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Humanitarian and emergency response
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Unprotected: Crisis in humanitarian funding for child protection
All children have a fundamental right to protection, but the needs of children in emergencies are far from being met. In 2018, almost 50 million children were in need of protection in humanitarian settings. Yet child protection isn’t systematically priori
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From Cyclone to Food Crisis: Ensuring the needs of women and girls are prioritized in the Cyclone Idai and Kenneth responses
After the double tragedy and devastation of Cyclone Idai in March 2019 and Cyclone Kenneth six weeks later, the people of Mozambique now face yet another crisis: a food security crisis. At least 433,056 households have had their land and crops partially o
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Frameworks for Approaching Collaboration within the Humanitarian Sector
This paper’s goal is to provide a straightforward way of thinking about what collaboration is and what is necessary to make it successful. In short, it hopes to offer a simple way to think about a genuinely complex subject. The approach is propositional.
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Youth Voices: Participatory action research with adolescents affected by the Syria crisis in Egypt and Lebanon
This publication is the outcome of a participatory action research (PAR) project to provide evidence on the situation of Syrian and host community adolescent girls and boys in Egypt and Lebanon by enabling them to voice their concerns. The project was als
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Rohingya Response in Bangladesh: Donor Briefs
Since 25th August 2017, 687,000 Rohingya men, women, and children have crossed the border into Bangladesh, fleeing large-scale violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State. Traveling for days with only what they can carry, the needs of the forcibly displaced popul
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Horn of Africa One Year On Report: Helping children and their families survive the gripping impact of the drought in 2017
The Horn of Africa has been grappling with the effects of consecutive failed rains across Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia that led to 12 million people in need of humanitarian assistance at the start of 2017. Save the Children’s response over the past year
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Typhoon Tembin Response: January 2018
On the 22nd of December, 2017, Tropical Storm Tembin hit Davao Oriental in the early hours of the morning, and then made it onto Palawan on the 23rd of December. Although the typhoon is not too severe, the landslides, flooding, and flash floods caused by
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Ready: Global readiness for response to major disease outbreak
Infectious disease emergencies, also known as public health emergencies of international concern, have disastrous impacts on families, societies, systems, and economies. The impact of the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa stretched well beyond the e
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Yemen Humanitarian Response Situation Report- Updated Monthly
Yemen is facing the largest humanitarian emergency in the world. Since March 2015, the conflict has spread to 21 of Yemen’s 22 governorates, prompting a large-scale protection crisis and aggravating an already severe humanitarian situation brought on by y
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No Longer Left Behind: SOGIESC Asia and the Pacific Call for Action in the Humanitarian System
Across Asia and the Pacific, there are documented cases of discrimination and heightened vulnerabilities for SOGIESC people in humanitarian responses. Discrimination during disasters and crises has been documented in Fiji, Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippine
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Humanitarian Action for Children 2018: Overview
2017 was a disastrous year for children. Worldwide, one in every four children live in a country affected by disaster or conflict. This publication is an overview of the humanitarian work UNICEF has done in the past year to attend the needs of children wh
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Humanitarian Capacity Building: Key Messages
There are many dynamics that need to be considered by humanitarian workers when assisting vulnerable groups, below are descriptions of videos that introduce viewers to a wide range of these issues. Humanitarian Burnout: Working in emergencies is both rewa