NGO Humanitarian Coordination no.10

MINUTES

of the 10th meeting
Skopje, 25.09.2001

Present

Dragi Zmijanac - PDAS "Megjasi"; Artemis Peric - OOZM; Dilbera Kamberovska - ROZM "Daja"; Ahmet Jasarovski - Drom; Memedali Rahmani - Mesecina; Vegim Etemi - El hilal; Gjuner Nebiu - SAZM; Muhamed Ismaili - Klasje na dobrinata; Emina Nuredinoska - MCIC.

Absent

Milosrdie, Natyra, SOZM

The meeting was chaired by Guner Nebiu.
Minutes person: Emina Nuredinoska.

The participants determined the following

AGENDA

• Minutes from the 9th meeting of NGO humanitarian coordination.
  

1. Reports on humanitarian activities
   a) Report from the 10th meeting of NHC
   b) Reports from the organisations for last week's activities
   
   
2. Problems, issues and needs to be considered and solved
   
   
3. Coordination of distribution of humanitarian aid in crisis region
   
   
4. Inclusion the representatives from Tetovo region in NGO humanitarian coordination

Introduction to the minutes of 9th NGO humanitarian coordination meeting made Guner Nebiu, SAZM.

The minutes from the 9th meeting was accepted.


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a) Emina Nuredinoska, MCIC, made introduction. The minutes of the 10th meeting of NHC had previously been distributed to the participants.

Ahmed Jasarevski, DROM, again stressed the appeal to the donors for assisting a 14-year old girl (displaced person) who needed medical treatment in France.

Dragi Zmijanac, Medzasi, requested information from Macedonian Red Cross about decision to stop with registration of IDPs after 11.09.2001.

b) The participants in the meeting submitted short oral reports, as well as written ones, on the activities carried out in the previous week.

Food / non-food products

El hilal distributed food and hygienic products in the villages of Germo (4 tons of food products), Lipkovo (15 tons flour and 20 tons of food products), Brnjarci (3 tons flour), Vaksince (kitchen ware), Lojane (kitchen ware).

Klasje na dobrinata, distributed 8 tons food in Vaksince and food parcels for 400 families in Skopje.

Mesecina, in cooperation with Caritas, provided clothes for 120 persons.
OOZM lead action for gathering winter clothes for IDPs.

Coordination

The regional coordinative bodies in Kumanovo and Gostivar, regularly realised their current activities. Ahmed Jasarevski and Memedali Rahmani submitted information on the meetings in Kumanovo and Gostivar. The reports from the meetings were distributed to the participants.

Reconstruction

MCIC, continued with reconstruction of objects with little damages in Aracinovo, Brnjarci and Lopate.

Psychosocial support

Medzasi, SAZM, OOZM and ROZM "Daja" continually work on providing psychosocial support to displaced children and women.

Other activities

Medzasi organized a visit to the theatre for displaced children. This kind of visits will be organized every week.

DROM is active in the "Be for..." campaign. Also, in cooperation with ARC, DROM organized training for working with computers, where displaced persons are also included.
SAZM in cooperation with Austrian Red Cross organized training for knitting for displaced women.

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Artemis Peric, SOZM, stressed that, still, the greatest problem was the provision of schoolbooks to the displaced children.

Gjuner Nebiu, SAZM, asked whether the NGO Humanitarian Coordination could do something additional about that issue.

The participants agreed that UNICEF's request to the local organisations concerning the number of displaced children in and from crises regions had been submitted late and that no help could be provided.

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The introduction was submitted by Emina Nuredinovska, MCIC, who stressed that according to the assessment of the Government's Coordination Body for Crises Management there was inequality in the distribution of aid to restricted access areas. Namely, much larger quantity of food and non-food items had been distributed to the Lipkovo area compared to the aid distributed to the Tetovo area.

Rahmani Memedali, Mesecina, stressed that the villages of Ribnica, Bibe, Grekaj, Tanuse and Niviste from the Gorna Reka area had submitted a request for humanitarian aid and for demining, but it had not been replied.

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Memedali Rahmani, Mesecina, stressed that, in cooperation with Mesecina's branch in Tetovo, a meeting of Roma organisations from the town had been held and a decision had been taken to attempt to establish a coordination body consisting of all relevant NGOs in Tetovo. He also said that there was a need for a representative of that body to participate in the work of the NGO Humanitarian Coordination.

Dragi Zmijanac, Megjasi, said that, in case NGOs of sufficient capacity for humanitarian activities existed in Tetovo and which had proven themselves in the past, the organisations from Tetovo could then participate in the work of the NGO Humanitarian Coordination.
Dilbera Kamberovska of ROZM 'Daja' felt that, since there was a decision not to enlarge the NGO Humanitarian Coordination, 'Milosrdie' needed to be contacted first in order to determine their status in the NGO Humanitarian Coordination. Then, another organisation from Tetovo could be included in this coordination body, because that was needed.

After the discussion, the participants reached the following

Conclusions

1. Additional meeting.
   A meeting on the additional activities needed to be undertaken by the NGO Humanitarian Coordination as a joint action for improving the situation of the displaced persons, shall be held at MCIC's premises at 12:00 on 01.10.2001 (Monday).
   
   
2. Establishment of a coordination body in Tetovo.
   Mesecina's branch in Tetovo shall organise a meeting of NGOs from the town and the humanitarian coordination body for this region shall be established at the meeting.
   
   
3. 'Milosrdie' shall be warned.
   'Milosrdie' shall be warned for the last time, in order to determine their status in the NGO Humanitarian Coordination. In case 'Milosrdie' decides not to participate in the work of the NGO Humanitarian Coordination, the possibility for including a representative from Tetovo will be discussed upon additionally.
   
   
4. Coordination of distributed aid.
   Additionally, a meeting shall be held between the organisations that distribute aid to the limited access areas in order to coordinate and distribute aid appropriately.
   

Previous Coordination Reports

• 9th Coordinative meeting [18 Sep 2001]
• 8th Coordinative meeting [11 Sep 2001]
• 7th Coordinative meeting [4 Sep 2001]
• 6th Coordinative meeting [28 Aug 2001]
• 5th Coordinative meeting [21 Aug 2001]
• 4th Coordinative meeting [14 Aug 2001]
• 3rd Coordinative meeting [1 Aug 2001]
• 2nd Coordinative meeting [25 Jul 2001]
• 1st Coordinative meeting [18 Jul 2001]