**JP** Improper delivery of food items in the worst flood-affected areas of Pakistan

Dear Friends,

 

 Improper delivery of food items in the worst flood-affected areas of Pakistan

 

Improper delivery of food items in the worst flood-affected areas of Punjab and Sindh is allegedly due to a bit mismanagement of implementing partners and dereliction includes irregular field visits on part of the regional UN staff members as well as inexperience to work under emergency situation.

In some cases, the regional UN field workers are concentrating only on paper work just to update daily report while on ground, they are least bothered to visit the flood affected villages, besides keeping proper check and balance for implementing partner is almost on minimal level, UN official .
It is further learnt that the relevant office of the UN agency has also been conveyed the alleged negligence of Punjab staff that they were not properly monitoring the area and activities of the NGOs working there, but they only concentrate on updating daily report.
Although the daily transaction of food items in the affected areas of Southern Punjab and Sindh is above 10,000 tons yet the residents living inside and ghettos of affected villages reportedly remain deprived of aid and those responsible are least bothered of such situation. UN sources said that certain incidents of mismanagement of distributing food items or delivery of food items where relief items were not required are happening due to irregular field visit of regional staff members. In some of the cases in Muzaffargarh, Taunsa, Rajan Pur, DG Khan,Thatta etc. the distribution of relief items was on the discretion influenced politician /person of the area as the implementing partners mostly follow their direction while delivering items, said people of affected area from Southern Punjab requesting anonymity. In one of the negligence cases earlier revealed  before, relief food items were distributed in an area in southern Punjab where flood wave even didn't touch the soil of a village. in a small village some 50-km Taunsa, Kottani relief items for around 100 families were distributed among the surprised villagers, as they were not hit by floodwater.

 

Regards

Shoaib Habib Memon

Thatta

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