Transcript CAP Generic Presentation 2011

The Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP)
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What is a CAP
The Consolidated Appeal
Process is much more than
an appeal for money.
It is a tool used by aid
organisations to plan,
implement and monitor their
activities - together.
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Why do we need it
Appeals bring aid
organisations and donors and
governments together to:
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present strategic approaches to
humanitarian crises
plan, coordinate, implement & monitor
response
appeal for funds cohesively
Each appeal:
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presents an action plan & set of projects
serves as a road map of required actions
& funding needs
ensures funds are spent strategically,
efficiently & with greater accountability
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Supply and Demand
• Supply side and demand side: which instruments are
related to which side?
• Common humanitarian action plans and their selected
projects (Consolidated and Flash Appeals) aim to
organize the demand side.
• Humanitarian finance reforms, such as pooled funds and
the Good Humanitarian Donorship initiative, aim to
improve the supply side.
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What is the CAP’s rationale?
 To avoid competing and overlapping
appeals
 To provide a framework for strategic,
coordinated, and inclusive programming
 To serve as an inventory of priority
humanitarian project proposals, and a
barometer of funding response.
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Who is involved?
 Resident/Humanitarian
Coordinator
 UN Agencies
 NGOs
Red Cross/Red Crescent
Movement
Donors
Affected country government
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Flash Appeals & Consolidated Appeals
Flash Appeal
Issued within 5 days of
the onset of an
emergency for up to 3-6
months
Consolidated Appeal
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Issued within 3-6
months of
emergency, and
annually as
needed
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Elements of a Consolidated Appeal
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Context & needs analysis
Scenarios
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Strategic priorities
Sector-specific response plan
Monitoring plan
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Common
Humanitarian
Action Plan
(CHAP)
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Inventory of projects necessary to accomplish the strategy
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The Consolidated Appeal Process:
an inclusive, coordinated programme cycle
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Typical CAP
• Sector/cluster coordination (year around), needs
assessments;
• CAP workshop;
• Clusters make response plans & collect projects;
• OCHA-field writes general sections, circulates to country team
& HC, sends to GVA (by mid-Oct);
• Document shared with IASC HQs for comments & finalisation;
• Global CAP launch (end Nov);
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Then…
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Field launches;
Kick-off meeting;
Mid-year review;
Next year’s CAP workshop…
Ongoing:
• Needs assessments;
• Monitoring;
• Financial tracking.
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Flash AppealsIndicative time frame from crisis onset
Day 1
HC/RC triggers appeal, in consultation with HCT and government
Day 2-3 HC/RC and HCT establish strategic priorities, planning
assumptions, and criteria
Day 1-3 Clusters/sectors conduct rapid needs assessment and prepare
sectoral response plans with partners to input to appeal
Day 4
Day 5
RC/HC, with support from OCHA, consolidates response plans
into appeal
OCHA CAP section shares draft with IASC HQs for 24 hr review
Day 6-7 OCHA CAP section processes & electronically publishes appeal
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Example of a project
summary box
SHELTER CLUSTER
OXFAM
PHL-09/SNF/27810
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Project Title
Emergency Shelter and NFIs
Assistance to Affected Population
in Bulacan, Rizal, Laguna, Cavite,
and in NCR if required
Objective
Provide emergency shelter and
NFIs to families whose houses
have been destroyed to ensure
privacy and dignity, particularly for
women and children
Beneficiaries
10,000 families (55,000 people).
The target group for the
programme includes womenheaded households, daily wage
labourers, landless (both urban
and rural).
Partners
PDRN
Office for the Coordination
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1,000,000
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Revising Flash Appeals
 Revisions are necessary because flash appeals are, of necessity, written within
a short timeframe and using incomplete information
 Revisions take place within 4 weeks of the publication of the original appeal
(using the On-line Project System (OPS)
 Revisions also accomplish the following:
 Present up-to-date information
 Outline progress made
 Assess the effectiveness of current strategy
 Update sector/cluster response plans
 Reprioritize humanitarian response activities
 Analyze funding
 Advocate for donor support
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Agency/NGO’s role
• Being proactive in the process;
• Participating in sectoral needs assessment;
• Helping develop sector response plan;
• Presenting realistic project proposals;
• Engaging individually with donors;
• Reporting on activities;
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Cluster lead’s role
• leading sectoral needs assessment (identify priority needs);
• consulting with the government (gvt-action, gaps, advocacy for CAP);
• developing sector response plan (strategy, priorities);
• gathering project proposals inclusively (incl. NGOs);
• vetting project proposals ‘ruthlessly’ /prioritising projects;
• leading the monitoring and evaluation process;
• advocating for funding for their sector and advising donors;
• monitoring sector funding;
• updating and revising sector strategy and projects (OPS/FTS);
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HC office’s role
• Triggering the appeal and leading the country team;
• Participating in the development of a strategy;
• Liaising with the government at diplomatic level;
• Supporting the CT in establishing firm selection and
prioritization criteria, and ensuring fairness and transparency in
these processes;
• Ensuring a good quality document id presented, on time;
• Advocates for the CT in terms of funding;
• Final decision-maker in the process;
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Agency HQ’s role
• Supporting their field team in the elaboration of the appeal;
• Substantively reviewing the document and projects during
HQ review;
• Advocating for funding;
• Reporting to FTS
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Further information
• www.unocha.org
• www.humanitarianappeal.net
• http://fts.unocha.org
• http://ops.unocha.org
• www.reliefweb.int
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