Mongolia: Severe Winter Emergency Plan of Action (EPoA) n° MDRMN006
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Mongolia – Dzud Response Planning (as of 22 December 2016)
Geographical prioritization was done by combining the dzud risk index from the National Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring with underlying poverty data from the Ministry of Labour...
GIEWS Country Brief: Mongolia 13-December-2016
FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT Wheat production in 2016 recovered from last year’s sharply‑reduced level Wheat import requirements in 2016/17 forecast to sharply decrease from last year’s high level Prices...
Mongolia Calls for International Help as Harsh Winter Dzud Plunges Temperatures Below -58
Media Contact Media@savechildren.org FAIRFIELD, Conn. (December 20, 2016) — The Mongolian government has requested international support following two months of consistently heavy snowfall and arctic...
Mongolia: Extreme Winter - Information Bulletin n° 1
This bulletin is issued to information only, and reflects the current situation and details available at this time. The Mongolian Red Cross Society – has analyzed, with the support of the...
Snow cover map of Mongolia (2016.11.30)
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Grant Signed To Improve Disaster Resilience for Herders in Mongolia
ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Mongolia today signed a $3 million grant to pilot community-based approaches to disaster risk management in parts of...
Climate change collectives on the Mongolian steppe
By Nina Wegner As world leaders prepare to meet in Morocco next month for climate change talks, herders in Mongolia have taken the initiative to save their ecosystem and way of life – and they’ve...
Mongolian cities tackle disaster risk
ULAANBAATAR, 14 October 2016 – Curbing deaths from disasters requires local authorities and other community partners to raise their capacity to manage risks and thereby ensure safe and sustainable...
Working with the most vulnerable girls and boys
By Gurvinder Singh, IFRC Thousands of nomadic herder families lost their only livelihood after extreme winter conditions, or dzud, struck Mongolia last year and decimated their livestock. The...
GIEWS Country Brief: Mongolia 30-September-2016
FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT Wheat production in 2016 estimated to have recovered from last year’s sharply‑reduced level Wheat imports estimated at high level in 2015/16 marketing year (October/September)...
Climate Change and Savage Winters Fuel Urban Migration in Mongolia
By: Jasmine Neve, IOM Mongolia Mongolia – Nyamdulam and her family had been herders in Zavkhan Province, in remote north-west Mongolia for Nyamdulam’s whole life. In Zavkhan Province, Nyamdulam’s...
Success Story: Leveraging Science, Preserving Pastoral Livelihoods in Mongolia
USAID is working with herders and local officials to strengthen disaster preparedness and build resilience to disasters that threaten pastoral livelihoods in Mongolia. For centuries, nomadic herders...
Mongolia: Extreme Winter Condition (MDRMN005) Emergency appeal operations update n° 3
Summary: The appeal was launched following the dzud disaster that started in early November 2015. The disaster was characterized by extreme winter conditions, very low temperatures and heavy...
Adapting to climate change to save Mongolia’s ancient herding culture
Published: 25 August 2016 4:07 CET By Terrence Edwards, IFRC As they have done for millennia, Mongolian herders continue their ancient nomadic way of life, driving their livestock between pastures,...
Red Cross steps in as children struggle to cope with impacts of Mongolian Dzud
By Terrence Edwards, IFRC Thousands of nomadic herder families in Mongolia lost their entire livelihood last winter after extreme weather conditions (known locally as dzud) killed almost a million...
GIEWS Country Brief: Mongolia 29-July-2016
FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT Wheat production to recover in 2016 from last year’s sharply‑reduced level Wheat imports forecast at high level in 2015/16 marketing year (October/September) Prices of beef and...
Mongolia: Extreme Winter Condition Revised Emergency Appeal n° MDRMN005
This Revised Emergency Appeal seeks CHF 979,346 (increased from CHF 833,945) to enable the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to support the Mongolian Red Cross...
Post-Dzud Stories from Women and Girls
Hear from some of the women who survived the Dzud disaster as UNFPA strives to give them assistance, while they carry on in the aftermath. It is known that during a natural disaster or humanitarian...
Mongolia: El Niño kills livestock and deteriorates livelihood
Dundgobi, southeast Mongolia: From late 2015 to April 2016, Mongolia suffered from what is locally known as a dzud – a very hot and dry summer followed by an extremely harsh winter. The result of...