This event launches Good Practice Review (GPR) 11 ‘Cash transfer programming in emergencies’, published by the Humanitarian Practice Network in partnership with the Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP), with support from the European Commission Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (DG ECHO), through the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
This week, yet again, the spectre of famine in the Horn of Africa has reappeared on our television screens and in our newspapers. Across large parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, livestock are dying in huge numbers because they cannot get water and pasture. Ominously, no rains are due until September, so even if the next rainy season is a good one pasture won’t recover until October at the earliest. Until then things can only get worse, and the cruellest irony of all is that the first rains bring a cold shock that many of the undernourished surviving animals won’t be able to survive.
A community vulnerability analysis involving the women of Thaung Tan village, Myanmar, is one of many disaster risk reduction activities being undertaken in Dedayer township. The town’s disaster risk reduction work includes developing community risk reduction action plans, raising public awareness, first aid practice, installing radios to provide early warning and building facilities such as bridges and jetties.
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Credit: Dedaye Team / Oxfam
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