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

Three new updates, two from UN OCHA (from June 11 and June 18) and from The Researchers (from June 15) in the Key Documents section, here.

Latest UN OCHA update highlights…

• The registration of some 1.9 million IDPs has so far been confirmed by Pakistani authorities, of whom about 260,000 IDPs are living in 27 camps and the remainder with host families.

• Concerns have been raised regarding the establishment of several spontaneous camps in Upper Dir, and the possibility of others to follow in areas not easily accessible by the humanitarian community.

• There are presently 10 Registration Centers and 34 Humanitarian Hubs, which distribute 47,000 MT of food and NFIs to IDPs living in and outside camps. Ten more distribution points are inside IDP camps.

• Precautionary measures have been taken in host communities to prevent any outbreak of acute watery diarrhea (AWD) and other illnesses that could occur with the upcoming monsoon season.

New information about work with IDPs in Hathain, Mardan at the Project Hathian page, here.

A number of new documents are now available at the Key Documents page, here. These include,

* June 08, 2009: The Researchers – IDPs Weekly Update

* June 05, 2009: UN OCHA Pakistan Humanitarian Situation Report

* June 04, 2009: UN Fundraising Press Release

* June 03, 2009: ICG Pakistan IDPs Policy Brief June 03, 2009

* May 30: Handicap International’s IDP Vulnerable & Disabled Needs Assessment Report

You can now find the Pakistan Humanitarian Situation Report No. 2 dated 28 May – 1 June 2009 on NWFP IDPs issued by OCHA HQ, here in the Key Documents section.  Please note that the coverage period stated in the Sitrep is incorrect and is in fact from the period 28 May – 1 June 09.

Highlights of the SitRep include… 

The next sitrep will be issued on or around 5th June 2009.

New IDP Weekly Update report by The Researchers, available at the Key Documents page, here.

You can now find the latest UN Situation Report on the IDPs on the Key Documents page, here. The Pakistan Humanitarian Situation Report No 1 is dated 29 May 2009 and issued by OCHA HQ of the UN. Highlights of the situation report include: 

New IDP Weekly Update report by The Researchers, available at the Key Documents page, here.

You can find the new UN Humanitarian Appeal document in the Key Documents section here. And the key excerpt? Below.

Updated summary of what has been done thus far, and what the future plans are with Hathian’s IDPs at http://pakistanidps.wordpress.com/project-hathian/