Monsoon 2012 updates :

• Rehabilitation work completed in 17 girls schools in Balochistan with ERF support .

• In Sindh, cluster members completed mainstreaming of 2,8972 (43% girls) children in government primary schools at Jacobabad, Kashmore and Shikarpur .

Education Cluster Response for displacement in KP/FATA :

• Allocation of CERF funds for Education cluster is 150,000 USD .
  These funds will be used to support educational needs of IDP children displaced from Tirah Valley, Khyber agency

HEADLINES

• The government of Mali established a Dialogue and Reconciliation Commission on 25 April to address security and governance in the North.

• The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted Resolution 2100, approving the establishment of MINUSMA, a 12,640 strong stabilisation force in Mali. The United Nations and humanitarian community are working to determine a path forward regarding integration and humanitarian space.

News

• 18 young Libyan girls and boys participated in firstever OneMinutesJr video workshop in Tripoli 23-27 January 2013.

• On 28 February the Ministry of Education and UNICEF launched the nation-wide school assessment report in Tripoli.

• UNICEF conducted a session for youth to express their views on the constitution process.

• As part of the EU-funded education programme,
UNICEF and the Ministry of Education signed an agreement on a roadmap to improve teacher management.

Kandhkot is recovering slowly from the floods, which inundated vast swaths of land. For the children, a temporary learning centre (TLC) has provided a much-needed return to education.

Maputo, 28 March 2013 - At the end of January this year, a large wave of flood water from the Limpopo River swept through the Gaza Province in central Mozambique, driving up to 200,000 people out of their homes, and leaving large swathes of the province under water. We sat down with UNICEF Emergency Specialist Hanoch Barlevi to learn more about how the emergency unfolded, and what the situation is now.

Q: Floods are more or less recurring events in Mozambique, what was different this time?

Highlights

• USAID Famine Early Warning Systems Networks (FEWSNET) predicts increases in food prices in Nigeria due to loss of crops from 2012 flood and due to insecurity in Nigerian Sahel

• In the month of January 2013, a total of 13,574 children with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) were admitted to 479 UNICEF supported Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) sites across Northern Nigeria

Two years after earthquake and tsunami brought devastation to northeastern Japan, children continue to find support from government, communities and the Japan Committee for UNICEF.

Japan, 7 March 2013 – It has been two years since UNICEF entrusted the Japan Committee for UNICEF with performing the vital role of extending support to children in Japan for the first time in some 50 years, following the earthquake and tsunami that affected hundreds of thousands of people in northeast Japan.

Drawing on expertise

Highlights

Monsoon 2012 updates in Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan:

• Total 72,049 (41% girls/adolescent girls) have been reached by activities in the field of education in Sindh, Baluchistan and Punjab.

• In Sindh 7,745 children (40% girls) were mainstreamed into the regular schooling system (UNICEF: 6,062; Save the Children: 1,683).

Complex Emergency in KP-FATA:

• 24,027 children and adults (10,344 girls/women) have benefitted from the education response in camps and off camp locations in KP/FATA.

Typhoon Bopha (local name Pablo) made landfall early morning on 4 December 2012, in Davao Oriental (Mindanao) and traversed Mindanao, Visayas and Palawan leaving severe damages and destruction behind. This Typhoon contained twice the rainfall and three times the wind strength of the Tropical Storm Washi which hit northern Mindanao in December 2011. Typhoon Bopha severely affected several regions along its course and in seven regions 6.2 million persons (over 1.2 million families) were reported to have been affected.