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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...

Authors: Dinanath Bhandaril, Sanchita Neupane, Peter Hayes, Bimal Regmi, and Phil Marker Executive Summary Background and study scope Nepal’s current landscape of disaster governance is guided by its...

Abstract Most of the damage from wildfires is due to extreme events that represent less than 2 per cent of the total number of fires. These events, for which neither ecosystems nor communities are...

SITUATION AT A GLANCE 3.4 MILLION People Requiring Humanitarian Assistance UN – January 2020 1.4 MILLION IDPs in Ukraine GoU – January 2020 1 MILLION People Requiring Food or Livelihoods Support...

By Dr Jessica Mercer 1 Introduction Myanmar’s rural population are extremely vulnerable given their low human development and high dependence upon natural resources for their livelihoods (including...

INTRODUCTION – THE LATEST CRISIS Virtually no country has been spared by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, but some of them – including many fragile and conflict-affected - are hit particularly...

Methodology note: Wildfire started on July 6, 2020 in Novoaidarsky raion, with hot weather (+38°C) and the gusty wind contributed to the fire spread over the area of 5,000 ha. State Emergency...

Ukraine faced two sudden-onset emergencies in late June/early July – a severe flooding in western Ukraine and a serious wildfire in Luhanska oblast in the east. While COVID-19 restrictions have...

Populations of Concern 301,490 Number of refugees in South Sudan. 93% come from Sudan, 5% from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1% from Ethiopia, and 1% from the Central African Republic. 1.67...

The armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine has already been going on for 7 years. 3.4 million people need humanitarian assistance in 2020. A lot of them can’t meet their basic needs, because the...