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Burkina Faso: Participants in a WFP soil rehabilitation project in Sirighin in March — 2.9 million people will face hunger during the upcoming lean season according to the latest Cadre Harmonisé figures. Photo: WFP/Evelyn Fey
Update
Global Report on Food Crises confirms World Food Programme and humanitarian community's worst fears over critical nutrition
World Food Programme
Update
In Yemen the impacts of the pandemic have been devastating, as conflict and flooding continued to trigger mass displacement in Yemen in 2020.
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
Documents and publications

This report examines the pandemic’s impact on humanitarian access and operations. The analysis is based on developments in Colombia, Myanmar, Nigeria, South Sudan, and Yemen. The report finds that the pandemic has contributed to significantly greater

Update
Today, after 25 years of progress reducing global poverty, we are at a precarious moment. Poverty is on the rise.
World Bank, the
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This report examines five pernicious problems identified by water supply and sanitation (WSS) service providers operating in protracted crisis in the Middle East and North Africa region. The five problems are:

  1. inadequately governed water resources
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New report highlights five pernicious problems that are typically experienced by water supply and sanitation (WSS) service providers operating in protracted crises.
World Bank, the
Documents and publications

While disasters are common in high-intensity conflict settings owing to high levels of vulnerability, disaster response and disaster risk reduction (DRR) tend to be overshadowed, with more international political and media attention focused on the

Documents and publications

Existing research on the disaster-conflict nexus is commonly too general to inform practice. A scenario-based approach that centres on comparable cases can help aid actors to learn, identify and apply best practices in their specific context.

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