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ACT Rapid Response
Fund Payment Notification
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With
this notification of the payment of Rapid Response Funds, the
ACT Coordinating Office requests contributions from donors to
replenish the Rapid Response Fund. This will enable a response
to future requests for these funds.
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Details of Payment
Emergency: Arson fires in Salamabila in South-eastern Maniema Province, in Eastern DRC
Date of emergency: 19 September 2006
Implementing partner: DanChurchAid and ECC/MERU
Details of the emergency: A number of large bushfires have, during the last month, destroyed 1,500 houses in 8 villages in and around Salamabila in south-eastern Maniema Province in the Eastern DR Congo. It is estimated that more than 10,000 people have lost their homes and belongings in the blazes and are now forced to sleep in the open and in churches and schools that survived the fires. As the area is located in an extremely isolated jungle, the population has not received any help and has thus been forced to survive with the few things they managed to salvage during the blazes. There is an acute shortage of shelter, blankets, cooking equipment (pots and pans), clothes, tools for farming and reconstruction, and food in general, with a risk of widespread acute malnutrition among children if assistance is not immediately provided. The situation is made more acute by the oncoming rainy season.
The population in the area is extremely vulnerable due to the war that has killed an estimated 4 million people in the eastern DRC. As the infrastructure has collapsed totally, all non-food items available to the villages are extremely expensive as they have to be transported by bicycles for weeks and months through the bush. The fires, therefore, constitute a serious disaster for the population which has not yet recovered from the impact of the wars. All the neighbouring communities are so impoverished for the same reasons that help on a local level is impossible. Salamabila is located on 27۫ 5’ E, 4۫ 0’ S in south-eastern Maniema in eastern DR Congo.
Purpose of response: The purpose of the response is to give the affected population shelter, equipment to cook, equipment to continue farming and start building new shelter, and finally to deliver food to prevent acute malnutrition until the harvest season starts.
Proposed assistance: DCA and ECC/MERU were doing a mine survey on the road from north Katanga to Salamabila as they came upon this disaster. The survey team is assessing the situation.
The church members of ECC are strong and well-organized, and in cooperation with the tribal and civil authorities, DCA and ECC/MERU has assessed that the most vulnerable part of the affected population can, in participation with the community and key local stakeholders, be identified and appropriately targeted based on agreed criteria to receive non-food items and food assistance. As we will try to prevent malnutrition, food items will have first priority, followed closely by shelter construction. Lastly, next season’s harvest has to be secured with the distribution of agricultural equipment.
Implementation period: The implementation period will be no more than 2 months after receiving necessary equipment.
A small appeal proposal might be prepared, depending on the amount of support from the quick response pool in DRC (OCHA).
BUDGET
| Description | Type of unit | No of Units | Unit Cost US$ | Budget US$ |
| Transport of in kind donations | Lump | 1 | 20,000 | 20,000 |
| Communication | Lump | 1 | 2,000 | 2,000 |
| Salary/labor | Lump | 1 | 7,500 | 7,500 |
| Administration | Lump | 1 | 2,500 | 2,500 |
| Supplement to in kind donations | Lump | 1 | 18,000 | 18,000 |
| Total | 50,000 | |||
ACTION
The ACT Co-ordinating Office has approved the use of US$50,000 towards the budget from its Rapid Response Fund and would be grateful to receive contributions to wholly or partially replenish this payment.
ACT
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