Rapid assessment report on flood affected woredas in Shebelle zone of Somali Regional state , 30 -5/5/20 Team1 SN Name Organization Position Email 1 Abdi Ahmed DRMB Team leader [email protected] 2 Hassen Barud SCI Member [email protected] 3 Aydarus Ahmed SOS Member 4 Salah Hassen ADRA Member [email protected] 5 Abdi Osman Omer OWDA Member [email protected] 6 Kamil Abdirashid Zonal Member 7 Ahmed Ibrahim OCHA Member [email protected] 8 Abdullahi Isak WFP [email protected] 9 Abdifetah Mahdi AAH Member [email protected] 10 Awel Zonal

Executive Summary

• In general, 17,483HHs displaced and 41,244HHs affected by flood. Some displaced people live with their relatives and neighbor in a few saved homes from flood which will be risky in this critical COV-19 time, while others are living in open area, being affected by the current rains. • Due to flood drowning, 10 human death was confirmed and most of them died due to flash flood. • A total of 1,395 cattle, 6,462shoat,55 camel heads and 402 donkeys have been swept in the Ten woredas. • 21,708Ha of standing and harvested crops(Sessam, Onion Sorghum, Maize and other varieties ) were washed away and 226 generators were also lost. • As a result of Shabelle river flood, 68 formals, and 47 ABEs schools damaged, and 27 health post and 3 heath centers were also damaged in the zone. • 22 river intake, 2 Haffirdam, 74 hand dug wells and 13 birkas were also destroyed by the flood. • There is no human disease outbreak that has been yet confirmed; but there is threating disease such as water bound diseases while there are no essential emergency drugs. • From23 to 30/4/2020, a total 466 cases of severe acute malnutrition were admitted to , and health facilities. • Water treatment chemicals are not available in all flood affected woredas, people are drinking water with high turbidity and untreated • There is no livestock disease outbreak that has been yet confirmed; but there is a growing threat for potential livestock diseases like tick and tick bound diseases. • The total number of displaced need food assistance based on rapid flood assessments report is 17,483HHs (96,1565 individuals). • In all woredas of the zone, due to COV-19 and inaccessibility, commodity price increased while livestock price decreased, and community of flooded area started labor migration. • there is social and emotional disturbance as the loss of the productive assets, this disturbances may bring mental health problems and loss of social disciplines. • In southern side of the river like , Kelefo, Mustahil and Ferfer woreda have no access and response delivery will be tough in the coming thirty days.

1. Introduction

Shebelle zone is one of the flood prone areas to heavy rains both at the upper stream and within the region there have been flooding disasters at its woredas entirely located along the perennial river as well as flash floods in the seasonal rivers. The flood affected all districts but severely affected those districts located alongside the river such as Kelafo, Mustahil Ferfer, east Imey, Ber’ano and Adadle districts.

The rain is yet enduring and level of river water may increase, if proper prevention and early warning wouldn’t put in place, the flooding would further deteriorate in the flood prone areas of . Due to poor conditions of the road, initially the rain had blocked the road accessibility but now eastern part of Kelafo, Mustahil & Ferfer town are accessible with poor conditions but most of their kebeles are inaccessible ; after assessing these three woredas, there is debriefing meeting with regional DRMB head and zonal administrator at Kelefo . Based on the scale of this disaster and urgent need to respond it, two teams were organized for Shebelle flood rapid assessment, one team have conducted the assessment in Kelafo, Mustahil, Ferfer and through Shilabo woreda while the second team did the assessment in East Emay, Abokorow, Ber’ano, , Adadle and Elele woredas.

2. ES/NFIs sector

17,483HHs displaced and 42,244HHs affected by flood while 763HHs in Danan and Ber’ano woredas caused by flash flood returned to their original homes after water gone out from their homes, displaced people lost all their belongings including shelter, kitchen, water collection utensils and clothing/bedding during the flood.

Some displaced people live with their relatives and neighbor in a few saved homes from flood which will be risky in this critical COV-19 where active cases have been found in the region while others are living in an open area, being affected by the current rains and this is only option they do have where governmental institutions were damaged by the flood.

3,232 HHs are isolated by floodwater, and response deliver will be difficult. In recent time, no option to deliver response to these sites, and the only possible way to deliver response will be an airlift. According to the respondents, no responses didn’t reach them since the flood hit them except lifesaving and evacuating them, Thus, shelter, food and clean water are three their top critical needs.

Poor condition of the roads is the driving force to poor market accessibility, all markets are accessible across main towns. People are using traditional boats, that helps them to cross the river and areas flood water occupied. Even though, movement is restricted along the border of , owed to Covid-19 pandemic, but still trucks loading essential supplies can cross the border.

Table1: Displaced and affected people SN Woreda Affected Displaced Surrounded by water Returnee 1 Ferfer 4757 2,820 726 2 Mustahil 5546 3,804 0 3 Kelefo 14,567 6,302 2506 4 East Emay 4800 2,300 5 Abokorow 444 0 6 Ber’ano 2,450 406 324 7 Danan 3,730 23 439 8 Adadle 1400 341 9 Elele 1850 607 10 Godey 1700 880 Sub-total 41,244 17,483 3,232 763

Recommendations:

• Provision of construction material to Mustahil town and shelter repair materials for Kelefo town. • Immediate provision of ESNFI/shelter materials to flood displaced people in the ten woredas. • Immediate distribution of dignity kit to displaced women and girls in ten woredas.

3. Education

Recurrent floods are severely affecting education, in terms of halting education services or damaging physical building. And these effects recorded one or twice in a year. Recent floods resulted greater damages then the preceding floods. This is because of time-lapse between the past and current floods is six months’ period.

As a result of flood, 68 formals, and 47 ABEs schools damaged. Even though, the extent of damages varies among schools. Mostly, the damages of ABEs, greater than formal schools. Because of the, ABEs schools were constructed local materials (temporary learning space), which are more susceptible to floods. the major damages recorded in formal schools were cracked down buildings, and collapsed schools fencing. All formal schools were partially damaged, but the flood destroyed 10 ABE facilities. School latrines were either destroyed or filled by flood water. The flood washed away significant teaching and learning materials. On the top of this, it is difficult to resume schooling services, unless it is considered missing of essential education materials. This flooding come in a period where students are not attending in schools, owed to Covid-19 pandemic.

Damaged Schools 50 44 45 40 35 30 25 25 20 15 10 10 6 4 5 3 3 3 2 2 3 2 5 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 kalafo Mustahil Ferfer East-imey Ber'ano Adadle Gode Elele Abakarow Danan

Formal Shcools ABE schools

N.B: Elele, and Danan woredas are affected by flashflood.

Recommendations :

• Rehabilitate damaged schools, before students return to schools and to re-construct destroyed latrines. • Provide essential learning, and teaching materials. • build-back better all ABE schools susceptible to floods.

4. Health and Nutrition

There is no human disease outbreak that has been yet confirmed, from 23 to 30/4/2020, a total 466 cases of severe acute malnutrition were admitted to Kelafo, Mustahil and Ferfer health facilities, the highest SAM cases that is 345 cases were admitted to Kelefo woreda.

There is a growing threat to the potential outbreak of waterborne diseases and due to the consumption of stagnant/contaminated water and poor hygiene, there is seasonal diarrheal diseases in East may, Kelefo, Mustahil and Ferfer woredas for chidlren. The most prevalent risks of diseases are watery diarrhea, malnutrition, pneumonia, malaria, conjunctivitis, skin disease, and bilharzia.

There is a severe infestation of mosquitoes following stagnant water in the flooded areas and malaria may prevail; in addition to this, there is Shortage of essential medical supplies, equipment and there are no emergency drugs at all for all woredas.

Damaged Health Facilities 6 5 7 5 6 4 5 3 3 4 3 3 2 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

0 0

Ellele

Gode

Ferfer

Kelafo

Danan

Addale

Ber,ano

Mustahil

East-emay Abakarow 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

# HC damaged # of HPs Damaged Total

Recommendation:

• Immediate rehabilitation of damaged health facilities and construction of collapsed latrines. • Supply of essential and emergency drugs are urgently needed • distribution of mosquito nets to the most vulnerable people and immediate delivery of Anti-malaria drugs are needed.

5. WASH 22 river intake, 2 Haffirdam, 74 hand dug wells and 13 birkas were destroyed by the flood.River intakes need rehabilitation, generators, motors and pipe instatalation in Mustahil, Kelefo, Abokorow and east . The damaged hand dug wells need re-digging/removing the soil from the wells that filled and molding the arrangement due to the flood. The assessment identified access to safe water supply as a greatest need and the priority for the flood affected community in these flood affected woredas. In addition to that due to the flood washed away all the HHs latrines there is widespread open defection and poor hygiene as well as overcrowding the available latrines, and these are prevalent and high-risk factors for the disease outbreaks like water born diseases.

Water treatment chemicals are not available in all flood affected woredas entirely including, people are drinking water with high turbidity and untreated. Some of the flood displaced communities are drinking stagnant water collected from the ponds due to flooding

Recommendation:

• Urgent distribution of water treatment chemical and WASH supplies to flood affected and Provision of the hygiene kit. • Urgent rehabilitation of the damaged water infrastructure and latrines.

Women fetching water from stagnant water

6. Crop and Livestock damage

This is the time of crop harvesting of different of agricultural products in the Shabelle woredas, a lot of households will be faced shortages crop production at the normal harvesting time for the coming months due to the flood. food shortage and shock will be anticipated, hence their agricultural products eliminated by flood, the situation for the near future will be unprecedented and some of the people were shocked for the dangerous flood. 21,708Ha of standing and harvested crops(Sessam, Onion Sorghum, Maize and other varieties ) were washed away and 226 generators were also los

No livestock diseases outbreak has yet been reported; but there is a growing threat for potential livestock diseases such as parasite [external, internal] foot root, trypanosomes in entirely flood affected woredas. There is pasture disturbance due to flood over all the rangeland parallel with huge infestation of desert locust and very difficult livestock to move the water flow.

A total of 1395 cattle, 6462shoat, 55 camel heads and 402 donkeys have been swept in the Ten woredas. All the visited woredas, reported Shortage of essential veterinary drugs. In all woredas of the zone, due to COV-19 and inaccessibility, commodity price increased while livestock price decreased, and community of flooded area started labor migration.

Table2: Livestock death and damaged crops SN Woredas Livestock death Crop Asset loss Cattle Shoat Camel Don damage(ha) 1 Ferfer 30 50 0 0 2,426 17 generator, 1 vehicle 2 Kelefo 603 2417 6 341 4,055 118 generator, 3 Mustahil 204 796 0 61 7,682 82 generator 4 East Emay 41 94 17 0 5225 5 Abokorow 29 53 6 0 269 6 Ber’ano 410 379 0 0 1239 4 motor 7 Danan 58 65 20 0 0 8 Adadle 0 2331 0 0 800 3 motor 9 Elele 0 52 0 0 0 10 Godey 20 225 6 0 12 2 motor Sub-Total 1395 6462 55 402 21,708 226

Recommendation:

• The supply of veterinary drugs and its equipment • Urgent livestock vaccination and treatment. • Provision of seeds, hand tools and water pumps as soon as possible.

7. Food

The flood affected woredas of Shebelle zone, are in immediate need of food assistance as the food gap widened following on the stand crops destroyed by the current floods from the Shebelle river. Asset have been lost in the floods. 80-85% of households depending on crop production may shortly face acute food insecurity following on crop harvest prospect production. harvest period anticipated to remain failure as many crops planted are lost and washed away by the ongoing river flood.

The total number of displaced need food assistance is 17,483HHs (96,1565 individuals) among whom more than half are vulnerable groups (Mothers, elders and children of displaced and immediately require short-term food assistance.

Recommendations:

• To allocate basic food items to address the most urgent needs and prevent further starvation and malnutrition of the affected people over the next two months. • Provide basic food such as cereal, Pulses and cooking oil. • To improve living conditions and help them return to normal living conditions.

8. Protection

As the floods have destroyed the productive asset of many families living in these districts, the aftermath will be Shortage/ lack of food and malnutrition as they loss their livelihood means it will be very hard for them get enough food to eat which in turn cause widespread malnutrition, there is Social and emotional disturbance as the loss of the productive assets is causing it to members of the affected families, these disturbances may include; mental health problems and loss of social disciplines.

Child labor- as the families lost their livelihood means, they may migrate to search food and this may cause them abandon some of their children and these children would be used as labor source, there is family breakdown as families may breakdown due to the lack of family livelihood means which can result stress and mental problem; there is also migration as families may migrate to nearby town sites to get better life as they lost their livelihood means, during migration, women and girls may got raped. Increased domestic crimes is reported as violence and other domestic crimes may increase due to the food insecurity resulted from the loss of livelihood assets.

Recommendation:

• Immediate generating livelihood income source to women and girls • Distribution of dignity kit to women and girls • Providing psycho-social support to vulnerable groups.

Challenges assessment:

Access was the key challenges that the team come across during the assessment, apart movement from woreda to woreda, due to scale of the flooding, the team couldn’t to reach most of the affected kebeles which makes them to collect the data at woreda level. In southern side of the river like Adadle, Kelefo, Mustahil and Ferfer woreda have no access and response delivery will be tough in the coming thirty days.

$1 of Preparedness saves $10 of response

Table: Displace and Affected Per kebeles in Shebelle zone. Woreda Kebele No of HH displaced/affected

No Displaced Affected Denan 01 Kebele 800 02 kebel 900 03 kebele 700 Bada cas 180 Walalgo 250 Shinile 23 900 SubTotal 6 3730 1 23 Gode Uubaley 100 190 Waylosilig 120 350 Elan 16 60 160 Dolo bacad 80 180 Las gabrile 70 140 Arosyale 0 200 Gabicas 250 180 Hadhawe 200 300 2 SubTotal 8 880 1700 Kelefo Bohola aweys 95 250 Malko washaqo 70 292 Kebxanlow 70 200 3

Afdub Daqsuge 323 500 afdub 280 500 Alowigarsii Allow igadsii 2255 692 Niiri center Niiri 600 1800 Kabxanle Kabxanle 780 1700 center Qalaafe Hilabacad 470 1000 town Adiskatama 450 900 Dariiqa dariiqo 1050 Center 300 Luuqdhere Luuqdhere 150 350 Center Burdede Burdede 250 600 400 Gan Center Gun 350 922 Dabakatur Dabakatur 450 700 Center Cantalaale 470 300 Burgabo Burgabo 200 450 Center Bargun Bargun 250 450 Center SubTotal 22 6302 14567 Imay Bari Imay town 900 350 Qudhacle 200 450 Mukey 200 350 Xidigta 152 400 Gudis 153 450 Makula 151 300 Direey 140 200 Siiga dhere 192 400 Baley 232 300 Dhaay 230 400 Libaxle 200 400 Kuuyo 100 250 4 SubTotal 12 2300 4800 Mustahiil Mustahil Town 1000 1400 Cagadhurwaa 400 500 Mirdhis 503 600 Budul 400

570 Turtur 250

400 Eyoole 300

478 Qabobe 307

455 Godcaro 363

508 Kalaman 281

5 635 SubTotal 9 3804 5546 Aleele Alale Town 200 400 Carmaale 55 100 Bargun 95 500 harwayn 59 250 Jimbacley 77 200 adhicadeye 61 200 dhure 60 SubTotal 6 607 1850

FERFER Abaley(bardhyac iyo 820 1000 6 xajidini) Balanbale(carogley, 920 1357 kabhanle, mircodley, 7 ganbarey, dayax) Dabadhere(bukurale, 700 1345 kudinle) Burukur(ayrabwayne, 380 1055 holotugo and maraca) Sub-Total 4 2820 4757 abaqorow Qarud 0 166 8 Siqaley 0 100 Magaloxumey 0 178 3 444 Ber’ano Damerey 350 9 Garabjabiye 56 150 Radanle 400 Baldoqorax 200 500 Dabaaldeg 150 400 Dib udajin 400 Hilanagod 250 Subtotal 7 406 2450 Adadle Jeeray 200 400

Subtotal Adadle Kurtun 49 250

10 Harus 37 250

Gabal 55 500

Subtotal 4 1400 341 Grand 83 17,483 Total 41,244