Logistics update / March 2nd - March 8th 2006
Summary and Highlights - Days since October 8th Earthquake:151
- UNJLC is completing priority road assessments in the affected area to improve map accuracy and determine accessibility.
- LSS (Logistics Supply System) pipeline data is currently being used to make air and road tonnage requirement projections. Training courses in the LSS program are now available at UNJLC.
- Helicopter capacity has decreased once again with the redeployment of an additional UNHAS Mi-8.
Contents
1. Road Access
2. UNJLC Mission Update
3. Mapping
4 LSS Pipeline
5. Aviation Update: Helicopter Status
1. Road Access
Many zones in the affected area remain inaccessible by road because of lack of infrastructure and constant landslides. This situation is expected to worsen over the coming months due to heavy rainfall and snowmelt over March and April followed by the summer monsoon season. UNJLC is coordinating a detailed survey of roads in the affected area in order to further determine the most cost effective mode of transport to the affected area. Members of the UNJLC GIS section are currently in Batagram and Muzaffarabad to work on completing priority area road assessments for both access and mapping purposes. This is being done in close collaboration with UNOPS. Meanwhile the Red-No-Go on the Jhelum Valley road has been lifted as far as Naila. For daily road updates and corresponding map see www.unjlc.org/pakistan/land/road_conditions.
2. UNJLC Mission Update
As mentioned in bulletin 36, item 4, UNJLC's mandate is due to end on April 12th. A process is now underway to list the functions that UNJLC is currently providing. Clusters and agencies will then be invited to indicate which of those functions will be necessary beyond the end of March, and the information will be used to determine the best way for those functions to be continued along with which organisations could potentially take them on. The feedback obtained will be used to identify whether a continued role for UNJLC exists within the Pakistan relief operation or whether those tasks which will continue should be handed on to other agencies.
3. Mapping
UNHCR has now compiled origin data for the population currently in IDP camps. UNJLC has now combined this information with a road vulnerability layer to determine which of these areas of return are likely to be accessible by road and which are not. The map indicates that bottlenecks in migration are likely to occur in many areas due to damaged roads and bridges, landslides and flooding, or basic lack of road infrastructure in certain regions. (see image attached)
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