Venezuela
2022-04 Factsheet - Venezuela
April 2022
May 2022 > Cluster Alojamiento Energía y Enseres Venezuela, 2022
Highlights
- By the end of April, the Shelter, Energy and NFI Cluster reached 9,372 direct beneficiaries through partner organizations and 48,144 indirect beneficiaries through interventions in institutions and community spaces providing essential services to population. Activities covered 12 states and Capital District. As key figures for the response to highlight, 14 spaces delivering essential services to communities were built and rehabilitated and 70 received NFIs; 4 Refugee Housing Units (RHUs), 27 street solar lamps and 8 systems to generate energy were installed. Also, 681 portable solar lamps and 306 habitat kits were delivered directly for the most vulnerable population, 2208 individual kits were provided for people on the move, and 1124 people occupied temporary collective shelters.
- In an effort to reinforce the capacities of partner organizations to provide a response on alternative sources of energy, during March and April the Cluster organized a Trainings in Solar Photovoltaic Energy including virtual and practical modules in Caracas, Tachira y Zulia states. Over 56 participants from partner organizations benefited for these trainings. An overall excellent evaluation was received (4,7 over 5 points in general evaluation) highlighting the possibility to apply the learnings for the energy projects in communities of interest.
- As a result of the conjoint effort with partner organizations, WASH and Health Cluster to update the NFI Kits for the Humanitarian Response in Venezuela, the NFI Catalogue was published in early May and is available to guide the partners activities in this matter.
Need analysis
- During the month of April, heavy rains occurred in Zulia, Portuguesa, Andean region and western plains. Material damage has been reported including the collapse of the retaining wall and water levels above two meters in some areas of Zulia State with consequent impacts on homes, schools, community centers. Delivery of basic goods and temporary accommodation spaces for affected people are required.
- During the first months of 2022, there have been armed clashes in Apure state, generating damage to households and infrastructures, eviction of some properties, human mobility, and effects on personal security, among other impacts on the population. The conditioning and rehabilitation of educational, health and care structures for the most vulnerable populations are required, as well as temporary accommodation spaces to respond to these needs.
Response
- By the end of April 2022 9,372 direct beneficiaries were reached by Shelter, Energy and NFI activities (50% female and 50% male) in 12 states and the Capital District. The states covering the highest number of direct beneficiaries were Táchira, Zulia and Amazonas. Also, by interventions in institutions and other spaces providing essential services to population, the actions from organizations have reached indirectly 48.144 people of concern.
- As part of the Shelter Response, 14 spaces providing essential services to population were built and rehabilitated. 3 community centers and recreation spaces were built with the participation from the communities Miranda and Carabobo, 4 schools were intervened in Apure and Miranda states, 2 health centers in Portuguesa and Miranda, 1 coordination authority center in Capital District, 1 temporary collective shelter in Portuguesa, and 3 communities in Apure and Barinas. Also 4 RHUs were installed in a school in an indigenous community in Amazonas state.
- As part of the Shelter Response, 2.145 people were directly benefited by the Shelter response, of which 1944 occupied temporary collective shelters in Apure, Táchira, Zulia and Sucre states and 161 received trainings on safe construction practices to contribute to the sustainability of shelter interventions in Zulia communities.
- Activities to improve access to Energy included the installation of 27 street solar lamps in communities, community centers and schools in Miranda and Carabobo State. 8 systems to generate electricity were installed in spaces to benefit the population of interest in Portuguesa and institutions to assist older adults in Zulia and Táchira. Also, 39 portable solar lamps for spaces providing essential services to vulnerable population were installed in Apure, Bolívar, Táchira and Miranda. Also, 81 people were directly benefited from energy interventions receiving trainings on alternative energy.
- 7,146 individuals were benefited directly by distributions of NFIs including 2208 individual kits delivered for people in mobility in Táchira state, 306 habitat kits for vulnerable indigenous population in Amazonas, Miranda, Zulia and Bolivar states and Capital District and 681 portable solar lamps delivered directly to vulnerable people to mitigate protection risks. Also 70 community spaces and institutions received NFI to provide services to population in need. In the states of Miranda and Zulia, part of the response with NFIs was associated with disasters caused by recent floods, and included the direct distribution of portable solar lamps, plastic sheeting, mats, kitchen sets, as well as the distribution for Civil Protection of non-food items such as mattresses, sheets, rechargeable flashlights, linens, garbage bags, among others.
Gaps / challenges
- One of the gaps identified for the humanitarian response in Shelter, Energy and NFIs has been the technical capacities of the organizations to respond in alternative energies. During the month of April, the National Cluster began a series of trainings in solar energy to meet this demand.
- The development and reinforcement of capacities for the preparation and response to emergencies and repeated disasters in conjunction with national state agencies continues to be a challenge within the humanitarian response in Venezuela. In this regard, contingency stocks are being monitored from the cluster, and training activities with partner organizations are being prepared for the coming months.
