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- Number of projects 12 Cluster’s objectives
- Requested funds $18,822,233 Requested funds by level of priority
- Health Districts Returnees Repatriates
- Analysis of the situation and humanitarian needs in 2012 based on the retained scenario
Response plan The overall strategic objective will consist in providing an integrated, sustainable and appropriate response to the return and reintegration needs of IDPs and repatriates based on a community-based approach. It will consider the specific needs of the most vulnerable groups (female heads household heads and/or GBV victims, youths, IDPs and elderly people). This will be achieved by pursuing three specific objectives that are attached to the main activities. The response takes into account the particularities related to the spontaneity of IDPs’ movements, their vulnerability and dispersion. While interventions associated with IDP return involve the preparation for return and assistance to individuals and groups, the reintegration process will encourage and facilitate integrated community-based interventions in host or return areas. This is in order to reduce discrepancies in the assistance to returnees and host communities, stimulate social cohesion, strengthen security and the restoration of State authority, while enhancing the appropriation of the reintegration process by the communities, local authorities and other local actors. As reintegration needs are multi-sectoral, all clusters have a key role at a certain stage of the reintegration process in accordance with their humanitarian responsibilities, as defined by the IASC. The activities will include short- and medium-term actions: Short-term actions: Regarding the restoration of State authority (security, public administration, justice), the first actions will involve rehabilitating and quickly equipping public buildings to allow minimum operation of the newly redeployed administration. Employment programmes will aim to encourage income generation and training opportunities, and to promote exceptional measures of support for employment to consolidate security and stability. Projects will target specific crisis-affected groups, and will focus on measures seeking to rapidly restore peace among the target groups, e.g. youths (ex-combatants, youths exposed to high risk), repatriates, IDPs and other groups in need of urgent relief or exposed to high risk of exploitation or abuse, especially women. These activities will contribute to relief efforts while providing initial useful support for the reconstruction and rehabilitation processes. This will also apply to conflict prevention, and management organizations and mechanisms that will be mapped and evaluated before receiving any further structured support. Medium-term actions: These involve reinforcing the capacities of State authorities (public administration, security forces, justice) to improve service delivery to the populations. Regarding local economic recovery, steps will be taken to increase sustainable employment opportunities and to ensure the reintegration of target groups. Reconstructing communities creates the opportunity to address the root causes of the conflict and to facilitate long-term reconciliation. To this end, particular attention will be granted to the orientations that will be proposed by the Dialogue, Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CDVR) to consolidate the social cohesion and national reconciliation process. As social and economic actors are getting increasingly involved, it becomes essential to build capacities and strengthen the institutions. Community participation and community-based planning are regarded as crucial to the success of all the initiatives intended for economic recovery, social cohesion and restoration of State authority. To reinforce the crucial role of local authorities and civil-society actors in the planning, implementation and coordination of recovery activities, special emphasis will be placed on building their capacity to reduce the risk of the resurgence of crises, while ensuring they can handle recovery initiatives in an inclusive, democratic and efficient manner in accordance with gender equality and the fundamental principles of human rights. Targeting beneficiaries The Cluster’s various interventions will primarily include: (i) the returned and repatriated populations, host communities and other specific groups made more vulnerable by the crisis, i.e. ex-combatants, former militiamen, unemployed youths, female heads of household and/or victims of sexual violence; (ii) peace committees, local development committees and NGOs, associations and economic-interest groups; (iii) administrative authorities, traditional leaders and local elected representatives. Judicial staff and security forces in the intervention areas will also benefit from the cluster’s support. The results of the rapid needs assessment conducted in June and July 2011 by the RPCS Cluster show that the following regions are priority areas for early recovery: Moyen-Cavally: Duékoué (Guéhébly, Bagohouo), Guiglo (Goumblaon and Zaon Townships), Bloléquin (Zéaglo, Boo Township, Zérabaon, Northern and Southern Néao), Toulepleu (Péhé) Mountains: Bangolo (Zou, Zeo Township), Danané, Zouan-Hounien (Téapleu and Bin-Houyé) Bas-Sassandra: Tabou (Grabo, Djouroutou), San Pedro (Doba , Grand Bereby) Soubré (Oupoyo, Okrouyo, Méagui) Sassandra (Sago) Sud-Bandama (Lakota, Divo) Savanes: Korhogo (Napie, Sinématiali, Koumbala) Boundiali, Ferké and Lagunes (Abidjan and surroundings).
As specified in the Cluster’s response strategy, attention will be given to developing synergies with other clusters to provide coherent responses to the various needs identified in an integrated manner. As social cohesion is a cross-cutting issue, it is each cluster's responsibility to: (i) identify the potential impacts of their interventions on conflicts; (ii) enhance the awareness of inter-group relations in intervention areas; ( iii) enable the actors to play a conscious role in helping communities to resume dialogue and to rebuild trust between them. The RPCS and Food Security clusters will work closely on restoring economic livelihoods by unifying initiatives that strengthen social bonds. The same will apply to the Shelter/NFI Cluster as part of the rehabilitation of destroyed houses. The RPCS Cluster intends to provide support to local technicians and the most vulnerable households. This will include training, tools, production of construction materials and access to funding systems. Mixed teams of technicians (different specialties) could be set up for this purpose. The Protection and RPCS clusters will work interdependently in conflict prevention and management; the fight against armed violence; access to justice; and support for victims of all types of abuse among vulnerable groups. 4. Mechanism for monitoring activities and the humanitarian situation by the Cluster The RPCS Cluster will have an expert in charge of managing a database that is as consolidated as possible and coordinating information management at the local level. His/her mission will consist of providing cluster members with statistics. Periodic joint missions for monitoring and evaluation of the assistance will be conducted on the ground. Evaluation results (measurement of the outcomes and lessons learned) will be widely shared. The "Who does What Where?" matrix will be regularly updated and disseminated. The regional clusters established in the regions will work closely with local authorities and communities to monitor local activities. Strategic'>5. Logical framework
4.5.10 Health Cluster
Our interventions will be located in priority areas, namely the Montagnes, Moyen-Cavally Haut-Sassandra regions (Daloa and Zoukougbeu Health District), Bas Sassandra and Lagunes (Eastern/Western Yopougon District, Northern/Southern Abobo, Cocody Bingerville, Anyama, Grand Bassam). Target populations will include the people in these areas, regardless of age and gender, i.e. returnees, repatriates, IDPs and the host population.
The post-election crisis has created great insecurity in the country, pushing health workers outside combat zones to more secure areas or outside the country. Most health-care facilities have been destroyed or looted, especially in the west. In April, during the joint assessment led by WHO, only 45% of health-care facilities were open. Immunization and epidemiological surveillance activities were interrupted and over 50% of doctors were absent. After six months of humanitarian presence, 73% of health-care facilities are open, but drugs and equipment are lacking in 19% of the health-care facilities and 10% are closed. The early warning system set up by WHO is still operational with the support of two epidemiologists. Six polio-vaccination campaigns have been organized and have covered 42 million children. Vaccination coverage is still below 40% for measles, yellow fever and polio.
This crisis has not spared the basic socio-sanitary infrastructures, as they were looted, ransacked, vandalized or simply destroyed. The post-election crisis has worsened a health situation that was already precarious, especially because of the embargo on imports (including pharmaceutical products, medical equipment and materials) and exports from Côte d’Ivoire, which was declared by the international community following the refusal of the former Head of State to recognize the outcome of the election. In the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, epidemiology is dominated by diseases such as malaria, diarrhoeal diseases (including cholera), acute respiratory infections (ARI), HIV infection and TB, and potentially epidemic and/or preventable diseases such as polio, measles, yellow fever and meningitis. The country is also facing other endemic diseases such as Buruli ulcer, the African trypanosomiasis and onchocerciasis. Malaria is the primary cause of morbidity and mortality. It is the first reason of medical consultations in the country’s health-care facilities. It accounts for 57% of morbidity, 62% of hospitalization causes for children under age 5 and 36% for pregnant women (NSDP 2009-2013). In 2011, the control of epidemics remains a major concern in Côte d'Ivoire since the country is facing an upsurge or resurgence of formerly controlled potentially epidemic diseases. They include poliomyelitis (56 cases reported on 31 August 2011); measles (346 cases in four months from May to August with 0 deaths); cholera (1,079 cases with six deaths); yellow fever (79 cases with 35 deaths, i.e. a 44.3%15 lethality); and cerebrospinal meningitis in the north of the country (75 cases and four deaths) in the sub-Saharan region of the African "meningitis belt". The resurgence of these epidemics is a "pathognomonic" indicator of the dislocation and degradation of the country’s health system due to more than 10 years of political instability and conflicts. Since the new regime took office last May, the Government declared free health care in public health-care facilities until further notice. Despite its positive impact on the populations’ access to care and health services, this political measure remained a high risk strategy. It could result, in the medium term, in many frustrations and negative effects on the quality of care due to shortages of essential drugs, and the lack of motivation of the auxiliary (contractual) staff essential to the healthiness and security of health-care facilities (health coverage and hospitals), and whose salaries were not paid by the Government but with profits generated by the cost-recovery system.
The Health Cluster’s priority is to address health needs in areas most affected by the post-election crisis in the west (Dix-Huit Montagnes, Moyen-Cavally), south (Lagunes) and south-west (Bas Sassandra south of the Haut Sassandra). To effectively contribute to reducing morbidity and (especially) mortality, the proposed actions include:
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