Pakistan is confronted with a protracted emergency situation. In June 2014, Pakistani military operation against the militants in North Waziristan Agency on Pakistan/Afghan border has displaced over half a million people. These IDPs took refugees in different districts of Khyber Pakhtunkwa. These newly displaced persons were in addition to some 900,000 IDPs already living in KP thus brining official total of IDPs close to two million. In addition to the IDPs, Pakistan is hosting 2.7 million registered and unregistered Afghan refugees. There are reoccurring natural disasters including flood, earthquake, disease outbreaks etc. The Protection of Civilian is identified as a major challenge in the recent assessments. There are urgent humanitarian needs such as protection services, water, sanitation, housing, health, education, food supplies and overall infrastructure. There is a greater need to prepare the disaster affected population to mitigate consequences of conflict and build their resilience to the future disasters. Despite their good intentions, the Disaster Management Authorities are not endowed with sufficient resources and an expanded organizational set-up in order to properly manage disasters and provide emergency relief services to the affected population.

To enhance institutional capacity of disaster management authorities to ensure protection and resilience of conflict and natural disaster affected communities in Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Directly beneficiaries: FDMA & PDMA

Indirect beneficiaries: humanitarian actors, IDPs and disaster affected people

• FATA Disaster Management Authority (FDMA) has institutional capacity to provide humanitarian assistance and protection services to the disaster affected communities.
• Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) has institutional capacity to build resilience of the communities and manage disasters.

Risultati principali attesi:  

• FDMA has enhanced capacity in protection and developed a long term strategy for IDPs.
• PDMA has enhanced capacity in DRM and started implementation of DRM-road map.

Donors, UN Agencies, I/NGOs, Government line Agencies etc.

OCHA coordinates disaster response operations with the support from FDMA and PDMA. Both work closely with I/NGOs, donors and UN agencies.

Fase 1 01.10.2014 - 31.03.2020   (Completed)