Cyclone Bulbul 2019 Joint Rapid Assessment Needs Assessment Working Group (NAWG) Bangladesh Date: 13 November, 2019 Table of content Topic • Executive Summary • Recommendation - Immediate • Recommendation - Overall • Geographical Synopsis of Cyclone Bulbul • Cyclone Bulbul : GoB Preparedness - Early Warning and Impact • Preparatory response by GoB • Cyclone Bulbul 2019: Geographical Scope of the Assessment • Cyclone Bulbul 2019: Overall Impact • GoB Preparedness-Evacuation and Temporary displacement • Demography of Cyclone Affected Population : Worst Affected Districts • Geographic and sectoral priorities • Cyclone Bulbul Impact- : Child Protection • Cyclone Bulbul Impact: Education • Cyclone Bulbul 2019: Environment-Impact on Sundarbans • Cyclone Bulbul Impact: Food Security- Agriculture & Livelihood • Cyclone Bulbul Impact: Food Security- Fisheries and Livestock • Cyclone Bulbul Impact: Gender Based Violence (GBV) • Cyclone Bulbul Impact: Cyclone Bulbul 2019: Health • Cyclone Bulbul Impact: Nutrition • Cyclone Bulbul Impact: Shelter • Cyclone Bulbul Impact: SRHE • Cyclone Bulbul Impact: WASH • Cyclone Bulbul Impact: Community Infrastructures, Cyclone Protection- Embankment and Accessibility • Annex 1A: Cyclone Bulbul 2019, Exposed based Impact on Upazila • Annex 1 B: Cyclone Bulbul 2019, Impact and Demographic data • Annex 2: Response Analysis: MoDMR GoB • Annex 3: NGOs and Other Agency Responses • Annex 4 : Assessment timeline and acknowledgement • Glossary and Acronyms Executive Summary On 7 November 2019 a deep depression in Bay of Bengal (BoB) moved towards central-east turned into cyclone ‘Bulbul’ (NDRCC, 10/11/2019). The Meteorological Dept. of Bangladesh (BMD) started constant monitoring and communicating through routine bulletins. “Bulbul” headed towards Bangladesh’s coastal regions from the Bay of Bengal (BoB) with a maximum sustained wind speed of 120 kmph rising upto 150 kmph in gusts. Thereafter it re-curved northeastwards and moved towards West Bengal - Bangladesh Coasts on 9 November as a Severe Cyclonic Storm with maximum sustained wind speed of 110-120 Kmph gusting to 135 Kmph. The low-lying areas of the coastal districts of Chattogram, Noakhali, Laxmipur, Feni, Chandpur, Borguna, Bhola, Patuakhali, Barishal, Pirozpur, Jhalokathi, Bagherhat, Khulna, Satkhira and their offshore islands and chars were supposed to be inundated by storm surge of 5-7 feet height above normal astronomical tide. BMD advised to hoist the great danger signal no TEN (R) TEN to the projected districts since the early hours of 9 November. Also all fishing boats and trawlers over north bay were advised to remain in shelter till further notice. The worst impacts are expected in the Ganges Delta region, with less impactful conditions to the southeast. While moving through the Sundarban, the cyclone became weaker and reached Barguna and Patuakhali with the windspeed of 101 Kmph as Sever Cyclone. Then it moved toward further north-east with 83.68 Kmph as Depression crossing Jhalokathi and Lakshmipur. The districts that suffered Peripheral effect of the cyclone are Bagerhat, Barguna, Barisal, Bhola, Jhalokati, Khulna, Patuakhali, Pirojpur, Satkhira, Bagerhat, Barguna, Barisal. The low impacted districts that ecperienced the wind speed from 60-80 kmph are: Bagerhat, Barisal, Bhola, Chandpur, Cumilla, Jhalokati, Khulna, Lakshmipur, Madaripur, Noakhali, Pirojpur, Satkhira, Shariatpur. According to the National Disaster Response Coordination Cell (NDRCC) several preparedness measures were taken by the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) under the leadership of Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief (MoDMR). An Inter-Ministerial Disaster Management Committee (IMDMC) meeting chaired by MoDMR’s State Minister with the participation of the Principal Secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the Information Secretary, Armed Forces Division (AFD) and other officials as well as with the Secretary General of Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) took place on 09 November. During the meeting, it was decided that 18 million people will be evacuated to cyclone shelters, sufficient allocation of relief items to the probable affected districts and to suspend all waterways transport. Till 09 Nov. Government of Bangladesh (GoB) has allocated the standard packages for cyclone response in 13 Districts: 4300 Met. Ton of GR Rice, 18.5 M GR Cash, 14000 packages of dry food, 900,000 BDT for Infant food and 900,000 BDT for Fodder. Risk information was communicated to the 13 most at-risk districts and evacuation to cyclone shelters of most exposed populations were undertaken with the logistics support from the District Commissioners (DCs) and the volunteers of the Cyclone Preparedness Program (CPP). The Needs Assessment Working Group (NAWG) under the HCTT produced 2 SITREPs on 8 & 9 November 2019 as well as two flash updates were produced by UNRC office. In addition, a Joint Analysis of Disaster Exposure (JADE) undertaken by OCHA, WFP and Pacific Disaster Centre (PDC) was released. On 10 November, Inter cluster meeting decided to go for NAWG led joint rapid assessment with the technical support from VAM unit of UN-WFP. Later on NAWG technical member had a meeting on 11 November and planned for secondary information based assessment. Available SoS form , exposure to cyclonic wind and rainfall and relevant secondary data analyzed,triangulated for priority identification in order to addressing the emergency needs along with recovery and preparedness initiatives. Recommendation - Immediate After closely analyzing the cyclone ‘Bulbul’ and the measures taken for it, NAWG has come up with some concrete recommendation and improvement areas: Cash for Work (CfW) interventions – Multiple benefits (cash flow, food security and repair), for their livelihoods are recommended A strategy and immediate action plan should be devised by the local government for immediate recovery of critical infrastructure Improved emergency shelter, keeping arrangements for education in emergency People should be made aware of not standing under trees during disasters To meet the emergency shelter needs following are the recommendation based on Bangladesh shelter cluster standards and guidelines: . Provide in-kind emergency shelter materials like tarpaulin, tent and toolkit support . Provide technical support for house repairing along with cash assistance. Provide emergency support to GBV victims, mental health support for adolescent girls affected by the Cyclones Support women of reproductive age through the provision of dignity kits and clean delivery kits for safe child birth Ensure SRHE kits and services establish a reliable referral system so that anecdotes for GBV cases in potential areas like cyclone Shelter and their home can link up the victim with intervention Distribute hygiene kits and disseminate hygiene messages to reduce water borne diseases. Recommendation - Overall Establish long term solutions for people who's houses got partially/fully affected by the cyclone Centralized, updated and accessible crisis information management More advocacy to increase safety net and accelerated restoration of affected people’s livelihood More investment in resilience building and preparedness is required. The natural resilience in people lessened the potential impacts of the cyclone “Bulbul”. Moreover, the effective disaster preparedness, early actions undertaken by national authorities and development partners resulted in a limited loss of lives and reduced livelihood and infrastructures damages. The underlying poor food security in affected areas could cause the nutrition status of people to deteriorate quickly. To mitigate this nutrition capacity should be enhanced. Activities should include: • Nutrition screening and referral • Targeted supplementary feeding for PLD and malnourished children • Management of SAM and MAM identified children • Replenish the emergency Nutrition supplies Provide learning materials to children where these have been lost Rehabilitation of water points, tube wells and latrines As people return home, assistance will be required to rebuild houses, especially for the most vulnerable households Provisioning of low-cost resilient housing as grants for the extreme poor HHs and/or financing resilient housing with favorable conditions for low-income households Plantation of local varieties of trees which can withstand and/or protect communities from cyclonic surge in the long run Support the GoB in developing a strategy for immediate recovery of critical infrastructure Intensive health promotion to raise awareness about Post-Cyclone emergency induced contagious diseases, snakebite and other health hazards Geographical Synopsis of Cyclone Bulbul Cyclone Bulbul Rapid Assessment Needs Assessment Working Group Bangladesh Cyclone Bulbul | November 2019 Geographical Synopsis of Cyclone Bulbul South-west coast 57970 HHs Agriculture is of Bangladesh affected dominant livelihood 0.73 M people Loss of 47 crore in 29 upazilas affected aquaculture affected 92,515 extreme Poor Tidal inundation from and 289000 hector crop 1-3 meter 1,02,847 Poor land have been affected Cyclone “Bubul” reincarnating from Cyclone “Matmo” impacted total 13 southern districts of the country. The areas were impacted by high wind speed, tidal surge with storm wind and heavy precipitation in southern coastal districts and high winds and heavy precipitation over the south- western districts of Bangladesh . Cyclone “Bulbul” was categorized as a “Category 2” cyclone and made landfall over