77,000 IDPs living outside camps

An inter-agency rapid assessment of people, displaced by renewed conflict in tribal agency of Khyber, living outside formal camps in Peshawar valley has identified more than 77,000 people. IOM, WFP and IVAP co-led the assessment, which was conducted in coordination with UNOCHA and the KP Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) and with support from NGOs, including Save the Children, CERD, BEST, SSTD, LHO, NRC and ACTED. The assessment was designed to map off-camp populations, identify urgent needs and provide the planning needed to ensure that aid deliveries target the most vulnerable. It was conducted across three districts (Peshawar, Nowshera and Kohat), covering 54 union councils and 275 villages. Data collection was done by 16 teams using smart phones. Preliminary results indicated that 9,744 families (77,435 individuals) are living outside camps in the three districts. Some 67 per cent of them arrived over a month ago, 19% arrived within the last 3-4 weeks, 12 per cent arrived in the last two weeks and two per cent in the last week. The assessment showed that newly displaced families are in urgent need of food, emergency shelter, clean drinking water, health and nutrition services, and protection.