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About 1.28 million food-affected vulnerable individuals, especially minorities, female-headed households, child-headed households, elderly-headed households, disabled, and chronic ill persons have less access to flood relief support in Sindh and resultantly are in a position of high risk.
According to a press release issued on Friday, this has been disclosed in Civil Society Flood Situation Report released by Peoples Accountability Commission on Floods (PACF), a network of flood affected communities, their representatives, volunteers and civil society in the province.
PACF has called for immediate intervention to 6 percent female-headed households, 133,000 persons with disabilities (13 percent), 28 percent older persons over 65 years, 20 percent families looking after chronically ill persons, and 24 percent minorities.
According to the report, 67 percent households were found without proper civil documentations prior to the flood and during the flood 17 percent civil documents were lost further. During the survey conducted by coordination mechanism, 16 percent of the households were found having the problems accessing the Pakistan Card due to a number of reasons, including feelings of discrimination, lack of information, restricted physical access, and lack of Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs). Civil documents, in particular CNICs and birth certificates are frequently relied upon to identify beneficiaries, and manage distributions as well as facilitating access to certain services.
Highlighting the gender based issues the report added that out of the vulnerable population 93 percent of affected communities reported without separate bathing facilities for women causing negative impact on privacy, sense of security and other gender related issues. With regard to child labour, the civil PACF report said that after the flood 24 percent households reported boys working, while 15 percent girls were found working for commercial purpose, whereas specific protection concerns have been identified for persons in temporary settlement sites higher than average numbers of female-headed households. The absence of male family member increases vulnerability and in some cases can reduce the families access to early recovery services.
According to a press release issued on Friday, this has been disclosed in Civil Society Flood Situation Report released by Peoples Accountability Commission on Floods (PACF), a network of flood affected communities, their representatives, volunteers and civil society in the province.
PACF has called for immediate intervention to 6 percent female-headed households, 133,000 persons with disabilities (13 percent), 28 percent older persons over 65 years, 20 percent families looking after chronically ill persons, and 24 percent minorities.
According to the report, 67 percent households were found without proper civil documentations prior to the flood and during the flood 17 percent civil documents were lost further. During the survey conducted by coordination mechanism, 16 percent of the households were found having the problems accessing the Pakistan Card due to a number of reasons, including feelings of discrimination, lack of information, restricted physical access, and lack of Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs). Civil documents, in particular CNICs and birth certificates are frequently relied upon to identify beneficiaries, and manage distributions as well as facilitating access to certain services.
Highlighting the gender based issues the report added that out of the vulnerable population 93 percent of affected communities reported without separate bathing facilities for women causing negative impact on privacy, sense of security and other gender related issues. With regard to child labour, the civil PACF report said that after the flood 24 percent households reported boys working, while 15 percent girls were found working for commercial purpose, whereas specific protection concerns have been identified for persons in temporary settlement sites higher than average numbers of female-headed households. The absence of male family member increases vulnerability and in some cases can reduce the families access to early recovery services.
