CHURCH WORLD SERVICE: EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROGRAM
SOUTHERN ASIA EARTHQUAKE (REHABILITATION)
September 12, 2006


SITUATION: It has been nearly a year since the devastating Oct. 8, 2005,
earthquake affecting Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, the
Pakistani-controlled Azad Kashmir region and Islamabad, the capital of
Pakistan, killed at least 73,000 (with some estimates saying as many as
86,000 were killed) and injured, according to latest estimates, some
200,000.

As noted in a May 3 CWS appeal update, challenges have marked the
response to this disaster, chief among them earthquake-affected
communities were already enduring extreme difficulties: nearly all of
those affected by the disaster lived in disaster-prone mountainous rural
settlements with fragile economies.  They lived without such basic
services and facilities such as clean drinking water and safe waste
disposal systems.  The disaster increased the vulnerability of these
communities.

Such vulnerabilities have continued. As CWS Pakistan/Afghanistan noted
in a recent report: "Heavy rains, landslides and flash floods continue
to hamper recovery efforts in the earthquake-affected areas. Road
closures, due to landslides and flash floods are delaying the recovery
process. More landslides are expected during the current monsoon season.
It could take several months to repair and open primary and secondary
roads. After this monsoon period, the coming winter will also pose great
challenges."

SUMMARY OF EMERGENCY PHASE: Church World Service was one of the first
organizations in Pakistan to provide disaster relief support to many
affected areas.  The fact that CWS had maintained an office in the city
of Mansehra for more than 25 years created a foundation from which to
launch shelter, food and non-food item distribution efforts.

CWS, in partnership with others from the Action by Churches Together
(ACT) network, including Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) and local partners,
such as DOSTI, contributed a range of human resources and distributed
material resources, including over 25,000 tents, to the relief effort in
four Tehsils of Mansehra District, in Battagram, in Kohistan and in the
Shangla Districts.  More than 30,000 families were supported through the
CWS efforts.


RESPONSE: CWS continues its work in the so-called recovery phase of this
disaster. In this updated appeal, Church World Service is requesting
support to continue developing basic rehabilitation activities needed
for the resettlement of the population affected by the earthquake.

More specific beneficiary information is being updated here, though it
must be emphasized that while the number of direct beneficiaries of the
recovery program can be estimated with some degree of accuracy, the
number of indirect beneficiaries is more difficult to estimate with
precision.

The direct beneficiaries CWS is currently assisting include:

4,000 families are benefiting from the construction of toilets, septic
tank facilities and the planting of fruit trees. Inhabitants of 26
selected villages are enhancing their knowledge on environmental
awareness by different methods including workshops/trainings,
development and dissemination of informative material on environmental
awareness.

1,785 men are undertaking courses at construction trades training
centers (CTTCs), which are providing skill training in five trades --
including masonry, carpentry, electricity, welding and plumbing.

1,000 widows are receiving livelihoods support through a livestock
development project.

More than 1,000 individuals and their families are receiving
psychosocial support services and a further 16,000 people are benefiting
from the community intervention component of psychosocial support. About
40 people will increase their knowledge and skills through training in
psychosocial care. People of six selected union councils will be
provided with community support centers, which they can utilize for
various community activities.

Twenty-six villages are benefiting from renovated or repaired water
systems, covering an anticipated 8,571 households with approximately
60,000 people.

The total number of families who will directly benefit from the
implementation of health and hygiene program is more than 10,000. Given
that the average family in the area comprises seven persons, the
approximate number of beneficiaries is more than 70,000. In addition,
approximately 4,800 students from 26 village schools will improve their
health and health and hygiene practices. This brings the total to
75,000.

1,500 community people will be trained through 60 trainings in disaster
management and recovery planning. 144 union leaders will be trained in
12 trainings in disaster management, governance and recovery planning.
720 people from EFO staff and CWS/NCA partner organizations will be
trained in 26 trainings in various areas from organizational skills to
disaster management and recovery planning. In total, through capacity
building program 2,364 people will be trained.

Community primary and secondary health services are being provided to
approximately 100,000 people in both NWFP and the Azad Kashmir region.

5,000 families will benefit from a winter emergency assistance program
including shelter kits and food packages.

There are three notable changes since the issue of the May appeal
update.

1) One is additional information about a sustainable livelihood program
for widows.

As part of its assessment work, CWS has identified a key vulnerable
group-- households headed by widows. A new livelihoods program is
supporting the raising of livestock in the Mansehra and Battagram
districts for such households.

This livelihoods program is creating a kind of domestic animal resource
pool.  In the first year, three female sheep will be provided to each
1,000 selected female-headed households. 100 rams will also be
distributed for breeding purposes. For the circulation of 100 rams for
breeding purpose, 1,000 women will be divided into 100 groups. Each
group will consist of 10 women each having three female sheep (eves). In
total 3,100 sheep will be distributed. A buffer of 5 percent was
maintained by purchasing extra sheep. That means approximately 155
additional sheep will be purchased to cover the loss during
transportation and handed over to beneficiaries.

Basic animal health services will be provided to assure animals are
healthy.  Families will receive basic training in animal husbandry
practices.  Each year for two years, each family will turn over two
young animals to the animal bank. These will be distributed to an
additional 500 target families each year.  The milk products - milk,
cheese and yogurt - can be sold or utilized in the immediate vicinity of
the family's home and will provide a small but reliable source of
income. Monitoring efforts will help determine if the program should be
extended into other areas and for a longer time. Efforts will be done to
link beneficiaries to market so they can sell the by products from
livestock.

Under a new environmental protection component, beneficiaries will also
be given awareness on different environmental prevention and protection
components including waste management, using sanitation facilities, etc.

2) Another change is the decision to provide emergency assistance to
5,000 earthquake-affected families in NWFP during the 2006-2007 winter
season which will include providing them shelter and food items.

According to government authorities, an estimated 20,000 families in
urban areas of will not have permanent houses constructed in 2006, and
their tents are unlikely to be adequate to live in for another year.
Makeshift temporary shelters may not be available to some families.

There is a growing recognition that another relief phase will be started
with coming winter and shelter and food would be the major requirement.
Following groups have been identified, which may require transitional
shelter:

    The urban displaced whose land has been identified as uninhabitable.
    Urban dwellers whose houses were destroyed. - Residual caseloads
    within camps.

Until now 10,000 prefabricated shelters have been secured by the
government's Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority
(ERRA), but there is no specific identified time-line as to when they
will be provided to beneficiaries. It is anticipated that the shelters
will be used for urban displaced persons.  It has been announced by ERRA
and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) that there will
be need for additional 10,000 shelters required for the urban displaced.

So far there is no focus yet on the rural-affected population which
makes up 90 percent of the total affected by earthquake. A consensus
emerged among aid agencies that there is an urgent need to address the
issue of upcoming winter challenges since there has been less work on
the ground for shelter and accommodation. There is an urgent need of any
kind of shelter whether it is semi-permanent or permanent as the monsoon
has already started and winter is only months away.  The size of the
shelters should be flexible keeping in mind the size of the family
members.

In light of this, CWS and its partner Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) have
decided to launch the winter emergency response program in coming
winters to cater to the immense need of the most vulnerable (likely to
be single headed households, families with disabled, infirm or elderly
members) families, who will not be provided with any kind of
transitional shelters. The winterization program will consist of the
following:

A) SHELTER KITS 5,000 shelter kits will be provided to most needy. Each
shelter kit will include the following items:

- Family-size Tent -1
- Ground Sheet - 1
- Plastic Sheet - 1
- Iron Poles - 2 (with hammer)
- Blankets - 4


B) FOOD PACKAGES

5,000 food packages will be given to the most needy. Each food package
will comprise of:

- Wheat flour - 80 kg
- Rice - 40 kg
- Pulses - 7 kg
- Cooking oil - 10 liters
- Sugar - 7 kg
- Tea leaves - 1 kg
- Salt (Iodised) - 1 packet
- Match Box - 1 packet
- Soap - 4

3) A third change: ERRA, as the government body coordinating
rehabilitation, has specified that non-government organizations such as
CWS are not to be involved in shelter reconstruction as there is a
government strategy for accomplishing this. As a result, the original
CWS housing construction component is no longer part of this updated
appeal. However, CWS has chosen to expand training of community members
in the construction trades training centers (CTTCs) to better enable
them to help in the reconstruction of homes in their communities.

Other major components of this appeal - psychosocial care and
protection; capacity building; sustainable livelihoods; and water and
sanitation - remain integral parts of the CWS response and have not
changed since the issue of the original appeal.


BUDGET

Recovery Housing Capacity Building and Construction Program (RHCBCP)
And Winter Assistance Program :  $2,721,326
Protection and Psycho-social  Program: $375,396
Capacity Building Program for trades/laborers: $2,650,108
Capacity Building Program  CWS Staff / Partners / Local officials
   /communities: $845,832
Livelihoods Program: $1,108,970
Water, Sanitation and Health  Program: $8,059,616
Project Staff: $9,046,655
Total Direct Assistance:  $15,761,248

Total Operational Costs: $2,839,592


TOTAL ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE: $18,600,840

Contributions to support these efforts may be sent to your denomination
or directly to:

Church World Service
Southern Asia Earthquake -- #6979
P.O. Box 968
Elkhart, IN 46515


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