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This 3 page paper looks at an international disaster; the floods in Pakistan in July 2010 examining the way in which co-operation and collaboration with aid agencies took place. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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File: TS14_TEpakflood.doc
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extremely heavy monsoon rains have had an impact on more than 20 million people (IFRC, 2010). The health impacts are severe, it was reported by the United Nations that
in excess of 10 million people were drinking unsafe water and that a month after the disaster the responses, internally and from international aid was lacking compared with the scale
of aid needed (MacFarquhar, 2010). The responses from different parties have been divergent. The internal responses have been lacking, the wide scale flooding has damaged the countrys infrastructure; roads,
power and communication infrastructure have all been destroyed in some areas. This, combined with continuing flooding, made many of the areas suffering difficult to reach. Measures out into place to
try and reduce the impact in some areas, such as the flood control barriers protecting Hyderabad operates effectively, in order areas the disaster progressed the flooding moved along the waterways
evacuation, such as at Thatta, took place (BBC News, 2010). The fragmented approach was hindered with so many people displaced and the slow speed at which the international community
have been able to raise the funds needed. In the early days these all resulted in a low level of collaboration. The need for aid and the gap between the
need and the response has seen uncoordinated aid from questionable sources. For example, in northwest Pakistan, in the village of Nowshera a charity which was banned; Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), now working
under the name of Falah-e-Insaniat, is the only supplier of food and medicines to the people in the area affected by the floods, with the aid coming from an organization
linked to the terrorist group that was blamed for the attacks on Mumbai in 2008 (Crilly, 2010). However, increased coordination and collaboration has taken place, mainly through the Pakistan
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