ReliefWeb shares the latest analyses, data, and resources on global food emergencies from the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET). Access ReliefWeb updates for FEWS NET’s latest analysis of acute food insecurity
Conflict carries devastating costs that extend far beyond the battlefield. In Gaza, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) has warned for months that the ongoing...
OCHA’s Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) was launched in 2014 as a ReliefWeb Labs project. The goal was to help humanitarians find and share data. Ten years later, HDX is an integral platform for the humanitarian community: 219 organizations sharing more than 20,000 datasets, covering every active humanitarian crisis, with more than a million users in 230 countries and territories.
As the idea for...
Imagine you are tasked with finding out how many refugees there are in Kenya, where they're from, and how the situation has changed from last year... Where do you start?
Managing information about a crisis is difficult and time-consuming. More so when the information is buried deep in pdfs, when the figures vary from day to day and source to source.
To make it easier to quickly grasp the extent of...
110 participants.
20 minutes to prepare.
3 judges.
1.5 minutes to convince a donor on how to aid polio vaccination efforts in Syria.
That was the challenge posed to student delegates representing 27 nationalities and 56 higher education institutions recently in Bangkok, Thailand. The participants, selected to attend the 2018 University Scholars Leadership Symposium (USLS), learned about ReliefWeb and...
**PLEASE NOTE the Data Snapshots have been discontinued. Learn more about the reasons for decommissioned project on our Labs Page
ReliefWeb received, on average, about 1.3 million visits a month in 2016. Our users visit the site to search for the latest crisis information, job announcements and opportunities to brush up their skills and knowledge. They access the site from the field and...
Do you want to use real-time ReliefWeb content and data directly in your app or page? We are happy to announce the public release of a new version of the API documentation.
The first version (version 0) of the API was launched in 2014. After some years of increasing use, it evolved to the actual version and now, it is receiving more than half a million requests per day.
With this new update to the...
** PLEASE NOTE this topic page is not maintained anymore
In 2016, millions of vulnerable people globally may be affected by the effects of El Niño, including drought, floods and food insecurity. Already Ethiopia is experiencing its worst El Niño-related drought in 30 years, leaving 10.2 million people in need of emergency food aid. Tens of millions of people across east and southern Africa, the...
In October 2013, ReliefWeb and OCHA ran a survey to understand the data needs and perceptions of the humanitarian community. Almost 3,500 people responded, with the majority based in Africa and working for an NGO.
The survey found that ReliefWeb users regularly do analysis with humanitarian data, but the data is hard to find, difficult to compare and not always trustworthy or timely.
To address...
