Peru: Flooding and Landslides Situation Report No. 2 - English Summary (As of 31 March 2023)

This report was prepared by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), in collaboration with the Resident Coordinator's Office, the agencies, funds and programs of the United Nations System, information from member organisations of the National Humanitarian Network (RHN) and official information from the Government of Peru. It covers the period from 27 March to 1 April 2023. The next situation report should be issued around 12 April 2023.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Approximately 517,000 people have urgent humanitarian needs, according to preliminary estimates by the National Humanitarian Network. This number may increase as national damage and impact reports progress.

• Humanitarian access is one of the greatest challenges for the response as populations are still isolated due to the significant damage caused to national infrastructure by the rains. • Around 75,900 households were affected with direct damage to their homes (around 410,000 people), mostly in the regions of Lambayeque, Piura and Lima.

• At least 55,000 children continue to be affected in terms of adequate access to education due to direct damage to schools.

• Livelihoods have been seriously affected in the three regions declared in emergency, specifically agricultural activities, commerce, transport and tourism, among others

517K People in need

73K Homes affected

12K Homes destroyed or rendered uninhabitable

196 Health centres affected

127KM of water network infrastructure affected

SITUATION OVERVIEW

• To date, 1,056 districts have been declared in a state of emergency (54 per cent of the country).

• For the northern regions of Tumbes, Piura and Lambayeque, among the most affected, authorities issued an emergency declaration of the highest level.

• The rainy season (December to March-April) intensified in March due to the warming of the Pacific waters from the "El Niño Costero" phenomenon and the passage of Cyclone Yaku, resulting in the current flooding situation.

• National authorities are still quantifying the extent of the floods’ damage, impact and affected populations. As such official figures are likely to increase.

• The National Humanitarian Network (RHN, per its Spanish acronym) and the Government have made preliminary estimates based on official figures and vulnerability studies, estimating that some 517,000 people are in urgent humanitarian need.

• The emergency led education authorities to postpone school activities in affected areas (or revert to remote learning) on 20 March, after the start of public school activities. The Ministry of Education (MINEDU) indicated that more than 6.2 million students have started classes in public schools (95.7 per cent of the student population), a percentage that is significantly lower in some affected regions (e.g., Lambayeque 56.1 per cent).