Financial Accountability
By end of 2009—the five-year anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami—Catholic Relief Services anticipates that the overall spending on emergency relief and long-term construction in India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia will be $203 million. This unprecedented response is due largely to the generosity of the American public. Catholic Relief Services expects to spend more than $171 million in private revenues to help survivors. To meet our long-term commitment to help communities rebuild, CRS has also been awarded approximately $31 million from the U.S. government and other institutional donors.
This section highlights the accomplishments of the past four years. CRS takes seriously its responsibility to be open and transparent in our stewardship of the resources entrusted to us. This section highlights the status of reconstruction efforts, as we strive to "Build Back Better"—helping families and communities rebuild, resume their trades and gain new job skills; reconstruct schools, clinics and important community infrastructure; invigorate local economies; and strengthen communities in becoming more self-sufficient.
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$201,189,000 total revenues as of September 30, 2008
CRS has so far spent $179,991,000, largely through the provision of homes and infrastructure projects such as schools, hospitals, bridges and roads; and emergency assistance such as food, shelter, medical help, and clean water and sanitation. This amount includes $10 million in support services expenditures.
Progress in the Last Four Years
Indonesia
Working with a planned budget of $120 million through fiscal year 2009, CRS' Aceh program was able to respond to the overwhelming, immediate need while laying the groundwork for reconstruction in the area. The Indonesian province was hit worst by the tsunami—with over 160,000 killed or missing and an estimated 500,000 without a home. Just three months later, another major earthquake hit the island of Nias, killing an additional 2,000 people and leaving 30,000 homeless. Our relief work fed nearly 200,000 survivors and provided shelter and other basic necessities for thousands of people.
During the last 48 months, the CRS Aceh program:
- Provided emergency relief and supplies to nearly 250,000 people. In the weeks immediately after the tsunami, those items included food aid (canned fish, rice, oil, biscuits and noodles) as well as nonfood items, including hygiene kits, tents, mattresses and insecticide-treated bed nets.
- Completed construction of 3,853 permanent homes, with another 127 under construction as of October 1, 2008, eventually providing housing for an estimated 20,000 people.
- Provided 2,261 temporary shelters for survivors as they await construction of their permanent homes.
- Rehabilitated and, in many cases, rebuilt 300 community infrastructure projects, including piers, markets, bridges, schools, clinics and culverts.
- Constructed 13 markets as part of the USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance's Aceh Market Revitalization project. The fruit, vegetable and fish markets support vendors in the Meulaboh area, and help keep the market economy in motion.
- Trained community health workers in 273 villages who have provided direct health services to 80,000 mothers and children.
- Tested the water quality of 2,877 water sources through the CRS-built Water Quality testing laboratory.
- Provided a permanent, clean water source and sanitation system for more than 12,000 people through the development of shallow wells, gravity-fed water systems, and village water and sanitation plans, and the training of community members on maintaining the water systems. Ongoing projects will provide a permanent, clean water source for an additional 12,000 people.
- Completed temporary road repairs over a stretch of more than nine miles in Calang, including the construction of a 36-yard Bailey bridge and the restoration of two others. The road connects Calang to Lamno, a major thruway on the west coast of Aceh.
- Assisted 1,159 traders, including poultry farmers, fish traders and gold thread embroidery artisans, with grants and training to rebuild their businesses.
- Provided cash grants and/or capacity builddling trainings to more than 2,400 direct beneficiaries. Trainings focused on building fundraising, proposal writing, strategic planning and networking skills.
- Mobilized community health workers to participate fully in the community health interventions, and learn about basic prevention and management of diseases for children and pregnant women.
- Collaborated with the Indonesian Ministry of Health to improve management at the provincial and district levels and build the capacity of staff.
- Supported a local group of artists with materials to create artwork for an exhibition (the first at the Banda Aceh Museum since the disaster), and with organizational training for their group's development and programming. The group, Kanvas Association, works with survivors of the tsunami and uses art for self-expression and healing.
- Increased coverage of the health system through the building and/or rehabilitation of health centers, and assisted fully in equipping them.
| FY05 | FY06 | FY07 | FY08 | FY09* | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actual | Actual | Actual | Actual | Forecast | Forecast |
| $20.94 | 23.01 | 41.32 | 17.64 | 17.43 | $120.34 |
India
Catholic Relief Services is committed to aiding the people and communities still struggling from the worst natural disaster to hit India in centuries. Confirmed deaths from the tsunami stand at 15,000, with roughly 650,000 left homeless.
CRS has committed resources of almost $38 million through fiscal year 2009. Our long-term objectives for India are to restore daily living for those affected by the tsunami, help communities prepare for the possibility of future disaster, and provide the information and tools communities need to protect their most vulnerable, children, women, and people living with HIV and AIDS.
The CRS tsunami program in India is perhaps the best illustration of our work with partners and our investment in disaster response and mitigation. To date, 42,500 tsunami-affected families have had their homes and livelihoods restored or mental health needs addressed; 1,000 communities (300,000 people) are protecting their women, children and other vulnerable members from trafficking, unsafe migration, child labor and HIV; and 800 disaster-prone communities (280,000 people) are prepared to respond to natural hazards.
Over the past four years, CRS and our partners in India:
- Supplied food and medical care to 350,000 and 250,000 people respectively in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami.
- Provided 146,572 people with access to clean water and improved water systems.
- Built 1,333 temporary homes designed to house 15,000 survivors until their permanent homes were completed .
- Resettled more than 12,403 people in 2,883 permanent houses, with hundreds more under construction as of September 30, 2008.
- Engaged 57,000 traumatized children in summer camps and programs on health, hygiene, child rights and protection in the face of future disasters.
- Collaborated with and provided training to 30 local partners on protecting the rights of orphans and vulnerable children.
- Distributed boats, nets and other tools to more than 32,996 families and individuals to help them restart their fishing, agriculture and other trades.
- Offered vocational training for 7,038 people giving them opportunities to learn new job skills or improve existing ones.
- Improved women's access to jobs, health care and education through the formation of 1,953 new self-help groups.
- Protected 156,000 children from exploitation by organizing group activities and providing school and recreational supplies.
- Repaired or built 68 planned children's facilities.
- Assisted 405 communities in providing community-based home care and preventing the spread of HIV.
| FY05 | FY06 | FY07 | FY08 | FY09* | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actual | Actual | Actual | Actual | Forecast | Forecast |
| $8.53 | 10.39 | 13.00 | 4.02 | 2.04 | $37.98 |
Sri Lanka
Working through our local Caritas partner, CRS responded to the tremendous needs in Sri Lanka with a projected $30 million relief and reconstruction program. In the country's eastern and southern coastal regions, the tsunami left more than 36,000 dead or missing and 550,000 without homes. More than 276,000 jobs were lost. CRS and Caritas have worked closely with those who would otherwise have fallen through the cracks—renters, shanty dwellers and families who lost their homes during the war. CRS has also provided assistance to the people internally displaced by the conflict. Through local partners, we have provided food and other essentials, as well as shelter, education, and psychosocial support.
Over the past four years, CRS Sri Lanka and our partners have:
- Constructed 6,775 temporary shelters that are providing shelter to 93,000 tsunami- and war-affected people.
- Completed the construction of 6,645 permanent homes, reaching over 33,225 people.
- Distributed approximately 19,000 basic household items and sanitation kits, far exceeding our initial goal of about 7,500.
- Provided fishing nets, boats, engines and other assets to 8,643 families to help them restart their trades and jobs.
- Mobilized communities to empower themselves by forming 271 self-help groups, who in turn have obtained microcredit to establish and/or strengthen their small businesses.
- Collaborated with communities to rebuild and rehabilitate 123 community infrastructure buildings, including hospitals, markets, orphanages and schools.
- Put 11,600 people to work in reconstruction programs like building roads and cleaning up debris and wells.
- Rehabilitated 27 schools and 84 temporary classrooms, allowing 35,250 students to return to safe learning environments.
- Distributed some 59,202 packages of educational materials and more than 53,500 school uniforms.
- Offered programming to help people work through the trauma, including training community workers to assist children and families in their long-term recovery from trauma.
| FY05 | FY06 | FY07 | FY08 | FY09* | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actual | Actual | Actual | Actual | Forecast | Forecast |
| $9.30 | 10.97 | 7.05 | 1.66 | 0.96 | $29.94 |
* Given unforeseen circumstances that may arise through implementation, activities scheduled to be completed in Fiscal Year 2009 may actually be completed in Fiscal Year 2010.
