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On July 1st, Hurricane Beryl struck Grenada, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The hurricane brought widespread destruction, displacing thousands of people. In response, national authorities in...
Overview At 4:17 a.m. on 6 February 2023, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck close to Gaziantep city in southern Türkiye – the most powerful earthquake recorded in the country since 1939. A second...
The rains have hit Nigeria hard this year. Seasonal rains in the most populous country of Africa are nothing new, yet the past month has seen unexpected levels of flooding which have already resulted...
El mapa muestra albergues visitados por la mission UNDAC en Piura.
BACKGROUND OCHA provides early disaster coordination and assessment to the benefit of the humanitarian community. This is achieved through the deployment of experienced disaster managers nominated by...
This update is produced by the Field Coordination Support Section (FCSS) of the Emergency Service Branch of OCHA Geneva. It was issued on 28 April 2015. Background On 25 April, an earthquake with of...
Background Information Description of Disaster and Consequences: Tropical Cyclone (TC) Pam, a Category 5 cyclone, struck Vanuatu on the evening of 13 March at around 23:00hrs local time. The...
UN hands over the expert report to Government of Serbia Belgrade, 4 June 2014.- The United Nations team of experts says that a massive reconstruction, recovery and clean-up effort is needed in...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Background of the Mission At the Global Meeting of the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG), September 2010, the Government of the Democratic Socialist Republic...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Situated on the Pacific Ring of Fire, Papua New Guinea (PNG) is no stranger to natural disasters. The most recent high-impact disaster – the 2007 Cyclone Guba and subsequent...
Hazard identification in disaster response preparedness In case of a sudden-onset natural disaster, the Joint UNEP/OCHA Environment Unit applies the Hazard Identification Tool (HIT) to alert the UN...
La Oficina de Acción Humanitaria de la AECID, a través de su Centro Logístico Humanitario de Panamá, es miembro del equipo UNDAC de Naciones Unidas, y ha participado en esta misión que durante dos...
Executive Summary Upon the request of the Government of Tajikistan, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Geneva fielded a United Nations Disaster...
The UNDAC Team The team was composed of the following UNDAC members: Ms Merete Johansson, Chief, APAC, CRD, OCHA Geneva, Mr. Terje Skavdal, RDRA, OCHA, Kobe Dr. Teo Kwang Joo, Singapore Dr. Jari...
26 December 2003 - 9 January 2004 Facts and figures On the morning of 26 December 2003, at 05:28 hrs local time, a major earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale struck the city of Bam in the...
Background Following a request by UNRWA' s Commissioner General Peter Hansen to Kenzo Oshima on 19 April for OCHA's assistance in the humanitarian crisis in the occupied Palestinian territory, OCHA...
MIEMBROS DE LA MISIÓN UNDAC - INUNDACIONES LA PAZ, BOLIVIA - Ricardo Mena - Líder del Equipo (Asesor Regional en Respuesta a Desastres de OCHA para Sudamérica) - Joaquín Roa (Paraguay). - Teresa...
UNITED NATIONS DISASTER ASSESSMENT AND COORDINATION TEAM ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The UNDAC team gratefully acknowledges the kind assistance and support offered by the Nigerian Federal and Lagos State...
Conakry The Republic of Guinea ABBREVIATIONS The worst floods for the last 30 years hit the eastern part of Guinea (Upper Guinea, Kankan region) when the main river Niger and its tributaries...
UNITED NATIONS DISASTER ASSESSMENT AND COORDINATION (UNDAC) RUSSIAN FEDERATION Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) has a status of a constituent Republic of the Russian Federation...
