Informes

The Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations is to provide logistics support to strengthen country's capacity for emergency response and preparedness. The leader of the team, Laurent Dufour who led members of…

Ladies and gentlemen, I want to brief you today on the emerging food and nutrition crisis in the Sahel, after my trip to Dakar, Senegal, last week, in which I tried to get a sense of…

WHO: Valerie Amos, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, and Helen Clark, United Nations Development Programme Administrator WHAT: Mission to Niger WHEN: 16-18 February 2012 United Nations Under-Secretary-General (USG) for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief…

(Dakar, Senegal – 10 February 2012). – An updated version of the Strategy document to prevent and mitigate a food and nutrition crisis in the Sahel is now available. Humanitarian partners from the regional Inter-Agencies Standing Committee…

UNICEF has contracted two DARA consultants to carry out an evaluation of its capacity development initiatives on emergency preparedness and response (EPR) and Conflict/Disaster Risk Reduction (C/DRR) in the education sector, and its impact on institutionalisation…

In February 2009, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society initiated an International Disaster Response Laws, Rules and Principles (IDRL) project in Sierra Leone with the…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Rapid Disaster Waste Management Assessment took place during 1-11 November 2011 following an official request by the Ghanaian authorities to the United Nations Resident Coordinator. Through its network of the Joint UNEP/OCHA Environment Unit…

This report covers the period 01/01/2011 to 30/06/2011 In brief Programme outcome: In line with Strategy 2020, the Sahel region Disaster Management department aims to provide disaster risk reduction, including adaptation to climate change, disaster preparedness, response and…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Every year, countries of the West Africa and Sahel subregion are adversely affected by natural disasters, such as droughts and floods, as well as transboundary animal diseases, economic crises and civil conflicts. These events result…

This report covers the period 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010. In brief Programme outcome: The Liberian Red Cross Society (LRCS) has become a stronger and more sustainable National Society that is in a position to be…