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“Currently the provision of the clinic has cost 12p per person treated, if however over the next three years the same number are treated this reduces to 3p per person”.

“At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, the international community signed up to eight targets to reduce poverty, hunger and disease by 2015. These are the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs. Ten years on, there has been significant progress on many of the targets. However, the goals to reduce the deaths of young children and mothers are the furthest off track. Just one third of the necessary progress has been made on MDG4, to cut the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds, and just 10% towards achieving MDG5, to reduce by three-quarters the maternal mortality ratio.”

“Projects supported by Jersey, such as the construction of health clinics in Burera District, Rwanda serving a population of 30,000, and the refurbishment of forest community houses as health centres to reach a population of over 10,000 in the Amazon, Brazil, have a twofold impact.”

“These projects reach vulnerable communities with direct work and services, but also allow us to demonstrate to international governments how this work can be successfully replicated and scaled up in order to contribute to reaching the MDG targets.”

JOAC-supported programmes have also provided training to hundreds of health workers in areas such as maternal health, neo-natal care, immunisations and hygiene practise. This learning will serve communities for generations to come.”

Save the Children’s statement on how Jersey funded projects are working to the Millennium Development Goals

“JOAC’s application process guarantees that support requested goes directly to a specific project. The application format is detailed and requests the type of information that is relevant to project work, without being unnecessarily lengthy and onerous.”

“This process ensures that projects are focused with activities and corresponding budgets provided. This helps project teams to be clear on what they are requesting funding for, and the impact that this support will have on communities.”

Christian Aid statement on JOAC’s Application Process

“Through annual grant aid, the British Red Cross received grants totaling just over £153,000 this year in support of three projects in Sierra Leone, Uganda and Afghanistan. Opportunities for securing funding for our work in Afghanistan, in particular, are limited, making the Commission’s grant vital in enabling us to carry out community based health work in this desperately poor country, and preventing avoidable deaths.

“Funding awarded by the Commission this year is enabling us to provide health and livelihoods support to a targeted 58,000 beneficiaries, demonstrating value for money for the people of Jersey and their investment in development and achieving life-saving changes for people in need.”

British Red Cross statement on JOAC’s approach to Annual Grant Aid

“When a disaster strikes, JOAC is one of the first funders Oxfam approaches. The emergency grants criterion allows us to spend the funds where the need is greatest – this reduces the time and money spent on preparing proposals and administering a grant. The process of submitting an emergency grant is simple and the turnaround from the Commission is very quick, which is important when you are dealing with fast moving situations.”

“The States of Jersey have sometimes been the first and only government to fund some of our lower-profile emergency responses, such as the Philippines typhoon in 2006 and the more recent floods in Guatemala. Without your support, we could not have reached so many people.”

Oxfam statement on JOAC’s approach to Emergency and Disaster Relief