Blog Post: The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction — Day 5 ›
Today, at the last day of the Platform, I took advantage of a fascinating early session to understand what is being done about legal frameworks for disaster response.
One Table: A Stove to Save Lives ›
Country: DR Congo
For 59-year-old Dafroza Baleberaho, building improved cookstoves isn’t just about preventing climate change, it’s about saving women’s lives.
Blog Post: The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction — Day 4 ›
It is always nice when things you are really interested in come together. Today, on day 4 of the Global Platform, those things were the Sphere guidelines and disaster risk reduction.
Blog Post: The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction — Day 3 ›
It seems that the second full day of a conference generates more substantive discussion and thought than the first day, and this was certainly the case at the Global Platform today.
Blog Post: Kyrgyzstan: A confluence of crisis ›
Country: Kyrgyzstan
In Kyrgyzstan, Mercy Corps recently begun a food distribution program in coordination with the World Food Program: the first such program in more than ten years in this former Soviet republic.
Blog Post: Questions for Holden Basch ›
Country: Pakistan
This morning I talked with Holden Basch, who is leading our response to the Pakistan displacement crisis.
Blog Post: Meeting with Obama envoy on Pakistan ›
Country: Pakistan
Earlier today I was among representatives of seven members of Interaction who met with President Obama's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Blog Post: The human story of suffering is emerging from Pakistan... ›
Country: Pakistan
The human story of suffering is slowly emerging from the stories collected from hundreds of displaced people.
Blog Post: Taking steps to help pregnant women ›
Country: Pakistan
We're taking steps to help some of the estimated 70,000 pregnant women who've been displaced by the current fighting in Pakistan.
Blog Post: IDP crisis worsens by the day ›
Country: Pakistan
The news coming in is not good. Thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) are still pouring out of parts of northern Pakistan where fighting is continuing between Taliban militants and military forces.
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