NGOs Active on the Darfur crisis

The Following is a list of NGOs responding to the humanitarian crisis in and around the Darfur region of western Sudan.

The World Health Organisation has described the humanitarian situation as a "crisis out of control".

Action Against Hunger
*Relief efforts focused on food security and nutrition in eastern Chad.

Africare
*Supporting farmers’ groups in Chad and planning support for Sudanese refugees in Gozbebe.

Air Serv International
*Providing airlifts for U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and relief NGOs in Chad.

American Jewish World Service (AJWS)
*Raising funds to rehabilitate water sources, construct sanitation facilities and promote health and hygiene campaigns.

CARE Canada
*Providing food, water, sanitation and health assistance to internally displaced people throughout Darfur and in three camps in Chad.

CARE International
*Scaling up current relief efforts focused on hygiene and sanitation to include food distribution and emergency and reproductive health.

Caritas Internationalis
*Has launched a $485,500 appeal for aid and continues assisting Sudanese refugees in Chad. Also focusing on rehabiliting basic infrastructure such as roads and bridges.

Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
*Helping manage refugee camps in Farchana and Kounoungo. Also heading a transit centre at Touloum for refugees transferred from volatile border region.

Church World Service
*Raising relief funds and leading emergency management training with partners in Sudan and providing health care in camps around Khartoum.

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
*Providing medical help and clean water and sanitation in one of its biggest operations in the world.

International Medical Corps
*Preparing to manage health care and nutrition programmes for 18,000 to 25,000 people in three camps, including immunisations for children.
International Rescue Committee
*Focusing on water and sanitation, primary health-care needs, children and services for women and children vulnerable to sexual violence in Darfur and eastern Chad.

Medair
*Health care support, rehabilitation and supply of essential drugs. Has tripled its current programmes to meet mushrooming needs of IDPs.

Médecins Sans Frontières
*Providing medical, food and water and sanitation assistance to almost 250,000 displaced people. Vaccinating children against measles.

Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
*Collecting and analysing information on internal displacemt in Darfur and other regions of Sudan.

Oxfam
*Providing latrines and clean water and promoting hygiene in El Fashir and Kebkayia in North Darfur. Planning similar work in South Dafur. Working with local partner to provide facilities to refugee camps in Chad.

Refugees International
*Surveying extent of displacement in Sudan and Chad.

Save the Children
*Distributing plastic sheeting for shelter, jerry cans and blankets, as well as food for more than 100,000 IDPs.

He said that the conference would issue an action plan for enhancement of the humanitarian aid situation in Darfur.

The minister referred to endeavours of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to strengthen the partnership with the United Nations and the non- governmental organizations, stressing that transparency is required in the dealing with international community's organizations.