Balance Requested from ACT Alliance: US$ 18,608,172

The revision of the Norwegian Church Aid/Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus ( NCA/EECMY) part of this appeal should have been done in September this year but the delay has been due to lack of income figures which were required to finalise the revision and provide a clear picture of what has been raised so far for the food part of the appeal. Although not all the information has now been obtained, the revision is being issued as NCA is not requesting additional funding for the proposal as they have already fully funded the programs in the original appeal and further sought funds for their expanded programs especially that of food purchases for their targeted beneficiaries. Therefore, their new budget target figure of US$3.27 million has already been fully covered with funding from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the revision is basically to inform the alliance of this development. The revised proposal includes:

• direct relief food assistance, shelter & household materials and medicines for 30,000 people in Konso Special Woreda for five months (August-December 2003);
• Assistance to 200 severely malnourished children & mothers in Konso Mekane Yesue Clinic or Therapeutic Feeding Center (TFC) for five months (August to December);
• Operational costs will be covered for CRS/USAID donated relief food distribution for five months (August-December 2003) to about 80,000 people in Amaro, Dale and Alata Wondo Woredas in SNNPR;
• Rub Halls maintenance in Amaro and Konso Special Woredas.

The second part of this revision is that of Christian Aid (CAID) and Ethiopia Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY) to address additional needs of forcibly displaced people in Meda Wolabu in Oromiya Regional State. The Oromiya Regional Government decided to move the displaced people living in Manna Angetu and Shawe camps to Meda Wolabu in March-April 2003. The living conditions in Meda Wolabu were extremely harsh lacking basic services for the people. The NGOs and the IDPs tried to protest but the Oromiya Regional Government moved the people anyway. Later the government realised they could not assist the IDPs in this new area and therefore, requested EECMY, CAID and NCA to help. EECMY and CAID agreed to assist the IDPs with rehabilitation packages such as seed, oxen and farm tools where these were appropriate and to support asset building (heifer, goats and poultry) and distribution of beehives.

The second part of CAID project in this revision is to provide emergency seed and other planting materials to communities in Damot Gale and Boreda woredas in Wolayta and Gofa zones of the Southern Nation, Nationalities People Regional State affected by drought for the last two seasons. The project is being implemented by Action for Development, a Christian Aid partner working in the area. The appeal will run to 29 February 2004.

Project Completion Date:

31 December 2003

NCA/EECMY - 31 March, 2004

CA/EECMY - 28 February 2004

* Please note that the contributions included in the ACT Food Items correspond to those received by LWF and EOC/DICAC. The ACT CO has received no information about the contributions received by the other ACT members in the appeal.

Signed by:
Thor-Arne Prois, ACT Director

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