SRI LANKA Since 19 Dec, Sri Lanka is experiencing heavy rainfall resulting in flooding and landslides in many areas. An estimated 1.1 million people have been affected, with nearly 120,000 displaced...
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SRI LANKA Since 19 Dec, Sri Lanka is experiencing heavy rainfall resulting in flooding and landslides in many areas. An estimated 1.1 million people have been affected, with nearly 120,000 displaced...
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Vision Overview Research and Evidence Division (RED) is responsible for making DFID more systematic in the use of evidence and thereby having greater development impact by: Commissioning research:...
Bangladesh + 1 more
Context Bangladesh has unquestioned potential. Goldman Sachs listed it in their ‘Next 11’ economies, with high potential to become one of the world’s largest economies in the 21st century. However,...
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Context India is a growing global power and a key partner for the UK. India and the UK have agreed to renew and deepen the partnership between the two countries. India has the world’s 10th largest...
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Context Nepal is the second poorest country in Asia (GNI/Capita, 2010). Only Afghanistan is poorer. 40% of under-fives are stunted and a quarter are underweight and one in 22 children do not survive...
Context Ethiopia matters to the UK for a range of development, foreign policy and security reasons. It is populous, poor, vulnerable but comparatively stable in the Horn of Africa. From a low base,...
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Response Plan OVERVIEW Lebanon is not a State Party to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and has not signed its 1967 Protocol. Lebanon implements some provisions of the...
ABSTRACT The Statistical Yearbook 2014 is an electronic file only, it consists of (1) short analytical texts on 32 selected diverse topics, such as population, education, health, poverty and...
The MIMU 3W gathers inputs from participating agencies on Who is doing What, Where across Myanmar. It is currently conducted every 6 months. 189 agencies participated in the October 2014 3W,...
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4 December 2014 – The Jordanian government today endorsed a one-year program to consolidate all major national and international efforts to address the impacts of the Syria crisis in Jordan. The Plan...
PERIOD January – December 2015 189 million USD requested 1.4 million Estimated number of people in need of humanitarian assistance (total population of Ukraine: 45m) 900,000 People targeted for aid...
Afghanistan + 1 more
HIGHLIGHT Humanitarian Coordinator visits Pakistani refugees. Humanitarians prepare to support vulnerable Afghans in winter. IRIN’s Joe Dyke reports on communities affected by spring flooding in the...
Ethiopia + 1 more
Contextual Background Pattern in Population Change As refugee camps in Gambella quickly reached their capacity, Tierkidi (formerly Kule 2) was opened in April 2014 to receive the new arrivals,...
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GA/SHC/4114 Sixty-ninth session, 35th & 36th Meetings (AM & PM) General Assembly Meetings Coverage Concluding General Debate on Human Rights, Delegates Raise Concerns about ‘Politicized’ Resolutions...
INTRODUCTION Dans sa stratégie « Nutrition dans les pays en développement » de 2010, la France s’engageait à mettre en place un « portefeuille d’actions agissant en synergie sur les causes...
Kiribati's Ministry of Health says rotavirus is responsible for the deaths of two children and around 500 cases of diarrhoea and vomiting. Read the full story.
Note by the Secretariat The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the third International Conference on Small Island Developing States, for consideration and adoption, the draft outcome document...
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Updated 8 September 2014, 10:15 AEST One of the themes of the UN Small Island Developing States conference was climate change and while people are familiar with the issue of rising sea-levels, few...
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Operations and Services Following refugee screening and the registration of refugees who are new arrivals (Level 1 registration) at Ethiopia’s refugee entry points, a more detailed registration...
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Snapshot 13-19 August Yemen: The 9 August Al Jawf ceasefire has been broken. Access to people affected by the conflict in Al Jawf is extremely limited due to persistent insecurity, and it is very...