Pakistan Humanitarian Update

Issue 6, 22 January 2010

This Humanitarian Update covers the period from 1 to 19 January 2010. The next Update will be issued on or around 5 February.

the water are underway which, according to the HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES local government, has greatly reduced the risk  On 4 January, a landslide swept away one of a dam break. About four kilometres of the and partly destroyed another village in Karakorum Highway have also been blocked by the landslide. As it could take up to two months Hunza Nagar District, killing 19 people. to clear the road, the affected population is in Around 1,600 people are now in need of need of food assistance for the coming months. humanitarian assistance in the area.  On 31 December 2009, the last 2,070 IDP families left Kacha Garhi Camp and moved to Jalozai. Kacha Garhi was shut down and decommissioned, reducing to 10 the number of camps in NWFP.

SITUATION OVERVIEW Orakzai Agency Displacements: As of 18 January, approximately 18,000 families, or more than 117,000 civilians had fled The landslide has created a lake and blocked parts of the road (Nazir Sabir) the ongoing military operations in Orakzai Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Relief and rescue operations have been carried Areas (FATA). Around 116,000 of these out by the National Disaster Management internally displaced persons (IDPs) are living Authority (NDMA), the Gilgit-Baltistan Disaster with host families in the neighbouring districts Management Authority (GBDMA), FOCUS of Kohat and Hangu in the North West Frontier Pakistan and the Pakistan Red Crescent Province (NWFP), while around 900 IDPs have Society. Four camps have been established on found shelter in Mohammad Khawaja Camp. school grounds providing shelter for around The camp was established by the district 1,650 IDPs, who receive food, Non-Food Items administration in a school compound in Hangu. (NFIs), health services and temporary shelter. South Waziristan Displacements: Security: So far, 38,524 IDP families, or over 280,000 The security situation in the conflict-affected individuals from South Waziristan in FATA have areas in NWFP and FATA remains a major been registered and verified in D.I. Khan and challenge. In order to provide IDPs with Tank Districts. As the influx of IDPs has urgently needed assistance, the humanitarian slowed down significantly since it first picked up community needs safe and continuous access in October 2009, registration has been stopped. to the hosting and conflict-affected areas. IDPs can raise issues concerning registration at grievance desks at the former registration points. According to media reports, the HUMANITARIAN NEEDS AND GAPS government is hoping to start the returns Needs process for South Waziristan IDPs in March or April this year. There is an urgent need to speed up the registration process of more than 1,200 families Hunza Landslide from Bajaur Agency currently displaced in On 4 January 2010, a landslide hit Atta Abad Jalozai Camp in order to provide them with and Sarat villages in the Hunza Nagar District, humanitarian assistance. At the moment, these killing 19 people and displacing more than new IDP families are living in tents of their 1,600. Forty-three houses were completely extended families or friends and are sharing destroyed and a huge amount of rubble was their food rations with them. swept into the Hunza River. The debris of the houses has blocked the course of the river, The verification process for another 3,000 IDP causing the creation of a lake with constantly families in Jalozai Camp also has to expedite, rising water levels. If this newly created dam as these IDP families are experiencing breaks, another 18,000 people could be difficulties in accessing basic assistance and affected by floods. However, efforts to drain services due to issues related to the expiry or loss of their National Identity Cards (NICs). Humanitarian Update 22 January 2010 / Issue 6

In order to continue humanitarian assistance, Camp Coordination and Camp Management especially needed throughout the harsh winter, (CCCM) adequate funding is imperative for the coming With the closure of Kacha Garhi Camp in months. Peshawar District, the number of camps across With the movement of more than 14,000 IDPs NWFP has been reduced to ten with a total from Kacha Garhi to Jalozai Camp, facilities population of around 21,500 IDP families such as WASH, health, education, food (approx. 114,000 individuals). After the last IDP distribution etc. have to be strengthened there. families left Kacha Garhi on 31 December 2009, the camp was decommissioned Furthermore, food distribution points in Jalozai according to the environmentally friendly have to be assigned to IDPs from Kacha Garhi. standard operating procedures. They are currently receiving food from a distribution point, which is inside the camp but With more than 96,000 residents, Jalozai Camp about half an hour’s walk away from their tents. in Nowshera District remains by far the largest IDP camp in NWFP. The construction of

different amenities such as fencing, lighting, QUICK STATS kitchens and drainage is in progress throughout IDPs: 1.22 million* the camp. During the reporting period, Source : NADRA, UNHCR, PaRRSA UNHCR’s implementing partner, Sarhad Rural Returnees: 1.66 million Support Programme (SRSP), completed the Source : PDMA/PaRRSA 237,180 families construction of over 5,400 kitchens while Camps: 10 Pakistan Community Development Programme Source: CAR 114,375 IDPs is putting up fences for security purposes 21,538 families throughout the camp. Funding: 71 % of PHRP UNHCR has provided all-weather tents to the Source: FTS 134 IDP families from Orakzai Agency residing *This includes IDPs from Malakand Division and South Waziristan, Mohmand, Bajaur, Khyber in Mohammad Khawaja Camp in Hangu, and Orakzai Agencies. complementing the assistance efforts of the district government. The Executive District Gaps Health Officer is providing health services and UNICEF is working on Education and WASH A comprehensive study on the extent of facilities. damage in conflict areas of Malakand Division followed by a detailed analysis of needs to Emergency Shelter and Non-Food Items design early recovery strategies is needed. As of 19 January, the Cluster had completed The volatile security situation across areas of 155 temporary shelters while work is in operation continues to be a major concern and progress on 230 others in Swat, Buner and hampers humanitarian assistance. The difficult Lower Dir Districts. A total of 25,000 units are security situation makes it hard to reach those planned in all return areas in NWFP, while families who never left conflict-affected areas approximately 15,000 shelters will be put up in like South Waziristan, Bajaur or Orakzai. these districts. Sustained access is important for assessment According to a list published by the and monitoring of humanitarian aid. government, about 8,000 houses were damaged in eight Tehsils of Swat (Babozai, Bahrain, Barikot, Charbagh, Kabal, Khwaza Khela, Matta, Matta Sebujni). The Cluster will HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE also provide assistance to those families not Protection: included in the government’s list but who fall within its vulnerability criteria. The registration of IDPs from Bajaur Agency living in Jalozai Camp is due to start next week. As of 19 January 2010, the Cluster completed UNHCR’s implementing partner, Community for the distribution of more than 430,000 NFI kits to Excellence in Rural Development (CERD), is all IDPs living in host communities in 15 identifying families that should be registered. districts, apart from IDPs living in Kohat, UNHCR and the Commissionerate of Afghan Rawalpindi and Islamabad, where distribution Refugees (CAR) will ensure that only newly started on 19 December 2009. NFIs are also displaced persons are registered and not those, distributed to returnees in Buner and Swat. The who have previously lived in the adjoining Cluster also provides NFIs to IDPs from districts. Orakzai living in Mohammad Khawaja Camp and to those living with host families in Hangu.

As of 11 January, 7,825 NFI kits containing apply to women and children-headed blankets, mattresses, jerry cans etc. had been households, the disabled and elderly and will distributed to Orakzai IDPs in Kohat. serve as guidelines for the agencies working in early recovery areas. During the reporting period, more than 2,500 NFI kits were distributed in Swat and 340 kits in UNICEF, through its implementing partner Buner, bringing to 143,000 the total number of SABAA, is providing WASH services in IDP families assisted in the two districts. Since Mohammad Khawaja Camp in Hangu. ICRC 4 January, UNHABITAT and UNHCR have and the Pakistan Red Crescent Society are completed the construction of 162 temporary providing WASH services in host communities shelter units in four Union Councils in Swat. in Hangu. The WASH Cluster is carrying out a needs assessment in Kohat and will start To date, all IDP families in all camps apart from distributing hygiene kits in the coming weeks. Jalozai, where distribution is still in progress, have received blankets, sleeping mats, plastic Health sheets and quilts as part of the first phase of The Health Cluster continued to support 436 winterisation distribution. So far, over 10,000 of health facilities across 10 districts of NWFP the 17,500 target IDP families living in camps during the reporting period. From 19 have received winterisation packages. December 2009 to 1 January 2010, more than Food Security 244,000 consultations were reported, 56 percent of which were for women. Thirty-eight The Food Cluster has distributed almost 29,000 health facilities provided 1,723 consultations for MT of food to more than 292,000 IDP families antenatal, 2,035 for chronic non-communicable (approx. 2 million individuals) in camps, hosting disease and 438 for injuries. districts and return areas. A WFP cash transfer pilot project was launched in Buner District in early January, and so far 1,668 households have each received PKRs 4,000 in cash. Approximately 10,000 families are due to be included in the scheme over the next two months in the same district If successful, it will be launched in other districts. The Food Cluster continues to distribute food rations to IDPs from South Waziristan, who have not been issued with the government’s cash cards. Nearly 30,000 registered and verified South Waziristan IDP families residing A girl in the waiting room of a health clinic in an IDP Camp (WHO) in D.I. Khan and Tank have received the cards From 19 December 2009 to 1 January 2010, for PKRs 5,000 to cover their food needs. So the Health Cluster responded to five disease far, 26,300 of these cards have been activated. alerts - three for suspected measles, one for The Food Cluster is distributing food rations to acute flaccid paralysis and one for suspected around 120 IDP families from Orakzai living in H1N1 in Swat and Buner. Samples for H1N1 the neighbouring Hangu District, and will soon were collected and sent to the National Institute start distribution to another 5,000 households in of Health for detailed analysis. Around 1,190 Kohat. Registration information is being people were vaccinated as part of a measles analysed to prevent duplicated distributions. campaign, and blood samples for acute flaccid paralysis were taken by the Polio Eradication On 10 January, the Food Cluster concluded the Initiative Team for analysis in Swat and Buner. first round of food distributions to vulnerable families who never left the conflict-affected The Health Cluster has prepositioned life- areas in Swat. More than 3,000 MT of food has saving medicines sufficient for 866,000 been supplied to 220,000 beneficiaries. individuals for two months. If needed, these medicines are ready to be dispatched to D.I. Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Khan, Tank, Lower and Upper Dir, Swat, During the reporting period, a WASH Cluster Nowshera, Peshawar, Swabi, Buner, Mardan Working Group consisting of UNICEF, and Charsadda Districts. Handicap International, Oxfam GB and Islamic The Health Cluster ran workshops for district Relief finalised the vulnerability criteria for the municipal department line managers in water installation of toilets in Swat, Lower and Upper quality monitoring for capacity building. From Dir, Buner and Shangla. The criteria mainly 21 to 23 December 2009, 60 staff members

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. 3 Humanitarian Update 22 January 2010 / Issue 6 from conflict-affected districts of NWFP Concern Worldwide is distributing vegetable participated in the workshops. In January, the seed kits with fertilisers for kitchen gardening to Cluster trained 60 Lady Health Workers in 2,700 families in Swat and Buner. It is also pre/post natal care for the newborn in Jalozai. providing cows to 375 families in the same districts for livelihoods rehabilitations. Nutrition Community Restoration In the last two weeks, over 26,400 children and more than 10,400 Pregnant and Lactating The International Office for Migration (IOM) is Women (PLWs) were screened for nutritional planning to assist the government in the status in IDP camps and ten conflict-affected rehabilitation and reconstruction of the districts. During the same period, over 1,400 infrastructure that was damaged in the conflict children and PLWs were registered in the in Malakand Division. IOM has already signed Supplementary Feeding Program (SFP) and agreements with contractors to start work on 19 nearly around 700 children and PLWs were projects, including drinking water supply discharged from the programme after schemes, construction of linking roads, building completing treatment in the same area. of flood protection and drains in various villages Similarly, 220 children were treated for severe in Buner, Lower Dir, Swat and Malakand. The acute malnourishment (SAM) while 110 work is due to start in January 2010. Each children were discharged from the programme. project will be run by a project oversight committee, including community and IOM field During the reporting period, more than 37,000 staff. These projects will not only restore children and PLWs were screened for infrastructure of civic amenities but will also malnutrition in D.I. Khan and Tank. Almost create jobs. 3,500 of them were found to be acutely malnourished and are receiving treatment. FUNDING On 12 January, a five-bed Stabilisation Care The 2009 Pakistan Humanitarian Response Unit at the District Headquarters Hospital in Plan (PHRP) is currently funded at 71.4 Swat District became operational. On 13 percent. The plan, which requires US $680 January, UNICEF and WFP trained 30 staff million, is covered with US $485 million. members of partner organisations on fortified The PHRP 2010 is currently under preparation. blended food utilisation in Peshawar. All humanitarian aid (PHRP and non-PHRP) is Education tracked through the Financial Tracking Service The Education Cluster has completed the (FTS) and is reliant on information provided by rehabilitation of over 3,730 schools vacated by donors and recipient agencies. Please inform IDPs in the nine hosting districts while work is FTS of all contributions (cash and in-kind) by in progress in nine other schools. UNICEF, sending an email to: [email protected] Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Save the Children and UNHABITAT are the main CONTACT INFORMATION organisations involved in rehabilitation work. OCHA, Islamabad During the reporting period, the Cluster Manuel Bessler, OCHA Head of Office Pakistan, provided 3,000 school bags to IDP schools in [email protected] Jalozai Camp. As of 19 January, 10,500 children (5,940 boys and 4,560 girls) were Billi Bierling, Public Information Officer enrolled in primary schools in camps while 230 [email protected] Cell: +92 300 850 2397 kids (228 boys and two girls) were enrolled in middle and secondary schools. OCHA, New York Ben Negus, Agriculture [email protected] The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Cell: +1-646-785-9642 is due to build 28 tillage pools in Buner, Lower OCHA, Geneva Dir, Shangla, Batagram and Swabi to enhance Randa Hassan, productivity and ensure food security. These [email protected] pools will store small machinery and seeds for Cell: +41-79-6023598 farmers to use for nominal rates. Oxfam GB FOR REFERENCE plans to restock 200 cows, 20 bulls and 10,080 The humanitarian community’s OneResponse goats directly benefitting some 10,300 families website: http://www.pakistan.oneresponse.info in Swat and Buner. Save the Children Alliance Reliefweb: http://www.reliefweb.int is vaccinating and providing feed support to To subscribe and for more information, contact: 3,000 livestock households in Swat and Buner. [email protected]