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Briefing note

Yemen’s Shattered Food Economy and its Desperate Toll on Women

06/02/2019

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Food security in Yemen is critically dependent on imports and incomes. Both have been knowingly undermined by parties to the conflict over many months, leading to the current high levels of suffering and starvation. For women, the impact of eating last and least is crippling, and coping mechanisms are becoming increasingly desperate. Displacement and high […]

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Briefing note

The Fighting Must Stop – to Create a Space for Peace: Attacking Hodeida city, after its airport, would be a far greater threat to Yemeni civilians

20/06/2018

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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On 13 June 2018, the Saudi- and UAE-led coalition launched an attack on Hodeida, Yemen’s lifeline port. One week on, the Coalition has ignored all warnings and combined forces have pressed ahead to take Hodeida airport. The advance must now stop and efforts be refocused on peace. Taking the battle to a densely-populated city will […]

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Briefing note

The World Needs a New Strategy to Protect Hodeida and Avoid Catastrophe

15/06/2018

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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The Saudi- and UAE-led Coalition’s assault on Hodeida – Yemen’s lifeline port – threatens hundreds of thousands of civilians in that city, and around 20 million more who rely on its imports of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies. The strategy to prevent this assault through quiet diplomacy – by the Coalition’s international partners including […]

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Briefing paper

Facing Risk: Options and challenges in ensuring that climate/disaster risk finance and insurance deliver for poor people

16/04/2018

4 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Reducing the impacts of disasters on poor people is absolutely vital. Climate/disaster risk financing could play a useful role if it is part of an approach that includes risk reduction, if it strengthens social protection, and if it has real participation from civil society. Insurance, as one component of risk financing, could play a supportive […]

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Briefing note

A Preventable Crisis: El Nino and La Nina events need earlier responses and a renewed focus on prevention

18/07/2016

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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The devastating impacts of the 2015-16 El Nino will be felt well into 2017. This crisis was predicted, yet overall, the response has been too little too late. The looming La Nina event may further hit communities that are already deeply vulnerable. To end this cycle of failure, there is an urgent need for humanitarian […]

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Issue briefing

What Will Become of Us? Voices from around the world on drought and El Nino

13/04/2016

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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About 60 million people across Southern Africa and the Horn, Central America, and the Pacific face worsening hunger and poverty due to droughts and crop failures in 2014-15 that have been exacerbated by the El Nino weather system in 2015-16. This number is likely to rise. The international response is working, but much more is […]

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Briefing note

El Nino: The case for urgent action

15/12/2015

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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Millions of poor and vulnerable people face hunger and poverty this year and next because of record global temperatures, droughts and erratic rains in 2014 and 2015, compounded by the development of possibly the most powerful El Nino on record. Strong leadership at every level of government and a coordinated international effort are required to […]

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Issue briefing

El Nino Key Messages: Urgent action now can prevent major suffering and loss

20/11/2015

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Millions of poor and vulnerable people face hunger and poverty this year and next because of record global temperatures, droughts and erratic rains in 2014 and 2015, followed by the development of possibly the most powerful El Niño on record. This briefing makes the case to urgently scale up humanitarian response in countries already in […]

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Discussion paper

Improving International Governance for Global Health Emergencies: Lessons from the Ebola crisis

28/01/2015

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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The 2014–15 Ebola outbreak in West Africa has demonstrated again the urgent need for strong leadership and coordination when responding to global health emergencies. All actors in the Ebola crisis appreciate that this has been a challenging response, and many agencies (including Oxfam) have struggled to identify and establish their role in the process. As […]

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Issue briefing

A Long Way to Go: The Ebola response in West Africa at the sixty day mark

09/12/2014

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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The international response to the Ebola epidemic is on the right path, but there is a long way to go. Case numbers are stabilizing in Liberia and Guinea, but remain out of control in Sierra Leone and the targets for cases treated have not been met. The issues raised by the Ebola crisis go beyond […]

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