MISSION

The mission of each NGO in this operation is to assess the situation on the ground with the goal of formulating a service delivery plan, which is in line with each respective NGOs sector, by the conclusion of the weekend.

The current operation is designed to assess the needs of the refugees that have recently flooded into camps along the Sudan-Chad border. Local refugee populations have migrated recently due to rebel activity and due to worsening drought conditions. Sources fleeing the area also say they have heard reports of new camps popping up in more remote locations.

Your mission as an NGO team member is to assist this displaced population by relaying information to your Team Leader and Cluster Lead that will be used to report directly to the UN.  Data must be gathered in the field on not only the number of displaced persons but on what their age/gender breakdown is, what diseases are present, what has caused death, how much drinkable water is available, how safe the camps are, etc. It is only with accurate information that appropriate aid can be planned for the region.

It is a good idea to ask questions of the refugees and local camp directors that you come into contact with as they have their ears to the ground and hear more from refugees than you will. If somebody speaks of a lost village, they may be speaking of a camp that has not been placed on one of our maps yet.

 NGO's IN THIS OPERATION:
A number of NGO's are coordinating efforts in this operation. Following is a listing of the primary NGO's and information about each NGO's mission.

 

Care’s Mission Statement
Our mission is to serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing strength from our global diversity, resources and experience, we promote innovative solutions and are advocates for global responsibility. We facilitate lasting change by strengthening capacity for self-help, providing economic opportunity, delivering relief in emergencies, influencing policy decisions at all levels and addressing discrimination in all its forms.  Guided by the aspirations of local communities, we pursue our mission with both excellence and compassion because the people whom we serve deserve nothing less.

 

Sudan

 

·         Community Managed Water and Sanitation (COMWAS)

·         Seed production and marketing

·         Darfur emergency assistance project

·         Wau peace and conflict mitigation

 

International Medical Corps’ Mission Statement
International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in underserved communities worldwide. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.

 

Chad  -  Southern Sudan  -  Darfur

·         Emergency response

·         Health capacity building

·         Women and children’s health and well-being

·         Mental health

·         Clean water, sanitation and hygiene

 

ICRC's Mission Statement

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence and to provide them with assistance. The ICRC also endeavors to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles. Established in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It directs and coordinates the international activities conducted by the Movement in armed conflicts and other situations of violence.

 

Sudan  -  Chad

 

·        Biotechnology and weapons

·        Missing persons

·        Women and children in war

·        War and displacement

·        Social research on war

·        Debate on humanitarian action

 

 

IRC's Mission Statement

The International Rescue Committee serves refugees and communities victimized by oppression or violent conflict worldwide. Founded in 1933, the IRC is committed to freedom, human dignity, and self-reliance. This commitment is expressed in emergency relief, protection of human rights, post-conflict development, resettlement assistance, and advocacy.

 

Sudan  -  Chad

 

·        Responding to crisis and restoring safety

·        Healing the sick and preventing disease

·        Rebuilding communities and renewing dignity

·        Protecting and empowering women and girls

·        Taking care of children and reuniting families

 

Merlin’s Mission Statement

Merlin specializes in health, saving lives in times of crisis and helping to rebuild shattered health services.  Merlin works within existing health systems to realize everyone’s right to accessible, appropriate, affordable health care.  We are committed to helping build lasting health services which are used and championed by everyone.  We are specialists in both rapid medical response and health service rebuilding, effectively taking countries from emergency to recovery.  We are determined to campaign to make health a global priority; giving people caught up in conflict, disaster and health system collapse the chance to lead healthy lives.  We care. For people at risk, for the lives we hope always to save, for the safety of our staff. We care about being accountable to our patients, partners, supporters and donors. And we care about keeping our promise: to stay on, beyond the crisis, for as long as we are needed.

 

Sudan

 

·        Emergency relief

·        Strengthening health care systems

·        Addressing global health threats

·        Influencing policy

 

MercyCorps’ Mission Statement

Mercy Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities.  We help communities catalyze the change they want to see. It is their potential, their energy, and their ideas that ultimately will turn crisis into opportunity.  Where people are thrown into the chaos of war, economic collapse or natural disaster, Mercy Corps provides immediate, sustaining humanitarian assistance, always with the goal of hastening recovery. As the most urgent needs are met, we immediately move toward programming that pursues longer-term stability and prosperity.  

 

Sudan

 

·        Agriculture

·        Conflict & War

·        Economic Development

·        Education and economic development

·        Food/Nutrition and Health

·        Livelihoods and microfinance

·        Water/Sanitation

Médecins Sans Frontières’ Mission Statement
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian aid organization that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 70 countries. MSF works in rehabilitation of hospitals and dispensaries, vaccination programs and water and sanitation projects. MSF also works in remote health care centers, slum areas and provides training of local personnel. All this is done with the objective of rebuilding health structures to acceptable levels.

 

Sudan  -  Chad

 

·        Emergency aid

·        Armed conflict

·        Epidemics

·        Healthcare exclusion

·        Natural or man-made disasters

Oxfam’s Mission Statement
Oxfam International is a confederation of 13 organizations working together with over 3,000 partners in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice.   Oxfam International seeks increased worldwide public understanding that economic and social justice is crucial to sustainable development. We strive to be a global campaigning force promoting the awareness and motivation that comes with global citizenship while seeking to shift public opinion in order to make equity the same priority as economic growth.

 

Darfur/Chad Crisis

 

·        Address the structural causes of poverty and related injustice

·        Help people directly where local capacity is insufficient or inappropriate

·        Assist the development of structures

·        Strengthening people's capacity to peacefully resolve conflicts

Save the Children‘s Mission Statement
Save the Children is the largest international organization conducting relief efforts and providing other vital services to displaced children and adults in Sudan's West Darfur State.  With over 20 years of on-the-ground experience elsewhere in Sudan, we reach approximately 500,000 displaced children and women in camps and surrounding conflict-affected communities each month – our donor-supported work includes the provision of food, water, health care and protection for the most vulnerable, conducting education and livelihood programs and assisting in the management of refugee camps.

Sudan

·         Training community health workers to care for newborns and young children 

·         Protecting vulnerable children from abuse and exploitation  

·         Improve child health through regular exercise and nutritious food in the U.S.

Worldvision’s Mission Statement

Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness;
Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.

World Vision is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.  Inspired by our Christian values, we are dedicated to working with the world’s most vulnerable people. We serve all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender. 

Sudan  -  Chad

·         Training community health workers to care for newborns and young children 

·         Protecting vulnerable children from abuse and exploitation