Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP)

The CAP is a programming process through which national, regional and international relief systems are able to mobilise in order to respond to selected major or complex emergencies that require a system wide response to humanitarian crisis. Read more on the history, the background and the process of the CAP...

CAP 2006
The Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP) for 2006 was launched globally by the UN Secretary General on 30 November at UN Headquarters in New York. The local launch of the sub-regional CAP for West Africa for 2006 took place on 2 December at OCHA offices in Dakar.

Download the West Africa CAP document here

Download an overview of projects by geographical cluster here

View all CAP documents here

To view the global launch of the CAPs click here.

CAP 2005
Considering that conflicts and natural hazards often transcend national borders in West Africa and require a regional response it was decided in 2003 to develop a regional common humanitarian action plan which led to the CAP 2004.

For the CAP 2005 for West Africa, the clusters of countries identified as priority areas were: 1) locust and drought affected countries Burkina Faso, Cap Verde, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Nigeria ; 2) Côte d'Ivoire and neighbouring countries Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana ; and, 3) the Mano River Union (MRU): Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

While this categorisation still remained valid at the time of the Mid Year Review 2005, the locust and drought affected cluster was mainly focused on Niger, Mali, Mauritania and Burkina Faso. In addition, Togo, Benin and Ghana was added as a fourth cluster, and in view of the situation in Guinea Bissau, a fifth cluster containing Guinea Bissau, Senegal and Guinea-Conakry came under consideration.

In September 2005, regional and national humanitarian actors met again in Dakar for the 2006 CAP workshop to decide upon a Common Humanitarian Action Plan for 2006 during. The West Africa CAP for 2006 will be launched on 30 November 2005.