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NEPAL GORKHA DISTRICT – Meeting Minutes NEPAL GORKHA DISTRICT – Meeting Minutes LOCATION: DDRC Gorkha DATE: 1 July 2015 CHAIR: Logistics Cluster Regional Coordinator PARTICIPANTS: Christian Relief Services (CRS), Danish Church Aid/Norwegian Church Aid (DCA/NCA), IOM, Save the Children, OXFAM, People in Need (PIN), International Medical Corp (IMC) and WFP Organisations with stocks stored at the Deurali Logistics Hub for over a month, to ACTION POINTS: dispatch their goods as soon as possible. AGENDA: 1. Operational Update 2. Storage 3. Transport 4. Any Other Business (A.O.B.) 1. Operational Update IOM informed participants that their Corrugated Galvanised Iron (CGI) pipeline is being hold up at vendor stage. 35,000 CGI sheets are designated for the northern Dhading region villages of Lapa and Sertung, where they will be distributed by ACTED. All CGI will go through the Deurali Hub. Three trucks carrying CGI are expected to arrive in Deurali on 2 July. OXFAM plans to distribute hygiene kits in Gorkha and to acquire and distribute CGI in Laprak. CRS dispatched Non-Food items (NFIs) by road to Salyantar, where they are awaiting onward dispatch by UNHAS and it plans to move excess blankets to its storage facility in Gorkha. NFIs heading to Aarughat Bazaar will be moved by road. DCA/NCA advised they will dispatch all their remaining family tents from Deurali to Dhading and Latipur. WASH equipment is being dispatched to Bhaktapur, and 3,800 hygiene kits will be transferred to Dhading. IMC is working on future strategies in the region, intending to access remote areas. Save the Children plans to conduct small-scale distributions in Bhatpak. The organisation’s storage facility in Dhading has been closed and handed over to a local partner NGO. Save the Children plans to use the Logistics Cluster Deurali hub for small storage amounts. PIN announced that their distributions in the Village Development Committees (VDCs) of Bihi and Karebara are finished. NFIs are still to be distributed in Chumchet VDS. Together with their partner, Nepal Share, they estimate that ten helicopter rotations form Salyantar Extended Delivery Point are still required. 2. Storage As of 1 July, a total of 31 organisations have used Logistics Cluster services at the Deurali Hub, where 18 organisations are currently active. During the week up to 1 July the stock stored at the Deurali hub has been reorganized to allow easy access and more storage space, as the rainy season is currently underway and indoor storage is now in high demand. Organisations with goods stored in the hub for over one month were reminded to make plans to move and distribute their stocks www.logcluster.org NEPAL GORKHA DISTRICT – Meeting Minutes as soon as possible. CRS and NCA stated that plans were in place this week to move excess stock out of the Deurali Hub. IOM informed participants it will continue to require storage for CGI sheets and bamboos at the Deurali hub. 3. Transport The landing zone at Salyantar Extended Delivery Point is now operational. Organisations were advised that in their Service Request Forms (SRFs), transport can be requested from Salyantar to VDCs in the north of the Dhading and Ghorka Districts, which are currently inaccessible by road. Relief items can be transported by road from the Deurali hub to Salyantar. Organisations planning to transport relief items from Deurali to the Dhading region in the near future, were requested to inform the Logistics Cluster of the final VDC destination so that negotiations can take place between the Logistics Cluster and transporters. CARE Nepal informed participants that the road from Laprak to Gumda is blocked due to a landslide, and that it is currently in a very dangerous condition. 4. Any Other Business (A.O.B.) SEVA Foundation, the Buddhist People Rights Forum and CRS have excess stock of blankets, tarpaulins, plastic buckets and small food packages and they are willing to donate such items to organisations that might need them. Organisations interested in distributing such items can contact the Logistics Cluster. The next Logistics Cluster Coordination Meeting will be held on: Friday 10 July at 11:00 at Logistics Cluster Hub in Deurali. Contacts: Service Requests: [email protected] and cc: [email protected] Peter Donovan Gorkha Logistics Cluster Coordinator [email protected] Andy Cianchi Deurali Logistics Base Coordinator [email protected] www.logcluster.org .
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