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Displaying 15 of about 61 resultsCo-authored with Sabrina Stein, program manager at the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF)
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the UN system to reform by placing prevention at the heart of its work. While there is a strong consensus on the need to strengthen prevention, how to reform the United Nations towards this goal remains…
The food security and nutrition–conflict nexus: building resilience for food security, nutrition and peace
This report provides an overview of food security and nutrition across the African region, including trends, challenges and progress against key indicators. In particular, this report highlights the reversal in progress in the fight against hunger…
Note: an updated version of this report is available here.
This overview was developed using the results of national assessments of the main risks of natural and man-made disasters across the EU 28 Member States and the six non-EU countries participating in the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM).
The overview focuses on 11 main disaster…
The purpose of the Phased Agricultural Livelihood Needs Assessment Framework and Tools document is to provide minimum common standard assessment indicators and survey methodologies to understand and address the food security and agriculture needs of populations affected by crises. The goal is to establish a standardized corporate framework and toolbox t…
This document discusses how almost six years after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, despite the overall good recovery progress, some areas have lagged behind and 134,000 evacuees continue to live in displacement. Prolonged and protracted displacement has had profound and disproportionate impacts on the more vulnerable members of society, particular…
Originally designed to house only around 300,000 people, Freetown is struggling to meet basic needs for housing, electricity, sewage and water.
By Eromo Egbejule
FREETOWN - Augustine Deen, a 31-year-old officer with the Sierra Leone Police Force, was on night duty at his post in Freetown, counting down the hours, when disaster struck.
In the early m…
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By Zoe Tabary
Many climate change adaptation and development efforts work in unstable countries - and that reality needs to be taken into account.
When Jean Vergain first travelled to Somalia in1992 as part of his work for the International Committee…
A series of explosions at a chemical plant in Texas following severe flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey highlight the risk of extreme weather-related industrial accidents and the urgent need to strengthen efforts for prevention and preparedness.
The explosions, which were caused by the loss of refrigeration to a warehouse storing highly volatile and e…
The thematic report presents the first baseline for displacement risk associated with sudden-onset disasters in the countries of the Greater Horn of Africa with the ultimate aim of reducing future displacement risk. As sudden-onset natural hazards, primarily floods, caused more than 600,000 new displacements in 2016 in the Greater Horn of Africa, this r…
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, 16 January 2017 – Seven years on from the devastating earthquake in Haiti, countries from across the Caribbean are working hard to reduce the risks posed by seismic threats, as part of their wider drive towards sustainable development.
The magnitude-7.0 quake of 12 January, 2010, claimed around 150,000 lives and affected over thre…
Biological hazards are increasingly recognized as health emergencies, with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenzas, Ebola and Zika viruses among the many epidemics seen over the past decade. These have occurred at enormous cost, both in loss of human lives and of local and global economies. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa accounted for over 11,000 deaths a…
When international leaders met in the Bangladeshi capital last month for ongoing discussions about a new global migration policy, they glossed over what experts say will soon become a massive driver of migration: climate change.
“The international system is in a state of denial,” said A.N.M. Muniruzzaman, a retired major-general who now head…
By Julian Palma and Wais Ahmad Barmak
Afghanistan is vulnerable to a number of natural hazards, including earthquakes, flooding, drought, landslides and avalanches, as well as hazards arising from human interaction. Among low income countries, Afghanistan is second only to Haiti in terms of the number of fatalities caused by natural disasters between…
Study finds capable governments more important than weather
By Jeff Grabmeier
COLUMBUS, Ohio – While climate change is expected to lead to more violence related to food scarcity, new research suggests that the strength of a country’s government plays a vital role in preventing uprisings.
“A capable government is even more important to keeping th…
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Each year, natural disasters, compounded by climate change and conflict, cause more than $500 billion in losses
Yet governments, supported by the World Bank, increasingly understand that investing in disaster recovery enables them to "build back better"
The international community sees the World Reconstruction Conference (WRC3) as…