1. Joint-assessment report WUTIP typhoon Quảng Bình

2. Team members Plan in Vietnam (lead) Save the Children (member) ActionAid (member) Provincial DoFA (member) Divided into 2 teams

3. Objectives Identification of needs of people and communities in areas of Quang Binh province affected by typhoon WUTIP

4. Methodologies Review of provincial and district status reports on damages by typhoon On-site data collection: field observation, photos, interviews with households, key informant interview with communal & district officials in affected communities Meeting with provincial departments (DOH, DOET, DOFA, PPC)

5. QB - Scope and Severity 5 deaths, 140 injured and 2 missing people, 345 collapsed houses, over 156,000 houses with damaged roofs, 13,797 hectares of rubber trees and 2,230 hectares of cash crops damaged. 460 schools and 96 commune clinics were partly damaged or lost roofing. Total economic losses have been estimated at VND 8,000 billion, equivalent to almost US$ 400 million

6. QB - Scope and Severity Worst affected over the last 30 years Damages caused by WUTIPspread all the districts of Quang Binh, among them the heaviest damages fell on the districts of Quang Ninh, Le Thuy, Bo Trach, Quang Trach, Minh Hoa and Dong Hoi town

13. Field visits (3-4/10/13) Phu Trach, Bo Trach, Quang Ninh, Le Thuy and Minh Hoa districts:districts: Visited 1-3 most affected communes in each district

14. Findings: Housing Majority of houses were affected in different scales. Almost 70% of affected families have already repaired damage to their homes. Increasing prices of roofing materials (double) and lack of supply Concerns about conditions for the remaining affected households identified as poorest who are unable to rebuild their houses quickly without external support. Those families are also in lack of basic NFIs as they were either damage or got wet during the rain after the typhoon.

16. Findings: Food & livelihood 10% of the population has not harvested their crops or has had harvested crops damaged by the rain Huge loss of poultries Concern about the poorest members of these communities who do not have food for the next 1-2 months while they had to invest their money on roofing materials Lack of electricity leading to the fact that those poor families could not work for cash for at least 1 month. Basic nutrition demand for the children could not be afforded among the poor families.

18. Findings: Health About 70 % (110/168) health care facilities/hospitals have been damaged at different levels, such as roof off, collapsed partly, broken doors/windows Temporarily disrupted of health care services due to lack of power and water supplies. Effect to storing drug, vaccine, and medical supplies Risks to public health including (i) Increased risk of outbreaks and spread of current pink eye epidemic; (ii) Increased risk of communicable diseases: diarrhea, skin infection) accident on the way to school, and lack of food.

20. Findings: Education Most small damage has been repaired by the local Government and volunteers (total of 60% schools) Re-open early next week except for a few heavily- affected schools 1-5 schools’ roofing materials per district could not recover in the coming 2-3 months Children might face safety issues in the medium term due to the quality of school building after the typhoon 20% of pre-schools will suffer from a lack of teaching and learning aides limited water supply for basic sanitation practices at school due to the lack of electricity

22. Findings: Water & Sanitation Not a big issues with current coping and response capacity of local communities and GoV

23. Recommendations 1. Food security 2. Housing materials 3. Attention for children going back to safe school condition 4. Livelihoods recovery 5. Health treatment TARGETING THE POOR WHO INVESTED THEIR CASH ON ROOFING MATERIALS

24. Recommendations – Food,NFIs and Livelihoods Distribution of NFIs within 3 weeks Provision of nutrition packages to affected families for 1 month Rice seedlings and fertilizer for those who do not have money after the typhoon Targeting the 100% collapsed houses and families living under or just above the poverty line Cash transfer could be an option in this emergency situation as the market is available and people can take actions immediately

25. Recommendations - Education Repairing of effected schools/classrooms to ensure the safety principle for children Provision of teaching and learning equipment to affected schools Support books and notes books to students whose notebooks were ruined Consideration of school design to cope with typhoon, especially roofing design

26. Recommendations – Health Provide immediately financial support to fix the general hospital of Minh Hoa; Provide tablets of aquatabs to treat to drinking water at households, especially at flooded communes; Strengthen health care services to communities limited to have access to health care services Strengthen control of spread of the pink eye epidemic Support in surveillance and assessment of risks to public health