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In Numbers
33 million people affected by floods and flash floods in 94 districts.
According to the revised UN Appeal 20.6 million people require humanitarian assistance of which:
• 14.6m require emergency food assistance
• 7 million children require nutrition services
• 4 million children lack access to health services
• 5.5 million people no longer have safe drinking water
Highlights
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As of 24 February 2023, WFP has supported 3.4 million floodaffected people with 77,745 mt of relief food and nutrition assistance and over US$19.6 million in cash-based transfers (CBT). Starting mid-February 2023, WFP has been compelled to scale down its assistance due to resource constraints, at a time when significant humanitarian needs persist.
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Given the increasing trend in post-flood global acute malnutrition rates, WFP has initiated its Targeted Supplementary Feeding Programme (TSFP) in Sukkur and Qambar Shahdad Kot districts of Sindh and will expand to include Tharparkar district in Sindh, as well Sobhatpur, Naseerabad, Jaffarabad and Lasbela in Balochistan.
Situation Update
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Camps housing internally displaced persons in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), and Punjab provinces have closed, while 29,692 people remain displaced in Sindh province, with 5,132 people living in temporary tent cities or villages established by the District Disaster Management Authority.
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High food prices and a heavy reliance on imports continue to threaten Pakistan's food and nutrition security. Meanwhile, the 2022-2023 Rabi season1, combined with the unstable availability of wheat flour, has resulted in significant price fluctuations and uncertainty affecting other essential goods’ prices.
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According to WFP monitoring data, the floods led to a 53 percent increase in new malnutrition cases from July 2022 to January 2023 amongst children enrolled in the 50 pilot facilitation centres of the Benazir Nashonuma Programme, the national social protection scheme aimed at improved health and nutrition. Additional funding is urgently required to treat Moderate and Acute Malnutrition (MAM) to prevent the progression to Severe Acute Malnutrition.