EMCA Humanitarian Assistance in Review, FY 2002 - 2011

USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) and USAID's Office of Food for Peace (USAID/FFP) provided assistance in response to a range of disasters, including floods, wildfires, winter emergencies, and complex crises. Between FY 2002 and FY 2011, USAID provided more than $2.1 billion for emergency response programs in the EMCA region. USAID/OFDA assistance included approximately $874 million for agriculture and food security, health, humanitarian coordination, relief commodities, nutrition, protection, shelter, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions. USAID/FFP assistance included more than $1.3 billion in emergency food assistance to vulnerable populations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere in the region. USAID deployed five Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DARTs) and multiple humanitarian assessment teams to the region during this period. DARTs were deployed to Israel in FY 2011 in response to wildfires, to Iran in FY 2004 following destructive earthquakes, to Iraq in FY 2003, to Lebanon in FY 2006, and to Georgia in FY 2008 in response to complex emergencies. USAID also activated multiple Washington, D.C.-based Response Management Teams to support DART coordination and response efforts. The EMCA region included 49 countries between FY 2002 and FY 2011, including Afghanistan, Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, West Bank/Gaza, and Yemen. To complement emergency assistance and mitigate the underlying causes of vulnerabilities, USAID/OFDA supports disaster risk reduction (DRR) programming in the EMCA region. USAID/OFDA DRR interventions include technical assistance and technology transfer to build capacity in communities and national agencies, as well as project-level activities such as seismic-resistant shelter construction. Recent USAID/OFDA DRR programming in FY 2011 included support for improved government disaster response and management capacity in Iraq, seismic hazard mapping systems for the Balkans through the U.S. Geological Survey, and strengthened regional DRR coordination in Central Asia. The funding for USAID/OFDA and USAID/FFP assistance in the EMCA region varied between FY 2002 and FY 2011. USAID/OFDA funding peaked at $127.4 million in FY 2009, while USAID/FFP funding peaked at $258.4 million in FY 2003. The total funding for both offices in the EMCA region was $310.5 million in FY 2002 and $2,178.1 million in FY 2011.