Islamic Relief Humanitarian Assistance 2017-2021

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.