ASIA AND THE PACIFIC 97M 28 HUMANIT ARIAN ......AS OF 23 DECEMBER 2020 ASIA AND THE PACIFIC RESPONSE...
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https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/afghanistan-humanitarian-response-plan-2018-2021-june-2020-revision
https://reliefweb.int/report/bangladesh/2020-joint-response-plan-rohingya-humanitarian-crisis-january-december-2020
https://reliefweb.int/report/bangladesh/hctt-response-plan-monsoon-floods-united-nations-bangladesh-coordinated-appeal
https://fts.unocha.org/countries/118/summary/2020
https://fts.unocha.org/countries/105/summary/2020
https://reliefweb.int/report/myanmar/covid-19-addendum-2020-myanmar-humanitarian-response-plan-april-december-2020
https://fts.unocha.org/appeals/991/summary
https://reliefweb.int/report/philippines/philippines-covid-19-humanitarian-response-plan-august-2020-revision
https://reliefweb.int/report/indonesia/indonesia-multi-sectoral-response-plan-covid-19-may-october-2020
https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/IOR4023902020ENGLISH_0.pdf
https://reliefweb.int/report/cook-islands/pacific-humanitarian-team-covid-19-response-plan
https://reliefweb.int/report/papua-new-guinea/covid-19-multi-sector-response-plan-papua-new-guinea-disaster-management-0
https://unsdg.un.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/TLS_Socioeconomic-Response-Plan_2020.pdf
https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/afghanistan-humanitarian-response-plan-2018-2021-june-2020-revision
https://fts.unocha.org/appeals/906/summary
https://fts.unocha.org/countries/118/summary/2020
https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/MMR_HRP_2020_FINAL_131219.pdf
https://cerf.un.org/what-we-do/allocation/2020/summary/20-RR-PAK-45179
https://cerf.un.org/what-we-do/allocation/2020/summary/20-RR-FJI-42874
https://reliefweb.int/report/cambodia/floods-response-plan-cambodia-2020-period-nov-2020-april-2021
https://reliefweb.int/report/philippines/philippines-super-typhoon-goni-rolly-and-typhoon-vamco-ulysses-humanitarian-needs
https://samoa.un.org/en/27431-national-measles-response-and-recovery-appeal
https://cerf.un.org/what-we-do/allocation/2020/summary/20-RR-VUT-42734
https://reliefweb.int/report/viet-nam/viet-nam-floods-response-plan-2020
https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/One-UN%20Plan%20Multisectoral%20Support%20To%20Covid-19%20Preparedness%20Response%20and%20Recovery%20in%20Malaysia%20-%2024%20July%202020.pdf
COUNTRYUPDATED AS OF 23 DECEMBER 2020 PLAN LINK FUNDING REQUIRED PEOPLE TARGETED% FUNDED 2020 2021J M A AM J J S N DOF J M A AM J J S N DOF
AFGHANISTAN
AFGHANISTAN
BANGLADESH (Cox’s Bazaar Joint Resp. Plan)
BANGLADESH(Cox’s Bazaar)
CAMBODIA
DPR KOREA
DPR KOREA
FIJI
INDONESIA
IRAN (Islamic Republic of)
MALAYSIA
MYANMAR
MYANMAR
NEPAL
PACIFIC (14 countries)
PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
PHILIPPINES
PHILIPPINES
SAMOA
TIMOR LESTE
VANUATU
VIET NAM
BANGLADESH (Intersectoral - Cyclone, Floods)
46%
50%
44%
63%
9%
28%
65%
62%
49%
67%
65%
47%
66%
61%
52%
30%
57%
38%
12%
10%
9%
25%
20%
63%
$395.7 M
$735.4 M
$181.4 M
$876.7 M
$39.7 M
$107.0 M
$145.0 M
$117.3 M
$13.7 M
$58.8 M
$216.5 M
$108.4 M
$36.7 M
$145.8 M
$112.8 M
$121.8 M
$49.3 M
$205.9 M
$9.4 M
$10.0 M
$60.0 M
$52.6 M
$13.4 M
$27.0 M
$40.0 M
11.1 M
11.1 M
1.8 M
1.8 M
5.5 M
5.5 M
16.0 M
25.0 M
7.7 M
0.9 M
0.9 M
1.0 M
2.1 M
5.7 M
2.3 M
5.4 M
0.7 M
7.5 M
0.2 M
0.0 M
1.2 M
0.3 M
1.8 M
0.2 M
0.2 M45%
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
COVID MULTI-SECTOR RESPONSE PLANS (MSRP) IN THE GHRP
COVID MULTI-SECTOR RESPONSE PLANS NOT IN THE GHRP
HUMANITARIAN AND REGIONAL RESPONSE PLANS (HRP/RRP)
COORDINATED RESPONSE PLANS FOR NATURAL DISASTERS
REQUESTED TO FUND HUMANITARIAN RESPONSES ($US BILLION)
COUNTRIES WITHA RESPONSE PLAN
28$3.9BHAS BEEN RECEIVED (55 PER CENT FUNDED)
$2.2B
RESPONSE OVERVIEW
7 countries included in the $10 billion Global Humanitarian Response Plan (GHRP) for COVID-19
19 countries with COVID response plans, not included in the GHRP
9 responses were launched in response to natural disasters (Plans or CERF)
OF THE MOST VULNERABLE PEOPLE PRIORITIZED FOR LIFE-SAVING ASSISTANCE
97M
$1.2B
$581M
REQUESTED
RECEIVED
RECEIVED
RECEIVED
$466M
$262M
REQUESTED
REQUESTED$1.9B
$212M
$47M
REQUESTED
2020 HUMANITARIAN Laili Begum,
Momotaz Begum and Salma Khatun carry
drinking water back to their homes in a
flooded community in Sirajganj District,
Bangladesh. (WFP/Sayed Asif
Mahmud)Over the course of the year, humanitarian needs and human vulnerabilities have grown across countries in Asia and the Pacific due to the health and economic shock of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The region was also battered by particularly harsh period of monsoon rains, tropical cyclones, floods, and landslides, resulting in a doubly difficult year for the world's most densely populated and disaster-prone region.
In the context of COVID-19, humanitarian agencies are overcoming increasingly complex challenges to reach the most vulnerable people affected by the mutually compounding socio-economic and humanitarian consequences of the pandemic, climatic disasters, and ongoing conflicts.
IRANIRAN
PAKISTANPAKISTAN
BANGLADESHBANGLADESH
COVID MSRP IN GHRPCOVID MSRP NOT IN GHRPHRP/RRPCOORD. RESP. PLANS FOR NAT. DISASTERS
AFGHANISTANAFGHANISTAN
NEPALNEPALMYANMARMYANMAR
VIET NAMVIET NAM
PHILIPPINESPHILIPPINES
MALAYSIAMALAYSIAINDONESIAINDONESIA
TIMOR-LESTETIMOR-LESTE
PAPUA NEW GUINEAPAPUA NEW GUINEA
VANUATUVANUATU
FIJIFIJI
SAMOASAMOA
PACIFICPACIFIC
CAMBODIACAMBODIA
DPRK
J M A AM J J S N DOF J M A AM J J S N DOF
J M A AM J J S N DOF J M A AM J J S N DOF
J M A AM J J S N DOF J M A AM J J S N DOF
RECEIVED$1B
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AS OF 23 DECEMBER 2020
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
RESPONSE OVERVIEW2020 HUMANITARIAN
RESPONSE PLANS FOR NATURAL DISASTERS AND THE CENTRAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE FUND
OUTLOOK FOR 2021The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to affect public health and exacerbate humanitarian needs across Asia and the Pacific next year. A number of countries, including Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Timor-Leste are at high risk of being affected by La Niña in early 2021, and the combined effect of the pandemic and climate shocks is likely to increase food insecurity in several countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, and Myanmar.
The Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) for 2021 includes Humanitarian Response Plans for Afghanistan, Myanmar, Pakistan³, and a Refugee Response Plan for Bangladesh. The total funding requirements for the four plans in the coming year amount to more than $2.8 billion to address the needs of over 21 million people. Updated response plans to address
THE GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE PLANThe COVID-19 pandemic had severe impacts on the lives of the most vulnerable people in coun-tries already facing humanitarian crises. In March 2020, the United Nations launched the Global Humanitarian Response Plan (GHRP) to respond to the humanitarian impact of the pan-demic and to complement existing response plans for ongoing humanitarian crises. Seven countries in Asia and the Pacific were included in the GHRP over the course of the year, re-questing a total of US$1.2 billion.
In Bangladesh, the JRP for 2020 included re-quirements of $876.7 million to respond to the humanitarian needs of 1.3 million people, in-cluding Rohingya refugees and people from the host community. The GHRP extended this appeal by adding another half million people from the host community and calling for an ad-ditional $181 million to address the immediate health impacts and multi-sectoral needs result-ing from COVID-19. A further $200 million GHRP plan was later added to address the wider hu-manitarian impact of Covid-19 in others areas of Bangladesh, including compounding natural disaster responses to cyclones and flooding in Covid-19 affected areas.
By addressing the humanitarian impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the GHRP comple-ments national public health plans for COVID-19 and WHO’s Strategic Preparedness and Re-sponse Plan (SPRP). Together with national and UN frameworks for socio-economic recovery, the GHRP is part of the wider multilateral re-sponse to the pandemic.
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AFKPIR MMPK
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The year 2020 has been defined by the human cost of the global COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on public health systems and national economies. Humanitarian needs globally have surged to unprecedented levels.
At the beginning of the year, four countries in Asia and the Pacific had active response plans for protracted humanitarian crises. By the end of 2020, a total of 28 countries have response plans due to the impacts of the pandemic and to respond to natural disasters that have affected the region. This is the highest number of active response plans in Asia and the Pacific since the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.
As well as exacerbating humanitarian needs, the pandemic has also increased challenges for responders, including travel and access restrictions, and has reinforced the need for new approaches to better support local and national humanitarian action.
HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE PLANS AND REGIONAL RESPONSE PLANS
COVID-19 MULTI-SECTORAL RESPONSE PLANS
JANDPRK MYANMAR
AFGHANISTAN
AFGHANISTAN
PAKISTAN MYANMAR BANGLADESH
BANGLADESH
TIMOR-LESTE
NEPAL
MALAYSIA CAMBODIA PHLIPPINES
VIETNAM PAKISTAN
PAPUA NEWGUINEA
INDONESIA
PACIFIC
FIJI
VANUATU
PHILIPPINES
IRAN DPRK
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
OCT
NOV
Not every COVID-19 response plan in the region falls under the umbrella of the GHRP. An additional 19 countries, including 14 Pacific Island Countries, have launched multi-sector response plans to address country-specific impacts of the pandemic.
For example, migrant workers, refugees, stateless people, and other undocumented people are among the most vulnerable and most affected groups in countries such as Malaysia and Nepal. In Nepal, an estimated 750,000 to 800,000 migrant workers returned to the country, with thousands caught in border areas and quarantine centres. The Nepal COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Plan (CPRP) outlined requirements of $108.4 million to support the Government of Nepal’s response to COVID-19 and to improve the situation in quarantine centres and assist migrant workers.
Investments in preparedness and contingency planning by humanitarian organizations and country teams, allowed countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines¹ and Timor-Leste to launch their COVID-19 response plans even before the release of the GHRP.
At the beginning of 2020, and before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, a total of 19.3 million people in Afghanistan, Myanmar, DPR Korea, and Bangladesh were affected by complex emergencies, conflict, and natural disasters had been prioritised and targeted for humanitarian assistance. The three Humanitarian Response Plans (HRPs) and the Joint Response Plan (JRP) for the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis call for a total of US$1.9 billion for humanitarian action.
Natural disasters continued to affect a number of countries across Asia and the Pacific in 2020. It is expected that due to climate change, the frequency, severity, and impact of weather phenomena will continue to be exacerbated.
Humanitarian responses to natural disasters were complicated by access and logistical challenges, including travel restrictions and the implementation of health protocols. For example, governments and humanitarian organizations in countries such as India, the Philippines, or Vietnam integrated COVID-19 prevention measures in cyclone evacuation protocols and the set-up of evacuation centres.
Five natural disaster response plans were launched in 2020. Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines were affected by widespread flooding, storm surges, landslides, and wind damage due to a series of tropical cyclones. The response plans for the three countries called for a total of $102 million to assist more than 692,000 of the most affected people. Two further response plans for Bangladesh were launched to respond to the impacts of Cyclone Amphan in May, and then to the devastating impact of the worst monsoon floods in years.²
As well as these response plans, a number of CERF allocations supported coordinated responses, including to the measles outbreak in Samoa, Cyclone Harold in Vanuatu and Fiji, and severe floods in Pakistan. The planning figures for these coordinated responses have been included in this overview.
A number of other coordinated humanitarian responses without formal plans are ongoing, including activities to address residual humanitarian needs in the Philippines resulting from a series of earthquakes in late 2019 and the ongoing conflict with armed groups in Mindanao.
In addition, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has launched 14 emergency appeals in Asia and the Pacific and the Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) allocated emergency funding on 23 occasions this year. The figures from these responses have not been included in the total figures of this overview.
humanitarian needs arising from COVID-19 are already being planned in many countries, including Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Nepal.
In addition, a number of existing response plans will carry into next year, including the cyclone and flood response plans in Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines as well as emergency appeals by the International Federation of the Red Cross. This brings the projected humanitarian caseload for Asia and the Pacific in 2021 to a minimum of 37 million people with funding requirements of $3.3 billion. These figures are expected to significantly rise over 2021, starting with the impacts of the Pacific cyclone season which began when Tropical Cyclone Yasa struck Fiji in mid-December 2020.
The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations.
Feedback: [email protected] unocha.org/roap Sources: Humanitarian Partners [1] The Philippines COVID-19 multi-sectoral response plan was added to the GHRP in its second iteration. [2] The Cyclone Amphan and Flooding response plans are included under the Bangladesh GHRP. [3] The HRP for Pakistan is a new addition to the GHO.