Relief and Rehabilitation

Balance Requested from ACT Alliance: US$ 2,106,434

Although there are critical longer term political and economic issues in Angola, several immediate security and humanitarian challenges must be addressed to avoid laying the foundations for a renewed conflict. The late rebel leader Jonas Savimbi’s ghost, the legacy of a war that killed a million people and uprooted a third of the population, will haunt the country for years. Millions who are either internally displaced or refugees in neighboring countries must be resettled in their areas of origin. 105,000 fighters of the former rebel organisation UNITA – each with an average of six civilian dependents – must be reintegrated into civilian life on an urgent basis. The removal of millions of mines laid over the past half-century has to be accelerated.

This ACT Appeal covers the transition from emergency/rehabilitation to development. With peace there is an enormous opportunity to build a better future in Angola, a country that despite its potential remains one of the poorest in the world. Particular focus will be paid to the needs of women and children. There will be the involvement of local government and community participation in program design, implementation and evaluation.

ACT members in Angola over the next twelve months will be involved in the following sectors:

• Targeted emergency response and post-conflict population resettlement to rapidly restore food security;
• Rehabilitation of essential rural infrastructure and socio-economic rural development through strategic alliances with the government, local NGOs and civil society organisations;
• Improving socio-economic development by reducing the threat posed by landmines and UXO.
• Rural public health, including the provision of safe drinking water and sanitation

• Igreja Evangélica Reformada de Angola (IERA)

• Folkekirkens Nødhjælp/DanChurchAid (DCA)

• The Lutheran World Federation (LWF)

• Conselho de Igrejas Cristãs em Angola (CICA)

Project Completion Date:

IERA, LWF & CICA: 31 January 2006

DCA: 31 December 2005

Summary of Appeal Targets, Pledges/Contributions Received and Balance Requested

White Rakuba
Director, ACT Co-ordinating Office