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In Brief
Appeal No. 05EA022; Operations Update no. 6; Period covered: 18 -- 19 October 2005; Appeal coverage: 33.7%; (click here to go directly to the attached Contributions List, also available on the website).
PRELIMINARY EMERGENCY APPEAL REVISED BUDGET NOW CHF 73.3 MILLION (USD 56.6 MILLION OR EUR 47 MILLION). CASH CONTRIBUTIONS URGENTLY NEEDED.
Appeal history:
- Preliminary Emergency Appeal launched on 9 October 2005 for CHF 10,793,000 (USD 8,438,294 or EUR 6,957,415) for four months to assist 30,000 families (some 120,000 beneficiaries).
- Operations Update No. 3 of 12 October 2005 increased the Preliminary Appeal budget to CHF 73,262,000 (USD 56,616,692 or EUR 47,053,307) to assist up to 150,000 families (some 750,000 beneficiaries) for six months, as an increasingly serious situation has unfolded.
- Operations Update, No. 5, revised down the number of targeted families to 70,000 (some 500,000 beneficiaries) based on the newly assessed delivery capacity and average family size of seven.
- Disaster Relief Emergency Funds (DREF) allocated: CHF 200,000.
Outstanding needs:
- The Preliminary Emergency Appeal is now 33.7 per cent firmly covered. Response to the appeal to date has been slow, and cash contributions are urgently needed to allow the Red Cross and Red Crescent to rapidly scale up emergency operations.
- Large-scale mobilization of relief items is needed (detailed mobilization table is available and updated on Disaster Management Information System (DMIS). The most urgent needs are to provide shelter items such as winterized tents, family tents, blankets, plastic sheeting and tarpaulins. Other outstanding needs remain jerry cans, kerosene lamps, kerosene stoves, kitchen sets, hygiene parcels, water purification tablets, pharmaceuticals (antibiotics and vaccines) and emergency health kits.
- The operation has identified the following longer-term positions that need to be sought internationally, regionally and nationally: in Pakistan - operations manager, Head of support services, finance, information, reporting, IT/telecom, ERU coordinator, logistics coordinator, transport manager, warehouse manager, airport manager, fleet manager, relief coordinator and three relief managers, water-sanitation coordinator, heads of sub delegations, health coordinator, ERU health coordinator, medical logistics coordinator, two field health managers, psycho-social support manager, shelter coordinator; and in Delhi -- regional reporting and regional disaster response.
Related Emergency or Annual Appeals: Pakistan Annual Appeal 05AA049, Afghanistan Annual Appeal 05AA045, India Annual Appeal 05AA047, South Asia Regional Annual Appeal 05AA051
Operational Summary:
The slow response to this appeal will soon have significant impact on the ability of the International Federation to respond to this emergency. The supply pipeline is open and relief goods are flowing in, but given the 33.7 per cent coverage of the appeal to date, this will not sustain the planned operation.
The operation is a race against time to get as much assistance to those who need it before winter conditions hit with full force in the coming weeks.
The official death toll in Pakistan is 41,000 and will continue to grow. Among the one million people severely affected, children and women appear to have borne the brunt of this disaster. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimates 50-60 per cent of the dead are children and that 32,000 are among the injured.
The combined resources of the International Federation and the Pakistan Red Crescent Society are in full swing. Five emergency response units (ERUs) are operational or being set up in the affected areas to provide basic health care, water and sanitation, logistics and IT/telecommunications services. The field assessment and coordination team (FACT) continues to coordinate the distribution of international relief supplies to the affected areas and conduct assessments, in close cooperation with the Pakistan Red Crescent and the regional disaster response teams from South Asia and Southeast Asia. The team is also working on design of the longer-term operation.
In support of the ongoing Pakistan Red Crescent relief operation, the Federation's distributions have begun this week. To date, 198 truckloads of relief items have reached affected areas. Shelter and medical needs are paramount. Approximately 4,600 tents have been distributed and 35,000 are in the supply pipeline.
Pakistan Red Crescent's medical teams have treated over 11,000 patients and the basic health care units, once fully operational, will have a capacity to treat at least 30,000 people for a three-month period.
The International Federation and Pakistan Red Crescent are among several major actors in this operation though even their combined resources are not meeting the needs. Increased and long-term support is desperately required.
For further information specifically related to this operation please contact:
- In Islamabad: Pakistan Red Crescent, Khalid Kibriya (Secretary General), Phone +92 51 9250 404; Fax: +92 51 925 0408
- In Islamabad: Pakistan Delegation, Irja Sandberg (Head of Delegation), email: ifrcpk08@ifrc.org, phone + 92 51 925 0416, mobile + 92 300 85 68 205, Asar ul-Haq (Disaster Management officer), email: ifrcpk01@ifrc.org; phone +92 51 925 0416, mobile +92 300 856 8136
- In Islamabad: South Asia Regional Delegation, Bob McKerrow (Head of Regional Delegation), email: ifrcin02@ifrc.org, phone + 92 3008503317
- In Delhi; India Delegation, Azmat Ulla (Head of Delegation), email: ifrcin65@ifrc.org, phone +91 11 2332 4203
- In Delhi; South Asia Regional Delegation, Nina Nobel (Programme Coordinator), email: ifrcin134@ifrc.org; phone +91 98 1030 1984
- In Geneva: Jagan Chapagain (South Asia Regional Officer), jagan.chapagain@ifrc.org, phone +41 22 730 4316; Hiroto Oyama (Desk officer, Asia Pacific Department), hiroto.oyama@ifrc.org, phone: +41 22 730 4273, Penny Elghady (Asia Pacific Department), penny.elghady@ifrc.org, phone: +41 22 730 4864.
- For logistics /mobilization and coordination of consignments, in-kind donations and shipping instructions please contact: Armen Petrosyan (Logistics Department), armen.petrosyan@ifrc.org, phone +4122 730 4263; Chloé Bitton (Logistics Department), chloe.bitton@ifrc.org, phone +41 22 730 4928.
All International Federation assistance seeks to adhere to the Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO's) in Disaster Relief and is committed to the Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response in delivering assistance to the most vulnerable. For support to or for further information concerning Federation programmes or operations in this or other countries, or for a full description of the national society profile, please access the Federation's website at http://www.ifrc.org
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