At an event held in Bangui on 28 January 2009, the government of the Central African Republic and the humanitarian community launched the country’s Coordinated Aid Programme (CAP) for 2009.

The CAP provides a coherent humanitarian strategy of the Humanitarian and Development Partnership Team to provide life-saving assistance to one million people affected by violent conflict and banditry in northern and southeastern CAR, protect their human rights and help them restart their lives.
Speakers at the official launch emphasized that the ongoing peace progress between the government and militant groups provided a unique opportunity to improve the humanitarian situation. Yet civilians continue to suffer from ongoing fighting, banditry and a lack of schools, hospitals and clean water in one of the world’s poorest countries.

For 2009, 11 UN entities, 5 local and 18 international non-governmental organisations have included 105 projects in the CAP for which they require $116m. Most urgently, $14.3m are needed for ten projects that were ranked as an immediate priority.

Download the documents

	Coordinated Aid Programme for Central African Republic 2009 (English | PDF | 109 pages | 2.7MB)
	Complete CAP 2009 Project List (English | PDF | 151 pages | 0.6MB)
	Summary of CAP 2009 (English | PDF | 16 pages | 1.4MB) Résumé du CAP 2009 (Français | PDF | 16 pages | 1.4MB)

For further information

• Visit the global CAP website: www.humanitarianappeal.net
• Contact:
  Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
  United Nations | Bangui | Central African Republic
  Nicolas Rost | rostn@un.org
  Gisèle Willybiro | willybiro@un.org

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UN Resident Coordinator Toby Lanzer recently published a short article on the situation in CAR in The World Today, a publication of Chatham House in London. The article lays out some of the issues facing the country as it heads into a donor round table meeting in Brussels at the end of October.

Major concerns include continuing violence in the north and north-east, regional tensions and their effects on CAR, as well as the alarming spectre of the country’s mineral wealth getting caught up in surrounding conflicts. Donors, the article concludes, should treat humanitarian aid as a bridge to critical development assistance and investment, and the international community should strive to ensure that regional crises do not spill over more borders and further destabilize the region.

Click here to download the full article.

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