Five months after the beginning of the desert locust upsurge in the Greater Horn ...tribute-to-highlight medbox">of Africa and Yemen, and four months since the launch of the response plan (24 January 2020) a total of USD 130 million have been mobilized in the region.
As described in the recently published Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) quarterly report (January to April 2020), a lot has been achieved already, thanks to generous contributions from resource partners and affected governments.
But bringing a desert locust upsurge under control and mitigating its impact on livelihoods and food security requires a prolonged effort and numerous factors could influence the duration and magnitude of the problem, including the widespread presence of COVID-19.
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Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Pakistan
Spetember 2020
COVID-19 has turned the world upside down. Everything has been impacted. How we live and interact with each other, how we work and communicate, how we move around and travel. Every aspect of our liv...es has been affected.
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A guide for effective aid
The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the issues in regulating and managing in...ternational emergency in a selection of large and small-scale sudden onset disasters (SODs). In doing so, it aims to contribute to several key international commitments as well as its objective in disasters and emergencies to “reduce the consequences the event may have on world health and its social and economic implications”.
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EVALUATION REPORT | The purpose of the evaluation is to strengthen child protection programming in the<.../span> context of emergencies by assessing UNICEF’s performance and drawing lessons and recommendations that will influence ongoing and future programmes, in both preparedness and response. Apart from global and regional interviews and desk reviews, the evaluation is grounded in a solid base of evidence from four indepth case studies of recent emergency responses, in Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan and South Sudan, as well as extensive research covering eight additional countries.
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Case Studies on Building Resilience in the Horn of Africa
Core Knowledge for Emergency Preparedness and Response
The module is currently available in English, French, Nepali, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish
The recruitment and use of children violates their rights and causes them physical, developmental, emotional, mental, and spiritual harm. The impa...ct on their mental and physical well-being breaches the most fundamental human rights and represents a grave threat to durable peace and sustainable development, as cycles of violence are perpetuated. The Paris Commitments adopted in Paris in February 2007 are an expression of strengthened international resolve to prevent the recruitment of children and highlight the actions governments can and should take to protect children affected by conflict. The Paris Principles are the operational guidelines related to sustainable reintegration of children formerly associated with armed forces and groups.
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The document contains preliminary report on all aspects of WHO’s response in the Ebola outbreak. WHO Member States will discuss ...ibute-to-highlight medbox">the report at the sixty-eighth World Health Assembly.
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The ‘Toolkit’ is targeted at practitioners responsible for implementing recovery programmes, their objective to provide a ‘how to’ guide on development, implementing and managing complex pos...t-disaster recovery programmes.
Disaster Recovery Toolkit
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This report explores the extent to which evidence, policy, normative guidance and commitments on HIV and gender-based violence, and their interlinkages, is being translated into action on the ground... in fragile settings. These issues are explored through the lens of training of peace support operations deploying African troops across Africa and beyond.
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