Following Cyclone Pam, which caused widespread damage when it struck Vanuatu on March 13th 2015, REACH teams were on the ground to implement a detailed inter-agency shelter and settlements vulnerability assessment in partnership with the Global Shelter Cluster. The aim of the assessment was threefold: to verify the coverage of emergency shelter and NFI assistance and conduct a gap analysis and to […]
In the aftermath of Severe Tropical Cyclone Pam that has struck Vanuatu on the evening of March 13, 2015, two members of the REACH team have been deployed to support the Global Shelter Cluster response. Data collection has focused on three main areas. At the pre-emergency level, REACH team has been recording shelter and settlements situation […]
In the framework of REACH partnership with the Global Shelter Cluster (GSC), two members of the REACH team have been deployed to Vanuatu to support the Shelter Cluster response in the aftermath of Severe Tropical Cyclone Pam. Vanuatu consists of 83 main islands (63 of them are permanently inhabited) that are divided in 6 provinces (Torba, […]
