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Sri Lanka Government continues to supply essential items to Jaffna in spite of repeated LTTE disruptions

Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process

The Government of Sri Lanka in its latest report titled, Jaffna District Situation Report - September 2007, states that in spite of repeated attacks on sea convoys by the LTTE it continues to serve the civilians of the district.

The Government continues to work closely with the private sector, local and international non-governmental organizations as well as United Nations agencies to improve all aspects of the lives of the civilian population in the Jaffna district.

The 14 page report further states that at present there are nine cargo vessels that carry supplies to Jaffna based on a fine tuned procedure of demand forecasting, supplier audits for reliability and quality. This has been a joint effort of the government and the private sector. In total 26,980 MTs capacity can be transported while the total monthly full requirement of food and other essential items is 33,000 MTs per month.

Hence, there is a reasonable match between demand and supply. However, with the withdrawal of the ICRC ship, arrangements had to be made by the government to send requirements together with the private sector. Recently, the private sector has also chartered yet another ship and such measures improve situation further.

The ICRC withdrew their services on the ships that carried health items to Jaffna due to LTTE threats. However, the government took over this responsibility and as at today met this requirement too. ICRC has not yet resumed this service even with repeated requests by the Government.

The report points out that the one great asset Sri Lanka has which must be acknowledged and recognized is that unlike in other crisis situations, Sri Lanka has a free primary health care service in terms of both access to health workers, clinics as well as supplies.This occurs in all the conflict affected areas.

Such services are paid for by the government even in LTTE controlled areas. It is, therefore, a service devoid of discrimination. This service is an important element in reducing levels of malnutrition and prevents death including the more severe forms of malnutrition such as marasmus and kwashiorkor which do not occur in Sri Lanka.

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JAFFNA DISTRICT
Situation Report -September 2007

1. Population details:

No. Categories No. of families No of Members
1. Families below poverty line - Displaced families
a. Internally displaced families before 11.08.2006 21,401 75,783
b. Internally displaced families after 11.08.2006 7,110 23,908
Sub Total 28,511 99,691
c. Families receiving Samurdhi Assistance - Resettled Families 53,215 208,385
d. Fishing families (other than Samurdhi beneficiaries) -
Resettled Families 7,096 23,235
e. Vulnerable families (Farming and day-to-day earners) - Resettled Families 48,975 145,932
Sub Total (Assisted Families) 137,797 477,243
2. Families above poverty line - Resettled Families * 47,329 155,920
Total 185,126 633,163

The LTTE attack on the 11th of August 2006 at Muhamalai and the closing of the A-9 road for security concerns led to the Government having to find a new way of meeting the requirements of essential items of the people of Jaffna. Incidentally, after repeated requests by the government, the ICRC finally received guarantees from the LTTE that have enabled the opening for a longer period each week of the A-9 northward from Omanthai into LTTE controlled areas. Opening was restricted to three days a week following firing by the LTTE, which created some shortages but with the LTTE finally relenting the area south of the Jaffna peninsula should also be well supplied. Unfortunately constant attempts at infiltration at Muhumalai make the opening of the road southward from Muhumalai impossible at present.

2. Initial Challenges - Essential Items:

Sea transport was the option selected for the transport of essential items whilst for urgent supplies air transport is being used. Initially vessel owners were reluctant to lease their vessels due to threats of attacks by the LTTE on supplies to the people of Jaffna. This became a reality when the ship "Liverpool" was attacked on 21st January 2007 by the LTTE. This led to severe shortages that were corrected over a period of time. The government of Sri Lanka continued in their quest to serve the people of Jaffna through a private public partnership and chartered 3 vessels by the state whilst six vessels were chartered by the private sector to transport good to Jafna. The vessel owners have demanded higher rates as well as war risk premiums as insurance cover but the objective of bringing normalcy to the people of Jaffna was achieved.

Meanwhile, the ICRC withdrew their services on the ships that carried health items to Jaffna due to LTTE threats. However, the government took over this responsibility and as at today met this requirement too. ICRC has not yet resumed this service even with repeated requests by the Government.

3. Government private sector initiative in supply chain management:

At present there are 9 cargo vessels that carry supplies to Jaffna based on a fine tuned procedure of demand forecasting, supplier audits for reliability and quality. This has been a joint effort of the government and the private sector. In total 26,980 MTs capacity can be transported for the people of Jaffna by the 9 cargo vessels while the total monthly full requirement of food and other essential items is 33,000 MTs per month. Hence, there is a reasonable match between demand and supply. However, with the withdrawal of the ICRC ship, arrangements had to be made by the government to send requirements together with the private sector. Recently, the private sector(FCCISL) has also chartered yet another ship and such measures improve situation further.

Supply of food items to Jaffna by - Sea and Air from August 2006 to August 2007.

CGES Vessels 61
Private Vessels 30
Total No. of Voyages 91
Total No. of flights 14

Total tonnage of cargo sent to Jaffna in vessels hired by CGES
Total tonnage of cargo sent to Jaffna in vessels by private vessels
Total tonnage of cargo sent to Jaffna by air flights 102,547.5 MT
40,219.0 MT
206.0 MT
Total tonnage sent to GA, Jaffna 142,972.5 MT

The prices of goods as at 4th September is as follows -

Jaffna - Prices of Goods as at 4th Feb, 4th April, 4th June and 4th Sept 2007
* All values in Rupees and consumer price
Items Qty Jaffna Jaffna Indexed Jaffna Indexed Jaffna Indexed
Consumer Consumer Consumer Consumer
Prices Prices Prices Prices
(4th Feb) (4th April) (4th June) (4th Sept)
( Retail Price) (Retail Price) (Retail Price) (Retail Price)
Soap - Lux 1 Unit 100.00 25.00 25 25.00 100 26.00 104
Sunlight 1 Unit 100.00 24.00 24 30.00 125 30.00 100
Toothpaste (M) 1 Unit 55.00 48.00 87 45.00 94 45.00 100
Tooth Brush 1 Unit 40.00 39.00 98 30.00 77 30.00 100
Gram flour 1 kg 285.00 190.00 66 180.00 94 180 100
Margarine(100g) 1 Pkt 150.00 75.00 50 75.00 100 75.00 100
Noodles 1 Kg 42.00 28.00 67 28.00 100 28.00 100
Lentils 1 kg 83.00 70.00 84 65.00 93 115.00 177
Coconuts I Unit 90.00 50.00 56 45.00 90 47.00 104
Sugar 1 kg 330.00 68.00 21 63.00 93 80.00 127
Milk powder 1 Pkt 300.00 170.00 57 175.00 103 175.00 100
Wheat Flour (Kg) 1 kg 90.00 50.00 56 55.00 110 55.00 100
Eggs 1 unit 32.00 25.00 78 20.00 80 23.00 115
Yeast (Kg) 550.00 450.00 82 450.00 100 450.00 100
Bread (450 gr) 1 Unit 30.00 32.00 107 33.00 103 40.00 12
Rice (Samba) 1 kg 160.00 50.00 31 70.00 140 90.00 128
Potatoes 1 kg 120.00 180.00 150 250.00 139 180.00 72
Onions 1 kg 40.00 15.00 38 30.00 200 15.00 50
Brinjals 1 kg 150.00 20.00 13 100.00 500 95.00 95
Carrots 1 kg 100.00 20.00 20 60.00 300 90.00 150
Green gram 1 kg 240.00 220.00 92 160.00 73 150.00 93
Salt (kg) 1 kg 40.00 35.00 88 70.00 200 70.00 100
Box of Matches 1 Carton 50.00 45.00 90 45.00 100 65.00 144
Panadol (Card) 1 Card 35.00 40.00 114 35.00 88 20.00 57
Coriander 180.00 150.00 83 150.00 100 150.00 100
Kadala gram 165.00 140.00 85 140.00 100 140.00 100
Canned Fish (M) 1 Tin 165.00 150.00 91 130.00 87 130.00 100
Candles (M) 1 Unit 12.00 1.00 8 1.00 100 1.00 100
Mosquito coils 1 Pkt 65.00 45.00 69 50.00 111 60.00 120
Dried Red chilies 1 kg 450.00 140.00 31 165.00 118 150.00 91
Kerosene oil (ltr) 1 Ltr 75.00 100.00 133 60.00 60 85.00 141
Coconut oil 1 Ltr 450.00 150.00 33 150.00 100 200.00 133
Vegetable oil (ltr) 1 Ltr 450.00 150.00 33 230.00 153 190.00 82
Source : - Jaffna Prices from Chamber of Commerce and Industries of Yarlpanam and Local Monitor for SCOPP

The FCCISL has now chartered an exclusive ship for the transport of items by the private sector. Hence prices should be reduced further while this will also increase supplies to the peninsular.

MPCS / Retail outlet Visit by Director Economics SCOPP in July 2007

For the food storage the following facilities are available:

" Navatkuli (3 stores) 7,000 MT
" Kondavil (2 stores) 4,000 MT
" Kopay (WFP stores) 1,600 MT
" MPCs (24 stores) 2,400 MT
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Total 15,000 MT
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This means approximately 2 weeks stock cover can be maintained at any given time in Jaffna.

Supply of Petrol/Diesel and Kerosene

Oil tanks that have 12,000 MT capacity has been rehabilitated and as at 4th September the storage capacity at KKS is as follows:
LP 90 obtained .. 455,000 ltrs
Auto diesel .. 14,475,000 ltrs
Kerosene .. 750,000 ltrs

LP 90 & kerosene is equivalent to 20 days stock cover whilst the diesel is a 3 month stock cover based on the requirements for the people of Jaffna.

4. Relief provided by the Government:

No of families No of persons
a. M/NB&EID 44,510 147,528
b. Assisted by Ministry of Samurdhi &
Poverty alleviation 53,351 204,769
Sub Total 97,861 352,297
c. WFP 40,080 119,994
Total 137,941 472,391

Welfare scheme is adopted for 74% of the population of Jaffna by the Government or WFP programme.

Post Office Atchuveli Review Meeting of SCOPP with GA Jaffna

5. Relief provided by UN agencies:

UNICEF - Education, water, hygiene and sanitation, child protection, health and nutrition. UNICEF works with the Government Secretariat and government departments, local NGOs such as Sarvodaya, JSAC, White Pigeon, Wholistic Health Center, Ahavoli and INGOs such as Non-Violent Peace Force and Save the children.

UNHCR - IDP protection, shelter and Non food relief items. UNHCR works with Solidar, JSAC and Danish Refugee Council.

WFP - Supplementary food for vulnerable groups, food for education, mother and child nutrition programmes and works with the Government Secretariat

WHO - Health technical support working with the government

FAO, UNDP - Agriculture, livelihood, and income
& ILO generating activities working with the
Government departments

IOM - Shelter for returnees and IDPs and livelihoods.

UNHABITAT- Implementing tsunami housing projects

UNOPS - UN and INGO Contractor for construction projects

With Country Director UNOPS at the Health Clinic in the HSZ in Jaffna - July 2007

Other agencies providing humanitarian assistance in Jaffna are: ICRC and Swiss Development Cooperation.

6. Health Facilities:

All hospitals are functioning whilst regular supplies are being met based on the requirement.

Details of hospital Classification
Functioning Hospital Nos
1 Teaching Hospital 01
2 Base Hospital (BH) 01
3 District Hospital (DH) 05
4 Pherpearl Unit (PU) 06
5 Rural Hospital 04
6 Central Dispensary & Maternity Home (CD & MH) 09
7 Central Dispensary (CD) 17
8 M.O.H. Office 11
9 Public Health Clinic Centre 20
10 Ayurveda Teaching Hospital 01
Total 75

Thriposha requirement is around 23 MT per month and 50 MT was delivered in the month of August 2007 so that the required protein levels can be made available to the people living in the peninsula. Corn-Soya of 150 MT is the requirement for one month that the Government is making arrangements to ship in September to Jaffna.

7. Protection from diseases :

The government aims at reducing malnutrition which focuses on the most vulnerable groups in the population which are young children, pregnant and lactating mothers. This is mainly undertaken through the current primary health care infrastructure and free services which have been made available to all Sri Lankana including those in the North and East without discrimination. Children are protected from immunizeable diseases, attend MCH clinics for growth monitoring and have access to nutrition education including thriposhaya (supplementary food). It also includes protection from diarrhea related deaths and malnutrition through access to oral rehydration therapy, treatment of acute respiratory infections which if left unattended can reinforce the circle of infection and malnutrition. Another hazard which can be prevented by the action of public health officials in these areas includes the reduction of hazards such as unsafe excreta disposal and unsafe water which strengthen the link between malnutrition and infection.

8. Free Health :
The one great asset Sri Lanka has which must be acknowledged and recognized is that unlike in other crisis situations, Sri Lanka has a free primary health care service in terms of both access to health workers, clinics as well as supplies. This occurs in all the conflict affected areas. Such services are paid for by the government even in LTTE controlled areas. It is, therefore, a service devoid of discrimination. This service is an important element in reducing levels of malnutrition and prevents death including the more severe forms of malnutrition such as marasmus and kwashiorkor which do not occur in Sri Lanka.

9. HR Gaps - Health Sector:
The immediate requirement is to address the human resource shortages. The details are as follows:

Cadre Categories Cadre
Approved In position Vacancies
1 MOO (Specialists) 17 -- 17
2 MOO 109 9 100
3 MOHH 12 12
4 Dental Surgeons 19 7 12
5 AMOO/RMOO 58 20 38
6 Pharmacists 28 11 17
7 Radiographer 7 7
8 ECG Recordist 4 4
9 Medical Lab Technologist 18 2 6
10 Microscopist 7 4 3
11 Nursing Officer 331 79 252
12 Hospital Midwives (Field) 89 39 50
13 Public Health Midwives (Field) 262 110 152
14 Public Health Nursing Sister 15 2 13
15 Public Health Field Officers 51 8 43

This request is being addressed by the Ministry of Health with the help of the Government Agent. It is unfortunate that even Tamil doctors qualified from the Sri Lanka university system are reluctant to serve in Jaffna.. A meeting is planned in early November to evaluate work done to further improve the situation.

Livelihood -Agriculture Popular mode of transport

10. Education Facilities:

Total No. of. Schools - 487
No. Not Functioning - 72
No. of Students - 137,252
No. of. Teachers - 6,252

Education Items received up to April (provided free by Government)

Uniforms - 159 MT (90% delivered)
School text books - 117 MT (80% delivered)

Food for education program of WFP is implemented effectively. Nutritional level of food composition will further improve with the stock of thriposha that was sent.

University commenced on the 19th of February, and has been functioning continuously. All schools are functioning with school uniforms and text books supplied for the year 2007. The Advanced Level examination for 2007 was conducted without any disturbances.

11. Telecommunication facilities:

Overall telephone facilities are as follows:

Details of Connection Received Service Provided
Replacement Application 801 584
New Application 1367 408
Total 2178 992

The replacement of mobile telephone to CDMA and new connection of CDMA are currently being issued. All mobile phones are functioning from July onwards. Currently the focus is to meet the demand for CDMA connection as it's affordable to many.

12. Supply of Power:

Power supply almost came to a standstill after August 2006. But today Jaffna town has 24 hours uninterrupted supply.

KKS (high security zone) did not have any interruption in the supply of power in July and August. The areas of Point Pedro, Chavakachcheri, Vadukodai, Kompayan & Manal has not experienced any power cuts for more than 45 minutes during the last one month.

13. Water Supply and Sanitation

All water supply schemes are functioning now- (Except in the security zone -Kankesanthurai, Kallody-Thellipallai).

In the Jaffna Peninsula there are 20 water supply schemes in operation. Sources for these schemes are ground water from the shallow wells. The sources are mainly situated in the cultivation areas. Due to usage of artificial fertilizer by the farmers and improper sewerage facilities water pollution increased beyond the permissible limit and due to continuous over extraction of ground water for cultivation domestic and industrial needs. This is now been corrected by the Water Board.

Pipe borne water supply is available through public stand posts. This is a developmental need that will be focused in the 2008 plans.

14. Livelihood - Agriculture

15 D.S Divisions comprises 65,411 farm families and 30,113 farm labourers. Except onions, all other produce command good prices due to seasonality reasons. As the Maha Season is approaching the following inputs will be provide by the government and the private sector initiatives.

a. Fertilizer for paddy.
In 2007 to date 1125 Mt of fertilizer has been delivered to Jaffna. Another 2450 Mt of fertilizer and 200 Mt of ordinary fertilizer will be delivered for the Maha season.

b. Agro Chemicals.
90 Mt of agro Chemicals has been sent to date and another 40 mt of Agro chemicals will be delivered by end September 2007 which is adequate for the Agricultural Sector of Jaffna.

c. Seed Paddy
7,000 bushels of seed paddy are required for the Maha season cultivation. Out of this 1,500 bushels which is available at present in south is being shipped in the 2nd week of September 2007.

d. Local Vegetables seeds /exotic vegetables seeds.
183 kg local vegetables seeds from SEEDCO and 306 Kg of Exotic from Colombo. Orders placed for maha requirements have been sent to Jaffna from the month of August.

15. Products sent from Jaffna to Colombo/Trincomalee - As at End July2007.

S.No Name of the
Applicant Name of the Ship Detail of Products Quantity
CGES Ships
1 Sri Ganesh Export Meres Yala Beach - De - Mer 3.2 mt
2 ER Transport
Services MV - Yala Red Onions 398 CBM
Tobacco 1152 CBM
Palmyrah Products 0.5 mt
Cigars 6.5 mt
Cigar Powder 1.5 mt
3 Kobiraja Transport MV Indurwa vally Tobacco 54 CBM
Bags Onions 16 CBM
Crate Onions 37 CBM
4 ER Transport
Services MV Indurwa vally Tobacco 322.93 CBM
Cigars 0.265 mt
Koda 0.44 mt
Odial 13.20 mt
5 Sasikumar
Shipping
Trading Agency TobaccoCigars 35.92 CMB
Cigars 1.02 mt
Koda 0.06 mt
Onion ( boxes) 31.00 mt
Onion ( Bags) 49.25 mt
6 Kobiraja Transport MV Indurwa vally
Voy - 07 Tobacco 40 CMB
Onions - Bags 223.5 mt
Palmyrah products 01 mt
Private Ships
1 ER Transport
Services MV - Liverpool
( Eswaraa Bagawaan ship ) Onions 1135 Mt
Cigars
Tobacco
2 Eswara Bagawann
& Company Dubiln
(Eswaraa Bagawaan & Company ship) Tobacco 330 Mt
Palmyrah Products
3 Sasikumar Shipping
Trading Agency
MV Jen Clipper
( Uni Trading Agency - ship) Tobacco 160 Mt
Onions 108.12 Mt

16. Livelihood - Animal Production and Health:

There are 30,000 poultry farmers and 15,000 Dairy farmers in peninsula of Jaffna. Animal feed requirement of 600 MT is being supplied at a continuous basis whilst USAID has extended funding to milk processing. The restructuring of MILCO has been completed to meet the increasing demand of the people of Jaffna.

Review Meeting at the Jaffna Yalpanam Chamber By Director Economics Scopp - July 2007.

17. Livelihood - Fisheries:

17,763 fishing families are affected due to the current security situation that the Government of Sri Lanka has been compelled to implement to bring in normalcy in the peninsular. However, the following arrangement has been arrived at after discussions.

Details of Shallow Water Fishing as at 05-08-2007.
Fishing time allowed Distance allowed in (km) No of Craft in the Division Type & No of Craft Permitted to Operate per day No of Active Fishermen No of fishermen allowed for fishing per day Remarks
Kattu Vallam
8.00am-4.00pm 1 870 353 - 1886 1259 Point Pedro East:-In addition fisherman are allowed to do Mathal fishing at Katkovalam, Manalkadu, Potpathy, Kudathanai North, Kudathanai East centres, Fisherman of Nagarkovil West,and Nagarkovil East are allowed to do fishing at Katkovalam & Kudathanai centres.
8.00am-4.00pm 0.5 950 317 - 1566 589 Point Pedro West:_Fishermen of Sakkoddai, VVT,Athikovilady , Polikandy west, & Inparuddy centres are doing fishing at their own places. Fisherman of Supparmadam are allowed to do fishing at Inparuddy.Fisherman of Kerudavil, Thondamanaru allowed to do fishing at oorikadu centre
6.30am-1.30pm Noon 1 Without Craft 130 25 KKS East(Lagoon Fishing) allowed without craft.
7.00am-11.00am
2.00pm-5.00pm 0.5 436 144 - 1042 288 KKS East at Point Pedro:-Fisherman are allowed to do fishing at Thondamanaru,Sakkodai,Polikandy,Munai,V.V.T & Vijaparimoolai centres with Kattumaram.
7.00am-11.00 am 1.5 98 19 - 113 44 KKS west at illavalai:-Fisherman are allowed to do fishing at Sambilthurai centre with Kattumaram
8.00am-4.00pm 0.5 88 31 - 155 70 KKS West (at PPD) Fisherman of kankesanthurai are allowed to do fishing at inparuddy centre & fisherman of valithondal & santhankulam are allowed to do fishing at sakkodai with kaddumaram.
7.00am-2.00pm 2.00pm-5.00pm
2
362 37 201 1045 700 Sandiliapy Fishermen from Manipay, Santhai, Panderteruppu & Uyrapulam are to do fishing only in the night time.
7.00am-4.00pm
1.00pm - 5.00pm 2 457 181 168 2210 2210 Chulipuram- Going on with the occasional restriction
6.00am-11.00am
1.00pm-5.00pm 0.2 494 160 130 1621 1319 Kayts -Going on with the occasional restriction
6.00am-4.00pm 2 318 110 - 446 446 Delft- Going on with the occasional restriction
7.00am-3.00pm 1 317 - 267 1173 675 Velanai Fishermen of Cheddipulam, Thuraiyoor, allowed to do fishing at Ambigainagar
7.00am-3.00pm 2 631 - 213 3209 955 Jaffna West Fishermen from Kokuvil West are allowed to do night time fishing
8.00am-2.00pm 2 203 - 140 735 442 Jaffna East - Fishing allowed as per normal
8.00am-11.00am 1 75 - 31 491 179 Chavakachcheri -Thanankilappu & maravanpulo fisherman are already displaced.
Situation Not Known as the Areas are off Muhamalai Thalayady & Aliyawalai
Total 5299 1364 1150 15822 9240

With the stabilization of the security situation, in the near future there will be an increase in the fishing area that will be permitted, as in Jaffna town from 1 km to 3 km. If this does not happen Government is evaluating the possibility of providing a subsidy to these famillies.

18. Transport - Passenger Service:

A continuous ferry service is operational between Jaffna and Trincomalee. 400 passengers can be accommodated in one voyage. There are also 3 air lines (2 passenger and 1 cargo) operated daily. On average there are 200 passengers who travel to and from Jaffna per day using air travel.

19. Transport - Busses:

The current status of the bus services and the immediate requirement is as follows :
Situation as at 30-07-2007 - SLTB (North)

33 new buses have been sent to Jaffna whilst the spare part requirement as requested has also been sent. The challenge is how to make the Jaffna SLTB Depot to be run profitably.

20. Economic Development - Update :

District Annual Implementation Programme-2007
2nd Quarter Progress Report -Jaffna District.
Code No. Component Total Allocation ( In Millions) Cumulative Total for Reporting Qtr. Financial Progress %
1 AGRICULTURE 32,388 6,475 20
12 Minor Irrigation 30,237 6,153 20
15 Field & Export Crops Dev. 1,091 322 29
16 Livestock Development 855 - -
17 Fisheries Development 205 - -
2 INDUSTRIES, TOURISM & TRADE 29,795 2,158 7
21 Large & Medium Scale Indus. 1,020 851 83
23 Trade 28,775 1,306 5
3 HUMAN SETTLEMENTS 1,224,552 14,624 1
31 Housing & Const. 1,167,285 11,770 1
32 Urban Infrastructure 2,947 147 5
34 Water Supp & Sanit. 12,555 460 4
35 Community Resou. Deve. 41,765 2,247 5
4 ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE 15,302 1,194 8
41 Power & Constructions 1,150 100 9
44 Reconstruction & Rehabilitation 14,152 1,094 8
5 TRANSPORT 329,314 62,566 19
52 Roads 283,114 62,259 22
53 Aviation & Oth.Trans. Faci. 46,200 307 1
6 SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE 359,687 12,267 3
61 Education 157,211 6,400 4
62 Health 195,317 5,867 3
63 Soc. Welf. & Cult. Servi. 7,159 - -
7 ADMINISTRATIVE OVERHEADS 94,156 2,916 3
71 Strengthening of District Administration. 80,406 2,916 4
72 Prov. / Reg. Adm.Improve. 13,750 - -
Total 2,085,193 102,201 5

The progress is slow due to non availability of building material. However, action is under way to improve supply with the UN being given 1 ship load of building material to be transferred to Jaffna on a monthly basis. SCOPP monitors each economic development project together with Ministry of Nation Building.

21. Tsunami Housing Progress - Jaffna:

UN HABITAT - TSUNAMI HOUSING PROGRESS REPORT AS AT 31ST JULY 2007
District Transitional Shelters Total Housing reqmts No: of Permanent Houses Completed No: of Permanent Houses in Progress
No: of T/S 31/12/05 No: T/S 01.06/07 Donor driven Owner driven Other Total Not Occupied Donor driven Owner driven Others Total
DD Donor Driven % of total DD complete - not occupied
Jaffna 3,574 2,713 9,140 896 2,718 0 3,614 83 9.26 1,314 1,694 0 3,008

Source: GA District Housing Coordinator CADREP

The reconstruction of houses due to the Tsunami that ravaged the country in 2004 is progressing well.
In Jaffna, on the 9,140 houses that needed to be constructed 6,622 houses has been completed at a success rate of
72 % compared to the national average of 67 %. The rest of the houses to be made is in progress.

22. Security Update:

When SCOPP Director Economics met up with Bishop Soudaranayagam he commented that the governance structure is falling in place and that there is an improvement in the security situation in Jaffna. However problems still remain with the people suffering from internecine welfare between tamil groups as to which government force are held to collude. Restoring confidence in this respect is a government priority for instance programmes involving security forces assistance to students activities.

SCOPP - Director Economics with Bishop of Jaffna - July 2007

23. IDP - Update :

Old IDP's conflict Effected New IDP's conflict Effected Tsunami Effected IDP's Total
(31st Dec 2005) (30th July 2007) (31st Dec 2005)

No of People 115694 16942 26073 158709
No of Famillies 33660 4919 7544 46123

All IDP's are on the government assistance scheme or the WFP Programme as at 20th August 2007.

24. INGO's cleared by MOD to work in Jaffna

The following agencies have been cleared by Ministry of Defence to visit uncleared areas in the North.
INGO Contact Person Tel No. Fax/E-mail
1. Agency for Technical Cooperation & Development (ACTED) Mr Quentin Level -
Head of Office 2828013/
0773-242028 Quentin.level@acted.org

2. Action Contre La Farm (ACF) Mr Eric Fort - Country Representative 2687244/
0773-170626 acf@sri.lanka.net

3. Caritas Sri Lanka (CARITAS) Rev. Fr Damian Fernando
Executive Director 2693989
2691885
2679735 sedac@slt.lk

4. CARE International Sri Lanka
(CARE) Nick Osborne,
Country Director 2662905-7
0773-230659 nick@care.lk

5. Christian Children's Fund,
Sri Lanka (CCF) Mr Marc Nosbach -
Programme Director 2501238
0773-118094 marc@ccfsrilanka.org

6. Danish Refugee Council (DRC) Mr Allen C Jelich
Country Representative 024-4589605/6
071-2797757 024-2221487
drc-rep@sltnet.lk7. FORUT (Campaign for Develop- ment & Solidarity) - FORUT Mr Tege Heggemes
Resident Representative 2581226/2501669
2587252/2551162 2501570
mailbox@forut.lk
tege.heggemes@forut.lk8. German Agro Action ( GAA) Mr Thomas Melchart
Project Advisor 021-2283957
077-9652585 021-2283957
thomel@gmx.de9. Handicap International (HI) Mr Florant Mlesi
Deputy Programme
Director 5325021
0773-034482 hicolomboga@yahoo.lk

10. Medecins Sans Frontieres INGO
Consortium (MSF) Mr Wollgang Kaiser
Head of Mission 2369730
0779-788192 Msf-colombo-sat@paris.msf.org

25. Monitoring performance - Jaffna:

On the supply of Essential services the Commissioner General of Essential Services reports the monthly performance to the Security Council which is chaired by His Excellency the President whilst operational meetings are chaired by Senior Advisor to the President, Mr Basil Rajapakse.

SCOPP Economic Division conducts periodic price audits and makes field visits to understand the ground situation. There after recommends strategies to improve the logistical network and supply change of performance by bridging the private sector, government sector partnership.

SCOPP Economic Division follows up on all the foreign funded and locally funded economic development projects as well as visits projects to determine the facilitation required to drive the projects to completion quicker.

Once a quarter a visit is made to Jaffna by the Director Economics for a complete review of the work done in the Jaffna Peninsular by the GA Jaffna.

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