Familes are struggling against the devastating consequences of extreme winter weather. With cold freezing water sources, and snow covering grazing areas, their herds are dying of cold and...
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Mongolia's extreme winter: 5.2 million livestock dead as children miss out on school
ULAANBATAR, 27 March 2024 - Mongolia’s extreme winter conditions, or Dzud, shows no sign of abating and the country, which is at the frontlines of the global climate crisis, is paying for it dearly...
Mongolia: Dzud Response Plan (Dec 2023 – June 2024) (Issued 25 March 2024)
Foreword by the Resident Coordinator Mongolia continues to experience the adverse effects of climate change, which poses significant risks for local communities. The country has experienced a 2.46°C...
UNICEF Mongolia Humanitarian Situation Report No. 3 (Dzud): 22 March 2024
Highlights • Over 188,300 people, including 80,215 children (40,830 girls and 39,385 boys) are grappling with an exceptionally harsh winter characterized by icy conditions that completely obstruct...
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Emergency Assistance to Mongolia in Response to the Dzud
Today, March 21, 2024, upon the request of the Government of Mongolia, the Government of Japan has decided to provide emergency relief goods (blankets, portable jerry cans, generators, etc.) through...
IFRC launches an appeal as Mongolia faces its harshest winter in 50 years
Geneva/Kuala Lumpur/Ulaanbaatar, 18 March 2024: Mongolia is enduring its most severe winter in nearly half a century, grappling with the devastating effects of Dzud. Since November last year, extreme...
How Mongolia’s Herders Faced Climate Change [EN/MN]
STORY HIGHLIGHTS The three-phase Sustainable Livelihoods Project, implemented from 2002 to 2023, has supported the Mongolian government’s effort to modernize a mostly rural and underdeveloped...
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United States Provides Dzud Assistance to Additional 2,000 Herder Households
The U.S. government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is giving assistance to an additional 2,000 households in response to the worsening dzud affecting...
Mongolia, Asia-Pacific | Cold Wave (Dzud) - Emergency Appeal (MDRMN020)
Appeal launched: 15/03/2024 Appeal ends: 31/03/2025 SITUATION OVERVIEW Mongolia is characterised by unique ecosystems and cultures, primarily consisting of communities that are traditionally nomadic...
Migration Governance Indicators Profile 2023 | Mongolia
This Migration Governance Indicators (MGIs) profile presents a summary of well-developed areas of migration governance in Mongolia as well as areas with potential for further development, as assessed...
Mongolia: Snow cover map (Ten-day period starting 1 March, 2024) [EN/MN]
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GIEWS Country Brief: Mongolia 04-March-2024
FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT Average wheat production obtained in 2023 Cereal import requirements in 2023/24 estimated near average Prices of wheat flour at record levels in December 2023 Livestock sector...
Mongolia: Snow cover map (Ten-day period starting 21 February, 2024) [EN/MN]
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Mongolia - Severe weather (NANEM, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 23 February 2024)
Snowfall and severe cold conditions have hit several parts of Mongolia this winter, causing casualties and damage. As of 22 February, media report one fatality and more than 1,5 million livestock...
Mongolia: Snow cover map (Ten-day period starting 11 February, 2024) [EN/MN]
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UNICEF Mongolia Humanitarian Situation Report No. 2 (Dzud): 21 February 2024
Highlights The severe winter situation, Dzud, has continued to worsen across nation since the last situation report. Over 150,500 people, including 62,500 children (31,500 girls and 31,000 boys) are...
Supporting Mongolia's process for effective NDC implementation
In Mongolia, rural communities and pastoralists are among those most vulnerable to climate change, and it is often the country’s provincial and district governments who are the first responders to...
MNG: Cold Wave - 02-2024 - snow storms #2 (2024-02-17)
Description The NAMEM has issued several early warnings on snow storms from 10 Feb 2024 that the occurrence of the hazardous storms reaching the maximum speed of 34 m/s in the west, south, central,...
Mongolia: 2024 Dzud Early Action & Response Plan Summary
Mongolia is increasingly grappling with the impacts of climate change, manifested in discernible shifts in weather patterns that underscore the escalation of this global phenomenon. The cyclical...
Mongolia: 2024 Dzud Early Action & Response Plan (Dec 2023 – May 2024)
Foreword by the Resident Coordinator Mongolia continues to experience the adverse effects of climate change, which poses significant risks for local communities. The country has experienced a 2.46'C...