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DFID review leads to increased Africa focus

March 2nd, 2011

DFID yesterday announced the results of its bilateral aid programme and the decision that has been made is that it will be focussing its money on 27 countries, many of them in East Africa.  The review says that it wants to target support “where it will make the biggest difference and where the need is greatest”.

These 27 countries, according to DFID, account for three quarters of global maternal mortality and nearly three quarters of global malaria deaths.  And seventeen of them are in Africa: Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda , Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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La Niña phenomenon leads to Asian flooding with threat of more disasters to come

July 29th, 2010

Opinion is growing that a La Niña phenomenon has officially arrived and this means that disaster response teams probably need to brace themselves for heavier monsoons, bigger and more frequent hurricanes, and angrier cyclones.

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“There is global consensus that we are at the beginning of a La Niña, but we cannot pronounce the intensity of the event yet – we have to wait for it to evolve,” Rupa Kumar Kolli, Chief of the World Climate Applications and Services Division at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) told IRIN News.

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MapAction flies into Haiti, mapping madly

January 19th, 2010

Advance Aid is indebted to work that MapAction has done for it in the course of last year.  And so it is a pleasure to be able to report that MapAction has sprung into action (if you’ll forgive the pun) in Haiti.

Having accurate and up-to-date maps of disaster-hit areas is crucially important for humanitarian response teams and MapAction – itself an NGO staffed largely by volunteers – had ten deployments in 2009.
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Natural disaster numbers up in 2009, but deaths down – Munich Re

December 30th, 2009

The number of natural disasters in 2009 was above the long-term average, with 850 being recorded by insurance giant Munich Re.  This compares with an average over the past ten years of 770 natural disasters a year.  But the death toll from these disasters in 2009 was relatively low.

Munich Re, though, is as interested in the economic losses caused as the total number of disasters, and this number was down – economic losses in the year came to $50bn and insured losses of $22bn compared with economic losses of $200bn and insured losses of $50bn in 2008.
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UN revises upwards its $74M Philippines appeal

October 14th, 2009

The sheer scale of the devastation caused by the cyclones that hit the Philippines continues to shock and amaze. The cyclones left 648 dead, with many still missing, and affected more than six million people, some 300,000 of whom are still housed in makeshift evacuation centres.

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Now the UN is to revise its appeal made on 7th October. Initially it called for $74m, but now it says that this “was clearly not enough” and the UN is stressing that this number would be revised upwards when more detailed reports come in from the field.

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