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<strong>Plan</strong>’s global spend in 2012<br />
€60 million<br />
Strengthening our<br />
response<br />
Big disasters reconfigure lives <strong>and</strong> l<strong>and</strong>scapes <strong>and</strong><br />
devastate communities – children are often the<br />
worst hit. <strong>Plan</strong>’s immediate response is to meet the<br />
urgent needs of children (such as food <strong>and</strong> water).<br />
<strong>Plan</strong> prioritises child protection <strong>and</strong> education to<br />
re-establish a sense of security <strong>and</strong> normality.<br />
Child-friendly spaces help to ensure children’s<br />
safety <strong>and</strong> help to heal emotionally. A key focus<br />
is to safeguard children from harm <strong>and</strong><br />
exploitation both during <strong>and</strong> after disasters.<br />
In Liberia, <strong>Plan</strong>’s integrated education <strong>and</strong> child<br />
protection programme is responding to the<br />
growing influx of refugees from the Cote D’Ivoire<br />
by establishing child welfare committees (made<br />
up of Liberians <strong>and</strong> refugees of all ages <strong>and</strong> both<br />
genders) in 18 communities. The members are<br />
being trained to respond to <strong>and</strong> prevent child<br />
abuse, exploitation, violence <strong>and</strong> neglect.<br />
In the face of the growing number of emergencies,<br />
we have strengthened our response in a number of<br />
ways, including delivering training, recruiting more<br />
operational <strong>and</strong> technical experts, <strong>and</strong> revising our<br />
systems to improve performance. “The big difference<br />
we can make in a country is largely due to our<br />
disaster preparedness process, a capacity-building<br />
exercise unique to <strong>Plan</strong>,” says Dr Unni Krishnan,<br />
<strong>Plan</strong>’s Head of Disaster Preparedness <strong>and</strong> Response.<br />
“Remarkable progress” in<br />
disaster risk management<br />
In 2012, <strong>Plan</strong> engaged an independent consultant<br />
to review our progress in implementing our disaster<br />
risk management work against our 2009 policy.<br />
The review identified “remarkable progress” in<br />
practically all aspects of our work in this field,<br />
including better emergency responses, effective<br />
alert systems <strong>and</strong> preparedness processes,<br />
<strong>and</strong> increased fundraising.<br />
The review also identified some areas for<br />
improvement, such as <strong>Plan</strong>’s response to slow-onset<br />
disasters. Slow recruitment or procurement can<br />
lead to poor performance, <strong>and</strong> we are working to<br />
improve in these areas. “We don’t want separate<br />
procurement processes in emergencies – we want<br />
good processes that can be carried out quickly,”<br />
says Roger Yates, Director of Disaster Management.<br />
<strong>Plan</strong> on the global stage<br />
Sub-Saharan Africa<br />
Broadening our reach to meet the need<br />
<strong>Plan</strong> is developing the flexibility to address emergencies<br />
wherever they occur, even if these are beyond our<br />
established programme areas. For example, in 2012,<br />
food crises <strong>and</strong> drought took us into new areas of<br />
operation in the Sahel <strong>and</strong> the Horn of Africa.<br />
In the Sahel, <strong>Plan</strong> deployed more than 31 disaster<br />
response experts in five countries, focusing on<br />
access to food, child protection, education, water<br />
<strong>and</strong> sanitation, <strong>and</strong> children’s health. In Burkina Faso,<br />
we built two boreholes, 96 latrines <strong>and</strong> 81 showers<br />
at three refugee camps, benefiting 16,620 refugees.<br />
We also established 16 primary school classes <strong>and</strong><br />
five preschool classes, <strong>and</strong> distributed school kits<br />
benefiting 993 children in two refugee camps.<br />
In the Horn of Africa, we set up ongoing programmes<br />
in five drought-stricken areas new to <strong>Plan</strong>, to help<br />
nearly 1.2 million people, including children, rebuild<br />
their lives. We raised €23.2 million <strong>and</strong> provided food<br />
to communities <strong>and</strong> supplementary feeding in schools<br />
<strong>and</strong> health centres, as well as water, health<br />
<strong>and</strong> sanitation training <strong>and</strong> facilities.<br />
<strong>Plan</strong> has become a key player in child-centred disaster risk reduction. <strong>Plan</strong>:<br />
• is the deputy chair of the Sphere Project to improve quality <strong>and</strong> accountability in the humanitarian sector<br />
• is a member of the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership<br />
• sits on global working groups on Education in Emergencies <strong>and</strong> Child Protection in Emergencies<br />
• is a member of the UN Inter-agency St<strong>and</strong>ing Committee Reference Group on Mental Health <strong>and</strong> Psychosocial Support in Emergencies<br />
• <strong>Plan</strong>’s Director of Disaster Risk Management is a member of the board of the International Council of Voluntary Agencies.<br />
DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT<br />
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