Rapports

Severe weather Guatemala (Update) On 18 September, the Guatemala National Coordination for Disaster Reduction (CONRED per its acronym in Spanish) published an update on the ongoing rainy season, indicating there have been 1,850 related incidents nationally from the…

Resumen ejecutivo La presente publicación es un informe sobre la Evaluación Externa Voluntaria (EEV), llevada a cabo por solicitud del Gobierno de Guatemala a la Organización Panamericana de la Salud/Organizacion Mundial de la Salud (OPS/OMS). Para la…

María Eugenia CaalMercy Corps Environment and Climate Change Coordinator for Guatemala On a farm in Sololá, Guatemala, Miguel carefully plants two pea seeds in each divot of his land. “I learned to grow peas from my father,”…

CONTEXT Central America—composed of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama—is highly vulnerable to recurring climatic shocks and natural hazards, including droughts, earthquakes, floods, storms, and volcanic activity. These hazards, which continue to…

What happened, where and when? Dengue continues to be the arbovirus with the highest number of reported cases in the Americas region, with outbreaks occurring on a cyclical basis every 3 to 5 years. During the year…

Heavy rainfall and strong winds have been affecting most of the country since the beginning of the rainy season (May 2024) causing floods, landslides and a number of severe weather-related incidents, in particular due to the…

Severe weather Guatemala (Update) On 4 September, the Guatemala National Coordination for Disaster Reduction (CONRED per its acronym in Spanish) published updated information of the ongoing rainy season. According to the information, there were 1,615 related incidents nationally…

Severe weather Guatemala (update) On 30 August 2024, the Guatemala National Coordination for Disaster Reduction (CONRED per its acronym in Spanish) updated their information regarding the ongoing rainy season, reporting there were 1,555 related incidents nationally (17 increase…

Situation Update Guatemala continues to face two major humanitarian crises, as highlighted in the country’s Humanitarian Needs Overview: food insecurity and acute malnutrition, as well as the entry, transit, and movement of mixed flows of migrants and…

La Red de Sistemas de Alerta Temprana contra la Hambruna (FEWS NET) monitorea las tendencias de precios de granos básicos en los paísesvulnerables a la inseguridad alimentaria. Para cada país y región FEWS NET, el Boletín…