A guide explains the rationale behind the creation of the Humanitarian Communications Unit and how timely contextualized information reaches communities affected by disaster.
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A guide explains the rationale behind the creation of the Humanitarian Communications Unit and how timely contextualized information reaches communities affected by disaster.
The toolkit brings together four years of lessons learned and best practices relating to camps, registration and shelter in the aftermath of an emergency, especially regarding internal displacement.
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The Global Overview collates information from a range of sources and displays it in a manner that allows for quick comparison of different humanitarian crises.
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Vulnerable families in Balochistan, KP and FATA face a bitter winter and urgently need winterized non-food items and support to rebuild damaged or destroyed houses.
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The Global Overview collates information from a range of sources and displays it in a manner that allows for quick comparison of different humanitarian crises.
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Snapshot 08 – 15 October In Syria, heavy fighting is ongoing in Rural Damascus, Dar’a, Aleppo, Idleb and Homs, with government forces making gains in Rural Damascus while the opposition has won ground in Dar’a. Despite the call of al-Qaeda’s leader for opposition fighters to unite,...
Handbook developed with OCHA’s partners provides information on the provincial environment, including government agencies and NGOs and projects by geographical and thematic area.
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The latest humanitarian bulletin for West and Central Africa highlights the crisis in Northeast Nigeria and analyses the effects of rain deficits and floods in the region.
The funding requirements of this year's humanitarian action plan have increased, especially for food security and preparedness and response to the hurricane season.
Three workshops were conducted to elicit the views of those responding to the emergency and community consultations also took place separately to garner feedback from people directly affected.
Uprooted trees, toppled electric posts and debris from destroyed houses, schools and other buildings scatter the landscape. Many families in the worst-hit provinces continue to live in tent cities and temporary structures.
Families still live in evacuation centers or ‘tent cities’ and in spontaneous settlements in tents or makeshift emergency shelters. The humanitarian appeal is less than half funded.
The devastation of coconut trees was the biggest blow in eastern Mindanao, while resettlement is the most urgent priority in the Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental provinces.
A total of 46% of households are uninhabitable three months after the typhoon. Although the situation has improved, 25% of families are still living in makeshift shelters.
The Philippines humanitarian appeal for 2013 is seeking US$112 million to help people in Mindanao. Nearly 70 per cent of the funding will go to the Bopha response.
The typhoon has eroded the agricultural and horticultural industries, forcing households to borrow money and rely on emergency food assistance.
Tropical Depression Shanshan, locally known as Crising, hampered relief efforts in the worst-hit municipalities of Davao Oriental. Spontaneous settlements along the highway increased as people affected by Bopha relocated to areas they considered safer.
With humanitarian needs still staggeringly high, the ICRC looks for additional funding to support its aid operations.
The Government is conducting assessments that will quantify the risk of flooding and landslides occurring in particular areas, in order to identify ‘no build zones’ and ‘relocation sites’.
Floods in the most affected areas hampered health responses and disrupted schooling, displacing almost 16,000 people.