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PAPUA NEW GUINEA EMERGENCIES AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT NEWSLETTER Jan—Mar 2020 IOM and partners distributing non-food items to Internally Displaced Persons living at Buin Skills Training Highlights Centre in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. © Quentin Talingapua/ IOM 2020 ◼ Displacement Tracking Matrix ◼ IOM in partnership with the ◼ IOM installed flood markers in informed the coordinated and Government of Papua New Guinea rural communities at risk of multi-sectoral responses to the provided access to safe drinking flooding and raised people’s needs of internally displaced water to formerly displaced awareness on disasters induced by persons in the Autonomous Region communities in Gulf Province. natural hazards in Oro (Northern) of Bougainville. Province. supplies to those displaced, especially the most DISPLACEMENT TRACKING MATRIX vulnerable individuals including women, older persons On 03 January 2020, Deos-Tinputz community located in and people living with disabilities. the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (AROB) was hit by a King Tide that forced 181 community members (37 NON-FOOD ITEMS households) to flee to higher ground for safety. Informed by data gathered by IOM led DTM teams deployed to assess multi-sectoral needs of persons At the request of the Bougainville Disaster and Climate affected by the King Tide in Deos-Tinputz, IOM supplied Change Office, IOM led a team of local partners to 74 water containers (14 January 2020) to all 37 displaced conduct displacement tracking. Using the DTM, IOM households to improve the collection and storage of produced a data profile on the displaced population from water for drinking and cooking while partners responded Deos-Tinputz (See, https://dtm.iom.int/reports/papua- with other essential non-food items such as tarpaulins. new-guinea-site-profile-deos-tinputz-january-2020) that IOM also supplied 50 water containers (15 January 2020) informed the AROB government and partner benefitting 92 conflict-affected households temporarily stakeholders’ identification of needs and delivery of relief living at Buin Skills Training Centre. CONTACTS IOM Papua New Guinea [email protected], Donor Relations Division, IOM HQs Emergencies and Disaster Management Unit [email protected], [email protected] +675.321.3655 http://png.iom.int/ PNG IOM Newsletter Emergencies and Disaster Management Jan-Mar 2020 EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS WATER SUPPLY IOM is installing a series of flood markers at locations Responding to prioritized needs of Lesse and Opao known to experience excessive rainfall. In partnership Milakera communities located in Gulf Province, which with Oro Provincial Disaster Centre (PDC), IOM installed had developed Community-Based Disaster Risk seven flood markers in selected communities along Haijo, Management Plans with IOM technical support, IOM Girua, Sambogo, Eroro, Bangoho, Musa, Kumusi and supported the community in the establishing reliable Mambare/Gira Rivers on 7 February 2020. IOM and the access to safe drinking water. PDC team also raised community awareness on the use of the flood markers as early warning indicators for IOM facilitated the transportation of 10 water tanks triggering calls for evacuation during periods of high supplied by the Papua New Guinea’s Government and rainfall. provided the target communities with the relevant fittings including pipes, connectors, taps and corrugated iron sheets, while community members supplied local materials and labour for installing the rain-fed water supply systems. In Opao Milakera, community members supplied fuel and dinghies and transported their 5 water tanks from Kerema town to their community which cannot be accessed by road. “We understand that we have a role to play in implementing our community plan and made contributions to purchase fuel to transport the tanks,” noted a community member. IOM and Oro PDC teams installing flood markers along Haijo River in Oro Province. © Sebastian Hurokoli/ IOM 2020 RESILIENCE BUILDING IOM completed an intensive planning workshop on Community-Based Disaster Risk Management (20-24 January 2020) for Pureni and Dauli communities located in Hela Province. The workshop attended by 91 participants (58 men and 33 women), equipped IOM staff and community members at one of the water tanks installed participants with the knowledge to better prepare for in Opao Milakera community. © Peter Murorera/ IOM 2020 and mitigate against the negative impacts of natural hazards. Women, men, girls and boys from the beneficiary communities worked together to install the water tanks “What we learnt in this workshop will help our form 6-10 January 2020. Lesse community members communities to become more aware about disasters and expressed their appreciation to the assistance received the role each one of us will play in managing them,” during the IOM and East Kerema Local Level Government highlighted a participant. With technical support from monitoring team that visited from 19-22 February 2020. IOM and Hela Provincial Administration, the target “We used to walk for about two hours to go and collect communities will work towards developing their drinking water from the rivers especially when the nearby community-driven plans that addresses disaster risks and shallow wells get polluted during high tide. Water from resilient development initiatives. these tanks is very clean and safe for us to drink, and it now takes us a few minutes to collect water,” said a 2 PNG IOM Newsletter Emergencies and Disaster Management Jan-Mar 2020 community member from Lesse. IOM also provided hygienic practices such as handwashing and the fittings for the rain-fed water supply system at Lesse, importance of drinking water from safe sources. which includes the Lesse Oalai Sub-Health Centre. CAPACITY BUILDING Installation of the water tanks has improved access to safe drinking water to at least 5,300 people in Lesse and Disaster management actors in Oro and West New Opao Milakera communities. Britain provinces received training on DTM, the IOM data management system designed to capture and monitor HEALTH AND HYGIENE EDUCATION displacement and population movements. Delivered from 12-13 March and 19-20 March 2020 respectively, In complement to improving access to safe drinking and attended by 71 individuals in total (55 men and 16 water, IOM also conducted Participatory Health and women), the trainings equipped participants with the Hygiene Education (PHHE) at Don Worn Memorial knowledge to track population displacement during Primary School (21 February 2020) located in Ward 5 in crises in order to better inform targeted and coordinated East Kerema Local Level Government. responses to the multi-sectoral and protection needs of the displaced. Participants to the DTM training delivered in West New Britain IOM delivering health and hygiene education at a primary school in Province. © Peter Murorera/ IOM 2020 Gulf Provinces. © Peter Murorera/ IOM 2020 Stakeholders trained include Provincial, District and Local Attended by 175 people (73 boys, 67 girls, 16 men and Governments, Non-Governmental Organizations, Papua 19 women), the PHHE awareness sessions helped New Guinea Fire Service, churches, community participants better understand and develop good representatives, police and the media. As part of IOM’s global campaign to report misconduct, ‘We Are All In’, IOM staff in Papua New Guinea participated in updated training on Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) delivered on 11 January 2020 by staff from IOM Regional Office for IOM staff after participating in the updated training on the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. Asia and the Pacific. © Peter Murorera/ IOM 2020 IOM operations are supported by: 3 .