This Emergency Appeal, with a Federation-wide funding ask of CHF10M, aims to scale-up activities that are being carried out by the URCS to respond to the new and increasing caseload of EVD cases in the country. The URCS will target a total of 2.7 million people through a twin-track approach: 1) strengthen the response capacity in the districts that have confirmed positive cases (at the moment covering Mubende, Kyegegwa and Kasanda districts; but this may expand to newly affected areas); and 2) scale-up readiness in the most at-risk districts by mobilising stocks and training volunteers in the National Society core intervention sectors (as described in the planned operations section).