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Does the

Criteria to classify a complex emergency situation in Examples


Haiti meet this
criterion

• 220,000 people estimated to have died


Extensive violence or loss of life Yes • 300,000+ people were injured

• Over 188,383 houses were badly damaged and 105,000


were destroyed by the earthquake causing 1.5m people to
Massive displacement of people Yes become homeless
• Over 600,000 people left their home area in Port-au-Prince
and mostly stayed with host families
• At its peak, one and a half million people were living in
camps including over 100,000 at critical risk from storms
and flooding
• As of end May, an estimated 1.3 million people were living
in spontaneous settlements or sites.
• 4,000 schools were damaged or destroyed
• 25% of civil servants in Port au Prince died
Widespread social and economic damage • 60% of Government and administrative buildings, 80% of
Yes schools in Port-au-Prince and 60% of schools in the South
and West Departments were destroyed or damaged
• Estimated that the disaster incurred between $7.8 billion
and $8.5 billion in damage. This figure could be as much as
$13.9 billion over time.
• Resources, such as food, water, and clothes, were already
The need for large scale, multifaceted scarce for low-income families, but the hurricane and
humanitarian, and military assistance Yes displacement made it worst.
• Many were living without shelter.

• NGO’s encountered obstacles due to their cumbersome


Involves hinderance of humanitarian bureaucratic systems and faced challenges in
assistance by political and military communicating between organizations. While the U.S.
constraints military initially offered substantial assistance with
Yes equipment, logistical coordination, and personnel, most of
its forces had withdrawn by the second week of March,
leaving the responsibility of maintaining order to UN
peacekeepers and the Haitian police.

• Heavy rains and floods struck the same areas hit by the
earthquake. This has brought additional landslides and
Significant security risk for relief Yes floods and further hampered rescue efforts.
workers • Evacuation of survivors stuck under ruble is dangerous.
Humanitarian assistance struggle to not get stuck as well.

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