Disaster Responses Update
5 June 2015
Introduction:
The last two months have seen three new Disaster Alerts raised in fairly quick succession,
with two sudden onset responses to natural disasters (Cyclone Pam in the Pacific and the
Nepal Earthquake) and one response to displacement due to conflict (Nigerian Crisis). These
crises have brought several new developments for Integral:
 The first Integral Response in the Pacific, with involvement from Members who have
never worked in that region before.
 A response in Nepal alongside key National Partners who are supported by a large
number of Members. This has brought the potential to draw Integral Member direct
operational response and longer term partner work more closely together than we have
seen in previous responses.
 The Nepal response has also provided a good opportunity to apply the learning from
Haiyan.
This update will concentrate only on Integral Responses where there is currently active
Secretariat Facilitation.
Summary
No Active Coordination but
Member work continues:
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Central African Republic Crisis
West African Ebola Crisis
Members can request a call for either of these crises at any
time should there be a change in the humanitarian situation.
Meetings being held in the
field to coordinate
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South Sudan Crisis
Active Coordination/
Facilitation
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Middle East Crisis – Iraq, Syria, Lebanon & Jordan
Cyclone Pam response – Vanuatu
Nigerian Displacement crisis – Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon
& Chad
Nepal Earthquake Response
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Burundi – no Alert raised as of the date of this report.
New Crises being watched
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Photo: Medair
Middle East Crisis
Alert Raised:
Syria April 2013 by World Renew / Iraq 12 August 2014 by Tearfund UK.
Involved:
Syrian crisis - 13 Members - Food for the Hungry, MAP International, Medair,
Mission East, SEL, Tear (Netherlands), Tearfund (Belgium), Transform Aid, TEAR
Fund (New Zealand), Tearfund (UK), World Concern, World Relief (US) and World
Renew.
Iraq crisis - 13 Members - CEDAR Fund, Food for the Hungry, Integra, Medair,
Mission East, SEL, Tear (Netherlands), Tearfund (Belgium), TEAR Fund (NZ),
Tearfund (UK), Transform Aid, World Relief (US), World Renew.
Update:
Overview: Joint meetings to share information on Members work in the Middle
East. Meetings have been combined for both the Syrian and Iraq crises since
February 2015, and have recently moved to 6 weekly intervals, as Members work
has become more established in Iraq. While the response continues to focus on
acute emergency needs, some rehabilitation work has also begun. The Middle
East calls group is now considering what type of coordination would serve this
response best, with the possibility that quarterly / occasional in-region meetings
may be of more value than HQ level conference calls at this stage in the
response. The Secretariat continues to facilitate monthly calls for Members with a
shared Lebanese national partner, LSESD.
Integral involvement:
As the Syrian crisis continues with no sign of resolution, Integral Members
continue to respond to the immediate needs of refugees with food, non-food
items, cash programming, health programmes, WASH, child friendly spaces and
shelter assistance. Essential food and non-food distributions continue inside
Syria through key local partners, and with Medair in the process of establishing
an in-country presence in Damascus.
In Iraq Members have been spreading their operations from initial efforts n Erbil/
Dohuk to also establishing programmes in Kirkuk, as well as work in
Sulaumaniyah. Work has included food and non-food items, health programming,
WASH, psychosocial programmes and establishing child friendly spaces.
Shared office space to support the Middle East response was explored in Jordan,
but this was not pursued as there wasn’t a sufficient critical mass of Members
interested to make it cost effective.
Members have largely adopted a regional approach to both crises both in their
operations and communications.
Integral has combined all Iraq and Syria
information into one Middle East crisis Integral Response website.
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Photo: TEAR Fund New Zealand
Vanuatu – Cyclone Pam
Alert Raised:
14 March 2015 by TEAR Fund New Zealand.
Involved:
10 Members – CEDAR Fund, Food for the Hungry, MAP International, Medair,
Mission East, Tear Australia, TEAR Fund (New Zealand), Tearfund (UK), Transform
Aid & World Renew.
Strategy:
A longer term 3 phase strategy is being developed for this crisis, to strengthen
preparedness and resilience in Vanuatu and across the pacific. More details can
be found here.
Update:
Overview:
Severe Tropical Cyclone Pam struck Vanuatu (population 234,000) as an
extremely destructive category 5 cyclone on the evening of March 13th. The
cyclone’s eye passed close to the capital, Port Vila, on Efate Island, and directly
over the island of Tanna (Tafea Province), where winds are estimated to have
reached 250kmph with gusts peaking at around 320kmph. The cyclone caused
widespread devastation of livelihoods and crops, and extensive damage to
shelters and structures. Initial reports indicate the cyclone caused 11 fatalities,
displaced 3852 people into 36 evacuation centres and affected 166,000 people
across 22 islands.
Integral Involvement:
 TEAR Fund New Zealand and Transform Aid International have
relationships with 5 partner organisations in Vanuatu.
Response plans
revolve around Food Security and Agriculture, and supporting the plans of
the Vanuatu NDMO as lead in this response.
 Initially Joel Kaiser was seconded from Medair for 3 weeks to aid
coordination and help develop an Integral strategy, alongside 3 Members
of staff from TEAR Fund New Zealand (Alice Banfield and Andrew Finlay to
coordinate and support partners, and Helen Manson to collect week 1
comms materials). Tearfund (UK) seconded a comms specialist, Jenny
Barthow, to provide week 2 comms materials for Integral Members.
 A 3 phase strategy has been developed to
1. support an initial response in food security and agriculture,
2. aid recovery through agriculture livelihoods development, training on
disaster preparedness and capacity building,
3. focus on risk reduction and preparedness across the region with
Integral Members working together to create joined-up systems and
capabilities to support timely response to the recurrent and seasonal
disasters in the region.
 A regional meeting will be held in August 2015 with Integral Members and
partners to further plan phase 2 and phase 3.
 Coordination calls continue on a monthly basis for this response and
comms materials continue to be shared and used to report back to donors.
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Photo: Tearfund (UK)
Nigerian Displacement
Alert Raised:
20 March 2015 - Tearfund (UK).
Involved:
5 Members - SEL, Tear (Netherlands), Tearfund (UK), World Concern and World
Renew.
Strategy:
Develop a response to displacement inside Nigeria and to refugees in Cameroon,
Chad and Niger.
Update:
Overview: Despite the relatively peaceful elections in Nigeria at the end of
March, there continues to be serious humanitarian needs in Nigeria, Niger,
Cameroon and Chad related to Boko Haram and inter-communal violence. 4.6
million people are in need of humanitarian aid (OCHA 8 May 2015), 1.5 million
people have been internally displaced (IPM 29 April 2015) and 3 million people
need ongoing food support (FEWSNET March 2015). Nearly 200,000 Nigerians
have fled to neighbouring countries.
Integral involvement:
 Five Integral Members are actively responding to the situation – SEL
(France), Tear NL, Tearfund (UK), World Concern and World Renew. MAP
international also have ongoing work in Niger with a hospital who is
working with a large number of new arrivals from Nigeria.
 Three conference calls have been held to coordinate on this crisis.
 The peaceful elections and the earthquake in Nepal have served to push
Nigeria into a low profile emergency with little public response to
fundraising and limited institutional funding available.
 Capacity of partners is limited, and Members are working to support
national and local partners and strengthen their ability to respond
 World Renew is developing a three year peace programme related to Boko
Haram and conflicts over resources.
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Photo: Medair
Nepal Earthquake Response
Alert Raised:
25 April 2015 - Tearfund (UK).
Involved:
20 Members – CEDAR Fund, Food for the Hungry, International Health Partners,
Integra Foundation, MAP International, Medair, Medical Teams International,
Mission East, SEL, Tear Australia, Tear (Netherlands), Tearfund (Belgium), TEAR
Fund New Zealand, Tearfund (Switzerland), Tearfund (UK), Transform Aid
International, World Concern, World Relief (Canada), World Relief (US) and World
Renew.
Update:
Overview: A devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook Nepal on Saturday,
April 25th with a second major earthquake (7.3) on 12 May. More than 8,500
people have died, with more than 16,000 injured. Nearly half a million houses
have been completely destroyed with more than 250,000 damaged. Weather
conditions are deteriorating with the Monsoon season due imminently.
Coordination:
 8 Operations and 5 Comms conference calls have been held to date to
coordinate the work of Integral Members and key national partners.
 Three National partners in Nepal are supported by a number of Integral
Members and requested an Integral lead agency for communications
during this emergency phase. Tear Australia is the Lead Agency for INF &
Share and Care Nepal, with Tearfund (UK) as lead agency for UMN.
 Leena Samuel, Deputy Director Emergency Response at FH, was seconded
to coordinate Integral’s response in Nepal for 3 weeks. Leena connected
Members in Nepal and facilitated coordination on work and partners –
supporting key national partners (INF, UMN and Share and Care Nepal)
including helping with initial proposal writing; developed the lead agency
model for National partners; provided essential surge capacity for
Members; liaised with other stakeholders such as Micah Nepal, the WEA
and the Baptists; mapped Members work; and explored the need for and
options for on-going in-country coordination
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An initial search was made for a follow on short term in-country
coordinator, as requested by Members. A weekly in-country meeting for all
Members has been established, including a time for devotions together. A
final decision was made on 28 May that we will not seek a further incountry coordinator for the Nepal response.
Integral Member / Partner work
Focusing on relief distributions of shelter materials, WASH kits, essential food and
non-food items, as well as shipments of essential medicines & running mobile
health teams.
Members & Partners are already planning Shelter & WASH
programmes, protection, child friendly spaces and repairs to schools. Plans are
developing for Members to work very closely with National partners,
complementing their existing work with the sectoral expertise of Members.
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