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By Hassan Noor Saadi, Operations Manager and Dr. Ismail Virk, Technical Coordinator Executive Summary This report details the findings of the Save the Children rapid assessment that was conducted in late May 2009 in 10 Union Councils (UCs) of Mardan and…

Introduction Chin state is located in the north-west part of Myanmar, bordering India and Bangladesh. Most of the state is hilly and mountainous having an average height of 4,000 ft. The main livelihood activity is agriculture and shifting cultivation or…

Executive Summary The World Food Programme (WFP) in collaboration with partners (Government, UN Agencies and NGOs) undertook a food security assessment in Ampara District in May 2009. The main objective of this assessment was to identify the progress of the recovery…

HIGHLIGHTS - The 2008/09 winter drought in Nepal was one of the worst on record; according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, rain monitoring stations across the country received less than 50 percent of average precipitation during the period…

BACKGROUND Approximately 2.3 million people have been displaced since May 2 by conflict in the North- West Frontier Province (NWFP), Pakistan in what UN officials are calling "the largest and swiftest" displacement crisis to take place anywhere in the…

HIGHLIGHTS - The 2008/09 winter drought in Nepal was one of the worst on record; according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, rain monitoring stations across the country received less than 50 percent of average precipitation during the period…

I. Introduction 1. Background The North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan faces an unprecedented humanitarian crisis as more than 3 millions (1) Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) flee the mountainous districts of Swat, Buner, Shangla and Lower Dir as fight between…

Montréal, May 14, 2009. Handicap International is mobilizing its teams for an emergency intervention to help the people caught up in the fighting between Pakistan's army and the Taliban in the Swat valley in north-west Pakistan. Handicap International already runs…

70402 Abstract The World Bank recently conducted research and concept-testing activities to investigate the expansion of the index approach from drought to flood. The main objective was to assess prerequisite conditions, as well as practical and efficient methods,…

Overview - The People's Republic of Bangladesh is home to more than 150 million people concentrated on 144,000 sq Km. Over 40% of the population are children. Three-quarters of Bangladeshis live in rural areas. The country sits on the world's…