Fiji

FIJI Post-Disaster Needs Assessment
Sanitation
Similar information was collected regarding the number of households that had access to safe sanitation facilities before
the disaster and those that lost such access to sanitation as a result of TC Winston.
Sanitation service coverage in the country is much lower than access to safe water supply, which explains the very low
values of pre- and post-disaster sanitation access indexes (Table 18).
Table 18: Pre- and Post-Disaster Sanitation Access Index by Province
Province Pre-Disaster Post-Disaster
Number of
Households
Number of
Households
with Access
Sanitation
Index
Number of
Houses
Affected
Number of
Households
with Access
Sanitation
Index
Ba 52,570 7,542 0.1435 7,735 0 0.0000
Bua 3,205 1,084 0.3382 1,129 45 0.0140
Cakaudrove 10,708 1,420 0.1326 3,712 2,292 0.2140
Kadavu 2,387 227 0.0951 227 0.0951
Lau 2,440 198 0.0811 391 0.0000
Lomaiviti 3,568 119 0.0334 1,487 0.0000
Macuata 16,411 4,306 0.2624 15 4,291 0.2615
Nadroga 12,871 3,568 0.2772 381 3,188 0.2476
Naitasiri 33,551 1,966 0.0586 907 1,060 0.0316
Namosi 1,423 145 0.1019 41 104 0.0731
Ra 6,821 2,097 0.3074 3,570 1,473 0.2159
Rewa 22,157 1,082 0.0488 144 939 0.0424
Rotuma 484 2 0.0041 2 0.0041
Serua 3,970 336 0.0846 38 298 0.0751
Tailevu 11,619 1,586 0.1365 682 905 0.0778
Source: Estimations by Assessment Team.
Electricity
For access to electricity, baseline information on the number of residential connections to the Fiji Electricity Authority (FEA)
grid was obtained from the utility. An additional number of households obtain electricity from isolated systems but no
information on their number was made available at the time of the PDNA. Thus, the analysis only covered data on electricity
access from the FEA.
Table 19 shows the estimated electricity access index for each province. If data on connections to isolated electrical
systems had been included, some of the values of the access index – in Bua, Kadavu, Lau and Rotuma Provinces – would
not be 0.
Table 19: Pre- and Post-Disaster Access to Electricity Index by Province
Province Pre-Disaster Post-Disaster
Number of
Households
Number of
Households
Connected to
Grid
Electricity
Index
Number of
of Houses
Disconnected
Number of
Households
Connected
to Grid
Electricity
Index
Ba 52,570 42,487 0.8082 7,735 34,752 0.6611
Bua 3,205 0.0000 0.0000
Cakaudrove 10,708 3,084 0.2880 3,712 0.0000
Kadavu 2,387 0.0000 0.0000
Lau 2,440 0.0000 0.0000
Lomaiviti 3,568 2,027 0.5681 1,487 541 0.1515
Macuata 16,411 13,328 0.8121 15 13,313 0.8112
40 Tropical Cyclone Winston, February 20, 2016