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UNICEF/UN061116/Knowles-Coursin
Briefing

Guidance Note 1: Contextual Factors and Risks to Cholera/AWD Transmission in Somalia and the Somali Region of Ethiopia

The purpose of this guidance note is to support UNICEF staff in understanding the contextual factors (the practices, behaviours, social norms and wider factors) that shape risks of cholera transmission, being able to separate the social and cultural factors from…
UNICEF, IDS and Anthrologica
2017
UNICEF/UNI155431/Ohanesian
Briefing

Guidance Note 2: Seeking Treatment for Cholera in Somalia and the Somali Region of Ethiopia: Contextual Factors

The purpose of this guidance note is to support UNICEF staff in understanding the contextual factors (the practices, behaviours, social norms and wider factors) that shape risks of cholera transmission, being able to separate the social and cultural factors from…
UNICEF, IDS and Anthrologica
2017
UNICEF/UNI43619/Bannon

8 Critical Factors Behind Every Food Crisis

From the beginning of time, their have been food crises in one form or another. Ancient books such as the Bible have records of various famines devastating portions of the world. And while it’s easy to attribute these crises to…
Business Connect
2017
UNICEF/UN057353/Holt
Briefing

Assessing Drought Displacement Risk for Kenyan, Ethiopian and Somali Pastoralists

This study represents an initial attempt to assess patterns of displacement related to droughts in selected countries of the Horn of Africa, specifically the border regions of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia. The study explores several scenarios to identify potential impacts…
IDMC
2014
UNICEF/UN013894/Tesfaye
Evidence review

Drought-Ravaged Malawi Faces Largest Humanitarian Emergency in its History

With 6.5 million people in need of humanitarian aid, this year’s El Nino–induced drought constitutes the largest humanitarian emergency that Malawi has ever confronted. It also brings the second consecutive harvest failure to this small, landlocked country, which has yet…
CSIS
2016
UNICEF/UNI169671/Nesbitt
Evidence review

Health, Shocks and Poverty Persistence

In this paper we review the evidence on the impact of large shocks, such as drought, on child and adult health, with particular emphasis on Zimbabwe and Ethiopia. Our focus is on the impact of shocks on long-term outcomes, and…
2003
UNICEF/UN028801/Tremeau
Evidence review

A Plan to Strengthen Community Resilience to Drought in Southern Africa

This plan aims to reinforce community resilience to food insecurity by strengthening the following areas: access to and availability of food; household food security and nutrition and livelihoods; community-based disaster risk reduction; access to safe water and hygiene, and health…
IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross/ Red Cresent Societies
2016
UNICEF/UN028834/Tremeau
Evidence review

Climate Change and Health in SADC Region: Review of the Current State of Knowledge

Evidence shows that the SADC region is experiencing increasing frequency of hot days and decreasing frequency of extremely cold days. Rainfall trends are variable but evidence points to an increased inter-annual variability, with extremely wet periods and more intense droughts…
Southern Africa Regional Climate Change Programme
2010
UNICEF/UN034854/Abassi, UN-MINUSTAH
Background report

Poverty & death: disaster mortality 1996-2015

A report on worldwide deaths from geophysical disasters.
CRED-UNISDR
2016
UNICEF/UN019012/Mukwazhi
Evidence review

Public Health Risk Assessment and Interventions – The Horn of Africa: Drought and Famine Crisis

The purpose of this public health risk assessment is to provide health professionals in United Nations agencies, nongovernmental organizations, international and local organizations, donor agencies and local authorities, who are currently working with populations affected by the emergency in the…
WHO
2011
UNICEF/UNI37736/Vitale
Briefing

Drought in Somalia

An ACAPS Briefing Note on crisis in Somalia.
ACAPS
2016

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