MULTI SECTOR RAPID ASSESSMENT REPORT NYIRAGONGO VOLCANO
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MULTI SECTOR RAPID ASSESSMENT
REPORT NYIRAGONGO VOLCANO
May 25, 2021 Produced by International
Emergency and Development Aid
(IEDA Relief) in collaboration with
the Forum of National
Humanitarian and Development
Organizations (FONAHD Rdc) in
the territory of Nyiragongo following
the eruption of Nyiragongo Volcano
on May 22, 2021
I. BACKGROUND
On Saturday, May 22, 2021, the city of Goma experienced its second eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano
after that of January 2002, starting at 6 p.m. This eruption caused a large population movement fleeing the
lava flow, and thus impacted residents of the outlying areas of the city of Goma, including the Buhene
neighborhood and the Nyiragongo Territory.
The affected households are mainly the communities that live in five localities of Buvira, Rusayu, Muningi,
Kibati, Mudja and also the Buhene neighborhood.
Although the lava has stopped flowing, seismic shocks persist and sometimes of great intensity.
From Saturday, May 22 to Monday, May 24 2021, the vulcanological observatory of Goma situation report
revealed that the city of Goma experienced 119 shocks that caused numerous cracks in some buildings and
while other unfortunately collapsed.
In preparation for a humanitarian response plan for the communities affected by this disaster, IEDA Relief
in collaboration with FONAHD RDC conducted a rapid assessment of the impact of the Nyiragongo volcano
eruption on the communities.
II. ASSESSMENT OBJECTIVES AND METHODOLOGY
The main objective of the assessment mission was to evaluate the impact of the Nyiragongo volcano eruption
in order to better plan response and actions to be undertaken.
Specifically, the objectives were to:
1. Visit the sites affected by the lava flow.
2. Assess the consequences of lava flow at affected sites.
3. Assess the security context of host sites.
4. Assess the needs of affected households.
5. Assess the protection risks associated with a humanitarian intervention.
6. Identify all affected households and prioritization of the actions to be carried out.
The methodology used is open-ended interviewing and random sampling. Households were randomly
interviewed, given the number of sites on which households were listed. This random survey made it possible
to observe the vulnerability of households in addition to the physical observation of the field team to analyze
different aspects and the analysis of protection risks related to a humanitarian intervention. The goal of these
steps was to dissociate the different types of movement and the categories of households affected and thus
assess their vulnerability.
In addition to this the following approaches have been initiated:
• Identify the different sites affected by the lava flow.
• Interview local authorities, administrative and community leaders and seek their involvement in all
phases of the intervention,
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Assessing the needs of the victims of the volcanic eruption
III. POPULATION STATISTICS IN THE TERRITORY OF NYIRAGONGO
According to the Administrative Service of the Bakumu Chief, in April 2021, this area had about 451,031
people whose women represent 18% or 80,333 people, men 15% or 69,909 people, boys make up 35% of the
population or 155,873 persons and girls 32% of the population or 1944,916 persons. Below is a graph of the
population by sex:
Population Par sexe
15%
32% Homme
Femme
18%
Garçon
Fille
35%
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According to interviews with the Bukumu Chieftainship authorities, more than 80% of the population is
engaged in agriculture and small livestock farming.
The majority of the population has been severely affected by the lava flow: houses and farming lands
completely burned, loss of life: According to the OCHA report, an estimated of 31 people were killed,
including 13 who died during the evacuation on SAKE road and 24 people burned by lava in the
Bukumu Chieftainship. It should also be noted that 41 adults are missing and 23 unaccompanied children
were separated from their parents during the evacuation. The majority of the population that has moved
comes from the Munigi locality which alone represents 62% of the chieftaincy of Bukumu population
which is approximately 281,844 people. Other localities (Muja 30% or 134,990 people, Kibati 4% or
16,673 people, Buvira 1.7% or 7,566 people, Rusayu 2.2% or 9,958 people) were affected by this
eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano and saw a large number of the population move. Below is the
graph of population by locality:
Population par Groupement
2%
4% BUVIRA
2%
KIBATI
30%
MUJA
62% MUNIGI
Rusayu
Population movement after Eruption
IV. OBSERVED SITUATION ON THE FIELD
Locality Village Impact Contact person
MUNIGI NGANGI 1 • Four dead people, including three women Head of locality
and one man. KACHEVE NSABI
• About 700 burnt houses. 0994067096
• Calcined schools and institutes: Nzie
School Complex, Institute. Patimos, Mudja
Institute, Patmos Primary School.
• Calcined churches: 2 Churches: a Catholic
chapel and 8th CEPAC.
• 1 Calcined slaughterhouse
• 1 winery calcined
• Thousands of agricultural farms destroyed
and poultry (chickens and ducks) lost.
NGANGI 2 12 burnt houses
KASENYI • No impact on human lives, however 1 Head of locality
revival church and Virunga SARL sub USENI
electrical plant calcined. SEBIKWANJAA
• Burnt fields and cattle. +243 994 338 374
BUSHURA • 4 burned people, 2 women and 2 men. Village Chief
• 426 houses burned to the ground. KAVENYA
• 3 drinking water tanks built by Mercy +243 915 510 360
Corps Calcined with piping system.
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www.iedarelief.org• 3 schools calcinated including
Alliance, Joevika and CEEO primary
schools.
• Burnt fields and farms
BUVIRA KABAYA • Two people burned to the ground. Chief locality NSEKI
• About 750 burnt houses. +243 993 914 592
• 1 burnt dispensary
• 2 churches (Catholic chapel and 8th
CEPAC) calcined
BUHIMA • No impact on human lives. Local Head BANZI
• About 463 houses calcined in the BANGUKIYA
notability of BUCHEKE (RWANGOMA, +243 994 233 1338
BUSAMBILI, SINVUMBA and
KABAYA)
JANGA This locality is not inhabited, there have
been thousands of hectares of agricultural
farms burned by lava.
BUSHAGARA This locality is not inhabited, there have
been thousands of hectares of agricultural
fields burned by lava.
KIBATI BUSHWARA •No impact on human lives, except from Alphonse Nyiragongo
burnt agricultural farms (beans, potatoes, civil protection met on
sweet potatoes) the ground.
•A communications antenna destroyed +243 994 494 397
BUJOGA • 4 people burned to the ground.
• 30 houses burned.
• 2 calcined primary schools: EP Bujoga and
Consolation
• 1 Kibati Institute calcined
• Calcined farms and cattle
RWANGUBA • No loss of human life
• 6 burnt houses
• 3 medium voltage electrical pole destroyed
BUKANDA • 1 person dead Alphonse Civil
• 500 burnt houses Protection
• An Anglican church burned to the ground. +243 994 494 397
• The village office burnt to the ground.
• A burnt school
• Farms and cattle lost
KISHEKE • 2 people burned to the ground. Alphonse Civil
• 8 houses whose roof swept by the wind. Protection
• 3 electrical poles burned. +243 994 494 397
• Livestock lost
KIGURI Agricultural farms (beans, cabbages, Alphonse Civil
potatoes, sweet potatoes, cassava) destroyed. Protection
+243 994 494 397
BUHAMA • A person killed.
• Calcined farms and livestock
VUBIRO Agricultural farms (beans, cabbages, Alphonse Civil
potatoes, sweet potatoes, cassava) destroyed. Protection
+243 994 494 397
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www.iedarelief.orgMUTAHO This locality is not inhabited, there have
been thousands of hectares of agricultural
farms burned by lava.
MUGERWA • 7 people burned to the ground.
• 40 missing persons
• Approximately 200 burnt houses.
• A church 8th CEPAC calcined.
• A burnt school
• Calcined fields and livestock
Needs assessment in Munigi
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www.iedarelief.orgOVERVIEW OF NEEDS
Sectors Finding Recommendations
The water addiction between the plant and Bushara was damaged • Distribution of WASH kits, especially for women and
by the lava flow, thus cutting off any water supply in the North of girls of hygienic kits, cloths, buckets, soaps
the city of Goma. Assessments are underway to determine how , etc. • Installation, if possible, of latrines in the reception
many people are affected by this cut. Only the village of Muheto sites of the displaced.
has accessible water point but insufficient to serve its population • Distribution of NFI kits to IDPs and host/host families.
and neighboring villages. The village of Buhene no longer has to prevent water-related diseases and the spread of other
Water, hygiene and sanitation access to water and is being replenished with tanks. In the health diseases such as Paludism, diarrhea…
areas of Kanyaruchinya and Kibati, pipes, fountains and cisterns
were buried by lava. The breakdown of the water supply creates a
risk of an outbreak of cholera, especially since people returning
from Sake return from an endemic area.
It is reported that most of the displaced people have returned to • Through ongoing awareness-raising/awareness-raising
Goma after the lava flow stopped actions, strengthen the protection of women, girls, children
although the authorities have not yet allowed to return to the area. as well
They are hosted in schools and churches, with the risk of being as marginalized persons (elderly, living with disabilities,
exposed to the toxins contained in the lava. Specific albino, etc.), including prevention of all forms of GBV,
protection/GBV needs include family reunification, sanitation girls' prostitution (in search of their survival), unwanted
(women and girls showering at night and outside are at risk), pregnancies
shelter (women spend night in the same classrooms as men, and early marriages through information sessions on Sexual
Gender-Based Violence
increasing the risk of GBV), and psychosocial management of and Reproductive Health. • In the case, for example, where
(GBV)
affected and survivors. IDPs live in schools, separate
Protection
men, boys, women and
girls. That each group can have, if possible, its room to
sleepAccording to the evaluations covering the three communes of • Encourage free care in local health services and through
Goma, Nyiragongo and Karisimbi carried out by civil society, the mobile clinics for the most vulnerable groups such as girls
DPS, the Ministry of Health and the WHO, access to health care and boys aged 0 to 5, pregnant and nursing women
remains limited for the affected population. Medical centers and , the elderly, people with disabilities… and ensure
dispensaries (notably the dispensary EMMANUEL, SAYONI, immunization for all children on sites and in foster families.
CATHOLIC and 8th CEPAC) have burned, complicating access • Nutrition: distribution of food, especially to children, take
to health care. This has resulted in increased costs of medical care charge, in emergency, cases of malnutrition detected and
and reduced medical staff in health centers. About ten people were conduct a screening at all sites for a global management of
poisoned by lava gas in the town of Kibati. Epidemics of cholera cases.
and watery diarrhea have been recurrent in these communes since
Health 2017. The difficult supply of drinking water increases
and perpetuates the risk of cholera and diarrhea. A large influx of
patients is observed in gynecology-obstetrics services. In surgery,
the occupancy rate has increased from
65 to 100 percent (23 cases of trauma has been reported as of May
22, one case coming from Saké). A total shortage of medication
safety stock and the lack of
food services for patients have been reported.
Good coordination of the response with disaster victims has not The establishment of coordination mechanisms at local,
yet been established. provincial and national level is necessary to strengthen a
monitoring committee, formally establish humanitarian
Coordination
focal points in reception sites and areas and map actors in
North Kivu, South Kivu and the city of Gisenyi in Rwanda,
places of destination for displaced people.
Summary of the assessment: 24 deaths, 41 disappeared, 23 houses whose roof washed away, 4 burnt dispensaries, 3652 burnt houses, 3 water tanks destroyed,
and 12 primary and high schools burnt.
At IEDA Relief, our mission is to alleviate the suffering of vulnerable people.
We are a (501(c)3) Tax Exempt NGO under IRS Charity code, an Organization in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) since 2017.
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