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Displaying 90 of about 159 resultsThis 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:
inadequately governed water resources management;
aggressive competition from alternative providers (e.g., tanker trucks), undermining networ…
This calendar has been developed to help better prepare for food-related emergencies. It works by combining the most authoritative data on seasonal hazards like floods, droughts, pests and cyclones with information about crop cycles and weather patterns.
The Calendar covers each of the 79 countries where WFP has a presence and has proved successful and…
The main objective of this report was to identify lessons learned from the preparedness and detection phase to the end of second wave of the cholera epidemic in Yemen to better prepare for future outbreaks in Yemen and similar contexts.
In 2015, the United Nations declared Yemen a Level 3 emergency. On September 28, 2016, a large-scale cholera outbreak…
DFID's country offices are playing a key role to ensure help is available for those suffering as a result of El Niño
What is El Niño?
El Niño is a natural climate phenomenon that happens roughly every four years, linked to abnormally high ocean temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific. It increases the risk of extreme weather from droughts to f…
Rome - Measures to improve regional food security by cutting food losses and waste and by mitigating and adapting to climate change will be considered by FAO's Regional Conference for the Near East.
Land and water constraints severely limit the potential for increased food production to feed a Near Eastern population set to grow from 380 million t…
تحتفل الأمم المتحدة باليوم الدولي للحد من مخاطر الكوارث بالدعوة إلى زيادة الاستثمار في هذا المجال من أجل المستقبل وبالتركيز على الدور الحيوي الذي يقوم به الأطفال والشباب.
المزيد في حوار هاتفي مع أمجد مدني أبشر مدير المكتب الإقليمي للدول العربية في الاستراتيجية الدولية للحد من الكوارث.
In order to control the breeding process of desert locusts, the countries hosting recession areas carry out surveys. This document summarizes the findings of the process carried out between the 8th and 15th of January 2005 on Tihama Coastal Plain between Yemen and Saudi Arabia. It also includes researchers recommendations for future activities.
Workshop report, Lisbon, Portugal, 26–29 October 2009:
This document reports on the programme Reduction of Earthquake Losses in the Extended (formerly Eastern) Mediterranean Region (RELEMR), which responds to the need of mobilizing scientific knowledge and technological know-how to assess earthquake hazards in the Extended Mediterranean Region (EMR) a…
Thanks to a contribution made by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the German Red Cross will commence a disaster risk reduction programme in Yemen next August 2009. This project concerns the governorates Hadhramaut and Taez. Yemen is the poorest country of the Middle East, but still some governorates have been hit extremely hard. Hadhramaut was j…
Sana'a - Deputy Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Ali Saleh Abdullah called on Wednesday for a national strategy to face disasters, based on partnership between the government and non-government organizations of disasters management.
In the opening session of the first meeting for relief partnership in Yemen, Saleh confirmed that there is no a speci…
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has called for a fundamental shift in the way drought is perceived and managed in the Near East and North Africa region. The agency said in a new report issued today that a more pro-active approach based on the principles of risk reduction is needed to build…
5 June 2018 – Within a week, 2 record-setting tropical cyclones that formed in the Gulf of Aden made landfall, wreaking widespread havoc in Somalia, Oman and Yemen. The World Health Organization is supporting direct response efforts in Somalia and Yemen, while Oman relies on its preparedness developed in partnership with WHO.
On 19 May, cyclone Sa…
Doha - In the last three decades, 50 million people in the Arab world have been affected by natural disasters, many of them extreme climate events, according to a new report by the World Bank. The report projects the horrific scenario of temperatures regularly rising to over 50 degrees Celsius by the turn of the century, which experts fear could lead t…
Sana'a - Under a staircase, clinging to a wall of Sana’a’s Grand Mosque, groups of women and children lug plastic canisters to the leaky spigots of a public fountain. Some small children struggle with canisters nearly their size as they weave slowly between the fountain and the pushcarts used to wheel the water back home.
Whether in cities or villages,…
Cape Town - The World Bank (WB) puts Yemen in its core priorities in terms of logistical and material support in coordination with the donor countries, including Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, senior official at the WB said Friday.
This came at the sidelines of the 2012 Understanding Risk Forum which took place from July 2-6 in Cape Town, South Afri…