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Nepal: Nepal: District Profile - Lalitpur (as of 10 June 2016)

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Source: International Organization for Migration, UN Human Settlements Program, Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform – Nepal (HRRP)
Country: Nepal

This district profile outlines the current activities by partner organisations (POs) in post-earthquake recovery and reconstruction. It is based on 4W data collected from POs on their recent activities pertaining to housing sector. Further, it captures a wide range of planned, ongoing and completed activities within the HRRP framework. For additional information, please refer to the HRRP dashboard.


Nepal: Nepal: District Profile - Kavrepalanchok (as of 10 June 2016)

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Source: International Organization for Migration, UN Human Settlements Program, Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform – Nepal (HRRP)
Country: Nepal

This district profile outlines the current activities by partner organisations (POs) in post-earthquake recovery and reconstruction. It is based on 4W data collected from POs on their recent activities pertaining to housing sector. Further, it captures a wide range of planned, ongoing and completed activities within the HRRP framework. For additional information, please refer to the HRRP dashboard.

Nepal: Nepal: District Profile - Kathmandu (as of 10 June 2016)

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Source: International Organization for Migration, UN Human Settlements Program, Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform – Nepal (HRRP)
Country: Nepal

This district profile outlines the current activities by partner organisations (POs) in post-earthquake recovery and reconstruction. It is based on 4W data collected from POs on their recent activities pertaining to housing sector. Further, it captures a wide range of planned, ongoing and completed activities within the HRRP framework. For additional information, please refer to the HRRP dashboard.

Nepal: Nepal: District Profile - Gorkha (as of 10 June 2016)

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Source: International Organization for Migration, UN Human Settlements Program, Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform – Nepal (HRRP)
Country: Nepal

This district profile outlines the current activities by partner organisations (POs) in post-earthquake recovery and reconstruction. It is based on 4W data collected from POs on their recent activities pertaining to housing sector. Further, it captures a wide range of planned, ongoing and completed activities within the HRRP framework. For additional information, please refer to the HRRP dashboard.

Nepal: Nepal: District Profile - Dolakha (as of 10 June 2016)

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Source: International Organization for Migration, UN Human Settlements Program, Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform – Nepal (HRRP)
Country: Nepal

This district profile outlines the current activities by partner organisations (POs) in post-earthquake recovery and reconstruction. It is based on 4W data collected from POs on their recent activities pertaining to housing sector. Further, it captures a wide range of planned, ongoing and completed activities within the HRRP framework. For additional information, please refer to the HRRP dashboard.

Nepal: Nepal: District Profile - Bhaktapur (as of 10 June 2016)

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Source: International Organization for Migration, UN Human Settlements Program, Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform – Nepal (HRRP)
Country: Nepal

This district profile outlines the current activities by partner organisations (POs) in post-earthquake recovery and reconstruction. It is based on 4W data collected from POs on their recent activities pertaining to housing sector. Further, it captures a wide range of planned, ongoing and completed activities within the HRRP framework. For additional information, please refer to the HRRP dashboard.

Nepal: Nepal: District Profile - Dhading (as of 10 June 2016)

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Source: International Organization for Migration, UN Human Settlements Program, Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform – Nepal (HRRP)
Country: Nepal

This district profile outlines the current activities by partner organisations (POs) in post-earthquake recovery and reconstruction. It is based on 4W data collected from POs on their recent activities pertaining to housing sector. Further, it captures a wide range of planned, ongoing and completed activities within the HRRP framework. For additional information, please refer to the HRRP dashboard.

Nepal: IOM, Red-R Train Engineers in Nepal on Safer Reconstruction

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Source: International Organization for Migration
Country: Nepal

Nepal - Through June and July 2016, IOM Nepal and NGO Red-R India are conducting five training sessions in Sindhupalchowk, Nepal, for 113 Nepali engineers on: Quality Construction and Supervision for Build Back Safer.

Funded by the EU Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department (ECHO) and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the training aims to equip the engineers with strong supervisory skills to ensure that safer techniques are followed in the reconstruction process in earthquake-affected areas.

“This training is part of IOM’s commitment to support government efforts in the reconstruction phase and to respond to the request of the Department of Urban Development and Building Construction (DUDBC) in Sindhupalchowk to provide training for engineers who are assigned by the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA),” said IOM Nepal Shelter Project Officer Keisuke Kamiya.

The earthquakes that rocked Nepal in April and May 2015 carried a high toll both in human life and in economic losses. They affected an estimated 8 million Nepalese with approximately 625,000 houses destroyed or severely damaged.

As the reconstruction effort began, the NRA deployed 1,347 engineers nationwide to supervise and provide guidance for affected communities when reconstructing their homes.

Dr. Poudyal, DUDBC Representative in Sindhupalchowk district, stressed the importance of increasing the trained labour force to be engaged in reconstruction activities. “This training was an important step for the DUDBC engineers, as their role remains vital to guide and teach local communities to build earthquake resilient buildings,” he said.

Head of NRA in Sindhupalchowk district Bhuwanashowr Lamichhane said: "As the saying goes, earthquakes don’t kill people, unsafe buildings do. IOM’s ‘Build Back Safer’ programme targets practitioners and the general public to enable people to reconstruct in a better, more resilient manner at all levels."

IOM programmes in the post-emergency phase bridge the gap between relief and development by empowering communities and assisting in the reconstruction and rehabilitation of affected areas as one of the ways to prevent forced migration.

Immediately after the earthquakes, IOM established shelter centres in Sindhupalchowk, Gorkha and Dolakha districts, which serve as “one stop shops” providing information and training on how to build back better, as well as supporting the coordination of reconstruction activities.

IOM has worked very closely with the Shelter Cluster and with the Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform in order to develop user-friendly materials such as the 10 Key Messages for Build Back Safer, as well as to build capacities among earthquake-affected population to reconstruct safer houses incorporating disaster risk reduction measures.

To learn more about IOM’s shelter activities, watch the video here: http://bit.ly/28OJbFm

For further information, please contact at IOM Nepal. Maurizio Busatti, Tel. +9779801004510, Email: mbusatti@iom.int or Ariani Hasanah Soejoeti, Tel. +9779810175020, Email: ahsoejoeti@iom.int


Nepal: Relief materials sent to Tatopani area

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Source: Nepal Red Cross Society
Country: Nepal

A flash flood in last three days on the Bhotekosi River has swept away at least 38 houses in Tatopani, Nayabasti and Bharabishe area of Sindhupalchok district. Nepal Red Cross Society has started support actions for the flash flood victims in Sindhupalchok. Hari Subedi, Red Cross Staff from Sindhupalchok, infromed that NRCS is ready for distributing food and tarpaulin, among other items, sent through air and road routes.

Sindhupalchok branch of Nepal Red Cross Society, in support of Sindhupalchok District Disaster Relief Committee (DDRC), today, dispatched food and non-food items in the affected area via helicopter in Tatopani area.

The dispatched items are: 250 kg of rice, 50 kg of lentil, 25 packets of salt and 25 pouches of cooking oil, 50 tarpaulins, 50 blankets, and 25 sets of hygiene kit, water purifying tablet-5,000 and ORH (Oral Rehydration Salt) in 2000 packet. Kamal Charan, Secretary of NRCS Sindhupalchok said, "The relief materials will be distributed shortly in support of local authorities and people."

The flood has also damaged the 30 km Tatopani-Lamosangu section of the Kodari Highway, which was blocked by the massive Jure landslide in 2014.

World: What We Know about Ethical Research Involving Children in Humanitarian Settings - An overview of principles, the literature and case studies

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Source: UN Children's Fund
Country: Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Nepal, Uganda, World

1.1 Executive summary

This working paper identifies and explores the issues that should be considered when undertaking ethical research involving children in humanitarian settings. Research grounded in sound ethical principles is critical in ensuring that children’s rights are respected throughout the process and beyond and that the research itself is relevant, useful and valid.This paper examines both the universal (i.e. relevant to all research involving children) and specific ethical issues that may arise when involving children in research in humanitarian settings.This is undertaken through an examination of the literature, a review of relevant case studies and a reflection on the ethical issues highlighted in UNICEF’s Procedure for Ethical Standards in Research, Evaluation, Data Collection and Analysis (the Ethics Procedure). The latter is used as a baseline for generic ethical standards when involving children in research.

The key findings of this overview highlight that many of the ethical issues that are present in other settings remain relevant and applicable in the context of humanitarian settings.These ethical issues include: an institution’s capacity to appropriately and respectfully engage children in research, understanding power relations, securing informed consent and assent, ascertaining harms and benefits, maintaining privacy and confidentiality, and ensuring appropriate communication of findings.

Importantly though, humanitarian contexts present extreme circumstances where each of the issues noted are likely to present greater challenges and complexities. Further, the implications of not reflecting on and mitigating against these difficulties could have far greater consequences for both the short and longer term safety and well-being of children and their communities. In spite of this, the literature in this area is under-developed and the issues require further engagement and ongoing reflection.

The aim of this paper is firstly to highlight the need and value of engaging children in research in these settings. Second, it provides a broad overview of the key ethical considerations that those commissioning or undertaking research need to reflect on when proposing, designing or implementing research programmes in these complex settings.To this end the general ethical principles for research involving children are examined with explicit reflection on UNICEF’s Procedure for Ethical Standards (UNICEF, 2015). Based on these principles and the findings from a literature review conducted for this paper, seven categories of ethical issues were identified and examined in detail. Several case studies are also included to provide examples of how ethical issues have been raised and addressed in research involving children in humanitarian contexts. Following analysis of the ethical issues, Appendix 1 provides a list of questions designed to trigger reflection about each of these. Appendix 2 then provides an annotated summary of excerpts from key documents from the literature review that specifically explore ethical issues arising in research in humanitarian contexts. Appendix 3 includes excerpts from the UNICEF Procedure for Ethical Standards in Research, Evaluation, Data Collection and Analysis (UNICEF, 2015a) as a reference point for work undertaken in these domains.

It is clear that further work remains to be done on this important topic. We do not claim to have identified every ethical issue regarding children’s participation in research in humanitarian settings. Nor do we claim that our suggested responses for addressing ethical issues are the only possibilities or always the best ones for any specific context. The intention is to provide a comprehensive overview of this topic in order to raise awareness of its relevance and importance, and to encourage further discussion, debate, reflection and scholarship in this area. We will continue to work on this topic and the specific issues, and welcome input that will constructively critique this paper and help to improve its future versions.

World: Rapport d’activité 2015

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Source: Triangle Génération Humanitaire
Country: Algeria, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Iraq, Lao People's Democratic Republic (the), Myanmar, Nepal, Sudan, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, World

Acteurs d’une solidarité durable et partagée

En 2015, les équipes de Triangle Génération Humanitaire sont présentes dans 11 pays et gèrent 63 programmes grâce à des partenariats publics durables avec les principaux bailleurs internationaux mais également avec des partenaires privés (entreprises et fondations).

Les programmes réalisés apportent un soutien direct ou indirect à plusieurs centaines de milliers de personnes, au travers d’interventions caractérisées par une approche globale de l’aide humanitaire intégrant urgence, réhabilitation, développement et démarche environnementale.

Fondée sur des valeurs communes d’écoute et de réactivité, lieu de vie et d’expression des engagements personnels, des savoir-faire et de leur partage, Triangle Génération Humanitaire revendique taille humaine, professionnalisme et pragmatisme, en valorisant la notion d’association au sens de “personnes qui mettent en commun leurs activités dans un autre but que le partage de bénéfices”.

L’association est moteur de projets qu’elle élabore avec des partenaires nationaux en identifiant et en mobilisant les ressources et les compétences locales pour apporter des réponses concrètes aux situations inacceptables des populations en souffrance, participer à la lutte contre la pauvreté et pour l’intégration sociale, soutenir sans discrimination d’aucune sorte les groupes de personnes victimes de conflits, de catastrophes naturelles ou de tout type de situation les plongeant dans la précarité. Son approche vise à répondre au plus près des besoins exprimés, et tend vers l’autonomie des groupes de personnes aidées.

Administrée par un Conseil élu, l’association agit en totale indépendance. Son financement étant en grande partie assuré par des institutions internationales, elle est régulièrement soumise aux audits des organisations qui la financent, et a prouvé sa capacité à gérer des fonds publics permettant d’inscrire son action dans la durée.

China: Asia - Severe weather events situation - ECHO Daily Map | 11/07/2016

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Source: European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office
Country: China, China - Taiwan Province, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines

TC NEPARTAK
• TC NEPARTAK made landfall along the coast of Fujian (China) on 9 July, as a Tropical Storm. Then it moved inland weakening. Heavy rains affected the areas along its path, causing floods.
• In Fujian and Jiangxi provinces (China): nine people died, at least 18 went missing, over 213 000 evacuated and over 11 400 houses damaged.
• In Taiwan: three people died and at least 300 were injured.
• In the Philippines: one person died, two were injured, one went missing and over 3 357 were evacuated in the regions of National Capital Region and Mimaropa, as well as in the province of Rizal.

CHINA
• Heavy rain has affecting the country over the past weeks causing more floods and landslides.
• National authorities report over 203 people dead, 28 still missing, over 200 000 evacuated and over 475 000 homes partially or fully damaged in several provinces of the country, including the ones affected by TC NEPARTAK, as of 11 July.

PAKISTAN
• Heavy rain affected several areas of the country, especially the province of Khyber Pakthnkhwa, causing floods.
• According to official reports the death toll reached 45 people, 25 injured and 41 houses fully or partially damaged, as of 11 July.

NEPAL
• Heavy rain has been affecting the country over the past few days causing floods and landslides.
• According to media reports, two people died and at least 20 were injured in Katmandu city as well as over 41 houses were damaged throughout the country.

MYANMAR/BURMA
• Heavy rain has been affecting several areas of the country over the past few days causing floods and landslides.
• According to official reports, two people have died and over 27 000 have been evacuated in Rakhine,
Sagaing, Kachin, Chin, Magway and Bago, as of 10 July.

INDIA
• Heavy rain has continued to affect the country over the past few days causing more floods and casualties.
• According to local media reports, the death toll has reached 57 people, 200 have been injured and over 7 500 have been evacuated in the states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, as of 11 July.

Nepal: Nepal-China border point could be delayed to reopen amid flood, landslides

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Source: Xinhua
Country: China, Nepal

KATHMANDU, July 11 (Xinhua) -- Opening Zhangmu (Khasa)-Tatopani border point between China and Nepal could be further delayed due to swollen Bhotekoshi River and landslides triggered by rainfalls, according to Nepali officials Monday.

The border point, located on a main trade route between the two countries, has remained closed since the deadly earthquake of last year.

As the two countries have been making efforts to reopen the border point at an early date, the swollen river and several landslides damaged the road and other infrastructure facilities in the border area.

This could dash any hope of early reopening of the border point, the Nepali officials said.

The area around the border point has been very risky as there were several landslides and the Bhotekoshi River has been eroding nearby soil severely, said the officials.

The flood in Bhotekoshi has already swept away 45 houses in the area and 150 others are in high risk, they added.

Editor: Tian Shaohui

Nepal: Nepal's Maoists quit coalition government

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Source: Agence France-Presse
Country: Nepal

Kathmandu, Nepal | AFP | Tuesday 7/12/2016 - 11:20 GMT

Nepal's former rebel Maoists withdrew from the ruling coalition on Tuesday, leaving the government without a majority and threatening to plunge the quake-hit country into a fresh political crisis.

The Maoists, who hold 80 out of 575 elected seats in parliament, said they wanted to form a "national consensus government" to implement a divisive new national constitution introduced last September.

The former guerrillas joined the coalition government led by the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist) last October.

Cracks began to appear in the coalition two months ago when they threatened to topple Prime Minister K.P Sharma Oli's government.

But on Tuesday Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal said they were pulling out of the government, leaving Oli's coalition without a majority.

Dahal said his decision emerged out of the failure to implement an agreement to withdraw civil war cases from Nepal's courts and offer amnesty to people accused of abuses during the country's decade-long Maoist insurgency.

"Since the present leadership of the government is not ready to implement the nine-point agreement... it is politically inappropriate for us to continue participating in this government," Dahal wrote in a letter to the prime minister seen by AFP.

"Our party believes that we need national consensus in the country for the acceptance and implementation of the constitution," said Dahal, better known by his nom-de-guerre Prachanda.

The Maoists now want to build a national unity government involving all major parties, another leader Janardhan Sharma told AFP.

Oli's party currently holds 175 elected seats in parliament, far less than the 299 needed to win a vote of confidence.

The prime minister has faced fierce criticism over his handling of protests against the new charter, which triggered a months-long border blockade in southern Nepal by demonstrators from the Madhesi ethnic minority.

More than 50 people died in clashes between police and protesters, who said the constitution left them politically marginalised.

Kathmandu accused New Delhi of imposing an "unofficial blockade" on the impoverished landlocked nation in support of the Madhesis, who share close cultural, linguistic and family links with Indians across the border.

The new constitution, the first drawn up by elected representatives, was meant to cement peace and bolster Nepal's transformation to a democratic republic after decades of political instability and a Maoist insurgency that ended in 2006.

But ongoing discussions between the government and protesters over the charter have failed to yield an agreement.

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Nepal: Nepal Earthquake 2015 - Review of surge practices

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Source: CHS Alliance
Country: Nepal

This report presents the results of the first tracking mechanism of the humanitarian surge response to the Nepal earthquake (2015) as part of the Start Network Transforming Surge Capacity Project. The aim of the mechanism is to track changes to surge practices by examining instances of surge deployment by the 11 operational consortium members in the course of the project.

Key findings:

  • The surge response was shaped by the severity of the disaster, combined with poverty, poor infrastructure and a difficult policy environment.
  • National and regional staff played a key role in the surge response. Citizens, local businesses and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) were the first to respond, and were later largely replaced by international mechanisms and actors. Internal rosters and standing teams helped mobilise staff for the Nepal response rapidly, with eight out of 11 agencies deploying within 24 hours.
  • Collaboration among surge actors was shaped by the nature of the disaster and the government’s requirement for international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) to work through local partners. A high proportion (70%) of agencies worked mainly in collaboration with others, ranging from local partners, village development committees, government authorities and other INGOs.
  • Challenges in the response included finding expert staff and qualified Nepali staff, difficulties in procurement resulting from a lack of infrastructure and changing government import policies, and ensuring inclusivity in the response through the participation of local NGOs and women’s needs.

The report also identifies best practices, lessons learned and innovations in the fields of information management, humanitarian communication, collaboration, materials and staff set-up.


World: Department for International Development - Annual Report and Accounts 2015-16

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Source: Department for International Development
Country: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Ghana, Guyana, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, occupied Palestinian territory, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Viet Nam, World, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Annual Report

The Annual Report meets DFID’s obligation to report on its activities and progress under the International Development (Reporting and Transparency) Act 2006. It includes information on DFID’s results achieved, spending, performance and efficiency.

Accounts

DFID’s Accounts are prepared in accordance with the 2015-16 Government Financial Reporting Manual (FReM), issued by HM Treasury. The accounting policies contained in the FReM apply International Financial Reporting Standards as adapted or interpreted for the public sector context. DFID’s Accounts are similar in many respects to the annual accounts prepared by private sector businesses. They contain the primary financial statements recording the full costs of activities, DFID’s assets and liabilities as well as providing information on how resources have been used to meet objectives.

The format is tailored to central government accounting including, for example, financial comparisons against the Department’s resource-based estimates. Those not familiar with the format of the accounts might like to focus on the Financial Review within the Performance Report, which summarises the key areas of performance. The Financial Statements and certain sections of the Accountability Report are audited by the National Audit Office before they are presented to Parliament.

Results headlines

By 2015–16, DFID had achieved the following results towards its commitments for 2011–15. Further information on results is set out on pages 15–19.

■ Wealth creation – supported 69.5 million people, including 36.4 million women, to gain access to financial services to help them work their way out of poverty (Exceeding DFID’s commitment of 50 million)

■ Poverty, vulnerability, nutrition and hunger – reached 30 million children under 5 and pregnant women through DFID’s nutrition-relevant programmes, of whom 12.1 million were women or girls (Exceeding DFID’s commitment of 20 million)

■ Education – supported 11.3 million children in primary and lower secondary education, of whom 5.3 million were girls (Exceeding DFID’s commitment of 11 million)

■ Health – supported 5.6 million births with skilled birth attendants (Exceeding DFID’s commitment of 2 million)

■ Water, sanitation and hygiene – supported 64.5 million people, of whom 22.6 million were women, to access clean water, better sanitation or improved hygiene conditions through DFID’s WASH programmes (Exceeding DFID’s commitment of 60 million)

■ Governance and security – supported freer and fairer elections in 13 countries in which 162.1 million people voted (Meeting DFID’s commitment of 13 countries)

■ Humanitarian assistance – reached over 13.4 million people with emergency food assistance, including 5.6 million women and girls

■ Climate change – supported 17.7 million people to cope with the effects of climate change Shown below are some of the latest available results delivered through the multilateral organisations that DFID supports.

■ Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, immunised 56 million children in 2014

■ Global Partnership for Education (GPE) trained 98,000 teachers between July 2014 and June 2015

■ UNICEF helped 10.4 million children in humanitarian situations to access basic education in 2014

■ The Asian Development Bank (ADB) provided 166,000 households with a new water supply in 2015

■ The World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) provided 339 million people with essential health, nutrition and population services between 2013 and 2015

Further information on DFID’s work with multilaterals is included on pages 37–38.

World: Joint expert statement on internally displaced persons

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Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
Country: China, India, Iraq, Nepal, Philippines, Syrian Arab Republic, World, Yemen

IDMC has signed a join expert statement on internally displaced persons to present at the High Level Meeting to Address Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants (19 September 2016).

EXPERT STATEMENT ON INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS June 28, 2016

We, a group of experts, met at Georgetown University on June 9, 2016 to discuss progress since August 2015, when we last met, in improving responses to the situation of internally displaced persons (IDPs).* We gathered as the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre disclosed its latest data on the number of IDPs worldwide. These data show that 2015 was a significant year for internal displacement: there were 19.2 million new cases of internal displacement from natural hazards and over 8 million new cases due to conflict. 127 countries were affected. At the end of 2015, the cumulative number of people internally displaced by conflict was 40.8 million (the highest number of internal displacement ever recorded). Most new displacement happened in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq; 85% of disaster displacement occurred in East and South Asia, with the worst instances in India, China, Nepal, and the Philippines.

These figures underscore the need to increase the protection of IDPs in two principal regards: gaining access to IDPs in acute crises, such as Syria, in order to provide effective protection; and finding solutions for IDPs in the many protracted situations of displacement that have already lasted for decades. We are pleased that the World Humanitarian Summit considered the plight of IDPs and made concrete recommendations to reduce internal displacement, increase the self-reliance of IDPs, and improve protection.

We strongly support a prominent focus on those displaced by conflict who remain within the borders of their own countries at the High Level Meeting to Address Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants. We recommend that the Declaration to be adopted at the Meeting include IDPs in a meaningful way, not only because failure to do so may increase cross border movements, but most importantly because the safety and security of millions of IDPs rests with the strong commitment of the international community to work with governments to ensure adequate protection, assistance and solutions.

We call on the High Level Meeting to urge regional bodies to adopt declarations and conventions on IDPs, citing the Kampala Convention as a model, and promote implementation of these instruments. The Declaration should also urge governments to adopt national laws and frameworks based on the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and develop country strategies -- together with donor governments, international humanitarian and development organizations, civil society and IDPs themselves -- to implement the agreed goals and work toward resolving displacement situations. The High Level Meeting should further call upon the Secretary General to appoint a Special Representative on Internally Displaced Persons to ensure, in collaboration with relevant actors, adequate attention to protection of IDPs and to work with governments to find sustainable solutions for them.
In order to ensure that these recommendations are implemented, we also call for the General Assembly to organize a high-level dialogue where IDP issues will receive the attention they deserve.

Nepal: Nepal Community Feedback Report - Issue: Reconstruction - July 2016

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Source: UN Country Team in Nepal
Country: Nepal

In June 2016, the Inter-Agency Common Feedback Project collected feedback from communities (2100 respondents) across 14 earthquake affected districts on reconstruction related issues.

Community perceptions on reconstruction issues have seen a slight improvement across most questions from April 2016; however, perceptions of reconstruction remain predominantly negative, as efforts have been slow in their start up. Seventy-nine percent of respondents do not feel that their main reconstruction issues are being addressed, a three percent improvement over last round. The majority of those who do not feel their main issues are being addressed identified financial resources (79 percent) as one of their top two needs. Other identified priority needs included building materials (32 percent) and technical knowledge (22 percent).

Recommendations

  • Improve targeted communications on reconstruction support and safe building practices to women, elderly and persons with disabilities to ensure that they are equally able to access support.

  • Investigate communication methods of agencies and district NRA in districts where respondents feel better informed (such as Ramechhap and Sindhupalchok) and apply good practices to districts where respondents feel less well-informed (such as Sindhuli).

Nepal: Nepal: Torture and coerced confessions

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Source: Amnesty International
Country: Nepal

In this briefing, Amnesty International documents how police subjected members of the Indigenous Tharu community in Kailali district in Nepal’s Far-Western Tarai in the southern plains part of the country, to arbitrary arrests, torture and other ill-treatment, and coerced some of them into signing “confessions” in connection with the killings of eight security personnel and a child in Tikapur, Dhangadhi on 24 August 2015.

World: Major Natural Hazards in Asia and the Pacific

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Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: Australia, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Cook Islands, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Mongolia, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia (France), Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Viet Nam, World

The Asia-Pacific region is one of the most disaster-prone areas in the world, with frequently occurring natural disasters including earthquakes, tsunamis, tropical storms, flooding, landslides and volcanic eruptions affecting millions of people every year.

Although countries in the region have developed varying capacities to reduce risk and respond to disasters, many communities are still vulnerable. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) provides support to governments, the United Nations system and other partners in Asia-Pacific through a network of offices which collectively cover 36 UN member countries and an additional 16 countries and territories totaling over 3 billion people.

Mandated by UN General Assembly Resolution 46/182, OCHA aims to facilitate national disaster preparedness, advocate for policy change in favor of vulnerable communities, strengthen UN/IASC agency coordination and capacity, and promote regional cooperation for enhanced emergency response.

Since 2005, the OCHA Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) has provided support and assistance in response to major emergencies including the Pakistan earthquake, Indonesia (Yogyakarta & Padang earthquakes), Timor-Leste political unrest, Philippines typhoons (Ketsana & Haiyan) and the Solomon Islands tsunami.

OCHA ROAP is also working with key partners to support the implementation of the Cluster approach; roll out the Emergency Response Preparedness (ERP); facilitate use of the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF); support Humanitarian Coordinators and build partnerships (including the Regional IASC Humanitarian Network).

OCHA ROAP offers a wide range of technical expertise including disaster response coordination, humanitarian reporting, funding mobilization, civil-military coordination, communication with communities, information management, public information and advocacy coordination. For more information on OCHA ROAP or to see more reports and maps, the office maintains a regionally-focused website (http://www.unocha.org/roap/).

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