Kerala Floods and Landslides 2018 Joint Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment Report September 2018
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Kerala Floods and Landslides 2018 Joint Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment Report September 2018 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Joint Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (JRDNA) report was prepared in response to a request from the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), Government of India (GoI) and the Government of Kerala (GoK). The JRDNA preparation was undertaken jointly by GoK, World Bank (WB) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) officials. The team met with various line departments, and district officers of different sectors within the GoK that have been involved in damage enumeration. The team extends its appreciation to Mr. Tom Jose (Chief Secretary), Mr. P. H. Kurien (Additional Chief Secretary, Revenue and Disaster Management), Mr. Manoj Joshi (Principal Secretary, Finance), secretaries of all line departments, District Collectors, and other sector groups for meeting and sharing valuable information and insights on the ground situation. The team wishes to acknowledge and sincerely thanks all the other Government officials and various line departments who assisted and participated in this exercise, at the State and District levels. Without their valuable insights, active support and logistical arrangements, the team would not have been able to complete its work. The JRDNA Team1 1 The JRDNA team was led by Deepak Singh (World Bank) and Ashok Srivastava (ADB). The team members from the World Bank included: Anup Karanth, Vinayak Ghatate, Srinivasa Rao Podipireddy, Arnab Bandyopadhyay, Hemang Karelia, Mehul Jain, Peeyush Sekhsaria, Naho Shibuya, Uri Raich, Masatsugu Takamatsu, Vidya Mahesh, Yeshika Malik, Karthik Laxman, Venkata Rao Bayana, Deepa Balakrishnan, S Vaideeswaran, Indranil Bose, Satish Sagar Sharma, Malini Rajalaxmi, Suresh Mohammed, Ankush Sharma, Rumita Chowdhury, Priyanka Dissanayake, Mahesh Patel, P.K. Kurian, Dulal Chandra Saha, Madan Karnani, Harjot Kaur, Tapas Paul, AS Harinath, Ashit Chakraborty, Harsh Goyal, Ijsbrand Harko de Jong, Sheena Arora, Serena Quiroga, Mathews K. Mullackal, Illika Sahu, Atishay Abbhi, Elif Ayhan and Christoph Pusch. The ADB team comprised Jyotirmoy Banerjee, Prabhasha Sahu, SV Anil Das, Jayakumar, and Alok Bhardwaj. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS .......................................................................................................................................................................3 LIST OF TABLES ..................................................................................................................................................................................4 LIST OF FIGURES ................................................................................................................................................................................5 ABBREVIATIONS & ACRONYMS ....................................................................................................................................................6 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .....................................................................................................................................................................8 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................................................... 11 1.1 STATE PROFILE .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 1.2 VULNERABILITY TO NATURAL DISASTERS ............................................................................................................................................ 13 1.3 THE DISASTER: RAINFALL OF MONSOON 2018 .................................................................................................................................. 16 1.4 GOVERNMENT RESPONSE ........................................................................................................................................................................ 20 CHAPTER 2: PROCESS AND METHODOLOGY OF THE ASSESSMENT ............................................................................. 21 2.1 ASSESSMENT PROCESS ............................................................................................................................................................................. 21 2.2 ASSESSMENT SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY ............................................................................................................................................ 22 2.3 LIMITATIONS AND CAVEATS .................................................................................................................................................................... 22 CHAPTER 3: DAMAGE AND NEEDS ASSESSMENT ................................................................................................................ 23 3.1 HOUSING ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 23 3.2 PUBLIC BUILDINGS .................................................................................................................................................................................... 30 3.3 TRANSPORT ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 34 3.4 URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE ........................................................................................................................................................................ 38 3.5 RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE ........................................................................................................................................................................ 42 3.6 LIVELIHOODS (AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK, TOURISM, FISHERIES, MICRO ENTERPRISE, HANDLOOM AND COIR) ................... 46 3.7 HEALTH ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 69 3.8 IRRIGATION AND WATER RESOURCES ................................................................................................................................................... 72 3.9 POWER ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 76 3.10 NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND BIODIVERSITY ............................................................................................................................... 79 3.11 CULTURAL HERITAGE ................................................................................................................................................................................. 83 CHAPTER 4. DEBRIS/WASTE MANAGEMENT ....................................................................................................................... 96 CHAPTER 5: SOCIAL IMPACT AND RECOVERY STRATEGY ............................................................................................ 102 5.1 LIVELIHOODS ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 102 5.2 HOUSING .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 103 5.3 RURAL/URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE, WATER AND SANITATION ...................................................................................................... 103 CHAPTER 6: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RESILIENT RECOVERY.................................................................................. 108 CHAPTER 7: THE WAY FORWARD TOWARDS DISASTER RESILIENCE ..................................................................... 113 RISK IDENTIFICATION AND TECHNICAL STUDIES ......................................................................................................................................... 114 RISK GOVERNANCE ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 114 MITIGATION INFRASTRUCTURE AND MEASURES .......................................................................................................................................... 114 LANDSLIDES MANAGEMENT STRATEGY ......................................................................................................................................................... 114 URBAN RESILIENCE ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 115 FINANCIAL RESILIENCE ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 115 ADDRESSING THE CLIMATE VULNERABILITY ................................................................................................................................................ 116 3 LIST