United Nations Nations Unies Office of the Resident Coordinator Chile Earthquake Situation Report #9, 26 March, 2010 The next Situation Report will be issued around March 30 I. Highlights/Key Priorities • According to the latest Government’s report, the loss of asset caused by the earthquake amounts to USD 29,662 million. The loss in the economy production will amount to USD 7,600 million due to temporally paralyzed economic activities. • In Chile the economic loss in the Wine Industry amounts to USD 250 million. • UNESCO will realize a field mission with the objective to gather information for the CERF project implementation in the Region of Maule and Bio Bio. The mission will take place between Sunday 28th March and Thursday 1st of April. II. Situation Overview • According to the latest Government’s report, the damages caused by the earthquake and the financial needs for reconstruction amount to: o Housing: needs for reconstruction amount to USD 3,943 million. Government will finance the 82,6%; o Education: 4,013 schools have suffered damages, reconstruction needs amount to USD 3,015 million; o Health: 79 hospitals have been damaged or are not yet operational. The costs of reconstruction in the Health Sector amount to USD 2,773 millions. o Agriculture and Fisheries: the economic loss in the Agriculture sector amount to USD 39 million; the same amount of money in the Fisheries Sector, where 26,923 small scale fishermen have suffered damages and more than 4,200 boats have been destroyed. o Transport Connectivity: the total loss amounts to USD 958 million. • The economic loss in the Wine Industry amounts to USD 250 million: o 125 million liters of wine has been lost due to wineries’ destruction; o 13% of the annual production of wine has been lost; o 70% of vineyards of the Country belong to the areas affected by the earthquake; • Safe drinking water and shelters continue to be a priority. • According to the IFRC (International Federation of Red Cross), approximately 19,000 people live in 90 shelter camps in the Regions of O’Higgins, Maule and Bío-Bío. Another 25,000 people stay in improvised temporary shelters (schools) and an additional 50,000 people are in urgent need of shelter as they are living in makeshift camps. • According to the IFRD, in the Region of Maule, 20% of the regional rice production is no longer supplied by irrigation sources and 100,000 hectares of irrigated land have been lost. • According to the USGS (United States Geological Survey), two aftershocks of magnitude 4,8 and 4,9 degrees in the Richter scale, have been recorded on Friday 26 th in the Region of Maule. In addition, a new earthquake of magnitude 5,9 degrees in the Richter scale has been registered between the Region of Antofagasta and the Region of O’Higgins. III. Humanitarian Needs and Response Agriculture and Fisheries Response • The Ministry of Agriculture has re-assigned 4,800 million pesos (approx. USD 9 million) to repair irrigation infrastructures damaged by the earthquake. For this purpose, two open tenders will be launched. The first one addressing the restoration of irrigation channels, with a bonus amounting to 3,800 million pesos (approx. USD 7 million). The second one should address the restoration of water reservoirs, with a bonus amounting to 1,000 million pesos (approx. USD 1, 800,000). • The Institute for Agropecuary Development, INDAP, has allocated 1,875 million of pesos (approx. USD 3, 500,000) for emergency response activities: 687,450,000 of pesos (approx. USD 1, 300,000) for agricultural bonus, 1,098,900 of pesos (approx. USD 2,000) for minor irrigation works and 89,250,000 of pesos (approx. USD 170,000) for irrigation experts’ job contracts and fuel. 7,628 clients will benefit from those measures. • The National Agricultural Society (SNA) has presented a package of measures to support the sector. The measures have been divided in three categories: urgent measures (for example, rehabilitation of electrical services and fuel supply, rehabilitation of transport connectivity, rehabilitation of water irrigation systems, inter alia) taxes alleviation measures and working capital support measures, and finally, measures to enhance the infrastructure reconstruction. Food and Nutrition Needs • According to the NGO Hogar de Cristo , which is working in the Regions of Maule O’Higgins Bio Bio and Araucanía, the most needed food items are: vegetables, soups, tomato sauces, tuna and flour. Moreover, the NGO invites people to increase donations of sleeping bags, tents, coal and candles. Response • To date, the NGO Hogar de Cristo has delivered approximately 730 tons of aid: 544 tons of food aid and 189 tons of non-food items. 23,000 families have been supplied with boxes of merchandise. More than 6,000 volunteers have been participating in the NGO’s Campaign “Chile se la puede” per day. • To date, Caritas Chile has distributed 1,439 tons of non-perishable food, corresponding to a total of 239,930 family boxes. Aid has been delivered to the most affected areas of the following Regions: O'Higgins, Maule and Biobío. • As of 23 March, IFRC has distributed 2,329 family kits to 2,311 households in the Regions of Maule and Bío-Bío (households with more than 5 family members are provided with two family kits). 1 Family kit contains: 1 kitchen kit, 1 hygiene kit, 4 blankets and 2 jerry cans. • As of 25 March, JUNAEB (National Board of Students aid and Scholarship) has supplied 89,759 people in 66 municipalities of the Regions of Valparaíso, Metropolitan, O´Higgins, Maule and Bío Bío, with 195,995 services of breakfast, lunch and tea/dinner. Education • On 24 March, the Minister of Education informed that 250,000 students have started class this week, while 590,000 students are still unable to attend school. 80% of students of the Region of Maule and 75% of students in the Region of Bio Bio have not yet started school. 2 • According to national media, the network of 122 JUNJI kinder gardens in the Region of Bio Bio is not operational, leaving 6,598 infants at home. 30% of the 647 JUNJI institutions in the Regions of Valparaiso, O’Higgins, Maule, Bio Bio, have been damaged. Emergency Shelters • As of 21 March, Red Cross has delivered 300 family tents to Talca and another 200 to Concepcion. 10 CRC (Chilean Red Cross) volunteers have set up 100 tents in the Municipality of Arauco (Region of Bío Bío). • To date the NGO Un techo para Chile has built 1,644 temporary shelters: 20 in the Region of Valparaiso, 398 in the Region of O’Higgins, 716 in the Region of Maule, 498 in the Region of Bio Bio. 5,089 volunteers have been participating in the NGO’s activities. • COSUDE (Swiss Agency for development and Cooperation) is planning temporal solutions concerning water and sanitation for the 400 temporary shelters that is building with the NGO Un techo para Chile in the Region of Bio Bio. (Coliumo, Caleta Tumbes, Llico y Tubul). • The NGO Shelter Box has been delivering disaster relief tents and life-saving supplies for up to 10,000 people in four different regions of southern Chile. Shelter Boxes have been distributed to people who have lost their homes in Retiro, Parral, Cauquenes, Chanco, Copihue, Talcahuano, Lebu and Coronel (Region of Maule and Bio Bio). Protection Needs • UNICEF has received requests for psycho-emotional support and capacity building to the staffs of numerous governmental and civil society institutions. In total, the requests amount to 2,200 employees who educate and take care of children and protect adolescents in detention centers. Response • UNICEF is designing educational modules for psychosocial support along with the Universidad Católica and civil society organizations. • UNICEF is hiring two Regional Coordinators at local levels, as well as a National Coordinator to organize the activities described in the CERF project. • UNICEF is organizing a meeting with the new Sub Secretary of the Ministry of Justice in order to discuss how to coordinate efforts addressing adolescents deprived of liberty in disaster areas. • As of 19 March, the PSP team (Psychologist Support Programme) of the Red Cross has provided psychosocial support to 1,645 people in Hualañé, Talca and Concepción (Regions of Maule and Bio Bio). Water Sanitation • As of 26 March, according to the SISS (Superintendent’s Office of Sanitary Services) 100% of the urban population, which is supplied by private sanitation companies in the region affected by the earthquake, have access to drinking water. 99,6% of them (11,20 million) are obtaining water through internal distribution networks with in door supplies -with low pressure and sporadic cuts-; while 0.4% (43,000 people in the Region of Bio Bio) are supplied by water tank trucks or transportable tanks installed in the cities. Needs • Sanitation solutions for waste disposal at the household and community level. • Assessments of the quality of the water supplied by rehabilitated services in the affected areas. 3 Response • UNICEF continues to be the focal point for humanitarian agencies such as PAHO/WHO, IFRC and the national counterparts working on the WASH sector. • UNICEF is detailing the kind and amount of supplies necessary to ameliorate the water systems in affected areas and finalizing its purchase order. • The IFRC has implemented water, sanitation and hygiene activities in the communities of Tibul, Lota y Tumbes (Region of Bio Bio). The IFRC has analyzed the chlorine, PH and turbidity levels in the three tanks in these communities. The IFCR has implemented the fumigation of the camp in Tubul for plague control in latrines and waste deposit. In the Arauco municipality (Region of Bio Bio), the setting up of 100 tents is combined with fumigation activities.