Darfur Facts & Figures: April 2007

How many are we helping?

Around 538,000 people are currently benefiting directly from Oxfam's response to the Darfur humanitarian crisis - 475,000 people in Darfur and 63,000 people in Chad.

How many staff do we have?

To run programmes assisting half a million people requires quite a large team. Oxfam currently has around 250 Sudanese staff and 20 expatriate staff working in Darfur, plus many more volunteers from within the IDP camps themselves and half a dozen expatriate support staff based in Khartoum. Many of our staff have worked for Oxfam or other humanitarian agencies for many years, and we are represented by nationalities from all over the world, including from: Australia, Cote D'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, India, Iraq, Kenya, Liberia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, Yemen and Zimbabwe.

And what do they do?

They include engineers, public health promoters, accountants, logisticians, project managers, protection advisers, well drillers, HR advisers, food security analysts, administrators, and the support staff needed to keep a programme of this size running.

Where are we working?

Oxfam is one of the few aid agencies currently working in all three Darfur states and Chad. In Darfur we currently work in the following camps and towns: Abu Shouk camp, Al Salaam camp, Kebkabiya town and the surrounding villages, and Shangil Tobai camp in North Darfur; Gereida and Kalma camps in South Darfur; and in and around Um Dukhun town in West Darfur. However, many of our programmes in Gereida are currently suspended due to a lack of security. Work in other locations is also frequently disrupted.

In Chad we currently work in Djabal and Goz Amir refugee camps and are expanding our work in new camps for Internally Displaced People around Goz Beida.

Oxfam also continues to work elsewhere in Sudan - in the capital, Khartoum, Red Sea State, Bahr El Jabel, Upper Nile, Bahr el Ghazal and Western Equatoria.

Financial

Who are our donors?

In addition to the funds raised by our supporters and the general public, Oxfam's humanitarian response in Darfur is also being supported by several institutional donors.

Oxfam Ireland is supporting from our own funds, with significant support from Irish Aid. Significant institutional support has come from the United Kingdom Department for International Development (Dfid), the European Commission's Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid (ECHO) and the Common Humanitarian Fund for Sudan.

Oxfam International Affiliates have also been highly active in raising funds, with Oxfams in Australia, the Netherlands (Oxfam Novib) and Quebec securing contracts from AusAID, the Dutch government and CIDA respectively.

The Oxfams in America, Australia, and Hong Kong have also given from their own funds. In addition, trusts such as BandAid are supporting the Oxfam programme in Darfur.

Oxfam's programmes in Darfur for the coming year - reaching over half a million people - have a budget of €8, 886,000.