Bangladesh Flash Flood 2022
2022-10 Factsheet
October 2022
Dec 2022 > BDRCS, 2022
Highlights
- Since May 2022, heavy monsoon rains and water from upstream in India's northeast have inundated large parts of the Sylhet division in Bangladesh and leaving millions of people marooned and triggering a humanitarian crisis.
- The flash floods swept away homes and inundated farmlands, forcing families to seek shelter on higher ground and temporary flood shelters, while power cuts is making life miserable. Experts considered the flood worse than the ones they had experienced in 1998 and 2004.
- The cumulative report of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief informs that 7.2 million people are affected due to the household being inundated in the flash flood-affected nine districts.
- As many as 472,856 people had taken to around 1,605 shelter centers in a combined effort of the Army, Navi, Fire Service and local authorities, according to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief (MoDMR). 136 people died due to this devastating flash flood.
- The Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) has a funding requirement of US$ 17 million for 250,000 people in terms of Shelter support.
Shelter
Need analysis
- Among the worst affected districts due to flash floods in 2022, Sylhet, Sunamganj, Moulvibazar and Netrokona Districts have damaged a total of 126,375 houses fully or partially.
- Shelter Cluster Bangladesh conducted a Shelter Damage and Needs Assessment in the flash flood-affected areas, the assessment was conducted in the rural areas and vulnerable communities were selected among the north-eastern part of Bangladesh. The assessment reveals that:
- After facing the flash flood peoples are living in unsafe and makeshift houses
- Peoples are not able to repair their houses with their own effort. Along with Government, the Humanitarian agency's support is essential in affected areas.
- Shelter toolkit, Corrugated Galvanized Iron (CGIs) sheet, cash support, bamboo, plinth raising initiatives and long-term shelter support program are crucial in the affected areas.
Response
- 138,342 individuals have been covered by emergency shelter responses, where 74% were covered by emergency shelter items, 19% were covered by emergency shelter reconstruction support, 6% were covered by essential HHs items and 1% were covered by ground-raising activities.
- Shelter Cluster Bangladesh has initiated to development of Information Education and Communication (IEC) materials jointly with the Housing and Building Research Institute (HBRI) under the Ministry of Public Works. The IEC materials have been developing considering the housing pattern of flash flood 2022 areas.
- SC Bangladesh conducted a Shelter Damage and Need Assessment by forming a Technical Working Group (TWG) among the partners.
- During this quarter, Shelter Cluster Bangladesh organized three meetings with its partners.
- Displacement Management Cluster, Shelter Cluster, Nutrition Cluster and Gender Based Violence Cluster jointly conducted an assessment in evacuation centers in Sylhet and Sunamganj Districts, these two districts are the most affected by the flash flood 2022.
- Shelter Cluster currently translating the Shelter & Settlement part of Sphere Standards 2018, to accomplish this task a TWG has formed among the partners.
- Shelter Cluster has been maintaining the close coordination with its partners, cross-cluster, working groups and HCTT.
Gaps / challenges
- The fund coverage is very low depending on the situation and limited emergency support.
- The aftermath of the flash flood, the necessary shelter damage and key immediate needs information were a significant gap. Shelter Cluster had identified this gap and decided that an assessment will be conducted in the disaster-prone areas in Bangladesh at the community level to identify the key immediate needs following a disaster based on recent experience.
