Rapports

July 13, 2023 - Save the Children Pakistan and the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to extend their partnership with NDMA to enhance emergency preparedness, response, rehabilitation, and recovery…

Author Dr. Ashleigh Landau is the Research Associate at the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide. Introduction The Early Warning Project uses patterns from past instances of mass killing to forecast when and where new mass killing episodes…

Social protection systems can be leveraged to respond to different natural hazards and provide timely support to affected people. However, very few social protection programmes have data on climate and natural hazard vulnerability and exposure. Furthermore,…

Overview: In East Africa, planting of main season cereals is underway in the north under mixed conditions. In the south, harvesting of main season cereals has started, and conditions are mixed with concerns in parts of Uganda,…

In a global comparison of natural hazard risks, Nepal ranks 4th, 11th and 30th respectively in terms of its risk of climate change, earthquakes, and floods respectively. Within a period of five years from 2018 to…

The effects of climate change, such as changes in temperatures, precipitation and biodiversity loss, are affecting human health, food security and livelihoods, as well as the quality and availability of land, water and other natural resources.…

OVERVIEW Almost two years after the political transition of August 2021, engagement between the Taliban and the international community, particularly the US, has arrived at an impasse. The Interim Taliban Authority (ITA) has unsuccessfully pursued formal international…

Key messages The 2023 monsoon is projected to be average, even below average. For disaster events, however, this does not translate to a reduced risk of floods. A single heavy spell of rain can trigger disastrous consequences.…

Author Parekhelashvili, Mariam Elgiriya-Witharanage, Kushala A. N Buri, Sinja The 16 Lessons Learned The two-year inception phase of the Pacific Insurance and Climate Adaptation Programme ended in December 2022. Looking back, the Programme has laid a solid foundation for regional expansion.…

Executive Summary The paper studies the phenomenon of “postdisaster reconstruction in” Pakistan in the wake of climate change-induced floods of 2022 from the “precarity and possibility” lenses as a global emergency with the help of qualitative field…