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Emergency response to Limbe II IDPs - December 2018

PILOT PROJECT FOR EMERGENCY HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE TO THE

INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN THE LIMBE II SUB-DIVISION

FIRST PHASE REPORT

Limbé, December 2018

Quartier général: Rail Ngousso- Santa Barbara - Yaoundé Tél. : +237-243 572 456 / +237-679 967 303 B.P. 33805 Yaoundé Email : [email protected] [email protected] Site web : www.cohebinternational.org

Bureau Régional Extrême-Nord: Tél.: +237-674 900 303 E-mail: [email protected]

Bureau Régional Sud-Ouest: Tél.: +237-651 973 747 E-mail: [email protected]

Bureau Régional Nord-Ouest: Tél.: +237-697 143 004 E-mail: [email protected]

A family living in the bush


TABLE OF CONTENT

PRESENTATION OF COHEB INT’L ................................................................. 3

SOME OF OUR EMERGENCY ACTIVITIES ......................................................... 4

CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT .......................................................................... 5

OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT ........................................................................ 6

EXECUTION OF THE PROJECT .................................................................... 7-9

CONCLUSION ............................................................................................ 10

ANNEX 1: IDP’S SETTLEMENT CAMP

MUKUNDANGE LIMBE II SUB-DIVISION......................................................... 11

ANNEX 2: COHEB PROJECT OFFICE SOKOLO, LIMBE II

OUR AGRO-FORESTRY TRANSFORMATION FACTORY AND

LOGISTICS CENTER —MOLIWE, LIMBE I ...................................................... 12


PRESENTATION OF COHEB INT’L

COHEB International is a non-governmental, non-profit making and non political humanitarian volunteer-

ing organization, created to respond to divers humanitarian crisis and to provide charitable humanitarian

services, physically and spiritually to the people of Africa and the rest of the crisis world.

Created in Limbe in the Republic of Cameroon in 2008, with a liaison office at Sokolo, warehouse and

agro-forestry transformation economic empowerment center in Moliwe Limbe I Sub-Division and head-

quarter in Yaounde-Cameroon.

We are operational in three main domains: Health, Protection and Community Development; and each

Domain is divided into several Departments. Over the years we have been carrying out our activities with-

in the CEMAC/ECOWAS Region. In Cameroon we have been working in the Far North for two years and

for the pass four months we have been positioning ourselves in the SW and NW Regions Crisis.

Drugs donation

Adapted literacy in a crisis zone

Assisting Refugees

Promoting Agriculture in crisis

affected communities

Practical Trainings in Food Security

Malnutrition Screening


SOME OF OUR EMERGENCY ACTIVITIES


The South-Westand North-West regions crisis in Cameroon, locally termed the “Anglophone cri-

sis” started in 2016 and escalated as an armed conflict by 2017 between government forces and

local activists. The ongoing crisis is characterized by lots of violence, burning of villages and

schools, burning of offices, health centers to begin with. The violence and insecurity has in-

creased immensely in these regions such that some communities like Buea, Ekona, Muyuka,

Mbonge, Yumunjock Ndian, Mundemba, Mamfe, etc. are totally evacuated, with people running

into the bushes, to neighboring countries, and others

running within a circle. Subsequently some of the

crisis inclusive towns like Limbe, Buea, Kumba and

other communities in Fako Division have become

host towns of large and increasing number of dis-

placed persons.

Following the rising and enormous effects of this cri-

sis on the displace population, COHEB International

took interest to provide emergency humanitarian

supports necessary and critical for the survival and

safety of families displaced from various villages/

Towns within the South-West Region. On this note,

COHEB is embarking on series of projects, ranging

from distribution of food and non-food items to provi-

sion of shelter and health care services, just to name

a few.

In December 2018, this project phase was designed

and has begun with ten IDPs families of at least four

persons per family in villages within the Limbe II sub

-Division who were coming in from Ekata,

Munyenge, Muyuka, Ekona and Mundemba; and are

taking refuge in Mukundange, Batoke, Mokindi/

Isokolo and Limbola in the Limbe II Sub-Division

bushes.

Wehave designed a six months self sponsored

emergency humanitarian response project in order

tomeet the basic food and non-food items, accom-

modations, healthcare, farm lands, farming tools,

seedlings and farming financial assistance for them

in the Limbe II Sub-Division.

CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT


OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT

The core of this project is to provide food security, protec-

tion, and health relief, through food distribution programs,

food cultivation programs, shelter provision and health

care services to IDPs in Limbe II Sub-Division.

The project will be implemented in many phases:

Phase 1:

1. Rapid field assessment of the life conditions of the

IDPs in Limbe II Sub-Division

2. Elaboration of the criteria of selection of the benefi-

ciaries

3. Selection of some families according to the criteria

4. Preparation of the Settlement Camp to receive the

families

5. Relocation of the selected families in the resettlement

camp

6. Distribution of food and NFI to the families.

Phase 2:

Allocation of lands to the families for agriculture

Phase 3:

Replication of the project in a larger scale.

EVALUATION AND DATA COLLECTION

The COHEB evaluation team visited IDPs in different vil-

lages in the Limbe IISub-Division ( Batoke, Limbola,

Mukundange, Isokolo and Ngeme) under the close collab-

oration of the local community heads. They looked into the

different conditions and magnitude of the IDP’s unfortu-

nate predicaments. After assessing the conditions of

about 100 families, 10 most critical cases were selected

and handed over twenty-six food and non food items per

family to begin with as beneficiaries of the “phase 1” of the


EXECUTION OF THE PROJECT

N° Items distributed

1

Food items

Rice

2 Palm oil

3 salt

4 Maggi cubes

5

Essential toiletries

Toilet tissue

6 Toilet wash

7 Disinfectant

8 Pads

9 Soap

10 Bathing buckets

11

Kitchen utensils

Pots

12 Plates

13 Water drinking buckets

14 Cups

15 Spoons/forks

16 Kerosene stoves

17 kerosene

18

Complete beddings

Beds

19 Mattress

20 Pillows

21 Bed sheets and pillow cases

22 Loin cloths

23 Mosquito Tents

24

Farming tools

Cutlass

25 File for metals

26 Hoes

27 Agricultural and cash assistance

Farm lands

28 Financial Assistance

PROVISION OF SHELTER

COHEB International has rented a health friendly six semi

apartments permanent building for the first six beneficiaries

for a period of six months in Mokundange Village in the

Limbe II Sub-Division. Each family is entitled to an apart-


ment that has an inner kitchen and water system toilet.

PROVISION OF FARM LANDS AND TOOLS

A farming land of about 3000 square metersand seed-

lings of (corn, vegetable, cassava, egussi and ground-

nuts) alongside farming tools (cutlass, hoes and filers)

have been provided to them by COHEB in Bwando Vil-

lage within the same community to farm for the next

one year.

FOOD AND NON-FOOD ITEMS

Each family was supported with a family bed, matrass,

bed sheets, two pillows, pillow cases, 25 kgs bag of

rice, 2 pots, half a bag of salt, drinking and washing

buckets, cocking stoves, packets of Maggi cubes, toilet

disinfectants, washing soaps, 5 liters of palm oil, 5 liters

of kerosene, a dozen of spoons, a dozen of plates, toi-

let tissues, drinking cups, mosquito tent and a complete

female hygienic kits.

FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT

Financial supports of 10,000 CFA francs per familyhas

been handed to help them bounce on their feet.

STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION

The items were transported from the COHEB’s ware-

house in Limbe (I) to the IDP’s Camp in Mokundange.

HEALTH CARE

All the IDPs in our settlement camps have been medi-

cally consulted, deeply screened by our medical team.

Some emergency cases have been admitted and are

receiving treatments in the Bota Hospital Limbe.


HUMAN RESOURCES

The team for the South West Crisis is composed of the

COHEB Coordinator for the South-West with seven ex-

patriate staff.

ORGANISATION OF THE DISTRIBUTION

The IDP’s were transported to the distribution site using

COHEB cars. They were verified and confirmed by evalu-

ators before taken into the compound. They were all pro-

vided hygienic kits. When it was time for distribution the

family heads were called to step forward showing their ID

cards and bringing their family members as were regis-

tered during evaluation and receiving their kits and the

keys to their equipped settlement apartments.

DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED

COHEB had a hard time convincing the population to re-

ceive humanitarian help since most of the affected popu-

lation has alleged not to receive any form of help from the

government. They have a hard time differentiating what is

of the government and what is from the non-

governmental organizations and so need to be sensitized

on what humanitarians are out for.

Locating a good shelter space with a good number of

shelter is relatively expensive and difficult in Limbe and

makes it difficult to host IDPs in a common area and this

is one of the reasons why we are having many phases of

this project.


Our assessment mission targeted a hundred of families living in very precarious conditions but for

this pilot project we started with only 10 of them (48 persons). This first phase report is our call for

a helping hand to better the lives of these people in great need.

After the second phase that will consist on attributing lands to the first 10 families, the third phase

will replicate the project with the amendments that will be pointed, and in a larger scale.

Do not hesitate to contact any of the following for further information or intention of sponsorship:

Mr. George Njato South West Coordinator

[email protected] (+237) 651 973 747

Dr. Francis M. Ndola North West Coordinator

[email protected] (+237) 679 967 303

Mrs. Sara Tiotsop Head of Mission COHEB Int’l Cameroon

[email protected] (+237) 674 900 303

CONCLUSION


ANNEX 1: IDP’S SETTLEMENT CAMP

MUKUNDANGE LIMBE II SUB-DIVISION


ANNEX 2 : COHEB PROJECT OFFICE SOKOLO, LIMBE II

OUR AGRO-FORESTRY TRANSFORMATION FACTORY AND

LOGISTICS CENTER —MOLIWE, LIMBE I

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