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OCHA Pakistan, Serena Business Complex, Sector G-5, Islamabad, Pakistan • Tel +92 (51) 2600254-5 • www.pakresponse.info
I. SITUATION OVERVIEW
Falling temperatures across the country over the past
week have exacerbated the difficulties being faced by
many flood-affected families. Nighttime temperatures in
southern Punjab have reached as low as 5°C, and have
been well below freezing in parts of Gilgit-Baltistan and
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), which continues to host a
significant number of conflict displaced persons.
A multi-cluster team is visiting Gilgit-Baltistan from 6
January. Building upon recent assessments and relief
activities by the Government and aid agencies in the
region, the team will develop a consolidated response
plan for the winter months when road access will be a
major challenge. Appoximatley 3,400 flood-affected
families in Gilgit-Baltistan will require a range of support
through the winter, which will last until March. The plan
will also seek to cover the needs of persons otherwise
affected by emergencies over the winter months. Key
assistance priorities are food, shelter, WASH and health.
Agricultural needs will be fully assessed after the winter
passes.
In KPK, planning is underway to facilitate the return of
remaining flood-affected IDPs residing in 17 spontaneous
camps in Nowshera and Charsadda districts. A UNHCRprofiling assessment has identified concerns related to
watan cards, food rations and lack of shelter in the area
of origin as key factors hindering their return. Provincial
authorities will assist these persons in securing watan
cards and government-sponsored income support. The
humanitarian community is assessing whether to support
construction of one-room shelters in return areas, or to
provide transitional shelters to facilitate quicker return.
Return of conflict-affected IDPs from sites in KPK to
Orakzai and South Waziristan agencies in the Federally
Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) is continuing. So far
7,396 families have returned to Orakzai and 360 have
returned to South Waziristan. The returning families areprovided with shelter, non-food items and food
assistance at points of departure.
In Sindh, floodwaters are expected to remain in parts of
Jamshoro and Dadu districts for the coming two months.
Though temperatures in Sindh and southern Punjab are
less extreme than in the north of the country, the cold
weather in these areas necessitates urgently scaled up
distribution of winterisation packages.
Closer collaboration between the Government and the
humanitarian community in Sindh is needed to develop
an effective strategy to support and encourage displaced
persons willing to return to do so.
Early recovery shelter continues to be a key priority in
Punjab. Just 407 one-room shelters have so far been
completed in the province, according to the shelter
cluster, though a further 48,000 have been committed.
Construction is expected to expand significantly this
month.
Issue 12∙ 6 January 2011
A beneficiary with an NFI kit containing kitchen items, blankets, jerry
cans and plastic sheets in Sindh. Recent low temperatures have
greatly increased the demand for winterized items across flood-
affected areas. Photo: IOM
Recipients of support in the form of door and window frames
constructing a one-room shelter in southern Punjab. These shelters
continues to be a key priority in Punjab, and construction is expected
to scale up significantly this month. Photo: IOM
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6 January 2011 / Issue 12
II. CLUSTER RESPONSE
Agriculture
Distributions of inputs for rabi (spring harvest) plantinghave been completed, with 560,000 farming families
having benefitted. In areas of Sindh where wheat
planting has not been possible, alternatives will be
distributed. Over 30,000 households in seven districts
(Shikarpur, Nawabshah, Larkana, Khairpur, Kashmore,
Jacobabad and Thatta) will receive sunflower seeds from
next month. Planting for the kharif crop (autumn harvest)
will begin in March/April. Distributions of de-worming
tablets and compound animal feed are due to get
underway by the middle of this month, as part of efforts
to ensure the survival of livestock in vulnerable areas
through the winter. Livestock support packages have
already been provided to 18,000 families in KPK. Cash-for-work projects to rehabilitate watercourses in KPK,
Punjab and Balochistan will begin next month. Activities
aimed at restoring fisheries and forestry production
remains unfunded.
Community Restoration
The community restoration cluster has started 2011 on a
positive note, with news of significant donor
contributions that will cover 39 percent of overall cluster
requirements set out in the Pakistan Floods Emergency
Response Plan. Underfunding has been a major challenge
until now, and these funds will provide a much-neededboost for community restoration activities in return
areas. Two important infrastructure projects have been
completed in KPK’s Nowshera and Charsadda districts.
The cash-for-work scheme involved 5,481 community
members repairing and rebuilding link roads, pavements,
drainage systems and flood protection walls, directly
benefitting a population of almost 17,500. The recently
received funds will allow these projects to be replicated
in many other parts of the country.
Education
The cluster has so far provided education support to
283,795 beneficiaries (44 percent of which are girls),including almost 23,000 reached in the past two weeks.
Establishment of temporary learning centres (TLCs)
continues to be a key priority. 2,871 TLCs have so far
been established in flood-affected areas, providing safe
and child-friendly educational opportunities to over
168,000 children. This represents approximately 60
percent of the total number of TLCs the cluster is seeking
to provide. Over 4,600 teachers (38 percent female) have
been trained on psychosocial support and disaster risk
reduction. The cluster has also rehabilitated 291 flood-
damaged schools, which are being attended by close to
41,500 children. However funding shortfalls mean that
gaps in coverage are still significant. The cluster estimates
that an additional 1 million children – almost 80 percentof the overall target caseload – still require a range of
educational support.
Food Security
The food cluster has reached 3.4 million beneficiaries
with 45,000 metric tons of food during the current
distribution cycle, which commenced on 13 December. A
total of 6.2 million people (of which 42 percent are in
Sindh) are being targeted during this cycle. Monthly food
rations continue to make up the majority of the
assistance being provided by the cluster, particularly in
Punjab and Sindh, though early recovery activities are
expanding. Results of the WFP/FAO Flood RecoveryAssessment (supported by UNIFEM and Oxfam) will be
presented to the humanitarian community shortly, and
will provide critical guidance for the scaling up of early
recovery assistance by the food cluster.
Health
Acute respiratory infections (ARI) continue to be the
leading cause of consultations reported through the
health cluster’s disease early warning service (DEWS).
First cases of influenza have been identified through
routine influenza surveillance and DEWS, and the cluster
expects a peak of ARI cases to follow in the comingweeks. 18 disease alerts were received during the past
week: 6 for measles, 4 for suspected influenza, 2 for
probably diphtheria and one each for acute watery
diarhea, bloody diarrhea, suspected meningitis,
pneumonia, pertussis and neotatal tetanus. Cumulatively,
the cluster has so far delivered essential medicines
sufficient to cover the needs of 9.2 million people across
flood-affected areas.
Logistics
The cluster has facilitated the airlift of close to 12,000
metric tons of relief cargo since the beginning of August
2010. Airlift of relief items to areas in the northinaccessible by road will be the key priority for the
logistics cluster in the coming months. So far four
organizations have requested airlift of NFIs in Kohistan;
others requiring support are encouraged to information
on planned deliveries with the cluster
([email protected]). Air operations in Sindh
are winding down, with road access in the worst affected
districts continuing to improve. Three UNHAS helicopters
have already been moved from Sindh to Islamabad where
they are being prepared for operations in KPK over the
winter.
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Nutrition
Nutrition interventions in flood-affect
through a network of 306 outpa
programme, 31 stabilisation cen
supplementary feeding programmes.
include:
Results of nutrition surveys in flood-
Punjab, Sindh and KPK are expected in t
The cluster continues to seek new pa
build capacity (e.g. training and reso
support community-level visits) as p
expand programme coverage, but ad
also required (54 percent of require
been covered). Further details a
www.pakresponse.info > clusters > nutr
Protection
The protection cluster has prioritised
of district level coordination mechani
Punjab, with a focus on areas of retu
that have been relocated closer to aff
division of geographic responsibiliti
cluster members for monitoringThe results of the NADRA registration
finalised and recorded in the c
Discussions with key stakeholders on d
be extracted started in December, an
Data tabulation plans have been s
expected that the first round of data w
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Shelter and NFIs
The shelter cluster has n
households with emergen
pipeline figures, the cluste
percent of the overall num
in need of emergency shel
low however, at 32 perc
need. The picture in Punja
households estimated as
destroyed now having
assistance. In terms of earl1,479 one-room shelters a
have been completed coun
one-room shelters and 55,
been committed by shelte
commitments into account
recovery shelter remains cr
of the estimated number o
the shelter cluster continu
provision of bedding, mats
to cold weather. In Sindh
coordination with the W
CCCM clusters to facilitate
of basic services in return a
Water, Sanitation and Hygi
Comprehensive reporting o
a challenge, given the large
the cluster. Latest inform
million people are current
water through water syste
the cluster, though data fro
actual number is likely to
been distributed to cover th
while 5.25 million peopl
hygiene promotion messafacilities and 3,200 hand-
constructed. In terms of s
people have access to latri
WASH cluster partners.
54-5 • www.pakresponse.info
6 January 2010 / Issue 12
is week. All provinces are
rategies and response plans
, a process that has started in
the cluster and serve as a
uly 2011.
ow reached almost 783,000
y shelter support. Including
r is in a position to cover 80
er of people estimated to be
ter. Coverage in Sindh is still
nt of the overall estimated
is better, with 63 percent of
having been damaged or
eceived emergency shelter
y recovery support, a total of nd 4,842 transitional shelters
trywide. An additional 61,000
19 transitional shelters have
r partners. Even taking these
, projected coverage of early
itically low, at just 13 percent
f destroyed houses. In Punjab
es to advocate for scaled up
nd warm clothing in response
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returns and ensure provision
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ene
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number of partners active in
tion indicates that over 3.7
ly benefitting from access to
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m Sindh is incomplete and the
be higher. Hygiene kits have
e needs of 7.6 million people,
have been reached with
ging. Almost 5,300 bathingashing facilities have been
anitation, at least 1.8 million
es thanks to interventions by
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6 January 2010 / Issue 12
III. FUNDING
Latest levels of funding of the Pakistan Floods Emergency Response Plan are as follows:
Regularly updated information on humanitarian funding for Pakistan is available on OCHA’s Financial Tracking Service, at:
http://fts.unocha.org/pageloader.aspx?page=emerg-emergencyDetails&emergID=15913
CONTACT INFORMATIONOCHA, New York
Severine Rey ∙ Desk Officer ∙ [email protected]
+1 917 367 5336
OCHA, Geneva
Thierry Delbreuve ∙ Desk Officer ∙ [email protected]
OCHA, Islamabad
Manuel Bessler ∙ Head of Office ∙ [email protected]
Stacey Winston ∙ Public Information ∙ [email protected]
+92 300 850 2397
Shane Doherty ∙ Reporting ∙ [email protected]
+92 300 850 2653