47. Pakistan Economic Survey 2011-12 - Consultancy Services in ...

Pakistan Economic Survey 2011-12The Government continued to mobilize sheltermaterials, non-food items (NFIs), bottled water andfood rations. Provision of temporary shelter inpublic buildings had been arranged for thoseuprooted by the floods in 13 districts out of 23 inSindh, which accommodated 194,969 people.Initially the federal and provincial governmentsresponded to the disaster through own resources,which however, were overwhelmed in the wake ofthe growing humanitarian crisis. Despite providingassistance during the unprecedented floods of2010, the international community immediatelyresponded to the appeal by the Government ofPakistan for international support for rescue andrelief activities following 2011 floods. InDecember 2011, forty-six countries pledged acommitment of approximately US$ 260 millionincluding support in cash and in-kind.Furthermore, an emergency flood relief cell,established at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,closely liaised with the members of the diplomaticcommunity and international organizations tocoordinate international assistance.The United Nations (UN) undertook an InitialRapid Needs Assessment to focus on theimmediate relief phase for the following clusters:(i) emergency shelter; (ii) food security; (iii) healthand; (iv) water sanitation and hygiene. Based onthese cluster assessments, the UN launched a US$356 million Rapid Response Plan in September2011. As of April 2012, approximately, US$ 171million or 48 percent were received in response tothe UN‘s appeal. In January 2012, the UNlaunched the Early Recovery Framework seeking afurther US$ 439 million to continue flood responseuntil September 2012.258