Dikwa, Borno State – Every rainy season, displaced families in Dikwa in the Borno State of Nigeria face renewed flood threats — a challenge highlighted in ReliefWeb’s coverage of floods and the humanitarian response in Nigeria.
To address this, Deltares and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) developed new flood hazard models to assess current and future risks. Using KoBoToolbox,...
Hundreds of natural disasters occur each year. According to UNOCHA’s World Humanitarian Data and Trends, natural disasters affected more than 124.5 million people worldwide in 2012. Having access to timely and relevant information is key for humanitarians to be prepared and effective in response.
At ReliefWeb, we aim to provide timely disaster information that is useful and relevant to the...
Last year, we posted a blog discussing the editorial process behind ReliefWeb’s natural disaster coverage. The blog outlined how our editors monitor and gather information from a variety of reliable sources in order to provide you with timely and comprehensive disaster updates.
One of our key sources of disaster information are National Disaster Management Authorities (NDMA). During our daily...
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Our Topics categories just keep growing! Since the launch of Topics pages in August over 16,000 visitors have searched for humanitarian information by various topics. This week we’ve added Protection & Human Rights, Disaster Management, Mine Action, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding to the list of topic...
