D. Special Circumstances During Emergencies
Registering participants in the first month or two of an
emergency program may not be possible. Initial constraints on beneficiary
registration include:
· A large influx of
refugees
· A long border in remote, difficult
terrain
· Lack of administrative resources,
including staff, vehicles, and communications
· Medical, sanitation, water, and food needs
· Difficulty in locating community leaders to assist in
the registration
· Difficulty in
communications
· No initial agreements or
contracts with the host governments and no mandate for registration to take
place.
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If a country office is having difficulties in registering a
target population, regional managers and the Food Security Unit at CARE USA
Headquarters and/or CI Headquarters and/or local representatives of donors must
be contacted and informed of the cause of the problems and the steps being taken
to register people. CARE should begin registering participants as quickly as
possible after the operation begins, before leaders begin to seek personal
advantage. The later the registration, the more difficult generating cooperation
becomes. Despite difficulties during emergency start up programs, all CARE
emergency projects must have registration procedures in place at the end of the
first month of operation. |
