Executive Summary

CARE has provided water+ services to developing countries for over 55 years and is currently working on more than 180 such projects in over 40 countries. Throughout the years CARE has focused on both emergency response and long-term development; recently the organization has emphasized building the capacity of local institutions, strengthening community-led water resource management (WRM) and total sanitation, and adopting an integrated water resource management (IWRM) approach.

PROGRESS AGAINST OUR THEORY OF CHANGE

Description: This report provides an update to a policy brief issued in May 2012, on the situation of migrants who returned to their home countries as a result of the conflict in Libya in 2011. Now two years after mass returns began, the aftermath of the crisis continues to reverberate in countries across Northern and Western Africa as well as beyond, in Asia. To this day, albeit in much smaller numbers, migrants continue to leave Libya.

JOHANNESBURG, 28 November 2012 (IRIN) - As the impact of climate change unfolds, many have predicted forbidding scenarios of millions of impoverished people flooding into new, often affluent, countries. Yet a ground-breaking study released on 28 November reveals a more nuanced relationship between climate variability and migration, which could provide insight into how events might transpire in the coming years.

In a nutshell

• Recent and recurrent crises have affected 31 million people in the Horn of Africa and the Sahel region of Africa. These are only the latest arguments for the need for sustained policy to increase the resilience of vulnerable people in the developing world.

• Strengthening resilience lies at the crossroads between humanitarian and development assistance

Niger is the worst place on the planet to be a mum, new research published today by Save the Children has found.

The West African country, one of the world’s poorest, has replaced Afghanistan at the bottom of the children’s charity’s annual State of the World’s Mothers ranking.

The index compares conditions for mothers in 165 countries around the globe, looking at factors such as mother's health, education and economic status, as well as critical child indicators such as health and nutrition.

Overview

The World Bank responded rapidly to the food price crisis that started in 2008 through the Global Food Crisis Response Program (GFRP), which mixes fast-track funding from International Development Association (IDA) and IBRD (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) with trust fund grants to address the immediate food crisis, while encouraging agricultural systems to build resilience for the future. GFRP resources have currently financed operations amounting to US$1.5 billion reaching nearly 40 million vulnerable people in 44 countries.

Challenge

07 Jun 2010 12:07:00 GMT

By Maria Caspani

LONDON (AlertNet) - Satellite imagery has become a standard tool for tackling humanitarian crises but thanks to the wider availability now of maps showing base-line information such as roads, bridges and railways, mapping experts are able to create a much more detailed response.

One example of how satellite images are combined with the nitty-gritty of detailed maps is how the United Nations' satellite agency UNOSAT is using Google's MapMaker software.

"MapMaker gives us access to the

Mensajes principales

El estado de la inseguridad alimentaria en el mundo 2009 es el 10.=BA informe de situación de la FAO sobre el hambre en el mundo desde la Cumbre Mundial sobre la Alimentación (CMA) de 1996. En el informe se destaca el hecho de que, incluso antes de que se produjeran la crisis alimentaria y la crisis económica, el n=FAmero de personas que padecían hambre había aumentado lenta pero constantemente. Sin embargo, el inicio de estas crisis provocó el incremento pronunciado del n=FAmero de personas que padecen hambre en el mundo.

Como resultado de la crisis económica

Dans le cadre du Programme d'intervention en réponse à la crise alimentaire mondiale (GFRP), le Groupe de la Banque mondiale a lancé un mécanisme de financement rapide afin d'accélérer les apports d'aide aux pays qui en ont le plus besoin. La réponse de la Banque s'est faite en articulation avec l'Equipe spéciale de haut niveau des nations Unies (HTLF) sur la sécurité alimentaire. La Banque soutient ainsi la mise en place du Cadre d'action global (CAG).

- Le GFRP est aujourd'hui doté de 2 milliard de dollars. Créé en mai 2008, le Programme a pour mission de réduire la