Introduction Today there are more internally displaced people worldwide than ever; approximately 59.1 million people have been forced to leave their homes due to armed conflicts, violence or human...
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Introduction Today there are more internally displaced people worldwide than ever; approximately 59.1 million people have been forced to leave their homes due to armed conflicts, violence or human...
OVERVIEW Sri Lanka is struggling with the worst economic crisis that it has ever experienced since its independence in 1948. The country is no longer able to pay import bills for food, fuel, gas, and...
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Introduction Asia and the Pacific is the most vulnerable region in the world to disaster impacts, complicated by numerous complex emergencies and protracted humanitarian crises. Over the past decade,...
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INTRODUCTION In the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the disproportionate impact on women and girls has been severe across the region. As previously highlighted in a regional analysis, the...
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Executive Summary The COVID-19 global crisis is disproportionately affecting women and girls. As the majority of frontline workers, women are highly exposed to the disease. Lockdowns implemented to...
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FOREWORD Shelter Projects 2017–2018 has been written by practitioners for practitioners to help them understand what worked and what did not work in previous shelter responses. In a world where...
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How a school curriculum-based approach can work Gender-based violence devastates the lives of women, girls, families and communities worldwide. But progress to reduce gender-based violence is...
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Remembering the Tsunami: A Decade of Strengthening Humanitarian Response Ten years ago, the global community faced what was one of the biggest tests of humanitarianism in recent history. On Dec. 26,...
CARE is currently responding to the series of floods which have occurred across Sri Lanka over the past weeks. Heavy rainfall began around the 18th of December in several districts of the country,...
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November 13, 2012 -- CARE recently launched the Asia Impact Report which provides a review of the impact of CARE’s work in Asia from 2005 to 2010. The report shows the positive and significant impact...
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Policy Brief This paper lays out the case for a renewed focus on conflict sensitivity by donor agencies. It presents recommendations for how donors can integrate conflict sensitivity into their own...
While the flood waters and heavy rains that began in December last year have largely ceased, over a million Sri Lankan's now face the difficult task of recovering from the devastation caused to their...
Flood-hit paddy farmers the ironic first victims of a looming food scarcity By Romayne Anthony Two and a half months ago KD Majjid was a man whose ultimate dream was about to be realized after 10...
CARE has provided urgently needed food and emergency supplies to 6,000 people in flood-ravaged Sri Lanka and we are rapidly scaling up our response. Torrential rains have lashed the central and...
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Il y a 5 ans, le 26 décembre 2004, le Tsunami frappait l'Asie du sud-est. Présent dans chacun des pays touchés par la catastrophe, le réseau CARE a pu intervenir très rapidement. Après l'urgence,...
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Historique Le matin du 26 décembre 2004, le Tsunami venu de l'Océan Indien déclenche une onde de choc dans le monde entier. Provoqué par l'un des plus puissants tremblements de terre jamais...
Thousands of lives are at risk in Sri Lanka because aid to internally displaced people is being restricted by difficulties in securing access for staff and vehicles, 14 major international aid...
Update - May 20, 2009 - With the end of the war in northern Sri Lanka, a second wave of more than 80,000 people are fleeing the former conflict zone and are in desperate need of food, water and...
Aid agencies prepare for second wave of people from the conflict zone Colombo, Sri Lanka (May 5, 2009) - While government authorities and UN and aid agencies prepare to receive the second wave of...
CARE seeks to help women and girls escaping conflict zone meet special challenges One of the harshest realities for women fleeing the conflict zone in northern Sri Lanka is that when they finally...