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A summary of UNICEF’s COVID-19 socio-economic impact surveys The COVID-19 pandemic is significantly impacting the provision of vital health, nutrition, education, child protection, and water,...

The Challenge Impactful climate action will require immense resources to fund the transformational projects that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and help societies adapt. It requires bold...

The Challenge Climate change and natural disasters increasingly affect people’s well-being and development prospects. While fatalities from climate-related disasters have decreased, thanks to better...

Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, is situated at the confluence of the Blue and the White Nile. Settlement at this location dates back millennia, but urbanisation accelerated with military fortification by...

Lying on the East African coastline with a large natural harbour, Dar es Salaam, the ‘Haven of Peace’, was given its name in 1866 by Majid bin Sayyid, Sultan of Zanzibar. Under German rule, the...

Maiduguri is the largest city in north east Nigeria and the capital of Borno State, which suffers from endemic poverty, and capacity and legitimacy gaps in terms of its governance. The state has been...

Mogadishu is a fragile city, dealing with the legacy of decades of civil war within a political context characterised by unstable elite bargains and an incomplete constitutional transition. These...

The world has been turned on its head by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This has provided a stark wakeup call on the severe under-financing of health systems around the world. It...

On February 1, 2021, the Myanmar armed forces (known as the Tatmadaw) seized control of the country, following a general election that the National League for Democracy party won by a landslide. The...

1 Introduction Authors: Anne Olhoff (UNEP DTU Partnership), John Christensen (CONCITO [Denmark’s climate think tank]) 1.1 Context of the Emissions Gap Report 2021 This twelfth edition of the United...