetable 2011-2012: Implementation of all programme components with the involvement of the communities: - Progressive shelter, communal infrastructure - Construction of latrines, hygiene promotion, rehabilitation of wells/washing platforms/water systems - Disaster risk reduction and capacity building 2013: Handover of all activities and transition to longterm development work (Haitian Red Cross and German Red Cross) Abteilung 12
with the power of humanity The Red Cross in Haiti 13