Meeting minutes: Sphere India -URS Sub commitee members Nov 27 th 2006

Meeting of Sphere India-URS sub-committee members

A meeting was held on 27th November 2006 to discuss Sphere-Unified Response Strategy (URS) at Seeds India Office, New-Delhi.

Participants

Ms. Shakuntala Suhag - UNDMT
Ms. Shirley Mcquenpatterson -UNICEF
Ms. Anisa Draboo -Oxfam GB
Mr. Sanjeev Bhanja - EFICOR
Mr. Ramesh Babu -EFICOR
Mr. Pankaj Kumar - Oxfam GB
Mr. Manu Gupta -Seeds India
Mr. Anshu Sharma -Seeds India
Mr. Vikrant Mahajan -Red R India (guest invitee)
Mr. Arjun Khajuria - Sphere-URS Focal Person


Views and discussion

Mr. Anshu Sharma, introducing the members with recent developments with reference to URS secretariat.

• First meeting of URS since June-July 2006 other than the emergency meetings
• Since then URS Focal Person (Arjun Khajuria) on board
• A Sphere-URS blog and country–wide emailing list set up for streamlined information sharing
• The recruitment of an IT/GIS person to support the URS secretariat underway
• URS to focus on three priority states of Assam, Bihar and Orissa
• A district level piloting approach would be adopted in the focus states
• Seeds India to provide organizational support to the project and host the secretariat. Manu Gupta would also be present in future Sphere-URS meetings as special invitee and will be engaged with programme aspects of URS at SEEDS.

Mr Arjun Khajuria

- A 15 minutes presentation introducing URS, its need, varying perception of URS, approach in year one, what would piloting URS mean and expected outcomes was made.
- Subsequently, the draft copy of the Sphere-URS concept note was shared with the members and certain parts discussed.
- The action plan from December 06 to March 2007 was shared with the members.
- Inputs and feedback form the sub-committee members was welcomed on the draft copy of the concept note.
- Cooperation and linkages were sought from the sub-committee members.



Mr.Pankaj Kumar

• Expressed views on the selection criteria of the pilot districts in Orissa
• The type of hazard for which URS would concentrate in Orissa

Mr. Sanjay

• URS should seek to optimize the role of Panchayats and Zilaparishad in disaster response

• State level legislative frameworks on disaster management to be used as a reference

• Local NGOs with development profile to be more effective in disaster management

• Preplanning and framework at local level among communities and NGOs with reference to disaster response to be agreed upon

• URS should include the concerns of women, children and other sections of the society like the differently-abled and set certain policies.


Ms. Shakuntala Suhag

The advocacy for the concerns of women, children, adolescents, differently adbled and old aged people in disaster response policies should be started from an operational level and grass root level.

Ms. Shirley Mcquenpatterson

URS intends to impress the need for including the concerns of women, children, differently abled and aged groups with Sphere member organizational heads so as to have an long-term and policy level influence in disaster planning, preparedness and response.

Mr. Vikrant Mahajan

Introduced the background and concept of developing E-learning tool for Sphere Standards


The meeting ended with unanimous agreement on the approach and the workplan. The draft of the Sphere URS guidelines, hard copies of which were shared in the meeting, is to be emailed to members and their inputs sought on the same. Based in the inputs from members and field inputs from Arjun’s work in Orissa and Assam, a revised draft will be circulated subsequently.

UNICEF flood response briefing 22 sept 06

Briefing Note
22 September 2006

HIGHLIGHTS

• Heavy monsoon rains continue across several states and cause fresh floods in parts of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal.
• The intensity of floods in the last fortnight is relatively low. The state and district authorities, with the assistance of civil society and other partners, are providing essential life-saving support to the affected population.
• In response to state governments’ requests, UNICEF has provided assistance in nine flood affected states so far.

Current Situation and Assessment

OVERALL
• More than 2,250 human lives have been lost since 1 June 2006 on account of floods. The cattle/livestock loss exceeds 110,000 and approx. 180,000 houses have been partially or fully damaged.
• UNICEF is continuing relief assistance along with government and NGO partners in the affected states. Possible specific rehabilitation needs are also being looked into.

WEST BENGAL

• A rainstorm battered coastal Bengal on 20 September affecting 3 districts of South 24 Parganas, Purba Midnapore and Paschim Midnapore with most of the damages in South 24 Parganas. 21 deaths have been confirmed so far. Seven of them were children. Around 50,000 houses were damaged and more than 360,000 persons are affected. Of these 350,000 were in South 24 Parganas and 10,000 in Purba and Paschim Midnapore districts.

• Due to continuous rainfall in the catchment areas of Jharkhand and Bihar, water from the dams in the Damodar Valley Corporation areas is being released. The flood waters are expected to enter other Blocks by evening of 22 September and, if the rainfall in the catchment areas continues, the flood situation is likely to become worse.

• The Government of West Bengal has immediately sanctioned Rs. 45 million (approx US$ 1 million) for distribution of relief. The district administration has initiated various relief measures from the state government: 20,000 tarpaulin sheets have already been received in the districts, out of which 6,000 have already been distributed in the affected areas.

• UNICEF convened an Inter Agency Meeting on 21 September to discuss relief efforts being initiated and planned by each agency through their partners. Caritas is releasing funds to their partners for emergency relief work, CRS is sending 60 metric tonnes of food, LWS is sending 27,600 packets of BP5 high protein biscuits and CASA is planning to send tarpaulins and food.

• UNICEF is currently supporting the Community Based Disaster Preparedness (CBDP) project in these affected areas. In coordination with the block administration, all the task forces established under the CBDP project are fully engaged in rescue activities, clearing roads to re-establish communication, clearing debris of collapsed mud houses and relocating affected families to safer places and so on.

• As part of preparedness, UNICEF has also supported the state government by providing 2.0 million halozone tablets, 960,000 ORS packets and 456,000 sachets of water disinfectants. Some of these materials are being used in the affected areas. UNICEF is preparing for immediate provision of additional 50,000 ORS packets, 0.5 million halozone tablets and 5 metric tonnes of bleaching powder.


BIHAR

• Though there is normally drought in some parts of Bihar, rainfall in Nepal has led to flooding in parts of Muzaffarpur, Sithamarhi, Darbhanga and Samastipur districts. So far no out break of diseases have been reported.

• The ill maintained embankments on river Bagamati breached in Muzaffarpur district, leading to water entering the fields and low lying houses. The total population effected is about 250,000 out of which 150,000 are women and children. The affected people have shifted to high places within the village or to neighboring towns and villages. The major problem that women and children are facing is the lack of proper sanitation facilities. The local CBDP groups, supported by UNICEF, have started construction of temporary toilet facilities.

• UNICEF has pre-positioned essential supplies to all the flood affected districts.

• In Muzaffarpur district 150,000 ORS, 50,000 halozone tablets and 100 bags of bleaching powder were immediately released through a local NGO partner, Muzaffarpur Development Agency. This was reported in the local newspapers. CBDP groups have also sent 12,000 food packets to the affected population with UNICEF support.


ANDHRA PRADESH
• Due to heavy rain, four districts have been affected by fresh floods and 31 people have died. Six relief camps have been started by the district administration for about 3,900 people. The situation is under control and no request for assistance has been received by the UNICEF state office so far.

GUJARAT
• The situation has improved in the last week and no major outbreak of disease has been reported. Disease surveillance in the affected areas is ongoing and 80,436 cases of diarrhea, 8,479 cases of common cold and cough, 31,343 cases of ARI, 113,263 skin disease and 291,702 cases of fever have been treated.
• Drinking water supply is back to normal in most parts of the flood affected areas, particularly Surat. In total 14,264 wells, 29,481 water tanks and 429,024 water bodies have been chlorinated. In addition 13 million chlorine tablets and 33 tons of bleaching powder have been used by the Water Department.
• All schools have resumed normal functioning and 80% of children are back in the schools. Attendance of children from slum areas is still low as their parents are still in the process of re-establishing themselves.
• Last week UNICEF supplied 100,000 more packets of ORS and 100 fogging machines to the government.

MAHARASHTRA
• The situation is normal in all the flood affected districts of the State. Disease surveillance has been stopped in Greater Mumbai with effect from 11 September.
• A total of 596,279 ORS packets and 317,996 chlorine tablets supplied by UNICEF were distributed. UNICEF is also providing diagnostic kits, medicines, Elisa readers, gum boots and drugs to the State Government.

ORISSA
• The situation has improved greatly with most of the affected villages gradually moving back to their houses with the water receding.
• UNICEF efforts with the other NGOs have been focused on restoration of services by activities such as disinfection of water sources, house to house hygiene promotion using the support of the 120 trained volunteers, monitoring the use of the halozone tables and PUR and working with the communities on water handling. These activities are part of the efforts to ensure water and sanitation related diseases are minimized. UNICEF continues to work closely with the OSDMA, RWSSS and Health department to monitor the emergency related activities in the affected districts.
• As a long term solution, UNICEF has initiated a discussion with the Department of Water Resources and Irrigation for effective monitoring of the storage dams, which has been responsible for perennial flooding and damages in many parts of Orissa. Similarly, attention is being focused on effective early warning system.

RAJASTHAN
• The situation has stabilized in Barmer district. The displaced persons are gradually moving into tents provided by the government. Thirteen camps have been set up in which 2,460 families are to be accommodated.
• UNICEF is installing toilet facilities and bathing cubicles in these camp sites at the request of the District Administration. Drinking water is being provided by the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) through 120 tankers. Random testing with chloroscopes by UNICEF indicates that the level of residual chlorine is satisfactory at the user level. UNICEF will also launch a water quality surveillance system in the camps.
• Stagnant water bodies in the inundated area continue to be a threat because of possibilities of vector breeding. As expected, malaria cases are on the rise. Of the 30,000 blood slides tested, nearly 2.5% have tested positive (700 for p.vivax and 45 for p.falciparum). An indoor residual spraying programme has been launched by the district health administration and bed nets are also being procured locally.
• Medical camps have been set up in the 13 camp sites to provide outpatient treatment and 50 mobile medical teams are continuing to provide service. Special immunisation sessions are being conducted in 5 blocks.

Rajasthan floods 18th Sept IAG meeting minutes

Meeting of Interagency Group (IAG) to discuss the common response plan for Barmer floods

A meeting was held on 18 September 2006 to discuss the response plans of various humanitarian agencies and NGOs to Barmer floods. Following agencies participated in the meeting:-

1. Mr. Nirmal Minj- Catholic Relief Services(CRS) Rajasthan.
2. Ms. Kavita Gandhi- Oxfam GB Ahemdabad
3. Mr. Manish Agarwal- Oxfam GB Ahemdabad
4. Ms. Girija Devi- Programme Communications, UNICEF Jaipur
5. Ms. Niti Sethi- SCF, Jaipur
6. Mr. Nirmal Chittora- WES, UNICEF Jaipur
7. Mr. Pankaj Mathur- WES, UNICEF Jaipur
8. Mr. Dipak Roy- WES, UNICEF Jaipur
9. Ms. Vijayalakshmi Joshi- Action Aid, Jaipur

The response from each of the participating agencies was discussed. :

• Oxfam: - The focus area of Oxfam has been water quality monitoring at household level and monitoring of hygiene practices with technical support to capacity building of stakeholders.

• CRS: CRS is providing Temporary Shelters and Family Kit (Utensils) to the affected families; number and list of villages were shared in the first meeting that took place in SCF office.CRS is supporting in transportation of drinking water through tankers tothe villages from different water points


• SCF: - The SCF supported provision of shelters, water, vaccination, mosquito nets, buckets and other sanitary items in the camps. In addition SCF’s focus area has been rehabilitation activities and counseling’s at schools and camps.

• Action Aid: - Action Aid is working through a network of NGOs called Lokadhikar in providing raw food, water, sanitary items, cloths, kitchen kits etc. for flood victims. In addition support has been to old aged, women, children through Kilkari centers and Dalits.

• Samagra Vikas Sansthan: - The NGO is working in Malwa in establishing the livelihood activities through support in agricultural activities.

• UNICEF: - UNICEF supported the activities in Health, WATSAN, Nutrition and Education sectors by providing support in immunization, reduction of malaria morbidity and mortality by providing supplies, establishing water and sanitation facilities, water quality monitoring in camps and nutrition and education support to children.

During the meeting UNICEF informed that District Administration is establishing relief camps at 13 sites in the district. The population in already established camps might move to these new camps in anticipation of getting good facilities and other assistance by the Administration. Under these circumstances, the group agreed that it is essential to provide support to District in establishing and running these camps successfully for providing relief to flood affected population. The group agreed that there has to be a common plan of response in order to avoid duplication and include each segment of the community.

The group decided that a rapid assessment of these camps will be conducted by each agency and a common response plan will be prepared with inputs from each agency in area of their competence. The group will meet again on 22( 26th now) September 2006 with rapid assessment and prepare a common response plan.

The next Rajasthan IAG meeting is re-scheduled for the 26th of September 2006 at ActionAid Jaipur Office.

B20, khandela house,

Shiv marg, BaniPark, Jaipur

Ph. no.-0141-2207502,2207683

Mobile no. 9414040702


Arjun

Jammu & Kashmir flood pic

Courtesy: ActionAid

Orissa IAG meeting 7th Sep 06

Dear Members,

· Orissa Inter Agency Group (IAG ) meeting took place yesterday the 7th of September 06 in Bhubaneswar.

· The meeting was attended by all the 11 member organizations including representative from ECHO.


· A general presentation regarding the flood situation in the state, extent and damage was made on behalf of the IAG.


· Each organization shared their individual assessments, reports, handouts and upraised the group on there flood response activities and immediate plans.


· A four day field visit has been organized for the ECHO representative in coordination with IAG members commencing 8th and ending 11th of September 06.

· Today the ECHO team visited Jagatsinghpur district along with Lutheran World Service India, , Help Age India and Action Aid staff.

· An IAG debriefing session on behalf of the members is planned on the 12th of September 06.

Sources: Ms. Mamata ( CRS ) and Mr Ram (Care India)

The mapping of member’s operational areas (districts and blocks), already distributed flood relief material and plans is provided in the google group link below:

http://groups.google.com/group/Sphere-URS

Best,
Arjun Khajuria

Rajasthan floods second interagency meeting minutes 5th Sep

Minutes of the Second meeting of ‘Interagency Emergency Response Group-Rajasthan’

Date: September 05, 2006

Venue: CRS; A-93 Shiv Marg, Shyam Nagar, Jaipur

Time: 16:30 hrs

Participants:
Mr. Ravi Gill, ADRA
Mr. Anil Joseph World Vision
Mr. Tejram Jat, Culture for Health and Unity (unit of PRAYAS)
Ms. Nitu Shahi, Save the Children, UK
Mr. Sanjay Nirala, Save the Children, UK
Mr. Suvabrata Dey, CRS
Mr. Varun Sharma CRS
Mr. Upendra Sontakke CRS

Agenda:

Share information on Rajasthan floods situation and the interventions planned by each of the participating agencies

Sharing information on floods and intervention in Rajasthan

Catholic Relief Services
• A team of CRS visited Barmer, Udaipur and Banswara area to assess the situation and completed a detailed assessment across Barmer, Udaipur and Banswara. The key needs identified are:

 Temporary shelter
 Drinking water
 Dry ration
 Family Kit ( utensils for self survival)
 Medical support
 Fodder
 Veterinary Camp

• CRS has planned to implement a short term flood relief program. It has planned to reach out to 4,050 families for food; 1,669 families with shelter (tarpaulin and bamboo poles); 1,538 families with family kits; 30 villages with their fodder requirements for their cattle; provision of logistic support to provide safe drinking water for 38 villages; and also organize medical camps and vetennary camps in pre-selected villages.
• Raised concerns over emerging situation of fever, cough and other skin diseases in Barmer and also possibility of malaria in coming months.
• CRS has planned for $ 1,11,258/- and 49 MT of food (Title – II) for flood relief and recovery operation support to the selected area circulated in the first meeting. This program will be implemented approximately for 3 months till the end of November, 2006.

Center for Health and Equity
• Completed a detailed assessment across Barmer and Jaisalmer area.
• State administration has appointed 40 teams of doctors to work in medical camps.
• A delegation of CHE meets with State Health Minister to present the real situation of flood relief activities.
• A team of doctors in leadership of Dr. Narendra kumar (Prayas) already working in Barmer area .
• CHE distributing relief material by Lok Adhikar Network in Barmer area.

World Vision
• Initially distributed relief materials mainly food to 1,200 families in Sam Block, Fategarh tahsil of Jaisalmer district on the very next day of flood. The relief package consisted of:

i) 20 kgs. rice
ii) 2 kgs. pulses
iii) 1 liter of vegetable oil
iv) Tarpaulin sheets

• Considering for Permanent Shelter assistance for 200 families planned in the same area to finalized in the by next week. But WVI restricted themselves within their current working area in Jaisalmer district.

ADRA
• Expressed their willingness to work in Barmer area and will be provide support in terms of shelter and other relief material.
• ADRA is yet to finalize their villages for flood relief operation

Save the Children, UK
• Sanctioned GBP 3,000 GBP for immediate relief.
• A team of SCF visited Barmer and Jaisalmer area to assess the situation and completed a detailed assessment. Their observation area as follows :
 State govt. providing dry ration for community Kitchens as well as individuals also.
 Village Malwa getting support from individual charities Gujarat states.
 Still Govt. relief restricted up-to road side villages only.
 No formal relief package has been announced by govt. for flood affected families.
 Government also supplying drinking water and trying to regulate the water supplying system of Thar.
 State govt. deputed additional officers to manage relief operation properly.
 Privet donor also distributing material in flood affected area.
 Lack of coordination between local NGOs restricted relief efforts.
 Children of flood affected families are out of school from last two weeks. Mid day meal program already suspended due to flood in the area.
 The team has prepared a detailed report which has been circulated to all the NGOs.
• Planned intervention with 800 families in 10 villages of Shiv block in Barmer where there is ongoing intervention.

ECHO
• An assessment team is reaching from Sept. 11, 2006 to Sept 14, 2006.

Next Meeting

• The next meeting date and time has not been fixed in the meeting. Organizations are requested to volunteer and propose.

• A yahoo group has been created to share information. The address for subscription is Rajasthanemeregncyresponse-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Courtery: Suvabrata Dey,CRS

Orissa flood pic

Courtesy: NATURE’S CLUB

5th Sep Orissa floods members update

Sphere-URS update: ORI/FLOODS/06-NO 1
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Care India ( Mr. Sorajit Chatterjee) as on 5th September 06

• 12 districts are affected with floods and four heavily affected.
• About 2.5 lakhs people have been displaced.
• In Kendrapada district 4 blocks are severely affected.
• In 3 blocks of Kendrapara blocks the damage assessment has been carried out.
• The immediate needs are
 Shelter/tents
 Safe drinking water.
 Boats for transportation.
 Utensils
• Coordination is in progress at Bhubaneswar with Special Relief Commissioner and at district level with the respective district collectors.
• Agencies feel that there is improved coordination in the recent floods.
• To be sharing minutes of district level meetings in future with Sphere India members.




CRS India,( Mr. Rajan Mohanty) as on 5th September 06


• CRS is working in four flood affected districts of Orissa , they include Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur, Kandhamal and Balasore.
• CRS in the process of providing temporary shelter needs to about 8500 households including health camps.
• All the targeted families would get (15 x 12) Propylene Sheets and ( 6x4) mats for flooring would be provided ton selected families.
• Every evening coordination meetings takes pace with Orissa Disaster Mitigation Mission (ODMM).
• Concern over district-level coordination in the initial phase, however things would improve.




LWSI, (K.G. Mathaikutty) as on 5th September 06

• LWSI is working in Kendrapara and Jajpur districts.
• Distribution of polythene sheets 4500 families for shelter purposes.
• A pair of blankets and bed sheets has also been distributed to the 4500 targeted families.
• Family kits are in the process of distribution.
• Preparing appeal for furthering funding.



SCF, (Mr. Laxminarayan Anand) as on 5th September 06

• Relief in the worst flood affected districts is only made available to road side populations.
• All the schools in the flood affected districts are closed.
• Change of district administration head in Kendrapara district.
• SCF is relying on partners information and secondary data.

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Rajasthan coordination meeting minutes 31 August

Minutes of the first meeting of ‘Interagency Emergency Response Group-Rajasthan’

Date: 31st August 2006

Venue: Save the Children UK
Jaipur office
59, Shivaji Nagar
Civil Lines

Time: 1530 hrs

Participants:
Mr.Vijay Sharma, Action Aid
Mr.Vijay Goyal, BARC (Budget Analysis and Research Centre)
Mr.Suvabrata Dey, CRS
Mr.Tejram Jat, Culture for Health and Unity (unit of PRAYAS)
Ms Dharti Daftary, Save the Children UK
Ms.Nupur Pande, Save the Children UK
Mr.Mukesh Lath, Save the Children- Finland
Mr.Dipak Roy, UNICEF

Agenda:
1. Sharing information on Barmer floods and the interventions planned by each of the participating agencies
2. Deciding on next meeting and group norms

AGEND 1 Sharing information on floods and intervention in Rajasthan

Action Aid
• Working in 55 villages through Lok Adhikar Manch ( network of 22 local NGOs)
• Has constituted eight teams from the 22 NGOs to distribute relief in interior areas of Barmer
• Until 27th August’06, 100 containers of 20 lts capacity for water have been distributed. The undamaged village level water storage tanks are being filled with drinking water through tanks.
• Is providing drinking water through water tanks.
• Already released Rs. 2 lakhs from their ongoing project budgets through 6 partners.
• Completed a detailed assessment across Barmer, key needs in the feild:
- tents
- milk powder
• The country office has sanctioned a budget of Rs.20 lakhs for medium and long term interventions.

BARC and CHU
• A joint team visited Barmer in the first 4 days of the disaster. Shared their impressions:
- The administration's response was delayed
- Local NGOs had to advocate for urgent response.
- The administrative measures are inadequate especially in health and sanitation.
• BRAC shared its newsletter with details of the government budget analysis. The newsletter had important demographic information on Barmer and the loss due to floods
• CHU has raised appeals to doctors and medical colleges health relief activities in Barmer along with appeals to people to donate in kind and collected relief materials at two centers. This consignment would be taken by Action Aid and PUCL to the field.
• State administration has enrolled 28 fresh doctors on contractual basis to work in medical camps, CHU added.


The need for intervention in health relief was emphasized but SCUK and CRS said that they can support in all aspects of reaching to affected people with health care except for purchase and distribution of medicines.

- The need for advocating to state administration for reaching people with proper healthcare was identified.

Catholic Relief Services
• The final list of villages with names would be circulated by CRS by this evening. A tentative list of villages for intervention for flood relief intervention are:
o Udaipur (23 villages)
o Dungarpur(22 villages)
o Jaisalmer(10villages)
o Barmer (25 villages of Shiv block)
o Jodhpur (5 villages).
• Aiming at a relief period of 7 days and reaching out to 6300 families with 3300 from Barmer alone. CRS has an outlay of 49 MT of food. Equal number of families will be reached with fodder relief.
• Has sought from their head office for about US $ 80,000 to provide 2000 families with shelter (tarpaulin and bamboo poles) and family kit (utensils, mug, bucket, two plates, glasses, small bowls, food grain container and trunk)
• Supporting GRAVIS for health camps. 1 health camp to be held immediately and another one to be followed.
• GRAVIS is also covering 14 villages in Barmer with 5-6 water tanks and 5 cooking points to provide cooked food.
• GRAVIS and ANMs are distributing bleaching powder packets made by state administration of Barmer and Jodhpur
• Reported 4 deaths in the past 2 days due to water born diseases.
• Raised concerns about the fever, cough and other skin diseases in Barmer in the coming months.
• Appreciated and thanked SC UK for starting the inter agency meeting and offered to host the next meeting.

Save the Children, UK
• Sanctioned GBP 3000 GBP for immediate relief.
• Planned intervention in 10 villages of Shiv block in Barmer where there is ongoing intervention. List of villages covered by SCUK in Barmer under its ongoing program:
o Solankia
o Jaansinh ki Beri
o Ranasar
o Khudani
o Harsani
o Baleba
o Fogera
o Ratreri Khurd
o Jiney ki basti
o Sangoralia
• Intervention would be focused on children as far as possible
• The assessment team would be returning from Barmer and the report would be finalized by later next week and shared widely.
• SPHERE standards should be maintained and used wherever possible by all the agencies.
• Informed about the SPHERE URS (Unified Response team) in Delhi and encouraged the team to consider regular interagency meetings and interventions.
• Emphasized that the SPHERE standards must be followed as far as possible in the relief operations.

SC-Finland
• Has committed funding of € 20,000.
• Is not operational in Barmer, so would plan on intervention later next week.

UNICEF
Responding with the state administration:
• 8-10 shelter camps run by state administration with about 7000 to 8000 people
• Affected population is approx. 50,000, all scattered and this poses a challenge to reach out to.
• 17 villages are still under water.
• Immediate need is for hygiene promotion, water storage and basic hygiene.
• State has set up 38 mobile medical camps. Damage details from Barmer:
o 46 Sub Centers
o 2 PHCs
o 1 Community Health Center
• It has ordered for supplies worth US $ 200,000 for:
o 100,000 ORS packets,
o 50,000 IV fluids,
o chlorinated eye-caps,
o 1000 lts of skin lotion,
o 65 syntex tanks of 1000 lts,
o 900 number of 25 kgs pack of bleaching powder
o 3000 buckets
o 10,000 tarpaulin sheets
• One assessment team would be reaching Barmer on morning of 1st Sep’06.
• Expressed need for creating medical outposts and trauma counseling services.

AGENDA 2 Next Meeting
• Next meeting would be in CRS office on 5th Sep’06 at 1600 hrs. The address of CRS is A-93,Shivmarg, Shyam nagar, Ajmer road,Jaipur.
• A yahoo group has been created to share information. The address for subscription is Rajasthanemeregncyresponse-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Information Received on the phone and in separate meeting on 1st September.


World Vision
• Initial relief distributed to 1200 families in Sam Block, Fategarh tahsil of Jaisalmer district. The relief package consisted of:
o 20kg rice
o 2 kg dal
o 1 lt vegetable oil
o tarpaulin sheet
• Shelter assistance planned in the same area to finalized in the by next week.
• 30 volunteers and World vision staff is in Jaisalmer.
• Contact details Anil Joseph, Manager, 09829060877, jaipur_seed_india_adp@wvi.org

Oxfam GB
• An assessment team of 4 will leave for Barmer on Sept 5, 2006 with focus on water and sanitation along with public health
• The assessment report would be widely circulated
• Focus on ongoing 40 project villages in Barmer (12 villages in Balotra block)
• Partner agency Unnati is already present in Barmer.


S.No Name of agency Agency Representative Address and Contact numbers E-mail Id
1. SC UK Dharti M-9811679704 d.daftary@scfukindia.org
2. Amied-Alwar Noor -mohammad 2/70 kalakuan Housing Board-Alwavl
0744- 3201746[o]
M-9414641746 amied-alw@rediffmail.com
3 B.A.R.C
Vijay Goyal P-1, Tilak marg C-scheme Jaipur 0141-2385254(0)
M-9352527582 infobarcjaipur.org
4 Action Aid
Vijay Sharma B-20, Khandala House Shiv marg Bani park Jaipur
M:9413346969 NA
5 Centre for Health Equity
Tej Ram Jat 22,suraj nagar(East)
civil lines, Jaipur
Ph-0141-2220421
M- 9413046501 prayaszz@dataone.in
jattejram@yahoo.co.in
6 CRS/Rajasthan
Suvabrata Dey A-93,shiv marg
Shyam nagar,jaipur
M-9829933344 suvabrata@crsjaipur.org
7 SC Finland
Mukesh Lath 59,Shivaji nagar,
Suraj Nagar(E)
M-9314639281
8 SC UK Nupur Pande 59,Shivaji Nagar
Civil Lines
M-9828131005 n.pande@scfukindia.org
9 UNICEF
Dipak Roy B-9,Bhawani Singh Lane,
C-scheme, opposite Nehru Sahkar Bhawan,Jaipur
0141-2222639
2222694
M-9414041326
droy@unicef.org

SOURCE: Nupur Pande

Rajasthan flood pic

courtesy ActionAid