AfDB Short-term Emergency Relief Assistance (SRF)
AfDB Short-term Emergency Relief Assistance (SRF)
The emergency relief operations of the AfDB’s Special Relief Fund are grants characterized by the need for prompt remedial actions to save and protect lives, salvage property and minimize the destruction of basic infrastructure. They are of a short-term nature, lasting from a few weeks to a few months.
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Coverage
Instrument type
Eligibility
All regional member countries. Criteria:
(i) The emergency situation must be of a scale which is clearly beyond the capacity of the Country and its own agencies;
(ii) Emergency relief assistance should be limited to cases where it is established that the proposed activities can be carried out expeditiously and effectively within the required time frame; and
(iii) Such emergency relief assistance should aim at restoring a degree of normalcy in both the social and economic life of the populations as quickly as possible and may also be provided for the adoption of reasonable measures where disaster is imminent or after occurrence of a disaster, to prevent a recurrence of such disaster.