Rapid assessment report on flood affected woredas in Shebelle zone of

Somali Regional state ,Ethiopia

30 -5/5/20

Team1

SN Name Organization Position Email

1 Abdi Ahmed DRMB Team leader Anfac2008@gmail.com

2 Hassen Barud SCI Member Hassan.barud@savethechildren.org

3 Aydarus Ahmed SOS Member

4 Salah Hassen ADRA Member Salahdin.744@gmail.com

5 Abdi Osman Omer OWDA Member Abdinasirqalafe@gmail.com

6 Kamil Abdirashid Zonal Member

7 Ahmed Ibrahim OCHA Member Ahmed.mahig@un.org

8 Abdullahi Isak WFP abdullahi.isak@wfp.org

9 Abdifetah Mahdi AAH Member washpm-kd@et.missions-acf.org

10 Awel Zonal

Executive Summary

• In general, 17,483HHs displaced and 41,244HHs affected by flood. Some displaced people

live with their relatives and neighbor in a few saved homes from flood which will be risky

in this critical COV-19 time, while others are living in open area, being affected by the

current rains.

• Due to flood drowning, 10 human death was confirmed and most of them died due to flash

flood.

• A total of 1,395 cattle, 6,462shoat,55 camel heads and 402 donkeys have been swept in

the Ten woredas.

• 21,708Ha of standing and harvested crops(Sessam, Onion Sorghum, Maize and other

varieties ) were washed away and 226 generators were also lost.

• As a result of Shabelle river flood, 68 formals, and 47 ABEs schools damaged, and 27

health post and 3 heath centers were also damaged in the zone.

• 22 river intake, 2 Haffirdam, 74 hand dug wells and 13 birkas were also destroyed by the

flood.

• There is no human disease outbreak that has been yet confirmed; but there is threating

disease such as water bound diseases while there are no essential emergency drugs.

• From23 to 30/4/2020, a total 466 cases of severe acute malnutrition were admitted to

Kelafo, Mustahil and Ferfer health facilities.

• Water treatment chemicals are not available in all flood affected woredas, people are

drinking water with high turbidity and untreated

• There is no livestock disease outbreak that has been yet confirmed; but there is a growing

threat for potential livestock diseases like tick and tick bound diseases.

• The total number of displaced need food assistance based on rapid flood assessments report

is 17,483HHs (96,1565 individuals).

• In all woredas of the zone, due to COV-19 and inaccessibility, commodity price increased

while livestock price decreased, and community of flooded area started labor migration.

• there is social and emotional disturbance as the loss of the productive assets, this

disturbances may bring mental health problems and loss of social disciplines.

• In southern side of the river like Adadle, Kelefo, Mustahil and Ferfer woreda have no

access and response delivery will be tough in the coming thirty days.

1. Introduction

Shebelle zone is one of the flood prone areas to heavy rains both at the upper stream and within

the region there have been flooding disasters at its woredas entirely located along the perennial

river as well as flash floods in the seasonal rivers. The flood affected all districts but severely

affected those districts located alongside the river such as Kelafo, Mustahil Ferfer, east Imey,

Ber’ano and Adadle districts.

The rain is yet enduring and level of river water may increase, if proper prevention and early

warning wouldn’t put in place, the flooding would further deteriorate in the flood prone areas of

Shabelle zone. Due to poor conditions of the road, initially the rain had blocked the road

accessibility but now eastern part of Kelafo, Mustahil & Ferfer town are accessible with poor

conditions but most of their kebeles are inaccessible ; after assessing these three woredas, there is

debriefing meeting with regional DRMB head and zonal administrator at Kelefo . Based on the

scale of this disaster and urgent need to respond it, two teams were organized for Shebelle flood

rapid assessment, one team have conducted the assessment in Kelafo, Mustahil, Ferfer and Gode

through Shilabo woreda while the second team did the assessment in East Emay, Abokorow,

Ber’ano, Danan, Adadle and Elele woredas.

2. ES/NFIs sector

17,483HHs displaced and 42,244HHs affected by flood while 763HHs in Danan and Ber’ano

woredas caused by flash flood returned to their original homes after water gone out from their

homes, displaced people lost all their belongings including shelter, kitchen, water collection

utensils and clothing/bedding during the flood.

Some displaced people live with their relatives and neighbor in a few saved homes from flood

which will be risky in this critical COV-19 where active cases have been found in the region while

others are living in an open area, being affected by the current rains and this is only option they do

have where governmental institutions were damaged by the flood.

3,232 HHs are isolated by floodwater, and response deliver will be difficult. In recent time, no

option to deliver response to these sites, and the only possible way to deliver response will be an

airlift. According to the respondents, no responses didn’t reach them since the flood hit them

except lifesaving and evacuating them, Thus, shelter, food and clean water are three their top

critical needs.

Poor condition of the roads is the driving force to poor market accessibility, all markets are

accessible across main towns. People are using traditional boats, that helps them to cross the river

and areas flood water occupied. Even though, movement is restricted along the border of Somalia,

owed to Covid-19 pandemic, but still trucks loading essential supplies can cross the border.

Table1: Displaced and affected people SN Woreda Affected Displaced Surrounded by water Returnee

1 Ferfer 4757 2,820 726

2 Mustahil 5546 3,804 0

3 Kelefo 14,567 6,302 2506

4 East Emay 4800 2,300

5 Abokorow 444 0

6 Ber’ano 2,450 406 324

7 Danan 3,730 23 439

8 Adadle 1400 341

9 Elele 1850 607

10 Godey 1700 880

Sub-total 41,244 17,483 3,232 763

Recommendations:

• Provision of construction material to Mustahil town and shelter repair materials for Kelefo

town.

• Immediate provision of ESNFI/shelter materials to flood displaced people in the ten woredas.

• Immediate distribution of dignity kit to displaced women and girls in ten woredas.

3. Education

Recurrent floods are severely affecting education, in terms of halting education services or

damaging physical building. And these effects recorded one or twice in a year. Recent floods

resulted greater damages then the preceding floods. This is because of time-lapse between the past

and current floods is six months’ period.

As a result of Shebelle river flood, 68 formals, and 47 ABEs schools damaged. Even though, the

extent of damages varies among schools. Mostly, the damages of ABEs, greater than formal

schools. Because of the, ABEs schools were constructed local materials (temporary learning

space), which are more susceptible to floods.

the major damages recorded in formal schools were cracked down buildings, and collapsed schools

fencing. All formal schools were partially damaged, but the flood destroyed 10 ABE facilities.

School latrines were either destroyed or filled by flood water. The flood washed away significant

teaching and learning materials. On the top of this, it is difficult to resume schooling services,

unless it is considered missing of essential education materials. This flooding come in a period

where students are not attending in schools, owed to Covid-19 pandemic.

N.B: Elele, and Danan woredas are affected by flashflood.

Recommendations :

• Rehabilitate damaged schools, before students return to schools and to re-construct

destroyed latrines.

• Provide essential learning, and teaching materials.

• build-back better all ABE schools susceptible to floods.

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4. Health and Nutrition

There is no human disease outbreak that has been yet confirmed, from 23 to 30/4/2020, a total 466

cases of severe acute malnutrition were admitted to Kelafo, Mustahil and Ferfer health facilities,

the highest SAM cases that is 345 cases were admitted to Kelefo woreda.

There is a growing threat to the potential outbreak of waterborne diseases and due to the

consumption of stagnant/contaminated water and poor hygiene, there is seasonal diarrheal diseases

in East may, Kelefo, Mustahil and Ferfer woredas for chidlren. The most prevalent risks of diseases

are watery diarrhea, malnutrition, pneumonia, malaria, conjunctivitis, skin disease, and bilharzia.

There is a severe infestation of mosquitoes following stagnant water in the flooded areas and

malaria may prevail; in addition to this, there is Shortage of essential medical supplies, equipment

and there are no emergency drugs at all for all woredas.

Recommendation:

• Immediate rehabilitation of damaged health facilities and construction of collapsed

latrines.

• Supply of essential and emergency drugs are urgently needed

• distribution of mosquito nets to the most vulnerable people and immediate delivery of

Anti-malaria drugs are needed.

5. WASH

22 river intake, 2 Haffirdam, 74 hand dug wells and 13 birkas were destroyed by the flood.River

intakes need rehabilitation, generators, motors and pipe instatalation in Mustahil, Kelefo,

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wells that filled and molding the arrangement due to the flood. The assessment identified access

to safe water supply as a greatest need and the priority for the flood affected community in these

flood affected woredas. In addition to that due to the flood washed away all the HHs latrines there

is widespread open defection and poor hygiene as well as overcrowding the available latrines,

and these are prevalent and high-risk factors for the disease outbreaks like water born diseases.

Water treatment chemicals are not available in all flood affected woredas entirely including, people

are drinking water with high turbidity and untreated. Some of the flood displaced communities are

drinking stagnant water collected from the ponds due to flooding

Recommendation:

• Urgent distribution of water treatment chemical and WASH supplies to flood affected

and Provision of the hygiene kit.

• Urgent rehabilitation of the damaged water infrastructure and latrines.

Women fetching water from stagnant water

6. Crop and Livestock damage

This is the time of crop harvesting of different of agricultural products in the Shabelle woredas, a

lot of households will be faced shortages crop production at the normal harvesting time for the

coming months due to the flood. food shortage and shock will be anticipated, hence their

agricultural products eliminated by flood, the situation for the near future will be unprecedented

and some of the people were shocked for the dangerous flood. 21,708Ha of standing and harvested

crops(Sessam, Onion Sorghum, Maize and other varieties ) were washed away and 226 generators

were also los

No livestock diseases outbreak has yet been reported; but there is a growing threat for potential

livestock diseases such as parasite [external, internal] foot root, trypanosomes in entirely flood

affected woredas. There is pasture disturbance due to flood over all the rangeland parallel with

huge infestation of desert locust and very difficult livestock to move the water flow.

A total of 1395 cattle, 6462shoat, 55 camel heads and 402 donkeys have been swept in the Ten

woredas. All the visited woredas, reported Shortage of essential veterinary drugs. In all woredas

of the zone, due to COV-19 and inaccessibility, commodity price increased while livestock price

decreased, and community of flooded area started labor migration.

Table2: Livestock death and damaged crops

SN Woredas Livestock death Crop damage(ha)

Asset loss

Cattle Shoat Camel Don

1 Ferfer 30 50 0 0 2,426 17 generator, 1 vehicle

2 Kelefo 603 2417 6 341 4,055 118 generator,

3 Mustahil 204 796 0 61 7,682 82 generator

4 East Emay 41 94 17 0 5225

5 Abokorow 29 53 6 0 269

6 Ber’ano 410 379 0 0 1239 4 motor

7 Danan 58 65 20 0 0

8 Adadle 0 2331 0 0 800 3 motor

9 Elele 0 52 0 0 0

10 Godey 20 225 6 0 12 2 motor

Sub-Total 1395 6462 55 402 21,708 226

Recommendation:

• The supply of veterinary drugs and its equipment

• Urgent livestock vaccination and treatment.

• Provision of seeds, hand tools and water pumps as soon as possible.

7. Food

The flood affected woredas of Shebelle zone, are in immediate need of food assistance as the food

gap widened following on the stand crops destroyed by the current floods from the Shebelle river.

Asset have been lost in the floods. 80-85% of households depending on crop production may

shortly face acute food insecurity following on crop harvest prospect production. harvest period

anticipated to remain failure as many crops planted are lost and washed away by the ongoing river

flood.

The total number of displaced need food assistance is 17,483HHs (96,1565 individuals) among

whom more than half are vulnerable groups (Mothers, elders and children of displaced and

immediately require short-term food assistance.

Recommendations:

• To allocate basic food items to address the most urgent needs and prevent further starvation

and malnutrition of the affected people over the next two months.

• Provide basic food such as cereal, Pulses and cooking oil.

• To improve living conditions and help them return to normal living conditions.

8. Protection

As the floods have destroyed the productive asset of many families living in these districts, the

aftermath will be Shortage/ lack of food and malnutrition as they loss their livelihood means it will

be very hard for them get enough food to eat which in turn cause widespread malnutrition, there

is Social and emotional disturbance as the loss of the productive assets is causing it to members of

the affected families, these disturbances may include; mental health problems and loss of social

disciplines.

Child labor- as the families lost their livelihood means, they may migrate to search food and this

may cause them abandon some of their children and these children would be used as labor source,

there is family breakdown as families may breakdown due to the lack of family livelihood means

which can result stress and mental problem; there is also migration as families may migrate to

nearby town sites to get better life as they lost their livelihood means, during migration, women

and girls may got raped. Increased domestic crimes is reported as violence and other domestic

crimes may increase due to the food insecurity resulted from the loss of livelihood assets.

Recommendation:

• Immediate generating livelihood income source to women and girls

• Distribution of dignity kit to women and girls

• Providing psycho-social support to vulnerable groups.

Challenges assessment:

Access was the key challenges that the team come across during the assessment, apart movement

from woreda to woreda, due to scale of the flooding, the team couldn’t to reach most of the affected

kebeles which makes them to collect the data at woreda level. In southern side of the river like

Adadle, Kelefo, Mustahil and Ferfer woreda have no access and response delivery will be tough

in the coming thirty days.

$1 of Preparedness saves $10 of response

Table: Displace and Affected Per kebeles in Shebelle zone.

No

Woreda Kebele No of HH displaced/affected

Displaced Affected

1

Denan 01 Kebele 800

02 kebel 900

03 kebele 700

Bada cas 180

Walalgo 250

Shinile 23 900

SubTotal 6

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3730

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Gode Uubaley 100 190

Waylosilig 120 350

Elan 16 60 160

Dolo bacad 80 180

Las gabrile 70 140

Arosyale 0 200

Gabicas 250 180

Hadhawe 200 300

SubTotal 8 880 1700

3

Kelefo Bohola aweys 95 250

Malko washaqo

292

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Kebxanlow 70 200

Afdub Daqsuge 323 500

afdub 280 500

Alowigarsii Allow igadsii

692

2255

Niiri center Niiri 600 1800

Kabxanle

center

Kabxanle 780 1700

Qalaafe

town

Hilabacad 470 1000

Adiskatama 450 900

Dariiqa

Center

dariiqo

300

1050

Luuqdhere

Center

Luuqdhere 150 350

Burdede Burdede 250 600 400

Gan Center Gun 350 922

Dabakatur

Center

Dabakatur 450 700

Cantalaale

300

470

Burgabo

Center

Burgabo 200 450

Bargun

Center

Bargun 250 450

SubTotal 22 6302 14567

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Imay Bari Imay town

350

900

Qudhacle 200 450

Mukey 200 350

Xidigta 152 400

Gudis 153 450

Makula 151 300

Direey 140 200

Siiga dhere 192 400

Baley 232 300

Dhaay 230 400

Libaxle 200 400

Kuuyo 100 250

SubTotal 12 2300 4800

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Mustahiil Mustahil Town 1000 1400

Cagadhurwaa 400 500

Mirdhis 503 600

Budul 400

570

Turtur 250

400

Eyoole 300

478

Qabobe 307

455

Godcaro 363

508

Kalaman 281

635

SubTotal 9

3804

5546

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Aleele Alale Town 200

400

Carmaale 55 100

Bargun 95 500

harwayn 59 250

Jimbacley 77 200

adhicadeye 61 200

dhure 60

SubTotal 6 607 1850

FERFER Abaley(bardhyac iyo

xajidini)

820 1000

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ganbarey, dayax)

920 1357

Dabadhere(bukurale,

kudinle)

700 1345

Burukur(ayrabwayne,

holotugo and maraca)

380 1055

Sub-Total 4 2820 4757

abaqorow Qarud 0 166

8 Siqaley 0 100

Magaloxumey 0 178

3 444

Ber’ano Damerey 350

9 Garabjabiye 56 150

Radanle 400

Baldoqorax 200 500

Dabaaldeg 150 400

Dib udajin 400

Hilanagod 250

Subtotal 7 406 2450

Adadle

Subtotal

Jeeray 200 400

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Adadle

Kurtun 49 250

Harus 37 250

Gabal 55 500

Subtotal 4

341

1400

Grand

Total

83 17,483

41,244