Assessments

1. Background The Protection Cluster and its partners make efforts to consult and interact with the newly displaced population from North Waziristan agency affected by the recent conflict and displaced in several locations mainly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Between January and early February of 2014, Samaritan’s Purse (SP) undertook an assessment of the Palo, Pastrana, Santa Fe, and Tanauan municipalities in Philippines's Leyte Province. Leyte, part of the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines,…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Typhoon Haiyan, was one of the strongest storms to ever make landfall, hitting a number of provinces of the Philippines on 8th November 2013, including Leyte and Eastern Samar which were amongst the worst affected.…

Stipend programme enhances primary school enrolment - dropout and efficiency remain challenging Dhaka, 27 February 2014 – The Bangladesh primary education stipend programme has increased geographical coverage, enrolment, attendance and gender parity in primary education. However, reducing…

INTRODUCTION Development programmes in Afghanistan have largely ignored the voices of young people. Afghanistan has one of the world’s fastest growth rates at 2.8%, and two thirds of the country (63%) is under the age of 24, yet the…

Summary Tacloban city and coastal municipalities such as Palo, Tanauan, Tolosa and Dulag have been strongly affected by typhoon Yolanda on November 8, 2013. A multiplicity of actors (government, international and local NGO’s, religious associations, foundations, …) have since…

Timeframe: 12‐25 January 2014 Location: Eastern Samar, Leyte, Tacloban Assessment team: Edwin Elegado (PHL) and Caroline Borchard (ARO) Objective of the assessment: Assessment of the level of awareness, capacity and aspirations of affected communities, schools and LGUs on disaster risk…

1. Executive Summary This report measures the accuracy of building damage assessments conducted by the OpenStreetMap (OSM) community in select areas affected by Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda). In Haiti, the Philippines and countless smaller disasters over the past…

1. Executive Summary Typhoon Yolanda, known internationally as Haiyan, was a category 5 typhoon and the most powerful storm to have made landfall on record. Having made landfall in the Philippines on 8th November the storm went…

A series of five major storm events during the summer-monsoon season of 2013 caused flooding in 12 out of 17 provinces (52 out 145 districts) across the Lao PDR and affected a total of 395,000 people.…