COVID-19 Islamic Relief Humanitarian Assistance 2017-2021
Activity-ID : SE-0-SE-6-10400A0101-PSE-73010Reprogrammed funds to address COVID-19 Support to Islamic Relief Sweden for humanitarian assistance in cooperation with Islamic Relief Worldwide. This decision concerns a major change to the contribution (Contribution Management Rule 3.5.2 §) between Sida and Islamic Relief Sweden to enable the following in 2021: humanitarian support in 7 countries and support to Islamic Relief's Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) to be able to quickly meet the needs of crisis victims in unforeseen or rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crises. The decision includes an extension of the contribution by one year and financial support to Islamic Relief Sweden of SEK 149 million in 2021...
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Reprogrammed funds to address COVID-19 Support to Islamic Relief Sweden for humanitarian assistance in cooperation with Islamic Relief Worldwide. This decision concerns a major change to the contribution (Contribution Management Rule 3.5.2 §) between Sida and Islamic Relief Sweden to enable the following in 2021: humanitarian support in 7 countries and support to Islamic Relief's Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) to be able to quickly meet the needs of crisis victims in unforeseen or rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crises. The decision includes an extension of the contribution by one year and financial support to Islamic Relief Sweden of SEK 149 million in 2021. The total budget for Islamic Relief Sweden amounts to SEK 616.2 million with the following division: 2017: 103 MSEK 2018: 124,05 MSEK 2019: 123,15 MSEK 2020: 117 MSEK 2021: 149 MSEK Seven one-year projects are proposed to be financed with SEK 114 million with the following distribution: ¤ Syria: SEK 30 million Support for healthcare in northwestern Syria ¤ Yemen: SEK 30 million Food and livelihood security, as well as water, sanitation and hygiene in Hodeida and Lahj governorates ¤ Somalia: 10 MSEK Food security, water andsanitation and protection; ¤ Sudan: 10 MSEK Health, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene; food and livelihood security; and safeguards. ¤ Gaza/Palestine: 10 MSEK Ensuring food security and livelihoods through temporary work and food vouchers in Gaza ¤ South Sudan: 12 MSEK Food and supply security;water, sanitation and hygiene; health; nutrition; and shelters in Central Equatoria, Western Bahr el Ghazal and Warrap ¤ Pakistan: 12 MSEK Food and security of supply and water and sanitation in Orakzai Newly Merged District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Furthermore, it is proposed that IR Sweden be granted additional funds to be able to quickly go in with smaller and short efforts in the event of hastily arising crises and acute deterioration of ongoing crises in accordance with Sida's routines in the so-called Rapid Response Mechanism, RRM. For this purpose, SEK 35 million is proposed for 2021. The proposed projects are expected to respond to identified humanitarian needs according to the global and national / regional analyzes carried out within Sida's latest process for allocating humanitarian funds to ongoing major humanitarian crises. Continued support for IR Sweden's humanitarian efforts is deemed relevant to achieve the goals in the Strategy for Sweden's humanitarian aid through Sida 2021 - 2025. Islamic Relief is given the flexibility in the agreement to reallocate up to 10 percent between budget lines in each individual project and program budget. This is to enable an adaptive needs-based humanitarian response in complex and difficult-to-navigate environments. Overall, Sida believes that the added value of the increased flexibility, in the form of time and resource savings that through reduced number of change requests enables a faster, more adaptive and agile humanitarian response, exceeds the reduced detailed knowledge in the planned budgets. Sida estimates that the funds for 2021 will be disbursed immediately. This is to best enable the planning and implementation of the humanitarian response without delay. The programme takes conflict perspectives into account when designing, implementing and evaluating projects within the contribution yet the conflict management is seldom the principle aim of a project. The programme takes gender perspectives into account when designing, implementing and evaluating projects within the contribution yet gender is seldom the principle aim of a project.
Transactions
Type (Click to sort Ascending) | Date (Click to sort Ascending) | Value (Click to sort Ascending) |
|---|---|---|
| Commitment |
3/1/2017
| USD 1,462,864 |
| Disbursement |
3/28/2019
| USD 731,987 |
| Disbursement |
11/28/2019
| USD 101,524 |
| Disbursement |
3/28/2020
| USD 373,139 |
| Disbursement |
4/28/2020
| USD 128,669 |
Policy markers
Marker (Click to sort Ascending) | Principal objective (Click to sort Ascending) | Significant objective (Click to sort Ascending) | Not targeted (Click to sort Ascending) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender Equality | |||
| Aid to Environment | |||
| Participatory Development/Good Governance | |||
| Trade Development | |||
| Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity | |||
| Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Framework Convention on Climate Change - Mitigation | |||
| Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Framework Convention on Climate Change - Adaptation | |||
| Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Convention to Combat Desertification | |||
| Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH) | |||
| Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) | |||
| Disability |
Documents
- Avtalsändring 2, Islamic Relief Sveriges humanitära program - pdf
- Avtalsändring 9, Islamic Relief Sveriges humanitära program - pdf
- Beslut om avtalsändring 9, Islamic Relief humanitärt stöd - pdf
- Beslut om avtalsändring 5, Islamic Relief humanitärt stöd 2017-2019 - pdf
- Avtalsändring 4, Islamic Relief Sveriges humanitära program - pdf
- Avtalsändring 10 av avtalet om Sida bidrag till Islamic Relief Sveriges humanitära program - pdf
- Avtalsändring 11 av avtalet om Sida bidrag till Islamic Relief Sveriges humanitära program - pdf
- Avtal om bidrag till Islamic Relief Sveriges humanitära program 2017-2019 - pdf
- Avtalsändring 1, Islamic Relief Sveriges humanitära program - pdf
- Avtalsändring 5, Islamic Relief Sveriges humanitära program - pdf
- Beslut om avtalsändring 7, Islamic Relief humanitärt stöd 2017-2019 - pdf
- Beslut om avtalsändring 3, Islamic Relief humanitärt stöd 2017-2019 - pdf
- Beslut om avtalsändring 4, Islamic Relief humanitärt stöd 2017-2019 - pdf
- Beslut om ändring av insats, 2021-000906, Islamic Relief Humanitärt Stöd 2017-2021 - pdf
- Avtalsändring 3, Islamic Relief Sveriges humanitära program - pdf
- Avtalsändring 6, Islamic Relief Sveriges humanitära program - pdf
- Beslut om avtalsändring 2, Islamic Relief humanitärt stöd 2017-2019 - pdf
- Beslut om avtalsändring 6, Islamic Relief humanitärt stöd 2017-2019 - pdf
- Beslut om avtalsändring 8, Islamic Relief humanitärt stöd - pdf
- Beslut om insats, Islamic Relief humanitärt stöd 2017-2019 - pdf
- Beslut om ändring av insats, 2021-000747, Islamic Relief Humanitärt stöd 2017-2021 - pdf
- Avtalsändring 7, Islamic Relief Sveriges humanitära program - pdf
- Avtalsändring 8, Islamic Relief Sveriges humanitära program - pdf
- Beslut om avtalsändring 1, Islamic Relief humanitärt stöd 2017-2019 - pdf
Results
Expected results
The intended outcome of the support to Islamic Relief Sweden in 2021 is to contribute to alleviation of humanitarian needs of vulnerable communities in Yemen, Syria, Palestine (Gaza), Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan. Through Sida's Rapid Response Mechanism, Islamic Relief will continue to provide immediate and rapid humanitarian support to persons affected by sudden onset or deteriorating crises.
Results
Activities began on 1 May 2021 in 7 country operations: Pakistan, Palestine (Gaza), Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. As of 1 July 2021, 3 RRM-applications have been approved: Nepal, South Sudan and Ethiopia. It is yet too soon to provide examples of the results achieved during 2021. Over the years, evaluations and assessments have nevertheless confirmed and highlighted several strengths and comparative advantages of Islamic Relief. The organisation is assessed to be particularly strong in terms of gaining acceptance and adapting humanitarian operations to the target groups in insecure and hard-to-reach areas. They apply an integrated and multi-sectoral approach to save lives and decrease vulnerabilities combining several sectors, including health, water and sanitation (WASH), and food security and livelihoods (FSL). As a faith based organisation and policy leader on Islamic humanitarianism, Islamic Reliefs identity helps it connect with and gain the trust of vulnerable Muslim communities. Islamic Reliefs local knowledge, access and decentralised decision-making have been key factors in the success of projects implemented in the field. In 2019, this comparative advantage was evident in saving lives and reducing suffering through improved access to potable water, food security and livelihoods of 41,892 vulnerable people in Yemen. As Yemen remains the largest food security emergency in the world, Islamic Relief Yemen closely coordinated with the Food Security and Agriculture Cluster (FSAC) and target communities to select the most vulnerable households and assistance modalities, effectively improving food security, access to safe drinking water and improved hygiene of the targeted households, while contributing to increased resilience and livelihoods and a reduction of negative coping mechanisms within the communities. In Syria, Islamic Relief provided essential access to health services for nearly 700,000 conflict affected people through 59 health facilities in North-West Syria, in areas where this care would otherwise be unavailable. This intervention has taken extensive measures to improve access, particularly for the most vulnerable, through improving access infrastructure in healthcare facilities, providing capacity building to center staff, and providing free, unconditional healthcare to all patients. In South Sudan, Islamic Relief reduced general suffering and saved lives through a multi-sectoral strategy that improved access to water, sanitation and hygiene, food security, livelihoods, health and nutrition among 49,926 conflict-affected internally displaced persons, returnees and host communities. These results will be updated in the beginning of November 2022 once the latest report has been submitted by Islamic Relief.