Pakistan is no stranger to recurrent natural disasters, facing the challenges of floods, earthquakes, droughts, and landslides. In 2022, Pakistan grappled with a devastating natural disaster, a...
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Pakistan: 2023/24 Shelter/NFI Winterization Strategy
General Pakistan experiences Winter Season from November to February every year with snowfall mostly over Northern Regions. Likely hazards associated with winter include avalanches, landslides, cold...
Islamic Republic of Pakistan: Information Sharing Protocol, September 22, 2023
OVERVIEW This Information Sharing Protocol (ISP) is designed to support data responsibility -- the safe, ethical, and effective management of data - within the humanitarian response in the Islamic...
Resilient Recovery, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction Framework Pakistan (4RF) (December 2022)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Context Between June and August 2022, torrential rains and a combination of riverine, urban, and fl ash flooding led to an unprecedented disaster in Pakistan. At the height of the...
Business Brief: Humanitarian Overview and Call to Action - Pakistan Floods Response Plan (17 October 2022)
OVERVIEW OF THE CRISIS Unusually heavy monsoon rains from mid-June to September resulted in flash floods and standing water across Pakistan, causing human and livestock casualties as well as...
ADTF (Ageing & Disability Task Force) supporting floods response in Pakistan
Unprecedented torrential rains followed by floods in one-third of Pakistan have caused more than $30 billion in damage. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has recorded over 1,600...
WASH Sector Coordination Guideline 2019
Executive Summary Major disaster events like floods, earthquakes, droughts, landslides, avalanches, cyclones etc. occurred in Pakistan in different periods. The effect of disasters on Water,...
Business Brief: Humanitarian Overview and Call to Action - Pakistan Floods Response Plan (12 September 2022)
OVERVIEW OF THE CRISIS Pakistan has been enduring severe monsoon weather since June 2022, which saw areaweighted rainfall 67 per cent above normal levels in that month alone. Rainfall in the country...
Provincial Disaster Management Authority, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Monsoon Contingency Plan 2022
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The majority of Pakistan's 216.5 million population live along the Indus River, an area prone to severe Flood in July and August of each year. Flood is one of the major problems...
PDMA Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Heat Wave Action Plan 2022
1. Situation Analysis: Climatic changes have many adverse impacts on global temperature which is unfolding in various parts of the world including Pakistan. It is predicted that many countries...
Pakistan Maternal Nutrition Strategy 2022-27
Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Maternal nutrition Maternal nutrition is defined as the nutritional needs of women before pregnancy (during the ‘preconception’ period), during pregnancy and during the...
Advocacy strategy: Pakistan polio eradication initiative 2021-2022
1. Introduction Advocacy in communication terms can involve a range of activities but, whatever the context, it is not a one-off event; advocacy is a sustained effort to achieve an enabling...
Provincial Disaster Management Authority, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Monsoon Contingency Plan 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has faced various natural and man made calamities in the past decades including earthquakes, floods, locust attack, terrorism and resulting TDPs...
Disaster Management Reference Handbook - Pakistan (June 2021)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Islamic Republic of Pakistan (hereafter Pakistan) is affected by climate change, increased urbanization, environmental degradation, and increasingly severe and larger scale...
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UNHCR Pakistan Information Management Strategy 2020 - 2022 (May 2020)
Abstract The Islamic Republic of Pakistan began receiving refugees in 1979 following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan which led to a mass refugee exodus. Since that time, Afghan refugees have been...
Provincial Disaster Management Authority, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Monsoon Contingency Plan 2020 under the Shadow of COVID-19
CHAPTER - 1 OVERVIEW OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA 1.1 Introduction The foremost priority of Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) is to handle flood related disasters, which are caused by...
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UNHCR Pakistan: Community-Based Protection (CBP) Strategy (2020-2022)
INTRODUCTION UNHCR Pakistan first rolled-out the Community-Based Protection and Urban Outreach Strategy (2017-2019) in 2017, which marked a shift in the operation from a focus on individualized case...
Provincial Disaster Management Authority, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Winter Contingency Plan 2019
EXCUTIVE SUMMARY The province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa faces a range of natural hazards which include; floods, flash floods, seismic activity, along the mountainous north and west, and land sliding as...
Training Manual - Disaster Risk Management (DRM) for Pakistan
INTRODUCTION - DISASTER PREPAREDNESS FOR EFFECTIVE RESPONSE MANUAL Disasters are foreseeable phenomena in today’s time and age. The disasters may not be the necessary result of hazards, more often...
Provincial Disaster Management Authority, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Monsoon Contingency Plan 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The peculiar geography and terrain of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province makes it vulnerable to the increased climatic hydro-meteorological hazards, which can exacerbate its anomalous...