Situation Briefing – Cyclone IDAI

1. Situation Briefing – Cyclone IDAI Tuesday 19 March, 2018

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

3. Situation Overview – Cyclone IDAI Prior to Making Landfall: • 141,000 people, with 66 deaths recorded and 111 people injured; • 17,100 people are estimated to be displaced in Zambezia and Tete, with 10 transit centres established in Zambezia and 2 in Tete. 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.

4. Situation Overview – Cyclone IDAI Highlights: • Heavy rainfall is projected to continue in Sofala and Manica provinces from 19 to 21 March. • Alerts have been issued - risk of flooding in the Buzi and Pungoe river basins in the next 72 hours. • The death toll from Cyclone Idai’s landfall has reportedly risen to at least 84 and the President has said that it could rise above 1,000, according to media reports.

5. Situation Overview – Cyclone IDAI Overview: • At least 267 classrooms and 24 health units have reportedly been affected • Beira City remains cut-off from surrounding areas, with the N6 national road between Tica and Nhamatanda (85 kilometres from Beira) now impassable. • Parts of Beira Port – including the grain terminal, warehouses and coal terminal – sustained damage, container terminal and oil terminal did not • Dam collapse on 17 March, reportedly causing extensive damage, thousands of people affected by flooding and many areas remain inaccessible • Population Services International (PSI) factory in Beira was also reportedly damaged, impacting WASH supplies, including stocks of certeza, a water purifier.

6. Situation Overview – Cyclone IDAI Highlights: • next 72 hours are expected to be critical • water expected to rise above alert levels in the Buzi and Pungoe river basins, high risk of urban flooding in Beira and Dondo. • affected road sections:  Nhamatanda- Buzi e Buzi – Chibabava, Muanza - Gorongosa e Gorongoza – Cheringoma; • thousands of people in Zambezia and Tete remain in need of assistance following floods that began in early March.

7. 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: • 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 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. Chimoio/Manica: • Inter-agency coordination currently being facilitated by WFP/UNICEF in support of the INCG • First step on ground meet with WFP/UNICEF

9. Immediate Response – Updates • Response and search and rescue efforts are underway in multiple areas. • Coordination: A third coordination hub is being established in Chimoio, led by INGC. • INGC is providing assistance to 3,800 families in accommodation centers in Sofala Province. • WFP has begun distributions in Beira • multiple health partners are supporting urgent response in impacted health facilities • response is ongoing in Zambezia, including to contain the vaccine-derived polio outbreak • Tete City, WFP is assisting nearly 900 families affected by flooding with a mixture of cash transfer and vouchers • Four helicopters – three government and one from WFP – are supporting the response in-country. WFP airlifted 20 tonnes of high energy biscuits into Beira on 17 March • Efforts are underway to move supplies by boat from the Maputo Port to the Beira Port

10. Key Challenges: • Common storage and air capacity to move supplies • Road access to bring supplies in; main road routes have been cut due to flooding. • Access to assess and assist populations surrounding Beira Town; additional locations cut off due to flooding