1. Flood No.5 in Nghe An Qui Chau and Que Phong districts
10-12 September 2007

2. Team and Methodology 10 members, different organizations Methodology
Divided on sectors
Worked at different levels
Interviews, observations, secondary data
Area cover:
2 most affected districts (QC, QP)
Most affected and second affected communes

3. Basic information of area
Remote and mountainous
High poverty rate: 48-53%
Ethnic minority: 80-90%
Livelihood: mainly on agriculture and forest exploitation
Cultivated land is small
Market operation: only at district

4. Damages Overall: 214/476 communes were affected
Livelihood and nutrition
Crops: partly to completely affected: >2600 ha (80%)
Paddy field was covered with thick sand: 247 in QC
Winter crop time already past for maize
Animal lost: 76 cattle + 31,700 poultry; aquaculture
Dams and canals broken: 7 dams + several canals
Transportation: blocked
Shelter & non-food items
Collapsed, washed away houses: 50
Damaged houses: 237; flooded houses: 864

5. Damages (continue) Education Health, water and sanitation
Schools/boarding houses for teachers were washed away or damaged
Tables, school materials were damaged
School closed for 2-5 days, not re-open until 15/10 (Nam Giai)
Health, water and sanitation
Health clinics were damaged (10/14), 1 totally damaged
Several wells were flooded and contaminated (QC): 590
Water system was broken in Nam Giai (15,000 people in QC were out of clean water)
Environment pollution: mud, wood, rubbish, waste

6. Current needs Livelihood and food security Shelters and non-food items
Food for next 4-6 months
Animal raising
Cash for basic things
Field recovery (247 ha in QC)
Crop restoration
Infrastructure recovery
Shelters and non-food items
Emergent shelters

7. Needs (continue) Health, water and sanitation Education
Recovery of commune health stations
Environment sanitation: cloramin, permethrin, mosquito nets, units of medicine
Clean water supply in QC (Nam Giai)
Education
Reparation of class rooms and schools
Text books, educational materials and equipment

8. Current response
Immediate and helpful response for urgent recovery from Gov. and voluntary forces
Province/Dist. issued good policy of support
Cash for death, injured, swept-away and collapsed houses, school children
Food, salt, fuel for the affected households
Seeds for coming crops
Cash for immediate transportation recovery ( million/district)

9. Current response (continue)
Red Cross: noodles and household items
Other sources: 3 billion
Response is on process

10. Recommendations Livelihood and food security
Provide 1-3 months’ food and supplementary to the affected households
Cash dispersal to assist most urgent needs over coming months
Support for the recovery of damaged field
Supplementary support for fertilizers and/or seeds.
Support for basic infrastructure recovery

11. Recommendations (cont.)
Shelter and non-food items
Provide emergent shelters for the affected HHs
Ensure compensation reach the affected and adequate for needs.
Provide utensils for the washed away HHs
Heath, water and sanitation
Support with environment sanitation: cloramin, permethrin and mosquito nets

12. Recommendations (cont.)
Ensure adequate sources for recovery of commune health stations and facilities
Raise awareness on population on health, hygiene.
Provide complement 03 Units of medicines
Provide soap
Education
Repair/reconstruct damaged classrooms and schools
Support text books, notebooks, education materials
Replace fittings and furniture

13. Recommendations (cont.)
Child protection
Ensure sufficient nutrition levels
Monitor and provide additional support for those who lost parents
Assist to facilitate health check-ups
Provide vaccination against encephalitis, hepatitis and other 6 diseases
Short and medium term relief and long-term development program to reduce child labour

14. Meeting with local authority

15. Assessment team cross the river...

16. On the way to flooded villages

17. Enjoy traveling by...crane

18. Over the trouble water...

19. Women group discussion on the field

20. A school destroyed by flood in Que Phong

21. Secondary pupils are cleaning classrooms after flood

22. Textbooks in schools got wet by flood

23. A house collapsed by strong water in Quy Chau district

24. Rice field covered with sand

25. Rice field under the thick sand

26. A young couple totally lost their house and rice crop

27. A woman with her rice flooded

28. A 13 girl make rice after harvest

29. People help each other to harvest

30. Woods and trees floating on river

31. Hygiene & Sanitation are problems after floods.

32. Instant noodles and foods are ready to be distributed in Nam Giai commune, Que Phong

33. THANK YOU