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UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Region Humanitarian Situation Report No. 1 (Typhoon Yagi and Floods): 7 to 18 September 2024

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Highlights:

  • Super Typhoon Yagi, one of the strongest typhoons to hit Southeast Asia in decades, has left a trail of destruction in multiple countries. The typhoon initially made landfall in the Philippines on 2 September, before traversing China and then Viet Nam. The remnants of Yagi caused heavy rains across Lao PDR, Thailand and Myanmar.
  • Nearly 6 million children have been affected by the floods and landslides triggered by the typhoon in Viet Nam, Myanmar, Lao PDR, and Thailand, compromising their access to clean water, education, health care, food and shelter.
  • More than 5.5 million children live in the hardest hit provinces in Viet Nam, and approximately 2.4 million children have been left without access to education and protection including school-based programmes such as psychosocial support. UNICEF provided 80,000 water purification tablets for the Centre of Disease Control in Thai Nguyen, and 8,000 litres of water to Lao Cai Provincial Hospital to support the provision of essential services.
  • In Myanmar, at least 630,000 people are estimated to be affected and UNICEF is working with partners to distribute critical hygiene items for 170,000 people.
  • In Thailand, to complement the ongoing Government response to address the needs of approximately 68,000 affected children, UNICEF has so far delivered 1,000 hygiene kits, 1,000 baby kits and 1,000 Magic bags which contain educational and recreational materials.
  • 28,000 families are in need of support in Lao PDR as a result of Typhoon Yagi and resulting floods. Together with the Government, UNICEF is distributing 1.1 million chlorine tablets, 250 water buckets, 4,000 bars of soap, 400 packs of sanitary pads, and 150 water bottles.
  • UNICEF requests US$ 22,530,000 to address the most critical multi-sectoral needs of the affected children and their families in the region.

FUNDING OVERVIEW AND PARTNERSHIPS

UNICEF requests US$ 22,530,000 to meet the emergency needs of almost 6 million children affected by the floods and landslides caused by Super Typhoon Yagi and the ongoing heavy monsoon rains in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam. This funding will enable UNICEF to support multi-sectoral interventions covering nutrition, health, water sanitation and hygiene (WASH), education, child protection, gender-based violence in emergencies, protection against sexual exploitation and abuse, social protection and cash-based programming, social behaviour change (SBC), accountability to affected populations (AAP), humanitarian leadership and sector/cluster coordination.

In the reporting period, UNICEF was able to rapidly mobilize US$ 225,000 from existing Regional Humanitarian Thematic Funds, thanks to the generous support of the Government of Korea. Additional internal resources have been mobilized by UNICEF Country Offices, including an internal UNICEF loan to UNICEF Viet Nam from the Emergency Programme Fund (EPF) facility (for US $2,400,000) that will require reimbursement. UNICEF Viet Nam have also received timely and generous support from the Irish Embassy in Viet Nam (US$ 278,137) and the Korean National Committee for UNICEF (US$ 400,000).

Flexible thematic funding is essential to reach the most vulnerable children and families with life-saving support, as UNICEF in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam will continue to adapt and respond to the critical humanitarian needs as they evolve. UNICEF is grateful to all its partners for their continued support and collaboration and appeals for further assistance to the most vulnerable children in the region affected by the Typhoon Yagi and continuing monsoon rains.