Daily Update of Torrential Rain and Flood situation across the country – August 25, 2010 at 4:30 pm

Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO)

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
SN	UC	Village	Total Population	% 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%	enter”>80%	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.

Annex – I:Damage Assessment in UC 12 Malakand.

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