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I. SITUATION OVERVIEW

Falling temperatures across the country over the past

week have exacerbated the difficulties being faced by

many flood-affected families. Nighttime temperatures in

southern Punjab have reached as low as 5°C, and have

been well below freezing in parts of Gilgit-Baltistan and

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), which continues to host a

significant number of conflict displaced persons.

A multi-cluster team is visiting Gilgit-Baltistan from 6

January. Building upon recent assessments and relief

activities by the Government and aid agencies in the

region, the team will develop a consolidated response

plan for the winter months when road access will be a

major challenge. Appoximatley 3,400 flood-affected

families in Gilgit-Baltistan will require a range of support

through the winter, which will last until March. The plan

will also seek to cover the needs of persons otherwise

affected by emergencies over the winter months. Key

assistance priorities are food, shelter, WASH and health.

Agricultural needs will be fully assessed after the winter

passes.

In KPK, planning is underway to facilitate the return of

remaining flood-affected IDPs residing in 17 spontaneous

camps in Nowshera and Charsadda districts. A UNHCRprofiling assessment has identified concerns related to

watan cards, food rations and lack of shelter in the area

of origin as key factors hindering their return. Provincial

authorities will assist these persons in securing watan

cards and government-sponsored income support. The

humanitarian community is assessing whether to support

construction of one-room shelters in return areas, or to

provide transitional shelters to facilitate quicker return.

Return of conflict-affected IDPs from sites in KPK to

Orakzai and South Waziristan agencies in the Federally

Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) is continuing. So far

7,396 families have returned to Orakzai and 360 have

returned to South Waziristan. The returning families areprovided with shelter, non-food items and food

assistance at points of departure.

In Sindh, floodwaters are expected to remain in parts of

Jamshoro and Dadu districts for the coming two months.

Though temperatures in Sindh and southern Punjab are

less extreme than in the north of the country, the cold

weather in these areas necessitates urgently scaled up

distribution of winterisation packages.

Closer collaboration between the Government and the

humanitarian community in Sindh is needed to develop

an effective strategy to support and encourage displaced

persons willing to return to do so.

Early recovery shelter continues to be a key priority in

Punjab. Just 407 one-room shelters have so far been

completed in the province, according to the shelter

cluster, though a further 48,000 have been committed.

Construction is expected to expand significantly this

month.

Issue 12∙ 6 January 2011

A beneficiary with an NFI kit containing kitchen items, blankets, jerry

cans and plastic sheets in Sindh. Recent low temperatures have

greatly increased the demand for winterized items across flood-

affected areas. Photo: IOM

Recipients of support in the form of door and window frames

constructing a one-room shelter in southern Punjab. These shelters

continues to be a key priority in Punjab, and construction is expected

to scale up significantly this month. Photo: IOM



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6 January 2011 / Issue 12

II. CLUSTER RESPONSE

Agriculture

Distributions of inputs for rabi (spring harvest) plantinghave been completed, with 560,000 farming families

having benefitted. In areas of Sindh where wheat

planting has not been possible, alternatives will be

distributed. Over 30,000 households in seven districts

(Shikarpur, Nawabshah, Larkana, Khairpur, Kashmore,

Jacobabad and Thatta) will receive sunflower seeds from

next month. Planting for the kharif crop (autumn harvest)

will begin in March/April. Distributions of de-worming

tablets and compound animal feed are due to get

underway by the middle of this month, as part of efforts

to ensure the survival of livestock in vulnerable areas

through the winter. Livestock support packages have

already been provided to 18,000 families in KPK. Cash-for-work projects to rehabilitate watercourses in KPK,

Punjab and Balochistan will begin next month. Activities

aimed at restoring fisheries and forestry production

remains unfunded.

Community Restoration

The community restoration cluster has started 2011 on a

positive note, with news of significant donor

contributions that will cover 39 percent of overall cluster

requirements set out in the Pakistan Floods Emergency

Response Plan. Underfunding has been a major challenge

until now, and these funds will provide a much-neededboost for community restoration activities in return

areas. Two important infrastructure projects have been

completed in KPK’s Nowshera and Charsadda districts.

The cash-for-work scheme involved 5,481 community

members repairing and rebuilding link roads, pavements,

drainage systems and flood protection walls, directly

benefitting a population of almost 17,500. The recently

received funds will allow these projects to be replicated

in many other parts of the country.

Education

The cluster has so far provided education support to

283,795 beneficiaries (44 percent of which are girls),including almost 23,000 reached in the past two weeks.

Establishment of temporary learning centres (TLCs)

continues to be a key priority. 2,871 TLCs have so far

been established in flood-affected areas, providing safe

and child-friendly educational opportunities to over

168,000 children. This represents approximately 60

percent of the total number of TLCs the cluster is seeking

to provide. Over 4,600 teachers (38 percent female) have

been trained on psychosocial support and disaster risk

reduction. The cluster has also rehabilitated 291 flood-

damaged schools, which are being attended by close to

41,500 children. However funding shortfalls mean that

gaps in coverage are still significant. The cluster estimates

that an additional 1 million children – almost 80 percentof the overall target caseload – still require a range of

educational support.

Food Security

The food cluster has reached 3.4 million beneficiaries

with 45,000 metric tons of food during the current

distribution cycle, which commenced on 13 December. A

total of 6.2 million people (of which 42 percent are in

Sindh) are being targeted during this cycle. Monthly food

rations continue to make up the majority of the

assistance being provided by the cluster, particularly in

Punjab and Sindh, though early recovery activities are

expanding. Results of the WFP/FAO Flood RecoveryAssessment (supported by UNIFEM and Oxfam) will be

presented to the humanitarian community shortly, and

will provide critical guidance for the scaling up of early

recovery assistance by the food cluster.

Health

Acute respiratory infections (ARI) continue to be the

leading cause of consultations reported through the

health cluster’s disease early warning service (DEWS).

First cases of influenza have been identified through

routine influenza surveillance and DEWS, and the cluster

expects a peak of ARI cases to follow in the comingweeks. 18 disease alerts were received during the past

week: 6 for measles, 4 for suspected influenza, 2 for

probably diphtheria and one each for acute watery

diarhea, bloody diarrhea, suspected meningitis,

pneumonia, pertussis and neotatal tetanus. Cumulatively,

the cluster has so far delivered essential medicines

sufficient to cover the needs of 9.2 million people across

flood-affected areas.

Logistics

The cluster has facilitated the airlift of close to 12,000

metric tons of relief cargo since the beginning of August

2010. Airlift of relief items to areas in the northinaccessible by road will be the key priority for the

logistics cluster in the coming months. So far four

organizations have requested airlift of NFIs in Kohistan;

others requiring support are encouraged to information

on planned deliveries with the cluster

([email protected]). Air operations in Sindh

are winding down, with road access in the worst affected

districts continuing to improve. Three UNHAS helicopters

have already been moved from Sindh to Islamabad where

they are being prepared for operations in KPK over the

winter.



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Nutrition

Nutrition interventions in flood-affect

through a network of 306 outpa

programme, 31 stabilisation cen

supplementary feeding programmes.

include:

Results of nutrition surveys in flood-

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build capacity (e.g. training and reso

support community-level visits) as p

expand programme coverage, but ad

also required (54 percent of require

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Protection

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that have been relocated closer to aff

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III. FUNDING

Latest levels of funding of the Pakistan Floods Emergency Response Plan are as follows:

Regularly updated information on humanitarian funding for Pakistan is available on OCHA’s Financial Tracking Service, at:

http://fts.unocha.org/pageloader.aspx?page=emerg-emergencyDetails&emergID=15913

CONTACT INFORMATIONOCHA, New York

Severine Rey ∙ Desk Officer ∙ [email protected]

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OCHA, Islamabad

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