Suite aux cas de choléra constatés ces 4 dernières semaines dans les préfectures de l’Ombella-M’Poko et de la Lobaye (comprenant la sous-préfecture de Mongoumba), les autorités sanitaires centrales de Bangui ont officiellement déclaré l’état d’épidémie en RCA le 30 septembre 2011. Le nombre des personnes touchées par cette épidémie de choléra et le nombre de décès enregistrés ne cessent de croître. Depuis le début de l’épidémie (1er cas le 21 septembre), 93 cas ont été recensés, dont un total de 16 décès enregistrés, soit un taux de létalité de 17% (chiffres des autorités sanitaires de Bangui).
Activités du Conseil Danois pour les Refugiés en République centrafricaine 2009-2010
DRC s’est officiellement installé en RCA en aout 2008 et oeuvre dans trois sous-préfectures du pays : l’Ouham, l’Ouham Pendé et la Bamingui Bangoran.
Ouham
Depuis janvier 2010 DRC est basée à Batangafo où elle a relevé un projet éducation mis en oeuvre par le “Conseil Norvégien pour les Refugiés” NRC.
Ouham Pendé
DRC s’est installé en aout 2008 à Paoua où elle dispose d’une base pleinement opérationnelle. En 2009 elle a élargie son rayon d’action dans 4 autres sous-préfectures de l’Ouham Pendé à savoir : Bozoum, Bocaranga, Ndim, Ngaoundaye. Au total on dénombre donc une base (Paoua) et 5 antennes (Bozoum, Bocaranga, Ngaoundaye, Koui et Ndim).
Bamingui Bangoran
Depuis octobre 2008 DRC est installé dans la ville de Ndélé avec une pase pleinement fonctionnelle.
Mission conjointe d’evaluation rapide de la situation des refugies, personnes deplacees internes et autres personnes vulnerables dans le sud-est de la RCA
Le plan de contingence de la République Centrafricaine (RCA) pour l’année 2011 a retenu parmi les scenarii, l’afflux d’environ 21000 refugiés du sud Soudan comme conséquence des conflits à l’issue du référendum de janvier 2011. Il prévoit également que de nombreux refugiés seraient reçus dans la zone sud-est de la RCA notamment dans la préfecture du Haut-Mbomou entre la frontière du Soudan et la ville de Mboki en passant par les villes de Bambouti et Obo, portes d’entrée en RCA et villes à proximité immédiate de la frontière.
La situation sécuritaire et humanitaire dans cette zone est précaire et pourrait s’empirer dans le temps du fait de la présence de l’Armée de Resistance du Seigneur (LRA), originaire de l’Ouganda et qui sévit dans la même zone identifiée dans le plan de contingence pour recevoir un éventuel afflux des réfugiés soudanais. La LRA utilise l’extrémité sud-est de la RCA comme un corridor pour se déplacer vers le sud Soudan où se trouverait sa base arrière. Lors des accrochages entre les Forces armées centrafricaines (FACA) et la LRA, cette dernière a conduit des représailles contre les populations civiles et les ONG internationales operant dans la zone. Ainsi, pour des raisons de securité, la présence d’acteurs humanitaires y est très limitée.
La présente mission d’évaluation rapide des besoins qui s’inscrit dans le cadre de l’Immediate Response Emergency Opération (IR EMOP preparadness) devrait permettre au bureau pays du Programme Alimentaire Mondial (PAM), ainsi qu’aux autres acteurs humanitaires de mieux comprendre la situation dans le sud-est de la RCA à travers l’évaluation de la situation humanitaire des populations en mouvements, les capacités logistiques et la capacité des partenaires à intervenir dans l’éventualité d’un accroissement des opérations du PAM dans la region.
Par ailleurs, dans le cadre des termes de réference de la mission, il est aussi prévu de procéder à l’évaluation globale de la sécurité alimentaire dans la zone, notamment la situation des refugiés, des personnes déplacées internes et celle des populations hôtes dans les villes de Obo, Mboki, Zemio (préfecture Haut Mbomou), Rafaï et Bangassou (préfecture Mbomou).
Il faut noter que la plus récente évaluation conjointe dans le sud-est à l’initiative du Bureau OCHA date de Mai 2010, à la suite des déplacements massifs internes des populations dans cette zone sous les coups de la LRA. La présente mission, en plus de mettre l’accent sur les dispositions à prendre en cas d’afflux éventuel de réfugiés soudanais, devra en même temps réévaluer la situation des réfugiés et des Personnes Déplacées Internes (PDI) déjà présents dans la region pour avoir une analyse complète de la situation dans la zone. La détérioration de la sécurité dans cette zone a eu pour consequence la reduction de la présence des acteurs humanitaires. De ce fait, les informations sont peu disponibles.
C’est dans le souci de mieux connaitre le terrain et pour parer aux éventualités que la présente mission, initiée par le PAM avec la participation des agences du SNU, ONGs et partenaires locaux, s’est déroulée dans la zone sud-est dans la période du 2 au 31 mars 2011.
Microfinance is recognized for its potential transformative effect on poverty. By providing financial services (primarily savings and credit) to poor and low income populations, microfinance empowers them to develop and to implement their own solutions to local challenges. The activities in 2010 are the result of the implementation of the 2010 annual work plan adopted by the Steering Committee in November 2009.
These activities have covered such portfolio monitoring and technical support to partners; support to consultant’s missions for training and formalization of EMF; strengthening national capacity for training, advocacy, representation, supervision and control of the sector; putting in place the national strategy of inclusive finance; organization study tours and exchange of experiences in West Africa and the mobilization of resources.
The African Development Bank as part of its future support to the country has committee US$5 million to the government for the financial services offer to the Central African population.
Over 30,000 people, 4% of household in the CAR and of whom 45% are women, have access to financial services, offering favorable economic opportunities to the improvement of income. Micro finance institutions provide various financial services and facilitate income generating activities.
Between November 3 and 25 2010, two COOPI teams conducted an evaluation of the humanitarian situation in two sub-prefectures of the Haut-Mbomou prefecture, Obo and Bambouti, with a focus on the Mboki, Obo and Bambouti axis. The final report includes information on the security situation, the humanitarian actors and locations of intervention, the results of the evaluation in the sectors of education, protection, food security and livelihoods, health and water and sanitation and the questionnaire used for the evaluation.
The second round of the parliamentarian election scheduled for 27 March 2010
Opposition plan to boycott the second round of election
Chadian troops left Birao on 14 February 2011
Working with partners
Implementing partners include the Government’s Commission Nationale pour les Réfugiés (CNR), CNPPDI and other relevant ministries, IRC, DRC, Triangle GH, IMC, Merlin, COOPI, CSSI and CARITAS. UNHCR chairs the Protection Cluster and works closely with the UN Country Team, national and international NGOs and donors, and participates in joint activities, like the provision of protection and assistance to IDPs in the North.
Achievements
The Office has started interviewing refugee returnees in Ouham Pendé prefecture. As to date, 46 out of 93 refugee returnee families have been interviewed in Nana-Barya. Findings show that all returnees in Nana-Barya fled to Cameroon. Those who returned came back either due to a family death, for health reasons, or due to difficult living conditions in Cameroon. Generally, it appears that before fleeing to asylum, 82% of interviewees lived in brick houses, after displacement 82% live in straw houses. There is no access to potable water, only 50% of children are educated, 95% have access to healthcare, and 80% of returnees eat only 1 meal per day. Only 37% feel that they are secure in Nana-Barya, and 82% have no knowledge or access to the judicial system. 21% of the refugee families interviewed have a family member who is handicapped or blind, and 18% of interviewees were single women with children.
UNHCR and the humanitarian community in Paoua have started discussion on the return of IDPs in their villages of origin. This comes after a meeting APRD, one rebel group acting in the north, had a meeting with 46 chiefs of villages to discuss the return of IDPs to their villages.
180 hectares of farm lands are being distributed to Sudanese refugees by local authorities in Bambari to help them start agricultural activities. They have already received agricultural materials and seeds from FAO.
The MENTOR Initiative (MENTOR) has been operational in Central African Republic (CAR) since February 2008 with emergency programmes in the north-western prefectures of Ouham and Ouham Pende. Recent armed conflict and banditry have caused a number of people to flee into the neighbouring countries of Chad and Cameroon, whilst others have been internally displaced. Limited shelter increased exposure to malarial vectors, exacerbating the risk of contracting malaria. Since 2008, an estimated 200,000 people, from both displaced and host populations, have benefited from MENTOR programmes that focus on reducing the risk of malaria in pregnant women and children less than 5 years of age.
In order to assess the impact of the interventions among the beneficiaries, particularly in the fields of health seeking behaviour and bed net use, a Knowledge-Attitude-Practice (KAP) survey was conducted in April 2010.
Announcement of final results of presidential election. The Constitutional Court validated the presidential election of last January and declared President Francois Bozize as the winner with 64,37%. In addition, the Court declared unfounded the queries from opposition candidates who called for the cancellation of these elections due to fraud, according to their own statement.
The two international staff from MSF who were kidnapped by rebels on January 30, 2011, have been released last week (February 20, 2011).
Working with partners
Implementing partners include the Government’s Commission Nationale pour les Réfugiés (CNR), CNPPDI and other relevant ministries, IRC, DRC, Triangle GH, IMC, Merlin, COOPI, CSSI and CARITAS. UNHCR chairs the Protection Cluster and works closely with the UN Country Team, national and international NGOs and donors, and participates in joint activities, like the provision of protection and assistance to IDPs in the North.
Achievements
Protection meetings in Bangui last week reached following results: Gender Based Violence sub cluster met (February 8, 2011) with all relevant partners and adopted a common mechanism for monthly data collection, revised its ToR and proposed a chart that will contain all interventions, highlighting the gaps and avoid duplications. In addition, all partners involved in protection issues held a meeting (February 11, 2011) to boost the protection cluster. DRC has been appointed as co-lead of the cluster.
Implementation of pilot documentation project aiming at delivering birth certificate and/or national identity cards to IDPs in Kaga Bandoro and Paoua to avoid statelessness and offer educational perspectives to young people. To date, 2000 birth certificates were distributed to people from Fah and Bamatara villages. The second step which includes delivering of identity cards is on the way.
UNDP released a comprehensive fact sheet on the Central African Republic, taken from its National Human Development Report 2007/08 (to be published soon). It provides an excellent overview of recent data on Central African development, poverty, education and health. The fact sheet is available in English and French.
Click here to download the fact sheet (PDF, 744 KB)
An updated presentation of the general humanitarian and development situation in CAR is now available. UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Toby Lanzer presented this briefing to donors and other partners in Europe earlier this month, including at an OECD/DAC seminar, during EC consultations in Brussels and with Dutch officials in the Hague. The updated version integrates new developments in security sector reform and political dialogue, as well as other key points.
Every month, we produce a fact sheet with the most important humanitarian and development indicators for the Central African Republic.
The new fact sheet for August reflects the increased number of CAR refugees in Cameroon (now 26,000), after the humanitarian situation in Ngaoundaye worsened.
The number of people who were forced to flee their home since the of 2006 stands now at roughly 291,000.
The Humanitarian and Development Partnership Team (HDPT) unites all organizations working to alleviate the humanitarian and development crisis in the Central African Republic: United Nations agencies, the Red Cross Movement, NGOs and other organizations. For more information, visit About HDPT CAR or email us at info[at]hdptcar.net
Interviews with Dr Ione
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