Cambodia: Floods - Aug 2000 Updates

Introduction – The remarkable story of EWS1294, the national early warning system of Cambodia In the 2021 World Risk Report, Cambodia was ranked as one of the top 15 most disaster-prone countries...

1. SYNOPSIS This Annual Mekong Flood Report (AMFR) follows the established pattern since 2007 that is a review of the year’s flood conditions within the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB), supplemented by an...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In Asia, 70 per cent of the poor live in rural areas. Although every region of Asia has made considerable progress in reduction of rural poverty in the last decade, the problem...

I. PROJECT DESCRIPTION 1. The 2000 floods caused unprecedented damage due to the extent and duration of inundation that covered more than 50% of Cambodia. The Mekong River exceeded the established...

Preface The Mekong River and its tributaries comprise one of the largest river systems in the world. As a result of decades of war and isolation that ended just a few years ago, the Mekong’s water...

MRC No. 9/02 Agencies from all over the Lower Mekong region will get ready for the coming flood season at the first Annual Mekong Flood Forum next week, from 23 to 24 April at the Cambodiana Hotel in...

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This Final Report is intended for reporting on emergency appeals Launched on: 12 September 2000 until 12 August 2001 for CHF 5,952,281 Beneficiaries: 500,000 "At a glance" Appeal coverage: 84.1 %...

Introduction National context The country is struggling to emerge from two decades of warfare, internal disputes and political instability. Former Khmer Rouge forces have been reintegrated into...

IP/01/1256 Brussels, 10 September 2001 Launching the latest Annual Review of the Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO), Poul Nielson, Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, has highlighted the...

Appeal Target: CHF 4,288,587 (Revised to CHF 3,045,882) Period covered: 1 January - 30 June 2001 This Programme Update is intended for reporting on Annual Appeals. Operational Developments: The...

This Programme Update is intended for reporting on Annual Appeals. Period covered: 1 January - 30 June 2001 Appeal Target CHF 3,380,971 Operational Developments: There has been a mixture of news from...

Gland, Switzerland - New research commissioned by WWF, the conservation organization, has warned that dams built with the promise of reducing flooding can often exacerbate the problem with...

Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations I. INTRODUCTION 1. The present report has been prepared pursuant to General Assembly Resolution 46/182 of...

Appeal Target: US$ 94,384 Balance Requested from ACT Network: US$ 0 Geneva, 6 June 2001 Dear Colleagues, 'The most devastating floods in the past 40 years' as the world described last year's floods...

BEIJING, May 10, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The China Red Cross Society delivered a disaster-relief donation totaling 200,000 yuan to the visiting delegation of the Cambodia Red Cross Society, to...

Rome, April 2001 Highlights The first forecast for world cereal output in 2001 is 1 889 million tonnes, almost 2 percent above 2000. Output of wheat is forecast at 585 million tonnes, unchanged from...

Period covered: 1 July - 31 December 2000 The Cambodian Red Cross Society (CRC) has demonstrated its effectiveness in large-scale relief operations through the CRC/Federation response to the flood...

Jon Bennett (Oxford Development Consultants) ABSTRACT Food security is currently understood as an aspect of the broader 'human security' framework which found favour among development theorists from...

PHNOM PENH, Mar 28, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Cambodia will create "an Emergency Relief Task Force" in order to deal with possible future floods and other disasters in the country, Prime Minister...