Highlights • The ETC in the Pacific responded to the Cyclone Harold emergency throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, the ETC implemented a remote emergency telecommunications response plan...
Early April and the Red Roof humanitarian hub – home to ETS staff, as well as all responders from United Nations (UN) agencies and humanitarian organizations in Maiduguri – seemed quieter than usual...
As global lead of the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC), the World Food Programme (WFP) is convening the Emergency Telecommunications Sector (ETS) in Nigeria, responding with government,...
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Highlights • The ETC Coordinator for the Pacific continues to work remotely in line with Pacific island office hours until travel to Fiji is possible. • The ETC is initiating a project plan to...
Highlights • A new ETC Coordinator took over the role in Syria on 25 August. • The ETC deployed with Telecommunications Security Standards (TESS) to Homs from 15-19 August and to Aleppo from 20-26...
Introduction Disasters are the result of events that overwhelm local response capacity and impact social and economic development. Humanitarian response sets out to save lives and alleviate suffering...
As global lead of the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC), the World Food Programme (WFP) is convening the Emergency Telecommunications Sector (ETS) in Nigeria, responding with government,...
Highlights • An ETS Coordinator deployed to Beirut on 11 August, following a request for ETS services by the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT). • Following initial assessments carried out with...
Highlights • Emergency telecommunications has been identified as a priority sector in the response to the Beirut Port explosions under the coordination structure of the Emergency Operation Cell...