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Displaying 7 of about 7 resultsI worked as Concern Worldwide’s disaster risk reduction documentation officer from 2012-2014, and travelled to Bangladesh to review Concern’s programmes, including its pavement dweller interventions in Dhaka. I recently wrote an article about Concern’s work reducing disaster risks for the pavement dwellers - long-term homeless men, women, and chil…
2015 was the year of hope for the global migration and humanitarian communities.
That year, we saw the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development call for effective measures and strengthened support to empower displaced people and migrants as part of a broader commitment “to leave no one behind”. This was important progress on the Millennium Developm…
Promising examples of policies to address disaster displacement are emerging in Asia and the Pacific. Now is the time to galvanize action and deliver on policy goals.
Asia and the Pacific is the region most affected by disaster displacement worldwide. Disasters triggered over 225 million internal displacements in the region during 2010−2021, which repr…
With more than 250 million people living and working abroad, addressing migrants’ vulnerability is key to reducing the number of people affected by disasters.
Migrants are often among those who suffer the most in disasters, as we have witnessed many times in recent years. This can be the case because they might live and work in areas that are particul…
Disaster displacement ranks among the biggest humanitarian challenges of the 21st century.
In 2016, new disaster related displacements stood at 24.2 million in 118 countries according to the latest report of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center. Those who are forced to leave their homes may end up finding refuge elsewhere, but they pay a heavy p…
Global displacement trends and recent calls to action, such as expressed in The New Urban Agenda 2016, the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants 2016, the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework 2018 and the forthcoming Global Compact on Refugees 2018, underline the need for strengthening a whole-of-society approach for ensuring the safety of…
Liben zone is an arid region in the southeast of Ethiopia regularly hit by severe droughts. In 2012 and 2013 in the Dhekasuftu district alone more than 2,000 households were displaced because of drought. Recognizing the severity of the recurrent droughts, its effect on pastoral livelihood and the need to work in a consortium and multi-sector interventio…