Central Region Humanitarian Regional Team (HRT) Minutes of Meeting – 4 November 2015

Participants UNHCR, WFP, UNICEF, UNAMA, NFUAJ, NRC, WHH, JI, CARE, SI, IOM, HT, PU-AMI, UNHABITAT, WC-UK, WCC and OCHA.

Discussion Action Point Status of Action

OCHA started the meeting with introduction of partners around table and announced the agenda. OCHA strongly condemned the violence against patients, medical workers and facilities of air strike on a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital located in Kunduz city as well as against humanitarian workers in general and extended sympathy with families who were affected by the incident.

OCHA provided updates about formulation of Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) 2016. Both HNO and HRP are under review with HCT and national clusters and a final version will be released soon. To assist the earthquake affected population, CHF reserve allocation have been announced last week where 22 NGOs partners were invited to apply. The deadline for application for funds is 12 November 2015. 1. Earthquake affected population in CR and humanitarian response

IOM and OCHA provided brief information about needs assessment conducted in Parwan, Panjshir OCHA to clarify the and Kapisa province. A joint needs assessment of the earthquake-affected population was conducted terminology on total by IOM, IDSH, CARE, ARCS, ANDMA, DoRRD and DoRR in Parwan, Panjshir and Kapisa provinces. vs. partial damage In total, 873 families affected by earthquake in Parwan, 367 families affected in Panjshir and 553 families have been affected in Parwan province. In Parwan during a PDMC meeting on 2 November it All humanitarian need was decided that 148 families will be covered with food and NFIs by IOM, CARE and WFP, while the to advocate with remaining 405 will be assisted by ARCS, ANDMA and DoRRD. Distribution has been launched on ANDMA and have Wed 4 Nov and 300 families were provided with FIs and NFIs including 120 tents. In Panjsher, during a dialogues to sensitize PDMC on 1 November, it was decided that 167 affected families will be covered with food and NFIs by them as primary IOM, CARE and WFP, while the remaining 200 families will be assisted by ARCS, ANDMA and responsibility should DoRRD. Distribution has been launched on Wed 4 Nov and 150 families were provided with food and be with the NFIs. In Kapisa, 271 families whose houses destroyed completely will be covered by WFP, IOM and Government. They CARE with FIs and NFIs, 150 families will be provided with the same assistance FIs and NFIs by ARCS, 452 families will be assisted by ANDMA and DoRRD/UNICEF with FIs and NFIs assistance. Coordination Saves Lives

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have the budget and In Kabul, ANDMA Kabul, WFP and CARE started needs assessments of families affected by the 26 we should fill the gap. October earthquake in PD 1, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 and PD 15, Kabul city, and Kalakan district, Kabul province. As of 4November, 51 families were affected by earthquake of which 39 houses partially damaged and 19 completely destroyed. Assessment is underway.

In Logar province, initial reports from ANDMA indicated that 132 families were affected, 92 houses damaged, 40 completely destroyed, throughout the province. On 3 November, IRC, PIN, CRSDO and ANDMA conducted a needs assessment in Charkh, Mohammad Agha and Puli-Alam districts of Logar province. While villages visited in Puli-Alam and Mohammad Agha revealed no damage, in Charkh due to insecurity, the assessment team met with community elders in Charkh center. IRC is in contact with ARCS teams to get access to earthquake affected families and collect related information. In Wardak, no major damage reported.

The HRT discussed about assistance to partially v. totally damaged houses by natural disaster. Partners’ highlighted issues including the overstatement of damageA follow up technical assessment is highly important and required to determine the full, non-emergency shelter response. Partners also suggested that that direct observation is better: “more than 50%” versus less than 50%, can receive assistance and that partially destroyed should not be ignored, and discussed the added value of Government using use the disaster management funding for food and NFI.

OCHA highlighted the need for continued advocacy with Government about their primary responsibility to assist families affected by disaster. They should be in the lead and humanitarian partners should fill the gap. 2. Conflict induced IDPs and response activities

UNHCR updated HRT participants about conflict induced IDPs in CR. In total, 32558 families 208167 UNHCR to share data individuals total displacement figures throughout CR. Out of total 32558 families, 12822 displaced indicating which IDPs families living in Kabul, 7675 displaced families living in Ghazni, 1645 displaced families living in Kapisa, from Kunduz have 368 displaced families are living in Panjshir, 5555 displaced families are recorded in Wardak, 1907 returned and, if displaced families reported in Parwan and 2586 displaced families living in Logar province. These applicable, how many families were displaced locally with in the province, displaced from inside provinces and outside the remain in Kabul, if Central region. In 2015, IDP TF assessed newly displaced 12,111 families (78578 individuals) in CR. anyone.

Reasons for displacement include armed conflict, military operation, hostilities, deterioration of security

in their province or neighboring area, NSAA forced recruitment armed conflict, general human rights violation and presence of DAESH in eastern region of Afghanistan. Harassment and intimidation by armed groups or actors is another key reason for displacement. Key challenges are escalating conflict which resulted insecurity within CR, increased ground engagement in rural areas, increasing no. of IDPs from other regions to CR. Limited accessibility, some United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

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areas either Government or humanitarians have no access due to insecurity (e.g. Tagab in Kapisa district), in some case NSAA are not allowing civilians to leave the area (e.g. Shinwari, Seyagerd and Alasay districts of Kapisa and Parwan provinces).

Most vulnerable displaced families were assisted through IDP TF. Assistance is underway, in total, 5374 families have received NFIs so far in 2015. UNHCR assisted 4605 IDPs with NFIs, CARE assisted 550 displaced families with NFIs, ANDMA supported 250 families with NFIs and WFP assisted 5155 displaced families. In Logar, in total 687 conflict-induced IDP families received cash in CR, of which 537 distributed by DRC to cover both food and NFIs and 150 IDPs received cash assistance by PIN in Logar province. DACAAR supported IDPs with hygiene kits and latrine packages in PD-21 of Kabul city. UNHCR informed partners about new petitions of more than 4000 families, who are mostly living in Kabul city. Five assessment teams started to conduct a needs assessment on 4 November. UNHCR provided summary of Kunduz IDPs. Initial list indicated 5551 families displaced from Kunduz to Kabul, 4661 families have been assessed and 3484 identified as genuine of which 3,019 families recommended for assistance of the total qualified for assistance around 1600 families received assistance. Moreover, petitions of 620 families from Kunduz were recently received. IDP TF agreed to move them into the normal priority. UNHCR/WSTA is cross-checking through phone calls to make sure all those assessed and seeking assistance as Kunduz IDPs are still in Kabul. If they are really in Kunduz, they will not get assistance. 3. Updates on Kabul Informal Settlements (KIS)

OCHA provided summary of KIS winter response activities in KIS locations. Due to limited available OCHA to ensure that resources, the KIS TF decided to target the most vulnerable families among KIS families. For the MoRR and DoRR are purposes Focus Group Discussion (FGD) were held in three KIS sites, to discuss the new approach. part of KIS winter The outcomes of FDG indicated mixed reaction, some KIS beneficiaries rejected targeted approach needs assessment and some were agreed with approach while some recommended to conduct reality based verification

of KIS families. KIS winter need assessment tool is revised to target the most vulnerable. The assessment training will be conducted during next week and after the assessment, plan is to sensitize the communities on the new approach. Data analysis will be done in second half of November, verification is planned1st week of Dec and distribution will start on mid of December 2015. 4. AOB Partners to provide  OCHA reminded HRT to support and participate in needs assessments in CR. It will help to updated stock list to assess more families within short time. OCHA by 11  DACAAR informed HRT partners to communicate DACAAR in case of WASH need in Kabul. November 2015.  OCHA requested from HRT to share most updated stock list. It will helps map available resources in CR.

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