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This report examines five pernicious problems identified by water supply and sanitation (WSS) service providers operating in protracted crisis in the Middle East and North Africa region. The five problems are:

  1. inadequately governed water resources

While disasters are common in high-intensity conflict settings owing to high levels of vulnerability, disaster response and disaster risk reduction (DRR) tend to be overshadowed, with more international political and media attention focused on the

Existing research on the disaster-conflict nexus is commonly too general to inform practice. A scenario-based approach that centres on comparable cases can help aid actors to learn, identify and apply best practices in their specific context.

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This review focuses on financial support for climate change mitigation and adaptation initiatives to Middle East and North Africa’s (MENA) countries such as Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, the occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs)

This report explores some of the thorniest water crises taking place across the developing world. In southern Iraq, severe water quality problems have triggered social unrest and violent protests. Recent droughts in India have prompted an exodus of

This map illustrates satellite-detected surface waters over Marib Governorate of Yemen as observed from a Sentinel-2 image acquired on 5 Aug 2020. Within the analyzed area of about 1,700 km2, a total of about 30 km2 of lands appear to be flooded.

Based

The GEOGLAM Crop Monitor for Early Warning (CM4EW) is an international and transparent multi-source, consensus assessment of the crop growing conditions, status, and agro-climatic conditions that are likely to impact global production. The CM4EW reports

When mobility drivers are scrutinised and climate change is found to play a role in movement, it remains difficult to determine the extent of its influence. “Misleading claims about mass migration induced by climate change continue to surface in both

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