The Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) is an advocacy tool for humanitarian financing, in which projects managed by the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...

, NGOs and other stakeholders come together to approach the donor community funding international development activities. The target of the CAP is long term development, whereas the

Central Emergency Response Fund The Central Emergency Response Fund (, CERF/FCIU) is a humanitarian fund established by the United Nations General Assembly on December 15, 2005 and launched in March 2006. With CERF’s objectives to 1) promote early action and response to reduc ...

(CERF), started in 2006, targets sudden onset humanitarian crisis such as

natural disaster A natural disaster is "the negative impact following an actual occurrence of natural hazard in the event that it significantly harms a community". A natural disaster can cause loss of life or damage property, and typically leaves some econ ...

s. The 2011 CAP seeks USD 7.4 billion to help 50 million people in 28 countries. The 2006 CAP was covered by the donor community to 63%.

Structure

As of 2006 the CAP is divided into ‘clusters’, representing the various groups of implementing agencies in

humanitarian aid Humanitarian aid is material and logistic assistance to people who need help. It is usually short-term help until the long-term help by the government and other institutions replaces it. Among the people in need are the homeless, refugees, and ...

. The humanitarian principles drive the formulation of the CAP. The humanitarian need on the ground is assessed by the stakeholders, to ensure that appeals’ funding requests are grounded in solid evidence.

2006 CAP

In 2006 the United Nations and its partner humanitarian agencies fed 97 million people in 82 countries, including 6.5 million people in the

Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...

; vaccinated over 30 million children against measles in emergency situations, including 51% of the under-five children in the

Central African Republic The Central African Republic (CAR; ; , RCA; , or , ) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the southeast, the DR Congo to the south, the Republic of th ...

; supported hundreds of emergency health facilities, including 210 health centres in

Burundi Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili language, Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French language, French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the ...

; created hundreds of emergency education facilities; supplied safe drinking water to millions of crisis-affected people, for example 214 new boreholes drilled for displaced people’s camps in

Uganda }), is a landlocked country in East Africa East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territor ...

; provided protection and assistance to some 20 million refugees and displaced persons; and supported child protection activities in some 150 countries. In August 2007 the UN, under the leadership of acting

Humanitarian Coordinator The Humanitarian Coordinator is the senior-most United Nations official in a country experiencing a humanitarian emergency. The Humanitarian Coordinator is appointed by the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emerge ...

for the

David Gressly David Gressly is the United Nations Resident Coordinator / Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemenhttps://www.un.org/sg/en/content/profiles/william-gressly. Prior to that he was the United Nations Deputy Special Representative for the Democratic Repub ...

, launched a ''flash appeal'' for the response to the

2007 Sudan floods On 3 July 2007, flash floods during Sudan's rainy season devastated much of the country's central, southern, and western regions. The Sudanese government referred to the floods as the "worst in living memory". An estimated 200,000 Sudanese were ...

for just over US$20 million.

2007 CAP

As of January 2008, the Appeal for

Chad Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic ...

appears to be the best-funded worldwide, at 97%''Humanitarian Needs and Response in Chad (Weekly Bulletin)''

, 9 January 2008

2009 CAP

See link below for the Humanitarian Appeal 2009

External links

Official website
hosted by OCHA.
Humanitarian Appeal 2009
hosted by OCHA

References