Bolivia: Floods - OCHA-05: 13-Jun-01
OCHA Situation Report No. 5
Bolivia - Floods
13 June 2001
Funds for the Emergency Plan for the agricultural Sector are still
urgently needed.
Situation
1. According to WFP reports, rains are coming back to their normal levels
bringing relief to the flood affected areas in the northern lowlands.
Latest reports of the Civil Defense Service (SENADECI) indicate that a
total 357,250 people in rural areas have been affected during this year.
2. The Ministry of Agriculture has reported losses of 119,163 hectares
(about 294,000 acres) which represents 7.3 per cent of total cultivated
land. The crop damage amounts to some USD 121 million. Floods have also
destroyed important productive infrastructure (productive land, small
irrigation systems and roads).
3. The main income source of small farmers -their crops- has been
destroyed in such a proportion that their food security is threatened
until next harvest, which starts in March 2002.
4. As reported in OCHA Situation Report no.4 of 22 March 2001, the
Ministry of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Food and Agricultural
Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP), launched an
Emergency Plan for the agricultural sector amounting to approximately USD
7.4 million, targeting 32,000 families and the rehabilitation of 26,000
hectares of crops belonging to small farmers in highlands and valleys.
Emergency Plan for the Agricultural Sector
2001/2002 Consolidated Financial Requirements
|-----------------+----------------+----------------+-----------|
| | | | |
| Components | Purpose | Implementation | Cost |
| | | Period | (in USD) |
|-----------------+----------------+----------------+-----------|
| | | | |
| 'Food for Work' | Support small | March'01 - | 1,937,990 |
| Program | farmers to | February'02 | + |
| | rehabilitate | | |
| | their | | |
| | productive | | |
| | assets and | | |
| | provide them | | |
| | with the | | |
| | essential | | |
| | subsistence | | |
| | means through | | |
| | food for | | |
| | work schemes. | | |
|-----------------+----------------+----------------+-----------|
| | | | |
| Seeds and | Restore | August'01 - | 4,285,376 |
| Fertilizers | production and | March'02 | |
| | food security | | |
| | of vulnerable | | |
| | groups. | | |
|-----------------+----------------+----------------+-----------|
| | | | |
| Agriculture | Protect crops. | August'01 - | 300,000 |
| Sanitation and | | March'02 | |
| Integrated Pest | | | |
| Management | | | |
|-----------------+----------------+----------------+-----------|
| | | | |
| Livestock | Assist small | August'01 - | 300,000 |
| Sanitation | farmers in the | March'02 | |
| | affected areas | | |
| | and protect | | |
| | livestock. | | |
|-----------------+----------------+----------------+-----------|
| | | | |
| Small Tools | Provide tools | August'01 - | 200,000 |
| | to farmers | March'02 | |
| | for the | March'02 | |
| | rehabilitation | | |
| | of crop | | |
| | production | | |
|-----------------+----------------+----------------+-----------|
| | | | |
| Material to | Assist in the | July'01 - | 300,000 |
| repair shade | rehabilitation | March'02 | |
| houses and sand | of family | | |
| bags to protect | fruit | | |
| land against | and vegetable | | |
| erosion and new | gardens | | |
| floods. | affected by | | |
| | the floods. | | |
|-----------------+----------------+----------------+-----------|
| | | | |
| Follow-up and | Coordinate, | May'01 - | 60,000 |
| Supervision | supervise and | April'02 | |
| | evaluate | | |
| | activities of | | |
| | the Emergency | | |
| | Plan. | | |
|-----------------+----------------+----------------+-----------|
| | | | |
| Total | | | 7,383,360 |
|-----------------+----------------+----------------+-----------|
+ International response to the Emergency Plan
5. The response of the international community to this Emergency Plan has
so far been very modest: an in-kind contribution (wheat) towards the
'Food for Work' Program. Thus, funds for the Emergency Plan for the
Agricultural Sector are still urgently needed.
WFP response
6. As of 14 May, WFP Bolivia distributed 1,236 MT of food (534,271
rations) to approximately 127,055 affected people (25,411 families).
Food provided belongs to the regular program stocks. Distribution had to
slow down in some regions because stocks ran out of some products. Another
610 MT of food should be distributed in the next weeks to meet urgent
requirements.
7. The USD 300,000 in kind (660 MT of wheat) contribution will partially
meet the requirements. Still needed are canned fish (130 MT), wheat flour
(1,820 MT), vegetable oil (97.5 MT), and rice (975 MT).
8. USAID reported a contribution of 454 MT of food, 596 tents and about
2,000 safe water containers with hydrochloride solution. USAID will
implement in the next four months a rehabilitation plan (food for work)
with approximately 1,500 MT of food, for the next four months. This
contribution will be included in the Emergency Plan.
9. Interested donors can direct their contributions to:
FAO - Ms. Anne M. Bauer, Chief, Special Emergency Relief Operations
(TCOR) Technical Cooperation Department FAO, Viale delle Terme di
Caracalla. 00100 Roma, Italy E-mail: Anne.Bauer@fao.org
Funds should be transferred to FAO bank account with reference to
FAO/United Nations Trust Fund in US$, account no: 490650/67/72,Banca
Comerciale Italiana, Via delle Terme di Caracalla?
WFP - Ms. Valerie Sequeira, Director, Resources & External Relations
Division, WFP HQ, Via Cesare Giulio Viola, 68/70 - Parco de Medici -00148
Rome, Italy
Contributions should be transferred to WFP bank account: Acct. no.
112282/056 CITIBANK, N.A. Foro Buonaparte 16 Milan 2021
10. Information on contributions to this disaster may be found by
clicking on Financial Tracking on the OCHA Website,
http://www.reliefweb.int.
11. For coordination purposes, donors are requested to inform OCHA
Geneva, on relief missions/pledges/contributions and their corresponding
values by item. Donors are encouraged to notify OCHA Geneva of their
contributions to this disaster using the OCHA Standardised Contributions
Recording Format.
12. This Situation Report and further information on ongoing emergencies
are also available on the OCHA Website at http://www.reliefweb.int
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Mr. Erik Haegglund / Mr. Carlos Pereira / Ms. Masayo Kondo
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Press contact:
Ms. M. Moulin-Acevedo, Direct tel. +41-22-917 31 60
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