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Pakistan: Malnutrition rates in some of flood-affected districts already beyond emergency thresholds - Save the Children

Source: Save the Children
Country: Pakistan

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Key Advocacy Messages:

• Malnutrition rates in some of the flood-affected districts were already beyond emergency thresholds and are predicted to worsen.

• NGOs and other humanitarian actors need to be supported in mobilizing additional resources both locally and globally for new humanitarian programs in flood-affected district beyond the mobilization of existing stocks.

• Save the Children reiterates the need for increasing support for DRR in flood prone communities living along the Indus Basin. Both the frequency and intensity of monsoon flooding in recent years has increased. Investment is urgently required in preparation for cyclical flooding that, according to climate change experts, is expected to worsen in the coming decades.