Inter-Agency Real Time Evaluation of the Humanitarian ... - alnap

IA RTE of the humanitarian response to Pakistan’s 2010 Floods crisis
from recovering due to lack of access to land, economic debts to landlords and because
livelihoods could not be re‐established as quickly as in other affected areas.
Province Deaths Injured Houses Damaged Population
Affected
Balochistan 54 104 75,596 700,000
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 1,156 1,198 284,990 3,800,000
Punjab 110 262 497,700 6,000,000
Sindh 411 1,235 876,249 7,274,250
P.A.K 71 87 7,106 200,000
Gilgit Baltistan 183 60 2,830 100,000
Total 1,985 2,946 1,744,471 18,074,250
Table 1: Pakistan: Flood looses as of 21 November 2010. Source NDMA, PDMAs and GBDMA. On 9February 2011 the
total number of population affected has reached 20,184,550 5
7. Pakistan was not prepared for such a large‐scale disaster, probably beyond what any
government can handle. It soon became clear that the Government of Pakistan (GoP) was
unable to allocate sufficient resources to respond to such a monumental catastrophe.
8. As a result of the floods, more than 12 million people required humanitarian assistance 6 .
The geographical scale of this disaster and the number of affected people therefore makes this a
larger and more complex situation than almost any other faced by the humanitarian community.
9. Nationwide the floods washed out years’ achievements through developmental efforts.
The impact of floods has worsened chronic poverty and inequality, especially among the most
vulnerable parts of the Pakistani population. Affected regions such as KPK and Punjab are
traditionally wealthier than Sindh, despite the latter’s wealth in agriculture and incipient
tourism. Some of the main reasons behind the already existing poverty levels and inequalities
are of a structural character mainly related to restricted access to land and social services.
According to the World Bank, about 2 percent of Pakistani households control more than 45
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For NDMA updates on damages and loses consult http://www.pakistanfloods.pk/daily‐updates/situation‐report
6
USAID, DCHA, OFDA Pakistan Floods Fact Sheet #7, Fiscal Year 2011 November 30, 2010.
http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/humanitarian_assistance/disaster_assistance/countries/pakistan/template/fs_sr/fy
2011/pakistan_fl_fs07_11‐30‐2010.pdf
Riccardo Polastro, Aatika Nagrah, Nicolai Steen and Farwa Zafar
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