The IFRC late last month raised the maximum grant for forecast-based action within the Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) mechanism from 250,000 to 350,000 Swiss francs. Secretary General Jagan...
A. SITUATION ANALYSIS Description of the disaster Dzud is a Mongolian term for severe winter condition in which livestock perish in large number, due to malnutrition or extreme cold. The people of...
Overview Dzuds are extreme winters characterised by freezing temperatures, heavy snow and ground so frozen that animals cannot reach pasture. These conditions are commonly preceded by a dry summer...
Overview According to the results of the IPC, around 26% of Lesotho’s population (380,000 people) are facing high food insecurity (IPC Phase 3) and above from July to September 2020 and require...
Asunción, Agencia IP.- Ante las bajas temperaturas de la noche y madrugada, en el marco del Operativo Invierno 2020, la Secretaría de Emergencia Nacional (SEN) albergó a 44 personas en situación de...
Cada año en Argentina, la llegada del frío invernal pone en evidencia el drama muchas veces invisibilizado de la desigualdad. Cuando empezamos a valorar la ropa de abrigo, los ambientes...
Executive Summary In 2019, 396 natural disasters were recorded in EM-DAT with 11,755 deaths, 95 million people affected and 103 billion US$1 in economic losses across the world. The burden was not...
Understanding hazards first step in addressing them, says scientific community More than 800 scientists and experts contributed to a new report which defines and classifies hazards which was launched...
Asunción, Agencia IP.- Itaipu Binacional llevó la asistencia humanitaria a 100 familias de las comunidades indígenas Ara Pyahu, Oveña 2 y Ko’e Pyahu de la etnia Mbyá Guaraní de la localidad Dr. Juan...
The Forecast based Action by the DREF allocated CHF 205,643 to implement early actions to reduce and mitigate the impact of ‘dzud’ in Mongolia. The early actions to be conducted have been pre-agreed...