Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2001/0108
OCHA Situation Report No. 5
Bolivia - Floods
13 June 2001
Funds for the Emergency Plan for the agricultural Sector are still urgently needed.
Situation
1. According to WFP reports, rains are coming back to their normal levels bringing relief to the flood affected areas in the northern lowlands. Latest reports of the Civil Defense Service (SENADECI) indicate that a total 357,250 people in rural areas have been affected during this year.
2. The Ministry of Agriculture has reported losses of 119,163 hectares (about 294,000 acres) which represents 7.3 per cent of total cultivated land. The crop damage amounts to some USD 121 million. Floods have also destroyed important productive infrastructure (productive land, small irrigation systems and roads).
3. The main income source of small farmers -their crops- has been destroyed in such a proportion that their food security is threatened until next harvest, which starts in March 2002.
4. As reported in OCHA Situation Report no.4 of 22 March 2001, the Ministry of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP), launched an Emergency Plan for the agricultural sector amounting to approximately USD 7.4 million, targeting 32,000 families and the rehabilitation of 26,000 hectares of crops belonging to small farmers in highlands and valleys.
Emergency Plan for the Agricultural Sector
2001/2002 Consolidated Financial Requirements
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Components
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Purpose
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Implementation period
|
Cost (in USD)
|
|
'Food for Work' Program
| Support small farmers to rehabilitate their productive assets and provide them with the essential subsistence means through food for work schemes. |
March'01 - February'02
|
+ 1,937,990
|
|
Seeds and Fertilizers
| Restore production and food security of vulnerable groups. |
August'01 - March'02
|
4,285,376
|
|
Agriculture Sanitation and Integrated
Pest Management
| Protect crops. |
August'01 - March'02
|
300,000
|
|
Livestock Sanitation
| Assist small farmers in the affected areas and protect livestock. |
August'01 - March'02
|
300,000
|
|
Small Tools
| Provide tools to farmers for the rehabilitation of crop production |
August'01 - March'02
|
200,000
|
|
Material to repair shade houses and
sand bags to protect land against erosion and new floods.
| Assist in the rehabilitation of family fruit and vegetable gardens affected by the floods. |
July'01 - March'02
|
300,000
|
|
Follow-up and Supervision
| Coordinate, supervise and evaluate activities of the Emergency Plan. |
May'01 - April'02
|
60,000
|
|
Total
|
7,383,360
|
+ International response to the Emergency Plan
5. The response of the international community to this Emergency Plan has so far been very modest: an in-kind contribution (wheat) towards the 'Food for Work' Program. Thus, funds for the Emergency Plan for the Agricultural Sector are still urgently needed.
WFP response
6. As of 14 May, WFP Bolivia distributed 1,236 MT of food (534,271 rations) to approximately 127,055 affected people (25,411 families). Food provided belongs to the regular program stocks. Distribution had to slow down in some regions because stocks ran out of some products. Another 610 MT of food should be distributed in the next weeks to meet urgent requirements.
7. The USD 300,000 in kind (660 MT of wheat) contribution will partially meet the requirements. Still needed are canned fish (130 MT), wheat flour (1,820 MT), vegetable oil (97.5 MT), and rice (975 MT).
8. USAID reported a contribution of 454 MT of food, 596 tents and about 2,000 safe water containers with hydrochloride solution. USAID will implement in the next four months a rehabilitation plan (food for work) with approximately 1,500 MT of food, for the next four months. This contribution will be included in the Emergency Plan.
9. Interested donors can direct their contributions to:
FAO - Ms. Anne M. Bauer, Chief, Special Emergency Relief Operations (TCOR) Technical Cooperation Department FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla. 00100 Roma, Italy-E-mail: Anne.Bauer@fao.org
Funds should be transferred to FAO bank account with reference to FAO/United Nations Trust Fund in US$, account no: 490650/67/72,Banca Comerciale Italiana, Via delle Terme di Caracalla...
WFP - Ms. Valerie Sequeira, Director, Resources & External Relations Division, WFP HQ, Via Cesare Giulio Viola, 68/70 - Parco de Medici -00148 Rome, Italy
Contributions should be transferred to WFP bank account: Acct. no. 112282/056 CITIBANK, N.A. Foro Buonaparte 16 Milan 2021
10. Information on contributions to this disaster may be found by clicking on Financial Tracking on the OCHA Website, http://www.reliefweb.int.
11. For coordination purposes, donors are requested to inform OCHA Geneva, on relief missions/pledges/contributions and their corresponding values by item. Donors are encouraged to notify OCHA Geneva of their contributions to this disaster using the OCHA Standardised Contributions Recording Format.
12. This Situation Report and further information on ongoing emergencies are also available on the OCHA Website at http://www.reliefweb.int
Contacts
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Fax: +41-22-917-0023
E-mail: ochagva@un.org
In case of emergency: Tel. +41-22-917-2010
Desk Officers: Mr. Erik Haegglund / Mr.
Carlos Pereira / Ms. Masayo Kondo
Direct tel: +41-22-917 32 99/13 83/19 97
Press contact: Ms. M. Moulin-Acevedo, Direct tel. +41-22-917 31 60
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