Focus on Ukraine
This Final Report is intended for reporting on emergency appeals

Launched on 9 March, 2001 for CHF 1,574,048 for 2 months. Budget revised and programme extended in Situation Report no. 1 (for the Hungary and Romania components of the operation only) -- increased to CHF 2,185,764 and the time frame extended to 30 September, 2002.

Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) Allocated: total of CHF 150,000 (CHF 50,000 for Ukraine)

"At a glance"

Overall Appeal coverage: 81.4%; over 100% for Ukraine

Update/Summary: The Ukraine Red

In recent years, floods, landslides and mudflows in the area of the Tisza river, Ukraine, have become increasingly serious. NATO is currently developing a pilot project on regional flood preparedness and response in Ukraine, together with the neighbouring countries of the entire Tisza catchment area. Calls for the development of a pilot project in the field of Civil Emergency Planning were made at the meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission at the level of Foreign Ministers on 15 December 1999 when the NATO-Ukraine Work Plan for the implementation of

This Ops Update is intended for reporting on emergency appeals.
Launched on 9 March 2001 for CHF 1,574,048 for 2 months. Budget revised in Situation Report no. 1, increased to CHF 2,185,764, and the timeframe increased to 30 September 2001.

DREF Allocated: CHF 150,000 (CHF 50,000 for each country).
Beneficiaries: 53,000

Period covered: 28 March 2001 to 25 April 2001 (last Ops Update issued: Situation Report no. 1 issued on 2 April 2001); Next Ops Update No. 3 expected by end June 2001.

La Commission européenne octroie 1.9 million d'euros en faveur des populations de Biélorussie, de Moldavie et d'Ukraine. Ce financement vise, d'une part, à répondre aux besoins humanitaires urgents des groupes les plus vulnérables dans les trois pays, et, d'autre part, à aider les victimes des récentes inondations en Ukraine occidentale. Gérés par l'Office d'aide humanitaire de l'Union européenne (ECHO), les fonds alloués pour ces trois pays seront utilisés pour le développement de programmes alimentaires et d'hygiène, pour l'approvisionnement de matériel de prévention

Premier Yushchenko and his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban agreed in Uzhhorod on 9 April to set up a group of experts to work out a plan to prevent and fight floods in the Carpathian region. UNIAN quoted Yushchenko as saying that both sides also agreed to organize a joint battalion to deal with consequences caused by natural and man-made disasters by 1 October. JM
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period covered: 9 - 28 March, 2001

From Federation News #07/01
Heavy rains and melting snow have caused rivers to overflow and dikes to burst around the Carpathian Mountains. The River Tisza broke through its dams at the village of Palad, on the Hungarian-Ukrainian border and a flood alert was issued. According to local authorities more than 11,000 people had been evacuated from Ukraine's Zakarpattia region by mid-March. Three people were killed, nearly 13,000 houses flooded and 73 villages left without electricity. The flooding is worsening every day as warmer weather continues.

KIEV, March 20 (AFP) - Nine people died in severe floods that hit the west of Ukraine in early March, authorities said Tuesday, updating the death toll.

A previous toll published Monday put the number of deaths caused by the floods at eight.

Almost 1,000 people are hospitalised, and 12,000 rescue workers are still operating in the Transcarpathian region, where 13,000 people had to leave their homes, regional administration official Olga Stefanets said Monday.

More than 15,000 inhabitants of the affected region, including some 3,000 children, are suffering from breathing and

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2001/0072
OCHA Situation Report No. 3
Ukraine - Floods
20 March 2001

General Situation

1. Due to heavy rainfalls and the annual melting of snow, severe floods hit the western parts of Ukraine along all major rivers (12 regions of the Zakarpatian Oblast/Transcarpathian Region). Historical heights of water levels have been exceeded. After a short stabilisation phase, additional rains have again increased water levels dramatically (in some locations up to 1.8 m) during the last 24 hours with more rain