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COVID-19 AND THE HUMANITARIAN LANDSCAPE 2020 was a year like no other. Amidst on-going humanitarian crises, largely fuelled by conflict and violence but also driven by the effects of climate change –...

In the eight months since the humanitarian community came together in the COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan (GHRP), the virus has swept across the globe and impacted entire economies and...

As this report is issued, more than 33 million people worldwide have been infected with COVID-19 and one million have died. Some 11.8 million cases and 409 thousand deaths have been confirmed in the...

At a glance The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives and livelihoods of the most vulnerable people are enormous, both in terms of the number of people infected and the profound economic...

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased global humanitarian needs in 2020. At the beginning of 2020, global humanitarian requirements were already close to $30 billion, with 168 million people expected...

UN Humanitarian Response Plan for COVID-19 fails to prioritise older people, despite highest risk of death Older people must be explicitly recognised as a population group “most-affected and at risk” ...