Woke up to news of devastation across #Sindh. Ya Allah rehem. People will need long term assistance ...especially those in areas where rain water is not likely to recede from for months ! #Karachi#Gharo#MirpurSakro#Kohistan#Nagarparkar posting visuals I have received. Help!
Here is what is happening #inKohistan. People outside will be cut off from their homes and those at home from supplies from outside... Danger of house collapse as it is still raining heavily there... Sent by @IndusEarthTrust @AbdullahRajpar
1/3 Forewarned is forarmed. @EhsanLeghari4 's detailed plan to deal with the impending must be read in conjunction with the list of vulnerable points shared by @jamkhanshoro, the Irrigation minister and measures taken to move people out of katcha areas.
1/2 Alternate camp sites must be set up ASAP even if UNOCHA does not kick in, preliminary DCC meetings must take place to pool in capacities of official and civil society organisations and their supporting role in rescue, relief and rehabilitation stages
1/3 The names of the minister's appointed as focal persons as well as their contacts need to be publicized widely too... Their PSOs etc must ensure their accessibility
Dr. @gilanius thank you for your seller work by bringing the #Balochistan#mangroves within mapping. Their declaration as #ProtectedForests is also an acknowledgement of the miracle that late #BabaeMangroves Tahir Qureshi wrought in places where they never existed.
Hallelujah! Local NGOs allowed to help flood-hit families! After decimating the development sector & civil society organizations through a witch hunt, reregistration, EAD quagmire, suddenly when faced with the calamity they realize their importance! dawn.com/news/1704798
These organizations lost their donor connections, donors turned away from Pakistan, rather than jump through the bureaucratic hoops, & now the organizations with the human resource, capacity, experience of working in such disasters have no resources. Are now working in isolation
In 2010, there was district govt. which held DCC where all actors were present; local politicians, military focal persons, line dept. reps. INGOs, NGOs, CSOs, even LSOs & shared locations & interventions to avoid duplication. @UNOCHA was the overarching umbrella to coordinate
In 2018 a workshop was held by @IUCN to develop a management plan for #Astola. Since then..ZILCH! It is 2022. Status in limbo. Is it to be 'low take' or 'no take'? If former, which level of 'take' or activity is permitted. If latter, what alternatives for beneficiaries @dpr_gob ?
It allowed me to point out some important work at policy level to mainstream #Gender issues, like #ccGap document by #IUCN Pakistan & @MoCC with @theGCF readiness support to work in tandem with National #ClimateChangePolicy by highlighting interventions in 6 priority sectors
Here is the #TruthAboutMonal for all the bleeding hearts being taken in by sob stories & running trends here is a series of facts of why we will be well rid of it:
#TruthAboutMonal lease was for FIFTEEN (15) NOT THIRTY years.. documents available for viewing