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El Salvador
>> Regional Overview >> El Salvador Overview Program Data Sheet
519-008
USAID MISSION: El Salvador
PROGRAM TITLE: Earthquake Recovery Program (Pillars: Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade; Global Health; Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance)
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE AND NUMBER: Lives of Targeted Earthquake Victims Improved, 519-008
STATUS: Continuing
PLANNED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $32,660,000 DA; $6,300,000 CSH; $25,000,000 ESF; $25,000,000 IDA
PRIOR YEAR UNOBLIGATED AND FUNDING SOURCE: $5,000,000 DA; $ 6,040,000 ESF
PROPOSED FY 2003 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $0
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 2001 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2004Summary: The Earthquake Recovery Program has four major components that provide training, technical assistance and small grants to:
- support community infrastructure restoration, focusing on the reconstruction of houses, schools, health facilities, and potable water and sanitation systems;
- support economic reactivation which focuses on micro and small businesses and small farmers, the reconstruction of rural markets, the replacement of productive assets, credit, agribusiness development, small infrastructure, and expanding export;
- support disaster mitigation, planning, disaster preparedness and land use; and
- support municipal government Infrastructure, focusing on reconstruction and repair of municipal offices.
Inputs, Outputs and Activities: The FY 2002 request represents a major increase over what was notified in the FY 2002 Congressional Budget Justification. Much of the increase will go for housing, allowing USAID to increase housing solutions for the poor to about 18,000 families. The increase will also permit USAID to expand by 45,000 to 110,000 the number of individuals reached with potable water and sanitation services, strengthen the National Disaster Agency (COEN) and increase by 40 the number of municipal centers repaired. It will also provide for an increase in economic reactivation work with micro and small businesses and small-scale farmers.
FY 2002 Program: The bulk of the FY 2002 DA funds requested will go for housing. Over 7,440 houses will be constructed for the rural poor who lost their homes in the earthquakes. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will provide construction oversight services. USAID programs will work with more than 5,000 small farmers to increase crop diversification, restore local production and incomes, and replace critical community based infrastructure. Also, in tandem with the Mission's early childhood and basic education program, 20-25 earthquake-damaged child-care centers and rural schools will be reconstructed and re-equipped. USAID will continue to fund the operating costs of the Department of Defense-provided hospital in Santa Tecla, which is treating an estimated 6,500 patients and performing 1,500 surgeries a year. CSH and DA funds, will support potable water, latrines, and community education activities to an estimated 110,000 beneficiaries in affected areas, as well as provide for further development of the country's national disease surveillance system. USAID also plans to use limited DA and CSH funds for program management and audit coverage.
ESF funds will cover the costs of approximately 6,300 houses for the rural poor who lost their homes in the earthquakes. ESF funds will support economic reactivation efforts reaching more than 12,000 micro and small businesses that suffered earthquake-related damages. Also, three rural markets will be reconstructed. USAID will continue to support the GOES' technical assistance fund that provides micro and small businesses with production technology and business practices. This fund will finance programs and technical assistance to increase exports and help local artisans. USAID will reconstruct up to 85 earthquake-damaged municipal buildings and strengthen the municipalities' ability to provide responsive services.
With FY 2002 International Disaster Assistance (IDA) funds, USAID will provide technical assistance and equipment to improve disaster preparedness at the national and local levels, strengthen early warning systems, and monitor landslide, flooding, and seismic activity. USAID will work with 30 affected municipalities to develop disaster mitigation and land use planning. Funds will be allocated to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) for the development of a seismic observatory, municipal information systems, and disaster monitoring activities with the GOES. IDA funds will also support (a) the country's national disaster agency to strengthen its emergency operations center and linkages with communities and (b) activities that will help El Salvador's new Earth Sciences Agency to better monitor disasters. IDA funds will finance approximately 4,120 housing solutions for the rural poor, as well as assist in the provision of potable water.
SUBMISSION OF THIS PROGRAM DATA SHEET CONSTITUTES FORMAL RENOTIFICATION OF USAID'S INTENT TO OBLIGATE FY 2002 RESOURCES FOR THE ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED ABOVE. Planned FY 2003 Program: No FY 2003 resources are requested for the earthquake reconstruction program.
Performance and Results: While implementation of the earthquake reconstruction program is in the early stages, a number of concrete results can be reported. Approximately 1,500 permanent houses were completed or are under construction. Over 26 water systems were repaired benefiting 55,500 persons and over 6,800 latrines were repaired or rebuilt. USAID delivered technical assistance to 13,500 small farmers in 23 municipalities, five shrimp cooperatives in the reconstruction of fishing infrastructure, and 60 small-scale maize farmers. US PVO AmeriCares is building a health clinic that will serve 78,000 patients annually in the department of Usulutan, while the Friends of the Americas' mobile health clinic is servicing three affected departments and is expected to serve 22,000 patients per year.
End products sought include the construction of 25,000 homes, the reconstruction of 60 schools and 36 child care centers, 6 health facilities repaired/reconstructed, damaged equipment for 1,657 community health providers replaced, AmeriCares health clinic built, 200,000 potable water beneficiaries, 15,500 micro and small business enterprises assisted, 5 rural markets reconstructed, 140 small agricultural infrastructure facilities repaired benefiting 70,000 small farmers, new agribusiness program working with 4,000 small farmers, disaster mitigation plans and land use ordinances promulgated in 30 municipalities, and 85 municipal offices reconstructed/repaired.
Principal Contractors, Grantees, or Agencies: USAID's activities are implemented through the following prime grantees and contractors: (a) the GOES (National Housing Fund, Social Investment Fund, and the Ministries of Health, Education and Economy); (b) USPVOs and local NGOs (AmeriCares/Knights of Malta [sub]), CARE, Cooperative Housing Foundation, Friends of the Americas, Project Concern International, REDES, Samaritan's Purse, Save the Children, and World Vision, (c) USG agencies (NOAA, USACE, USGS); and (d) U.S. contractors (CLUSA of El Salvador, Development Alternatives Inc., DEVTEC, and Technoserve).
US Financing in Thousands of Dollars
519-008 Lives of Targeted Earthquake Victims Improved CSD CSH DA ESF Through September 30, 2000 Obligations 0 0 0 0 Expenditures 0 0 0 0 Unliquidated 0 0 0 0 Fiscal Year 2001 Obligations 7,043 0 26,106 12,871 Expenditures 103 0 1,203 0 Through September 30, 2001 Obligations 7,043 0 26,106 12,871 Expenditures 103 0 1,203 0 Unliquidated 6,940 0 24,903 12,871 Prior Year Unobligated Funds Obligations 0 0 5,000 6,040 Planned Fiscal Year 2002 NOA Obligations 0 6,300 32,660 25,000 Total Planned Fiscal Year 2002 Obligations 0 6,300 32,660 25,000 Proposed Fiscal Year 2003 NOA Obligations 0 0 0 0 Future Obligations 0 0 0 0 Est. Total Cost 7,043 6,300 58,766 37,871
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