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The explosion at the Port of Beirut in Lebanon on 4 August 2020 caused widespread damage across the city, with initial reports of more than 170 people killed, 6,500 people injured, and more than 150 people missing. Early estimates were that the explosion had left more than 300,000 people with no shelter in the Greater Beirut Area.

The loss of livelihoods…

In a nutshell, “the Independent Panel has found weak links at every point in the chain of preparedness and response. Preparation was inconsistent and underfunded. The alert system was too slow — and too meek. The World Health Organization was under-powered. The response has exacerbated inequalities. Global political leadership was absent.”

The Panel is…

With the WHO declaring a global pandemic in March 2020 and a looming sense of uncertainty sweeping across many nations, the number of emergency nutrition assessments being conducted dried up overnight. The fear of COVID-19 spreading during household surveys meant many humanitarian organizations paused their surveys until they could better understand the risks and…

Can effective support for Social and Behaviour Change be delivered remotely? Is this possible during the COVID-19 pandemic? Will the nutrition programming see an improvement in results? These questions were on the minds of both the International Medical Corps (IMC) team and the GNC Technical Alliance’s Technical Support Team (TST) as…

The first inter-country call between wasting management technical working group chairs took place on Thursday the 22nd of April with 30 participants. During the call, the chairs of the global thematic working group on wasting and the simplified approaches group presented the work of their global groups respectively. The in-country working group chairs shared some…