Pakistan Humanitarian Update

Issue 2, 30 October 2009

HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES SITUATION OVERVIEW • Since military operations in South South Waziristan: Due to the ongoing military Waziristan intensified, the number of operations in South Waziristan, the number of civilians fleeing the area is sharply rising. As of civilians fleeing the conflict-affected 28 October, 33,370 families (approx. 240,000 areas has almost tripled. On 27 individuals) were registered in D.I. Khan and October alone, 3,170 displaced Tank Districts; 22,290 families (approx. 160,000 individuals) have been registered families registered in D.I. Khan and since 13 October. Tank Districts. Arriving Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are staying with host families, and no camps • Wali Kandow Camp in Lower Dir have been established in the two hosting District was re-opened to cope with districts. In case the need for camps arises, the influx of people fleeing Bajaur the humanitarian community stands ready to Agency. Another camp in the district assist with tents, site preparation, water and sanitation and other services. There are six is also expected to be re-activated in registration points (five in D.I. Khan and one in the next few days. Tank), which are administered by the Social Welfare Department of NWFP and supported • Approximately 80,000 IDPs are by UNHCR through its local partner FIDA. currently living in 11 camps. Food and Non-Food Items (NFIs) are handed out at distribution points in D.I. Khan and Tank. Limited humanitarian access and the sudden influx of people leaving the conflict- affected areas of South Waziristan has exacerbated the situation at the distribution points where people are waiting for hours to receive their monthly rations.

Bajaur Displacement: Following the renewed military operations in Bajaur Agency that started at the end of September, a new wave of IDPs has arrived in Lower Dir District. Wali Kandow Camp re-opened on 19 October and some 550 families are currently residing in the camp.

The Commissionerate of Afghan Refugees (CAR) and the Committee on the Elimination QUICK STATS of Racial Discrimination (CERD) are providing This Report Last Report Trend aid with the help of UNHCR. The recently IDPs: *1.26 million 1.02 million closed Munda Camp is due to re-open in the Source : 180,000 Families 146,400 Families next few days to accommodate another 600 NADRA families from Bajaur Agency. Medicine Sans Returnees: 1.66 million 1.65 million Frontiers (MSF) is currently pitching 400 tents Source : 237,180 Families 236,780 Families for those newly displaced families. There is PDMA/PaRRSA also a need to provide aid to about 120 families, who have arrived in Samar Bagh and Camps: 11 12 Sadbar Kilay Camps in Lower Dir District. Source: CAR 80,000 IDPs 117,410

13,860 Families 21,040 Families Re-screening: The re-screening of IDPs has Funding: been completed in Katcha Garhi and Jalozai Source: FTS 66% of (revised) PHRP 60% of (revised) PHRP Camps in Peshawar and Nowshera respectively. The final results have shown that *This includes IDPs verified by NADRA and the newly registered only about two-thirds of the registered camp IDPs from South Waziristan population was actually living inside the camps, while the rest was living elsewhere or Humanitarian Update 30 October 2009 / Issue 2 had left without informing the camp authorities. • The Government of NWFP is only registering In November, the Social Welfare Department IDPs from the two sub-divisions of Ladha and is due to re-screen IDPs living outside the Sarwakai in South Waziristan. With military camps in NWFP. The re-screening showed operations expanding to other areas, there is that as of 28 October, 13,860 families (approx. a need for the Government to revise its 80,000 ind.) lived in 11 camps compared to registration criteria.

21,040 families (117,000 ind.) in 12 camps, as reported on 16 October. HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE

Security: Since military operations intensified Protection: in South Waziristan, attacks against civilian • UNHCR’s implementing partner, the and military installations have also increased International Rescue Committee (IRC), has and left hundreds of people dead. On 25 started protection monitoring in Swat and October, the Education Minister of Balochistan Buner Districts. was shot dead; and on 28 October, more than 100 people were killed in a blast in Peshawar. • The Protection Cluster continues to Security remains a major concern impeding supports the registration of new IDPs from humanitarian assistance and restricting access South Waziristan in D.I. Khan and Tank. to vulnerable populations. There are six registration points in the two districts, and 33,370 families (approx. 240,000 ind.) have been registered there. HUMANITARIAN NEEDS AND GAPS • Protection monitoring of the IDPs from Needs South Waziristan will be carried out in D.I. • The health facilities in D.I. Khan and Tank Khan and Tank by local NGOs already Districts require greater capacity to cope working on the ground for other Clusters. with the sharp increase in IDPs from South Selected staff members of these Waziristan. organisations are doing protection training to begin monitoring activities next week. • Health services and water and sanitation conditions in the camps are generally Camp Coordination and Camp deteriorating and need immediate attention. Management (CCCM) • Infrastructure, such as schools, hospitals • Presently, there are 13,860 families and government buildings in the areas of (approx. 80,000 ind.) living in 11 camps in return (Swat, Buner, Malakand, etc.), were NWFP. During the reporting period, Khungi damaged during the conflict and are in Shah Camp in Lower Dir was closed. urgent need of rehabilitation. • As the increasing number of IDPs from • With the oncoming winter, tents need to be Bajaur Agency is expected to continue, winterised and seeds for the winter sowing Wali Kandow Camp in Lower Dir District season have to be distributed to the was re-opened on 19 October to cope with communities in the areas of return. the new influx and accommodate around 550 families. IDPs from Bajaur and Khyber Gaps Agency are also being accommodated in different sections of Jalozai Camp in • The volatile security situation and lack of Nowshera District. access, especially to IDPs from South Waziristan, is a huge challenge for the • If needed, the CCCM Cluster is prepared to humanitarian community. Clusters are assist the Government in setting up camps facing difficulties to provide assistance in D.I. Khan and Tank District for South without interruption. Waziristan IDPs. • If the Food Security Cluster does not Emergency Shelter and Non-Food Items receive sufficient funds for November, there could be a shortfall of vegetable oil • By 24 October, UNHCR and its and wheat, which could lead to the food implementing partner, the Pakistan rations being halved. This could also affect Community Development Programme, had the food rations for December. completed pitching 1,950 tents in Jalozai Camp in Nowshera. They have also • The increasing number of IDPs from South provided the camp with 500 additional tents Waziristan and the slow registration for the newly arriving IDPs from Khyber process has delayed the food distribution. and Bajaur Agencies.

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. 2 Humanitarian Update 30 October 2009 / Issue 2

• UN-HABITAT completed building 75 Tank, Banu and Lakki Marwat Districts. shelters in six Union Councils of Mardan, The training sessions will cover disease Swabi and Charsadda Districts and surveillance, case definition and constructed 154 shelters in Sultanwas management of communicable diseases. Village in Buner District for 160 families Nutrition (approx. 950 individuals). • A three-day training on Nutrition in Food Security Emergencies, organised by the Global • Since 14 October, WFP and its partners Nutrition Cluster, was held in Islamabad have distributed 12,000MT of food to from 21-23 October. Twenty-five approximately 836,000 beneficiaries participants from NGOs, INGOs, the residing both in camps and with host Provincial Department of Health and UN communities. Additionally, since 25 Agencies attended the training. Nutrition October, almost 4,000MT of food has been Cluster members together with UNICEF distributed to 38,000 returnee households. reviewed the Cluster Improvement Plan. During the reporting period, ICRC also • In the reporting period, nutrition services distributed 1,280MT of commodities to continued in six IDP hosting districts, two approximately 10,950 families in Upper Dir, IDP return districts (Buner and Swat) as Swat and Malakand Districts. well as in the following camps: Katcha • Three new hubs handing out food and NFIs Garhi in Peshawar, Jalozai and Benazir are due to become operational in Swat Complex in Nowshera District, Palosa in District by the end of this week, bringing to Charsadda District and Jalala Camp in 33 the total number of humanitarian hubs. Mardan District. Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) • In D.I. Khan and Tank Districts, the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the National • UNICEF provided Bajaur Agency Programme is planning to implement a authorities with a 50-kVA generator, which blanket feeding programme for all can be used to run the tube wells in case of displaced pregnant and lactating women power outages. (PLW), and children aged six months to • WASH Cluster partners (UNICEF, World five years. Two local NGOs, the Severa Vision, UN-HABITAT, Oxfam, IRC, IRD, Development Organization and the ACTED, Action Aid, CARE) have Community Development and Research undertaken early recovery activities in Organization, are due to provide various districts of Malakand Division. To supplementary feeding and community- date, more than 260,000 returnees have based management of acute malnutrition been supported through the rehabilitation interventions. All necessary staff has been of water systems and the distribution of recruited and the planned interventions are WASH NFIs. expected to start by end of next week.

Health Education • During the last two weeks, over 117,360 • For the start of the school year, UNICEF patients from Nowshera, Mardan, has developed a Pashto radio campaign, Peshawar, Swabi, Charsadda and Swat dubbed "Welcome to School". This Districts were consulted in 207 health campaign will support the Education facilities supported by the Health Cluster. Emergency Response for school children in The majority of the patients (57 percent) primary and pre-primary schools in the were female. conflict-affected districts of Malakand Division. IOM will support broadcasting this • To address the health care needs if IDPs in programme, which is due to go on air next D.I. Khan District (NWFP), the Health month. Cluster is targeting 26 health facilities staffed by 70 health workers for essential • Presently, 2,120 schools, which were service delivery as well as for occupied by IDPs during the summer, have epidemic/disease control with the been fully rehabilitated (1,803 primary and establishment of Diseases Early Warning 317 middle and secondary schools), while Network (DEWS). 1,091 schools are still under reconstruction. Of the fully rehabilitated schools, UNICEF • Next week, the Health Cluster will start the reconstructed 1,967, UN-HABITAT and training-of-trainers for 15 healthcare ‘Save the Children’ 50 each, and CRS 53. providers from health facilities in D.I. Khan,

With the additional use of tents, 61 FUNDING damaged schools in Swat District are

partially operational. UNICEF has supplied In the reporting period, funding of the Pakistan 200 sets of teacher desks and chairs to the Humanitarian Response Plan (PHRP) education office in Swat District. increased from 60 to 66 percent. The PHRP is • The current enrolment figure in primary currently funded with US $445 million. The schools inside camps stands at 8,420 pledged funding currently stands at US $ 100 (4,780 boys, 3,640 girls). 400 children (381 million. boys, 19 girls) are enrolled in secondary schools, and 1,531 children (1,478 boys All humanitarian aid (PHRP and non-PHRP) is and 53 girls) are enrolled in primary tracked through the Financial Tracking Service schools outside camps. (FTS) and is reliant on information provided by donors and recipient agencies. Please inform • Muslim Aid is supporting adult literacy FTS of all contributions (cash and in-kind) by courses (from eight to 18 years) in five sending an email to: [email protected] camps (Kacha Ghari, 1 & 2, Palosa, Banazir Complex and Jalozai Camps). Currently, 192 adults have been CONTACT INFORMATION enrolled, 27 of which are women. IRC is OCHA, Islamabad supporting non-formal (18 to 25 years) Manuel Bessler, OCHA Head of Office Pakistan, education in Jalozai Camp. So far, 80 [email protected] women and seven men have been Billi Bierling, Public Information Officer enrolled. [email protected] Cell: +92 300 850 2397 Agriculture OCHA, New York • During the reporting period, FAO, with Carlos Monteiro-Pereira, funding assistance from AECID, distributed [email protected] lentil and vegetable seeds to 3,000 food- Tel: +1-212-317-5931 insecure households in Buner, Lower Dir Ben Negus, and Shangla Districts. [email protected] Cell: +1-646-785-9642 • ICRC and Oxfam GB have identified over 46,000 vulnerable households in Lower Dir, Upper Dir, Swat and Buner Districts for the OCHA, Geneva distribution of wheat seeds and fertiliser, Randa Hassan, which will be completed by mid-November. [email protected] Cell: +41-796-023-598-2289 Community Restoration (former Early FOR REFERENCE Recovery) OCHA’s Pakistan humanitarian website: • Since June, UN-HABITAT has completed http://unportal.un.org.pk or www.un.org.pk 300 community projects, including Reliefweb: http://www.reliefweb.int constructing culverts, paving streets and To subscribe and for more information, contact: installing drainage systems and latrines in [email protected] 15 Union Councils of Charsadda, Mardan We welcome your comments on the new and Swabi Districts. UN-HABITAT is also in Humanitarian Update format. Please contact Mr. the process of demolishing semi-destroyed Faisal Jadoon, OCHA Humanitarian Reporting structures and removing rubble of houses Officer at [email protected] damaged during the conflict in Sultanwas, Buner District. This project is done on a cash-for-work basis, and so far, four of the 130 identified houses have been completely demolished. • The Community Restoration Cluster is aiming to address the community infrastructure needs in FATA and NWFP by training about 3,000 people in construction skills and by implementing 3,000 community infrastructure projects.