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Badakhshan Operational Coordination Team (OCT) Meeting Badakhshan Operational Coordination Team (OCT) meeting WFP Faizabad hall Tuesday 16 July 2018, 09; 00 am Participants; SFL, DACAAR, UNHCR, ACTED, WFP, NAC, DoRR, Afghan Aid, BVWO, FOCUS, ME, ARCS and UNOCHA # Agenda Discussions Action points 1 Welcome and introduction OCHA warmly welcomed the team and the team introduced themselves to each other. Updates on conflict IDPs ACTED: during the month of May and June 827 families were passed in Badakhshan WFP will provide food items, conflict IDPs screening committee meetings to be assessed the joint assessment teams 2 assessment and responses in UNHCR provides NFI and were led by ACTED assessed the mentioned families and still assessment is ongoing in Badakhshan provincial level. Baharak districts; DACAAR provides hygiene kits Month of May: 399 families were selected to be assessed in Faizabad and Keshem for the 98 conflict IDPs of districts the mentioned families were displaced from different parts of Badakhshan province. out of 399 the team found only 60 families and the rest returned back to their Raghistan, Kohistan and home villages and they have been responded. Yawan districts. On 28 June in Badakhshan conflict IPDs screening committee meeting the team selected 428 families and 3 teams deployed, the assessment finished in Faizabad the team have NAC and Concern WW will visited 64 families and verified 36 families as real IDPs. facilitate with them to find Assessment is still ongoing and we will start assessment in Baharak district but security situation is not good in Baharak district we will try to assess but our team feel risk. beneficiaries in the mentioned The team agreed that DoRR will contact the Baharak district governor to get information districts. about the security in case there is not secure the team can avoid going to the areas. DoRR: has mentioned the team assessed the conflict IDPs in Faizabad and we will try update the team about the Baharak district security situation and recently in Zebak and Arkhanjkhow district the military operation has started and a number of families have been displaced to neighboring districts. NAC: The joint assessment team which were content of NAC, Concern WW and district authorities has visited 101 families in Kohistan, Raghistan and Yawan districts out that they have identities 98 families and the joint assessment team has recommended food, NFI and hygiene kits for the mentioned families. Breakdown: Kohistan district: 105 individuals (15 families) were verified vulnerable conflict IDPs after assessment of 18 reported IDP families. Yawan district: 21 individuals (3 families) were verified as vulnerable conflict IDPs after assessment of 3 reported IDP families. Raghistan: 574 individuals (82 families) were verified vulnerable conflict IDPs after assessment of 82 reported IDP families. Responses: WFP, DACAAR and UNHCR has committed to respond the mentioned families and NAC will share the beneficiaries list WFP will provide food items but their proposal of emergency responses is under the process with SFL in their country office and after approval SFL will respond the mentioned families by food. UNHCR: as shelter/NFI cluster lead agency will provide NFI DACAAR: provides Hygiene kits. 3 Updates on conflict IDPs in FOCUS: since 13 July there are military operation in Zebak district and most of the border districts of Badakhshan families have been displaced to neighboring districts. province. DoRR will be in contact with AGEs have been placed on top of hill points and a number of families displaced from their district governors in case there are recorded conflict IPDs homes to neighboring districts and villages and also in Arkhanjkhow district due to conflict team two will go to the border a number of families have been displaced while the IPDs live situation was not good districts to assess the conflict IDPs. AKDN has assessed and responded 14 families who were in displacement and were in need of humanitarian aid. Finally, conflict reported from Nosay, Eshkamish, Zebak and Arkhanjkhow district and families have been displaced. 36 families who have been displaced from Arkhanjkhow to Faizabad their list ware given to UNOCHA by UNAMA. From Shiva areas Arkhanjkhow district 80 families have been displaced to Shighnan district. Two assessment teams will Most of the Zebak villages are under the direct threat of the conflict, assess the conflict IDPs: WFP and ACTED: we can deploy the joint assessment teams to the mentioned districts to 1-Team one contents of DoRR, ACTED, IDS, FOCUS and will find them in displacement otherwise when they returned back to their homes we can’t assess the 80 families of respond those families. Arkhanjkhow in Shighnan district. ACTED: the joint assessment teams can departure jointly Faizabad to the border districts Team 2: will assess the 36 families of Arkhanjkhow in while FOCUS group organizations will help them to find the IDPs in the ground. Faizabad city. And the OCT members agreed to establish the following two joint assessment teams to assess the mentioned families. Team 1 Shighnan: DoRR, ACTED, IDS, FOCUS = ACTED - Team 2 -36 families of Arkhanjkhow in Faizabad = ACTED, DoRR, DACAAR, IDS= DACAAR = Transportation DACAAR. The team one will deploy to Shighnan to assess the 80 families of Arkhanjkhow in Shighnan district and the team two will assess 36 families of Arghanchkhow to Faizabad. DoRR will be in contact with Zebak and Eshkashiem districts governors in case the district governor’s reports the IDPs number and places the team will go to the mentioned districts to assess the IDPs. SFL: During distribution the beneficiaries should have alternative phone contact or national ID cards. 4 Follow up the assessment teams According to provincial council and district governors the joint assessment teams do not The assessment teams will be and their access to the selected visit all the families which is given by screening committee meeting, but they return back advised by their offices to IDPs in districts. after visiting few people for instance out of 33 families on Tagab in Keshem only they accomplish assessing all the have visit 7 families. selected families and at the The team agreed that in the future the joint assessment teams will take the district end they will have one letter governor certification in a paper and submit the paper to DoRR and to their offices. from district governors for their assessment. 5 Updates on natural disasters IOM: we have visited the natural disaster affected families in Darayem, Argo and Shahri OIM, IDS and ANDMA affected families’ assessment and Buzurg districts out of 150 families only found 30 families and out that 5 houses were representative will screening responses. damaged, the joint assessment team couldn’t go to Argo because of conflict and out of 40 families in Shahri Buzurg they found 5 damaged houses. the natural disasters petitions. ARCS: recently provincial governor has referred the petitions to ARCS and asked us to assess but we could not find real IDPs. The team agreed that IOM, IDS, ARCS and ANDMA will have a meeting in ANDMA office to screening the collected petitions, as it was don last month out of 150 petitions they selected 70 petitions. 6 AOB The beneficiaries can be advised to provide alternative phone contacts, because during the distribution their phone contact not working and also they do not have natural ID cards. .
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