Pakistan Floods 2011 - Humanitarian Response

F TheF ThoseF TheF InPAKISTAN FLOODS RESPONSE PLAN 2011the schools shortly and those returning home to destroyed houses will require shelter kits and thosefacing extended displacement may move to formal camps and will be requiring tents.Support those whose homes have been seriously damaged or destroyed in the floods, by ensuringthat they have access to basic shelter that provides basic protection from the rain and sun, as well asprovide privacy and dignity. The Cluster will also provide protective learning spaces that offer a safe,communal space where educational, psycho-social, recreational and informational services areprovided to children, adolescent girls and women in a holistic and integrated way.Strategy and proposed activitiesThe Cluster strategy is divided in an emergency and early recovery phase recognizing that thesephases are interconnected and overlapping. Additional specific shelter sector assessments and areview of successful methodologies in response to the 2010 floods are required to define a realisticand most cost-effective response to support post-emergency shelter. These additional assessmentsare ongoing and will form the basis for a revised appeal in one month time. This current appeal islimited to the life-saving phase and neither includes post-emergency shelter nor winterizationrequirements.BeneficiariesIt is estimated by the NDMA that a total of 924,777 houses have been damaged by the floods with18423,919 having been destroyed.F maximum level of emergency shelter response anticipated bythe Government of Pakistan is the provision of 150,000 tents leaving a minimum estimated gap of273,919 families whose houses have been destroyed assuming that one tent can provide shelter for19one family. F Shelter/NFI Cluster will provide emergency shelter for an initial caseload of 273,919households prioritizing vulnerable populations taking into consideration the necessaryaccommodations required to ensure distribution reaches women and children.Approximately 3,500 temporary settlements have been created as a result of the floods. F manycases the affected populations have lost personal belongings such as clothing, bedding, and personalhygiene articles. The TSSU assessment shows that the average temporary settlement contains 324people with the highest number of people at one site being 12,000. It is assumed that 162,000 reside21in temporary settlements.F residing in temporary settlements without adequate shelter will beprioritized.In accordance with Protection Cluster‟s vulnerability criteria as agreed in the floods 2010 response,the Shelter/NFI Cluster specifies the most vulnerable as those households that: have a completely destroyed house have no salvaged materials and no means to provide construction materials and/or labour may not return to their place of origin and face extended displacement for at least for six months lives are endangered by weather conditionsCombined with at least one of the following criteria: female-headed HH child-headed HH older-person headed HH HH headed by person with disabilities (physical, intellectual, sensory) HH headed by person with a chronic disease2018NDMA Summary of Losses September 14.19Sphere standards recommend 3.5 m 2 covered space per individual. In Sindh, the average family size is 6-7 which would require tents tobe 21-24.5m 2 . Initial reports show tents being smaller than 21m 2 with possibly two tents being provided per family. If confirmed, this willincrease shelter gap by 75,000 households.20Figure created by combining NDMA statistics regarding number of formal camps and collective centres and temporary settlementsfinding that 57% of all displacement sites were spontaneous.21September 10-12 Temporary Settlements Rapid Assessment.27