Summary:
CHF 266,514 was allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) on 7 February 2013 to support the National Society in delivering assistance to 700 flood affected households or 3500 beneficiaries.
Zimbabwe Red Cross has been providing assistance to families affected by the floods that hit the country since December 2012 and continued up to February 2013. With support from IFRC, the National Society has provided relief to households whose livelihoods, water and sanitation facilities were destroyed in the wake of the floods associated with heavy storms in some parts of the country. The planned relief stocks were provided by the IFRC Southern Africa regional office with technical support from IFRC’s logistics unit in Dubai.
The relief aspect of the operation have been carried out with the exception of latrines construction phase which unfortunately had to be delayed due to waterlogging in the targeted areas for construction.
Another unforeseen development of the DREF operation was the devastating effects of the hailstorm which affected 300 households in Mberengwa and yet to be specified number of households in Masvingo (Mwenezi and Chiredzi) in the third week of April 2013. As human resources had to be diverted to respond to this new disaster, and coupled with the delay in the construction of latrines, a one-month extension of the DREF operation, initially planned to end on 7 May 2013, is requested.
The Belgian Red Cross/ Belgian government and Netherlands Red Cross/ Netherlands government contributed to the replenishment of the DREF allocation made for this operation.
The major donors and partners of DREF include the Australian, American and Belgian governments, the Austrian Red Cross, the Canadian Red Cross and government, Danish Red Cross and government, DG ECHO, the Irish and the Italian governments, the Japanese Red Cross Society, the Luxembourg government, the Monaco Red Cross and government, the Netherlands Red Cross and government, the Norwegian Red Cross and government, the Spanish Government, the Swedish Red Cross and government, the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID), the Medtronic and Z Zurich Foundations, and other corporate and private donors. The IFRC, on behalf of MRCS, would like to extend thanks to all for their generous contributions. Details of DREF contributions are found on: http://www.ifrc.org/what/disasters/responding/drs/tools/dref/donors.asp