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The first case of COVID-19 was reported in Mozambique on 22 March 2020. As of 26 May, Mozambique had 194 confirmed cases
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The Facilitator's Guide has been piloted in Borno (Nigeria) and in Fafan zone (Somali region, Ethiopia) and improved iteratively after each test.
What does the ROAP have that you won't find in ot
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Main Points
The delivery of humanitarian assistance is expected to slow down significantly over
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The Guide has been developed to enhance the knowledge capabilities of NDMAs and their local partners. This is accomplished by exposing them to
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Kenya reported its first case of COVID-19 on 12 March 2020 and, as at 7 April 2020, 172 cases had been confirmed and 6 deaths reported. The Government of
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The death toll from Cyclone Idai’s landfall has reportedly risen to at least 84 and the President has said that it could rise above 1,000, according to media reports.
Throughout the region, heavy rains that intensified in late April have resulted in excessive flooding, affecting more than half a million people; damaging infrastructure and livelihoods and caused over 370 deaths. Although
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This report is produced by the UNDAC Team in Lima. It is developed in collaboration with the partners of
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This report is jointly released by the Human Rights Division (HRD)
of the United
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States, the United Nations and civil society organisations continue to raise concerns about the
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The Government of Republic of Zambia reported the first confirmed cases
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The Handbook is a guide to the normative framework for humanitarian action and
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The transformation of the humanitarian landscape has already made a significant impact on
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Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2017
The report looks at the extent and impact of natural disasters across the region and how these intersect with ...
The report looks at the extent and impact of natural disasters across the region and how these intersect with ...
Strengthening resilient agricultural livelihoods
Level 3 responses are activated in the most complex and challenging humanitarian emergencies, when the
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The report offers 20 top recommendations for getting ahead of future outbreaks in Yemen and similarly complex
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At the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul in May 2016, leaders made over 3,700 commitments to advance the Agenda
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In 2018, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
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There has been no systematic comparison of how the policy response to past infectious disease outbreaks and epidemics was funded. This study aims to collate and analyse funding
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This assessment is the first of its kind to be conducted in the south-eastern region of Myanmar.
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Cambodia drafted and adopted the National Action Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction 2014-2018 in 2014. This plan finalized the required policies and
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The Philippine Government, International Non-government Organizations (INGOs) and local NGOs are all making attempts to address the impact of disas
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For humanitarian organisations to respond effectively to complex crises, they require access to up-to-date evidence-based guidance. The COVID-19 cr
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In view of the ongoing political, peace and reconciliation, administrative and economic reforms as well as plans to establish the
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Research Paper.
As the fighting in Syria winds down, international humanitarian organisations (IHOs) operating from Damascus are hopeful that the
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Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), also referred to as Laos, or Lao, is exposed to natural disasters such as flooding, typhoons, cyclones, drought, and earthquakes. The country is vulnerable to recurrent, sudden-onset and slow onset natur
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This handbook is a quick-reference tool that provides practical, field-level guidance to establish and maintain a GBV sub-cluster in a humanitarian emergency. It provides the foundations
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With about 24 million of Yemen’s 30 million people in need of some form of assistance, the
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Climate change is already having severe impacts across our planet, bringing new and previously unimaginable challenges to the people least responsible for greenhouse gas emissions.
This report,
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Nutrition Cluster Handbook
recommended
The purpose of the handbook is to provide those involved in nutrition coordination with relevant
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The regional Migrant Response Plan (MRP) for the Horn of Africa and Yemen includes urgent life-s
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The Global Early Warning – Early Action (EWEA) report on food security and agriculture is developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of
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This report, written by ATAA Humanitarian Relief Association, BINAA for Development, Children Of One world, Hand in Hand
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A joint FAO/WFP update for the United Nations Security Council, January 2018. ISSUE N.3. Six mon
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After five consecutive below-average rains, the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa is exp
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This report outlines and analyses the implementation of the Bridge Builder Model. This is a two-way, capacity-sharing model aimed at bringing toget
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Novel coronavirus will disproportionately impact world’s 70 million displaced people
Report recommends stopping asylum seeker deportations, prioritising hygiene and refugee camp decongestion, better communication
Displaced people must be included in prevention, mitigation efforts -
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A practical handbook. This Health Cluster Guide (2nd edition, 2020) provides practical advice on how WHO, Health Cluster Coordinators and partners can work together during a humanitarian crisis to achieve
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Children living in humanitarian crises face an increased risk of abuse. While the threats of har
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Since the first edition of the CDAC snapshot of communication, community engagement and accounta
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of
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Five months after the beginning of the desert locust upsurge in the Greater Horn
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EVALUATION REPORT | The purpose of the evaluation is to strengthen child protection programming in the
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The Facilitator’s Guide for the basic-needs based Response Options Analysis and Planning (ROAP) is a step-by-step guide comprising tools and temp
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Professional Standards for Protection Work
recommended
Carried out by humanitarian and human rights actors in armed conflict and other situations of violence
This guideline (third edition) constitutes a set o
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The recruitment and use of children violates their rights and causes them physical, developmental, emotional, mental, and spiritual harm. The impa
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This guidelines is aimed at humanitarian and human rights actors engaged in protection work, and is intended to act as an easy reference to the minimum standards to be met and
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The Standard consists of nine key inclusion standards, and seven sets of sector-specific inclusion standards
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The COVID-19 pandemic has put significant pressure on health systems all around the world. The drastic measures established to contain its spread a
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This report used the results of the Tracker’s first two years to examine the general trends
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The Global Early Warning – Early Action (EWEA) report on food security and agriculture is developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of
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How should humanitarian organisations prepare and respond to COVID-19 in humanitarian settings in low- and middle-income countries?
This Rapid Learning Review outlines 14 actions, insights and id
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The first section highlights knowledge and questions regarding security incidents, trends, and causes of violence, including around causes and motives for
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has created a global and gendered crisis that is compounding existing inequalities and disproportionately affecting girls and women. Emerging evidence from
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During the reporting period, 5,068 people were identified as being displaced by conflict and in need of humanitarian aid. In addition, 434 people w
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This report assesses the impact of the conflict in Ukraine and its implications for organized cr
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This study looks at commitments made at the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) under the Grand Bargain and provides an overview
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This brief summarises key considerations about the social, political and economic context of Goma in relation to the outbreak
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Globally, it is estimated that 128.6 million people are currently in need of humanitarian assistance. Of these individuals, approximately one-fourt
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Thailand is exposed to flooding, landslides, drought, earthquakes, tsunamis, heat waves, forest fires, and epidemics. Thailand is also exposed to technological hazards such as chemical accidents. Flooding is the natural hazard with
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Climate change is a growing concern for Bangladesh because 90 percent of the country is approximately 10 feet above sea level. An evaluation was co
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The Handbook is primarily addressed to child protection coordination teams, which may include coordinators, co-leads and information managers, the
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Humanitarian NGOs have made increased use of Private Security Providers (PSPs) over the last decade. There is a gap between
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The strategic priorities of the CCS 2014–2018 are:
(1) Strengthening the health system.
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(1) Strengthening the health system.
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Reflections and a call for action after a two-year exploration of emergency response in acute conflicts
There is general consensus that the ...
There is general consensus that the ...
Myanmar has made significant progress in its disaster management policies, plans, and procedures since 2008, when Cyclone Nargis impacted the country leaving devastation in its aftermath. The Govern
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The Indonesian government has reformed its laws, policies, and institutions to better manage disaster risk since the significant 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.
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Disaster Management Reference Handbook Series Overview.
Floods, storms, and wind account for large proportions of displacement compared to other disasters. Floods are
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Specific action sheets offer useful guidance on mental health and psychosocial support and cover the following areas coordination assessment monitoring and evaluation protection and human rights sta
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Hands-on information and practical advice for everyday life and work in the field as well as background information on crisis management structures in international organizations lie at
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n Autumn 2013, HHI Executive Director, Vincenzo Bollettino, traveled to the Philippines to participate in an assessment of civil-military engagement in th
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WHO’s Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS) defines the Organization’s medium-term vision for working in and with a particular country. The CCS, d
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As of June 2019, the number of Venezuelans leaving their country reached 4 million, with Colombia, Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Brazil hosting
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After almost eight bloody years, the war in Syria finally appears to be reaching the endgame. The Assad regime controls some two-thirds
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Recently, Sri Lanka has been impacted by multiple natural disasters. Sri Lanka experienced a landslide in October 2014, and flooding in December 2014.8 Sri Lanka withstood the worst drought conditions witnessed in four decades in 2016;
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Humanitarian emergencies and crises (Humanitarian emergencies and crises) are large-scale events that may result in the breakdown
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The development of this Operational Roadmap has been driven by a growing consensus in Ukraine on the need to prioritize activities that are urgentl
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Due to an escalation of conflict across the country, many people are arriving in Kabul and other large cities, seeking safety from the conflict and
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Camps is intended to help address the absence of public and standardized training resources for those seeking to use high resolution satellite imag
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The ERP approach seeks to improve effectiveness by reducing both time and effort, enhancing predictability through establishing predefined roles, responsibilities and coordination mechanisms.
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In April and May 2015, Nepal was hit by two major earthquakes killing around 9,000 people and leaving many thousands more injured and homeless.
To optimize the speed and volume of critical ...
To optimize the speed and volume of critical ...
The report reveals weak national mental health services overburdened by the demands placed on them by the Syria crisis. Health facilities which pre
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In an effort to improve the capabilities and accountability of humanitarian and economic practitioners,
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How do local authorities and humanitarian agencies collaborate when refugees are in transit? An IIED-supported research project is looking at the transit refugee response in Croatia.
WHO published the first COVID-19 Strategic Response and Preparedness Plan (SPRP) on 3 February, 2020. This report highlights the main points of pro
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