Jersey Overseas Aid Commission: Annual Report 2016.

R.6/2018

The Commission

Chairman:   Deputy Carolyn Labey  

Members:  Mr. Peter Le Seelleur, Vice Chairman

Connetable Michel Le Troquer Deputy Judy Martin

Mrs. Toni Roberts  

Mr. Douglas Melville

Executive Officers

Director:

Mr. Simon Boas

Simon Boas has over a decade of experience  designing, implementing and evaluating aid projects in developing countries. He has managed UN Offices  and Programmes in the Middle East and South Asia,  and has selected and overseen scores of grants  

to NGOs. His experience runs from long-term  development policy-making (in which he has  

a Master s Degree) to humanitarian programming  and immediate post-disaster relief. Simon began  working for Jersey Overseas Aid in October 2016.

Operations   Manager  

Ms. Trudy Le Bas

Trudy Le Bas is a Project Manager, her background  is originally maritime-based and she is a qualified  marine surveyor. Her previous roles include with  Jersey Harbours and Social Housing, and she has  extensive experience of business operations. Trudy  began working for Jersey Overseas Aid in June 2016.

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CONTENTS

1 Chairman s Foreword  3

Grant Aid  17 Emergency Aid  31 Community Work Projects  33 Jersey Charities Working Overseas  34 Financial Accounts

CHAIRMAN S FOREWORD

Deputy Carolyn Labey Chairman June 2017

It is a source of great pride to me and I hope the Island as a whole that every year Jersey Overseas Aid brings life-changing assistance

to at least as many people as live on our little North-Atlantic rock. We ve been doing it, and doing it well, for almost half a century. However, it has been wisely observed since ancient times that in order to change the outside world you must also be prepared to change yourself.

This year saw us introduce further reforms

and improvements to the way Jersey Overseas Aid operates, which will increase both the effectiveness and the efficiency of the help Jersey provides to the world s most vulnerable people.

A major change to the way we operate was the narrowing down of the number of countries we focus on. In 2016 Commissioners agreed that our development grant programme (normally about 70% of our budget) would be better focussed on fewer places. This would enable Jersey to achieve greater impact in each place, encourage projects to build on each other s successes, and allow us to build up more knowledge about local priorities and more expertise about what works where. Sixteen countries were selected (Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Zambia; Bhutan, Nepal and Myanmar; Bolivia, Colombia and Guatemala), chosen on the basis of needs (as represented by Human Development Index Scores), and the likely ability of our money to effect lasting change (using Transparency International s Corruption Perceptions score as a proxy). As far as I know, this makes us the only donor in the world to formally take corruption into account when targeting our aid.

Another key development in this reform process in 2016 was the creation of the new role of Executive Director, someone with professional knowledge of the sector and hands-on experience of commissioning and delivering aid projects. After an international recruitment process overseen by the Jersey Appointments Commission, we were delighted to appoint Simon Boas to the post. Simon spent most of his career working for international development organisations, including several years managing large United Nations programmes in the Gaza Strip and South Asia. His arrival at JOA in October 2016 gives us the specialist technical know-how to transform the way Jersey selects and follows up aid projects.

By the end of 2016, several of these reforms were ready to be rolled out. These include:

More robust application processes for local

and international charities

New criteria for scoring and choosing projects Improved due diligence and project monitoring The introduction of grant agreements

(and tranche payments against milestones)

Jersey is also now punching above its weight in the humanitarian sphere. In 2016 we increased our aid for victims of the terrible war on Syria, described by the EU as the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II. Three grants totalling over £1.5m were made to two UN Agencies and the Red Cross, funding dozens of literally life-saving activities

in Lebanon and Syria itself. In March 2017 I visited several schools and refugee camps in Beirut and the Beka a Valley, and saw first-hand the amazing impact of Jersey s generosity on displaced families.

2016 also witnessed two fruitful Community Work Projects in Uganda and Zambia, as well the successful completion of scores of other Jersey-funded activities around the world. As you can read on our new website (www.joa.je), Jersey charities continue to play an important role in funding and in some cases implementing international development work, and Jersey volunteers have made their mark all over the developing world. I am almost as proud of the strength and depth of support for overseas aid in Jersey as I am of the impact it has had.

Finally, I must mention our long-serving Executive Officer, Kathryn Filipponi, who left this summer for new adventures in the United States with her husband David. Her seventeen years of service to Jersey Overseas Aid were hugely valued by Commissioners and grantees alike, and her helpfulness and efficiency played a key role in the smooth running of the organisation. We wish her well, and welcome her replacement, Trudy Le Bas, who joined us in June.

One of the great benefits of these changes is that they allow us

to fund bigger, longer-term and higher-impact interventions.

Multi-year projects are almost always more effective, cost- Deputy Carolyn Labey , Chairman efficient and sustainable than single-year ones (it s hard to  June 2017

achieve lasting change in just 12 months, as we ourselves  

know!). However, with greater sums of taxpayers money at  stake for each project, we have to ensure that our ability to  

oversee them is as robust as possible. Our internal reforms  

have given us the confidence to launch 12 new multi-year  

development projects this year, and to tee up some even larger  

ones (including a much-scaled-up Dairy improvement project  

in Rwanda with the RJA&HS and Jersey s best Ambassadors:  our beloved Jersey cows) to begin in early 2017. Through them,  

we are beginning to have an appreciable impact on the health,  

livelihoods and education not only of individuals and villages,  but of regions and even entire countries.  

GRANT AID 2016 Multi Year Programmes

Grants for projects commencing 2016 Sense International Bangladesh

Enhancing community-based services and effective education  £189,926

The project will provide community-based services and education for deafblind people in the poorest regions in Bangladesh. 360 children will benefit from these services with 720 parents or guardians trained as caregivers for the deafblind. Additionally, 100 teachers in 100 schools will also become leads for inclusive education for people with complex disabilities.

Sightsavers Nigeria

Tropical disease elimination programme  £234,721

Sightsavers are working in Sokoto State to improve quality of life for 3.9 million people through the reduction of morbidity, disability and mortality due to five Neglected Tropical Diseases. Funding from JOA will be spent on training of health workers, teachers, volunteer community drug distributors, and trichiasis surgical campaigns and community awareness.

Tearfund Mozambique

Sustainable and resilient livelihoods  £249,888 Successfully building on the results achieved by the recent Jersey-funded flood relief programme, the project aims

to bring normalcy to the lives of 20,335 people through strengthening sustainable livelihoods, water and sanitation.

Impact Foundation Nepal

Establishing comprehensive ear care services  £249,541

The grant will establish a primary ear care centre and community-based primary ear programme in the underdeveloped Parsa and Bara districts in order to reduce the incidence of hearing impairment, a leading cause of disability in Nepal. It will also assist with the running of a new Impact Community Ear Hospital where surgery and diagnostic testing will be carried on more complicated cases. Over the course of three years it is anticipated that 228,024 people will benefit directly from ear care and education on how to protect hearing.

Send A Cow Rwanda/Burundi

Self-sufficiency, food security, income generation  £214,297

The project aims to assist 600 poor and vulnerable families (3000 people) to work themselves out of poverty and food insecurity through improved crop and livestock production.

The Leprosy Mission South Sudan

Empowerment through livelihoods, education and stigma reduction  £147,289

The Leprosy Mission will target people affected by leprosy and other vulnerable people in Luri Rokwe on the outskirts of Juba. Objectives over the three years will be improving the mobility and reduce disability through promotion of self-care, raising incomes through income generation activities, improving education and reducing stigma.

Wateraid Madagascar

Improving poor and vulnerable people s access to WASH  £249,943

The aim of the project is to construct 30 water points; provide latrine blocks with hand-washing facilities in 34 schools and three health centres; encourage self-constructed household latrines; promote good hygiene practices (especially for girls); and establish 30 water committees to improve WASH access for 11 villages in Ambohiborona.

Fairtrade Swaziland

Building markets and climate resilience for sugar farmers  £220,926

This programme of training and investment will engage seven farmer co-operatives (representing 4000 farmers and a community of 20,000 people) to establish a vegetable-growing pilot to prepare farmers in the community for alternative crops to sugar in advance of EU legislation. By training farmers to improve their yields and quality it will enable the communities to compete more effectively in an increasingly-challenging market. Disaster preparedness for climate change is also a feature of the project.

Plan International UK Ethiopia

Increase access to clean water and sustainable sanitation  £249,641

The project aims to improve the health and hygiene of 24,557 people across four districts by improving access to safe water and ensuring the areas were open defecation free. Activities include the construction and rehabilitation of a number of water sources and separate latrines, the establishment of water committees, and training.

Concern Worldwide Chad

WASH component for resilience and adaptation to climate extremes  £249,997

This project is a component of Concern Chad s Integrated Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes

and Disasters Programme, which is designed to build community-based resilience to regular droughts in the arid and semi-arid lands through an integrated livelihoods health, nutrition and WASH programme. The WASH component will support extremely poor and vulnerable communities in the target areas with the provision of boreholes and hand pumps and rehabilitation of water points.

RedR UK Sudan

Providing access to clean water and safe sanitation  £239,905

The project aims to build the capacity of local communities and humanitarian organisations by providing training to local water, sanitation and hygiene responders; by increasing skills and access to information for the training of trainers; and by running workshops with key organisations and government agencies on sector co-ordination.

Oxfam Niger

Healthier children and communities through reducing malnutrition  £230,000

The project is focused on the Agades region of Niger to provide clean water in malnutrition treatment centres to 12,000 mothers and their children per year. Clean water is essential to treat and prevent malnutrition. Oxfam will also provide hygienic areas for washing clothes and disposing of clinical waste at malnutrition centres improving hygiene and reducing risk of the spread of disease. Hygiene training will be given to medical staff, volunteers and community members from villages where chronic malnutrition was a public health disaster claiming thousands of young lives every year.

2016 One Year Programmes

AFGHANISTAN

Children in Crisis

Community-based education

for women and children £100,000

This grant contributed towards the second year of a four- year community education project in Kabul. This aim of the project was to provide high-quality education and training for 840 women and 1,020 out-of-school children, predominately girls aged 9-14 years.

Tearfund

Renewable energy supplies £99,655

This project enabled the installation of micro-hydropower, together with training and toolkits for village maintenance engineers, to enable equitable provision of electricity and thus improved livelihoods and educational attainment.

BANGLADESH

British Red Cross

Improving livelihoods and food security £99,487

This project improved the livelihoods and food security of 5,250 vulnerable people and their households across 30 communities, enabling 550 of the poorest households to establish homestead gardens and to strengthen and diversify existing livelihood activities.

Habitat for Humanity

Building disaster-resilient communities £100,000

This project aimed to build disaster-resilient communities through a participatory approach for safe shelter awareness and improvement of access to WASH facilities in Kaliganj sub-district of Satkhira. The project also strengthened the structure of houses to prepare for natural disasters and improved water and sanitation, directly benefitting 1,457 vulnerable people.

Impact Foundation

Training nurses to mitigate the critical health worker shortage £99,884

This addressed the critical shortage of nurses in Bangladesh, through extending the current accommodation block located

at Impact Foundation Bangladesh s Specialist Nursing Institute and by providing training for 20 new nurses for one year.

BURMA

Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust

Health and Hope community healthcare project £96,994

Funding enabled a much-needed continuation programme on education and clinical updating for Health and Hope s Community Care Project.

Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust

Health and Hope community healthcare project £9,750

This project was complimentary to the primary health care programme, for the provision of medicines to supplement the other supplies made available to the Community Health Workers.

CHAD

Unicef

Providing treatment for severe acute malnutrition £97,791

This project aimed to reduce malnutrition in children under five through the procurement of food, health worker training and awareness-raising activities.

COLOMBIA

Children Change Colombia

Protecting children from violence and

rebuilding protective communities £76,700

The project aimed to create safer communities where 224 children and young people are protected from threats such

as forced recruitment, violence and discrimination. This was achieved through community mobilisation and the rebuilding of a protective community.

Children Change Colombia

Protecting indigenous children

and young people from exploitation £83,048

This project aimed at protecting children and young people from sexual violence and forced recruitment by making these dangers more visible and helping at least 105 children to develop skills to protect themselves with support of the local community

2016 One Year Programmes  cont.

ERITREA ETHIOPIA cont. Unicef The Leprosy Mission

Providing WASH facilities in schools £92,152 Better lives and social inclusion through

The project for Eritrea aimed to improve the health of school  promoting fuel efficient stoves £99,395

aged children by providing water and sanitation facilities in  The project aimed to form cooperatives within five leprosy two rural schools with provision made for disabled children,  people s associations in East and West Gojam zones. The reducing the risk of diarrhoea and waterborne diseases which  cooperatives produced energy-efficient stoves to improve could result in poor school attendance.  health and reduce labour for women and children.

ETHIOPIA GAMBIA

Disability and  Soundseekers

Development Partners Basic audiology support for

More training and livelihood  Edward Francis Teaching Hospital £94,719 opportunities for the deaf  £76,821 This project established a basic audiology unit in the

The project aimed to consolidate and expand the substantial  outpatient department of Edward Francis Small Teaching gains of a previous JOA-funded project in 2014 by  Hospital in Banjul.

strengthening the livelihoods of 55 deaf people through

income generation activities.

GHANA

Farm Africa

Securing pastoralists water access £77,900 Opportunity

This project aimed to improve access to a reliable and  Improving the livelihoods

adequate water supply for livestock through the construction  of poor women rice farmers £72,870

of animal watering ponds on community land. This increased  The project provided support to 295 women rice farmers tradable cattle and milk production for 3,000 poor rural  in the Upper East region of Ghana by improving access pastoralist families. to markets and providing them with small loans to improve

farming techniques. In addition, 885 people gained Oxfam temporary employment on the farms during the project.

Enterprise development

for horticultural producers  £98,214 Orbis

Reaching 1,475 people directly and 6,250 indirectly, this project  Strengthening child eye health  £99,760 aimed to increase incomes through practical training and  The project aimed to reduce childhood blindness and access to improved seeds and irrigation equipment, improving  vision impairment in the Ashanti and neighbouring regions beneficiaries ability to secure competitive prices at market.  of Ghana. Funding covered the costs of training, medical

equipment and consumables, travel for project monitoring Send a Cow and evaluation, advocacy and programme support.

Farmer households empowered

through women  £98,662 The Hunger Project

The project helped 1,300 smallholder farmer households,  Improving maternal health

prioritising women (77% beneficiaries), to overcome poverty  of pregnant women and mothers £76,500

and malnutrition by providing training in sustainable  The project supported 166,485 women and young girls across agriculture, natural resource and water management,  545 villages in South Ghana via key interventions in maternal sanitation, and the management of revolving funds. health awareness.

GUATEMALA KENYAc ont. Toybox Excellent Development

Prevention of abuse and protection  Creating sustainable livelihoods  £99,927 from harm for street children £84,075 This project extended a ground-breaking new programme

This project focused on early intervention and restoration  of water-resource management using Sand Dams, a multi- work to rescue children living and working on the streets  use sustainable rainwater harvesting technique for drylands, of Guatemala City, to prevent those at risk of developing  into a critical area of Kenya s northern rangelands, to benefit street connections from doing so. The holistic programme  49,795 people.

was implemented through street outreach, training for

care-givers, support for vulnerable families and child rights  Fairtrade

campaigning and advocacy. Household Biogas digesters

to improve livelihoods £69,029

The objective of this project was to train training youths as GUINEA BISSAU qualified masons who would then be able to construct biogas

digesters, a low-tech green-energy solution, which would Sightsavers provide clean blue-flame gas for stoves as well as excellent

Trachoma elimination project £96,409 fertilising slurry. This project was a key component of a larger Sightsavers aimed to commence work in Guinea Bissau  scheme of activities which encompass several Kenyan coffee in 2016 in order that by 2020 it would be able to declare  co-ops and will directly benefit 700 household members.

the country free of blinding trachoma through surgery,

antibiotics and sanitation improvements. Reall

Improving environmental health

and youth employment  £55,979

HAITI This project sought to implement a self-sustaining solid

waste management system, benefitting 361 households Goal (1,997 people), and increase the skills and income

Building safer urban communities £100,000 of 60 young people, employed as waste collectors.

This project in Haiti was part of a larger programme with

the aim of increasing access to safe water and sanitation  Royal College of Paediatrics

and improving environmental sustainability for vulnerable  and Child Health

communities in two urban areas of Port-au-Prince through  Advancing child health £98,650

small-scale infrastructure projects and risk-vulnerability  The project (in collaboration with the Kenya Paediatric mitigation works benefitting 2,000 individuals. Association and Kenya Paediatric Research Consortium)

implemented a twelve-month capacity-building programme

incorporating five waves of emergency, triage assessment KENYA treatment and training to enhance children s health at the

Mbagathi District Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya. Ablechildafrica

Supporting excluded disabled children  Sense International

in Government Primary Schools £60,965 Establishing early intervention

This project aimed to support excluded disabled children  services for infants £56,692

into Government primary schools through facilitating their  This funding contributed to the provision of life-changing inclusion in three pilot schools through teacher training,  early intervention services for 60 infants with sensory school exchange and a mentoring programme by providing  impairment. Working with one hospital and three community individual support for children through targeted advocacy  centres, the programme also provided screening for 20,000 to the local government. infants by 60 medical staff.

2016 One Year Programmes  cont.

LESOTHO MOZAMBIQUE

Riders for Health Sightsavers

Enabling sustained  Nampula eye care project  £85,323

delivery of healthcare  £100,000 This ongoing project in Mozambique is working to reduce The grant for the rural Africa programme aimed at providing  avoidable blindness in Nampula province through prevention 40 outreach health workers with training on road safely,  and treatment of eye conditions and diseases.

on/off road driving skills and daily essential preventative

maintenance to mitigate against tough rural conditions.

NEPAL

LIBERIA Basic Needs

Sustainable livelihoods

Children in Crisis for people with mental illness £62,259

Water, sanitation and hygiene  Building upon the work of a previously funded JOA project in rural communities £96,680 enabling people to earn a living following the devastating

This grant addressed the critical lack of clean water  earthquakes in 2015 this project extended into two more remote and sanitation facilities and the low level of basic health  very poor districts of Nepal s Western region. 1,000 people with and hygiene understanding, in six remote communities  mental illness and epilepsy and their carers received training benefitting over 3000 people. to re-establish and set up new livelihood activities.

Childhope

MALAWI Hope and rehabilitation

for earthquake survivors  £51,600

Orbis Funding from Jersey provided housing repairs to 200 of the Building human resources for eye health £99,550 most vulnerable families affected by the Nepal earthquake, The project was part of a larger programme and the request  supported 400 school-age children by providing educational for funding was to cover costs of training and equipping  materials, trained 50 community volunteers in trauma

Lion s Sight First Eye Hospital at Queen Elizabeth Central  counselling, and developed child protection mechanisms Hospital, Blantyre. to prevent abuse and trafficking.

Practical Action Impact Foundation

Sustainable energy for rural communities  £93,497 Specialist medical equipment

This grant contributed towards a larger four-year programme  for new ear hospital  £99,185

to provide access to a sustainable energy supply for the  Impact Foundation requested a grant from Jersey to purchase poorest rural communities in Zimbabwe and Malawi using  specialist medical equipment for the new Community ear

solar power mini-grids. Funding provided power for  Hospital IMPACT Nepal. This provided a full range of ear care an irrigation system (for 250 farmers), a primary school,  services from primary to tertiary levels, treating its own patients a business centre and a clinic. In total this benefited  as well as referrals and reaching over 10,000 people in the first 12,000 people in 9 villages.  year of operation.

Soundseekers Reall

HARK plus for rural areas £93,497 Establishing a sustainable

This project provided an advanced version of the Sound  system for waste management  £97,353 Seekers HARK mobile clinic providing fully-equipped sound  The project was to repair and set up new sewage, grey booths enabling outreach audiology and ear care service  water and solid waste management systems in three poor

to be provided to rural areas in Southern and Central Malawi. communities in Kathmandu Valley which would benefit

160 households and indirectly benefit a further 1,800 people in surrounding areas.

NEPAL cont. Room to Read

Post earthquake recovery £100,000

Room to Read utilised funding from JOA to support communities to ensure as many children as possible were able to return to safe school environments that have the necessary learning materials to function. This directly benefited 20,000 children, focussing recovery efforts in districts where the most severe destruction has occurred.

World Vision

Improved livelihoods and nutrition £100,000

The project aimed to introduce new farming technologies, business skills and nutrition and hygiene awareness that would contribute to improved livelihoods for vulnerable households, land preservation and improved nutrition for children.

NICARAGUA

Raleigh International

Northern Nicaragua clean drinking water £96,218

The project aimed to ensure that 1,750 people in the municipalities of Achuapa and Yali gain access to clean drinking water. The key activities of the project included the construction of new or improved gravity fed water systems; the establishment of legally-registered water committees and the training of these committees to ensure long term sustainability.

NIGER

Oxfam

Improving access to

and quality of education £99,512

This project focused on improving access to and quality of education in over 50 schools in the Tillabery, Ahadez and Zinder regions through training of teachers and capacity building of school governors and management committees.

NIGER & TOGO

Cure International UK

Preventing a lifetime of disability

for children and improving healthcare £100,000

The project established sustainable CURE Clubfoot programmes through treatment and training for 45 national healthcare workers in clinical skills.

OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES

St John Jerusalem Eye Care

Improving the provision of cataract care £90,613

Funding from JOA enabled a new phacoemulsification unit for a newly established hospital in Hebron, a major city in the south of the West Bank.

St John Jerusalem Eye Care

Mobile Outreach £73,778

This project funded a mobile outreach clinic.

PAKISTAN

RedR UK

Safer schools £77,310

This project increased the understanding of Disaster Risk Reduction amongst students, teachers and community members in the AJK Province, on how to prepare and respond to emergencies.

SIERRA LEONE

Resurge Africa

Establishing the first self-sustaining reconstructive service £69,070

The project built on the self-sustaining reconstructive surgery service already successfully implemented through further training of surgeons, nurses, anaesthetists and physiotherapists.

2016 One Year Programmes  cont.

SIERRA LEONE cont. SUDAN

Resurge Africa Concern Worldwide

Training resource centre,  Providing sustainable healthcare

library and IT facilities £83,500 to remote and vulnerable areas  £100,000

The project aimed to provide a resource centre with library  This project involved constructing staff accommodation for classroom and computer work stations to support in-house  three primary healthcare clinics in very rural and remote areas staff training for the Holy Spirit Hospital in Makeni.  of Sudan, including the provision of basic medical equipment

and supplies. These clinics contribute to the provision quality Wateraid primary health care services for 31,098 people.

Creating sustainable futures through

increased access to safe water £99,960

The purpose of the project was to improve the lives  TANZANIA

of 4000 poor rural people living in 25 communities in the

Pujehun District of Southern Sierra Leone. This was done  Ablechildafrica

through increased access to safe water as well as improved  Demanding government provision sanitation and hygiene. of inclusive education  £68,704

The project aimed to advance the inclusion education of

disabled children into early child and primary education SOUTH SUDAN in Mbeya, rural South West Tanzania. Working with Child

Support Tanzania, AbleChildAfrica was able to develop the Basic Needs school into an expert provider of inclusive education in the

Sustainable livelihoods  region, with teachers having received a variety of specialist for restoration of health  £49,250 training and physiotherapy. The project also lobbied local

This project established income generating activities,  government to commit to the provision of education for together with occupational therapies for 1,782 very poor  disabled children, empowering local communities to become people with mental disorders, and their 1,692 carers  strong champions of inclusive education in Mbeya.

in two counties of South Sudan.

MAF

Mission Aviation Fellowship Enabling healthcare in remote areas  £81,280

Flying for Life: Cessna 208  This allowed MAF to operate twelve medical safaris enabling Avionics Upgrade £80,557 1,400 people on each safari (over 16,000 in total) access

Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) takes healthcare, education,  basic healthcare treatment. In conjunction with the safaris, clean water and sanitation to rural communities in South  mother and child healthcare clinics would provide vaccination Sudan that are unable to access aid.  programmes to 800 children.

SRI LANKA

Habitat for Humanity

Provision of clean water,

pit latrines and WASH training   £100,000

This project provided clean water and sanitation to families as well as water, sanitation and hygiene training in two neighbouring villages in the mountainous regions of Matale impacting at least 1,000 vulnerable people.

UGANDA ZIMBABWE/MOZAMBIQUE/ Plan International UK SWAZILAND

Learning for life £100,000

Plan International UK aimed to support 5,267 children from six  Excellent Development

schools to access quality education in a supportive learning  Building sand dam programmes

environment. The project placed a special focus on ensuring  to improve water security £93,590

girls could attend and complete their schooling.  The objective of the project was to significantly improve

rural water supplies, addressing climate resilience and Send a Cow alleviate poverty in southern Africa s marginalized drylands

Releasing the potential  through pioneering sand dams, a unique multi-use rainwater of women and children £95,200 harvesting solution designed to capture and store seasonal

This project trained farmers in sustainable agriculture,  river flows making water available all year round for rural improved animal management farm business, gender and  communities benefiting over 2,900 people.

social development, agricultural inputs including crop seeds,

pasture seeds, livestock (cows) and breeding services.

ZIMBABWE

Sense International

Establishing early intervention  Global Care

services for infants £49,185 Small scale farming to generate income £22,650

This funding contributed to the provision of life changing early  This project aimed to install an irrigation scheme to enable intervention services for 60 infants with sensory impairment.  4.5 hectares of land to be used for farming, to provide direct Working with one hospital and three community centres, the  financial support for up to 24 children who are cared for at programme additionally provided screening for 25,000 infants  the Houtberg Childcare Centre.

by medical staff and support of the local government.

Cafod

Improved health and dignity ZAMBIA for vulnerable communities  £98,500

To secure funding for the construction of institutional latrines, Cure International Uk provide drilling and rehabilitation of water points, setting up

Critical X-ray equipment   of solar powered water pumping systems, rehabilitation of an to improve medical care £100,000 incinerator, assist training of trainers who were care-givers and

A grant from Jersey purchased critical x-ray equipment  promotion of best practise in health and hygiene for 10,500 and provide life-saving and life-changing medical care for  people in poor communities of Hopley and Centenary. children with disabilities at Beit CURE International Hospital.

GRANT AID REPORTS 2014 to 2016 Multi Year Project

Extracts Taken From Agency s Report

Opportunity International - Helping Farmers & Traders in GuruØ, Mozambique to enhance their agricultural capacity, increase incomes and become self-sufficient.

Project Summary

In 2014, Jersey Overseas Aid provided a three year grant of £248,406 to support Opportunity s work helping people living in poverty in Zambezia Province, Mozambique. The project targeted smallholder farmers in GuruØ District offering them access to finance and financial literacy training in order to help them become self-sufficient and provided training in effective farming practices to generate income, build assets and improve livelihoods.

This project has brought financial services closer to where clients live and work, enabling them to overcome barriers to access such as time and cost of travelling to bank branches. Opportunity has sought to actively serve communities that have no previous access to finance. BOM s agricultural loan officers work daily in the target communities meeting smallholder farmers and working with them to ensure they are able to maximize their agricultural potential through access to finance and extension support services.

 Opportunity has

sought to actively serve communities that have no previous access to finance.

Over the three-year period activities included:

Information/marketing sessions informing the residents

of the target communities about the benefits of formal banking and financial planning.

Financial literacy training focusing on aspects such

as vision building (so farmers develop insights on how they can plan for their future) and on business concepts (to help farmers see agriculture as entrepreneurship).

Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) training to farmer

groups covering land management and production techniques, with particular reference to the benefits of mechanisation, with the aim of increasing yields in such a way that farmers produce a surplus.

Provision of loans both to individuals and to farmers

groups through Opportunity s group-lending methodology which promotes accountability and leadership skills.

Provision of savings to enable farmers to manage the

income from their harvests, reinvest profits and provide for their families.

We are pleased to report that the project has achieved the following results:

Small loans to 1,049 farmers

3,557 new savings accounts opened in GuruØ

and the mobile bank

At least 525 indirect beneficiaries employed

(based on 0.5 employees per farmer)

7,343 family members benefit from increased

household incomes

1,349 direct beneficiaries benefited

from financial literacy training; and

1,399 indirect beneficiaries benefited

from financial literacy training in community.

GRANT AID REPORTS 2016 Single Year Project

Extracts Taken From Agency s Report

Wateraid UK - Project Report for Jersey Overseas Aid Grant in Sierra Leone. Creating a more sustainable future through increased access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation  and hygiene in Pujehun District, southern Sierra Leone.

Project Background Project Summary and Results

Sierra Leone has one of the highest maternal and under-5  This project was to improve the lives of 4,000 poor rural mortality rates in the world, while malaria, respiratory  people living in 25 communities in the Pujehun District and diarrhoeal diseases account for more than 75% of the  of Southern Sierra Leone by increasing their access to safe country s under-five mortality. Malnutrition is reported to  drinking water, improved sanitation and hygiene through cause 57% of child deaths. All these indicators are closely  the construction of 8 new water points, the rehabilitation linked with the poor situation of water, sanitation and  of 8 dysfunctional wells, construction of 6 institutional hygiene. Diarrhoeal diseases are the third major cause  latrines in three schools, promotion of CLTS and hygiene of under-5 and infant mortality according to the Disease  in 25 communities. All activities agreed in the project Surveillance Unit in the Ministry of Health and Sanitation.  document were fully implemented using a participatory Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) are key elements in  approach i.e. communities were empowered to take the lead ensuring the health, development and welfare of children.  in implementing this project so that they cannot only learn Inadequate access to safe water and sanitation services,  best practices of implementing projects but that they can coupled with poor hygiene practices, are also linked to  be more self-reliant to lead their own development. Eight school attendance and performance (particularly among  new wells were constructed and another 8 rehabilitated. girls), safety and security of women and girls, and the  Three of the new wells and 6 latrines blocks were constructed economic and social development of communities and  at 3 schools. Over 90% of the 25 communities triggered

the whole nation at large.  became Open Defecation Free.

This project made a major contribution to the reduction of WASH-related diseases in target communities. Twenty-five

 W  ater, Sanitation   WASH committees were set up; members trained including pump mechanics and caretakers. They are fully functional

and Hygiene (WASH)  and will help to sustain the facilities provided in communities. This project has increased access to safe water, sanitation

are key elements in  and hygiene, relieved women and children from carrying water for long hours through difficult terrains because

ensuring the health,  wells were constructed in the communities. It has also enabled women to have more time for economic activities,

development and  school retention increased as children now have more time

to attend school and girls now have the privacy for their welfare of children.  menstrual hygiene. Furthermore, community structures were

empowered and strengthened to sustain the project after

phase out.

EMERGENCY AID SYRIA CRISIS

A meeting of Jersey Overseas Aid Commissioners

on 4th October agreed to provide an unprecedented level of emergency funds for the worsening humanitarian crisis in Syria.

With the conflict deep into its sixth year, a quarter of a million Syrians have been killed and a million more have been injured. An estimated 13.5 million people inside Syria, including 6 million children, are in need of humanitarian assistance. Almost 5 million others have been forced to leave the country, placing great strain on neighbouring countries and leading many refugees to make perilous journeys in search of new lives further afield.

In response to what the EU calls the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II , Jersey once again joined virtually every other developed country in the world in providing assistance to alleviate immediate suffering and prevent additional displacement of people. In 2015 Jersey provided £650,000

to agencies working with Syrian refugees in Jordan. This year, recognising the increasing desperation of civilians in war-torn Syria itself, Jersey directed the bulk of its assistance

to humanitarian relief inside that tragic country.

As the Jersey Evening Post commented in an editorial following the announcement of these grants, JOAC s work to try to alleviate the suffering means we can hold up our heads when future generations ask what we did to help people caught up in one of the worst humanitarian disasters for decades.

JOAC s work to try to

alleviate the suffering means we can hold up our heads when future generations ask what we did to help people caught up in one of the worst humanitarian disasters for decades.

OCHA

Humanitarian Syria  £495,000

As the humanitarian crisis in Syria continued to escalate, JOA granted £495,000 in emergency aid via the Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for its work in Syria. The contribution to the Country-Based Pooled Fund allowed frontline relief agencies to access emergency funds for dozens of life-saving projects as and where they were required, including besieged and hard-to-reach areas.

UNICEF

Humanitarian Lebanon  £475,000

JOA allocated £475,000 in grant aid to UNICEF for its work with Syrian refugees in Lebanon. As well as promoting access to quality education, UNICEF was focussing on providing water, sanitation, hygiene, promoting nutrition and health care.

British Red Cross

Humanitarian Syria  £577,078

£577,078 was granted to the British Red Cross for its

 Winterisation programme in Syria. This project sought to supply emergency food parcels, mattresses and waterproof tarpaulins to 43,500 internally displaced people in the front line of the Crisis in Syria, mainly in Aleppo and surrounding areas.

OTHER EMERGENCY AID

JANUARY  FEBRUARY

UNICEF UNICEF

Food Insecurity Ethiopia  £30,000 Food Insecurity Malawi £30,000

In February, Ethiopia was facing its worst drought in 30 years,  Malawi was suffering from its most severe food crisis in with over 10 million people requiring food aid (of which  a decade. Over 2.8 million people, including 1.5 million

6 million were children). An estimated 435,000 children were  children, were facing food insecurity in 25 out of 28 districts, in need of urgent treatment for severe acute malnutrition,  and were desperately in need of assistance in January and and more than 1.7 million children, pregnant and lactating  February 2016.

women were suffering from moderate acute malnutrition.

UNICEF s food objectives were to treat and monitor 34,000 The funding enabled UNICEF to provide nutrition, water  children under the age of 5 years old affected by severe acute and sanitation relief to affected families, particularly to over  malnutrition, treat and monitor dehydration and distribute 400,000 children in need of urgent treatment for severe  essential nutritional healthcare to women and children. With acute malnutrition. The project objectives were in line with  regard to water and sanitation, its objectives were to provide the United Nation s crisis response priorities and included  approximately 100,000 people with access to sanitation and establishing treatment centres for severe acute malnutrition  temporary latrines in drought-affected regions, distribute and the monitoring of nutrition; distributing food and  water and sanitation supplies including to 50,000 internally essential non-food items kits; providing water; disseminating  displaced people and host communities and promote sanitation and hygiene information and establishing water  hygiene education.

sources and supply systems.

Helpage

IDP Response Tanzania  £29,985

In February, continuing violence had seen Burundian refugees

 An estimated 435,000  flee their homeland to seek shelter in neighbouring countries. HelpAge International was given £29,985 towards its emergency

children were in need  response to meet the critical needs of Persons with Specific

Needs (PSNs), including older persons, among Burundian

of urgent treatment  Refugees in Nduta and Mtendeli refugee camps, Tanzania.

for severe acute  Oxfam

malnutrition, and more  FIn eooadrl y 2In0s1e6 Ecurthitiyopia w Eats chiourpreian tly facing the worst food £30,000 than 1.7 million children,  chraid bsis ien 3en e0 yxaecaerrsb, catead busey El Nd by a diæeov. Iasn etatxincg dess orof 8ugh4t% o, whf tichh e pregnant and lactating  pmoapjoulraitty oion wf thee pre seuobpsle iistn aencffe fecatremd aerres aas rend pliaesd otorn laliisvts aestnod tck fhe or women were suffering  their income.

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keep people free of disease.

MARCH  APRIL

Plan International UK Plan International UK

IDP Response Malawi  £30,000 Drought Timor Leste  £30,000

Thousands of people the majority of whom were women  Over 400,000 people were affected by severe drought in

and children - had fled violence in Mozambique, with many  Timor-Leste in April: some 36 per cent of the total population displaced to Malawi; a country suffering its own crisis caused by  of Timor-Leste. A four month response with a budget

drought and deepening food insecurity. Consequently, children  of approximately £105,000 had been developed by Plan

and families who had escaped from the threat of violence were  International UK which would directly reach 14,691 people,

now living in temporary camps without sufficient access to  providing water storage tanks, safe drinking water, hygiene

food, water, hygiene materials, education and protection. kits, awareness raising sessions and community water

systems. Jersey Overseas Aid contributed £30,000 towards

Plan Malawi developed a six month response to tackle the most  the response.

pressing and basic needs of affected and at-risk families with

particular focus on providing support for unaccompanied  Goal

children vulnerable to neglect, abuse and exploitation.  IDP Response South Sudan  £30,000

£30,000 of funding was provided to Goal in respect of its Oxfam emergency health and nutritional feeding response in the

Drought Zimbabwe  £30,000 Upper Nile State, South Sudan, which envisaged the provision

On 4th February, the Zimbabwe Government had declared  of emergency aid by means of cargo flights to assist 396,691

a state of disaster and that, currently, a quarter of the entire  internally displaced persons in otherwise inaccessible regions population were in need of immediate food and water.  of South Sudan.

Oxfam aimed to reach 50,000 in Zimbabwe with emergency

access to food and water and improved health and hygiene  UNICEF

practices that took into account the lack of water available  Earthquake Ecuador  £30,000 for washing. It was also proposed to save livestock so that  On 16th April 2016, an earthquake measuring 7.8 magnitude people could rebuild a food supply in the coming months. had struck Ecuador the strongest earthquake to hit the

country in 37 years. At least 400 people had died and more

than 4,000 people had been injured, with an estimated

150,000 children affected.

 Plan Malawi developed

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to tackle the most  tehde eucaartitohn aquankd ce, whilid pth trhoe ftecotciuos bn. eing on water and sanitation, pressing and basic

needs of affected

and at-risk families

APRIL cont.

Plan International UK Tearfund

Earthquake Ecuador  £30,000 Food Insecurity Ethiopia  £30,000

Following on from the earthquake on 16th April, hundreds of people remained trapped in the rubble and although rescue operations continued, the death toll was expected to rise. It was estimated that 1.4 million people had been affected by the earthquake.

Plan was addressing the most urgent needs of affected

and vulnerable children in Manabi, the region worst hit by the earthquake, prioritising the provision of food and water packages, sleeping kits, shelter materials and hygiene kits for children, and pregnant and lactating women. £30,000 provided by JOA could fund the provision of food for 1,345 people affected by the earthquake for three months.

Tearfund

Earthquake Ecuador  £30,000

The Ecuadorian Pacific coast had been devastated by an earthquake on the 16th April. The Tearfund project sought to meet the urgent basic needs of 6,000 people severely affected by the earthquake in six locations across Manabi province. Project outcomes were the receipt by beneficiaries with priority being afforded to children, pregnant women and elderly people of a balanced daily diet for a period of two months; access to water for two months; and the receipt of hygiene items; with 1,500 victims receiving post trauma support.

Ethiopia continued to suffer the worst drought in 50 years, with 10.2 million people requiring food assistance (expected to rise to 15 million by mid-2016). The Tearfund project aimed to preserve livelihoods, through the distribution of livestock fodder to key breeding animals in the community to keep

the animals alive until sufficient vegetation became available after the kiremt rains. The project would was implemented in nine kebeles of Fentale District, directly benefitting a total of 708 households (4,251 people), and indirectly benefitting the whole community.

Oxfam

IDP Response Sudan  £30,000

A decade-long conflict continued, fierce attacks by the Sudanese Armed Forces against the Sudan Liberation Army/ Abdul Wahid faction in the Jebel Marra area of Darfur had forced approximately 133,000 people to flee their homes. Since January 2016, in North Darfur alone, the number of displaced persons had increased from 14,000 to almost 70,000, 90 per cent of whom were women and children.

Oxfam s long-term presence and strong links with United Nations and other agencies enabled rapid assessment of the situation, leading to a scaling-up of humanitarian intervention in the relatively isolated area of Sortony with activities such as the provision of water, sanitation, hygiene, food and non-

food items.

 The Tearfund project sought

to meet the urgent basic needs of 6,000 people severely affected by the earthquake in six locations across Manabi province.

MAY

British Red Cross Tearfund

Drought Somalia  £30,000 Drought Cambodia  £29,754

In April 2016, 300,000 children under the age of five were malnourished in Somalia, with over 58,000 being severely malnourished and at risk of mortality. Severe drought had left 38 per cent of the population (approximately 10.5 million people) acutely food insecure, equating to as many as 4.7 million in need of humanitarian assistance.

The British Red Cross supported the Somali Red Crescent Society in providing health care, water, sanitation and hygiene services, as well as food security support to communities in desperate need in Somaliland and Puntland.

Plan International UK

Food Insecurity Zimbabwe  £30,000

Four million people were in urgent need of nutrition assistance, in respect of its response to the current food insecurity crisis in Zimbabwe. In April JOA contributed £30,000 to Plan s ten month response focused on reaching over 270,000 people with food distributions, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) support and supplementary feeding

in schools to very young children.

Plan International UK

Drought Cambodia  £30,000

Plan International UK s response to the drought affecting 2.5 million people in Cambodia, was a four month response to provide immediate relief and support to 51,195 people in Steung Treng and Rattanakiri provinces, focusing on providing water purification kits to give families access

to safe water and to help avoid the spread of disease.

£29,754 was provided to Tearfund in respect of its response

to the increasingly severe drought in Cambodia. The goal of the project was the provision of immediate relief assistance through the provision of water for up to 910 vulnerable families in order to ensure they had water for basic consumption to enable survival for the next month until the start of the rainy season in mid-June.

British Red Cross

IDP Response Yemen  £30,000

JOA supported the British Red Cross in respect of its establishment of an Emergency Reproductive Health Unit in Yemen, where fighting between parties to the conflict continued.

The Health Centre which had previously lain idle, due

to a lack of staff and medical supplies, had been reopened in December 2015 and was operating for 8 hours a day,

in 2 shifts. All services were provided free of charge to displaced families, with local families being charged a minimum symbolic fee. It was recognised that pregnant and lactating women and infants were especially vulnerable in the current circumstances and that the planned expansion of services could serve up to an additional 1,500 patients

a month, including both inpatients and outpatients. Over the course of a nine month period, the Unit would have

the potential to directly treat 13,500 women and children.

 In April 2016, 300,000 children under the age

of five were malnourished in Somalia.

JUNE  AUGUST

Plan International UK Plan International UK

Cyclone Bangladesh  £30,000 IDP Response South Sudan  £30,000

In response to those affected by Cyclone Roanu, Plan UK  Violent clashes between government and opposition provided immediate relief and support to 5,373 people in Bhola,  forces in South Sudan since 7th July 2016 had sparked a one of the worst hit districts of Bangladesh. The response  new refugee crisis, with thousands of refugees having fled focused on providing access to clean water in order to avoid  into neighbouring Uganda. Plan s seven month response the spread of disease, distributing hygiene kits and ensuring that  proposed to provide immediate relief and support to 8,000 children were able to continue their education during the crisis. children arriving in refugee camps in the northern district

of Adjumani, the response focussing on providing shelter, UNICEF clothing and other essential hygiene and household items to