Recent weather incidents highlight the danger caused by displaced antipersonnel mines

In early August 2010, North Korean landmines drifted along streams between North and South Korea due to heavy rain-fall, causing the death of one man and injuring another after they picked up a mine on their way back from fishing. In mid-August, in Pakistan in the region of DI Khan devastated by floods, dislodged mines and unexploded ordnance injured five civilians in three separate incidents, according to ICBL member Sustainable Peace and Development Organization.

JOHANNESBURG, 24 July 2008 (IRIN) - In an effort to mitigate the negative impact of climate change, new funding by European Commission's Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) will help bolster disaster risk reduction and community resilience in Mozambique, Madagascar, Malawi and the Comoros.

A statement released on 23 July said the EC had extended the scope of its disaster preparedness programme (DIPECHO) with a new allocation of ?5 million (US$7.8 million) for the four southern African countries.

"This is an important step in supporting

Researched, written and published by the Humanitarian Policy Group at ODI

Paul Harvey
Research Fellow, HPG

Executive summary

Researched, written and published by the Humanitarian Policy Group at ODI Paul Harvey Research Fellow, HPG Executive summary This discussion paper examines the use of cash and vouchers to provide people with assistance in emergency situations. The first product of an ongoing research project by the Humanitarian Policy group (HPG), it is based on a critical review of existing published and grey literature,

Mozambique has established a "poverty observatory" to monitor its national plan to reduce one of the world's highest levels of deprivation. The observatory will collect and analyze data on poverty to track the plan's progress.
UNDP is supporting the observatory at several levels, including strengthening the capacity of its technical secretariat and helping monitor and evaluate how the poverty reduction plan is working in the provinces and local districts.

UNDP is also helping the Government incorporate

This article is part of IRIN Special Reports on World Water Day
Coinciding with World Water Day on 22 March, IRIN has produced a series of special reports focussing on water resource management issues in three areas of sub-Saharan Africa where tensions over water are high. These include the Nile River in Uganda, Lake Chad and the Nkomati River shared by SouthAfrica, Swaziland and Mozambique. To access the reports go to http://www.irinnews.org/wwd.asp

JOHANNESBURG, 21 March (IRIN) - Last

Cyclone Japhet continues to batter southern Africa, but in Mozambique, victim of devastating floods in 2000 and 2001, casualties and damage have so far been kept to a minimum, largely as a result of effective disaster preparedness measures and good cooperation between the government and the Mozambique Red Cross (CVM). As soon as a warning was issued on 27 February, the CVM went into emergency mode, convening a task force and placing hundreds of provincial staff and volunteers on alert. Scores of people have been injured, electricity and telecommunications

At a glance
Summary

Many children in Mozambique find themselves trapped in a cycle of poverty with inadequate access to basic services in health and education, prone to food insecurity and vulnerable to being abused and exploited by adults.abuse. Despite achievements made in the early 1990s in economic growth and political stability in the early 1990s, Mozambique remains one of the poorest countries in the world. 2000 and 2001 were marked by two major major floods which hit the central and southern regions of the country. Weak infrastructure and economic stagnation

MAPUTO, Dec 2, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The European Union (EU) has made available about 5.65 million euros (about 5.65 million US dollars) to finance the second phase of the reconstruction of the city of Xai-Xai, capital of the southern Mozambican province of Gaza.

Xai-Xai was devastated by massive flooding on the Limpopo River in February 2000. The defensive dykes were overwhelmed, and the entire lower part of the city was flooded.

According to an EU press statement published on Monday, the first stone for the launching of phase two of the reconstruction

Population: 19.6 million (BUCEN 2002)

Infant Mortality Rate: 135 (DHS 1997)

DPT3 Coverage: 59.6%, children 12-23 mos. (DHS 1997)

Nutrition: 35.9% stunting, children 0-35 mos. (DHS 1997)

Total Fertility Rate: 5.2 (DHS 1997)

Maternal Mortality Ratio: 1,100 (UNICEF 1999)

Contraceptive Prevalence Rate: 5.2%, all women, modern methods (DHS 1997)

Adult HIV Prevalence: 13% (UNAIDS 2001)

Current Living AIDS Orphans: 420,000 (UNAIDS 2001)

Demographic and Health Surveys: 1997