FACTBOX - Funding needs to help Pakistan's displaced
Source: AlertNet
Here is a round-up of the funding needs of the nine aid agencies that warned in London on Thursday that they would be forced to stop or cut back supplies of aid to people displaced by violence in northwest Pakistan unless a funding crisis was resolved.
ActionAid
* needs to plug funding gap of 300,000 pounds
* plans to support approximately 28,000 people (4,500 families) in camps and host communities in Swabi, Mardan and Hasan Abdal over the next 12 months. This will include distributing food, providing hygiene kits, medicine and health and hygiene sessions and establishing mobile health camps
* Teachers will be recruited to operate in eight schools reaching 1,500 displaced children. Recreational and sports activities will be organised for young people. A psychosocial consultant will also be hired to train local partners and volunteers to support displaced and trauma victims. ActionAid will also lobby government to take leadership in the response and ensure better coordination at ground level. 450 families have been reached to date with food and non-food items support
CARE
* needs 3.9 million pounds
* is working with local partners and has distributed stockpiled tents and kitchen utensils worth 100,000 pounds. It has started health camps to provide emergency medical care with 80,000 pounds raised from trusts
* its goal is to reduce suffering of 70,000 IDPs in North West Frontier Province over the next 12 months
CAFOD/Caritas
*no details immediately available
Concern Worldwide
* funding runs out in mid-July
* is responding to the needs of IDPs in District Mardan in the North West Frontier Province. It is currently providing essential non-food items and hygiene kits to approximately 22,400 internally displaced persons, working with a local partner
* So far Concern has committed approximately 180,000 pounds from its funds, is awaiting written confirmation from a donor of approximately 90,000 pounds, and is in the process of applying to other donors for funding that will allow them to reach at least 10,000 families or 70,000 people
Islamic Relief Worldwide
* has developed plan to support 97,968 beneficiaries for six months with an estimated cost of 1 million pounds
* is currently working in Mardan district focusing on IDPs living with host communities. Support includes distributing non-food items, health care, psychosocial support to traumatised children/women and search and reunification of children and elderly who were separated from their families
Merlin
* funds received through the UN will run out at the end of June
* is currently providing basic health services to around 220,000 displaced people in camps and host communities in Mardan, Nowshera and Peshawar districts
Oxfam
*launched a 5.5 million pounds response on May 8, working with local partners
*is responding with essential humanitarian relief and services, particularly water and sanitation, and are aiming to
reach 360,000 people. It is currently underwriting the response
with its own funds and around 100,000 pounds of money raised
from supporters. Unless it raises additional money, it will have
to close its operation in July.
Save the Children
* 2.6 million pounds of the 6.6 million pounds needed for its initial response has been secured so far
* plans to reach 280,000 displaced people, including 168,000 children, with urgently needed healthcare, non-food relief items and child protection work. 40,000 people have been reached so far. It has started distributing food for 170,000 people and will be transferring $45 cash grants to 5,000 households each month to support essential household costs
World Vision
* has only received a fraction of the $13 million it needs to reach 300,000 of the displaced people taking refuge in host communities in Buner, Swabi and Mardan districts
* will soon receive food and $398,000 cash from the World Food Programme, which will benefit 195,000 people in Mardan district until December. With limited private donations, the agency has been able to reach 3,500 people with health kits, mattresses and essential household items











