Emergency Relief
Total Expenditure on Urgent Relief
for the Fiscal Year 2004/2005
|
Continent |
No. of
countries |
No. of
beneficiaries |
No of
containers |
Wt. of
in-kind materials/kg. |
Estimated
Value |
Shipping
cost |
Cash spent
On u. relief |
Total exp.
S.R. |
|
Asia |
13 |
499,800 |
38 |
725,436 |
3,230,680 |
170,242 |
6,912,852 |
10,313,774 |
|
Africa |
17 |
309,791 |
17 |
191,888 |
995,036 |
227,422 |
5,069,989 |
6,292,447 |
|
Europe |
6 |
47,845 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
929,654 |
929,654 |
|
Total |
36 |
857,436 |
55 |
917,324 |
4,225,716 |
397,664 |
12,912,495 |
17,535,875 |
The Emergency Relief Program aims at providing humanitarian aid and
emergency relief to victims of natural or man-made disasters in various
parts of the world
Major objectives
-
Extending
emergency aid to victims of war and natural disasters all over the
world.
- Taking care of refugees and displaced persons
by providing them with all forms of relief items.
- Finding ways and means of reaching the
victims as early as possible.
- Cooperating with all parties concerned with
emergency relief operation in order to achieve effective results.
- Mitigating the sufferings of the injured.
- Boosting the morale of the victims
spiritually.
- Providing the donor documentary
evidence of the situation among the refugees and the displaced.
Job specification of the department:
-
The
program uses information received to draw plans and programs of
providing emergency relief on the ground.
- The program collects and classifies
information so as to help in decision making with regard to relief
operations.
- The program sets standards and classifies
relief requirements for each area.
- The program takes charge of the material
donations made to the IIROSA and arranges shipment to affected
countries according to actual need.
- The program collaborates with other parties, with cash and material donations, in order to acquire
support.
-
The
program sets up refugee camps and caters to the basic needs of the
refugees and other victims.
- The program coordinates and participates
with domestic and external offices in implementing relief
operations.
- The program cooperates with other agencies
at the headquarters in extending specialized services to victims.
- The program sends representatives to
affected areas to oversee implementation of the emergency relief
operations on the ground.
- The program undertakes documentation of
relief operations through various forms of illustrations.
- The program participates in various
refresher courses designed to raise the skills of persons
in charge of relief operations and services.
- The program coordinates with international
relief organizations and institutions in the field of emergency
relief operations.
-
The
program supervises the income and the expenditure of the emergency
relief fiscal account and prepares periodical fiscal reports.
- The program prepares annual reports about
its accomplishments.
- The program participates and submits
proposals on improving the standard of performance to the periodical
meetings of the IIROSA.
- The program takes part in preparing
polyglots and guides concerning emergency relief.
- The program considers and follows up reports
concerning various relief operations.
- The program is responsible for preparing the
emergency relief budget.
- The program is responsible for informing
the about services extended to the
beneficiaries.
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