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NGO Humanitarian Coordination no.4 |
MINUTES
from the 4th meeting
Skopje, 14.08.2001
Participants
Ahmet Jasarovski - DROM; Lulzim Nesimi, Memedali Rahmani - Regional Co-ordination
Body, Gostivar; Etem Dzeladini, Bajram Sulejmani - Natyra; Fatmir Islami
- Klasje na dobrinata; Gjuner Nebiu - SAZM; Savka Todorovska - SOZM; Dragi
Zmijanac - PDAS "Megjasi"; Artemis Peric - OOZM; Dilbera Kamberovska
- ROZM "Daja"; Vegim Etemi - El hilal; Aleksandar Krzalovski,
Emina Nuredinovska - MCIC
Absent
Milosrdie
The meeting was chaired by Bajram Sulejmani, Natyra.
Minutes person: Emina Nuredinovska
The participants determined the following
AGENDA
- 1. Reports from the humanitarian activities
a. Report of the 4th meeting of NHC
b. Reports of the organisations on realised activities within the previous
week
- Problems, issues and needs to be considered
Ad.1
a) Emina Nuredinovska of MCIC gave the introduction. The Minutes of the
4th meeting of NHC had previously been distributed to the participants
Memedali Rahmani of Mesecina stressed that he was not consent with the
statement of the Red Cross representative who had said that the IDPs from
Tetovo in Gostivar had no documents and were socially endangered persons,
not IDPs. In order to clarify the misunderstanding, a list of registered
displaced persons by Mesecina will be submitted and will be compared to
the list of registered persons with Red Cross in Gostivar. Also, a protest
in writing was submitted to the relevant institutions for equation of
the treatment of IDPs.
b) The participants submitted short oral reports, as well as reports in
writing on the realised activities
food / non-food products
MCIC distributed aid in food and hygienic products (two trucks of the
planned six) to the population in the villages of Vratnica and Jazince,
Tetovo area.
El hilal distributed food and hygienic products in Aracinovo, Lipkovo
(15 tons) and Sipkovica (5 trucks).
SAZM distributed 400 l of milk; 450 kg vegetables; 100 oil; 440 boxes
of diapers and aid in clothes and shoes for 544 persons.
ROZM "Daja" clothes to 250 displaced families.
OOZM provided a baby bed, diapers and clothes for a baby accommodated
with host family.
Natyra distributed food (39 tons) to the population in Lipkovo.
health
SAZM organised free medical examinations for displaced women and children
accommodated with host families.
shelter/host families
From 08.08.2001, Megjasi, in co-operation with the Basic Rights and Democracy
Committee from Germany, organised a summer camp in Ohrid for 50 displaced
persons accommodated at the "Ranka Milanovic", "Stiv Naumov",
and Cicino Selo collective centres, as well as for children of Albanian
ethnicity accommodated with families.
SAZM branch in Cair, in co-operation with the local authorities in Cair,
accommodated 3 families with 29 members from Matejce in a collective centre.
information
All information concerning IDPs can be obtained at the information centres
of SOZM, OOZM and SAZM, as well as some of their branch offices in the
crises areas.
psychosocial assistance
SOZM, ROZM "Daja", OOZM, SAZM and Megjasi continue their work
in the field of psychosocial support of women and children.
other activities
OOZM organised a protest peace march in the 'Zena borec' park and presented
peace messages in Macedonian and in English.
DROM participated in two peace campaigns ("It's enough' initiated
by IOO and "Campaign for Peace and Reconciliation in Macedonia"
initiated by "Civil")
Ad. 2
Memedali Rahmani, Mesecina, stressed that he was not satisfied with the
activities undertaken by NHC for solving the problems of the displaced
persons. He added that they would not participate in the local NGO co-ordination,
unless more concrete measures are undertaken.
Savka Todorovska of SOZM stressed that the member organisations of NGO
humanitarian co-ordination needed to inform where did they get the assistance
from and to submit distribution lists. This should be done in order to
provide for equal distribution of the aid among IDPs, since for a part
of the displaced persons the only assistance provided were the parcels
of the Red Cross, while others got much more. She also mentioned that
the NGO humanitarian co-ordination acted disorganized and there were no
larger effects of the undertaken activities.
On the other hand, the representative of Natyra felt that the work of
the NGO humanitarian coordination already showed significant results.
Artemis Peric of OOZM added that the NGO humanitarian co-ordination needed
to distribute aid jointly, which would mean equal treatment of the IDPs
in practice.
Follow-up activities concerning issues and problems from the previous
meetings
Aleksandar Krzalovski informed that contact had been established with
Intersos on the content of the humanitarian parcels that would be distributed
in the next six months. The agreed content of the parcels is as follows:
20 kg of flour; 2 kg of rice; 2 kg of sugar; 2 kg of oil and 2 kg of macaroni.
The content is changeable; the parcels will be distributed to all registered
IDPs in the third month after their displacement (the distribution in
the first two months was organised by MCK/MKCM).
Since there are cases of overlapping concerning the distribution of food
by local organisations, the organisations that distribute large quantities
of humanitarian aid need to participate in the SPH's sector meeting son
food. That will enable them to have a clear overview on the aid distributed
to collective centres and host families.
The Crises Management Co-ordination Body made a decision not to limit
the access of humanitarian food distributions to the crises areas.
After the discussion, the participants reached the following
Conclusions
- Improvement of the co-ordination of the assistance for the IDPs.
All organisations that have lists of displaced persons need to motivate
the registered persons to register with the Red Cross. The Red Cross
will provide them with a parcel monthly.
The organisations need to submit lists of the displaced persons to the
NGO humanitarian co-ordination, in order to prepare a joint list of
the displaced persons who are not registered with the MRC. Possibilities
should be explored for those who, from various reasons, cannot obtain
assistance from other sources.
- Possible locations for informing IDPs for protection of mines. Until
the next meeting, the organisations need to submit proposals for possible
locations, where, in co-operation with UNICEF, MKCK and MCIC, training
on protection from mines and explosive material.
Next meeting will be held on 21.08.2001 (Tuesday) in MCIC's premises.
The meeting will be chaired by Memedali Rahmani, Mesecina.
The meeting started at 14 hrs, and after the agenda was completed, the
meeting ended at 16 hrs.
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