: Earthquake Situation Report No. 14 (as of 27 June 2016)

This report is produced by OCHA in collaboration with humanitarian partners and with inputs from official institutions. It covers the period from [From 14 to 27 June at 14:00]. The next report will be published on 27 July 2016. Highlights

• The Presidential Decree number 1001 of 16 June extends the State of Exception for 30 more days, until 16 July in the provinces of Esmeraldas, Manabí, Santa Elena, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Los Ríos and Guayas. • The deadline to be registered in the Sole Registry of Affected Persons (RUD) is the 30 June. Only if registered in these system people can be considered for the State's assistance programs (Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion-MIES, 2016). • However, humanitarian sectors recommend an extension of the registry deadline so that all affected persons can be considered for State programs, especially in rural areas. • The State plans to make Canton Muisne, Esmeralda province, an environmentally protected area. There is an ordinance that no new houses may be built in Muisne and only houses that can be safely repaired may remain in the area. • The beginning of classes for children in the affected areas is 4 July. However, the education sector is concerned about the readiness of schools to receive students on that date. Overview

The renewal of the State of Exception decree is valid up to 16 July which implies that: 1) public institutions and armed forces must intervene in the emergency; and 2) the right of the inviolability of home is suspended1. The institutions in charge of the emergency are the Ministries of: Coordination of Security (MICS), of Interior, Defense, Finance, Health (MSP), of Economic and Social Inclusion (MIES) and the Secretary of Risk Management (SGR). Since the earthquake there have been more than 1800 aftershocks. On 24 June, some were strongly felt in the coastal area of (3.9 on the Richter scale, one kilometer of depth) and in the parish of San Vicente Manabí Province an aftershock of 3.9 less than two kilometers of depth. More than 120 thousand people have been registered in the RUD up to 20 June. MIES is currently validating their information. The Ministry of Urban Development and Housing has distributed around 1010 grants for home repairs in the cantons of , Manta, Chone, Bahía de Caraquéz and Jama (MIDUVI, 2016). More than 5500 grants for host families and rent have been delivered (MIES, 27 June, 2016). The Military’s Geographic Institute (IGM) has done a research study allowing to determine the number of affected constructions. The information can be accessed at the following website, www.geoportaligm.gob.ec

Analyzed Affected Constructions Province Canton constructions constructions destroyed Manabí Manta 82922.00 5675.00 716.00 Manabí Portoviejo 78023.00 2336.00 561.00 Manabí Montecristi 23158.00 1361.00 119.00 Manabí Chone 16643.00 1312.00 310.00 Manabí Pedernales 5995.00 0.00 597.00 Manabí Bahía 9482.00 2822.00 455.00 Manabí Canoa 677.00 0.00 294.00 Esmeraldas Muisne 1957.00 0.00 218.00 Total 218857.00 13506.00 3270.00 Source: IGM

1 There might be citizens wanting to return to their destroyed or unsafe homes. + For more information, see “background on the crisis” at the end of the report w ww.unocha.org The mission of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is to mobilize and coordinate effective and principled humanitarian action in partnership with national and international actors. Coordination Saves Lives

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Humanitarian Response

From the 8 to 17 June, as requested by MICS, the International Organization of Migration (IOM) and OCHA visited 26 State camps. A forthcoming report will be issued to share recommendations with the Government. As of June 20th, 31 humanitarian organizations are implementing response activities in the Provinces of Esmeraldas and Manabí. Authorities remind agencies, institutions and people who have the desire to contribute, to coordinate efforts through the Secretariat of Risk Management. The focal point is: Evelyn Jaramillo [email protected] Actors deploying to Ecuador should register on the Humanitarian ID website: https://humanitarian.id/#/ or send an email to [email protected].

Authorities remind agencies, institutions and people who have desire to contribute, to coordinate efforts through the Secretariat of Risk Management. The focal point is: Evelyn Jaramillo [email protected] People deploying to Ecuador should register on the Humanitarian ID Web site: https://humanitarian.id/#/ or send an email to [email protected]

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Needs: • Coverage must be increased to ensure the fulfillment of WASH minimum standards, especially in rural areas and spontaneous sites. • Technical support to water companies and the Secretary of Water (SENAGUA) to overcome water supply problems (quantity and quality). The provision of water through water tanks is unsustainable. • Better management of solid waste, cleaning and maintenance must be ensured. Alternative solutions to chemical toilets should be implemented rapidly. • The housing reconstruction strategy must go hand in hand with a process of recovery of water supply and sanitation systems. • Proper information systems required the active participation of SENAGUA and other sector' actors. • A wide-spread information campaign would greatly improve the use of WASH tools such as chlorination supplies, hand washing-stations and safe water for consumption.

Response:

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• The sector's response is extending to spontaneous shelters, communities and schools with the WASH package and management of waste. • Support to SENAGUA’s efforts to monitor water quality of water tanks and distribution systems for the emergency. • Approximately 35,980 persons have benefited from the establishment of infrastructure for the provision of water and sanitation in camps and shelters. • A Kobo tools assessment from rural area, spontaneous sites, and schools is ongoing. The pilot project took place in in Manabí Province and the project is expected to extend to and the affected areas in Esmeraldas Province. Manabí Province • Up to 13 organizations providing WASH in more than 60 points including communities, spontaneous sites and camps. The sector organizes activities to promote the provisioning of water, latrine construction, hygiene, waste management and vector control. • In , the sector supports the provision of water for the airport shelter. The sector supports SENAGUA for the provision of water in shelters from the following cantons and parishes: Manta, Rocafuerte, Montecristi, Crucita and Chone. Esmeralda Province • 5 organizations are actively working delivering hygiene kits and providing water. • Strategies to improve team interventions in schools

Gaps and Limitations: • There is limited partner capacity to reach and intervene in displacement sites and remote communities in rural areas. • Uncertainty regarding the relocation of people from shelters, spontaneous sites and from one camp to another prevents proper planning of WASH interventions in the current and future situations. • The inclusion of the community in WASH projects is an ongoing challenge • State actors promote partner's assistance in camps, however, there are more humanitarian needs in spontaneous sites. • Lack of greater monitoring of water quality to ensure its correct distribution and disinfection especially in , Esmeraldas's Province. The increase of water borne diseases and lack of hygiene diseases can be avoided.

Contact: Silvia Ramos [email protected] +593 22460330/32

Shelter and non-food items Needs: • Displaced persons in spontaneous sites or for those who remain on their own land need housing solutions. The sector needs the State's approval to intervene. With urgency, the State needs to take a clear and coordinated stance concerning shelter as humanitarian aid. • Public information campaigns are urgently needed so that affected communities can make informed decisions concerning their housing solutions, especially in rural areas. • Immediate technical support and construction materials are needed for people who have started to reconstruct in urban and rural areas. Moreover, it is important that they are not repairing or reconstructing new homes in disputed, temporary and/or high-risk land. Response: • The majority of agencies and partners have selected the communities where they will be supporting housing recovery and remain pending for official approval. IOM and Red Cross have the capacity to implement temporary shelters in Pedernales Canton in Manabí Province and are waiting for the approval of MIDUVI to implement. • The sector has prepared a position paper and progressive housing proposals for the Government, to illustrate how the sector can support the processes of reconstruction and recovery. The role of the international humanitarian community is the provision of technical support, capacity building, training and material that can guarantee a safer construction in the future. • Due to the fact that people have already started rebuilding in rural and urban areas, the technical working group is creating key messages for reconstruction and is looking to make workshops in communities of affected areas.

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• The working group Shelter, Land and Property (VTP) is working with the Decentralized Autonomous Governments (GADs) and humanitarian partners to find solutions for the legalization of land.

Gaps and Limitations: • There remains a lack of clear and consistent information from the Government concerning its aid programs (eligibility criteria for grants, application process for assistance, restrictions, humanitarian activities that may be an obstacle for access to grants). • Legal barriers due to different forms of land tenure prevent access to reconstruction processes. • Housing evaluation continues at a slow pace in order to have a response plan for shelter needs in the cantons of Pedernales and Jama Cantos, Manabí Province.

Contact: Leeanne Marshall [email protected] +593 994411951 /+593 967443201

Camp Coordination and Camp Management Needs: • There needs to be clearly defined roles and responsibilities in camps and shelters. • The information management mechanisms must be strengthened with a multi-sectoral approach in camps. • There is a lack of monitoring of humanitarian needs and services in spontaneous shelters. • MIES needs to disseminate information concerning assistance grants for affected population Response: • There have been spaces opened for dialogue between the displaced community in camps and authorities from MIES and MICS. • IOM is implementing the third round of the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) in the provinces of Manabí and Esmeraldas: 21 camps and spontaneous sites in the south of Manabí Province (Cantons: Manta, Portoviejo, San Vicente, Chone, Tosagua, Bolívar, Sucre, Rocafuerte, Jaramijó, Montecristi). The results will be known the week of 27 June, 2016. • IOM and UNHCR are supporting MIES in their assessment of spontaneous sites for the identification of needs and the development of a strategy linked to the shelter sector. Gaps and Limitations: • Lack of water and sanitation in camps and spontaneous sites, inadequate hygienic conditions, water and food has been interrupted (spontaneous sites). • In Pedernales Canton, Manabí Province, there is an increase of spontaneous shelter in private or municipal land.

Contact: Manuel Hoff [email protected] +593 997639435

Food Security

Needs: • Around 31 per cent of the population in the affected areas is severely food insecure according to the Emergency Food Security Assessment (EFSA) conducted by the WFP in April 2016. • Families whose livelihoods depended on tourism are in need of food assistance until they can reestablish their economic activities. • The greatest necessity for food is in the affected rural areas. Response: • The sector has provided assistance to 185,039 persons since the start of the emergency. In coordination with the State, during the first phase the WFP delivered complementary nutritional kits for 105.710 persons. On the second phase of its intervention, through cash transfers from 4 to 24 June, 5,832 persons out of 9.324 eligible persons registered in the RUD, have had access to the first monthly food grant of 100 dollars distributed by MIES and financed by WFP. Persons registered in the RUD without necessarily receiving the rent or host family grant can access the food voucher.

Gaps and Limitations: • There is a lack of reporting from sector's partners concerning where they are implementing their programs.

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• Poor information circulation to the affected population concerning the food voucher and other grants creates uncertainty concerning food assistance coverage, particularly of rural population.

Contact: Jorge Arteaga [email protected] +593 993637104

Health and Nutrition Needs: • Health promotion activities with the participation of the affected population must be strengthened. • Activities for vector control (Zika, Dengue and Chikingungya) require more support. • Nutritional monitoring and psychosocial support for affected persons and health staff must be continued. • Water quality monitoring must be improved. • The Ministry of Health’s operating facilities must be supplied with birth control methods. • The health personnel (physicians, nurses, dentists, psychologists) must be ensured better working conditions, particularly through staff rotation as they are suffering from physical and psychological fatigue. Response: • Disinfection and water quality control is ongoing in coordination with MSP, ARCSA, various water companies and some parish boards of water. • There is currently ongoing capacity building for psychological first aid, as well as communication strategies to prevent the spread of disease in Manabí province’s shelters in the cantons of Chone, Manta, Jama, Pedernales, Porto Viejo and the parish of Bahía de Caraquez. • Along with MSP, the sector has worked on identifying hospitals to treat Zika cases. • UNFPA’s birth control kits will be distributed in Manabi province as well as, Zika prevention kits which include: bug repellent, key information, bed nets with bug spray and condoms. The delivery of these kits will come with health promotion and prevention activities led by MSP, PAHO and UNICEF. • Psychosocial support for health personnel and decision-making staff is planned.

Gaps and Limitations:

• Physical and psychological fatigue of health personnel in the field. • Low risk perception in the affected population towards contracting vector borne diseases such as Zika. • Possible shortages of long-term birth control supplies. • Weak perception of the link between family planning and Zika prevention. • Weak protection against gender based violence. • Limited priority given to the assignment of new rural health staff in the affected areas. They must be trained in emergency sexual and reproductive health.

Contact: Roddy Camino [email protected] +593 995027310

Protection Needs: • The role of the Armed Forces and the coordination between civilians and the military with MIES has to be improved and strengthened. • The Ombudsman Office in Manabí Province and Esmeralda Province must be strengthened to ensure the protection of rights of vulnerable affected population with an emphasis in the elderly, children, LGBTI community, pregnant women and persons living with HIV in spontaneous sites, camps and rural areas. • Increase workshops for public servants and camp administrators concerning the prevention of Gender Based Violence (GBV) and the attention route for GBV victims. • Disseminate the route for the attention of GBV cases and the mitigation of GBV in affected population living in camps or spontaneous sites. • Strengthen the participation of women in decision-making processes to ensure that their needs, proposals and skills are taken into account in the response and reconstruction phases. • Ensure that service conditions are in-line with GBC prevention strategies (WASH infrastructure, food distribution, health and nutrition services, education, etc). • Compile data disaggregated by sex, age, ethnicity, persons with disabilities and sexual orientation.

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Response: • UNHCR, UN Women and UNFPA are maintaining ongoing capacitation for military personnel, with 2,614 persons trained to date. • 236 persons have been trained in the protection and inclusion of vulnerable groups by the GBV subcluster. • UNFPA has distributed 108 protection kits (lamps, padlock, whistle, birth control) • IOM, UN Women and the Women’s Refugee Group have studied the participation of women in government camps and structures of governance. 149 persons (97 women, 12 girls, 40 men) from Pedernales participated (Pedernales II and Niño Divino).

Gaps and Limitations: • High personnel turnover for public servants (Armed Forces, Police, MIES, MSP, etc.) require repeat weekly training and sensitization training. • As assistance has been concentrated in camp sites, there is a lack of knowledge and response in spontaneous and rural sites.

Contact: Peter Janssen [email protected] +593 22460330/32, Ext. 1665

Education Needs: • Children’s (three to 17 years old) access to recreational, educational and protection spaces must be ensured so they can participate in stress relieving activities and have access to nutritional supplements and access to potable water and latrines. • Teachers and other education staff must be trained for the use of school-in-a box (SiB) kit and support the Ministry of Education (Mineduc) in the implementation of the an emergency education protocols. • Mineduc requires support to rehabilite schools that have been partially or totally damaged. • Include all children from the most affected municipalities in the National Education System • Inform personnel from the education community about formal, informal and temporary education spaces available. Moreover, it is necessary to deliver life saving messages such as illness prevention, hygiene, educational inclusion, protection and the role of parents and caregivers in emergencies. • Education Units must be reassessed following the May aftershocks.

Response: National • Two trainings concerning Information Management in Pedernales canton and in Quito for sector organizations and Mineduc staff with the purpose of increasing the volume of information, quality and frequency for the sector’s reports. • The Mineduc in joint efforts with the sector has established the need to develop a strategy concerning the reconstruction of schools in rural areas. Manabí Province • Distribution of 187 kits SiB for 7480 children and 187 teachers, in canton Pedernales schools, Manabí province on the week of the 20 June. • The sector has concluded the establishment of five Temporary Spaces of Education and Protection (ETEP) using 24 tents in the parishes of Canoa, Rambuche, Tabuga, Palmar, Cojimíes (4 tents). These will benefit 1340 children. The establishments come with WASH services. • The three ETEPs in Pedernales canton are still working and 6000 children have benefited from them. • The sector has developed capacity building in 122 teachers from different schools in eight cantons including those in the ETEPs of Jama canton. In the ETEPs, teachers were trained concerning the Psychosocial Guide phase two. • Psychosocial activities in the public school of Matal in Jaman canton where 140 children benefited from recreational activities. • From 126 rural schools in the cantons of Pedernales and Jama, 88 have only one teacher, the sector, in coordination with the Mineduc and circuit coordinators are assessing WASH, school supplies and furniture needs. • Radio spot to promote back to school messages with the support of Plan International and local actors and authorities of Padernales canton, Manabí Province. Esmeraldas Province

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• The Estanislao Reina School has been made available for classes, it stopped being a temporary warehouse. • WASH infrastructure recovery processes have started in Chamanga School. Gaps and Limitations: • The lack of budget has an impact in the availability of teachers. • School supplies cost is greater than the economic capacity of the affected population. • It is necessary to ensure the training of teachers concerning psychosocial support so that they can pass to module three, which starts 4 July. • Limited psychosocial assistance for students and their families sheltered in camps and spontaneous sites. This assistance is needed so they can learn better and decrease exclusion. • Lack of information concerning the situation of rural schools. • Lack of transportation for students to attend schools on July 4.

Contact: Ana Vohlonen [email protected] [email protected] +593 997422494

Early Recovery Needs: • According to the PDNA, there are 13,962 houses in urban areas and 15,710 houses in rural areas that are unsafe for people to live there and/or have to be demolished. • Reassessment of houses marked as yellow or green due to the two May aftershocks. • Support the State in the demolition process and management of debris and waste. • Information campaigns for the affected population in rural and urban areas concerning the State’s assistance programs (reconstruction grants, grants for host families, rent grants). • Increase support in the reactivation of livelihoods of affected population. • Urgent need to assign spaces for debris and waste after demolition processes in order to reduce negative environmental and social impact. Response: • UNDP a the moment has supported the demolition process of 35 dangerous houses out of 122 planned. Around 2.300 m3 of debris has been removed and more than a 150 families have benefited. • UNDP is supporting the Reconstruction Committee so that rural areas have an integral recovery which includes: land evaluation, assessment of housing, demolition and debris removal, recovery of productive and communal infrastructure, strengthening of institutional capacity, reactivation of productive sector and reconstruction and recovery of housing. • Japan’s International Cooperation Agency (JICA) contributed with 300,000USD for a UNDP project in Rio Chico in Portoviejo canton, Manabí Province where more than 350 houses will be demolished in 17 of the most affected communities. Simultaneously, through the methodology Cash for Work, around 250 persons will have a temporary job. The project includes capacity building for the community concerning debris management and material recycling using the methodology Cash for Training and support for local authorities concerning debris management. • UNDP continues with the workshops caller “En Marcha” for 26 micro-entrepreneurs with established businesses in the communal market of La Boca.

Gaps and Limitations: • Not enough time to fulfill legal requirements for demolition processes under the deadline established. The due date for the registry in the RUD is also too limited to include all affected population, so that people can access reconstruction and recovery grants. • Lack of adequate management of debris and demolition machinery considering the volume of the work and its timing. • More urgency for the demolition of unsafe buildings and increased deterrence of demolitions using explosives. Lack of adequate specialized machinery. • Demolitions in rural areas hav5e taken longer than expected and with inadequate methods. Parish boards are in need of support. • Financial limitations for the reactivation of livelihoods of affected population.

Contact: Carolina Dreikorn [email protected] +593 22093523

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Logistics Needs: • Support to humanitarian organizations in the process of releasing aid shipment from customs. Response: • The sector formalized the transference of responsibilities to the Government through MICS. This includes the strengthening of skills through “learning by doing” and the transference of infrastructure and equipment. The process will end on 20 July. • Due to the extension of the State of Exception, emergency supplies can enter and leave the country will continue with the same procedure of humanitarian of emergency situations in Ecuador. • The National Customs Service of Ecuador (SENAE) through its delegate, Luis Calero : [email protected]/ cel:0984322292, keeps supporting international organizations with the logistics for humanitarian assistance. Gaps and Limitations: • In canton Manta’s warehouse in Manabí province there is no demand for provision of products at the moment, only Government’s merchandise. The process of transference to the Government continues.

Contact: Nelson Ortega, [email protected] +593 2 2460330 Ext.161 General Coordination

The coordination hubs in Quito, Portoviejo, Pedernales and Esmeraldas continue to be active. As well as the following sectors: Health and Nutrition, WASH, Food Security, CCCM, Shelter, Protection, Logistics, Early Recovery and Education. The needs identified from the field coordination offices in Perdernales, Portoviejo and Esmeraldas are: 1) a clear strategy from the Central Government, Municipalities and the humanitarian community to fulfill the needs of people in spontaneous sites; 2) information concerning the situation in affected rural areas that allows the identification of needs with better clarity and the coordination of activities and initiatives between humanitarian partners; 3) clear information concerning the Reconstruction Plan that allows the international community to make suggestions and support processes for a strategic and organized reconstruction phase. Humanitarian ID is still open to register response actors working in the country: https://humanitarian.id/#/ More information can be found on Humanitarian Response https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/operations/ecuador.

For more information please contact: Shelley Cheatham, Head of OCHA Humanitarian Advisory Team in Ecuador, [email protected], +593-968802135 Emilie-Anne Leroux, Information Management Officer, [email protected] , +593 9968686178 Wendy Cue, Head of Office, [email protected], Tel: +507 317-1748, +507 6676-1689 For more information please visit: www.unocha.org www.reliefweb.int - www.redhum.org To be added or removed from this distribution list send an email to: [email protected]

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