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Pakistan experienced heavy monsoon rains between June and September 2022, which has severely affected millions of households, mainly in Sindh and Balochistan. Around 33 million people have been displaced and more than 13,000 kilometers of roads destroyed. The flooding has damaged 2.2 million houses, flooded around 9.4 million acres of crops, and has killed an estimated 1.2 million livestock. Moreover, limited access to input and output markets and temporary disruptions to supply chains have driven up food prices and added to existing price pressures resulting from reduced agricultural yields and the global rise of food prices. Preliminary estimates suggest that as a direct consequence of the floods, the national poverty rate may increase up to 4 percentage points, potentially pushing around 9 million people into poverty. The recently completed Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) estimates total damages to be US$14.9 billion, while total economic losses have reached about US$15.2 billion. Estimated needs for rehabilitation and reconstruction are at US$16.3 billion, not including new investments beyond the affected areas needed to strengthen Pakistan’s resilience to future shocks.
Sindh has been disproportionately affected by the 2022 floods. According to the NDMA, 792 of the 1,731 nationwide casualties were in Sindh, including 336 children, with 8,422 people injured. Similarly, reports estimate that more than 4.9 million acres of agricultural land has been affected in the province, which is more than half of the nationwide total.1 Vast areas in Sindh witnessed prolonged inundation lasting several weeks.
According to the last pre-floods housing census from 2017, there were 2,756,499 katcha and 5,600,885 pakka housing units in Sindh, with the former concentrated mainly in rural areas and the latter more prevalent in the urban areas. While house ownership is higher in rural areas, housing with unclear ownership status is proportionately higher due to the relative informality of the housing sector in rural areas. Assuming linear growth between 1998 and 2017, the number of katcha houses in Sindh have grown at a rate of about 1.6 percent annually, while pakka houses have an annual growth rate of about 4 percent per year. However as per the estimates, around ~2 million of these houses have been damaged by the floods in Sindh alone.