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Rebuilding livelihoods after displacement

Mr. Khan is a 56 year old man who was a permanent resident in Khyber Agency, Pakistan. He used to be a farmer and owned two acres of land which he cultivated and used to make his living in order to provide for his three daughters, son and wife. With the increased violence in Tirah Valley where Mr. Khan’s village is, he and his family were forced to migrate to the Peshawar district.

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Water, sanitation and hygiene support for 65,000 displaced families

Assistance worth $140 million will be needed this year to address urgent needs of about 1 million IDPs, 1.64 million registered refugees and an unknown number of unregistered refugees.

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Food distributions in the Menaka Circle to help IDPs

The situation in these regions is critical and humanitarian aid is still very limited

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Conflict in Kurram Agency triggers more displacements

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan [ACTED News] - Around 8,000 families (48,000 individuals) have been displaced in the past week due to tension within Central Kurrram Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. The twenty-nine affected villages of Para Chamkani were declared as conflict zones by national authorities, which enables the families from that area to register for assistance. Most of the displaced families have moved to lower parts of Kurram Agency such as Khar, Khazi Khel and Palash Khel, where they are now living without basic food and health facilities.

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Improving food security through kitchen gardens in Sindh

In 2011, severe flooding affected millions of people in Sindh, Pakistan. Many lost their homes and livelihoods and have struggled to find the means to rebuild their lives. ACTED launched a shelter and food security assistance to support affected communities by providing shelters, kitchen gardening kits and tree plants to help them start to rebuild their lives.

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IDPs from the Tirah Valley still in need of emergency assistance

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan [ACTED News] – There are still over 8,000 displaced families as tensions persist across the Tirah Valley of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan as a result of violent clashes in the area. These people have had to travel through difficult terrain from their hometowns to reach relative safety with reports of scarce food, water or personal belongings on hand.

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Pakistan emergency: the story of Seeda Khan, displaced in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

PESHAWAR [ACTED News] - Originally belonging to the Tirah Valley in Khyber Agency, 56-year-old Seeda Khan was forced to migrate along with his family in order to take refuge when fierce fighting broke out in his hometown. This conflict between two groups has resulted in over 10,000 families being displaced in the past month.

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South Sudan: Steadily increasing IDP population in Jonglei State

JUBA [ACTED News] – Registration of the displaced households in Akobo East, in Jonglei State of South Sudan, began late February, noting an increase of approximately 2,375 households. A number of these internally displaced persons (IDPs) are direct victims of the 8 February attack against a group of pastoralists by cattle-raiders. Many have also arrived out of fear of potential additional attacks. Many are living with host community relatives; those without extended families in the area are sleeping under the trees on the river bank.

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Tirah valley tension results in thousands of new IDPs

Islamabad, Pakistan [ACTED News] - Around 5,000 families have fled the Tirah valley of Khyber Agency in Pakistan in the past few weeks as a result of localized conflict. A further 5,000 families are expected to be displaced in the coming days. These internally displaced persons are travelling through Kurram and Orakzai Agencies to the districts of Hangu, Kohat and the Peshawar valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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ACTED launches a new REACH mapping exercise in IDP settlements in South Central Somalia

NAIROBI [ACTED News] - ACTED recognizes the lack of centralized and integrated datasets on internally displaced persons’ (IDP) settlements in South Central Somalia and, through the REACH programme, aims to develop a more uniform process of data collection, integration and dissemination to enhance the accountability, targeting, and effectiveness of humanitarian programming in Mogadishu.

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Video: Empowering community decision making

PARIS [ACTED News] – Humanitarian emergencies and crises damage the social fabric of communities, thus compromising local capacity to have a say in decisions which affect them directly, and isolating them from central government decisions. Inclusive and effectively functioning community organisations are essential to achieve sustainable reintegration, rehabilitation and development which address community needs, as they are perceived by the people, and they need to be involved in the decision-making process.

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Sound water management improves local economy

Like some 220 communities throughout Northern Afghanistan, the village of Kalta Khoros is seeing new life spring from a more equitable distribution of water resources.

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Steadily increasing IDP population in Jonglei State

JUBA [ACTED News] – Registration of the displaced households in Akobo East, in Jonglei State of South Sudan, began late February, noting an increase of approximately 2,375 households. A number of these internally displaced persons (IDPs) are direct victims of the 8 February attack against a group of pastoralists by cattle-raiders. Many have also arrived out of fear of potential additional attacks. Many are living with host community relatives; those without extended families in the area are sleeping under the trees on the river bank.

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Alleviating food insecurity

ISLAMABAD [ACTED News] - A food security policy, aiming to lessen current food insecurity in Pakistan by fifty percent by the year 2030, was recently launched by the Pakistani Ministry of National Food Security and Research. The objective is to ensure that all Pakistanis have access to an adequate amount of nutritious food on a sustainable basis. ACTED is also working towards this outcome through extensive food security programming, including as part of the Pakistan Emergency Food Security Alliance.

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ACTED Newsletter #82 February 2013 [EN/FR]

CONTENTS /// SOMMAIRE

FOCUS - DRR: Anticipating emergencies, strengthening resilience

ACTED supported by the European Union’s Nobel Peace Prize

Community spirit at the heart of life (Jordan)

Za’atari refugee camp under water (Jordan)

The child friendly space, a veritable sanctuary for young refugees (Iraq)

Promoting hygiene at school to hold back waterborne diseases (Pakistan)

Helping Afghan farmers protect their livelihoods (Afghanistan)

Providing food for the "roof of the world" (Tajikistan)

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Cattle raiding sparks emergency assessment

JONGLEI [ACTED News] – On Friday 8th February a large cattle raid in Akobo West, Jonglei State, resulted in 118 fatalities and close to 100 severely injured. More than 60,000 cattle were raided and thousands were missing. The size of this attack sent shock waves through the Lou Nuer tribe communities across Akobo County. This dramatically increased the level of fear among the general population of further attacks.

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Rapport evaluation rapide multisectorielle - Commune de Segou

  1. SYNTHESE DES RESULTATS

A. MOUVEMENTS DE POPULATION

Selon les informations recueillies auprès des chefs de quartier et des personnes déplacées, au total plus de 526 familles déplacées seraient récemment arrivées dans ces quartiers (entre le 9 et le 20 janvier 2013). La répartition de la population déplacée nouvellement arrivée sur Ségou est détaillée par quartier dans le tableau ci-dessous.

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Emergency shelter interventions facilitated through REACH

NAIROBI [ACTED News] - A rapid shelter assessment in 43 IDP settlements in Somaliland, Puntland and Mogadishu, REACH – a joint initiative of IMPACT and ACTED – was deployed between September and November 2012 with the aim to contribute to the formulation of a countrywide Somalia Shelter Cluster needs analysis and response strategy for 2013. The assessment scored IDP shelters as “critical”, “urgent” and “essential” based on multiple criteria, implying different levels of priority for shelter responses.