San Pedro Sula is a city in Northern Honduras. The area has always been prone to tropical storms and flooding; however in recent years the effects of climate change, land use change and deforestation...
Vincentians impacted by the eruption of the La Soufriere Volcano will be getting over US$135,000 in assistance for relief supplies, volcano monitoring and early warning equipment under the Volcano...
HIGHLIGHTS Ramadan in a country on the brink of famine P 02 Hostilities in Ma’rib continue to displace civilians and intensify needs P 03 COVID-19 vaccination campaign launched amidst rising cases in...
Fire Response: One Month Later Since March 22, IOM has been responding to the massive fire that broke out in three IOM-managed camps (9, 8W, 8E) in the Kutupalong area in Cox’s Bazar. According to...
Op-ed by Chelston Brathwaite, Director General Emeritus of The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA); and Manuel Otero, Director General of The IICA Tuesday, May 4, 2021 —...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Federal Republic of Germany will establish a new global hub for pandemic and epidemic intelligence, data, surveillance and analytics innovation. The Hub,...
Sobre la base de años de compromiso conjunto con América Latina y el Caribe, la Oficina de Coordinación de Asuntos Humanitarios de las Naciones Unidas (OCHA) y el Centro de Desastres del Pacífico...
Joint efforts to focus on humanitarian-development-peace nexus Kuwait City / New York - The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (Kuwait Fund) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)...
Avant-propos L’actualité mondiale en matière de gestion des risques et catastrophes est marquée par la pandémie du corona virus (Covid-19). En effet, parti de la province de Wuhan en Chine, premier...
Although floods are consistently ranked among the leading causes of natural disaster losses and fatalities, there has been a major gap in technology to help sense and anticipate flood risk on a...