Central African Republic: Humanitarian presence in the field (October 2011)
This map shows humanitarian actor’s sub-office and base locations in the field in the CAR. The map was produced by the OCHA office in Bangui with the generous support of the humanitarian community. Download the map in PDF (126KB) here: English version | Version française
Central African Republic: Areas of intervention per cluster (October 2011)
These maps show the areas of intervention of humanitarian projects in the CAR by cluster. The maps were produced by the cluster leads and co-leads with the generous support of the humanitarian community. Download the maps in PDF (655KB) here: English version | Version française
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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.
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.
As part of its multi-donor program which aims at recovering the agropastoral sector in Ouham Pendé prefecture (northern CAR), the Danish Council for Refugees(DRC) supported the establishment of a multifunctional platform (MFP) in Paoua, a first in CAR. This initiative aims, using a pilot community approach, to provide an energy source (generator) that supplies supplying various kinds of production equipment, such as mills, crushers, peelers, welding stations, etc. Continue Reading »
General Abdoulaye Miskine, leader of the Union of Democratic Forces of Central Africa (UFDC) says he is ready to sign the Global Peace Agreement
China donates agricultural equipment and office supplies worth $450,000
Background and security
Miskine ready to sign the peace agreement
General Abdoulaye Miskine, leader of the Union of Democratic Forces of Central Africa (FDPC), one of the three rebel groups based in the centre north of the country, has said he is ready to sign the Global Peace Agreement. His commitment is a prelude to the much anticipated political dialogue expected this month in Bangui. “I am ready to sign the Global Peace Agreement in order to give the political inclusive dialogue a chance — considered by all the only way out of crisis,” said General Miskine in a press release issued Saturday in Bangui. Continue Reading »
Like about 197,000 other Central Africans, the inhabitants of Combattant 1 in Paoua are internally displaced people. To escape violence in 2003, they left the city for the bush. For five years now, they have been living in Ota and Dinga, about 10 kilometres from Paoua.
They stay in small houses by their fields and no longer go to the market to sell their products. “We only go back to Paoua once or twice a week, mostly to go to church,” explains the oldest member of the group (see picture). We would like to come back permanently, but what will we do if the attacks start again? We can’t run away with our children.”
Despite the recent peace deal between the APRD rebel forces and the FACA government forces, the situation in northwestern CAR remains fragile, and the population won’t feel safe until a permanent political solution has been reached. For now, rebel soldiers still need to be demobilized, and national authorities still have to reinstate the rule of law. Zaraguinas (road bandits) are likewise very active in the northwest, attacking villagers and merchants on their way to their fields or to the market. Altogether, unsettled disagreements between rebels and government, and the acts of banditry perpetuated by Zaraguinas, are paralysing the recovery process in the region. Continue Reading »
On March 8th, in celebration of International Women’s Day, over 1,500 women gathered in the streets of Paoua. The city situated in the tormented north-western quarter of the Central African Republic had been shaken by fights between rebel and government forces and by population movements. But on this particular day of celebration, internally displaced women, along with women coming from many surrounding villages, paraded along the crowded city streets, carrying the slogan: “invest in girls and women”.
After the parade, Marie Noudjougoto from one of Paoua’s Farmers Organizations spoke in the name of all present women, when she said: “Show your faith in women by bringing us peace and security on the way to the market, to school, to the fields, to water sources, to health centres and to hospitals. Continue Reading »
Affected by years of relentless fighting in the North West, Central African farmers now face great difficulties to maintain their livelihood. Their seeds and tools have been destroyed by the repeated assaults of bandits, rebels and armed forces, turning the former bread basket of Central Africa into a disaster zone.
Three quarters of the Central African population work in the agricultural sector. Over the last ten years, a 90 percent drop of the cotton and coffee production has made a dramatic impact on the county’s economy.
The FAO in CAR is running emergency programs to support the neediest populations affected by the conflict in the North, and recovery programs to help rebuilding the country’s agricultural sector.
In Paoua and Bossangora, Central Africans working with the FAO talk about their achievements and their needs.
Click here to find out more about the FAO emergency programs in CAR.
Paoua, Central African Republic. Agnès Sadoua is just seven years old. Perched on the edge of a wooden bench, she swings her legs back and forth freely. Like many other children her age, she is missing her front teeth. She grins as she talks about her love for school, her friends and her family. It has not always been like this however. Three months ago, Agnès along with many other children and their families, were forced to flee their homes in search of safety in the bush. Continue Reading »
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Like about 197,000 other Central Africans, the inhabitants of Combattant 1 in Paoua are internally displaced people. To escape violence in 2003, they left the city for the bush. For five years now, they have been living in Ota and Dinga, about 10 kilometres from Paoua. 
On March 8th, in celebration of International Women’s Day, over 1,500 women gathered in the streets of Paoua. The city situated in the tormented north-western quarter of the Central African Republic had been shaken by fights between rebel and government forces and by population movements. But on this particular day of celebration, internally displaced women, along with women coming from many surrounding villages, paraded along the crowded city streets, carrying the slogan: “invest in girls and women”.
The Food and Agricultural Organization publishes a new bulletin on its activities in the Central African Republic: 
Paoua, Central African Republic. Agnès Sadoua is just seven years old. Perched on the edge of a wooden bench, she swings her legs back and forth freely. Like many other children her age, she is missing her front teeth. She grins as she talks about her love for school, her friends and her family. It has not always been like this however. Three months ago, Agnès along with many other children and their families, were forced to flee their homes in search of safety in the bush. 
