Floods 2010-Related Page Part of the Pakistan Crisis Wiki
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Situation Assessment/Reports[]
Governmental[]
Guide Map for NGOs and Aid Agencies to Reach Flood Affectees in Sindh - Contains locations of camps and contact information of govt officials. Click here for full size
- National Disaster Management Authority - Govt of Pakistan
- FATA Disaster Management Authority: http://www.fdma.gov.pk/
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Disaster Management Authority: http://www.pdma.gov.pk/
- Punjab Flood Relief & Rehabilitation: http://floodrelief.punjab.gov.pk/
- Sindh Flood Relief & Rehabilitation:
- http://www.pdma.gos.pk/
- Currently, this is being flagged by Google as a harmful site
Technical[]
- Geological Survey of Pakistan: http://www.gsp.gov.pk/
- Pakistani Metereological Institute: http://www.pakmet.com.pk/
- Original Monsoon Outlook (June 21):
- http://www.pakmet.com.pk/MON&TC/Monsoon/monsoon(2010).html
Dedicated Information Resources[]
Tools Summary[]
- Sahana Pakistan Floods Response (Sahana Eden): http://pakistan.sahanafoundation.org/eden/default/index
- PakReport (uShahidi): http://pakreport.org/
- Google Crisis Response - Pakistan Floods:
- Google Person Finder (in English and Urdu)
- Google Resource Finder
- Project Epic: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~starbird/pkfloods_map_byTime.html
Meta Information (Lists of Resources, Tools, etc.)[]
- Wikipedia article on 2010 Pakistan Floods
- Crisis Commons: Main Page
- Crisis Wiki: http://www.crisiswiki.org/Pakistan_Floods_2010
- Google Crisis Response - Pakistan Floods
- P-FAN (Pakistan: Flood Action Now) A facebook page dedicated to coordinating awareness, fund raising and supporting relief efforts in response to this humanitarian crisis
- Floods In Pakistan
- ICT4Peace Inventorisation Wiki Page: http://inventory.ict4peace.org/Pakistan-Floods
Organizational Resources[]
- World Food Program: http://www.wfp.org/crisis/pakistan
- ReliefWeb: http://reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc108?OpenForm&emid=FL-2010-000141-PAK
- Oxfam page: Pakistan Floods 2010 - Oxfam
- Red Cross Canada Pakistan Floods - Red Cross
- PakResponse, from One Response: One Response
Live Updates[]
Twitter tags
Dedicated Twitter Accounts
- The CSPPP maintains the Twitter Account "PakistanDR", dedicated to "Pakistan Relief", which channels information about the crisis.
Live Social Streams
- SARelief.com has a consolidated live social stream, (mainly from Twitter for now) following the Twitter Hashtags #Pkfloods #Pkflood #Crisiscommons #Pakistan as well as key Social Media reporters: http://www.sarelief.com/liveupdates/
- Canalblogs.com has another live social stream: http://pfloods.canalblog.com/
Reports[]
See section on Relief Reports below
Flood Maps[]
- One Response Pakistan (Has excellent maps)
- MapAction
- Flood Maps at LUMS
CrisisMapping (Incident Reporting, Needs, Updates)[]
- Pakistan Flood Incident Reporting System based on uShahidi
- CitizensofPakistan.org's Pakistan Floods 2010 Information and Relief Wiki (nice clean list of resources and ways to donate and help
Resource Finders (Non-Map)[]
People Finders[]
- Google Person Finder (in Urdu and English, for Pakistan floods)
- Sahana has a People Finder
Memorials/Documentation[]
Relief Reports[]
Websites[]
Sites Dedicated to specific areas[]
Tribal Areas[]
Voice for Peace, based in Bajaur Agency, maintains the following Facebook page:
Individual Reports from specific Areas[]
Sukkur[]
- AUGUST 18, 2010 http://progpak.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/update-from-sukkur/
Swat[]
- TUE, 24 AUG 2010 - 15:44 Oxfam worker: http://blogs.oxfam.org/en/blog/10-08-24-pakistan-floods-delivering-aid-foot-upper-swat-valley
First-Person Reports[]
- Collection by Chris Anderson of TED:
- Powerful first-person reports from Pakistan, from TED’s Chris Anderson: http://blog.ted.com/2010/09/06/powerful-first-person-reports-from-pakistan-from-teds-chris-anderson/?utm_medium=on.ted.com-copypaste&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_content=awesm-site
News[]
- Dedicated Sites:
- Yahoo
- 20 AUGUST 2010, Newsline Magazine's "Blog Row": Flood Relief is Happening in Pakistan, Talib Qizilbash
- Aug. 20, 2010 1:15 PM PDT, Mother Jones: Pakistan: Corporations and Flood Relief, Jen Phillips, Mother Jones
- August 12, 2010, Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign
- August 12, 2010, from Charsadda, in The Express Tribune
- Wednesday, August 11, 2010: Expat Indians and Pakistanis join hands for flood relief
- August 8th, 2010, The Express Tribune: Hope floats as Karachi’s young blood dips in to help
- Date unclear, The Express Tribune: Edhi begs for flood victims
Political Parties, Organizations[]
Labour Party of Pakistan
- http://www.laborpakistan.org/news58.htm (general info on the Labour Party's site at http://www.laborpakistan.org/
- Labor Relief Campaign:
MQM (Via the Khidmat-e-Khalq Committee):
Religious Organizations[]
News
NGO Updates[]
- 03 September 2010, Response to Flood by Pakistan National Committee (PNC) of IUCN Members: http://iucn.org/about/union/secretariat/offices/asia/asia_where_work/pakistan/pnc/pnc_response/
- PCP: http://www.pcp.org.pk/newsdetails.php?nid=11
Topical News and Reports[]
Left/Progressive Involvement[]
- Pakistan Floods: Secular, Liberal & Progressive Organizations doing Flood Relief need Your support, Nikhil Aziz on the Grass International website: http://grassrootsonline.org/news/blog/pakistan-floods-secular-liberal-progressive-organizations-doing-flood-relief-need-your-sup
Youth Engagement[]
- August 8th, 2010, The Express Tribune: Hope floats as Karachi’s young blood dips in to help
New Engagement[]
- Pakistan floods: How new networks of Pakistanis are mobilizing to help, Issam Ahmad in the Christian Science Monitor (reproduced on Yahoo at http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100819/wl_csm/320413)
Use of Technology[]
- Please also see coverage from previous crises here <>.
- http://www.aaj.tv/2010/08/flood-relief-and-the-blogosphere/
- http://tribune.com.pk/story/39182/rs1-7m-collected-on-facebook/
Hopeful/Positive Side[]
- Pakistan floods: How new networks of Pakistanis are mobilizing to help, Issam Ahmad in the Christian Science Monitor (reproduced on Yahoo at http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100819/wl_csm/320413)
- 20 AUGUST 2010, Newsline Magazine's "Blog Row": Flood Relief is Happening in Pakistan, Talib Qizilbash
- August 8th, 2010, The Express Tribune: Hope floats as Karachi’s young blood dips in to help
- Stories you're not hearing from Chris, curator of TED:
Crisis in National Psyche[]
- See Angst 2010
Corporate Involvement[]
- Aug. 20, 2010 1:15 PM PDT, Mother Jones: Pakistan: Corporations and Flood Relief, Jen Phillips, Mother Jones
Damage Assessment[]
Chronological order:
- September 1, 2010: Floods caused losses worth $43b: Gilani, Express Tribune: http://tribune.com.pk/story/45208/floods-caused-losses-worth-43b-gilani/
- Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Wednesday said the unprecedented floods have caused losses worth $43 billion to the country.
Addressing the federal cabinet, the prime minister said around 1,000 bridges and 4,000 km of roads were damaged by the water.
He added that Wapda and Pepco alone have suffered losses of Rs13 billion due to the natural catastrophe which has also left 20 million people dependant on the government for help.
Social Crisis[]
- September 3, 2010, Social crisis stalks Pakistan, Prof. SNEHAL SHINGAVI, Socialist Worker: http://socialistworker.org/2010/09/03/social-crisis-stalks-pakistan
Issues in Relief[]
- PakResponse (OneResponse Pakistan) has running updates: http://www.pakresponse.info/index.php?id=1
- 02 Sep, 2010, Flood victims' resentment hurting aid effort: ICRC, Dawn, http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/12-flood+victims+resentment+hurting+aid+effort+icrc--bi-01
- 01 Sep, 2010, Discrimination in aid, Dawn Editorial: http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/editorial/discrimination-in-aid-190
Analyses and Op-Eds[]
- http://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/13/this_is_the_worst_catastrophe_to
- http://zavia.pk/2010/09/12/imran-khan-ke-pukaar-remains-silent-for-many/#more-1945
- Analysis of Relief & Donations related to Pakistan Floods 2010 by Anas Abbas (Note: Strong POV)
- Floods devastation in Pakistan - a system in decay aggravates human disaster, Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign
- Pakistan: State Controlled Floods'', International Socialists, Pakistan
- Why we should care" by Ethan Casey
- Who cares?, Sami Shah (standup comedian), in The Express Tribune
- Why the Unfolding Disaster in Pakistan Should Concern You, Robert Reich, Former Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley, Posted: August 19, 2010 07:36 PM in The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/why-the-unfolding-disaste_b_688414.html
Multimedia[]
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (appeal)[]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-e3WfJMld8
SARelief (online campaign vignette)[]
Media Photo Essays[]
- 26 August 2010 10.39 BST, Eyewitness: Flood refugees under canvas, Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/picture/2010/aug/26/pakistan-flood-pakistan
- 13 August 2010 14.14 BST, Pakistan floods, guardian.co.uk: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/aug/13/pakistan-flooding
Intellectual and Cultural Responses[]
Poetry[]
General Information[]
On Pakistan[]
As always, the first places to look for live information about events and updates in Pakistan include:
- Twitter tags: #pkflood OR #pkfloods or #helppakistan
- Twitter tags: #Pakistan
Bloggers.pk, the main blog aggregator for Pakistan:
The Metroblogs:
For media, CrisisCommons.org has a wonderful list of links (including International/NGO news & info and NGO Blogs):
Pakistan Crisis Commons Resources (Beyond Immediate Crisis)[]
- Crisis Wiki on this site
- Twitter hashtags:
- SA Relief is a dedicated organization focusing on crisis management in South Asia. It is also one of the organizations supporting this wiki. They are maintaining:
- The CSPPP maintains the Twitter Account "PakistanDR", dedicated to "Pakistan Relief", which channels information about the crisis.
Development Resources[]
- One blog that discussed the issues of low-cost housing and water & sanitation in previous times of crisis was Muskin (http://muskin.blogspot.com/) is a blog that discusses "Low Cost Housing Technologies for the Developing Nations", by "An Architect, Urban Designer with a keen interest in the humanitarian aspects of design and planning." He says that "Urban development in developing nations and Sustainable planning are issues of particular interest to me."