North Kordofan emergency flood respons According to the government Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC), heavy rains and flooding that began in July 2014 have affected several people in several states of Khartoum,White Nile, Nile, North Kordofan, Kassala and Sennar. According to the media,the Minister of the Interior reported that 77 people across the country have died due to the flooding. 
In response to the flooding, Task Force Co-chaired by HAC and the UN office Coordination of Human train Affair (OCHA) has been activated and meet regularly at Khartoum level. Similarly coordination mechanisms are in place in various
states affected by the flood the latest OCHA report (13th August 2014[1]) show 142,073 people have been affected by heavy rain and floods across Sudan since late July. In North Kordofan total people affected by flooding and heavy rain were 9,546. A total of 1,151 houses are destroyed with 440 houses completely damaged in North Kordofan.
According to field reports, the immediate needs of the affected people are emergency shelter, food, health and shlter /sanitation services.
North Kordofan is one of the states that are worst affected by the current flooding. Sheikan locality and the northern parts of the state (bordering Khartoum state) are the two key geographical locations worst hit by the floods. Even though Sheikan has seen fewer households affected, the extent of damage and losses are equally serious.  Beside, the floods have come in the middle of the hunger gap for the largely small-scale agro-pastoral communities. Sheikan
is a general Food and Livelihood insecure locality in North Kordofan. CAFOD and SIDO have an ongoing FSL programme in the locality covering 10 vulnerable villages. 5 out of these 10 villages have been inundated by the floods. 
Under leadership of the Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) in North Kordofan, a joint assessment was conducted last week when the floods peaked and damages recorded. Other members of the assessment were the Sudan Red Crescent and others. The team identified the damages, the numbers affected, the priority urgent interventions and recommendations. HAC already committed to support the environmental cleaning campaign. There has however
been no external support for Sheikan despite appeals including to CAFOD and SIDO. Agencies operational in the state (Plan, SCF, AWP, UNICEF)  have pooled resources to the remote and high profile northern areas with responses on food, NFIs, education, health. Sheikan thus remains a gap and a strategic intervention location for CAFOD due to the
existing presence with the ongoing FSL intervention (funded by FAO and implemented jointly by CAFOD and SIDO).  
This ongoing project was planned to evolve into a FSL Resilience programme with a strong DRR element in the next phase. CAFOD already has access and permission to intervene.  

4. Proposed Activities:

1. Identification of Aid response recipients – registration and verification
of needs.
2.      One day training session –  for
SIDO, community volunteers and other stakeholder  Emergency response team members
3.      Purchasing the items needed

4.      Delivery and Distribution of items to the affected people.


5.      Evaluation of Aid to beneficiaries- conduct Post  Distribution Monitoring  PDM


6.      Design of DRR programme – Risk analysis, formation of Community Action
Groups (CAG) etc 


 


 





 










[1] www.unocha.org/sudan