Sector PLANS AND projects BY ORGANIZatION updated ON 28 APRIL 2016 FLASH APPEAL ECUADOR FLASH APPEAL EARTHQUAKE OF 16 APRIL 2016 coVerING APRIL – JULY 2016 Photo: UNICEF/Castellanos ECUADOR EARTHQUAKE – FLASH APPEAL FLASH APPEAL AT A GLANCE KEY FIGURES 16.23 million total population Date: 16 Apr 2016 (INEC 2016) Rioverde Time: 18:58 Local Time Atacames Esmeraldas Eloy Alfaro 7.9 million people living in 6 affected Muisne Quinindé ECUADOR provinces declared in emergency (INEC 2016) Pedernales PACIFIC 720,000 OCEAN people in need of assistance Jama Flavio El Sucre PERU (early estimation) San Alfaro Carmen Vicente Chone Date: 16 Apr 2016 Rioverde Time: 18:58 Local350,000 Time Atacames 50 km Esmeraldas Eloy Alfaro Sucre people targeted for assistance Tosagua in the nextMuisne three months Rocafuerte Bolivar Quinindé ECUADORJunin * Canton exposed to earthquake severity by MMI Jaramijo Pichincha Portoviejo scales (based on majority of canton population Manta 25,376 Pedernales exposed) Santa Ana people sheltering in PACIFIC OCEAN 24 collectiveJama centres De Olmedo Severity score 1 Flavio El Mayo Sucre San Alfaro Carmen PERU Vicente Chone Severity score 0.75 587 50 km Pajan Sucre Date: 16 Apr 2016 Tosagua Rioverde Time: 18:58 Local Time Atacames Severity score 0.5 deaths Eloy Alfaro Rocafuerte Bolivar Esmeraldas Junin * Canton exposed to earthquake severity by MMI Jaramijo Pichincha Portoviejo scales (based on majority of Muisnecanton population Severity score 0.25 Manta ECUADOR exposed) Quinindé 155Santa Ana 24 missingDe Olmedo PedernalesMethodology: Mayo Severity score 1 Infographic depicts PACIFIC Severity score 0.75 cantons exposed to OCEAN Pajan Jama Flavioearthquake El severity 7,015 Severity score 0.5Sucre Alfaro PERU San Carmen Vicente by MMI scale (based injured Severity score 0.25Chone on majority of canton 50 km Sucre Tosagua population exposed) Rocafuerte Bolivar Junin * Canton exposed to earthquake severity by MMI Jaramijo Pichincha Portoviejo scales (based on majority of canton population Manta exposed) Santa Ana 24 De Olmedo Mayo Severity score 1 Severity score 0.75 ECUADOR EARTHQPajan UAKE FLASH APPEAL Severity score 0.5 Severity score 0.25 $72.8 720,000 People in need of million assistance (early estimation) required to provide 350,000 people with multi-sector life-saving assistance, protection services and 350,000 immediate livelihood restoration in People targeted for the next three months assistance ECUADOR EARTHQUAKE – FLASH APPEAL SITUATION OVERVIEW AS OF 21 APRIL 2016 IMPACT The Government has activated a line of credit for US$600 million for recovery and reconstruction On 16 April, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake (Richter efforts. Given the extent of the damage, on 16 April the scale) struck coastal areas in north-west Ecuador, its Government requested international support for needs epicentre located close to the town of Muisne and assessment and response coordination, including for 170km northwest of the capital Quito. Although the the medical response. epicentre was situated in a remote rural area, several towns in coastal provinces were affected. More than 300 aftershocks have been registered to date. INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT The most affected areas are the provinces of Manabi, The United Nations (UN) is providing complementary Esmeraldas, Santa Elena, Guayas, Santo Domingo support to Government relief efforts. On 17 April a UN and Los Ríos, for which the Government has declared Disaster Assessment and Coordination Team (UNDAC) a “state of emergency”. Manibi is the worst affected deployed to support on-site coordination in the towns province; one of its cantons – Pedernales (population of Manta, Porto Viejo, Pedernales and Quito. In close 55,000) – has been declared a “disaster zone” to which coordination with the National Disaster Management access is limited. Agency (Secretaria de Gestión del Riesgo, SGR) and the UN-managed Secretariat for the International Search As of 21 April, 587 people are reported to have died, and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG), a number of 155 are missing and 7,015 are injured. More than Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams have deployed, 1,125 buildings have been destroyed and more than including from Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, El 829 have been damaged, including 281 schools. Salvador, Mexico, Peru, Spain and Venezuela. Additionally, 25,376 people are residing in collective shelters. Infrastructure, including many roads and Several Member States, UN agencies, IFRC and bridges, has been damaged, resulting in logistics and international non-governmental organizations communications challenges in some areas. Government (INGOs) have activated internal emergency funding and international teams are currently assessing the and surge mechanisms, and have started to provide in- situation and will reach most of the affected areas within kind supplies and other forms of assistance. the coming days; thus, official figures on impact and damage are expected to rise. KEY NEEDS It is estimated that approximately 720,000 of the 7 Initial needs and damage assessments are being million people living in six affected provinces have conducted by the Government and humanitarian suffered from the earthquake and require assistance. partners, with UNDAC support. Preliminary information indicates immediate needs are for safe water, GOVERNMENT RESPONSE health assistance, shelter kits and temporary shelter solutions, food assistance, protection, emergency The Government of Ecuador is providing and education, as well as debris removal to support coordinating comprehensive response efforts. As of early recovery efforts. Basic services will need to be 21 April, it has deployed 882 firefighters, over 4,900 reestablished in all affected areas, including electricity, police, nearly 10,000 military personnel and 21 medical water supply and telecommunications. Safe debris response teams to affected areas. Logistical assets such removal of damaged and destroyed infrastructure and as helicopters and trucks, key supplies such as water homes is required to improve access and allow people purification units, shelter kits, food rations and hygiene to find safe housing solutions. There is also a need for and WASH kits have also been deployed. logistics support, particularly storage management and transport coordination. 2 ECUADOR EARTHQUAKE – FLASH APPEAL MAIN HUMANITARIAN NEEDS BASED ON PRELIMINARY INFORMation AND FIELD OBSERVations: AcceSS TO SAFE DRINKING WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE • Safe water, temporary latrines and bathing spaces are urgently needed for the most vulnerable populations in the severely affected locations, as well as health facilities and schools. • Promotion of hygiene in the wider affected population to reduce the risk of waterborne disease in areas where sanitation facilities have been damaged or destroyed. EMERGENCY SHELTER AND ESSENTIAL ITEMS • Damage and destruction of homes has left thousands of people in need of emergency shelter solutions and emergency relief items. SUPPORT TO MANAGEMENT AND IMPROVED CONDITIONS AT COLLECTIVE CENTRES • More than 23,500 people are currently living in collective centres that require supplies and technical management to ensure adequate living conditions and protection of persons. FOOD SECURITY • Loss of livelihoods and assets, as well as damage to roads and markets in rural areas, have reduced an estimated 518,000 people´s access to food according to the Government. • Food assistance is urgently needed to save lives and protect livelihoods. AcceSS TO MEDICAL CARE • Immediate access to health services to ensure timely and efficient emergency medical attention and basic health services for pregnant women, children and individuals with chronic diseases. • Disease surveillance and protection from the risk of outbreak of water-borne, food-borne and vector- borne and other diseases. • Access to health information, good hygiene practices and other prevention measures to reduce health risk and mental health problems in shelters and amongst affected communities. PROTECTION OF THE MOST VULNERABLE POPULATIONS • Emergency protection response to ensure safe and non-discriminatory access to humanitarian assistance, prevention and response to physical violence and abuse, response to sexual violence, abuse and exploitation (in particular of children, adolescents and women), as well as prevention, mitigation, and response to gender based-violence, and integral provision of psychosocial support. 3 ECUADOR EARTHQUAKE – FLASH APPEAL RESPONSE and STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES This Flash Appeal frames the immediate humanitarian affected cantons. Cash-based programming could be response by the UN and participating NGOs, in close utilized to cover basic survival needs of households, and coordination with and complementing Government simultaneously support early recovery of livelihoods and relief efforts. Under this plan, the Humanitarian Country local markets. Team (HCT) in Ecuador and its partners will provide a highly targeted and time-bound response, focusing This appeals calls for US$72.8 million in funding to on immediate life-saving interventions and support quickstart life-saving assistance, protection services to livelihood restoration for approximately 350,000 and early recovery support, to reach approximately people. 350,000 people over the next three months. Sectoral strategic plans with project details of participating Response activities will target the most vulnerable organizations are annexed to this appeal and can also communities in the six affected provinces, prioritizing