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Heavy seasonal monsoon rains have caused widespread flooding across South Asia devastating communities and livelihoods and causing displacement of thousands of people throughout Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. Across the subcontinent around 50 million people have been affected in what has been described as among the worst flooding in years - with yet more rains forecast in coming weeks.
Relief and recovery efforts are well underway in all affected countries - however the incidence of diarrhoeal and other waterborne diseases continues to rise. Access to fresh water, food and shelter for all affected populations remains the primary concern. In addition, millions of children across the affected regions are unable to begin the new academic term as their schools have been destroyed, damaged or are being used as shelters.
UNICEF is responding in the areas of water and sanitation, health and nutrition, education, child protection, and social mobilization to meet the needs of affected children and their families.
South Asia Humanitarian Action Update 25 Sep 2007 [pdf]

It is estimated that about 1.5 million people have been affected by the floods provoked by four days of heavy rains after cyclone Yemyin hit in the provinces of Balochistan and Sindh in the south of Pakistan on the 23rd of June. Three out of four people affected by the floods are children and women, and at least 300,000 of the affected children are under five years old.
Many areas still remained cut off by rising water. More than 100,000 people are reported to have lost their homes, and about 300 are reported dead with many still missing. The floods have totally or partially destroyed water distribution systems resulting in limited or no access to clean water. Poor hygiene and sanitary conditions are causing waterborne diseases, dehydration and infection. Hospitals and health clinics are closed or only partially functional, and many schools have been damaged as well.
The areas worst hit in Balochistan and Sindh are also among Pakistan's most disadvantaged, which makes children and women there particularly vulnerable to natural disasters. One out of ten infants dies in Balochistan before completing his/her first year of age. Forty per cent of children under five are underweight. Maternal mortality is twice the country's average at 600 deaths of women per 100,000 live births. Indicators for children in northern Sindh, in the districts worst affected by the floods, are similar.
UNICEF is concerned that children will particularly suffer from lack of access to food, safe water and medicine given the disruptions caused by the floods in half of the districts of Balochistan province and in western districts of the neighbouring Sindh province. UNICEF is coordinating with provincial and federal authorities, other UN agencies and partners to ensure that the particular needs of children in this emergency are addressed appropriately.
This 'Immediate Needs' document is an initial estimate of the immediate funding requirements from July to October 2007. UNICEF urgently requires US$ 5 million to respond to the priority needs of children and women in the coming months. UNICEF is also participating in the consolidated flash appeal prepared by the UN system.
UNICEF Immediate Needs - 10 July 2007 [pdf]

At approximately 8:50 am on 8 October 2005, just as children in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan were beginning their classes, a massive earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale struck near the Pakistan-India border, causing widespread devastation and triggering a humanitarian catastrophe. It rapidly became clear that northwestern Pakistan was the hardest hit by what appears to be the most devastating earthquake to strike the region in a century.
UNICEF Immediate Needs - 10 October 2005 [pdf]

Procédure d'appel global (CAP) : Appel éclair 2005 pour le séisme en Asie du Sud

Sur la base des rapports des neuf groupes de parties prenantes, le montant total de financement nécessaire pour cet appel initial s'élève à 311 876 000 dollars pour des actions pouvant atteindre une durée de six mois. Les projets sur lesquels insiste cet appel éclair initial sont axés sur des actions qui sauvent la vie. Les projets doivent être adaptés et développés afin de mieux permettre un redressement dans le proche avenir, dès que des informations plus précises seront disponibles.
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Depuis la diffusion de l'appel, le 11 octobre 2005, les évaluations sur le terrain ont été analysées, des opérations ont démarré et on a pu mieux cerner l'étendue ainsi que le niveau de la catastrophe : il est vite devenu évident que cette catastrophe était beaucoup plus grave qu'on ne l'avait d'abord pensé, ce qui a rendu nécessaire la mise à jour cet Appel éclair. Le Pakistan et la communauté mondiale sont confrontés à un défi d'une taille colossale. En étroite coordination avec le Gouvernement pakistanais, et sur la base des rapports et des évaluations des groupes de parties prenantes et des autres partenaires, les demandes de l'Appel éclair s'élèvent pour six mois à 549 585 941 dollars E.-U. Les extraordinaires problèmes logistiques posés par le terrain qui entraînent 67 pour cent de l'augmentation des besoins indiqués initialement dans l'Appel éclair du 11 octobre 2005.
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