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Monsoon Floods 2019 UNCT meeting

July 31, 2019

Henry Glorieux, Humanitarian Affairs Advisor Kazi Shahidur Rahman, Humanitarian Affairs Specialist UN Resident Coordinator Office, Bangladesh

Monsoon Floods Overview (July 2019)

▪ Heavy rainfall in July flooded 28 districts. Two major river systems Jamuna & Tista recorded highest flood level in last 100 years ▪ Presently major rivers are in falling trend except the Kushiyara and rivers of southern part of the country (FFWC) ▪ The upstream water flow likely to aggravate the floods situation in the North/North-Easter parts of Bangladesh ▪ Large sections of embankments rapidly washed away leading to prolonged flooding and waterlogging issues with all the consequences it will have ▪ 9 districts very severely impacted. High distress for the communities and high disruption of social and economic services and activities ▪ Long term impact if not addressed.

Monsoon Floods 2019 Highlights

NDRCC Estimated People affected 7.6 Million 28 Districts

583,402 houses flooded 548,671 damaged and 34,731 destroyed 73,016 tube wells temporary damaged

137,798 hectare of crops damaged; 13,126 hectare of aman seedbed destroyed; 13,404 hectare summer vegetables washed away; 42 cattle and 20,811 poultry dead; 1.5 million cattle and 5.3 million poultry affected 6,641 kilometers of roads damaged and 1275 bridges and/or culverts 1,515 kilometers of embankments damaged 400,000 children in 2,500 Government primary schools have been affected either the school buildings weren damaged or used as flood shelters. 119 dead (97 from drowning, 8 from snake-bite, 7 from

Lightning, 01 from ARI and 6 others)

DRR Challenges

• Risk reduction investments

become life-threatening investments

• Inter-sectoral coordination

for recovery is critical

• The severity of the situation

is not adequately reflected in the media

Monsoon Floods Impacts

In most of the affected districts the main livelihoods are agriculture based daily wage labor. Food insecurity is associated with seasonality in the affected areas. Possibility of disease outbreak due to polluted Water and disrupted Sanitation System; Continuation of primary health care services to affected population 307,646 displaced people in Shelter (cumulative; 1,595 shelter opened (cumulative 14 July 2019) 7.6 million people in high risk of high risk of water-related diseases and infections

57,406 (29,407 boys and 28,002 girls) school age children have been displaced. Displaced families living in the same room or space regardless of their age, sex and gender identity risk of GBV; Menstrual hygiene practice is negatively impacted, due to toilet facilities affected by flood; Women face difficulties in cooking, collecting water and firewood

760,469 U5 children and 456,281 PLW affected; 60,838 U5 wasted (SAM or MAM); 1.2 million U5 and PLW are risk of malnutrition

GoB Response- Lead Ministry: MoDMR

▪ Inter-ministerial meeting organized to coordinate the preparedness and response efforts of different ministries ▪ NDRCC continuously monitoring the situations and disseminating compiled information; ▪ Continuous field visit by MoDMR State Minister and Senior officials in the affected Districts; ▪ Warnings and operational directives disseminated via the media (TV and radio) guided the preparedness and response efforts; ▪ Health Emergency Operation center under DG Health are

• perationalize and opened;

▪ 2,451 Emergency health support team are operationalize in 74 Upazila of 28 districts; ▪ Allocation of GR rice, GR cash, cash for children food, dry food, tent, corrugated iron sheet, housing grants, fodder.

Humanitarian Community Response

Timeline of Key Inter-agency Actions

10 July 19 Monsoon Flood spell #1 Inter-cluster Meeting #1 13 July 19 18 July 19 NAWG SITREP #1 UNRCO SITREP #1 22 July 19 27 July 19 23 July 19 CARE/DDM Trigger JNA NNGO Meeting 28 July 19 HCTT Meeting HRP Preparatory Meeting

• JNA report finalized today
• RC/UNCT endorses HRP
• CERF RR triggering
• Donor briefing on HRP
• HRP Monitoring and

reporting

30 July 19

Proposed Humanitarian Response Plan

2-Phase approach

• Immediate

Humanitarian Assistance (4 months: August 2019 - November);

• Recovery Phase

(December-May 2020)

Target locations

• Out of 28 districts

affected by the floods

• 9 districts are

prioritized for the response

Target population

• Affected Female

Headed Households 160,000 HH in the 9 most affected districts

• Equivalent to 736,000

people (4.6 per household)

Overall estimated budget

• Around USD 25 million;
• It includes one-month

MPCG assistance for an estimated 30,000 families who lost their houses entirely, equivalent to USD 2 million

Thank you!