UN OCHA Latest Situation Report
Posted by Administrator on June 27, 2009
The latest UN OCHA Pakistan Humanitarian Situation Report, June 26, 2009, now at the Key Documents page, here. Highlights include:
- The influx of large numbers of IDPs in certain camps has created the need for suitable land to establish new IDP camps as well as a corresponding need to decongest some existing sites.
- Congestion in a number of camps is impacting living standards.
- Additional humanitarian partners are needed to provide and distribute food to camps and schools.
- There is a need to ensure the availability of fortified blended food for the supplementary feeding programme.
- Returning IDPs need maize seed and fertilizer to have a bumper kharif (maize) crop to compensate for the winter rabi (wheat) crop which was not harvested
