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In large emergencies, coordination can be complex and challenging, but also critical to the overall efficiency and effectiveness of a humanitarian response.
In the past two years the CaLP has also played a key role in providing emergency technical support and coordination to humanitarian actors implementing cash-based programming in response to the Haiti earthquake, the Pakistan floods, Ivory Coast post-election violence and the Horn and East Africa drought crisis.
CaLP will continue to provide fixed-term emergency capacity to large emergencies, with a focus on creating sustainable coordination and technical support mechanisms that will remain in-country after CaLP’s departure.
“Drought is caused by nature, but famine is man-made.” As a result of 2 seasons of failed rains, nearly 12.5 million people in the Horn and East Africa have been affected by drought and are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.
Evidence gathered from local and regional actors in the past weeks suggest that in many areas affected by the drought, markets are still functioning and supplies from less-affected countries in the region are capable of meeting increased demand. In these areas, cash-based interventions or a mix of cash and in-kind assistance would be a feasible and appropriate response to help meet urgent food needs and to keep fragile local markets from collapsing. CaLP is supporting humanitarian actors planning or implementing cash-based responses through coordination, information-sharing and capacity building.
In June 2011, CaLP deployed a short-term cash focal point to Man, in Western Ivory Coast, in order to support actors implementing or planning cash-based interventions in response to the humanitarian crisis created by post election violence in the end of 2010 and beginning of 2011.