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In the case of the households in rural areas, with an average 4.3 members, the situation seems to be critical as households of more than 8 family members are common. A new revised ration is to be defined and adjusted to the household size. In addition, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms need to be put in place to ensure that the food rations are reaching the intended beneficiaries. Medium term needs Seeds and agriculture inputs are needed to be provided to subsistence farmers in order to ensure the next main harvest. Establishing a monitoring system for the implementation of the food relief programme is needed in order to evaluate the efficiency and efficacy of the food distribution and propose the necessary adjustments. Maintaining low food prices of basic food commodities is essential to ensure that the vulnerable population groups affected by the floods and that are facing structural poverty have food access. The protective measures on the local production of cereals and the elimination of VAT on the food commodities have proved to be efficient measures and are recommended to continue. Continuing systematic monitoring of child malnutrition is required especially after the floods as the reduction of food availability can result on a worsening of malnutrition status of the vulnerable population groups. Conducting a nutrition survey at national level is recommended as the data will provide an updated picture of the malnutrition levels after the last shocks. Monitoring of the food security situation is needed in the medium term in the flood-affected areas to understand trends and identify possible signs of deterioration on the situation of vulnerable groups. 127
Annex 12 GIS Mapping Background One of the key issues for all actors involved in the Namibia 2009 PDNA activities is to obtain timely, relevant, and accurate information regarding geographic location and spatial extent of areas affected by the flooding events. This was particularly relevant since the flood impact areas were large, straddling 6 Northern Namibian regions, and onsets of the different flooding events varied in timing and dynamic behaviour. Geospatial information typically combines digital map data from existing archives (e.g. infrastructure, population density, hydrology) with synoptic event information. The latter may be derived from media sources and dedicated field missions, weather reports and hydrological measurements, etc. Increasingly, satellite imagery is being used to provide snapshots, at different scales, of impact areas. Such imagery is particularly suitable to map large areas, which may either be remote or otherwise difficult to access. Combined, geospatial information plays an important role in 3 important phases of the PDNA: (1) the planning and prioritizing of reference data collection and field mission logistics, (2) to perform spatial disaggregation of the impact area to attribute damage and losses to the relevant administrative unit and (3) to extrapolate discrete field observations on damage and losses to representative statistical figures at the level of the administrative unit. In order to be useful in a PDNA, geospatial information should preferably be available at the preparation stage, so that it can support the dimensioning of the overall effort. Relevant data sets may be available in globally accessible repositories, though usually at small-scales (typically 1:1,000,000 or smaller). The most suitable, i.e. large-scale, thematically rich, data is usually available at the national government entities with a mandate in mapping and surveying, or sometimes in the commercial domain. Preparedness of these entities to support the PDNA with relevant information sets is, therefore, highly beneficial to the efficient execution of the local mission. Geographical Information Systems Geographical Information Systems (GIS) is the collective term for technology that can store, manipulate and present geospatial information for a specific use. GIS typically combines data base technology with analytical functionality that addresses the spatial and thematic nature of the data. Increasingly, geospatial feature collection and presentation of GIS analysis results (e.g. maps) are supported with web-enabled interfaces (e.g. browser based or with dedicated client software). GIS use may help actors involved in PDNA activities to address specific questions including the following: • How large is the geographic extent of the damaged areas? Which are the administrative units covering the impact area? • Which villages are affected, and how many people are located there? • Where are the relevant physical assets located (i.e. urban areas, industrial installations, road networks, waterworks, etc.) and how many of these are affected by the disaster? • Which of the socio-economically important assets (e.g. hospitals and clinics, schools, government service facilities) may be affected? • How much agricultural land is impacted and what are the most affected crop types? However, these queries imply that relevant base data of sufficient quality is accessible as input to the query. Sufficient quality relates to the spatial detail of the data, the actuality and the correctness of the base data. For instance, for the first question, the digital outlines of the administrative units must be cross-sectioned with the digital outline of the impact area (e.g. the flooded area). The latter may be derived from a satellite image. Both data sets should be sufficiently accurate to estimate the area with an error of, say less than 1 km2 (this depends on the total size of the impact area, and may need to be more precise for smaller impact area). Other queries combine spatial features (e.g. impact area outline, village boundary) with feature attributes (e.g. number of people living in the village) to arrive at a query result. Some results may only be indicative (e.g. enumeration of potentially affected assets, infrastructure, most likely affected crops). It is immediately evident, however, that all query results are meaningful for the stratification of the PDNA work effort, the organization of the PDNA surveying work and the aggregation of overall statistics of the damage and loss assessment (DaLA) methodology that is the basis for the PDNA outcome. Geospatial data sets in Namibia The Ministry of Lands and Resettlement operates the Department of Surveying and Mapping (DMS). The DMS offers a public service for the supply of both paper and digital maps at 1:1,000,000, 1:250,000 and 1:50,000 map scales. These maps are derived from ortho-photography that was produced in 1996. A new full color (including near-infrared) 1 m resolution ortho-photo coverage for Northern-Namibia was produced in the period 2006-2007, financed by the European Commission as a contribution to the land reform programme. Whereas 128 Namibia POST-DISASTER NEEDS ASSESSMENT
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POST-DISASTER NEEDS ASSESSMENT FLOO
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Foreword In March of 2009, torrenti
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Table of Contents Foreword ii Ackno
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Table 51 Indication of losses incur
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List of Abbreviations AIDS Acquired
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Executive Summary In March 2009, fl
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The recommendations for recovery an
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Strengthened Community Awareness Co
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1.1 The 2009 Floods Omusati Oshana
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prolonged dry spells and droughts),
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2.1 Methodology In the aftermath of
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Figure 10: Distribution of damage (
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The average value of damage in the
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3.1 Sector Impacts: Infrastructure
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Rail and Air Transport There was no
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Private sector reconstruction using
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Annex 1 Water Supply and Sanitation
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Annex 3 Energy Pre-disaster Situati
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Annex 4 Agriculture, Livestock and
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System (NEWFIS), reported concerns
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