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MIRINAE STORM-FLOOD
Joint-assessment
to Phu Yen and Khanh Hoa
Assessment mission group
Name
Organization
Expertise
1). Mr. Nguyen Van Gia
Save the Children
DRR/response/shelter
2). Mr. Le Quang Vinh
PACCOM
Partner relations
3). Ms. Bui Thi Cay
Save the Children
Child protection
4). Ms. Nguyen Thanh Hien UNICEF
WASH Specialist
5). Dr. Cao Viet Hoa
Health Specialist
UNICEF
6). Mr. Nguyen Cong Trang Oxfam GB
Livelihood
7). Mr. Pham Quang Trung
Pro-poor Market
Oxfam Hong Kong
Methodologies
• Review of provincial and district status reports
on damages by storm no. 11 (MIRINAE), rescue
& responses to the DISASTER victims.
• On-site data collection: field observation,
interviews with households, group discussions
and communal & district officials in affected
communes
• Meeting with provincial departments (PCFSC,
RC, DARD, DOH, DOET, DOFA, PPC Bureau)
Highlights of impacts
• Serious dead numbers in Phu Yen, left children orphan,
families lost bread winners
• Livelihood affected seriously
• Families have lost their homes and possessions and
been displaced.
• Lack of food and water, children going hungry.
• Hygiene and sanitary problem with cases of highly
flooded.
• Children’s access to education is disrupted.
• The poorest families are worst hit - their recovery will be
long without assistance.
KEY FINDINGS
Housing
• Large scale of
damage on housing
including collapsed
houses and roof
blown away. The
damage is found in all
visited districts
• The number of houses damaged found more in Phu
Yen where experienced bad flooding.
– Example: Phu Yen: 79 people died, 1,376 houses totally collapsed ; 35,994
house partly damaged; about 50,000 people in Phu Yen and Khanh Hoa had to
evacuate from home.
• Huge number of children
lost their text books and
note-books due to flood or
typhoon swept away
• Many schools are
scheduled for re-open but
in some communes the
schools are expected to be
closed for 1 – 3 weeks..
Education
• Many schools children in
families falling into poverty
and not expected going back
to school.
• Stress over teachers and
children with busy learning
schedule to catch up with nonaffected areas
• Some children last fathers and
mothers need special care
Health
• Reported damage of health facilities in many places
• Medical equipment and drugs damaged due to power cut off
and flood water
• Availability of mobile medical teams but still limited
• High risk of disease outbreak (including H1N1) and waterborn diseases
Livelihood
• Agriculture production is main income
• Loss of crops (rice, maize, sugar cane, and others)
• Agriculture land seriously damaged
Livelihood (Con)
• Huge loss of aquaculture products and materials in coastal
districts in both Phu Yen and Khanh Hoa (fish cage damaged
in Phu Yen :19,485)
• Loss of fishing boats (e.g. Phu Yen: 227; Khanh Hoa: 85)
• Loss of animal (In Phu Yen Poultry: 229,149 Cattle 9,102
and Pig: 5,312
• Loss of farming tools in flooded area (both Phu Yen and
Khanh Hoa….)
• Facing long time to recover the main income production
Health,
Water &
Sanitation
• Toilets submerged has been polluting the water areas
• Lack of drinking water: estimation of 30% to 40% of flooded
dug wells treated by DOH and on-going
• Increased risks of dengue fever, H1N1, diarrhea and other
water-borne diseases due to poor hygiene practices and
contaminated water
Aids to date
and pledged
• Government pledged to provide rice (1000 ton/each
province) and cash (100 bil for PY, 20 bil for Khanh Hoa)
but procedure is slow
• Government supported 3 mil/dead person, and pledged
to supported 5mil/fully collapsed house.
Aids (Con)
• Urgent provision of rice, noodle, foodstuff and
bottled water have been done by different
organizations (most for Phu Yen, esp for Dong
Xuan district).
• Some home necessities have been provided by
RC and individuals, but insufficient
• Labor forces (army, police, universities, youth,
etc) have been called for public support and
surounding environment clearance
Gaps
• Aids of rice and cash from government are slow,
need urgent supports
• Aid for rehousing (collapsed) is too small, and slow
Gaps (Con)
• Poor families will lack food for 1-6 months due to
loss of food crop and wet during the flood
• Food stuff and nutrition food is very insufficient:
• Risk of increased malnutrition among children
• No party pledged yet for education and health care
• No cash and force to recover the damaged land
• Poor knowledge in DR and CBDRM
• No sustainable livelihoods
Recommendations
Short term
• Food aid: Immediate support of food-stuff (local dried fish),
and bottled water to the people in seriously affected and
isolated communities (especially communes in Dong Xuan
of Phu Yen) some communes of the ethnic minority is
isolated and badly need urgent support
• Shelter: provide roofing materials for unroofed house
households.
• Education: Roofs for and fence for damaged schools,
books, notebooks, student kits for children and teaching
materials
• Nonfood items: particularly needed for families lost houses
(including blankets, clothes, household utensils, lighting
fuel…)
• Technical supports: Provide technical assistances for
recovering after shock in all areas
• Sanitation: Cleaning of surrounding environment
immediately;
• Provision of hygiene kits to households with completely
collapsed houses;
• Provision of water purification, cloramin B, Aqua tab
(accompanied by instruction) and restoring of water
sources in flooded areas.
• Health: Free health check up, provision of essential
medicines especially to treat water-born diseases
including skin infection
• IEC materials on health and
environment
• Cash for poor and
near poor families
Long term
• Reconstruction collapsed houses : top up Government
support (current policy 5,000,000 dong/house and
12,000,000 if this hh is poor ranked)
• Recover damaged agriculture land
• Support of seed/seedlings and fertilizers for next crop
• Livestock breedings support or loans to buy
• Provide Farming techniques and tools
• Fishery tools and equipments
• Repairs of schools, irrigation work and inter-village roads
and bridge
• DRR programmes include early warning, CBDRM and
safe house construction techniques
Challenges/Constraints
1- Insufficient data collected due to:
-
Provincial & District Officials did not have a complete set of data,
especially humanitarian assisted data such as total number of
children without books, notebooks and pens for continued school,
total number of people lacking drinking water, food & NFI;
- RA team could not meet with relevant people in visited communes
as they were busy with distribution of in kind donations, their own
assessment of losses and other businesses after disaster.
2- Many seriously affected communes unreached by the RA team due
to:
- Time consuming;
- Communes were not reached by normal road, but by boats and all
the boats were used for aid transportation.
Thank you!