With a particular focus on women and marginalized groups, the new project will promote community-based preparedness and adaptation in the highly vulnerable provinces of Jawzjan and Nangarhar.
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Viet Nam + 5 more
Southeast Asia strengthens multi-hazard early warning systems
Running until March 2021, the project will strengthen weather-, climate- and water-related impact-based decision support services and so help protect lives and property.
World + 13 more
At least five million people across southern Africa need help
Normal to above-normal rainfall is predicted for January to March 2018. While conducive to agricultural production, the rains will inevitably lead to flooding, and tropical cyclones will likely affect Indian Ocean countries.
World + 16 more
Natural disasters in Asia-Pacific will become more destructive without action on disaster resilience
Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2017 shows that the greatest impacts of disasters are in countries which have the least capacity to prepare or respond to these events.
Malawi + 2 more
From floods to disease, disaster risk rising in surging African cities
Many ideas are emerging about how growing African cities can cut their risks. Among them: organise slum dwellers to improve the infrastructure or simply sort out which risks are the key ones, experts say.
Sri Lanka + 4 more
Latest humanitarian snapshot highlights flooding in Sri Lanka, Indonesia
An estimated 503,560 people in 15 of Sri Lanka’s 25 districts have been affected by floods and landslides, with 82,998 people displaced. A total of 156 deaths has been confirmed.
Vanuatu + 5 more
Latest humanitarian snapshot highlights TC Donna and displaced Rohingya in Bangladesh
Tropical Cyclone Donna has intensified into a category 5 storm as it moves towards New Caledonia, while Bangladesh has seen an increase of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.
Philippines + 5 more
Enhancing humanitarian civil-military coordination in Asia-Pacific
A new publication focuses on five priority Asian countries that are highly vulnerable to large-scale natural disasters: Bangladesh, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, and the Philippines.
World food security “in jeopardy” due to multiple challenges, FAO warns
Mankind's ability to feed itself is in jeopardy due to intensifying pressures on natural resources, mounting inequality, and the fallout from a changing climate, warns a FAO report.
Risk-prone Philippines steps up urban resilience
After Typhoon Haiyan, the Philippines shook up its methods for keeping the public risk-informed, and ensuring early dissemination of warnings and efficient evacuations to promote a “zero casualty” approach.
Severe flooding in central coastal provinces in Viet Nam focus of disaster risk preparedness
The El Niño-induced drought and saline intrusion emergency has adversely impacted the lives of some two million people, including 520,000 children, in the 18 most affected provinces.