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Dominica: Hurricane Response Situation Report, 31 October 2017
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On 24 October, the government of Dominica reopened 20 schools. Five of them were used as collective centres. IOM, in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Services, Gender and Family Affairs, developed a strategy to support the voluntary return or relocation of people hosted at schools used as collective centres.
IOM flow monitoring is ongoing. On a daily basis, IOM teams interview people that are leaving Dominica to determine their travel intentions. Special focus is on children who are travelling alone. 25 per cent of respondents indicated that they will not return to Dominica and 22 per cent travel in search of employment abroad.
On 26 and 27 October, 24 tradesmen and carpenters in Wesley, Calibishi and Woodford Hill received IOM training in safe construction skills. In teams of three persons consisting of a carpenter, a tradesman and a helper, they will start repairing roofs of moderately and heavily damaged homes of vulnerable people in their communities.
Situation Overview
With the decrease or loss of income generating activities and destruction of their homes, Dominica locals are increasingly leaving the island in search of better opportunities in neighboring countries. IOM has set up a Flow Monitoring process at the ferry port in Roseau to understand the motivations for the departure of Dominica nationals.
The second round of DTM is on-going and includes a special survey on the household return intentions. The survey will be used to provide tailored support to the people who want or need to leave the collective centres.
District Development Officers and Social Welfare Officers began to submit the multi-sector damage and needs assessment forms completed at village level across the country. IOM has been digitizing the forms to enable timely processing and analysis of the information, but the collection process has been delayed because the information was not consistent. IOM is actively assisting the Ministry of Social Services with tablets and staff to collect the data the coming weeks.
In addition, the Ministry of Housing, in collaboration with UNDP, has started a separate technical building damage assessment. Teams of enumerators will assess the structural damage of 800 to 1,000 houses daily. The process will take four to six weeks to complete all 25,000 buildings in Dominica.