OCHA Situation Report No. 3
Yangon Hub Update
Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis
26 November 2008


Source:
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(Reporting period 12 October - 26 November 2008)

OVERVIEW & KEY DEVELOPMENTS

- More than six months since Nargis, some leading organizations have ended 
their emergency programmes and are phasing out: World Vision and Islamic 
Relief are phasing out Dedaye with respect to WASH, health and 
distribution; ASEAN and Myanmar Health Assisstant Association (MHAA) from 
Kungyangon; TDH and Myanmar Health Assisstant Association (MHAA) from 
Twanty. ICRC, Relief international, and MMA/WHO are also implementing 
their exit from their cyclone response activities.

- Shortage of safe water supply during the dry season is the biggest 
challenge for the partners in Yangon hub area, especially in Dedaye. WASH 
cluster partners from Dedaye are preparing a township strategic plan for 
safe water supply, including encouraging of the traditional coping 
mechanism, The major challenge that key WASH players such as World Vision 
and, ICRC etc are phasing out from Dedaye, and that response capacities 
and resources are inadequate budget constraint and less number of partners 
in WASH cluster for implementing the strategic plan.

- The data collection phase of Periodic Review ended on 14 November. 
Within 2.5 weeks more than 80 enumerators conducted over 2,000 
quantitative and qualitative interviews in 113 villages in Yangon and 
Delta region. All of the data received from four ASEAN hubs in Yangon, 
Pyapon, Bogale and Labutta are currently being analyzed and the first 
draft will be completed in early December. Yangon hub was responsible to 
organize field survey in 29 villages in 14 townships: Htantabin, 
Hllaingthayar, Thinganggyun, Dagon Myo Thit, North Ohkalapa, Twantay, 
Dala, Kungyangon, Kayan, Thonghwa, Kwahmu, Thanlyn, Kyauktan and Shwe 
Pyithar. The survey in Yangon was conducted by 17 enumerators.

- The 4th round of training the trainers on Disaster Risk Reduction 
Management (DRRM) was opened on 24 November in Yangon, jointly organized 
by Ministry of Social Welfare and Resettlement and Mingalar Myanmar 
foundation. There are 40 participants from various government departments 
coming from the disaster prone area/region attended the training. UNOCHA 
and other UN agencies, ASEAN, INGOS, MRCS and the other local NGOs 
facilitate the training.

- OCHA facilitated Sphere training on 22 November in Yangon. 19 
participants from UN agencies, ASEAN, and L/Ingo's attended the one day 
training to gain better understanding on disaster response and management 
especially in standardization of the humanitarian aid.

- The first World AIDS day commemoration will be held on 1 December at 
TPDC hall in Dedaye. OCHA, CESVI, Interfaith Youth Coalition for HIV/AIDS 
(IYCA), Maries Stope International (MSI), AFXB and local CBO formed an 
organizing committee and did advocacy to the authorities, fund raising, 
and prepared for the ceremony together with partners from Yangon and 
Dedaye.

SECTORAL UPDATE

AGRICULTURE

- Contract farming was introduced in Kungyangon in 44 acres of farm land 
owned by the 3 Nargisaffected farmers and Green Luck Co for the first 
Rainy cropping since Nargis. These paddy fields were harvested on 23 
November. The township agricultural officer shared that the average yield 
was 99. Tin/acre, a significantly higher than traditional farming system 
of 65 tin/acre. From that success story, the Green Luck co and farmers 
from Kungyangon have already agreed to grow summer crop (paddy) in 1,000 
acres, with contract farming system.

- In Dedaye, CESVI plans to distribute 6,500 bags (40kg/bag) of bean/pulse 
seeds for winter crops and 1,000 litres of D6 insecticide for summer 
crops, along with a pamphlet for its usage

- In Dedaye, Oxfam plans to distribute assorted farming tools to 3,000 
households. 472 units have already been distributed. Oxfam will also 
provide fishing net to 510 fishermen and fishing related items to 1,500 
households supplied by FAO...

EARLY RECOVERY

- In Kungyangon, Save the Child providing cash for income generation 
(50000 Kyat/ household) from most suitable business to 1,330 households 
from 12 villages.

- NYWCA also plan to provide 100,000 kyat/household, for 10 
households/village in 21 villages.

- In Kungyangon, Asia World Construction Co. has rebuilt Myoma Market, 
which was destroyed during Nargis. The Minister of Energy, who is 
responsible for cyclone response in the area, marked the re-opening of the 
market on 23 November.

FOOD

- Demonstration of how to cook/use blended food from WFP at the time of 
distribution must be ensured as beneficiaries are not familiar with 
blended food.

HEALTH

- Relief International has received DOH approval for the reconstruction of 
health infrastructures (5 sub centre in Kungyangon and 2 sub centre in 
Dedaye). The work will start in the first week of December.

- CESVI has been renovating the Nay Yaung Kar station hospital in Dedaye.

- WHO and DOH jointly organized an 'Early Warning and Reporting System" 
(EWARS) training at Dedaye hospital on 19 November. 35 participants from 
township health department, INGOs and local NGO attended the training.

- Terre des homes Italia (TDH) have completed the rehabilitation of Zaw Ti 
Health Care Sub Centre in Kungyangon. The opening ceremony was held on 25 
November.

PROTECTION OF CHILDREN & WOMEN

- Save the Children and its partners held the Universal Children Day 
celebration in Ka Mar One village in Kungyangon.

- Save the Children plans to implement Early Child Care Development (ECCD) 
facilities in 6 schools in Kungyangon.

SHELTER

- In Dedaye, IYCA distributed tarpaulin from World Vision to 58 households 
(2 sheets/family) in Neik Ban Kwin village. YCA plans to distribute 58 
unit of shelter kit from ICRC in the same village as the villagers have to 
return the zinc sheets that they obtained from the government-owned rice 
mill to roof their houses.

WASH

- UNICEF gave a brief presentation on how to calculate the minimal needs 
of water for a person per day, calculation on the volume of water 
available in an area, ways of solving the water shortage issue etc in 
Dedaye on 21 November. The TMO and the Executive Officer representing the 
Township Municipal Department and implementing partners were in the 
attendance, for the village level water availability assessment, UNICEF 
and partners requested TPDC, TMO and TEO to cooperate with them by 
instructing their staff to report the volume of water available in their 
respective area every monthly. To train these staffs for calculation of 
available water volume in their area, TOT to trainers was given on 21 
November in CESVI office in Dedaye.

- During the TCC coordination meeting, TMO from Kungyangon requested to 
the partners to solve together for water shortage problem in coming dry 
season. The TMO gave example on some villages which may face water 
shortage problem in dry season. OCHA proposed to hold a meeting for safe 
water supply in Kungyangon and shared the experience from preparing Dedaye 
township strategic plan for safe water supply.

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