More than 4 million Non-Food Items (NFIs) were delivered to
conflict and disaster affected populations in the three states of
Darfur over the past year by IOM Sudan, in its role as sole
Transportation Partner supporting the NFI Common Pipeline for
Darfur and the rest of Northern Sudan.

Following the March 2009 expulsion of 13 international and local
NGOs from Sudan, IOM stepped in to help fill the humanitarian gap
by providing transportation services to re-establish the
life-saving NFI Common Pipeline (CP).

More than 1.3 million blankets, 700,000 plastic sheets, 800,000
jerry cans and 1 million sleeping mats, as well as cooking sets and
mosquito nets were distributed by IOM and NFI CP partners, to 300
plus locations throughout Darfur, benefiting more than 3 million
people, including displaced populations and those returned to their
places of origin.

As the sole transportation partner for the NFI CP, IOM is
responsible for all transport and delivery of Non-Food Items from
CP warehouses to cooperating partners’ final distribution
locations in the region.

The NFI CP programme is currently managed by the United Nations
Joint Logistics Centre (UNJLC) and relies on the support of UNICEF
and more than 30 international organizations and NGOs to procure
and deliver NFIs. 

The NFI Common Pipeline was established in 2004 and is the main
provider of non-food and emergency shelter items in the North of
Sudan to families who have lost their household possessions as a
result of conflict or natural disaster.

For more information, please contact:

Raluca Raduta

IOM Khartoum

Tel: +249 (0) 922 406 671

E-mail: "mailto:rraduta@iom.int">rraduta@iom.int

or

Nasir Alatrakhchi

Tel: +249 (0) 922 406 645

E-mail: "mailto:nalatrakhchi@iom.int">nalatrakhchi@iom.int