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Operational Supporting Plan Gaua Volcano Draft by Senior Planning Officer Kamil,P.Korisa. Published 2010 GAUA CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR MASS EVACUATION AND RELOCATI O N Page 1 DRELOCATIONRELOCATIO Acronyms ACL : Anglican Church Land PSC: Public Service Commission CLO: Country Liaison Officer of WHO FRC: French Red Cross in Vanuatu (Dr Fabre-Teste) CMS: Central Medical Store VRCS: Vanuatu Red Cross Society DGH: Director General of Health (Mr. SCF Aus: 'Save the Children Fund Australian Mark Bebe) DPH: 'Director of Public Health (Mr. SCF Van: 'Save the Children Fund Vanuatu Len Tarivonda) MH: Mental Health TPDC: 'Torba Provincial Disaster Committee MoA: Ministry of Agriculture TPHO: 'Torba Provincial Health Office MoE: Ministry of Education VHNWC: Vanuatu Health, Nutrition and WASH Cluster MoH: Ministry of Health VMF: Vanuatu Mobile Force (Ministry of Internal Affairs) MOH: Minister of Health (Hon. Moses Pol: Vanuatu Police (Ministry of Internal Affairs) Kahu) MSHT: Multi Skills Health Team WASH: Water, Sanitation & Hygiene NDMO: National Disaster FAO: World Food Program Management Office NGO: Non Governmental WHO: 'World Health Organization Organization PMO: Prime Minister Office WV: 'World Vision NDC: National Disaster Committee DRM: Disaster Risk Management DCO: Development Committee GAUA CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR MASS EVACUATION AND RELOCATI O N Page 2 DRELOCATIONRELOCATIO Officers UNOCHA: United Nation Office of DGMWR: Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources coordination Humanitarian Affairs UNICEF: United Nation International GNS: Geo-Natural Sciences –New Zealand Children’s Education Fund ADRA: Adventist Development Relief LDSC: latter Day Saints church of Christ Agency G-H: Geo-Hazards RRA : Red R Australia ARC : Australian Red Cross OA : Oxfam Australia GAUA CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR MASS EVACUATION AND RELOCATI O N Page 3 DRELOCATIONRELOCATIO Forwards This contingency plan for the Gaua Volcano crisis was mandated by the government which will be use as a tool for addressing and mitigating volcano impact on the Gaua population. It has developed specifically for all agencies that are directly involves in humanitarian assistance during the occurrence of volcano eruption. It helps them develop better and appropriate response plan to reduce impact of volcano eruption, before, during and after. Humanitarian organizations have to be aware of human rights issues in order to reduce the vulnerability of affected populations and special groups, enable transition to normalcy and contribute to risk reduction. The plan will enlighten and highlight major roles for each participating humanitarian agencies on most critical sectors such as Health, education, shelters, Sanitation and so forth. It also helps to avoid confusion and duplication during the occurrence of a disaster. As it always happens in many cases, often agencies are confuse and does not understand their actual responsibilities during any occurrence of Natural disasters. Therefore, this plan was develop with contributions of government’s sectors in collaboration with the external and internal humanitarian organizations( refer Acronyms), while integrating all actors participating together in developing this plan is in line with mainstreaming concepts. Furthermore, this plan is subject to rewiew annually as part of its business continuity Plan. GAUA CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR MASS EVACUATION AND RELOCATI O N Page 4 DRELOCATIONRELOCATIO SOME HISTORICAL INFORMATION GAUA VOLCANO Gaua Island is located far towards northern part of Vanuatu within Torba Province. It has rugged terrain, reaching up to Mount Garratt (797 m), the peak of the active strato-volcano at the center of the island. The island had a population of approximately 2491 according 2009 National Census statistic shows that the annual growth rate was estimated at a high 2.0 percent. This population is scattered in various coastal villages on the western, southern and northeastern sides of the island. The eastern side villages such as lemanman,Naveto and Tarasag a has a few hamlets with an immigrant population coming mainly from the two smaller islands Merig and Merelava southeast of Gaua. Gaua is a large shield volcano with gentle outer slopes, a large caldera lake (Lake Letas), and summit cinder cone (Mt Garet). The caldera is 8 x 6 km in diameter. Lake Letas occupies half the caldera with an area of 19.7 sq km. It is about 100 m deep and flat bottomed. There is warm, sulphur stained water near Mt Garet cone. (Source; Geo-hazards report) Gaua Island lies just north of the Santa Maria Fracture Zone, which runs perpendicular to the north New Hebrides Trench. The roughly 20-km-diameter Gaua Island consists of a basaltic-to-andesitic stratovolcano with a 6 x 9 km wide summit caldera. Small parasitic vents near the caldera rim fed Pleistocene lava flows that reached the coast on several sides of the island; several littoral cones were GAUA CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR MASS EVACUATION AND RELOCATI O N Page 5 DRELOCATIONRELOCATIO Formed where these lava flows reached the sea. Quiet collapse that formed the roughly 700- m-deep caldera was followed by extensive ash eruptions. Construction of the historically active cone of Mount Garet (Gharat) and other small cinder cones in the SW part of the caldera has left a crescent-shaped caldera lake. The symmetrical, flat-topped Mount Garet cone is topped by three pit craters. The onset of eruptive activity from a vent high on the SE flank of Mount Garat in 1962 ended a long period of dormancy. (Source; Geo- hazards) GAUA CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR MASS EVACUATION AND RELOCATI O N Page 6 DRELOCATIONRELOCATIO Table of Contents 1. 0 Executive Summary …………………………………………………………… 9 1.2 Hazards and Risk Analysis………………………………………………………11 1.3 Early Warming………………………………………………………………. ……12 1.4 Criteria for Alert Levels …………………………………………………………..13 2.0 Possible Scenarios and Planning Assumptions……………………………... 17 2.1 Target Population………………………………………………………………… 18 2.2 Decision Making for Evacuation and Relocation ………………………………18 2.3 Planning Period for Relocation…………………………………………………..20 2.4 Humanitarian Needs………………………………………………………………20 2.5 Key Constraints……………………………………………………………………21 3.0 Objective and Strategies………………………………………………………...22 3.1 Overall Management and Coordination Arrangement…………………………23 4.0 Management Arrangement ……………………………………………………..23 4.1 Torba Disaster Committee Coordination Structure ……………......................24 4.2 Assistance &Funding Arrangement…… ………………………………………..25 4.3 Information Management Arrangements………………………………………..26 GAUA CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR MASS EVACUATION AND RELOCATI O N Page 7 DRELOCATIONRELOCATIO 5. Relocations Sites ………………………………………………………………27 5.2 Relocations Site and Population ………….. …… ………………………….28 6.0 Management of Evacuation Process……………………………………….29 6.1 Registration ………………………………………………….. ……………….30 6.2 Transition Center ……………………………………………………………..30 6.3 Evacuation: Logistics and Evacuation Points ……………………………..32 6.4 Priority for Evacuation ……………………………………………………….32 7.0 Sectors Response Plans ……………………………………………………34 8.0 Minimum Preparedness Actions …………………………………………..34 Annex .1 Estimated Budget for Evacuation ………………………………….36 Annex .2 Evacuation Site Map………………………………………………….42 Annex .3 Logistic and Transportation ………………………………………….43 Annex .4 Emergency Contact List for Gaua…………………………………..45 Annex .5-6 Hazards Map of Gaua, and Vanua lava map…………………….46-48 Annex .7 Overview on Sectoral Actors ………………………………………..48-53 Annex .8 Participant List of March 2010 Contingency planning workshop…54 Annex. 9 Statistic …………………………………………………………………58-60 Annex .10 Map showing Relocation sites ………………………………………63-65 GAUA CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR MASS EVACUATION AND RELOCATI O N Page 8 DRELOCATIONRELOCATIO 1. GENERAL 1.1 EXECATIVE SUMMARY This plan is written to prepare for the mass evacuation and relocation of the population of Gaua Island should the Vanuatu volcano alert level (VVAL) reach level 3. As determined in the VVAL, level 3 warrants for the whole island population moving to pick up points, and level 4 warrants for an evacuation of the entire Gaua Island population to safer locations off Gaua Island. In case of life threatening activity of Gaua volcano, actions for VVAL 3 (move to the pickup points) and VVAL 4 (evacuation) are assumed to have to take place quickly one after another since there are no safe areas on the island (see hazard map in Annex 5 ,Page 46). So the move to the pickup points is automatically followed by evacuation from Gaua. Evacuation would follow after a declaration of a State of Emergency by the President of Vanuatu, after declaration of VVAL 3 and an advice by the National Disaster Committee, authorizing the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) director to instruct evacuation. It complies with the requirements of National Disaster Management ACT No.31 of 2000 CAP. 267 PART 4 – STATE OF EMERGENCY 13. Declaration of state of emergency If the President is, on the advice of the Council of Ministers, satisfied that a disaster: (a) Constitutes a significant and widespread danger to life or property in Vanuatu; and (b) exceeds the affected community’s capabilities to deal with that disaster; the President may, by order in writing, declare that a state of emergency exists in the whole, or a specified part or parts, of Vanuatu in relation to that disaster. On November 26, 2009, the Vanuatu Government through the NDMO has already evacuated 423 1people from villages along the northwest and southwest of Gaua Island to the North-East GAUA CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR MASS EVACUATION AND RELOCATI O N Page 9 DRELOCATIONRELOCATIO to East-side of
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