In this issue Introducing the new Humanitarian Director
Asia: Typhoon Haiyan
East Africa
Latina America
The first Emergency Foundation Course in the Middle East
Humanitarian Affairs Unit
Humanitarian Quality Framework
Education Cluster
New team members
Save the Date
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Our first Category One Response in Asia:Typhoon Haiyan
Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Philippines on Friday 8th November 2013 with devastating effect. Over 6,000 people have lost their lives and over 14 million have been affected. Save the Children’s response was categorised as category 1 and has been rapid and at scale. This represents an incredible effort by the team on the ground, as the affected areas were new to Save the Children, so all of this has been achieved from a standing start. We have accrued confirmed funding of over $48m to support our work and are lining up to be one of the largest responders to the disaster. The great collaboration between national and international staff in Manila and across the field offices has allowed us to reach over 300,000 people in the first two months of the response. This response has also been the first Merlin – Save the Children joint operation in the Philippines. Merlin has been working in partnership with Save the Children supporting integrated health and nutrition services both in Leyte and in Panay Island. Our interventions aim to increase access to essential primary health care services as well as improve access to information and services for prevention and control of major communicable diseases. The Strategy Save the Children and MERLIN plan to deliver a 3 year program in response to Super-Typhoon Yolanda. This program will reach: · ·
1,159,668 people (20% of the most seriously affected people) 826,468 children (24% of the most seriously affected children)
The three main goals of the program over the next 3 years will be: 1.
Establish Save the Children as a leading humanitarian response agency in the Philippines, with specialist expertise in integrated/multi-sector programming that reaches the most vulnerable, and with a special focus on building our national profile
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Make breakthroughs in equitable access to basic services for the most vulnerable children and their families in the Visayas, and at a national level
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Understand how this disaster could have been better mitigated, what the future will hold, and develop a child-centred approach to community resilience for the Philippines
Save the Children Working Together “Save the Children became absolutely unified, we had clarity of purpose and a common cause to support children” says Ned Olney, Save the Children in the Philippines Country Director. This video shows how Save the Children has worked together to scale up our response in the Philippines to reach thousands of children that had everything when the typhoon hit.
The Hero Blog Series: It has been all hands on deck since Save the Children started responding to Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms to ever make landfall. Our operations centre in Manila has filled with emergency staff who arrive jet-lagged and sleep-deprived from the longhaul flight, but determined to hit the ground running. It was during these first few days that Save the Children’s logistics expert called out to the room of staff, “is there anyone in the office who can help with emergency logistics?” A small voice piped up – “me, Mr James, I can help.” The voice belonged to Myra – a logistics assistant who has worked for Save the Children in the Philippines for four years. Myra has since turned out to be one of heroes of Save the Children’s response. Download the blog here >
“The way the Save the Children family has pulled together in terms of staff, funding, logistics and media profile is really powerful and everyone should be deeply proud of what has and is being achieved” Imran Matin, IP Director
Our Work in Latin American and Caribbean Save the Children has supported six category 4 emergency responses in Latin America and the Caribbean in the year 2013, reaching a total of 98494 beneficiaries, including 37740 children. While the operations in Bolivia, Haiti and Nicaragua have been successfully completed, the humanitarian responses in Mexico, Colombia and El Salvador are still underway. In collaboration with CORELAC organizations (Coalition in Latin America and the Caribbean for the Resilience of Children and Youth) Save the Children has also carried out some consultancy workshops with children in Haiti, Peru and Bolivia to identify children needs, concerns and priorities for actions in Disaster Risk Reduction. Throughout the consultancy process, children and youth representatives have been identified among the interviewees and invited to take part in the Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction of the Americas to be held on the 27-29 May 2014 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Both Save the Children and CORELAC aim at prioritizing the participation of children in regional and international debates as a means to understand and respond more accurately to the issues as perceived by the beneficiaries.
The First Emergency Foundation Course in Middle East It’s been two years since SCI began it’s response to the Syria crisis and during this time we have dramatically scaled up our operations to meet the increasing needs of the victims of this horrific conflict in the countries neighbouring Syria and inside Syria itself. This has now become a regional response which involves five country offices – Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Northern Syria. As a result of this scale up, our staff has quadrupled in size. One of our priorities is to build the capacity of our teams and ensure that we continue to deliver at scale, with quality, and assist as many children as possible wherever there is a need. To this end we have run the Emergency Foundation Course (EFC) for the first time in Middle East. This is the first stage of the wider Humanitarian Operations Programme (HOP) which is an entry level humanitarian training that introduces participants to the full range of functions and issues in a first phase of a humanitarian response. The EFC was run in Istanbul between 12 and 17 January and involved 29 staff from across the region. Participants come form a variety of backgrounds, including many who are currently responding to the Syria crisis: Turkey/ Antakya, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, as well as staff from the oPt, Yemen and Armenia Country Offices.
Thousands of Children affected by the South Sudan crisis
On 15 December 2013, fighting broke out in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, and the conflict soon spread to other parts of the country. Since that time, an unknown number of people (estimates range from 1,000 to 10,000) have been killed and almost 490,000 have been forced to flee their homes. At least 67,800 people are currently sheltering in UN bases in Juba and throughout the country. An estimated 83,000 people have also crossed into neighboring countries, mainly Uganda. While ceasefire talks have begun between government and rebel delegations in Addis Ababa, no agreement has yet been met.
“My children used to drink milk and good food, but for the last three days we have been begging for food” Deng, Teacher
The numbers of internally displaced people are growing. In Awerial, just across the river Nile from the conflict-affected area of Bor, an estimated 84,000 internally displaced people are currently collected, with more people arriving by boat every day. There are also several thousand individuals – including many vulnerable children – trapped on the other side of the river, unable to pay for the journey. The Save the Children response is currently focused on the two UN sites in Juba, Juba 3 and Tomping, and in January 2014 operations started in Awerial, Lakes State. In Juba, our activities are focused on the provision of emergency non-food items for IDPs, and supporting partners in providing child protection activities, while in Awerial, Save the Children is the lead for child protection and education, and will also be providing nutrition support. We are also looking at working in other areas once access opens up.