Situation Briefing – Cyclone IDAI

1. Situation Briefing – Cyclone IDAI Monday 18 March, 2018

2. Agenda: • Situation Overview • Coordination Update – Maputo & Field Coordination • Response Update • Key Challenges

3. Situation Overview – Cyclone IDAI Prior to Making Landfall: • The National Institute of Meteorology (INAM) issued on 10 March 2019 an alert, which evolved from Tropical Depression to Moderate Tropical Storm called IDAI. • 141,000 people, with 66 deaths recorded and 111 people injured; according to media reports • 17,100 people are estimated to be displaced in Zambezia and Tete, with 10 transit centres established in Zambezia and 2 in Tete. • At least 84,993 ha of crop area are flooded affecting 57,819 smallholder farmers.

4. Situation Overview – Cyclone IDAI 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. • Sofala District sustained heavy damages - Beira City significant damage to houses, education and health facilities, including Beira Central emergency room has been flooded and is without power. Power lines and trees are reportedly down in many parts of the city • Loss of livestock and crops, ahead of harvest season could exacerbate food insecurity • In Zambézia Province, the cyclone impacted Chinde District,where 1,192 people were affected and 84 houses flooded • Manica Province, 127 houses, 36 classrooms and two health units were damaged or destroyed, and severe damage on crops has been reported.

5. Situation Overview – Cyclone IDAI Next 24 hours: • The Government has issued a Red Alert for flooding along the River Buzi; • High risk of floods in Buzi and Pungoé and the potential for Buzu, Nhamatanda, Dondo, Muanza and Chinababava; • Heavy rains are forecast for the next 24 hours, including in areas already hit hard by the trajectory of the Cyclone Idai

6. 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: • National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC) has set up its Center of Operations in a WFP-provided Wikhall at the airport • Inter-agency coordination currently supported by Pedro, WFP and the Ema, NGO Consortium (COSACA). • OCHA deployed 3 Humanitarian Affairs Officers to the ground (1 on ground, 2 arriving) to support Government and Humanitarian partners • First step on ground, meet with OCHA at the operations center your arrival and connect with Cluster focal point on ground • Cluster focal points being established, contacts circulated asap • Coordination of common storage – Logs Cluster Maputo & Beira 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.

7. Immediate Response: • WFP/ Telecoms Sans Frontiers has deployed a team to Beira and is establishing connectivity for the operations centre. • Common Storage: Maputo (4000 mt); Beira ; Nacala(1000 mt); temporary storage Caia (500 mt) • MI-8 transport helicopter, due to arrive on 18 March • WFP plans to assist 22,000 people in hard to reach areas with a 3-day ration of high energy biscuits. Approximately 100,000 people will be assisted with 800 tons of in-country commodities pre-positioned in Nacala • An inter-agency flight with humanitarian supplies from the Humanitarian Response Depot in Dubai is scheduled to arrive in Maputo on 18 March. Multiple convoys are en route to Beira with vital relief items and assessments are ongoing in the city.