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Resources and Media/News & Stories/Project Spotlights /The Pakistan floods: Our response

The Pakistan floods: Our response

Learn about our emergency response, early recovery and rehabilitation efforts

Pakistan · 5 October 2022 · 4 min

Stagnant waters left by the catastrophic flooding are causing an alarming spread of diseases. AKU healthcare camps are providing medical attention where most needed, and migrating each day accordingly. This AKU staff member in Dadu District sets out each morning to assess where communities are most stranded, so that camps can be set up nearby in the coming days.

AKDN / Insiya Syed

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Devastation is the only word that can be used to describe the impact of unprecedented rainfall and flooding in Pakistan. Huge swathes of the country are underwater with 33 million people affected or displaced. Over one million houses have been totally or partially damaged. Around 13,000 kilometres of road and 440 bridges have been damaged or washed away, impeding the ability of people to flee to safer areas or to travel to access health care and other vital services. More than 1.1 million livestock – a critical source of sustenance and livelihoods – have died. The devastation is so unprecedented that the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he “[has] never seen climate carnage on this scale”.


Huge swathes of the country are underwater.

Aga Khan University

In response to this crisis, the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) and agencies of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) alongside local and international aid agencies are working with the Government of Pakistan to provide urgent humanitarian relief. So far, the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat, AKDN’s lead response agency for the floods, has evacuated over 9,000 people from affected areas, while more than 4,000 families have been provided with food packages. Additionally, the Aga Khan University and Aga Khan Health Services have set up healthcare camps treating over 300,000 people.


Our overall response plan comprises three stages with a strong focus on Sindh, Khyber Pakhthunkhwa and Gilgit Baltistan.


An elderly man gets assessed for iron deficiency, fever and cough inside an AKU healthcare camp in Dadu District on 26 September 2022. 

AKDN / Insiya Syed

1. Emergency Response and Relief – 6 months


This first and most urgent element will ensure contextualised emergency response activities that will deliver critical support to affected and vulnerable communities. AKF and AKDN agencies have just activated a six-month programme to address the immediate humanitarian needs of 700,000 people who are most in need of assistance across Sindh, Gilgit Baltistan, and the Upper and Lower Chitral districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.


Key activities include rapid community needs-assessments to identify vulnerable households, providing all-weather tents, nutritious food and emergency health care as well as repairing critical community assets.


Community emergency response team volunteers carrying relief supplies in Immit, northern Pakistan. 

Aga Khan Agency for Habitat

2. Early Recovery – 6 to 12 months


Interventions are aimed at reducing vulnerability following communities’ immediate losses, and in anticipation of the prolonged impact on people’s living and health conditions and livelihoods. Taking the rapidly approaching winter into consideration, these interventions will be treated as urgent and will provide access to critical services, enhancing the capacity of communities to recover from shocks more rapidly, and support the restoration of livelihoods. This will help support household and community resilience and to preserve as many previous development gains as possible.


Basic water and sanitation services like toilets, septic tanks and water pumps will be constructed as part of this phase. 

AKF / Christopher Wilton-Steer

Key activities include establishing transitional all-weather shelters and basic water and sanitation services like toilets, septic tanks and water pumps; restoring land for agriculture, livestock and forestry; and providing seeds, fertilisers and other agricultural products for farmers. This stage will also see the restoration of roads, bridges and micro hydropower plants and the provision of small recovery grants for micro enterprises to aid economic recovery. This will also support the health and education sectors, both heavily impacted, to recover and build capacity, particularly ensuring women and girls are not left behind.


A farmer in Skardu, Pakistan irrigating his land to grow fruit trees. 

AKF / Christopher Wilton-Steer

3. Rehabilitation and Reconstruction – 3 years


The physical damage caused by the floods has led to a significant loss of infrastructure that was once critical for basic services. Working on rebuilding these will require longer-term efforts and climate resilient strategies that will protect communities and their livelihoods well into the future. This years’ flooding is indicative of worsening climate-change disasters for the country, which will have worse impacts in sensitive hotspots such as coastal and mountainous areas. AKF and agencies of the AKDN are committed to rebuilding better and greener, as well as supporting the longer-term economic recovery of affected areas. Rehabilitation and reconstruction will be focused on highly vulnerable areas which are more remote and isolated and within disaster-prone areas.


Phase 3 will see the construction of protective walls to reduce the impact of future flooding. 

AKF / Christopher Wilton-Steer

This last stage of our flood response will see the rehabilitation and reconstruction of critical infrastructure including flood protection walls, water supply schemes, and the waterproofing of health facilities as well as capacity building in disease management.


The construction of seismically stable and waterproofed infrastructure. 

AKF / Christopher Wilton-Steer

AKF and agencies of the AKDN have a long-term presence in, and commitment to, Pakistan, working in close collaboration with communities, government, and other partners to improve the quality of life for the most marginalised populations. Together, we are working to provide immediate humanitarian relief, restore basic infrastructure and livelihoods and build long-term resilience to future disasters. We are committed to supporting the people of Pakistan at this devastating time.


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