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Severe Winter Conditions in Western Provinces (Herat, Farah, Badghis, Ghor) Winter conditions in Afghanistan Situation Report No.7 Page 1 Situation Report No. 7 – AFGHANISTAN (21 FEBRUARY 2008) Severe Winter Conditions in Western Provinces (Herat, Farah, Badghis, Ghor) This report is developed by the UNAMA Office in Afghanistan and is based on information provided by the Governor’s Offices of Ghor, Badghis, Farah and Herat, the Afghan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA), the Department of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (DRRD), the Afghanistan Red Crescent Society (ARCS), UN Agencies, NGOs and ISAF. HIGHLIGHTS • Some 882 fatalities have been reported so far in the 4 provinces of Herat, Farah, Badghis and Ghor. • The quick rise in temperature means that snow is melting rapidly on the mountains. Flooding of most major rives is expected in Ghor, Badghis and Herat provinces. • The government emphasizes the lack of availability of fodder for livestock and food for the population as priority needs. SITUATION 3. The quick rise in temperature means that snow is melting rapidly on mountain tops. Flooding of most 1. The harshest winter weather conditions in major rives is expected in Ghor, Badghhis and Herat nearly 30 years have caused fatalities, hardship and provinces. In Farah province, mostly Purchaman major access problems in the Western Region, with district will be affected by floods. unusually heavy snow falls over the past month. At the moment, temperatures are increasing up to 17 4. The government emphasizes the lack of degrees Celsius during the day and the snow is availability of fodder for livestock and food for the melting. Roads from Herat to all provincial capitals population as priority needs. have been opened. However, villages in remote areas are still inaccessible. 5. Herat province remains 85% accessible. Ghor province is only 50% accessible due to heavy snow 2. Some 882 fatalities have been reported so far (for UN agencies). Certain areas bordering Hilmand in the 4 provinces, in addition to a reported total of and Farah provinces are not accessible due to 134,693 loss of livestock. The breakdown is as security. Badghis province remains 60% accessible follows: (for UN agencies) except for Murghab and Ghormach districts. Jawand district is not accessible due to severe winter conditions. Farah remains the least Province Fatalities Loss of Livestock accessible, with only Farah city being open for UN Herat 576 105,569 agencies. Badghis 228 12,795 Ghor 45 11,136 NATIONAL RESPONSE Farah 33 5,193 6. Provincial authorities are at the forefront of Total 882 134,693 coordination efforts under the guidance of the provincial Governors supported by the Afghan Winter conditions in Afghanistan Situation Report No.7 Page 2 National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA), 12. The Spanish PRT in Badghis province and the Department of Rural Rehabilitation and airdropped 1,000 kg of rice, 2,100 kg of flour, 200 Development (DRRD). kg of lentils, 200 litres of oil and 200 kg of clothes over Morghazar, a village in the South of the 7. A joint task force consisting of provincial province, totally inaccessible due to snow. In authorities (departments of public works, housing and addition, the PRT airdropped 2MT of food and NFIs rural rehabilitation, ANDMA, UNAMA, WFP and over Jawand district. the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) has been set up under the leadership of the deputy governor of 13. The American PRT in Farah province Herat. The taskforce has drafted a request for the pre- airdropped 9,700 kg of rice, 8,600 hg of beans, 4,000 positioning of NFIs and food for a total of 2,000 kg of sugar, 1,150 kg of salt, 750 kg of sweets, 1,000 families who they think will be affected during the bottles of cooking oil, 900 kg of tea and 325 stoves upcoming floods in 8 districts of Herat province. over Gulestan district on February 17th. Similar plans are being prepared in Ghor, Badghis and Farah provinces. 14. UNICEF will provide 1,500 jerry cans, 300 blankets, 1,000 tarpaulins, 1,000 sweaters, 7 8. A technical committee of the government is emergency health kits and 500 cartons of high energy assessing the technical needs, in locations at risk of biscuits (4 MT) to the Badghis P-CDMT . floods, for gabion walls and Food-For-Work projects to construct protection walls. DRRD received USD 15. The Italian PRT in Herat is funding the 100,000 for the construction of a protection wall in construction of a 200m gabion wall on the Pashtun Herat province. DRRDs in the other provinces have river for EURO 40,000 through DRRD. The wall will not yet received any funding for floods from the be built this month and should be ready before the central government. start of the spring rains. 9. ISAF will airlift 700 mattresses, 700 blankets 16. UNOPS has donated 1,000 gabions to the and 80 plastic sheets donated by JICA to the Ministry Department of Public Works for construction of of Public Health from Kabul to Herat on February 22. protection walls throughout the province, based on The assistance will be received by ANDMA in Herat the findings of the technical assessment carried out and will be used to assist vulnerable winter affected by the P-CDMT. families. ASSESSMENTS INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE 17. A joint UNAMA, UNICEF, WFP, IOM and 10. IOM, WFP, UNICEF and Catholic Relief CRS assessment mission visited Kush-ke-rabat-sangi Services (CRS) provided NFIs, food and fuel th district, North of Herat province, on February 18 . A vouchers to an additional 320 families in Shaidei meeting with the governor and district authorities camp on February 21st. revealed that 100 people died, of which 90% are male. Also 20,000 sheep died due to the cold 11. In Badghis, UNHCR handed over 1,500 weather. The main concern of the village elders of the blankets, 700 Plastic sheeting, 1,500 jerry cans, 400 district is that due to the cold, farmers could not start plastic mats and 3,000 soap bars to the P-CDMT planting/sowing last month, resulting in a poor next through DoRR in Qal-e-now. harvest. Urgent needs are food for the population and fodder and antibiotics for the cattle. Winter conditions in Afghanistan Situation Report No.7 Page 3 COORDINATION 20. The MRRD will directly implement the response to this national disaster through its national and provincial network. This network is comprised of 18. The Humanitarian Regional Team (HRT) MRRD Provincial Departments, District continues to respond to the winter emergency in Development Assemblies (DDA) and the community coordination with the P-CDMTs. The UNAMA representatives, whether they are traditional shuras or Humanitarian Unit continues to act as the secretariat NSP-established Community Development Councils and the central point for the collation and (CDCs). According to the level of expertise required dissemination of information. to implement the disaster response, the communities will either implement directly the projects themselves APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE (gabion filling with stones, canal digging and cleaning, etc.) or request external support on an ad- hoc basis. This support will first be sought at the 19. Due to the expected scale and severity of the MRRD level, through MRRD engineers and MRRD flooding, the assistance of international donors is machinery such as excavators, bulldozers, and trucks. requested in the following areas: If additional expertise is needed, specialist contractors could also be contacted. The amount Gabions - The additional flood preparations will take appealed for is the following: the form of the construction of gabion retaining and protection walls, to prevent damage to agricultural No. of Total Heading land, public infrastructure and residential homes. Provinces Amount US$ Some 25 provinces are assigned funding under the Emergency Relief Measures and Flood Preparedness for 25 project, which will generate approximately 40,000 Provinces Construction of retaining and labour days of employment. Local communities will protection gabion walls at public contribute 30% of the cost of the project through the works/points and infrastructure 25 2,000,000 recruitment of skilled and unskilled labour for Provision of sandbags to support the embankments of rivers and canals excavation and the filling of gabions. which are endangered by flood and water overflow 10 200,000 Sandbags - In order to assist the emergency shoring Delivery of pre-positioned non-food items to the provinces 23 1,000,000 up the embankments of rivers and canals which are Fuel Cost, Logistical and Mechanical endangered by flooding and overflow, a second Support for MRRD (incl. provision for All component of the flood preparations will be the contractors) Provinces 500,000 provision of 1,380,000 sandbags to particularly Total 3,700,000 vulnerable villages in 10 provinces across Afghanistan, benefiting a total of 7,155 families. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Non-Food Items (NFI) Pre-positioning - It is proposed to pre-position non-food relief items such as 21. Activities and distributions completed or blankets, tents and tarpaulins in the 23 provinces pending are in the table “Humanitarian Response most likely to be affected by the flooding. These Winter Table” below. supplies will be used to provide immediate assistance and support to families who lose their homes or property as a result of the flood, with an expected total of 16,400 direct and 98,400 indirect beneficiaries. Winter conditions in Afghanistan Situation Report No.7 Page 4 Winter Humanitarian Response – 21 February 2008 The below table contains information of humanitarian assistance provided since the response to the winter crisis as
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