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OCT Team in Coordination with Dorr (Conflict Idps)  UNICEF to Follow the Assessments and ANDMA (Natural Disaster Incidents) Ad hoc Operational Coordination Team – Ghor Province Meeting Minutes Date of the meeting: 27 February 2017 @ 14:00hrs Venue: UNICEF, Chaghcharan No. Agenda item Key points discussed Decision/action point (s) 1 Review and The previous meeting minuets was reviewed and action points were endorsed. N/A endorsement of previous meeting's minutes 2 Humanitarian Update OCHA briefed the meeting on natural disaster incidents in the province. Reports ANDMA to provide food to the (conflict induced IDPs from ANDMA Ghor show that about ten people have been died as a result of avalanche affected families in LWS. and natural disasters heavy snowfall and avalanche in the province but needs to be triangulated and The humanitarian assistance assessment and verified. ANDMA also reported that 45 families have been affected in Khwajagan should only be used for life-saving responses) (all). areas, DoLayna district. The families were displaced to Razaha area a year ago interventions. but recently returned to their place of origin following local elder’s mediation. An OCHA to share the details of CHF assessment team comprised of ANDMA, ACF and NPO/RRAA (WFP PAT) will Food Security funded project in assess the incident on Sunday, 5 March 2017.According to IOM Bamyan, four Dawlatyar and Chaghcharan. families have been affected in Safid Chashma area, Lal Wa Sarjangal (LWS) FSAC to closely monitor the food district which were assessed and assisted with NFIs and the food need was prospects in the locust infestation referred to ANDMA Ghor. affected areas and advocate for OCHA informed the meeting on the recent referred 620 families petitions which preparations if needed. were referred to DRRD by the Office of Provincial Governor over the course of DAIL/local authorities to keep 2016. The petitions were discussed in a PDMC meeting and agreed to refer them regular in touch with MAIL for any to conflict induced IDPs’ Screening Committee (SC) for further processing. The potential locust infestation. IDPs’ SC reviewed the petitions and rejected them all as they were poor/poverty Regional FSAC to look at the related issues which is not people of concern for humanitarian life-saving possibility of dispatching food to interventions. OCHA also reiterated that the humanitarian assistances wherever IDPs in Allah Yar and Taywarah they are stocked, should be used for humanitarian purposes following a need districts. assessment and reports by OCT team in coordination with DoRR (conflict IDPs) UNICEF to follow the assessments and ANDMA (natural disaster incidents). and contribute accordingly. ACF informed that, in February, ACF has provided cash for food, NFIs (full CRDSA to coordinate the WASH package) to 145 families (1,015 individuals) in Shahrak, 10 families (70 activities with UNICEF and DRRD. individuals) in Dawlatyar district, 26 families (182 individuals) in Chaghcharan. Need assessment team to refer The ACF team is currently in Shahrak district to distribute the assistance extremely vulnerable families to (unconditional cash) to 133 families (931 individuals) in Shahrak district which CRDSA. were assessed in at the end of January 2017 but delayed due to security and OCHA to liaise with PG in order to physical inaccessibility to the area. support the process of distributing Afghan Aid briefed the meeting on a CHF Food Security- funded project in Ghor. humanitarian assistance in NSAGs Following a comprehensive food security assessment in Dawlatyar and controlled areas. (Done) Chaghcharan districts, a food security project has been allocated for the areas affected by locust infestations in May – June 2016. Two forms of assistance provided in accordance with their particular needs: 1) food packages for 408 food insecure sharecropper families who lost their harvest, 2) provision of agricultural inputs for 2,452 families with land whose lost crops have left them unable to replant for next season. The project covered the food and agriculture needs of 2,860 families (740 households in Chaghcharan and 2,120 households Dawlatyar district). The families received food assistance and agriculture input/kits for next planting season. Total number of the Agriculture packages were 2,452 and amount of each package was 100 Kg consist of (25 Kg wheat seeds, 25 Kg DAP and 50 Kg UREA). Total number of the packages are 408 and amount of each package is 116 Kg consist of (wheat flour 60 Kg, local rice 29 Kg, vegetable oil 6 litters, pulses 14 Kg, salt 1Kg and sugar 6 Kg). The distribution process was coordinated with Department of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (DAIL) Ghor and was successfully completed. WFP PAT also informed that, following the assessment, 380 families received WFP food rations in Dawlatyar district (not the same CHF project beneficiaries). The OCT believes that, since the areas are prone to locust infestation every year and cyclically repeated, further preparations and steps should be taken by local authorities and national level for next season in order to prevent any potential locust infestation in the areas. An assessment team has assessed and identified 155 conflict induced IDP families (1,084 individuals) in Taywarah district and 58 IDPs in Allah Yar area (Chaghcharan) and recommended them for humanitarian assistance. UNICEF is preparing to dispatch the NFI needs to 58 families of Allah Yar and awaiting for improvement of roads to cover the NFIs of 155 families in Taywarah. Food need was referred to WFP (FSAC) and ANDMA but yet to send the food. WFP will look at the possibility of dispatching the food from Hirat province. UNICEF showed their interest to contribute NFIs distribution to the identified conflict IDPs too. On this, OCHA recommended UNICEF to be part of decision makers and consolidating assessment reports and contribute accordingly. CRDSA is supporting IDPs, returnees and host communities under the project of improvement of livelihood and legal protection. 600 families will have access to safe drinking water and WASH packages in Chaghcharan. CRDSA also requested the OCT to refer to them extremely vulnerable families to assess and assist them. CRDSA was also requested to be part of People with Specific Needs (PSN) networks. There are concerns over delivering humanitarian assistance to the assessed and identified affected/IDPs in non-state armed groups controlled areas. OCT is there to assess and respond to the needs of any reported IDPs and affected people based on “humanitarian principles”. Local authorities support on this is highly appreciated. 3 Access to emergency ACTD briefed the participants on a CHF health – funded project in the Ghor. A ACTD to share the newly added health and nutrition nine-month health project started from October 2016 has been contracted with health facilities with health partners update (ACTD, Afghanistan Centre for Training and Development (ACTD) the Basic Package to avoid duplication. UNICEF, WVI, WFP). Health Service (BPHS) implementer to implement it in the contested districts of DoLayna, Pasaband, Taywara and Shahrak. The staffing and supply of three clinics were completed but the nurse and a minivan transporting furniture and other medical equipment of Pasaband clinic were diverted in Kakori area (15 kilometres to the south of Pasaband District Administrative Centre), by unknown armed men which eventually the nurse and other staff members were released but the medical supplies remain with them. The Provincial Health Coordination Committee (PHCC) agreed to establish the clinic in Tarma area, located 25 km to the north-east of Nawrak sub-centre and 35 Km to the east of Pasaband CHC. ACTD also added that the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has added 17 clinics in the BPHS component in Ghor. This will increase the access to basic health packages in the province. 4 AOB OCHA updated the OCT on the prepositioning of Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation OCHA to share the list of DRRD Department (MoRRD) in the provinces. 1,500 NFIs (please see attached the list) NFIs. have been prepositioned in Chaghcharan as part of emergency response ACBAR to look at the issues raised preparedness in DRRD stock under the custodian of the Provincial Governor as on NGO’s projects monitoring by chair of PDMC. sectoral departments. ACTD also stated that all CHC and BHC health facilities have OPD SAM in their OCHA to meet the PG on the issues component. In Lal Wa Sarjangal, TSFP project is included. raised on NGOs’ project monitoring The OCT also expressed their concerns on Government’s Sectoral Departments and reporting. (Done) monitoring and reporting of NGOs’ activities and projects. The OCT requested the local authorities to send the right and technical persons for the monitoring and reporting of NGOs’ projects. There are questions asking from NGOs which are not relevant according to NGOs’ law and projects’ scopes. The OCT also requested OCHA to share this concern with the Provincial Governor (PG) to avoid any further potential problems. UNICEF is interested to play an active role in education, nutrition and health in 2017. Necessary steps have already been taken and coordinated with local authorities awaiting for their readiness. OCHA briefed the OCT on the HNO and HRP 2017. In 2017, humanitarian community will focus on four priority objectives as bellow: 1. Immediate humanitarian needs of shock affected populations are met; 2. Lives are saved by ensuring access to emergency health and protective services and through advocacy for respect of International Humanitarian Law; 3. The impact of shock induced
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