Monsoon 2012 updates :

• Rehabilitation work completed in 17 girls schools in Balochistan with ERF support .

• In Sindh, cluster members completed mainstreaming of 2,8972 (43% girls) children in government primary schools at Jacobabad, Kashmore and Shikarpur .

Education Cluster Response for displacement in KP/FATA :

• Allocation of CERF funds for Education cluster is 150,000 USD .
  These funds will be used to support educational needs of IDP children displaced from Tirah Valley, Khyber agency

The Global Overview collates information from a range of sources and displays it in a manner that allows for quick comparison of different humanitarian crises.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Government authorities and humanitarian partners in Balochistan are responding to the humanitarian needs of an estimated 30,000 people affected by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the border region of Iran and Pakistan on 16 April.

• Humanitarian partners have conducted capacity-building workshops on disaster preparedness and management for over 100 government and military officials involved in emergency response in flood-prone districts.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan [ACTED News] - A national policy aimed at overcoming food and nutrition insecurity in Pakistan by 2030 was recently launched by the Ministry of National Food Security and Research. This policy outlines approaches to ensure sustainable food availability, food accessibility, food utilisation as well as nutrition and stability in food supplies.

An FAO initiative, funded with nearly USD 10.6 million, will provide about 91,000 flood-affected families with vital crop and livestock assistance.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Justice (Retd) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso Wednesday approved a proposal for provision of cash grants to around 3000 quake-hit families of Mashkhel, Balochistan to reconstruct their properties on their own.
The Prime Minister chaired a high-level meeting held at PM House to review the progress on development projects, assessment of damages caused by recent earthquake and recruitment in federal government against the quota of Balochistan.

The Global Overview collates information from a range of sources and displays it in a manner that allows for quick comparison of different humanitarian crises.

Since mid-March, about 43,000 people have been displaced from Tirah Valley in Khyber Agency, FATA, due to an escalation of hostilities between rival armed groups. Humanitarian partners are providing assistance to 163,102 registered displaced families with an estimated population of 978,000 people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA due to a complex emergency that has affected the region since 2008.

There are also 1.64 million Afghan refugees receiving humanitarian assistance, and more than 1.3 million people who have returned to FATA since 2009, who require humanitarian assistance.

Kandhkot is recovering slowly from the floods, which inundated vast swaths of land. For the children, a temporary learning centre (TLC) has provided a much-needed return to education.