No part of the world is currently affected by migration and displacement as much as the Arab States. Even though the region only accounts for five percent of the global population, it holds 32 percent of the global amount of refugees and 38 percent of the

The purpose of this study is to provide an updated overview of children and youth as specific (albeit non-homogenous) groups in mixed migration flows within, through and from the Horn of Africa. The report does not purport to be exhaustive, but rather to

This new report from Oxfam and Save the Children “A Dangerous Delay: The cost of late response to early warnings in the 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa” says how tens of thousands of lives could have been spared in the 2011 drought in the Horn of Afric

This report draws on the compiled Household Economy Analysis dataset and analysis tools to answer some of the most pressing questions about disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in a range of livelihood contexts:- Which single shock has th

To ensure women and girls, boys and men have equal access to and benefit from humanitarian assistance, their different needs must be understood and met. This is why the IASC instituted a “gender marker” which is a tool that codes, on a 0-2 scale, whether

The objective of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting: Accelerating Change is to contribute to the abandonment of FGM/C in 17 African countries within a generation. The programme’s holistic, cross-border approach is fo

The objective of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting: Accelerating Change is to contribute to the abandonment of FGM/C in 17 African countries within a generation. The programme’s holistic, cross-border approach is fo

These are the minutes of the meeting of the Regional Inter-Agency Child Protection Network (RICPN) meeting held 25 August 2011 at the UNHCR regional office in Nairobi.   Alliance Materials

Humanitarian response in pastoral areas in the Horn of Africa has consistently been late, despite an enormous investment in early warning. Attempts to improve early response focus on improving the performance of one or two actors, or introducing new tools

This report highlights UNICEF’s response to the Horn of Africa crisis for the period July-December 2011. Following one of the worst droughts in recent memory, the Horn of Africa ended 2011 with marked improvements in a number of conditions underpinning th

The Regional Interagency Child Protection Network (RICPN) was created in 2006 and has been activated based on needs. Currently it strives to respond to the needs of a coordinated response in the Horn of Africa (HoA). While the RICPN was instrumental in re