united nations inter-agency consolidated appeal process briefing for who
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UNITED NATIONS INTER-AGENCY CONSOLIDATED APPEAL PROCESS
Briefing for WHO
Some highlights of the OCHA standard presentation useful for WHO information
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CAP: THE LEGAL CONTEXT
General Assembly Resolution 46/182
1994 Inter-Agency Standing Committee approved CAP Guidelines
Secretary General’s Reform Paper 1997 (para 191)
CAP: WHO PARTICIPATES?
“should be carried out in full collaboration with United Nations bodies and other relevant humanitarian
organizations, international financial institutions, donors and host governments as an important step towards a
more integrated and strategic approach.”
From conclusions of ECOSOC session, 6-31 July 1998
Office for the Coordination ofHumanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
The CAP Cycle
Development of a CommonHumanitarian Action Plan
Appeal PreparationLaunch
Strategic monitoring /reporting
Review
Entry
Exit
CAP: WHY A COMMON HUMANITARIAN ACTION PLAN
To build a sense of common purpose among the main humanitarian and development actors
To gain a clear overall direction
To assist in the process of prioritization
To ensure learning from previous experience
To support effective resource mobilization
Office for the Coordination ofHumanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Process for developing the CommonHumanitarian Action Plan (CHAP)
Strategic Analysis
Long term humanitarianGoals
Sectoral Operational Objectives
Programme Implementation
External Analysis Internal Analysis
Monitoring / Reporting System
Short term humanitarianGoals
CAP: COMPONENTS OF THE CHAP
Presentation of possible scenarios
In Tadjikistan, insecurity, terrorism, corruption and lawlessness give no hope for peace-building
Competencies and capacity analysis
and there is no one out there to help and carry out the life saving work
CAP: COMPONENTS OF THE CHAP
Statement of humanitarian principles
focusing on human and health survival, security and protection, equitable resource allocation, accountability to
beneficiaries
Long term goals
reduce mortality and morbidity excess, ensure food security, control communicable disease transmission,
desmobilization and reintegration, social reforms
CAP: COMPONENTS OF THE CHAP
Sectors to be addressed
food aid, health and nutrition, water and sanitation, education, reintegration, coordination
Criteria for Prioritisation
life-saving and containment activities (controlling typhoid fever and malaria epidemics, essential medicines)
Relationship with other assistance programs
are we in accordance with national policies and development programs (even if temporarily interrupted)
Office for the Coordination ofHumanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
The CAP Cycle
Development of a CommonHumanitarian Action Plan
Appeal PreparationLaunch
Strategic monitoring /reporting
Review
Entry
Exit
CAP: THE PREPARATION PROCESS
Office for the Coordination ofHumanitarian Affairs (O CHA)
6 steps for developing consolidatedappeals
Review if the consolidated appeal is needed
Planning the Appeal
Preparating the appeal
Processing the appeal
Launching the appeal
Following-up on the appeal
Office for the Coordination ofHumanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
The CAP Cycle
Development of a CommonHumanitarian Action Plan
Appeal PreparationLaunch
Strategic monitoring /reporting
Review
Entry
Exit
CAP: STRATEGIC MONITORING (some examples)
In the current and likely evolving context (determinant of health, emergency health intelligence):
Do we immunize school children who are likely to die soon after as soldiers in the army?
Do we immunize child soldiers just being demobilised?
Do we promote immunization as a peace-making mean?
CAP: STRATEGIC MONITORING (some examples)
In the current and likely evolving context (determinant of health,
emergency health intelligence):
Could immunization be mis-perceived by a refugee population e.g. as an attempt to sterilization?
Do we promote family planning in communities after a genocide?
Some learning from WHO as a CAP practitioner for the last decade and some constructive feed-
back from EMRO
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CAP: WHAT WAS (IS?) IT
A sudden rush of work
A puzzle of projects
A one time event
For the past decade:
Still in 2000 ?
CAP: WHAT WAS (IS?) IT
An “EHA thing”
A hope for more money
A burden
For the past decade:
Still in 2000 ?
CAP: WHAT IS IT
A strategic monitoring tool
A coordination instrument
A reference document
A year-long process
A (business) plan
For 2001 and the next decade
CAP: CURRENT ISSUES
CAP not based on needs assessment
Not efficient for resource mobilization
Absence of common ownership (still viewed as the responsibility of the leading agency)
Absence of continuum
Absence of strategic monitoring and evaluation
Planning health together with health and non health agencies
Monitoring and evaluating health humanitarian programs
Breaking with the “oral tradition of humanitarian aid” by writing good and comparable reference documents on specific crises (case studies)
In fact, WHO does not take enough advantage of the CAP as a tool for:
Voicing and making a case for the health of population in crisis
Pooling all its resources and provide a “massive support” for those who are in day-to-day survival
In fact, WHO does not take enough advantage of the CAP as a tool for:
CAP: INFO TO BE ADDED IN MOST CASES
WHO unique responsibility
WHO core commitments and global/regional target
Health sector strategy
Country/situation baseline information
Risk and situation assessment
Monitoring system
Co-financing mechanisms
REVIEWING CAP DOCUMENTS
3WHO CORE COMMITMENTS ACROSS THE CAPs
MALARIA PROJECTS ACROSS THE CAPs
WHO CORE COMMITMENTS IN EMERGENCIES
Field presence and operational capacity(coordination, management and accountability)
Need assessment and prioritization(rapid health assessment, monitoring, evaluation)
Health and nutrition surveillance
Communicable diseases(RBM, TB, EPI, polio-E, epid. prep/resp.)
CAP in review
WHO CORE COMMITMENTS IN EMERGENCIES
Environmental health (water, sanitation)
Access to essential drugs and primary care(supply, services strengthening)
Health as a bridge for peace and linking assistance to development
Access to essential public health guidelines and building of an institutional memory for preparedness and disaster
mitigation
CAP in review
WHO CORE COMMITMENTS IN CAPs (2000)
Af Su So An Bu Dc Rc Ug Sl Dk Et Tk Yu
RBMHIVTBPOLIO-ES-MTHDNUTESS-DRGMHPHCHISW-SAN
CAP in review
WHO CORE COMMITMENTS IN CAPs (2000)
Af Su So An Bu Dc Rc Ug Sl Dk Et Mk Tk
Prior malaria situation into account in the CAP
NarrativePrev/CFRTransm.Chlor-RTreat.feverTreat.severeParas. speciesRef. nat. prog.Cross sec.ref.
CAP in review
WHO CORE COMMITMENTS IN CAPs (2000)
Af Su So An Bu Dc Rc Ug Sl Dk Et Mk Tk
WHO malaria response developed in the CAP
StrategySepar. budgetIntegrated pro.Drug supplyDiagnosisTreatmentCap. BuildingSurveillanceIBNVector controlMass drug .
CAP in review
CAP QUALITY CHECK: CONCLUSION
• These results demonstrate that malaria (and likely other public health areas) control is not properly treated in the CAP.
• The table does not reflect actual WHO performance in Roll Back Malaria in these countries
• This means that the CAP is not taken seriously at country level because it represents an additional workload from which there is no perceived benefit for the country.
• The need is therefore to advocate for the CAP as a profitable exercise within the Organization.
CAP in review
CONCLUSIONS
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CAP: WHO POSITION
• WHO advocates for health as a cross cutting issue within all sectors and programs
• WHO defines health sector priorities in accordance with the inter-agency common humanitarian strategy, goals, and contribute to the objectives that are formulated in the CAP
• WHO proposes a series of projects that represent field-based core corporate commitments and that are consistant across the different CAP documents
CAP: WHO POSITION
• WHO takes a proactive position in assessing the performance and effectiveness of the health humanitarian program defined in the CAP
• WHO makes sure that an appropriate (and realistically benchmarked) monitoring and evaluation system be in place in each appealing country
CAP: WHO POSITION
• WHO engages in continued in-house capacity building in order to enable WHO field/region/HQ staff to undertake these different tasks within the CAPs
• WHO engages its own institutional resources to implement its work and plays its technical and normative coordinating role in humanitarian crisis
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