IOM Cyclone Nargis - Update September 2008 Nargis Response IOM Response to Cyclone Nargis Emergency Summary IOM continues to scale up its operations in the Delta with additional funding received from DFID and from UN CERF as well ongoing in-kind donations of medicines and medical supplies. Programmes in the health and shelter sectors are fully operational and assistance to survivors of the cyclone is efficiently and effectively reaching direct beneficiaries every day as IOM operates out of three hubs in affected areas of the Delta.

Response Operations The numbers Health 12 September Outreach medical clinics are delivering medical care where the health infrastructure was completely destroyed or severely damaged in the areas of Tonnes 192 MT of relief items Bogale, Mawlamyinegyun and Pyapon townships. These activities were started Delivered received and delivered as part of the emergency response immediately after the cyclone and have since been augmented and strengthened. Over the next several months, IOM will establish more fixed clinics in parts of the Delta where health facilities are not Villages Over 400 villages functioning and use these fixed clinics as bases for outreach mobile medical reached with emergency teams. This allows the delivery of primary health care services to some of the aid most isolated communities in the Delta. Patients 35,000 patients treated IOM has also been tasked by the Health Cluster to operate a referral and by IOM medical teams evacuation system as a common service for government and organizations Treated working in the health sector. This will ensure that patients who need life-saving medical attention are able to receive the treatment they need when it is not Shelter Emergency shelter available in their own communities. As part of this medical referral and provided to more than evacuation system IOM operates a hotline that receives referral requests from people 40,000 other relief organizations and from health officials. After receiving the request households IOM arranges and provides transportation to the nearest health facility that can treat the patient. Distribution Hygiene kits: 9,665 IOM chairmanship of the working group on Mental Health and Psycho-Social Mosquito Nets: 11,000 Support is continuing. The group has been working on improving delivery of and Jerrycans: 2,513 access to mental health and psycho-social services. IOM will present the lessons learned from Myanmar at the Inter Agency Standing Committee Global Raingear: 18,511 Reference Group meeting on mental health and psycho-social support in Blankets: 500 Geneva on 22 to 26 September. Water purifiers: 135 IOM’s health activities are funded by the UK Department for International

Development (DFID) and UN CERF.

Donors and Partners

UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), Government of Japan, Government of United States (USAID/OFDA), UK Department for International Development (DFID), Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation (SDC), Government of Denmark, AmeriCares Foundation, Humanitarian Medical Assistance (HUMA), Chevron Corporation.

IOM Cyclone Nargis - Update September 2008

Response Operations Funding Received & Needed

Distribution of Non-food Items and Shelter IOM is therefore continuing to seek funding for reconstruction activities having successfully demonstrated IOM’s non-food item distribution and shelter activities the capacity to work with the relevant authorities, continue in the areas hardest hit by cyclone Nargis. To date, transparently and efficiently identify beneficiaries, and emergency shelter and non-food items have been implement essential relief activities. distributed to more than

40,000 households. UN CERF “Round I” (May to August) This initial successful - Rapid Establishment of Temporary/Emergency Primary assistance to cyclone Health Care Clinics in Priority Locations in the Irrawaddy affected families has Delta region – USD 250,000 established IOM as effective and efficient at - Rapid Delivery of Life-Saving Transitional Shelter and delivering assistance to Non-Food Items to Survivors of Cyclone Nargis – USD 1,200,000 the most vulnerable Date To Funding households. Following UN CERF “Round II” (August to November) on from this success, - Emergency Medical Referrals and Assisted Return much needed additional funding from UN CERF (USD (USD 300,000) 650,000) was made available to IOM for the distribution of 10,000 household kits and other essential non-food items. - Rapid Delivery of Life-Saving Non-Food Items to This intervention will be completed over the next three Survivors of Cyclone Nargis (USD 650,000) months. Government of Japan - Reconstruction in Myanmar in Areas Affected by Cyclone Nargis (USD 3,000,000)

The delivery of non-food items and shelter is also being supported by DFID, who donated USD 1,000,000 to IOM to Government of Denmark - Emergency Health Assessment and Response for Victims of Cyclone

administer a fund in collaboration with the Shelter Cluster. The objective of this donation is to enable the procurement Nargis (USD 32,259) and delivery of essential shelter and non-food items in DFID - Shelter and Non-Food Items to Cyclone Affected underserved areas of the Delta. Through this project DFID is Areas of Myanmar (USD 1,000,000) & Enhancing supporting a rapid assessment of severely affected and Primary Health Care Service Delivery in South West underserved areas in the Delta to determine the most urgent Bogale, Eastern Bogale and Mawlamyinegyun shelter needs of households. The fund will be used to Townships (USD 850,000) address the needs identified by the rapid assessment as well as other urgent needs identified by the Shelter Cluster. Chevron Corporation - Delivery, Supply and Installation of Pre-fabricated Shelters, Water Purification

In addition, IOM will be distributing roofing, wood framing Systems, and Emergency Medical Support in Myanmar Needed Funding (USD 400,000) and tools to more than 6,000 households with funding received from the Japanese government. In August IOM deployed staff to identify the most vulnerable beneficiaries who can benefit from the available assistance. Areas of Funding Needed: intervention in the most vulnerable urban and semi-urban areas of Bogale, Mawlamyinegyun and Pyapon townships Repair, Rebuild and Rehabilitate Primary Health have been identified, and a detailed assessment and survey Centers, Maternity Homes and Capacity Enhancement in of beneficiaries is being done in collaboration with the local the Irrawaddy Delta - USD 1,937,820 authorities, the communities and their leaders. Delivering Mental Health Services and Strengthening The process of identifying beneficiaries has confirmed the Resilience among Affected Communities - USD 1,357,456 urgency and importance of this project as shelter and reconstruction activities generally remain severely Let’s Reduce HIV Vulnerability Together! – A Safe underfunded in the cyclone affected areas of the Delta. Mobility Programme - USD 493,922

For further information please contact: Emergency Coordinator IOM Yangon, 12th Floor, Traders Hotel, Yangon - +95 1 25 25 60 – [email protected]

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