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Source: data recorded by ZELF team February - March 2011 Fig. 5.20: Average VCI score of the assessed villages In case of the fisherfolk the situation is very precarious too. With the fishing boats and most of the nets lost in the flood all their productive assets are depleted. Alternative income sources are difficult to access, and out of desperation many struggle to catch fish in ponds with their bare hands. The systems of dependencies revolving around the fisherfolk’s occupation are described in Box 9. n=296 Sheikh Kiryo Bhandari Golo Mandhro Ahmed Raju Ahmed Sorjo Alloo Noonari Wali Mohammad Laghari Zafar Abad Mehrab Qambrani Source: data recorded by ZELF team February - March 2011 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 Fig. 5.21: Average material VCI score of the assessed villages The overall very critical situation unfolding in the village after the flood is also expressed through the VCI data. As depicted in Fig. 5.20 the VCI values among the surveyed households are consistently high with an average of 72, signifying that most households lack the capacity to overcome the losses inflicted by the flood disaster. This is also evident when looking at the values for material vulnerability alone, as depicted in Fig. 5.21. 46 Badin Thatta Dadu
Degrees of vulnerability are uniformly elevated in Ahmed Sorjho. Even before the flood, many households were immersed in exploitative sharecropping agreements, but after the disaster the situation worsened significantly. The flood is associated with great losses, especially in terms of housing and livestock. For most, restocking of lost livestock has not been an option because of lack of capacity, and the VCI values reflect this reality with high degrees of material vulnerability present all over the sample households. Box 10: Misdirected aid – an example from Ahmed Sorjho Occasionally, powerful actors in a village setting are able to channel emergency relief into their own pockets and exclude those in need. This happened during food distribution in Ahmed Sorjho, when Mallah households were deprived of receiving food parcels by the powerful trading caste of the Memon living in the neighbouring village. Actors from the groups apparently intercepted the representatives of the visiting NGOs to direct to their own settlement and approached the Mallah under the false pretence of providing food deliveries and copied their ID- Cards. This way, they got hold of most relief donations and sold the foodstuffs in their own shops. As a consequence, Mallah disposed off 47 non-food items delivered as emergency aid to obtain much needed cash for buying food. Corrupt individuals of the Memon with their links to government officials were thus able to personally benefit from emergency operations. They are also the holders of fishing licenses and extract revenue from Mallah households. In addition, they operate as major landholders and creditors, driving poor farming households into debt bondage. This rather shocking but unfortunately not so uncommon example has been also confirmed by the only household of the more powerful Sayed-caste in Ahmed Sorjho, who maintains good relations to the Memon in the neighbouring settlement.
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