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A description of current humanitarian events and trends in country. The bulletin also provides information on the humanitarian response in affected areas and highlights potential gaps.
This desk study presents estimations of scale, severity and likely impact of a disaster and aims to inform decision making for preparedness and emergency response. Information has been collected...
The Home Gardens Project (HGP) is being funded by United Nations Children’s Fund
(UNICEF) and is being implemented by the Department of Field Services (DFS) of the Ministry of Agriculture...
This NRC report addresses the situation of Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries. It looks at the lack of affordability and rising economic vulnerability and the lack of security of tenure for...
In July 2010 Pakistan was hit by the worst floods in its history. Twenty million people across an area of over 100,000 sq. km were affected, and there was widespread damage to property and...
For the first time, FSA 2003 will help the stakeholders in Pakistan understand the fact that food security is not only a function of the availability (physical access) of food but it is a...
The paper focuses on the question of how food aid can best be targeted to the neediest households in food-insecure areas, particularly in the context of the 1993 National Policy on Disaster...
The relief community can benefit from the insights offered by a political economy approach to war. This essentially means analysing the production and distribution of power, wealth and destitution...
Proponents of cash- and voucher-based approaches argue that they can be more cost-effective and timely, allow recipients greater choice and dignity, and have beneficial knock-on effects on local...
Drought is a normal part of climate; an extreme climatic event, often described as a natural hazard. Drought by itself does not trigger an emergency. Whether or not it becomes an emergency depends...