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USAID-DCHA
Southern Africa humanitarian assistance in review, FY 2002 -
2011
US
Embassy
November 28, 2011
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Cyclical drought, food insecurity, disease outbreaks, prolonged
complex emergencies, environmental degradation, and limited government
capacity present significant challenges to vulnerable populations
throughout the Southern Africa region. Between Fiscal Year (FY)
2002 and FY 2011, USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster
Assistance (USAID/OFDA) and USAID's Office of Food for Peace
(USAID/FFP) provided humanitarian assistance in response to a diverse
range of natural and manmade disasters, including complex emergencies
in Angola, Madagascar, and Zimbabwe; floods throughout Southern
Africa; cyclones in Madagascar and Mozambique; a Marburg virus outbreak
in Angola; cholera outbreaks in Comoros and Zimbabwe; drought-induced
food insecurity in Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia,
and Zimbabwe; a locust outbreak in Madagascar; a tsunami in Seychelles;
refugee returns in Angola; and an earthquake in Malawi.
Between FY 2002
and FY 2011, USAID provided nearly $1.3 billion in humanitarian
assistance to Southern Africa, including more than $185 million
from USAID/OFDA for agriculture and food security, economic recovery
and market systems, health, humanitarian coordination and information
management, logistics and relief commodities, nutrition, protection,
shelter and settlements, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)
interventions and nearly $1.1 billion from USAID/FFP for emergency
food assistance.
In the last
decade, USAID deployed multiple humanitarian assessment and response
teams to the region, including a Disaster Assistance Response Team
(DART) for the 2008/2009 cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe.
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