What is OFDA?
• USAID, through OFDA, leads
the U.S. Government
response to natural and manmade disasters internationally.
• Created in 1964 after the U.S.
response to an earthquake in the
former Yugoslavia and a volcanic
eruption in Costa Rica were less
than effective.
• USAID Administrator is designated
by the President as the Special
Coordinator for International
Disaster Assistance (IDA).
OFDA At a Glance
OFDA FAST FACTS – FY 2014
Number of OFDA disaster
41
responses
Number of countries that
received OFDA disaster support
36
OFDA's humanitarian assistance
$1.1 billion *
Most frequent disaster
Complex Emergency
Logistics and Relief
Commodities
Most funded sector
USG Ebola Strategy
Four Key Goals:
• Controlling the epidemic at its source
• Mitigating second-order impacts, including blunting
the economic, social and political tolls
• Engaging and coordinating with a broader global
audience
• Fortifying global health security infrastructure in the
region
USG Agencies
USG’s EVD Response
CDC
• Deploying staff to the region to support health care
facilities, laboratories, local officials, etc.
• Assisting with exit screening and communication efforts
• Enhancing surveillance and laboratory testing capacity
• Working with OFDA to expand Liberia’s emergency
management capacity by establishing a permanent
emergency operations center facility in Monrovia
DoD
• Construct Ebola Treatment Units
UN Agencies and
International Donors
NGO Partners
OFDA’s EVD Response
•
OFDA’s ebola response started
in June.
•
OFDA deployed a Disaster
Assistance Response Team to
the field and started a
Response Management Team
in August.
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Additional staff deployments in
September as necessary
OFDA’s EVD Response
The DART/RMT’s Job:
• Planning
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Develop Strategy
Prioritize
Coordinate
Fund
Share Information
• Operations
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Staffing
Communications
Logistics
Safety and Security
OFDA’s EVD Response
The DART/RMT’s Job:
• Planning
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Develop Strategy
Prioritize
Coordinate
Fund
Share Information
OFDA’s EVD Response
The DART/RMT’s Job:
• Operations
– Staffing
– Communications
USG Personnel Deployed for EVD Response Efforts*
Agency
Guinea
Liberia
Sierra Leone
Ghana
TOTAL USG
27
1,165
69
2
OFDA DART
3
19
4
1
* As of November 10, 2014
OFDA’s EVD Response
The DART/RMT’s Job:
• Operations
– Logistics
• Procurement
• Transport
OFDA’s EVD Response
The DART/RMT’s Job:
• Operations
– Safety and Security
• Pre-deployment
• During deployment
• Post-deployment
OFDA’s EVD Response
OFDA’s NGO Programs:
• Community Care Campaigns:
– provides communities and households
with protection kits, appropriate
information and training on how to
protect themselves and their loved ones
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Conducting contact-tracing trainings and activities
Building Ebola Treatment Units
Dead body management, safe burials
Infection prevention and control training
Community mobilization efforts through radio and
television broadcasts, training volunteers on
awareness-raising, and house to house health
promotion campaigns
OFDA’s EVD Response
Other Activities:
• Procuring and delivering supplies:
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home health care kits,
body bags,
personal protective equipment,
mobile laboratories,
relief commodities and plastic sheeting
medical supplies,
generators,
water treatment units and portable water tanks
OFDA’s EVD Response
OFDA Funding to Date:
• Regional Support:
$172.8 million
$13.8 million
– African Union, CDC, UNICEF, UNHAS
• Liberia:
$137.5 million
– 11 NGOs
– IOM, IFRC, UN
– OFDA commodities
• Sierra Leone
$ 10.2 million
– NGO, UN, IFRC
• Guinea
$ 8.4 million
– NGOs, IFRC, UN
• Program Support
$ 2.7 million
OFDA’s EVD Response
Other USG Funding to Date:
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USAID/Food for Peace
USAID/Global Health
USAID/Liberia
USAID/Guinea
DoD
CDC
$ 20.5 million
$17.7 million
$ 5 million
$ 3.5 million
$ 170 million
$ 25 million
Total USG Humanitarian Assistance: $414.6 million