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Situation Briefing – Cyclone IDAI

Tuesday 19 March, 2018

Agenda:

Situation OverviewCoordination Update – Maputo & Field CoordinationResponse Update

Key Challenges

Situation Overview – Cyclone IDAI

Prior to Making Landfall:

141,000 people, with 66 deaths recorded and 111 people injured

;

17,100 people are estimated to be displaced

in

Zambezia

and

Tete, with 10 transit centres established in Zambezia and 2 in Tete.

Tropical Cyclone

Idai

made landfall during the night of 14 to 15 March 2019

:

Sofala

,

Manica

,

Zambezia

and

Inhambane

provinces have been hardest hit. At least 48 deaths being reported, expected to rise in the coming days.

Situation Overview – Cyclone IDAI

Highlights:

Heavy rainfall is projected to continue in

Sofala

and

Manica

provinces from 19 to 21 March.

Alerts have been issued - risk of flooding in the

Buzi

and

Pungoe

river basins in the next 72 hours.

The death toll from Cyclone

Idai’s

landfall has reportedly risen to at least 84 and the President has said that it could rise above 1,000, according to media reports.

Situation Overview – Cyclone IDAI

Overview:

At least 267 classrooms and 24 health units have reportedly been affected

Beira City remains cut-off from surrounding areas, with the N6 national road between

Tica

and

Nhamatanda

(85

kilometres

from Beira) now impassable.

Parts of Beira Port – including the grain terminal, warehouses and coal terminal – sustained damage, container terminal and oil terminal did not

Dam collapse on 17 March, reportedly causing extensive damage, thousands of people affected by flooding and many areas remain inaccessible

Population Services International (PSI) factory in Beira was also reportedly damaged, impacting WASH supplies, including stocks of

certeza

, a water purifier.

Situation Overview – Cyclone IDAI

Highlights:

next 72 hours are expected to be critical

water expected to rise above alert levels in the

Buzi

and

Pungoe

river basins, high risk of urban flooding in Beira and

Dondo

.

affected road sections: 

Nhamatanda

-

Buzi

e

Buzi – Chibabava, Muanza

-

Gorongosa

e

Gorongoza

– Cheringoma

;

thousands of people in

Zambezia

and

Tete remain in need of assistance following floods that began in early March.

Field Coordination:

Maputo Coordination:

Daily Situation Briefings, 11 am UNDP

Inter-Cluster Coordination Meetings/INGC

Clusters - weekly meetings w/line ministries

4w Mapping of partner presence

Biera

/

Sofala Coordination:First step on ground, meet with OCHA at the operations center your arrival and connect with Cluster focal point on groundCluster focal points being established

Quelimani

/

Zambezia

Coordination:

Inter-agency coordination currently being facilitated by Michael UNICEF in support of the INCG

First step on ground meet with Michael, cluster focal points to be established in

Quelimani

, contacts will be circulated

.

Chimoio

/

Manica

:

Inter-agency coordination currently being facilitated by WFP/UNICEF in support of the INCG

First step on ground meet with WFP/UNICEF

Immediate Response – Updates

Response and search and rescue efforts are underway in multiple areas. Coordination: A third coordination hub is being established in

Chimoio, led by INGC.INGC is providing assistance to 3,800 families in accommodation centers in Sofala

Province.

WFP has begun distributions in Beira

multiple health partners are supporting urgent response in impacted health facilities

response is ongoing in

Zambezia

, including to contain the vaccine-derived polio outbreak Tete City, WFP is assisting nearly 900 families affected by flooding with a mixture of cash transfer and vouchers Four helicopters – three government and one from WFP – are supporting the response in-country. WFP airlifted 20 tonnes of high energy biscuits into Beira on 17 March Efforts are underway to move supplies by boat from the Maputo Port to the Beira Port

Key Challenges:

Common storage and air capacity to move suppliesRoad access to bring supplies in; main road routes have been cut due to flooding.

Access to assess and assist populations surrounding Beira Town; additional locations cut off due to flooding