The activities proposed hereafter are still subject to the adoption of the financing decision ECHO/WWD/BUD/2016/01000
AMOUNT: EUR 45 000 000
The present Humanitarian Implementation Plan (HIP) was prepared on the basis of financing decision ECHO/WWD/BUD/2016/01000 (Worldwide Decision) and the related General Guidelines for Operational Priorities on Humanitarian Aid (Operational Priorities). The purpose of the HIP and its annex is to serve as a communication tool for ECHO's partners and to assist in the preparation of their proposals. The provisions of the Worldwide Decision and the General Conditions of the Agreement with the European Commission shall take precedence over the provisions in this document.
1. CONTEXT
The countries covered by this Humanitarian Implementation Plan are prone to a variety of natural disasters (floods and droughts, landslides, cyclones, earthquakes, avalanches).
Afghanistan and Pakistan are to differing degrees affected by protracted conflict, insecurity, economic, political and social volatility.
About 7% of the 52 million acutely under-nourished children world-wide live in Afghanistan (1 %) and Pakistan (6.5 %). About half of under-five deaths occur in only five countries: China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Nigeria and Pakistan.
Pakistan has the third largest caseload (3.3 million) of acutely under-nourished children in the world.
Against a backdrop of armed conflict between military and non-state armed groups, inter-ethnic, sectarian disputes, and conflict over scarce resources, the number of conflict-affected internally displaced people (IDPs) continues to rise. Over 100 000 additional people were displaced in Afghanistan in 2015 bringing the total number of internally displaced people to just under one million. In 2015, Pakistan accounted for almost 50% of the entire South Asia region’s internally displaced people. In 2014 alone, 0.7 million people were forced to flee their homes due to military operations in North Waziristan and Khyber agencies. According to UNHCR, approximately 1.55 million registered IDPs are in displacement in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
Afghan Refugees: More than three decades of conflict in Afghanistan have resulted in one of the largest and most protracted refugee crisis in the world. Currently over 2.4 million registered Afghan refugees remain both in Iran (over 950 000) and Pakistan (nearly 1.6 million). Humanitarian needs relating to these groups are also addressed through this HIP.
Access by humanitarian organisations to populations in need is complicated by insecurity in both countries. In Pakistan, restrictions on organisations to operate impede the independent assessment of needs and response in areas with high unmet humanitarian needs, especially KP, FATA and Baluchistan.