Humanitarian Shelter & WASH Group Meeting Updates

Updates from the recent Shelter & WASH Working Group Meeting on Thursday, including flood and landslide warnings, information management updates, Oxfam RTR, district updates, and more. NBRO and DMC warnings issued for heavy rainfall, wind damage reports, and rainfall forecast for various provinces. Updates on well cleaning progress, Oxfam's RTR report, funding dashboard, and rainfall forecast from external sources like BBC Weather.

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1. Shelter & WASH Working Group Meeting Thursday 7 September, 10AM Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies

2. Agenda 1. Introductions & Agenda 2. New flood and landslide warnings 3. Information Management updates 4. Oxfam RTR 5. District Updates 6. Development Partners Roundtable 7. IEC material 8. AOB

3. NBRO / DMC warnings NBRO: 7 September >150mm rainfall / landslide code Red: evacuation notice Rathnapura: Eheliyagoda and Ayagama >100mm rainfall / landslide early warning level 2 Amber Divisions in Rathnapura, Kalutara, Galle, Kegalle DMC: 2-4 September winds partially damaged 227 houses in Polonnaruwa (Thamankaduwa DS) and 152 houses in Anuradhapura (Mihinthale DS) 6 September: 17 houses fully damaged in Colombo (Rathmalana), 8 partially in Galle, 9 in Kegalle, 6 in Vavuniya (wind) and 45 in Kurunegala 7 September: Heavy showers (100mm-150mm) expected in the Western, Sabaragamuwa and Central provinces and in Galle and Matara districts 7 September: Heavy rainfall (about 100 mm) expected in Uva province and in Ampara and Batticaloa districts

4. 3W update on Well cleaning 1200 1000 1000 850 830 800 800 750 No of Wells 600 600 400 220 220 200 200 170 100 28 28 22 14 8 0 0 0 ACTED/ HELVETAS & People In Need LEADS/Oxfam SLRCS/Oxfam SLRCS Team Rubicon UK World Vision Agencies No of Units Planned/Committed No of Units Completed No of Units Ongoing

5. Oxfams RTR Oxfam conducting RTR by its Global team from HQ First draft of the report is expected by 20th Sep.2017 Key learnings and recommendations will be shared in the next WASH/Shelter cluster meeting

6. Funding Dashboard No change. Requirements (Requested) $2,771,000 Funded $2,189,295 Gap $581,705

7. Rainfall Forecast External Sources BBC Weather forecasts predicts as @ 07/09 0800 Hrs, rainfall to South Western coastal and South Western hilly areas in the coming few days (< SAT). Probabilistic Rainfall forecast: Colombo, Kalutara Gampaha, Kegalle, Moneragala, Matalle and Kandy > 55% Above AVG rainfall. (>AVG 220 mm). Multi-model forecast MET DEPT

8. Weather forecast for 07th September 2017 (Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 07th September 2017) Prevailing showery condition in the island, particularly in the south western part is expected to continue. Showers or thundershowers will occur at times in the Western, Southern, Sabaragamuwa Central and North- western provinces. Heavy falls (100-150 mm) are expected at some places, particularly in the Western, Sabaragamuwa and Central provinces and in Galle and Matara districts. Showers or thundershowers will occur elsewhere particularly after 2.00 p.m. Heavy falls (about 100 mm) are expected at some places, particularly in the Uva province and in Ampara and Batticaloa districts. There may be temporary localized strong winds during thundershowers. General public is kindly requested to take adequate precautions to minimize damages caused by lightning activity.

9. District Updates Focal points WASH update World Vision Kalutara LEADS Ratnapura and Matara Oxfam Galle Shelter update World Vision: Ratnapura UN Habitat: Galle & Kalutara Save the Children: Matara

10. Shelter WG - development partners roundtable Shelter WG members and coordination Strategy Implementation and gaps Government recovery framework (NBRO) Technical guidelines and IEC material DRR and resilience discussion Donor priorities and expectations

11. National and district coordination among WG members, authorities Information collection and dissemination flows. NATIONAL DISTRICT DS DIVISION GN DIVISION HCT AGENCIES Intersector working group Sectoral district focal points Shelter Working Group District focal point Divisional Secretary GA Grama Niladhari officer GOVERNMENT Divisional NDRSC NDRSC District NDRSC NBRO District DMC DMC

12. Lessons learned/ evaluation meeting Thursday 21 September at A-PAD Coordination, IM, Advocacy, Finance Strategy Agencies responses: Transitional shelter Cash Preparedness Please share assessments/ reviews