Yemen is facing a complex emergency that includes widespread conflict-driven displacement and an on-going crisis in food security, malnutrition [...]
The situation in southern and central Somalia remains critical. Three areas remain in famine conditions with 250,000 people at risk of starvation. Increased disease incidence especially measles, malaria and acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) was reported
The tropical storm Washi, known locally as Sendong entered the Philippines in Region 10 – Northern Mindanao - on 15 December and exited three days later.
Turkey is accepting international assistance and has formally requested temporary housing in the form of tents and/or prefabricated houses.
Heavy monsoon rains in mid-August led to severe flooding in southern Pakistan. According to the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), Sindh province was hit the hardest, with over 8 million people affected
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Sphere Project: Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response’ workshop is led by Emirati trainers
The Standards are intended to serve as a guide, incentive and inspiration to improve evaluation practices and help make development programs more effective
H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan received here today Hazza Mohammed Falah Al Qahtani, Director-General of the UAE Office for the Coordination of Foreign Aid (OCFA) who handed him the ISO 9001 certificate
EIF reports provide information on current emergencies, in order to alert UAE actors to the most pressing needs resulting from a humanitarian emergency, as well as an overview of the international and UAE response to date. An EIF is issued when support from the UAE may be required due to the magnitude of the crisis or the vulnerability of the affected population.
Humanitarian Flash reports are available to UAE actors only, and provide updates on current humanitarian issues worldwide by theme, such as climate change and the global food crisis, as well as a summary of natural disasters, such as earthquakes and floods, to which there has generally not been an international response.
Humanitarian Country Profiles provide information about development and humanitarian issues within a selected country, as well as listing the major local and international organizations that are already present in the field. The countries are selected according to the level of assistance that they have received from the UAE over the past two decades, and whether they are facing recurrent or ‘chronic’ emergencies.