Angola

Rapid Response Fund

Project Short Title: Rapid Response Fund Task Manager: Amândio Albano Mavela      International Expert/Advisor: Vacant

Project Documents Rapid Response Fund (Project Document) UNDP Angola Rapid Response Fund for Mine Action : Strategy 2009-2012 Evaluation Reports Rapid response Fund - Evaluation Report 2008 RRF Delivery Report 2007 Status of the the Rapid Response Fund by February 2007

Title:	9. ACP. ANG 02/6 – Mine Action in Angola 2005 to 2006: Consolidation of the national Mine Action authority’s capacity at central and provincial levels
Duration:	Starting Date: - 26 /05/2006;   Ending Estimate date:  26/05/2007  - 24 months including 6 months extension	Status: Ongoing
Budget Amount:	2,130,864 , 00 Euros
SOF:	European Commission and UNDP Trac
Key Achievement Need:	The objective of the fund is to provide the humanitarian partners with a rapid response mechanism to meet short-term emergency mine action needs of vulnerable communities and urgent unforeseen tasks restricting the development of humanitarian and recovery operations.
Modality of Execution:	Direct Execution - DEX
Partnership:	National Inter-Sectoral Commission for De-mining and Humanitarian Assistance (CNIDAH) and Mine Action Operators

Brief Description:

The Rapid Response Fund (RRF) aims to provide mine action operators with financial resources to meet short-term needs of vulnerable communities and urgent/unforeseen tasks restricting the development of humanitarian and recovery operations.  The project complements two ongoing UNDP projects of support to the national mine action authority, that aim to build capacity for mine action coordination, planning, and information management at the central and the provincial levels. The RRF mechanism will be managed directly by UNDP Angola, under the Direct Execution programming modality.

The “Rapid Response Fund for Emergency Mine Action in Angola” responds to the ongoing need throughout 2005-6 for rapid response mechanisms, following the closure, in 2004, of the Rapid Response Fund (RRF) managed by OCHA.  The RRF will function along similar arrangements as those used for the RRF, and aims to support all areas of mine action, including mine-risk education and victim assistance, to a maximum value of USD 200,000 per project, in support of emergency interventions of no more than six months.  The expected outcome of the project is the timely implementation of priority mine action activities.

The total project cost is 2,130,864 Euros for the duration of eighteen months.

Expected results:

The Rapid Response Fund is also integrated with the European Commission’s strategy and programme of support to mine action in Angola in 2005-2006 and will complement the other components of this program.  The programme aims to contribute to the ongoing peace process and the improvement of the overall humanitarian situation, through the provision of support to the return, resettlement, and reintegration process. In particular it will seek to achieve:

A - Safe access to rural areas in mine-affected provinces for resettling demobilized and their families, internally displaced and refugees and humanitarian actors;

B - Reduced risk of land mine and UXO-related accidents for all residents allowing for the resumption of agricultural and economic activities;

C - Improved institutional capacity of national mine action bodies and coordination of mine action operations on provincial and national level in order to increase operational efficiency and ensure that tasks are being performed according to established priorities and plans.

Target areas

The RRF is nationwide project directed to the inhabitants at large, foremost women, children, and in particular IDPs and populations to be resettled in the context of the cessation of the conflict, including ex-combatants and their families. An increase in operational mine action activity, jointly with improved management and coordination of mine actions at the country level, will allow free movement of people and goods and re-open access to income generating activities, once formerly contaminated land can be put to use for agricultural production.

Until September 2007 RRF financed 23 Mine Action projects which allowed the Clearance of 2 hospitals in Kwanza Sul and Huila provinces, 3 primary schools in Bengo, Huila and Lunda Sul provinces, 2 resettlement areas in Moxico and Namibe provinces, 6 bridges in Kwanza Sul province. RRF contributed to the completion of Landmine Impact Survey in Bengo and Cabinda provinces and increasing access of people and goods through signaling 92 of 300 kilometers road connecting the municipalities of Negage and Sanza-Pombo in Uige province. The provisional data captured by September 2007 indicate the clearance of 357756 square meters, removed 1123 AP, 4 AT mines, 334 UXOs and 10421 metals and demarked 92 of 320 kilometers with 4. 981 posts in the road Negage _ Sanza-Pombo. It helped to c create 37 mine awareness groups sustained by local administrations and exposure of over 100 thousands people to the community based approach technique of Mine Risk Education in the provinces of Kwanza Norte, Huambo, Bié, Benguela and Moxico. It was possible to rehabilitate 210 mine victims of which 100 males (20+), 41 females (20+), 19 adolescent girls (1-20 years old), 50 boys (1-20 years old). Assisted indirect beneficiaries per household comprise a number of 60 fe males and 120 children in the provinces of Bengo and Kwanza Sul.