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 DRR Challenges • Risk reduction investments 583,402 houses flooded 548,671 damaged and become life-threatening 34,731 destroyed 73,016 tube wells investments temporary damaged 137,798 hectare of crops damaged; • 119 dead (97 from Inter-sectoral coordination 13,126 hectare of drowning, 8 from aman seedbed for recovery is critical snake-bite, 7 from destroyed; Lightning, 01 from ARI 13,404 hectare and 6 others) summer vegetables • The severity of the situation washed away; NDRCC Estimated is not adequately reflected in People affected the media 7.6 Million 28 Districts 400,000 children in 2,500 Government 42 cattle and 20,811 primary schools have poultry dead; been affected either 1.5 million cattle and the school buildings 5.3 million poultry weren damaged or affected used as flood shelters. 6,641 kilometers of roads damaged and 1275 bridges and/or culverts 1,515 kilometers of embankments damaged
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 7.6 million people in high risk of high risk of water-related diseases and infections 307,646 displaced people in Shelter (cumulative; 1,595 shelter opened (cumulative 14 July 2019) 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 operationalize 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 NNGO HRP Preparatory UNRCO SITREP #1 NAWG SITREP #1 Meeting Meeting Inter-cluster CARE/DDM HCTT Monsoon Flood Meeting #1 Trigger JNA Meeting spell #1 • JNA report finalized today • RC/UNCT endorses HRP • CERF RR triggering • Donor briefing on HRP • HRP Monitoring and 30 July 19 18 July 19 22 July 19 10 July 19 23 July 19 27 July 19 28 July 19 13 July 19 reporting
Proposed Humanitarian Response Plan Overall estimated 2-Phase approach Target locations Target population budget • Immediate • Out of 28 districts • Affected Female • Around USD 25 million; Humanitarian affected by the floods Headed Households • It includes one-month Assistance (4 months: 160,000 HH in the 9 • 9 districts are MPCG assistance for an August 2019 - most affected districts prioritized for the estimated 30,000 November); response • Equivalent to 736,000 families who lost their • Recovery Phase people (4.6 per houses entirely, (December-May 2020) household) equivalent to USD 2 million
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