Afghanistan – Badakhshan Province Operational Coordination Team (OCT) UNOCHA Faizabad Office 17,10,017 @09;30am Draft Minutes
Participants; IOM, UNHCR, NAC, CAF, IDS, Afghan Aid, Concern WW WFP, ACTED and UNOCHA
# Agenda Discussions Action points 1 Welcome and introduction OCHA warmly welcomed the team and the team introduced themselves to each other.
2 ACTED; Based on last conflict IDPs screening committee meeting 284 families who was missed to Conflict IDPs assessment be assessed referred to ACTED, the joint assessment teams assessed the 284 families and out of UNHCR will distribute and responses updates. these number 181 families verified as real IDPs. Winterization for the prolong IPDs The mentioned verified 181 conflict IDP families responded by ACTED, WFP, and Mission East. in close coordination with DoRR currently the assessment team are assessing 52 conflict IDPs in Shahri Buzurg districts. and humanitarian team.
UNHCR; currently we are working on assessing the prolong IDPs, verification of prolong IDPs till first week of November the teams who are assessing the prolong IDPs are consist of NPO, WAW and DoRR. Winterization; UNHCR plans to respond the prolong conflict IDPs who are still living in displacement, reportedly UNHCR will distribute cash which will the cost of winterization for 1550 IDPs in Badakhshan provincial level. Discussion; winterization distribution can be in best manor and we can use our learnt lessons of 2016. UNHCR; we will distribute tents and NFI for the returnees of 2014-2015-2016-2017.
IDS; we distributed 143 food items for the IDPs, Based on conflict IDPs screening committee meeting the joint assessment teams which led by IDS/WFP have assessed 137 families and out of the mentioned number only 68 verified as real IDPs. The conflict IDPs who are assessed are from Argo, Kunduz and Kohistan to Faizabad.
WFP; WFP has responded 181conflcit IDPS in Keshem district and 68 families will be responded. WFP; assessing the prolong IDPs is ongoing and we will respond the prolong IDPs for the coming winter in case of solving threat of Warduj.
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3 IOM; assessment reports which was assessed by Focus , ARCS, ANDMA is not submitted to IOM , 77 natural disaster affected families whose houses were destroyed and based on assessment FOCUS will share the Shukai Clusters updates (WASH, team recommendations they should be resettled in a save areas, Documents of resettlement district natural disaster affected Health, Nutrition, FSAC, referred in Takhar ,Badakhshan and Kunduz provinces , finally Kunduz DoRR has committed to families’ assessment report to and Shelter) provide lands for the 77 natural disaster families of Shukai in Kunduz but there is not available IOM and UNOCHA. assessment reports, IOM provides documents and will send to Kunduz. IOM signed an agreement with FOCUS to stock NFI districts which are not accessible during seven months of the year, IOM is contacting focus to collected updated NFI.
IOM; NAC committed to stock IOM NIF in its working areas, according to IOM stocks are belong to government and district governor will intervene in NFI distribution without informing IOM. From the beginning of the year 2017 IOM have totally assisted 647 natural disaster affected families with different type of nonfood items which the further details are as follows, 53 families which was affected by avalanche in Burghud village of Darwaz district on 3rd Feb IOM has distributed 53 winter module and 53 solar modules on 21st Feb 2017 and on at the same day 28 families which they were also affected by avalanche received 28 BLM 28 SM and 28 winter module from IOM assistance in Manzel Dasht village of Darwaz district, on 3rd April 2017 IOM provided nonfood items for 33 flood affected families in Koche Hesar and Malanga village of Baharak district which were affected by flood on 27th March 2017, on 10th May 17 IOM BDK have assisted 6 families in Rubat village of Faizabad city these families were affected by heavy rainfall incident on 11th April 17 and their needs assessment were done on 13th April 17, on 2nd of May 17 IOM provided NFIs for 46 heavy rainfall affected families in Langar, Kisht-Ghah, Bazar Itfaq and Robatak village of Yaftal district which they were affected on 18th AND 21st of April 17 and their needs were assessed from 19th to 23 April 17 and at the same day IOM has distributed NFIs for 22 landslide affected families in Ornil village of Baharak district, 112 families which they were affected as a result of heavy rainfall incident in Share Safaa, Debazar,Khandaan shar, Aabe Gazekel and Balaki villages of Darayem district provided by IOM NFIs on 8th of May 2017 and at the following day IOM BDK had NFI distribution for 25 heavy rainfall incident affected families in Aaqboorya,Ganda Cheshma and Shamary villages of Argo district, on 25th of May 17 we have assisted 39 heavy rainfall affected families with our NFIs in Katuk and Malwaan village of Share Buzurg district which they were affected on 23rd of April 17, 256 families which they were affected by heavy flooding on 15th May 17 in Lairuk,Khaa and Nowuk village of Jurm district have been provided by our NFIs and family tents on 3-4th June 2017, and the last 19 flood affected families in Ghuzmargh village of Baharak district received IOM NFIs on 6th August 17,
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This is also to let you know that we have 625 ESM, 2112 BLM,807 FM, 1008 WM, 383 SM and 316 family tents, totally we have 5251 mentioned type of NFIs in IOM Faizabad warehouse for any upcoming natural disaster incidents,
WFP prepositioned food items in seven districts for the emergency cases 92 Mt (Nosai, Shukai Mah may, Shighnan, Eshkashiem, Zebak, Wakhan) The materials will be stocked till Jun 2018, Implementer of the project is Rupani, the presupposing items (flour, oil, pulse, salt).
CAF implements the nutrition programs in Ragh ha districts, according to CAF nutrition supply has been postponed, in next month the districts will be closed by snow. WFP; Nutrition supply in Ragh ha districts is waiting for establishing check points, because the security condition is not good in mentioned.
Concern WW updates;
1. ZURICH Project DRR and flood measurement (2015-2017) Protection wall. 128m stone masonry protection wall has been implemented in three targeted villages (Tangan, March, Yustan villages of Yawan) Gabion retaining wall -60m gabion retaining wall has been completed in Teegaran village Flood way and check dam- 16 flood way (wash) and 16m stone masonry check dam successfully completed in two targeted villages (Sow, Wand villages of Yawan) Dry stone check dam – 50m dry stone check dam is under implementation in Khamelgah village of Yawan Gabion check dam- 24m gabion check dam is started the implementation in October 2. Strengthening the Resilience of Afghanistan’s Vulnerable Communities against Disasters (SRACAD) Latrine for Qatarbeed School: three room latrine is under implementation in Qatarbeed School the physical progress is 70%. School repairing in Raghistan – 100% completed. Gabion protection wall- 134m gabion wall in three districts under implementation only Yawan district.
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Stone masonry protection walls – 40m protection wall is under implementation with 50% physical progress. Irrigation water – irrigation reservoir for Raghistan and Kohistan district for watershed irrigation purpose Free special space for livestock: the livestock space for Raghistan district is on- going with 30% physical progress, Kohistan and Raghistan districts 3. MSRP Irish Aid funded Project (2017-2021- WASH, Livelihoods, and Education) Family latrine construction: 14 latrine construction works are on-going with 35% physical progress Safe Water supply project in Durang village of Yawan is being constructed and will be completed by end of October. 4. HPP Projects (Humanitarian properness projects- funded by Irish Aid) 138m protection wall is under implementation in Lab Ab village Kohistan district with 45% physical progress 1.6Km road physical work is on-going with 40% till now 4.5 KM road have been constructed and completed in Yawan which connects several villages to Kohistan district centre. A part from the physical works, Concern has invested/investing a lot of efforts on capacity building of communities at villages level forming DDR committees, DRR trainings, simulation/Mock drills and other related topics etc.
Result#1 – ERM Standard Assistance: Targeted households affected by conflict and natural disasters receive timely humanitarian assistance to cover their immediate food and non-food needs, and where required, emergency shelter to ensure a minimum of safety and dignity to their living conditions. Project location: directly Faizabad, Keshem, Teshkan, Darayem, Khash, Argo, Shahr-e-Buzorg, Yaftal e Sufla and Baharak, and indirectly entirely BDKN province.
CLTS (Community Leading Total Sanitation) Project funded by UNICEF Project goal. Accelerating Ending Open Defecation in Afghanistan through the Implementation of a Community Led Total Sanitation Programme. UNICEF and ACTED will create a synergy through this agreement with the aim to increase the CLTS implementation capacity of Community Health Workers (CHWs) to ensure that Afghanistan can meet the target of ending open defecation by 2025. Target Groups
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UNICEF Afghanistan plans to upscale the ending of open defecation by 1) creating a massive CLTS implementation capacity among NGO partners and government; 2) strong leadership and coordination avoiding overlap and ensuring that high open defecation prevalence areas are targeted; and 3) the adoption of a harmonized CLTS approach among all implementers to safeguard the strict non-subsidy approach which is a key success factor underlying the CLTS methodology.
Project location: Shahr-e-Buzurg and Kishem district of Badakhshan province. Target beneficiaries: Kishem 62 CDCs Shahr-e-Bozorg-41
Main objectives: Promoting local construction through simple sanitation structures using locally available and inexpensive materials. Promoting empowerment of trained beneficiaries in building their own structures, thus increasing ownership and durability of the infrastructures, and limiting ACTED’s involvement, for ACTED teams will only act as technical advisors when local populations will be in charge of the construction’s process. Promoting the culturally-sensitive targeting of women as they are often the driving force between behavioral changes within communities.
The first year of CLTS program successfully completed entirely in Kishem district and ODF certification will be conducted by Nov-2017
The second year of CLTS program started in Shahr-e-Buzurg, in 2nd of August-2017 and the activities are ongoing.
4 DDR Working Group Updates by NAC
CONCERN World Wide:
Concern WW is implemented/implementing the below DDR and resilience projects in 51 villages and 13 schools of districts (Yawan, Kohistan and Raghistan since the last few years apart
Afghanistan – Badakhshan Province Operational Coordination Team (OCT) UNOCHA Faizabad Office 17,10,017 @09;30am Draft Minutes from its livelihoods, WASH, emergency and education development programs in 3 mentioned 3 FOCUS will share the Shukai districts) this is the 2017 achievements district natural disaster affected families’ assessment report to IOM and UNOCHA. 1. ZURICH Project DRR and flood measurement (2015-2017)
Protection wall, 128m stone masonry protection wall has been implemented in three targeted villages(Tangan, March, Yustan villages of Yawan)
Gabion retaining wall -60m gabion retaining wall has been completed in Teegaran village Flood way and check dam- 16 flood way (wash) and 16m stone masonry check dam successfully completed in two targeted villages(Zow, Wand villages of
Yawan) Dry stone check dam – 50m dry stone check dam is under implementation in Khamelgah village of Yawan Gabion check dam- 24m gabion check dam is started the implementation in October
2. Strengthening the Resilience of Afghanistan’s Vulnerable Communities against Disasters (SRACAD)
Latrine for Qatarbeed School: Three room latrines are under implementation in Qatarbeed School the physical progress is 70%. School repairing in Raghistan – 100% completed. Gabion protection wall- 134m gabion wall in three districts under implementation
only Yawan district. Stone masonry protection wall – 40m protection wall is under implementation with 50% physical progress. Irrigation water – irrigation reservoir for Raghistan and Kohistan district for
watershed irrigation purpose Free special space for livestock : the livestock space for Raghistan district is on- going with 30% physical progress, Kohistan and Raghistan districts
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3. MSRP Irish Aid funded Project (2017-2021- WASH, Livelihoods, DDR and Education)
Family latrine construction: 14 latrine construction works are on-going with 35% physical progress Safe Water supply project in Durang village of Yawan is being constructed and will
be completed by end of October.
4. HPP Projects (Humanitarian properness projects- funded by Irish Aid)
Construction protection wall: 138m protection wall is under implementation in Lab Ab village Kohistan district with 45% physical progress
1.6Km road physical work is on-going with 30%. A foot bridge (50/1.5 meters) have been constructed in Yawan river which connects all Yawan population and other several districts of BDK such as Darwaz 4.5 KM road have been constructed and completed in Yawan which connects
several villages to Kohistan district centre. A part from the physical works, Concern has invested/investing a lot of efforts on capacity building of communities at villages level forming DDR committees, DRR trainings, simulation/Mock drills and other related topics etc.
Norwegian Afghanistan Committee
DRR/CCA, implementing the project activities for 105 schools 50 schools has been supported and equipped in 2016 and in this year conducted drill simulation training for established SERT too.
Established 50 SERT in Yawan, Kohistan, Raghistan, Arghanjkhow, Faizabad, Argu and Keshem districts
Afghanistan – Badakhshan Province Operational Coordination Team (OCT) UNOCHA Faizabad Office 17,10,017 @09;30am Draft Minutes Small mitigation project, safe drinking and agriculture irrigation at Dasht e Darang village of Yawan district
Pasha Dara gabion wall at Pasha Dara mix secondary school of Keshem district. Safe drinking water and agriculture irrigation at Pesha Dara mix secondary school Surrounding wall with Net in Pesha Dara mix secondary school Established 50 SERT and conducted DRR first aid and search and rescue training for
two days. Conducted one-day workshop for Raghistan, Yawan and Kohistan DDMCs. Recruited 2 female Interns for to work with DRR section and ANDMA
ACTED:
ACTED is operating for 6 districts including Keshem, Tagab, Shahr-e- Buzurg, and Faizabad, delivering its activity at district, community and grassroots level working with women, children, and other sub governance and community structures in deferent components of rural development and humanitarian services AFGHANAID:
Afghan Aid is currently implementing its program started from 2015 till 2018 with the following interventions;
Establishment of community/school based disaster management committee
(CBDMCs/SBDMCs) in all targeted communities and schools Conducting of DRR/HVCA and first aid trainings for all communities and schools Conducting of flood simulation at 55 communities Preparation of CBDP/SBDPs for 55 com and 19 schools
Distributed materials: 1. CERT-Kit for 55 com and 19 schools Including two first aid box for each
committee 2. EWS tools for 33 com&17 schools
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will be conducted. FOCUS Humanitarian
Focus humanitarian is working with 50 villages and 20 schools at 12 district including 9 boarder districts, For the 35 village package has been implemented, CBDRM, DBDRM establishment, and volunteer team at the community, from registered nurses under the MoPH department, Equipped they CBDRM and DBDRM with emergency equipment The 11 schools has been covered and same intervention has been delivered District team has been established in boarder districts, and they are well equipped and skilled up and active to deal with disaster 3 days training workshops on DRR techniques has been conducted and 35 government department has been conducted by a DDR expert The DRR WG members has School has been rehabilitated as it was destroyed by flash floods in Zebak decided that, this issue will be Water network has been planned for ZEBAK and we are waiting for the opportunities included in the agenda of the to do Provincial Emergency Committee Meeting, and this will be follow 6 emergency stockpile for 200 family up through the Provincial 12 stockpiles at the cluster level has been equipped to respond to disasters on the Governor to take action boarder district
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Avoiding the district authorities from uses of DRR emergency stockpile and miss uses of emergency materials;
As we are living in a province that located in a very harsh geographic area that all natural disasters are taking place such as rock fall, avalanche, landslide, flashfloods, earthquake and etc. even if those people from remote districts would like to access to provincial center Faizabad they need for visa to travel through Tajikistan—ANDMA director, and it seems in few district the emergency stockpiles are miss uses by the district governor and authorities at Yawan, Arkhanjkhow and Raghistan
60 blanket made in Correa 12 Kg at Yawan, emergency lights, furniture, camera, GPS, shovel, pickax and etcs the district governor has been distributed the blankets to district government staffs, At Raghistan district, there is not equipment in the stockpile and even they are using this venue by national security department
DRR implementing challenges;
Survey has been done by leading WFP on weak accessibility to some districts, in Shiwa, Yemgan, Koran Menjan and Shughnan district on hunger issues, the case has been reported to the provincial department, unfortunately they were not able to consider as recently the Taliban has sent an alert message to International NGOs if they are not restarting their activities in their covered areas, INGOs staff will be targeted in any area of Badakhshan province –Focus humanitarian
A request raised by the ACTED program manager, if we are able to have a map from all those districts, villages and schools to see which village have remained, as ACTED will be soon have a DRR program to cover those remained districts,
Afghanistan – Badakhshan Province Operational Coordination Team (OCT) UNOCHA Faizabad Office 17,10,017 @09;30am Draft Minutes All DRR implementer requested to have a map from their own coverage areas that DRR projects has been implemented or currently running.
5 AOB WAW Badakhshan letter; The caseload of the lady who has been divorced in Court three years WFP provides one food ration, ago, but his husband does not accept the Court conclusion and he is threating the lady, so the lady UNHCR provides one NFI, with her mother will live in a rental room and need for food and NFI items. Concern WW will share with its country office for providing 20,000 WFP has committed to provide one food kits, UNHCR provides NFI, Concern WW will share the six month rent. issues to its country office for providing six months of house rent (20,000 Afs), and ACTED will ACTED will provide 14,000 Afs. provide 14,000 Afs.
IOM; IOM for the returnees from Germany there are around 7 people, two of them are paid.
DRR operation center has been activated and one communication person has been recruited by All DRR WG members and financial and technical support of NAC, and we are requesting all to send their activities for data implementers are going to send their activities to ANDMA base and recording.