The wind and rain had gone on for days, and they kept rising. By the 14th of March, winds had reached a speed of 195 kilometres per hour. The eye of the storm turned inland and over the coastal city of Beira. A city home to half a million people. This is the story of Cyclone Idai and REACH’s response to it.
Myanmar’s coastal state of Rakhine is prone to multiple natural hazards and people’s vulnerability to these hazards is further exacerbated by weak infrastructure and chronic underdevelopment. Against this background, the Program for Increased Disaster Management and Resilience Against Natural Disaster (IDM-RAND) was launched in 2014 as a consortium of organisations led by International Organisation of […]
In April and May 2015, two devastating earthquakes struck Nepal and affected the lives of almost 8 million people. In the direct aftermath, REACH was deployed to Nepal in May 2015 in partnership with the Global Shelter Cluster to coordinate an inter-agency assessment which would enable the identification of emergency needs, define a comprehensive shelter […]
For people living in Myanmar’s coastal state of Rakhine, natural disasters are a regular feature of everyday life. Since the year 2000, the state has been hit by a cyclone once every two to three years. In July 2015, Cyclone Komen displaced thousands from their homes and destroyed much of the season’s rice crop in […]
