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In Numbers
33 million people affected by floods and flash floods in 84 districts.
At least 1,696 people have died, and 12,867 have been injured since 14 June. 2.04 million houses, 25,187 schools, and 13,098 km of roads have been destroyed or damaged.
20.6 million people require humanitarian assistance according to revised UN Flash Appeal.
Highlights
• WFP reached 106,731 flood-affected people in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Punjab, and Sindh in the past week. Since the floods started WFP assisted 709,414 people with 4,658 mt of food and US$617,531 in cash-based transfers.
• WFP is using 27 boats from “Operation Rescue 1122” – a government entity – to provide food assistance to a total of 52,000 people in hard-to-reach areas of Sindh.
• A revised UN Flash Appeal was launched on 4 October. WFP is rapidly scaling up to reach 2.7 million out of 4 million people in Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Phase 4 (emergency), with relief food and nutrition assistance, as well as livelihoods and logistical support.
Situation Update
• The floods have exacerbated previously high levels of food insecurity and malnutrition. Latest assessments by WFP and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimate 14.6 million people require emergency food assistance, including 4 million people in Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Phase 4 (emergency).
• Headline inflation increased in August by 2.45 percent month-on-month and by 27.3 percent yearon-year – the highest since 1975. CPI food inflation increased by 29.5 percent year-on-year. Prices increased for wheat (+1.4 percent) and rice Irri-6 (+1.5 percent), and decreased for wheat flour (-2.5 percent) compared to July.
• The Government of Pakistan is leading the response: The National Flood Response and Coordination Centre, comprising federal stakeholders, provincial governments, and the Pakistan Armed Forces oversees the national flood response. The Provincial Disaster Management Authorities (PDMA) have established sector coordination mechanisms to coordinate the response in partnership with the humanitarian community.
• The Government Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) plans to give 17.9 million people (2.7 million households) a one-off cash payment of PKR 25,000 (US$109) per flood-affected family. Over PKR 59.7 billion (US$260.3 million) has already been disbursed to 2.7 million flood-affected households in Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, KP, Punjab, and Sindh as of 4 October, representing 86 percent of all planned disbursements (PKR 68.9 billion or US$286.6 million).