OCHA Situation Report No. 7
Sudan: Darfur
13 March 2008


Source:
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Population movements and returns
West Darfur

- UNHCR Zalingei is currently preparing a data base to be used for 
consolidating information on new arrivals and camp populations.

- On 8 February, UNHCR Mornei registered 61 families (201 individuals) as 
new arrivals from Chad. Nineteen of these families were reunited with 
relatives who were already in Um Shalaya camp.

- UNHCR Mukjar prepared and provided to the Ministry of Health (MoH) a 
list of newly born children in the Mukjar refugee camp to facilitate the 
issuance of birth certificates.

- On 25 February, UNHCR Sub Office (SO) El Geneina organized a working 
session aimed at mainstreaming psychosocial response across the various 
tiers of response to Sexual and Gender based Violence (SGBV).

- UNHCR Zalingei contributed 20 footballs to five schools run by the 
Danish Refugee Council (DRC) in the Jebel Marra district.

- Four IDP households inside Habila were given Non-Food Item (NFI) 
assistance by UNHCR following a fire incident.

- Due to a fire incident next to the UNHCR compound in Mukjar NFIs, 
including plastic sheets, blankets and kitchen sets, were provided to 
eight families.

- UNHCR Mukjar funded the travel of two teachers from Mukjar to attend the 
advanced UNDP/ACHR Rule of Law Training of Trainers course held in 
Khartoum from 20-24 February 2008.

- Through the support of the UNHCR Gender Officer, an inter agency team 
was trained on Age, Gender and Diversity Mainstreaming (AGDM) processes. 
Protection Staff were also trained on interviewing and SGBV case 
management.

- UNHCR Zalingei assisted Mercy Corp (MC) with an NFI distribution in 
Hassa Hissa camp for 390 new arrived households (HH) from Warraga, Golo 
and Teriga.

- In Um Shalaya refugee camp, UNHCR distributed food on 10-12 February for 
6090 individual refugees, with no incidents reported.

- In Um Shalaya refugee camp on 7 and 9 February, UNHCR, through the 
Medair hygiene promotion team, distributed sanitary materials to 1500 
women.

- On 5 February, UNHCR issued 3102 pieces of sanitary material to Catholic 
Relief Services (CRS) for distribution in the El Geneina IDP camps.

- On 19 February, UNHCR issued 4568 sanitary wear material pieces to 
Comite d'Aide Medicale (CAM) for distribution through their medical 
clinics in El Geneina and to the corridor north of El Geneina (when it 
opens up following the cessation of hostilities).

- UNHCR in Zalingei contributed 390 plastic sheeting, 750 blankets and 390 
kitchen sets for the new arrivals at Hassa Hissa camp. On 7 February, 
these were distributed by MC and Norwegian Church Aid (NCA).

- Phase four of the UNHCR Habila shelter project is nearly completed, with 
only one house remaining to be constructed by the youth volunteers and 
three more houses to receive fencing. Throughout 2007-08, through Help Age 
International (HAI), UNHCR has supervised the construction of over 90 
houses.

- UNHCR in Mukjar has provided shelter materials for 14 new refugees' 
families have been provided.

-- UNHCR Mukjar sent 2000 kitchen sets to Triangle in Um Dukhun in 
preparation for distribution in the near future.

- UNHCR Mukjar, in February, distributed baskets of NFIs to refugees who 
has arrived in Mukjar before July 2007 (92 families) and also to new 
arrivals (14 families).

Needs and response by sector

Food Security and Livelihoods

North Darfur

- 6,308 new arrivals in Kabkabiya received emergency food assistance from 
WFP, pending verification.

- Joint rapid food security assessments were carried out by WFP and German 
Agro Action in the following North Darfur locations: Hamrats and Damrats. 
Other assessments are planned in Abdel Shakour, El Dor and Um Shiddig.

South Darfur

- 1,958 newly displaced people were registered by WFP in the Ed Daein 
area, while about 850 new arrivals were registered in Kass.

- Two convoys of returnees departed South Darfur for Northern Bahr Al 
Ghazal in southern Sudan. A total of 812 returnees received a 15-day 
transit food ration from WFP.

West Darfur

- WFP and partners distributed food rations to 8,397 people in El Geneina, 
Armankul and Um Shalaya refugee camp in the preceding week.

- Save the Children USA has delivered 93.9 MT of food to 6,002 
beneficiaries in Hujaj, Jamaa and Abu Zar in West Darfur between 2 and 5 
March.

Health and Nutrition

- UNFPA is supporting a training (TOT) on clinical management of rape 
guidelines with the Federal Ministry of Health at Khartoum on 16 through 
18 of March for medical cadre from states of Khartoum ? Kassala and S. 
Kordofan. Same training will be replicated in the three states of Darfur 
immediately after the one of Khartoum is over. Training will be supervised 
by a UNFPA international consultant. Clinical management of rape 
guidelines are the WHO adopted guidelines to the context of Sudan and 
translated into Arabic by Ministry of Health and with support of UNFPA.

North Darfur

- Following reports to WHO of suspected cases of diphtheria in Dar Semiat 
area (40km north of El Fasher), the 2nd workshop on diphtheria cases 
definition and management was conducted for 20 medical assistants to 
support the teams in case of need for more mobile clinics. 3 clinics 
located in selected village centres with capacity of 2 MAs and 2 
vaccinators each, are doing consultations and routine EPI activities.

- Two supervisory missions were conducted to the area by the State 
Ministry of Health surveillance team and EPI to assess the situation and 
to provide the mobile clinics with needed medications and supplies. WHO 
with UNICEF are closely following the situation to supporting SMOH and the 
mobile clinics operating in villages.

- A one-day workshop/working session for environmental health Technical 
Officers was held on 03rd March 2008 in WHO North Darfur sub-office. The 
workshop is aimed at sharing information among Darfur environmental health 
pillar teams and harmonize the activities among Darfur states.

- In response to an increasing density of flies in Zamzam camp, WHO 
supported PLAN Sudan in implementing a spraying campaign and dusting of 
latrines in the camp.

- Meanwhile, to address the issue of water quality monitoring - WHO 
supported the State Ministry of Health in its water quality monitoring 
activities for Abu shook and El-Salam camps covering 6 water tanks and 2 
tap stands. In line with environmental health activities, WHO led the 
meeting with the local health ministry and Save the Children-US and 
discussed with them the solid waste management policies of SMoH and the 
existing mechanisms. WHO provided assorted waste containers and other 
cleaning tools to Geneina Hospital.

South Darfur

- WHO Communicable Diseases and Control and the State Ministry of Health 
(SMoH) held its weekly task force meeting to review the meningitis 
situation and expressed satisfaction on state preparedness in event of 
meningitis outbreak. WHO and Epidemiology Department (SMoH) conducted the 
first session of meningitis training workshops including the case 
management and reporting for the medical doctors working mainly in Nyala 
and its surrounding camps. The same training will be conducted for the 
rest of the medical cadres working in IDP camps in Nyala. Enhanced 
surveillance through the early warning, alert, and response system for 
reporting of suspected meningitis cases and pre positioned medical drugs 
and supplies in localities.

West Darfur

- The World Health Organization (WHO) distributed soft copies in Arabic 
and English guidelines on Clinical Management of Rape to all health 
partners in West Darfur dealing with gender-based violence cases in their 
primary health clinics. The WHO also facilitated the meeting with the 
gender-based violence working group to discuss achievements and 
constraints in 2007 and drawn out a plan for 2008.

- WHO is working closely with health partners in West Darfur to finalize 
the baseline information of the health facility infrastructure and human 
resources. Response has been appreciated by health partners as this will 
eventually help identify gaps and also assist in response and covering the 
gaps.

- WHO continues to monitor and provide technical support to targeted 
hospitals in 6 state hospitals. Free access of IDPs to health services has 
been closely monitored by WHO. El Geneina Hospital has been provided with 
new safety boxes for sharp collection and 1000 examination gloves.

A total of 3,027 patients visited Save the Children's 6 clinics in West 
Darfur for health related illnesses and injuries. 1552 were children under 
5. 199 patients visited Mornei clinic, 601 patients visited the clinic in 
Habila, 643 patients visited the Krenik clinic, 299 patients visited the 
Gimeiza Babiker clinic, 454 patients visited the Hagar Bagar clinic and 
831 patients visited the Ruhal Bokhat clinic.

NFIs & Emergency Shelter

West Darfur

- The Embassy of Japan in Khartoum has concluded a grant contract with 
Human Security Initiative Organization, a local NGO, to enable them to 
distribute blankets and school supplies at the Kalma Camp in Southern 
Darfur State through Grant Assistance for Grassroots and Human Security 
Projects (GGHSP).

Protection and Human Rights

West Darfur

- On March 10th, a celebration for International Women's Day was held in 
one of Save the Children USA's Women Centres in Riyadh camp. Through 
keynote addresses, poetry, and dramatic events, women shared their 
experiences of women's empowerment and capacity building. UN agencies and 
NGOs attended.

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