U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR)
OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)
CENTRAL ASIA TASK FORCE
CENTRAL ASIA REGION - Complex Emergency
Fact Sheet #19, Fiscal Year (FY) 2002   November 2, 2001


Note: this Fact Sheet updates previously released Central Asia Region Fact
Sheets and Situation Reports.  Numbers Affected

- According to recent estimates by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR), more than 100,000 Afghans have arrived in Pakistan since
September 11, 2001.


Afghanistan

- On November 1, an International Organization for Migration (IOM) convoy
delivered 13,000 blankets, 3,000 kerosene lamps, 2,600 jerry cans, 14,000
items of winter clothing, and 4,200 cartons of body and laundry soap to
Herat from Mashad.  The relief items are to assist 30,000 families during
the winter.

- On November 2, IOM convoys departed Pakistan with 5,000 tarpaulins for
Bamiyan and 3,000 tents for Kunduz and Bamiyan.  From Turkmenistan, an IOM
convoy with 4,000 winter jackets departed for Andkhoy in Faryab province.
Within Afghanistan, IOM is carrying 5,000 quilts from Kabul to Bamiyan.

- At a press conference held in Islamabad, the U.N. Secretary-General's
Special Representative for Afghanistan expressed concern about the
shortage of food and relief supplies in Faryab, Sar-e-Pul, Ghor, and
Badghis provinces.  Delivery of relief supplies to these provinces in the
northern and western regions of Afghanistan were interrupted after
September 11, affecting up to 900,000 people.


Pakistan

- UNHCR reported that it will begin transferring some of the 2,400 Afghans
at Killi Faizo, a temporary staging area near the Chaman border crossing,
to nearby camps.


Region

- The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)
reported that the Government of Iran is selling 17,000 MT of wheat to the
U.N. World Food Program (WFP).  The wheat will be transported to north and
west Afghanistan via railway through Turkmenistan.

- UNOCHA reported that WFP is buying 20,000 MT of food from Kazakhstan.

- According to press reports, Afghans who were denied entry to Makaki, a
Taliban-controlled camp in western Afghanistan near the Iran border,
blocked a road to the Iranian border in protest.  The camp has reportedly
reached its maximum capacity of 6,000 people, and hundreds of Afghans have
been stranded around the camp for several days near the border.


U.S. Government Activities

New Actions

- As of November 1, the Department of Defense (DOD) had airdropped
1,099,800 Humanitarian Daily Rations (HDRs) valued at $4,729,140 into
Afghanistan.


Disaster Declarations & Background

- On October 4, 2001, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs
Christina B. Rocca redeclared a complex humanitarian disaster for
Afghanistan for FY 2002.

- On October 10, 2001, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires James A. Boughner declared a
disaster for Tajikistan due to drought.


FY 2001 USG Assistance to Afghanistan

Total USAID/OFDA	$12,599,441
Total USAID/FFP	$31,200,000
Total USAID/DG	$310,000
Total USDA	$99,800,000
Total State/PRM	$29,828,659
Total State/HDP	$2,800,000
Total State/INL	$1,500,000
Total CDC	$569,525

TOTAL USG Humanitarian Assistance FY 2001	$178,607,625



FY 2002 USG Assistance to Afghanistan

Total USAID/OFDA	$43,127,109
Total USAID/FFP 	$38,555,000
Total State/PRM	$28,260,000
Total DOD	$4,729,140

TOTAL USG Humanitarian Assistance FY 2002	$114,671,249


TOTAL USG Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan FY 2001/2002	$293,278,874
USG Assistance to Tajikistan

Total USG Assistance to Tajikistan FY 2001	$67,210,000
Total USAID/OFDA Assistance to Tajikistan FY 2002	 $998,180


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