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This Quarterly Mixed Migration Update (QMMU) covers Southern and Southeast Asia. The core countries of focus for this region are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal,...

SUMMARY West Africa is widely cited as a hotspot of climate change and insecurity. This SIPRI Insights uses a systematic literature review of academic research to build a better understanding of the...

Vulnerable populations in urban areas globally have been among the worst hit by the global COVID-19 crisis. The pandemic has upended normal life and the food systems that support urban populations...

Nearly 90% of experts surveyed predict that the global hunger crisis will grow over the next 10 years, without greater innovation New Research Illuminates the Need to Rethink Hunger Prevention and...

At the up coming EU AU Summit, nutrition must be prioritised as a key lever of sustainable development, in line with existing priorities of the African Union To make progress towards Sustainable...

FSO Safer tanker could trigger major oil disaster, study shows Beirut, Lebanon – Without a swift resolution, an explosion or leak from the rusting oil tanker FSO Safer off the coast of Yemen could...

La AECID publica una guía para incorporar el medioambiente en la acción y las emergencias humanitarias La Guía propone enfoques, herramientas y buenas prácticas que contribuyen a generar un...

Executive Summary The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in 20 countries...

By Louise Vaughan, Independent Consultant; Roy Bouwer, SouthSouthNorth; Tiffany Chalmers, SouthSouthNorth KEY MESSAGES Future Climate For Africa (FCFA) made significant progress in terms of both...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Thailand is exposed to flooding, landslides, drought, earthquakes, tsunamis, heat waves, forest fires, and epidemics. Thailand is also exposed to technological hazards such as...

Introduction Disasters have been studied for centuries, but ‘modern’ disasters studies have arguably developed over the past half century or so. For instance, the journal Disasters began publication...

Community Development and Sustainability This progress report highlights Year 4 achievements of the USAID-funded Livestock Market Systems (LMS) Program which is being implemented in Isiolo, Wajir,...

Policy Brief In January 2021, the UNDRR produced the Risk Sensitive Budget Review of Ethiopia. This is part of a series of studies on disaster risk reduction investments across sub-Saharan African...

Executive summary A systemic approach to understanding and addressing sustainability is critical to the financial sector tackling the complex network of interconnected issues. Despite growing...

The GPA Coordination Unit, with support from NORCAP, has developed an overview of blended finance mechanisms and their role in delivering sustainable energy solutions in displacement settings along...

GPA Coordination Unit has undertaken a study with support from NORCAP, to amplify the efforts on e-waste management in displacement settings. As the number of initiatives focusing on improving energy...

Community adaptation action plans (CAAPs) empower communities to make their own collective decisions on priority actions to better adapt to climate change. The CAAPs contain agreed priorities and...

Jan 2022 This report shares an analysis of the effects of natural and man-made shocks in the agri-food system of Bangladesh. It analyses the results of a field assessment conducted in April and May...

10 humanitarian crises that didn’t make the headlines Introduction “A hurricane of humanitarian crises” is raging around the world, said UN Secretary-General António Guterres in the summer of 2021,...