Vanuatu Deployment: Update from ongoing shelter assessment

Following an offensive that saw the Taliban take control of almost all districts previously held by the government, the Taliban entered the capital Kabul on 15 August and consolidated their power in Afghanistan. More than 409,000 people have been newly internally displaced by the conflict between the Taliban and Government forces and the Taliban’s territorial expansion from May-August.

Aux trois quarts désertique, le territoire nigérien fait face à de sévères contraintes géographiques et climatiques, récemment exacerbées par des épisodes récurrents de sécheresse et d’inondation. De plus, l’insécurité qui règne dans le pays du fait de la présence de groupes armés se superpose aux faiblesses structurelles du Niger en matière de développement. Une étude REACH conduite en début d’année a également démontré à quel point la pandémie a pu avoir un impact destructeur pour les populations du Sahel.

Living in a country where a quarter of the land lives barely above sea-level, the people of Bangladesh are especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change and the havoc wrought by natural hazards. REACH focuses on improving the preparedness and informing the needs of vulnerable host and refugee populations along the coastlines in Cox’s Bazar.

Every month, IMPACT Initiatives will introduce a member of its staff working in the field and who is actively engaged in collecting information from affected populations to explore what drives them to keep improving humanitarian action. In December, meet Mohamed Shire, the cheerful 26-year-old Somalian whose current life revolves around helping communities in his home country.

Following the destruction left behind by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, a REACH assessment team was deployed to the affected areas to gather information on the community needs of the population, shaping the humanitarian response on the ground.

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.

The rains hit Nigeria hard this year. Seasonal rains in the most populous country of Africa are nothing new, yet the past month has seen unexpected levels of flooding which has already resulted in the death of more than 200 people. Recent flood alerts signaled by the National Hydrological Service Agency indicate that water levels of […]

During 2017 conflict expanded across the Great Kasai and intensified in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo. This escalation has exponentially driven up humanitarian needs and jeopardized development endeavours. Today, the country hosts more than 4.5 million internally displaced people (IDPs), more than any other African country. To inform the humanitarian response […]