Appeal

Uganda

Assistance to IDPs in Northern Uganda - AFUG71

Appeal Target: US$ 4,789,074

Balance Requested from ACT Alliance: US$ 4,273,528

Geneva, 8 January 2007

Despite recent hopes generated by a cessation of hostilities agreement, Northern Uganda continues to experience large scale humanitarian needs after 20 years of protracted conflict between the Government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). There are an estimated two million IDPs in Northern Uganda and 1.5 million of them have received food aid and other direct assistance, mainly in over 200 sub-standard camps where neither minimum services nor adequate protection are ensured. Over 250,000 refugees from Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda add yet another dimension to the humanitarian context as well as decades of under-development and cattle raiding. Climatic hazards such as drought, crop diseases, floods, add an extra degree of risk to already vulnerable populations. The security situation has recently improved, allowing ACT members the Lutheran World Federation and Church of Uganda /PDR better access to IDPs, more access to agricultural land which has led to spontaneous return of 230,000 internal refugees to go home in 2006, this is according to the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP). Despite an increased international humanitarian response, significant needs remain to be addressed. This appeal, in which the links from relief to rehabilitation and to development (LRRD) remains at the forefront, will aim at relieving the suffering of IDPs, host communities and returnees and refugees in the north, via improved water and sanitation, health and nutrition, psychosocial services, livelihoods and food security, non-food items, education and HIV & AIDS awareness as well as via the enhanced coordination of humanitarian interventions between ACT members and external actors. The appeal will run from January to December 2007, and comes after a recent external evaluation carried out on both the 2005 and 2006 ACT appeals for Northern Uganda ACT response.ernal refugees to go home in 2006, this is according to the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP). Despite an increased international humanitarian response, significant needs remain to be addressed. This appeal, in which the links from relief to rehabilitation and to development (LRRD) remains at the forefront, will aim at relieving the suffering of IDPs, host communities and returnees and refugees in the north, via improved water and sanitation, health and nutrition, psychosocial services, livelihoods and food security, non-food items, education and HIV & AIDS awareness as well as via the enhanced coordination of humanitarian interventions between ACT members and external actors. The appeal will run from January to December 2007, and comes after a recent external evaluation carried out on both the 2005 and 2006 ACT appeals for Northern Uganda ACT response.

Name of ACT members/partners:

 LWF Uganda/Sudan

 Church of Uganda/Planning, Development and Rehabilitation Department (COU/PDR)

Project Completion Date: 31 December 2007

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Please kindly send your contributions to either of the following ACT bank accounts:

US dollar

Account Number - 240-432629.60A

IBAN No: CH46 0024 0240 4326 2960A

Euro

Euro Bank Account Number - 240-432629.50Z

IBAN No: CH84 0024 0240 4326 2950Z

Account Name: ACT - Action by Churches Together

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8, rue du Rhône

P.O. Box 2600

1211 Geneva 4, SWITZERLAND

Swift address: UBSW CHZH12A

Please also inform the Finance Officer Jessie Kgoroeadira (direct tel. +4122/791.60.38, e-mail address jkg@act-intl.org) and the Programme Officer Michael Hyden (mhy@act-intl.org) of all pledges/contributions and transfers, including funds sent direct to the implementers, now that the Pledge Form is no longer attached to the Appeal.

We would appreciate being informed of any intent to submit applications for EU, USAID and/or other back donor funding and the subsequent results. We thank you in advance for your kind cooperation.

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ACT is a global alliance of churches and related agencies working to save lives and support communities in emergencies worldwide. The ACT Coordinating Office is based with the World Council of Churches (WCC) and The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in Switzerland.

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