OCHA Situation Report
South Asia Earthquake - Pakistan
14 - 20 May 2006


Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Summary & Statistics

Over the last week return movements have been slow. In Mansehra, 33 of 
the camps with more than 50 families are now closed and an additional 
three are considered empty. According to UNHCR data there are an 
estimated 5935 IDPs residing in the two official residual camps and the 
17 remaining camps with more than 50 families. Out of the 58 camps in 
Muzaffarabad 23 camps, mostly with less than 50 families, will be closed 
and the population relocated to identified residual camps. 25 camps, 
mostly with more than 50 families, cannot be closed at the moment and 
might be transformed to residual camps. For ten camps the situation is 
not clear. In total there are in Muzaffarabad 28,340 IDPs still residing 
in camps. However, of particular concern in Muzaffarabad is that 52,730 
individuals need to be urgently evacuated and relocated from 18 at risk 
villages before the raining season. This leads to a total caseload that 
needs to be catered for in camps until March 2007 of around 91,000 in 
Muzaffarabad.

|------------+----------+------------+----------+-----------+------------+------------|
|    Hub     |   # of   |    # of    |   % of   |   # of    |    # of    |    % of    |
|            | families |  families  | families |individuals|individuals |individuals |
|            | returned |before start| returned | returned  |before start|  returned  |
|            |          |     of     |          |           |     of     |            |
|            |          |return phase|          |           |return phase|            |
|------------+----------+------------+----------+-----------+------------+------------|
|Bagh        |   985    |   1,154    |   85%    |   5,218   |   6,167    |    85%     |
|------------+----------+------------+----------+-----------+------------+------------|
|Batagram    |  3,539   |   3,648    |   97%    |  21,649   |   22,286   |    97%     |
|------------+----------+------------+----------+-----------+------------+------------|
|Mansehra (1)|  7,224   |   8,025    |   90%    |  39,794   |   42,658   |    93%     |
|------------+----------+------------+----------+-----------+------------+------------|
|Muzaffarabad|  9,674   |   15,166   |   64%    |  56,252   |   84,592   |    66%     |
|------------+----------+------------+----------+-----------+------------+------------|
|Total       |  21,422  |   27,993   |   77%    |  122,913  |  155,703   |    79%     |
|------------+----------+------------+----------+-----------+------------+------------|


|---------------+---------+---------+---------+------------+------------+------------|
|Islamabad camps|  # of   |  # of   |  % of   |    # of    |    # of    |    % of    |
|               |families |families |families |individuals |individuals |individuals |
|               |returned | before  |returned |  returned  |   before   |  returned  |
|---------------+---------+---------+---------+------------+------------+------------|
|H-11           |   444   |   652   |   68%   |   2,451    |   3,481    |    70%     |
|---------------+---------+---------+---------+------------+------------+------------|
|Fateh Jang     |   524   |   524   |  100%   |   2,741    |   2,741    |    100%    |
|---------------+---------+---------+---------+------------+------------+------------|
|Rawal Town     |   20    |   20    |  100%   |     98     |     98     |    100%    |
|---------------+---------+---------+---------+------------+------------+------------|
|Khubair Camp   |   125   |   150   |   83%   |    553     |    900     |    61%     |
|---------------+---------+---------+---------+------------+------------+------------|
|Pakistan Red   |    4    |   57    |   7%    |     20     |    300     |     7%     |
|Crescent       |         |         |         |            |            |            |
|---------------+---------+---------+---------+------------+------------+------------|
|Total          |  1,117  |  1,403  |   80%   |   5,863    |   7,520    |    78%     |
|---------------+---------+---------+---------+------------+------------+------------|


Priorities in the Hubs

Mansehra

Summerisation of transitional sites; Maera, Kashtra and Siran Sialkot

Handover of camp management responsibilities from the Army to the Civil 
Authorities

Constraints Survey

End of assisted returns to +50 camp populations effective 31 May

Data analysis of -50 camp / Host Family population survey

Report on voluntary returns

Muzaffarabad

During the reporting period 105 families have returned to their areas of 
origin.

According to CMO as of 19 May around 300 IDP families still remaining in 
Muzaffarabad to be transported back to their areas of origin while 400 
IDP families still remaining in Islamabad to be moved back to 
Muzaffarabad

According to CMO final day for assisted return process for Muzaffarabad 
is 31 May 2006. (IOM, UNICEF, UNHRC and OCHA support this decision)

Plans for consolidation of camps initiated and it is anticipated that by 
first week of June the consolidation is completed

The government informed UN & ICRC that 12,334 families or 52,730 
individuals need to be urgently evacuated and relocated from 18 villages 
in Muzaffarabad district before the raining season. They will not be 
relocated to the existing camps but to new camps that need to be 
established. Private land has been identified for this purpose.

According to CMO with the relocation of the 52,000, the total caseload 
that needs to be catered for in camps until March 2007 is around 91,000

Note

(1) For Mansehra camps with less than 50 tents are not included.


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