Contribution to international development report: 2018-2019

Syria – British Red Cross £100,000

Working through its partner, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC), HEF funding allowed British Red Cross to provide water bottles and jerry cans to 25,000 IDPs. This vital supply of water prevented dehydration and reduced the threat of disease amongst vulnerable people on the move until they could be offered safer shelters or housed with host communities. The funding also supported SARC with extra volunteers to assess and respond to a range of urgent humanitarian needs. These volunteers assisted up to 90,000 households (450,000 people).

Yemen – Mercy Corps £100,000

Despite continued military action in the area exacerbating security and accessibility to a mobile population, the project succeeded with 5,000 households supported with clean water, with newly installed water tanks and jerry cans distributed to the target population (figure 3).

South Sudan – Tearfund £100,000

Working with long established local partners, Tearfund aimed to provide food supplies to 500 of the most vulnerable households in Mvolo County, North West of the capital, Juba. The project was largely successful with all selected households receiving appropriate allocations of maize grain, beans and oil to set Sphere standards.

Disasters Emergency Committee £192,000; £16,000 each (total £48,000) to Mission Aviation Fellowship, Mercy Corps, and Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF)

At the end of September 2018, an earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale rocked the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, triggering a terrifying tsunami that reached 18 feet in height and left a trail of destruction in its wake. More than 2,200 people are known to have died, more than 1,300 are still reported as missing and 4,400 were seriously injured.

Tearfund £100,000

This project aimed to support 320 extremely vulnerable households with cash transfers, access to emergency WASH (Water, Sanitation and Health support) and other vital household support. The project succeeded in achieving its objectives by distributing cash to 340 households to purchase food and kitchen utensils, providing hygiene and sanitation kits and mosquito bed nets.

Mercy Corps £100,000

This was a similar project to provide food vouchers and cash to provide essential food needs to 400 displaced households in conflict-affected communities.

Despite the extreme security challenges, the project succeeded in meeting food needs of 478 households in this period. The voucher-based system used helped give participants flexibility in their choices of food and provide an infusion of cash to support the recovery of local economies. All voucher exchanges were carried out in a transparent and efficient manner, with participants reporting high satisfaction with the goods they were able to purchase. In a strongly patriarchal culture, 35% of the households supported were female led, 75% of the households were from the two main ethnic groups involved in the conflict.

SCIAF £110,000

This project is aiming to help more than 10,000 vulnerable migrants with meals or food parcels and other key household items as well as psychosocial support to reduce risks of sexual, drug or xenophobic abuse. In addition, a smaller number will be helped with temporary accommodation.

Tearfund £110,000

Tearfund’s funding is enabling it to build on learnings from some of its existing work in Colombia to support a further 500 families in the Baranquilla area. The targeted families are being given water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) supplies as well as other essential non-food items (NFIs) as well as food vouchers