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ACT Situation ReportPakistan 08/06 ACT Appeal ASSA51 (Revision 2) - Emergency Relief to Quake-affected Pakistan earthquakeGeneva, June 9, 2006 Information provided by ACT member Church World Service Pakistan/Afghanistan (CWS) and based on reports from CWS field staff and information from UNHCR, Dawn newspaper, the Government of Pakistan and ERRA; the following is a compilation of extracts from weekly reports on CWS-ACT activities during the first part of May From the May 3 report General situation: Over the past four weeks, nearly 90,000 earthquake survivors have left the organized camps – in total, more than 600 sites across North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Kashmir – to return to their places of origin. All but a few of the 150 officially serviced camps have been closed down, and inhabitants have dismantled their tents. The remaining camps have been identified for vulnerable groups (widows, orphans, disabled people, etc.), and it is estimated that 80 to 90 percent of survivors in NWFP and about 50 percent of survivors in Kashmir have left the tent villages. CWS-ACT response Psychosocial program The psychosocial support team continued work in counseling, meeting and planning for upcoming interventions. The team conducted assessments of different spontaneous camps in Batdarian and Potha as well as several villages near the destroyed city of Balakot. In the Batdarian camp, female team members visited families still residing in tents and held routine counseling sessions in addition to a general meeting for camp residents. It was shared that there was a need for construction of a school and access to clean drinking water. CWS, working with ACT member Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) and its partner, Dosti, is looking into addressing these needs with their expertise. The team also formed groups for conducting return monitoring surveys, and a questionnaire
for this purpose was developed. The survey will be carried out in the Paras, Jareed and
Kawai areas of Balakot. Survey trips were still pending due to major landslides in the area.
The team also organized an informal training session for the staff of the emergency field The team plans to collaborate with an innovative theater group called Maqsad, which works in different camps, by providing children with recreational activities through stage play and puppet shows. Hygiene promotion The hygiene promotion team has been conducting promotion activities in camps and schools. The team arranged activities for school children in Batheria camp in Mansehra, where different classes received series of training lasting three days each. After the sessions, the team discussed health and hygiene-related issues with the female residents of the camp. Work was also undertaken to protect the purity of spring water in Batheria camp. Four of the growing spontaneous camps in Ghazi Kot were visited along with the psychosocial team. The teams are speaking to local representatives in order to agree on forthcoming training sessions. The hygiene promotion team also visited schools in Chattar Plains and Battal. Water and sanitation The water and sanitation team has been carrying out assessments in different areas of Allai, Thakot and Balakot. Storage tanks for Dedal and Shamang villages are under construction in Sirian Valley. Also, repairs to water pipes and lines were carried out in Battagram, Battlal and Chattar Plains. New establishments included the drilling of boreholes in Haryala, Ahi and Jallabad. Latrines are being installed and repaired in Chattar Plains. In addition, a contract was signed with a local company to drill boreholes in three different villages of Mansehra. Recovery assessment and monitoring Compilation of 224 household and 13 village profiles continued in the areas of Chakasar, Shangla, Palaas, Pattan, Kohistan and Balakot in Mansehra. The recovery assessment and monitoring The team is planning a week-long joint field monitoring and assessment trip with the psychosocial team to Jared, Kawai and Kaghan Valley near Balakot in Mansehra. The team organized monitoring data, beneficiary distribution records, assessment records and assisted the information management team in preparing distribution reports. The team is arranging a one-day training session for its staff on Gender Dimensions in Disasters. A member of the team also attended a seven-day Human Resource Management training in Murree, organized by CWS. From the May 10 report General situation With over 100,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) having returned to their places of origin, the onus is now on the process of surveys, classifications, codes and compensation to pave the way toward reconstruction of over half a million homes in the earthquake-affected areas of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Kashmir. An Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) spokesperson said that the process of completing the surveys for disbursement of assistance to earthquake survivors may take up to two months. By July, however, Northern Pakistan is likely to be in the grip of heavy downpours, which could slow housing reconstruction. Earthquake survivors have voiced concerns over the prospect of facing another winter without proper shelters. The situation is still serious. Heat has replaced the chill of winter, and the problems survivors face go far beyond the immediate short-term considerations of weather. Homes, lives and livelihoods need to be rebuild, while basic services and infrastructure remain shattered. CWS-ACT response Psychosocial program Responding to the change in needs following the decommissioning of officially serviced camps, the psychosocial team moved out into villages and settlements in the Biliani and Mangli areas of Balakot. Psychosocial officers said working directly with the affected population in a village setting was a more satisfying experience for all involved, rather than in the camps. Female team members took part in a meeting in Biliani with a designated child-protection officer from World Vision International to raise awareness of the rights of children. Similar sessions took place in Mangli, where discussions were focused on various psychosocial issues related to women and children. Meetings with men were arranged by male team members in the same two areas, where issues were discussed both in groups as well as through individual counseling. The team also participated in community recreational activities such as a cricket match in
Balakot City. The team organized a so-called Mehndi-Churian function (centering on the decoration of hands and feet with henna as well as giving and exchanging colorful glass bangles) at the Government Girls High School in Billiani, where 300 girls are reported to have lost their lives in the earthquake. Even students who were not regularly attending classes due to trauma or depression
participated in the event, and teachers extended their gratitude to the team for providing the Hygiene promotion The hygiene promotion team continued its outreach to spontaneous camps and schools to educate children on basic hygiene and disease prevention. The team conducted a workshop for the children in the Batheria spontaneous camp, teaching them how to improve their basic hygiene. Twenty women in the same camp were consulted, and it was shared that the spring water protection which had begun the week before was now complete. Plans were also finalized for conducting hygiene training sessions for the teachers of 15 schools identified to receive installations of latrines shortly. At a government primary school in Chatter Plains, a class of 33 students received hygiene training. The surveying team interviewed 80 girls from the Government Girls Middle School in Balakot. It was noted that the school lacked basic facilities such as access to clean drinking water and functioning latrines. Nearby in Khala Dhaka, the local hygiene promotion team has completed its training phase and will begin its work very soon. Water and sanitation The water and sanitation team continued to repair or establish sources of clean drinking water. Construction of storage tanks in two villages in Sirian Valley - Dedal and Shamung - was completed, whereas the construction of the main pipeline is still in progress. The team also conducted assessments of four more schools in Tehsil (county) Allai and visited an additional three schools in Chattar Plains to plan for future work. Borehole drilling was initiated, and coordination with CWS partner DOSTI was finalized regarding the establishment of latrines. Transport of materials was facilitated to all of the seven schools identified, and actual installation of the latrines and water supply has started. Sixteen latrines are now complete. In Battagram, the repair of essential pipelines is still in progress, while the installation of water lines to Sharkulei Village coming from the Ashwal area was delayed due to the presence of illegally connected private lines. The team entered into an agreement with a local drilling company to drill three boreholes and to provide water for three villages as well as latrines for one of them. The drilling work in these three areas is ongoing, and the materials to build latrines for one village have been delivered, and work will begin shortly. A new base camp administrator has also been appointed who will facilitate the work of the team and handle matters such as procurement, fuel consumption control, etc., and will be coordinating closely with the team leader. Capacity-building program The capacity-building program worked with the recovery assessment and monitoring team to chart out schedules for visiting eight union councils and conduct sessions with their councilors. The meetings will be to follow up on the previous two workshops on recovery management where the local civil administration was targeted for building skills and sensitivity for the coming months. Staff in this program also participated in a training workshop on hygiene promotion, which was organized jointly by UNICEF and the Society for Sustainable Development in Mansehra. Among other aspects, the training was aimed at enhancing presentation and communication skills, session Recovery assessment and monitoring The recovery assessment and monitoring team (RAM) organized data from field monitoring trips in March and April, which includes more than 400 household profiles and 25 village assessments, records of relief assessments and tokens, reconciliation of commodities and distribution data, as well as several other reports from monitoring visits. In addition to a range of internal coordination tasks and preparation for an upcoming workshop for the emergency field office, the team also prepared a presentation with beneficiary data tabulated by district, tehsil (county), union council and village level complementing pictorial accounts of monitored distributions. The CD will be shared with donor and implementing partners. A strategic planning workshop organized by CWS and its implementing partner, DOSTI, in Mansehra was held. Its main objective was to review past and current activities as well as outline the monitoring as well as reporting processes, tools, and methodologies required to enhance the partnership governing the Construction Trade Training Centers.
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