Daily Assessment Updates on Torrential Rain and Flood Situation in Pakistan
August 25, 2010
Overview:
Over the course of July and early August 2010, Pakistan experienced the worst monsoon-related floods in living memory. Heavy rainfall, flash floods and riverine floods have devastated large parts of Pakistan since the arrival of seasonal monsoon rains on 22 July, 2010. Latest estimates indicate that around 20 million people have been affected by the floods. Assessments are ongoing to ascertain the scale of damages in the affected areas. The official death toll has risen to 1,343, with 1,588 people now reported as injured. The latest NDMA report indicates that over 722,000 houses have been either damaged or destroyed. But the figures may rise further as information from different parts is yet to come.
Details damage assessment is going on across Sindh and Southern Punjab by UN-OCHA and SPO is also part of joint assessment in Sindh. Data currently available indicates that Shikarpur, Kashmore, Jacobabad, Khairpur, Dadu and Naushahro Feroze have been the hardest hit districts in Sindh. Similarly, districts Layyah, D.G. Khan, Muzzafargarh and Rajanpur are hardest hit districts in southern Punjab.
The flood wave continues to make its way through the southern province of Sindh, where millions have been affected from the combined impact of torrential rains and unprecedented water levels in the rivers.
Through rapid assessments, humanitarian agencies are identifying desperate needs of affected communities and so far identified desperate needs include: food, clean drinking water and purification materials, emergency health services, tents and shelter kits, cooking sets, mosquito nets, and other non-food items (NFI).
In order to facilitate coordinated humanitarian response in the affected areas and enable humanitarian organizations to have substantial planning for their humanitarian activities, SPO, with the support of its partner organizations, initiated rapid assessments in the affected areas and share it with relevant stakeholders in the form of daily update. Date-wise situational update and rapid assessments of damages caused by torrential rains and floods are available on SPO website and can be accessed on URL https://www.spopk.org.
Daily update for25th August 2010, providing details of SPO’s response to the emergency situation and relief activities being carried out for mitigation of the miseries of affected communities across the country, is provided below:
SPO intervention in Flood affected areas till August 25, 2010
Keeping in view the essential needs of displaced communities, SPO teams besides coordination of humanitarian efforts at Provincial levels in Baluchistan -Quetta, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – Peshawar and AJK – Muzafarabad, have initiated various humanitarian interventions. Hither to following activities have been carried out and reported:
Baluchistan Province:
SPO Quetta Team besides continuation of relief services in the flood affected areas of Baluchistan have carried out initial assessment in District Jafarabad. Same is shared herewith for use of humanitarian organizations planning humanitarian response in Jafarabad.
Flood Initial Assessment August 2010
District: Jafarabad
Name of NGO: Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO) Quetta
Total Population :627,477
Total area :2445 Sq Km
Total Union Councils:46 (4 tehsils)
SN
UC
Village
Total Population
Damages Status
Water stands
% Houses Destroyed
% Crop Destroyed
Yes
No
1
Sohbat pur sadar
sohbat pur
50000
80%
80%
yes
2
Ghandar
Goth umer khosa
2000
98%
80%
Yes
3
Drigi
Drigi
5000
100%.
80%
Yes
4
Noz Band
Sakhi dur mohammed khosa
1500
80%
80%
Yes
5
Khudaye dad
Dambri
2200
80%
80%
Yes
6
Drigi
azad Kashmir
1000
90%
80%
Yes
7
Khudaye dad
goth ghanwar khan
1000
90%
80%
yes
8
Khudaye dad
Bashir khan
2500
80%
80%
Yes
9
Khudaye dad
Band
10000
70%
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Yes
10
Khudaye dad
murad ali
3000
95%
80%
Yes
11
Khudaye dad
meho pur
1000
90%
80%
Yes
12
Drigi
abdul sami khan
1500
90%
80%
Yes
13
Noz Band
Noz band
1200
95%
80%
Yes
14
Noz Band
Goth azam khan
700
80%
80%
Yes
15
Khudaye dad
goth jan mohammed khosa
800
80%
80%
Yes
16
Drigi
Nisar khan
500
80%
80%
Yes
17
Sohbat pur sadar
moulvi qadir bax
300
80%
80%
Yes
18
Khudaye dad
khair pur
500
80%
80%
Yes
19
City
Dera Allah yar city
200000
70%
80%
Yes
20
ramze pur
goth heyder katbar
300
90%
80%
Yes
21
Rojhan jamali
Rojhan jamali
10000
100%
80%
Yes
22
Rojhan jamali
kashmir kot
5000
100%
80%
Yes
23
Ramze Pur
khan garh
2000
100%
80%
Yes
24
Ramze Pur
Amir bux khosa
2000
100%
80%
Yes
25
Ramze Pur
Saleem khosa
1000
90%
80%
Yes
26
Ramze Pur
soni pur
1000
90%
80%
Yes
27
Hafiz Abad
Hafiz abad
2000
50%
80%
Yes
28
Noz Band
chatan pati
1500
50%
80%
Yes
29
Rojhan Jamali
nehal kot
1000
50%
80%
Yes
30
Ghandakha
Gandakha
14600
100%
100%
Yes
31
Drigi
akhtar hassan khosa
1500
80%
80%
Yes
32
Drigi
Wazir ali
1200
80%
80%
Yes
33
Drigi
mushraf khan
900
80%
80%
Yes
34
Noor Pur
Karam khan
1500
80%
80%
Yes
35
Noor Pur
noor pur
4000
80%
80%
Yes
36
Noor Pur
abdul ghani
2500
80%
80%
Yes
37
Noor Pur
bahadur khan
3000
80%
80%
Yes
38
Noor Pur
Fazlo
2800
80%
80%
Yes
39
Noor Pur
bhalo pur
3800
80%
80%
Yes
40
Rupa
Goth sattar khan
3200
80%
80%
Yes
41
Rupa
Goth noor mohammed
3000
80%
80%
Yes
42
Ghandar
Sekhra
4200
80%
80%
Yes
43
Ghandar
mir hussain
1700
80%
80%
Yes
44
Ghandar
jaffar khan
2500
80%
80%
Yes
45
Ghandar
haji doulat khan
3500
80%
80%
Yes
46
Ghandar
molvi allah mohammed
2000
80%
80%
Yes
47
Ghandar
mian bux
1100
80%
80%
Yes
48
Ghandar
abdul qadir
2700
80%
80%
Yes
49
Ghandar
haji mehboob
2900
80%
80%
Yes
50
Ghandar
adam pur
5500
50%
80%
Yes
51
Ghandar
Hairdin
9000
50%
80%
Yes
52
Ahmed Abad
ahmed abad
7750
70%
100%.
Yes
53
Sibi Jadeed
Sibi Jadeed
6700
70%
100%.
Yes
54
Baghhead
Baghhead
10000
100%
100%.
Yes
55
Noushki Jaded
Noushki Jaded
9000
70%
100%.
Yes
56
Karia Pheri
village name not known
11000
80%
100%.
Yes
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province:
SPO Peshawar Team besides continuation of relief services in the flood affected areas of KPK have initiated the process of damage assessments and so far damage assessment in Union Council 12 in District Malakand have been completed. Same is shared herewith as Annex-I for use of humanitarian organizations planning humanitarian response in Malakand.