OCHA

Pakistan

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Highlights 2011

OCHA supported the Government in coordinating the humanitarian response to the 2010 floods through its field offices in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Punjab, Balochistan and Sindh until March 2011.
In response to the 2011 floods in August and September, OCHA facilitated a coordinated response in Sindh and Balochistan. The response was carried out in accordance with the first inter-agency contingency plan exercise for Pakistan developed earlier in the year.
OCHA formulated SOPs on IDPs, focusing on a principled and coordinated approach to humanitarian assistance. This includes humanitarian actors’ access to affected people, and effective monitoring and evaluation. At the end of 2011, an estimated 104,000 families were displaced in KP from FATA.
With support from UN Women, Gender Markers and other initiatives were included in humanitarian responses to address specific needs.

OVERVIEW 2011

Pakistan continues to grapple with humanitarian challenges caused by recent floods and insecurity. The devastating floods of 2010 affected about 18 million people, destroyed more than 2.2 million hectares of crops and damaged an estimated 1.7 million houses. The response raised $1.3 billion to meet immediate life-saving needs and help people rebuild their lives. Continuity between relief and early recovery was facilitated by strengthened inter-cluster coordination at the provincial and district levels.

Monsoon rains in August and September 2011 again caused widespread flooding, affecting 4.82 million people in Sindh and 332,000 in Baluchistan—many of whom had been affected by the 2010 floods. OCHA facilitated a comprehensive and coordinated rapid response plan with the Government, based on the first inter-agency contingency plan it had coordinated earlier in the year. It supported evidence-based assistance through joint assessments and worked with cluster partners to prioritize humanitarian needs and responses.
OCHA continued to coordinate the rapid response plan to the 2011 floods until mid-March 2012. Working with UNDP and the national and provincial disaster management authorities, it also coordinated the early recovery response to the 2011 floods.

The office is working on inter-agency contingency planning for 2012, with an emphasis on provincial-level planning. It is also strengthening the Access Working Group by encouraging regular inputs from partners with a view to determining impact of the lack of access on humanitarian assistance in Pakistan.
By the end of 2011, an estimated 104,000 families had not returned to the north-western Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) due to sectarian violence and ongoing operations between Government security forces and armed non-State actors. Working with the KP and FATA governments, OCHA coordinated assistance to meet the continuing needs of people in KP. It formulated SOPs to better respond to IDPs’ needs in Pakistan. The SOPs outlined a process by which the humanitarian community can coordinate its support to the Government during a complex emergency while ensuring a principled and coordinated approach.

OCHA also helped to consolidate existing data on IDPs in FATA and KP to ensure the consistency of information shared with donors and other stakeholders. At the end of 2011, OCHA developed an operational plan outlining continued support for people in need.

At the same time, OCHA enhanced national partners’ and local government’s knowledge and understanding of humanitarian principles through trainings on issues such as humanitarian coordination and gender. Critical updates were distributed to stakeholders on humanitarian trends relating to the 2010 and 2011 floods and the continuing crisis in KP and FATA. OCHA also organized media interviews and press conferences, and prepared press releases, media fact sheets, Web stories, and regular situation reports and humanitarian bulletins (www.pakresponse.info).

WORKPLAN 2011

GOAL 1: A more enabling environment for humanitarian action.
Objective 1.2 Relationships strengthened with a wider group of operational partners and other relevant actors in advanced humanitarian action.
INDICATOR	Percentage of affected districts in which NGOs and community-based organizations and district officials (civil and military) have been trained on humanitarian principles, including humanitarian coordination and gender issues.
ACHIEVEMENTS	Fifty-eight per cent. With the closing of OCHA offices in flood-affected areas in March, the training only took place in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Province. Training conducted in seven of 12 districts in KPK. Training topics broadened to include gender and humanitarian coordination.
INDICATOR	OCHA field staff in each province analysing and reporting on impact of training by December 2011.
ACHIEVEMENTS	The training enhanced humanitarian response coordination at the district level. It also improved awareness on the principled approach to humanitarian response.
INDICATOR	Percentage of the early recovery meetings held are attended by OCHA staff, providing support and back ground when necessary.
ACHIEVEMENTS	All meetings were attended by OCHA staff and support provided to UNDPs coordination efforts where possible.

GOAL 2: A more effective humanitarian coordination system
Objective 2.1 Effective mechanisms that manage and support accountable humanitarian coordination leaders.
INDICATOR	Percentage of inter-cluster, cluster and cross-cutting recommendations issued by HCT that are implemented at operational level.
ACHIEVEMENTS	HCT recommendations implemented at the operational level were not tracked in 2011. To improve reporting on the workplan, the OCHA office is developing a comprehensive monitoring system for 2012.
INDICATOR	Established and functioning operational inter-cluster forums at field and capital level in accordance with generic TOR.
ACHIEVEMENTS	Established and functioning ICCM at provincial level, Humanitarian Response Team in KPK and HCT at national level, based on generic ToRs.
INDICATOR	Thirty per cent of agenda issues addressed by strategic-level HCT that are submitted from operational-level inter-cluster coordination forums.
ACHIEVEMENTS	Seventy per cent. Results were not always as envisaged due to factors beyond OCHA’s control.
INDICATOR	Percentage of provincial- and district-level actions completed on time in accordance with action-tracking matrix.
ACHIEVEMENTS	This indicator was not tracked in 2011.
INDICATOR	HC compact endorsed by HC by December 2011.
ACHIEVEMENTS	Compact endorsed
Objective 2.2 An OCHA capable of responding quickly with clear triggers for establishing, phasing and drawing down operations.
INDICATOR	Country Office Strategy developed, including planning indicators in consultation with partners.
ACHIEVEMENTS	Strategy completed with significant inputs from partners and donors.
Objective 2.3 A more predictable and scalable suite of OCHA services and tools to support leaders and partners in response preparedness, humanitarian response and transition.
INDICATOR	Number of reports on humanitarian access with documentation on actions taken.
ACHIEVEMENTS	Three reports were issued in 2011, but reporting quality was affected by limited partner inputs.
INDICATOR	Percentage of HCT members, donors and other key stakeholders reporting improved understanding of access issues.
ACHIEVEMENTS	OCHA Pakistan focused on sensitizing humanitarian partners on access issues and improving reporting on access constraints.
INDICATOR	Percentage of key OCHA tools using sex- and age-disaggregated data.
ACHIEVEMENTS	The use of SADD was promoted and implemented in the Rapid Response Plan, sit reps and the 4W (Who, What, Where, When) matrix (100 per cent).
INDICATOR	Percentage of partners providing sex-disaggregated data in reporting.
ACHIEVEMENTS	Five out of seven clusters (WASH, shelter, food security, health and protection) provide SADD (71 per cent).
Objective 2.4 A more systematic humanitarian programme cycle (needs assessment and analysis, joint planning, fund-raising and resource allocation, and monitoring and evaluation).
INDICATOR	Needs-assessment plan developed and endorsed by HCT.
ACHIEVEMENTS	Plans developed for three joint needs assessments that were undertaken under the leadership of the Assessment Working Group co-chaired by OCHA and the Government.
INDICATOR	Percentage of districts and percentage of clusters completing assessments on a quarterly basis.
ACHIEVEMENTS	Twenty-five per cent. Regular nutrition and shelter assessments conducted.
INDICATOR	Percentage of projects in the funding mechanism (CAP, CERF and ERF) coded with the Gender Marker.
ACHIEVEMENTS	Rapid Response Plan 2011: 90 per cent of the (93) projects were reviewed with gender lens and assigned a gender score out of which over one third (31 per cent) were designed in a manner to address the needs and benefit women, men, girls and boys. Early Recovery Framework 2012: 61 per cent projects had a significant potential to contribute towards addressing the needs and benefit all population groups. Emergency Response Fund: 90 per cent applied gender marker with almost 52 per cent having the potential to advance gender equality significantly and 41 per cent contributing towards gender in a limited manner.
INDICATOR	Percentage of total projects submitted prioritized as “high” in compliance with HCT-endorsed methodology. Percentage of projects prioritized in accordance with agreed criteria.
ACHIEVEMENTS	Half of the projects were prioritized as “high”, with all projects assessed along agreed methodology.
INDICATOR	Percentage of clusters using common operational datasets for systematic information collation, analysis and decision-making in KPK.
ACHIEVEMENTS	100 per cent. Eight clusters in KPK using a common database for displaced people for data reporting, analysis and decision-making.

Children play with sports equipment provided by Save the Children’s Playbus, one of the hundreds of mobile child-friendly spaces set up across flood-affected southern Pakistan. © Save the Children