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USG Valerie Amos with UN staff in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Valerie Amos visits a family who found shelter in a camp in Sukkur, Pakistan on 8 September 2010. They are among millions of Pakistanis displaced by the recent floods. The visit to Pakistan is Amos's first field mission as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

Valerie Amos arrives at Ghauspur, Pakistan during her first field mission as USG Humanitarian Affairs. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos visits a family which has taken shelter on an elevated road in Kashmore, Pakistan. They are among millions of Pakistanis displaced by the recent floods. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

Mohammad Rezwan, 24, swims one hour every other day to get food from at a World Food Programme distribution in Kashmore, Pakistan. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

A girl cools off at a water post in a displacement camp for flood victims in Pakistan. Nearly 21 million people have been affected by the floods, many had to flee from their homes and seek refuge in other places. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

During her first field mission as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos flies over flooded areas of Sindh Province in Pakistan, where 4.4 million people are in need of aid. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

Valerie Amos visits a Unicef-run school in a camp for displaced people in Sukkur, Pakistan on 8 September 2010. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

Children displaced by the recent floods in Pakistan seeking refuge from the sun under a bridge in Sukkur. They live in a nearby displacement camp with their families. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

Valerie Amos visits a camp for flood-affected people in Pakistan on her first field mission as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

Displaced people wait in line for a food distribution in a camp for flood victims in Sukkur, Pakistan. Nearly 21 million people have been affected by the floods, many had to flee from their homes and seek refuge in other places. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

Fields in Ghauspur, Pakistan are completely inundated by recent floods. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

The fields around Thul in Sindh Province, Pakistan, are completely inundated by the floods that have affected almost 21 million people and destroyed 2 million acres of standing crops throughout the country. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

Children greet Valerie Amos at a UNICEF-run school in a camp for displaced people in Sukkur, Pakistan on 8 September 2010. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

Valerie Amos arrives in Sukkur, Pakistan during her first field mission as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

Girls waiting for a food distribution in a displacement camp for flood victims in Sukkur, Pakistan. Nearly 21 million people have been affected by the floods, many had to flee from their homes and seek refuge in other places. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

Valerie Amos is briefed in Ghauspur, Pakistan where the fields are completely inundated by the recent floods. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

Fever-ridden Jeber Sadikr, 4, is cared for by his mother at a makeshift shelter on an elevated road after floods displaced them from their home. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

A girl drinks clean water in a displacement camp for flood victims in Pakistan on 8 September 2010. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

Three generations of the Hafiz family, the youngest only three days old left their farm a month ago, having lost the harvest, their seeds for the next season and all their animals in the flood. They have found shelter in a school in Sukkur. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

A mother bathes her son in a displacement camp for flood victims in Pakistan. Nearly 21 million people have been affected by the floods including many who had to flee their homes. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

Valerie Amos tours a makeshift school in Kashmore, Pakistan during a visit to flood-affected regions of the nation, 8 September 2010. Millions have been displaced by the floods that have devastated large parts of Pakistan. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

Valerie Amos visits a makeshift school in Kashmore built on high ground during her visit to the flood affected population. Millions have been displacd by the floods that have devastated large parts of Pakistan. The visit to Pakistan is Amos's first field mission as USG Humanitarian Affairs. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

Pakistan General Assembly Film

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A group of girls have found some shade by a tent in the Kandaro 2 displacement camp in Nowshera, KPK. They are among the millions that have been displacd by the floods that have devastated large parts of Pakistan. The visit to Pakistan is Amos's first field mission as USG Humanitarian Affairs. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

A man has found refuge from the sun for himself and his herd under a bridge in Sukkur. He lives in a nearby displacement camp with his family after the floods forced them to leave their home. Nearly 21 million people have been affected by the floods, many had to flee from their homes and seek refuge in other places. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

Valerie Amos visits displaced families at the Kandaro 2 displacement camp in Nowshera, KPK, during her visit to the flood affected population. Millions have been displacd by the floods that have devastated large parts of Pakistan. The visit to Pakistan is Amos's first field mission as USG Humanitarian Affairs. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

Mizirjan (no last name) guards her family tent in the Kandaro 2 displacement camp for flood victims in Nowshera, KPK. The family lost all their belongings when they had to flee their village. She is among the millions that have been displacd by the floods that have devastated large parts of Pakistan. The visit to Pakistan is Amos's first field mission as USG Humanitarian Affairs. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

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24 Mar 2011

Pakistan's Flood-Affected Population

Within the DRCongo, the East zone is the area mostly affected by cholera. Most of the cases are concentrated in lakeshore areas. It is estimated that the risk of cholera outbreak is increased by over seven times living in lakeshore areas of eastern DRC. Credit: Charline Burton/OCHA DRC

USG visits the "People's beach" in Goma, capital city of North Kivu province in the DRC. This place is one of the only urban access points to the Kivu Lake, where most of the 172,000 inhabitants go for water collection. Thanks to Unicef and its partenrs water treatment system, no major cholera outbreak have been reported in Goma since 2006. According to humanitarian workers in the DRC, securing fundings for emergency-response projects in the lakeshore areas and promoting long-lasting investments is essential to permanently decrease the number of cholera outbreaks in the DRC. Credit: Charline Burton/OCHA DRC

Chlorinators provide free chlorine solutions directly into the containers. According to the World Health Organisation, the DRCongo has the highest number of cholera cases from 2002-2009 worldwide, with 180,000 cases reported during that period. Credit: Charline Burton/ OCHA DRC

Every day, this young boy brings water to his neighbourhood using his bycicle. Every 20-liters jerry can costs him 10 congolese francs, which is about 0.01 USD. The management of this emergency water treatment system was transfered to the national water management entreprise (REGIDESO) mid-2007 by the UNICEF and its partners. Credit: Charline Burton/OCHA DRC

Valerie Amos meeting the authorities of North Kivu province, on 9 March in Goma (capital city of North Kivu. "Humanitarian assistance can save lives and alleviate suffering", said Valerie Amos "but the root causes of this crisis must be addressed; The conflict must end". In Eastern Congo, armed men attack villages almost every week, often looting, raping, maiming, killing, kidnapping and burning villages before leaving. At this present day, an estimated 1.3 million people, who fled these atrocities, are displaced in North and South Kivu. Credit: Charline Burton/OCHA DRC

Julien Paluku Kahongya, Governor of the North-Kivu Province, addresses Valerie Amos. His province faced huge humanitarian crises over the last decade. "We feel very comforted by the visit of the United Nations' n°2", said Julien Paluku. " We want to thank humanitarian actors for all the support they've given to this province that suffered so much". He added that according to him, it was time to think about the transition between humanitarian aid and development. Credit: Charline Burton/OCHA DRC

This woman and mother fled the atrocies committed by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), an Ougandese armed group active in the Orientale Province of the DRC. She now resides in an IDP site in Dungu, a small city where she feels her family is more secure. At her arrival in Dungu, the French NGO Solidarités provided her family with this moquito net, and other non-food items when she arrived in this site. LRA members are responsible for nearly 300,000 people being currenlty displaced in the DRC. "MONUSCO must step up its operation in the area, and the Government must strenghten its presence", said Valerie Amos on her visit to Orientale Province. Credit: Charline Burton/OCHA DRC

Valerie Amos greets the Marocco bataillon of the peace keeping operation (Mission of the UN for the Stabilisation of Congo, MONUSCO) at the Dungu base, in the Orientale Province. "MONUSCO is a deterrent to the LRA", said Valerie Amos while in Dungu Credit: Charline Burton/OCHA DRC

Intérieur salle de classe à Napopo. Un enfant pose la question à l'USG de savoir ce qu'elle est venue faire à Napopo (Bangadi, Province Orientale, RDC). Credit: Jean-Charles Dupin / OCHA RDC

Valerie Amos greets the OCHA staff, as she arrives in Dungu, Orientale Province. Credit: Charline Burton/OCHA DRC

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24 Mar 2011

USG-DRC Mission 2011

Residents access clean water at the Tabaressa IDP camp, which is funded by the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund. Credit: OCHA/Akiko Harayama

On 15 November, a girl pushes a wheelbarrow with empty water containers past a garbage-filled gully, in the impoverished Cite l'Eternel neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, the capital. She is on her way to buy water. Credit: UNICEF/Marco Dormino

A girl drinks clean water in a displacement camp for flood victims in Pakistan on 8 September 2010. Photo: Truls Brekke/FAO

This camp in Nowshera District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan is only one of 5,900 camps that were set up during the height of the floods. To date, most flood-affected people have returned to their homes, but they still rely on humanitarian assistance, especially food, shelter and safe drinking water. Credit: Nichole Sobecki/ACF International

The irony of floods is that even though the country is deluged with water, there is a huge lack of safe drinking water. These women in Thatta District in Sindh Province have access to drinking water, but some still have to walk for miles to find a well that provides safe water to drink. Credit: Nichole Sobecki/ACF International

Like many young girls, 10-year-old Reshma still lives in one of the 188 camps that are left in Sindh Province. Drinking water remains a significant problem in the flood-affected areas and access to tap water is not easy. Reshma and her family collect their water from a tap in Shabaz Camp, which was one of the 4,800 camps established in Sindh during the crisis. Credit: Tim Allen/OXFAM

A nomadic Wodaabe woman helps her baby drink water in the bush close to Ingall, northern Niger, on 21 September 2007. Credit: IRIN/Tugela Ridley

A resident of an impromptu settlement for displaced people in Birao, Central African Republic pulls water from a well on 13 September 2009. Credit: Dan DeLorenzo/OCHA

A girl carries a container of water on her back, in the village of Mpumpe in the western province of Bandundu, DRC. The water is from a nearby protected source. To ensure a sustainable, quality water supply in communities, water sources near villages are protected with the help of local NGOs through the Healthy Village programme implemented by the Government and supported by UNICEF. Credit: UNICEF

A boy, with help from another boy, drinks from a newly installed handpump in the village of Jinnah Colony in Muzaffargarh, one of the worst flood-affected districts in Punjab Province, Pakistan. Credit: UNICEF

Children collect water from a generator-powered well in the remote, mountainous village of Dora in the drought-ravaged Tadjoura District, Djibuti. The UNICEF-provided well is the only source of water for the village, where it has not rained for three years. Credit: UNICEF

Children and women surround a water tanker that has just arrived near the shore of Lac Assal, a salt-water lake in the drought-ravaged Tadjoura District, Djibuti. Credit: UNICEF

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22 Mar 2011

World Water Day 2011

08 Mar 2011

OCHA film: women in DRC

Feza Salima (left) and fellow graduates of a literacy and livelihood programme bake bread in Uvira, South Kivu, DRC. Credit: OCHA/Richard Johnson

MIgrants return to Niger from Libya in April 2011. The Nigeriens arrived at Dirkou, Niger after fleeing unrest in Libya. Credit: IOM

Dirkou, Niger (Apr 2011) - MIgrants return to Niger from Libya in April 2011. The Nigeriens arrived at Dirkou, Niger after fleeing unrest in Libya. Credit: IOM

MIgrants return to Niger from Libya in April 2011. The Nigeriens arrived at Dirkou, Niger after fleeing unrest in Libya. Credit: IOM

Dirkou, Niger (Apr 2011) - MIgrants return to Niger from Libya in April 2011. The Nigeriens arrived at Dirkou, Niger after fleeing unrest in Libya. Credit: IOM

MIgrants return to Niger from Libya in April 2011. The Nigeriens arrived at Dirkou, Niger after fleeing unrest in Libya. Credit: IOM

A World Food Programme truck struggles to navigate the road to Agok on 23 June 2011. Thousands of residents of Abyei town have settled in Agok after being displaced by armed clashes on 20 May 2011. Credit: OCHA/Dan DeLorenzo

MAY - Violence and Displacement in Sudan's Abyei Region: Workers unload WFP food rations in Agok, Warrap state of southern Sudan on 23 June 2011. Thousands of residents of Abyei town have settled in Agok after being displaced by armed clashes on 20 May. Contingency planning in advance of the crisis enabled the vast majority of those displaced to be provided life-saving assistance with weeks, Credit: OCHA/Dan DeLorenzo

Workers unload WFP food rations in Agok, Warrap state of southern Sudan on 23 June 2011. Thousands of residents of Abyei town have settled in Agok after being displaced by armed clashes on 20 May. Credit: OCHA/Dan DeLorenzo

MAY - Violence and Displacement in Sudan's Abyei Region: A displaced woman from Sudan's Abyei region leaves a Sunday service at an open-air chapel in Mayan Abun, southern Sudan. More than 110,000 people fled Sudan's disputed border area of Abyei when hostilities erupted on 20 May 2011.Credit: OCHA/ Dan DeLorenzo

Images of new arrivals at Dadabb Refugee Camp's Ifo Extension site on 25 July 2011. Queuing for tent allocation Ifo Ext. Credit: OCHA/John Ndiku

Images of new arrivals at Dadabb Refugee Camp's Ifo Extension site on 25 July 2011. The first refugee family (with baby) relocates to new tent. Credit: OCHA/John Ndiku

Images of new arrivals at Dadabb Refugee Camp's Ifo Extension site on 25 July 2011. Queuing for tents allocation5. Credit: OCHA/John Ndiku

Images of new arrivals at Dadabb Refugee Camp's Ifo Extension site on 25 July 2011. Getting into new tent at Ifo ext. Credit: OCHA/John Ndiku

Images of new arrivals at Dadabb Refugee Camp's Ifo Extension site on 25 July 2011. Queing for tent allocation3. Credit: OCHA/John Ndiku

Images of new arrivals at Dadabb Refugee Camp's Ifo Extension site on 25 July 2011. Queuingn for tent allocation. Credit: OCHA/John Ndiku

Images of new arrivals at Dadabb Refugee Camp's Ifo Extension site on 25 July 2011. A complete latrine pit. Credit: OCHA/John Ndiku

Images of new arrivals at Dadabb Refugee Camp's Ifo Extension site on 25 July 2011. Tent City Ifo Ext6. Credit: OCHA/John Ndiku

Images of new arrivals at Dadabb Refugee Camp's Ifo Extension site on 25 July 2011. New arrivals await registration at Ifo. Credit: OCHA/John Ndiku

Images of new arrivals at Dadabb Refugee Camp's Ifo Extension site on 25 July 2011. Tent City Ifo Ext4. Credit: OCHA/John Ndiku

Images of new arrivals at Dadabb Refugee Camp's Ifo Extension site on 25 July 2011. Water supply works at Ifo ext. Credit: OCHA/John Ndiku

A child receives care at a therapeutic feeding centre in Carnot, Central African Republic, 20 September 2009. Credit: Dan DeLorenzo/OCHA

A child is weighed for signs of malnutrition at a World Food Programme food distribution in Boda, Central African Republic on 19 September 2009. Credit: Dan DeLorenzo/OCHA

Supplemental parental skills classes are provided at a World Food Programme food distribution in Boda, Central African Republic on 19 September 2009. Credit: Dan DeLorenzo/OCHA

A child receives care at a therapeutic feeding centre in Boda, Central African Republic, 18 September 2009. Credit: Dan DeLorenzo/OCHA Credit: Dan DeLorenzo/OCHA

Credit: Dan DeLorenzo/OCHA

Workers unload sacks of grain at a UN airfield in Birao, Central African Republic, 12 Septmeber 2009. Credit: Dan DeLorenzo/OCHA

Workers load sacks of grain at the World Food Programme warehouse in Bangui, Central African Republic, 10 Septmeber 2009. Credit: Dan DeLorenzo/OCHA

Cooking oil awaits distribution at the World Food Programme warehouse in Bangui, Central African Republic on 10 Septmeber 2009. Credit: Dan DeLorenzo/OCHA

OCHA Information Management Officer Nick Imboden at the OCHA's Bangui bureau 7 September, 2009. Credit: Dan DeLorenzo/OCHA

The launch of the humanitarian appeal on 9 May 2008 in response to the devastating Cyclone Nargis thattstruck Myanmar. The event was be chaired by Mr. John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. Credit: UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras

A town in Myanmar recovers from devastating Cyclone Nargis in 2009. Credit: Laura Sala/OCHA

On 21 October, a baby suffering from cholera lies on the floor of St. Nicholas Hospital in Saint-Marc, a town in Artibonite Department. Cholera patients are receiving intravenous fluids to remedy the dangerous levels of dehydration that accompany the disease. Credit: UNICEF/Marco Dormino

On 22 October, three-year-old Francina Devariste is being treated for cholera at Dessalines Hospital in Artibonite Department. Credit: UNICEF/Marco Dormino

On 22 October, people queue to receive medical treatment at LEstËre Hospital in Artibonite Department. Cholera is spreading through the community. Credit: UNICEF/Marco Dormino

On 22 October, health workers insert an intravenous catheter into the arm of a child who is sick with cholera, outside the St. Nicholas Hospital in Saint-Marc, a town in Artibonite Department. Cholera patients are receiving intravenous fluids to remedy the dangerous levels of dehydration that accompany the disease. Credit: UNICEF/Marco Dormino

On 23 October, aid workers from the NGO ACTED load UNICEF-supplied medicals kits and rehydration supplies onto a boat. The supplies will be delivered to Grand Dessalines, a town along the Artibonite River. The river is believed to be contaminated with cholera. Credit: UNICEF/Marco Dormino

On 23 October, aid workers from the NGO ACTED (Agence d'Aide ‡ la CoopÈration Technique Et au DÈveloppement) unload UNICEF-supplied medicals kits and rehydration supplies from a boat. The supplies will be delivered to Grand Dessalines, a town along the Artibonite River. The river is believed to be contaminated with cholera. Credit: UNICEF/Marco Dormino

On 23 October, aid workers from the NGO ACTED (Agence d'Aide ‡ la CoopÈration Technique Et au DÈveloppement) use wheelbarrows to deliver UNICEF-supplied medicals kits and rehydration supplies to health centres in Grand Dessalines, a town along the Artibonite River. Credit: UNICEF/Marco Dormino

On 25 October, a woman lies beside her son, who is receiving treatment for cholera, at a medical centre in LEstËre, a town in Artibonite Department. The boy is receiving fluids intravenously to treat the dangerous levels of dehydration that accompany the disease. Credit: UNICEF/Marco Dormino

An Oxfam staff member joins an inter-agency assessment mission in Riosucio municipality, Chocó department. The region is completely flooded, affecting 15,000 people, some of whom are displaced to other towns in Antioquia department. Credit: OCHA/Martha Palacios

The Colombian Red Cross office in Riosucio municipality has also been affected by floods. Credit: OCAH/Hector Latorre.

On 11 November, men carry emergency medical supplies to a United Nations helicopter, at the airport in the port city of GonaÔves in Artibonite Region. The box, which bears the UNICEF logo, is part of a shipment for areas affected by the cholera outbreak. Credit: UNICEF/Marco Dormino

A girl sleeps while receiving intravenous fluids for cholera, at the UNICEF-assisted GHESKIO cholera treatment centre in the impoverished CitÈ lEternel neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, the capital. Intravenous fluids are administered to remedy the dangerous levels of dehydration that accompany the disease.Credit: UNICEF/Marco Dormino

A MONUC helicopter prepares for take-off at an airfiled near Dungu, D.R.C. on 20 August 2010. Credit: OCHA/Richard Johnson

Men sit beneath referendum posters outside a shop in Tali market. The United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) airlifted voting materials to the Central Equatoria State of Tali because the area is inaccessible by road. Credit: UNMIS/Tim McKulka

Tali residents gather around a helicopter delivering voting materials. Credit: UNMIS/Tim McKulka

Tali residents unload voting materials from an UNMIS helicopter. Credit: UNMIS/Tim McKulka

A young boy carries a voting screen from the UNMIS helicopter. Credit: UNMIS/Tim McKulka

Young boys sit on the back of a truck during the unloading of voting materials. Credit: UNMIS/Tim McKulka

Residents access clean water at the Tabaressa IDP camp, which is funded by the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund. Credit: OCHA/Akiko Harayama

Young residents of the Tabaressa IDP camp, which is funded by the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund. Credit: OCHA/Akiko Harayama

Children review cholera awareness-and-prevention posters during a class in the impoverished Wharf Jèrèmie neighbourhood in Port-au-Prince. UNICEF-assisted community educators are disseminating cholera-prevention messages in the capital's camps and neighbourhoods. Credit: UNICEF/Marco Dormino

Children receive school lunch as part of the World Food Programme's efforts to encourage school attendance and nutrition among children. Credit: WFP

A child receives a dose of vitamin A at the health centre in Savane Cabrit village, West Department. Credit: UNICEF/LeMoyne

A total of 194 families (about 4,000 IDPs) resettle into a site in Croix des Bouquets, which was built and maintained by OIM, Shelter Box and the Dominican Civil Defense. As well as moving into tents, some families have made perimeters with colourfully painted rocks and even given themselves an address. Credit: UN Photo/Sophia Paris

A couple pose outside their new home at the site in Croix des Bouquets. Credit: UN Photo/Sophia Paris

A young girl carries her box from a United Nations food distribution. Credit: UN/MINUSTAH/Logan Abassi

JANUARY - Haiti: One year after a devastating earthquake, more than 800,000 people still lived in camps and one in three children were chronically malnourished. WFP provided lunch to school children at temporary learning centers to encourage school attendance and better nutrition. Credit: WFP

Home reconstruction project by Solidarités International in Niambly village. Aid agencies have been helping communities rebuild their houses. About 20,000 houses were destroyed during the post-election violence. Credit: OCHA

Children at the malnutrition treatment centre. Credit: OCHA

A child at the malnutrition treatment centre. Credit: OCHA

One of the members of the delegation, Russel Schiebel from the US Embassy, participates in a WFP food distribution in Lohaga, northern Côte d'Ivoire. Credit: OCHA

Un travailleur humanitaire de Solidarités International fait le suivi d’un projet d’appui en techniques agricoles et semences aux habitants du village de Niambly qui sont rentrés chez eux après des mois passés dans des sites de déplacés à la suite de la crise postélectorale. Crédit : OCHA/Anouk Desgroseilliers.

Avec l’appui des acteurs humanitaires, les habitants du village de Niambly participent aux travaux de réhabilitation de leurs maisons détruites pendant la crise. Crédit: OCHA/Anouk Desgroseilliers

September 2012, Côte d’Ivoire: The villagers lead the rehabilitation efforts. Credit: OCHA/Anouk Desgroseilliers

September 2012, Côte d’Ivoire: An aid worker from Solidarités International inspects an agricultural project to make sure farmers have access to the proper tools and techniques. Credit: OCHA/Anouk Desgroseilliers

On 2-3 October, the West and Central African Regional Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs hosted a Humanitarian Policy Conference in Dakar. Participants from throughout the regions convened to discuss the most pressing humanitarian issues today and to similarly reflect on the future of humanitarianism.

11 July 2014: A UNICEF staff member distributes bottles of water to those who just arrived at the Baharka IDP transit camp outside Erbil. Credit: OCHA/David Swanson

11 July 2014: A UNICEF staff member distributes bottles of water to those who just arrived at the Baharka IDP transit camp, north of Erbil. Credit: OCHA/David Swanson

10 June 2014, Lietchour Camp, Gambela Region, Ethiopia:HRF supported & DRC implmented WASH intervention in Lietchuor Camp. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia/ Fekadu Tafa.

Bab al-Salam crossing, Syria/Turkey: The first humanitarian convoy to cross under the auspices of Security Council resolution 2165 crosses the border. Credit: OCHA.

State of Palestine - This UNTFHS-funded project aimed to protect livelihoods and empower vulnerable Palestinian communities in the Jordan Valley. By providing the local population with knowledge and technical assistance, the project revitalized the traditional adobe (mud-brick) building technique as a method to improve housing conditions and increase access to adequate housing for vulnerable families. Credit: UNESCO

Sar-e-Pul flood emergency in Afghanistan. UN regional team participates in Provincial Disaster Management Committee meeting. Credit: Eveline Viehboeck/OCHA

Flood emergency in Sar-e-Pul province, Afghanistan. Visit of the UN regional team. Credit: Eveline Viehboeck/OCHA

29 February 2012, Central African Republic: New houses are being constructed in Goz Beida, Bamingui-Bangoran Prefecture. Tens of thousands of people in the area are in need of basic aid and longer-term development support. Credit. IRIN/ C. Dembassa

School in Batangafo visited during inter-organisation evaluation mission of CHF projects. Dec 2011. Credit: OCHA/L. Paletta

Children outside water pump in Batangafo visited during inter-organisation evaluation mission of CHF projects. Dec 2011. Credit: OCHA/L. Paletta

School in Batangafo visited during inter-organisation evaluation mission of CHF projects. Dec 2011. Credit: OCHA/L. Paletta

Kabo IDP camp visited during inter-organisation evaluation mission of CHF projects. Dec 2011. Credit: OCHA/L. Paletta

School in Batangafo visited during inter-organisation evaluation mission of CHF projects. Dec 2011. Credit: OCHA/L. Paletta

Kabo IDP camp visited during inter-organisation evaluation mission of CHF projects. Dec 2011. Credit: OCHA/L. Paletta

Boy carrying water in Kabo. Inter-organisation evaluation mission of CHF projects. Dec 2011. Credit: OCHA/L. Paletta

Children in Kabo. Inter-organisation evaluation mission of CHF projects. Dec 2011. Credit: OCHA/L. Paletta

Girl collecting water. Inter-organisation evaluation mission of CHF projects. Dec 2011. Credit: OCHA/L. Paletta

Nurse treats woman with malaria at health post in Kaga-Bandoro visited during inter-organisation evaluation mission of CHF projects. Dec 2011. Credit: OCHA/L. Paletta

Woman with malaria at health post in Kaga-Bandoro visited during inter-organisation evaluation mission of CHF projects. Dec 2011. Credit: OCHA/L. Paletta

Nurse treats woman with malaria at health post in Kaga-Bandoro visited during inter-organisation evaluation mission of CHF projects. Dec 2011. Credit: OCHA/L. Paletta

Nurse at health post in Kaga-Bandoro visited during inter-organisation evaluation mission of CHF projects. Dec 2011. Credit: OCHA/L. Paletta

Credit: UNICEF

18 October, Bossangoa, CAR: OCHA Operations Director John Ging (centre) and the emergency directors of eight UN and humanitarian organizations have ended a week long trip to the Central African Republic (CAR) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) - two countries that are undergoing severe humanitarian crises. Credit: UNICEF

Credit: UNICEF

17 October 2013, Bangui, CAR: In CAR's capital Bangui they met with government officials as well as representatives of UN agencies and the humanitarian community. They discussed the worrying decline in security in CAR, and the severe impact that this is having on humanitarian efforts. Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: They also met with ex-Seleka members - the rebel forces that seized power in CAR at the beginning of the year and that have wreaked havoc across the country. Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: OCHA's John Ging and the Imam of Bassangoa. The delegation also met with the region's Bishop. Both leaders condemned acts of violence and spoke of their desire for cohabitation and reconciliation between Muslims and Christians in Bossangoa. Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

Dec 2013, Central African Republic: The UN Refugee Agency has distributed tents, sleeping mats and other essential items to help families. The World Health Organization and partners provided medical supplies to hospitals. Credit: OCHA/R.Gitau

Dec 2013, Central African Republic: Here, WFP and partners distribute food to families who remain displaced close to the airport. Many displaced children urgently need malnutrition treatment. Credit: OCHA/R.Gitau

Dec 2013, Central African Republic: Despite the insecurity, aid organizations are scaling up assistance. Since the beginning of December, the World Food Programme (WFP) has distributed food to 160,000 people in and around Bangui. Credit: OCHA/R.Gitau

Dec 2013, Central African Republic: Over 1 million people across the country are now food insecure. People are desperately in need of food, water, health care and protection. Credit: OCHA/R.Gitau

Dec 2013, Central African Republic: Displaced families are sheltering in 50 locations in Bangui, mostly in religious sites and close to the international airport, where these women are. Credit: OCHA/R.Gitau

Dec 2013, Central African Republic: Since the start of the violence a year ago, more than 600,000 people have been internally displaced and over 200,000 have fled to neighbouring countries. A third of the displaced people are in the capital, Bangui. Credit: OCHA/R.Gitau

Dec 2013, Central African Republic: Millions of people in the Central African Republic have been displaced by violence and insecurity. The entire population of 4.6 million people has been affected; half of them are in need of aid. Credit: OCHA/R.Gitau

17 October 2013, Bangui, CAR: Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

17 October 2013, Bangui, CAR: Babacar Gaye, the Special Representative for the Secretary General for the Central African Republic (CAR) with the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for CAR Kaarina Immonen. Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

17 October 2013, Bangui, CAR: Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

17 October 2013, Bangui, CAR: The emergency directors meet with representatives of NGOs. Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

17 October 2013, Bangui, CAR: OCHA Emergency Director John Ging with the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Central African Republic (CAR), Kaarina Immonen. Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

17 October 2013, Bangui, CAR: Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

17 October, Bangui, CAR: OCHA Operations Director John Ging (second from right) and the emergency directors of eight UN and humanitarian organizations have ended a week long trip to the Central African Republic (CAR) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) - two countries that are home to some of the most pressing humanitarian needs in the world. Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

17 October 2013, Bangui, CAR: Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: Humanitarian assistance to IDPs. Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: UNICEF Child Friendly Space at the Bossangoa catholic mission. Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: UNICEF Director encourages Educator at the Child Friendly Space in the Bossangoa catholic mission. Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: IDPs at the Bossangoa catholic mission. Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: IDPs at the Bossangoa catholic mission. Credit: AFP/Leger Kokpakpa

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: IDPs at the Bossangoa catholic mission. Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: Internally displaced boy at the Bossangoa catholic mission. Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: Children at the Bossangoa catholic mission. Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: IDPs at the Bossangoa catholic mission. Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: Humanitarian assistance at the catholic mission Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: Children at the Bossangoa catholic mission. Credit: AFP/Leger

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: Internally displaced boys at the catholic mission Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: IDPs at the catholic mission Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: Credit: AFP/Leger Kokpakpa

18 October 2013, Kaga Bandoro, CAR: Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: IDPs at the Bossangoa catholic mission. Credit: AFP/Leger Kokpakpa

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: Credit: AFP/Leger Kokpakpa

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: Food distribution at the Bossangoa catholic mission. Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: The emergency directors expressed their concern that people should not be forced to leave sites like the school and mission, and that humanitarian aid organizations should be given full and unhindered access to these vulnerable groups. Credit: AFP/Leger Kokpakpa

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: Food distribution at the Bossangoa catholic mission. Credit: AFP/Leger Kokpakpa

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: IDPs. Credit: AFP/Leger Kokpakpa

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: Food distribution at the Bossangoa catholic mission. Credit: AFP/Leger Kokpakpa

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: IDPs. Credit: AFP/Leger Kokpakpa

18 October 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: IDPs and humanitarian workers. Credit: AFP/Leger Kokpakpa

18 October 2013, Kaga Bandoro, CAR: Child Friendly Space managed by Save the Children. Credit: OCHA/Laura Fultang

18 October 2013, Kaga Bandoro, CAR: Credit: AFP/Leger Kokpakpa

18 October 2013, Kaga Bandoro, CAR: Looted UN warehouse. Credit: AFP/Leger Kokpakpa

29 Dec 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: Representatives of the displaced communities sheltering in the grounds of the Cathedral met with aid officials, including the Senior Humanitarian Coordinator, Abdou Dieng, to discuss their needs. Credit: OCHA/M. Lobota

29 Dec 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: Aid organizations are providing basic assistance to people living at the school. Here a group of women are drawing water from a water point set up by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and its NGO partners ACF and MSF. Credit: OCHA/M. Lobota

Dec 2013, Bossangoa, CAR: These young men are working with WFP. WFP and its partners have provided food to more than 41,500 people in and around Bossangoa since the beginning of December. Credit: OCHA/D. Schreiber

Jan 2014, Bangui, CAR: The country’s already weak health system has now virtually collapsed. There are not enough medicines, medical supplies or trained health professionals. There is limited support for general health, reproductive health, infant and child health and nutrition. Credit: OCHA/L. Fultang

Jan 2014, Bangui, CAR: About half of all sites sheltering displaced people have on-site health services present. These services are also available for people living in surrounding communities. Credit: IMC/L. Jepson

On 7 January 2014, WFP, UNHCR and COOPI started the first joint distribution of food and household items at the IDP site surrounding the airport in Bangui, in the Central African Republic. Credit: OCHA/R.Gitau

The site at the airport is the biggest in the Central African Republic, 100,000 people have sought refuge here. Credit: OCHA/R.Gitau

Distributed household items include plastic sheets, mats, blankets and mosquito nets. Credit: OCHA/R.Gitau

The distribution targeted 2,400 families during the first two days. It will continue for up to ten days to cover a total of 20,000 families who took shelter at the airport. Credit: OCHA/R.Gitau

People lining up to receive food and household items. More than 5,000 people were provided with urgently needed assistance on the first day of the distribution. Credit: OCHA/R.Gitau

935,000 people have been displaced by the conflict in the Central African Republic. Around 513,000 people continue to live in IDP sites throughout Bangui. Credit: OCHA/R.Gitau

Jan 2014, Bangui, CAR: The clinic offers basic outpatient consultations as well as more specialized support, such as obstetric and antenatal care, nutritional screening and treatment, information on nutrition and hygiene and disease surveillance. Credit: OCHA/C. Illemassene

Jan 2014, Bangui, CAR: The International Medical Corps (IMC), an NGO, opened a health clinic at the St Bernard site for displaced people in Bangui’s Boy-Rabe neighbourhood. This is one of the capital’s worst-affected areas. In December 2013, about 15,000 people here had to flee their homes because of fierce fighting. Credit: OCHA/L. Fultang

Jan 2014, Bangui, CAR: OCHA’s Head of Office in CAR, Barbara Shenstone, visited the St Bernard clinic on 22 January and met with both patients and the staff. "It was great to see the assistance being provided to families at St Bernard's. The clinic was well organized and I was very impressed by the dedication of the staff. I was also impressed by the women of the community, who remain hopeful and want above all to be able to go home and for their children to go back to school.". Credit: OCHA/L. Fultang

21 Feb 2014, Bangui, CAR: "Their situation is appalling," said Mr Dieng, following his visit. "People are being killed purposefully, targeted for their religious beliefs. Every night brings more violence and deaths." Credit: OCHA/Phil Moore

21 Feb 2014, Bangui, CAR: The UN Senior Humanitarian Coordinator, Abdou Dieng (second from right), visited the PK-12 neighbourhood on the outskirts of Bangui on Friday 21 February. The 3,000 people of this predominantly Muslim community have been cut off from the rest of the city for two months. Credit: OCHA/Phil Moore

21 Feb 2014, Bangui, CAR: Mr. Dieng met with community leaders to discuss their situation and needs. The community fled as far north as they could within Bangui after they came under attack by Anti-Balaka militias. They are now living along the side of the main road that runs north from the city. Credit: OCHA/Phil Moore

21 Feb 2014, Bangui, CAR: Mr. Dieng called for an increased presence of international troops to protect the people of PK12. "We need to do much more to protect them if we don't want to have the deaths of these men, women and children on our conscience." Credit: OCHA/Phil Moore

21 Feb 2014, Bangui, CAR: Community leaders expressed concerns over their safety. They told him that each day, an average of two people from PK12 have been admitted to the local hospital with bullet wounds. Credit: OCHA/Phil Moore

21 Feb 2014, Bangui, CAR: "The people want to leave this place they call 'hell'," said Mr. Dieng. "We need to evacuate them as soon as possible to a safe location where families can be reunited and live without fear for their lives." Credit: OCHA/Phil Moore

22 Feb 2014, Bangui, CAR: Twenty tons of World Food Programme (WFP) food was distributed in PK12 as a result of the UN's efforts. Many people told members of the OCHA team that accompanied the Humanitarian Coordinator that they had barely eaten anything in the past week. Credit: OCHA/Phil Moore

22 Feb 2014, Bangui, CAR: The presence of international troops in the area has also been strengthened. This Rwandan soldier - a member of the African Union force (MISCA) - was one of those who stood guard during the food distribution in PK12. Credit: OCHA/Phil Moore

22 Feb 2014, Bangui, CAR: Following the visit to PK12, and following negotiations with Anti-Balaka groups, the UN was able to secure the first aid convoy into the neighbourhood in weeks. Credit: OCHA/Phil Moore

22 Feb 2014, Bangui, CAR: The UN is now working with the community to begin evacuations from PK12 so that people no longer have to live in daily fear for their lives. Credit: OCHA/Phil Moore

Another $1.3 million of CERF emergency response funding allocated to UNICEF is helping thousands of Iraqi children through addressing the critical health needs such as a polio vaccination campaign. (UNICEF/Khuzaie)

16 Jan, Bangui, CAR: Bags of 50 kilos donated by Canada were distributed today at the Bangui airport camp, now home to an estimated 100,000 people.

16 Jan, Bangui, CAR: Displaced people at the airport camp were given today rations of rice, lentils and vegetable oil.

16 Jan, Bangui, CAR: After the distribution takes place, beneficiaries share bags of rice and lentils or vegetable oil – as on this photos – between families.

16 Jan, Bangui, CAR: A beneficiary carrying his heavy load- 50 kg of rice distributed by WFP - back to his tent.

16 Jan, Bangui, CAR: Yellow peas donated by USAID are off loaded from a truck at the Bangui airport distribution area shared by WFP and the UNHCR.

16 Jan, Bangui, CAR: As soon as displaced people receive their rations they go back to their tent helped by friends or family members to carry the heavy load.

16 Jan, Bangui, CAR: Distributions last several hours every day with the aim of reaching one thousand families daily.

Central African Republic, 17 September 2013 WFP is responding rapidly to the growing crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR), a landlocked country with few roads or natural resources. The scale up in operations comes amid growing concerns that the ongoing insecurity is fueling hunger among people who have been forced to flee their homes and farms. In August 2013 WFP made a monthly food distribution on the road between Damara and Sibut, some 100 kilometres north of the capital, Bangui. This is the road the rebels swept down in March when they captured Bangui. Residents of the villages along the road fled to the forest in terror; their homes were burnt and looted and fields stripped of plants. At the end of a two-day visit to the Central African Republic (CAR), the UN World Food Programme (WFP) Regional Director for West Africa, Denise Brown, says that the organization is committed to scaling up food assistance to people displaced by conflict in CAR. Brown visited CAR to see first-hand the situation of vulnerable people in dire need of food assistance. In Bozoum, 400 km northwest of the capital Bangui, she met beneficiaries among thousands of people who have fled conflict in Bossangoa. Currently up to 500,000 people are estimated to need immediate food assistance and this figure is likely to increase as the planting season has been disrupted by conflict and displacement. WFP is re-opening its offices in the north eastern and western parts of the country and using mobile teams to reach people in areas that remain insecure. In the photo: Context of the distribution supported by WFP with partner Caritas, in collaboration with volunteers from the local Red Cross Photo: WFP/Boris Heger

Central African Republic, Bangui Airport, 21 January 2014 The World Food Programme is providing assistance to 20,000 people in the Bouar area. There have been large population movements due to fighting over the last months. Distributions are ongoing in Bouar. All efforts are being made to position stocks of the January round of food assistance to vulnerable people in the North. This will depend on the secure movement of convoys from the border to Bangui, and from Bangui to the North. WFP is reaching out to local community leaders to inform people about food distributions. WFP is soliciting the concerns, ideas and priorities of people, especially women and vulnerable groups, so those most in need are reached. In the Photo: 100,000 people live in the Bangui airport camp. Many have been there for over one month. Photo: WFP/Alexis Masciarelli

Central African Republic, Bangui, February 8th 2014 To prevent a break in the vital flow of food supplies into the Central African Republic, WFP is planning to start airlifting food from Cameroon next week. Despite a substantial increase in costs, WFP believe that there is currently no other option to avoid a breakdown in the food pipeline and the risk of being forced to interrupt distributions. With the airlifts, WFP can expect to transport 1,800 metric tons of food from Douala in 30 days. WFP is warning about a looming nutrition crisis due to a combination of factors including bad sanitation in the IDPs sites, a lack of food prepositioning, rising food prices and the coming rainy season. In order to prevent malnutrition, WFP will start providing specialized nutritional foods (Plumpy’sup) in the general food distributions in February. 623 children received a monthly rations of ‘Plumpy sup’ during a distribution in the mosque area of PK12 on the outskirts of Bangui on Thursday. Most of the families who have gathered there have been displaced by the violence in Bangui and the town of Bouali. The vast majority is waiting for transport towards Chad to flee the violence and looting of their property. The level of human suffering is devastating and the level of fear is palpable across the country. The economy fabric has collapsed because many of the people who fled were involved in trading and business Photo: WFP/Alexis Masciarelli

A woman holds a child whose mid-upper-arm circumference is being measured by a health worker. The red on the armband indicates that he is malnourished. They are at a site where workers from the NGO Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger), a UNICEF partner, are performing nutrition screenings for children and women who have taken refuge in the predominantly Muslim PK12 neighbourhood of Bangui, the capital. Children who screen positive for malnutrition are receiving Plumpy’nut ready-to-use therapeutic food. In early March 2014, conflict continues to worsen living conditions in the Central African Republic – already among the world’s poorest countries, and where children have long been deprived of education, protection and basic social and health services. Across the country, 2.5 million people need assistance, and 601,000 are internally displaced. Of these, 176,858 are in Bangui, where inter-religious tensions are significant. Launched jointly by UNICEF together with other United Nations agencies, the 2014 Strategic Response Plan for the Central African Republic calls for US$551.3 million to cover humanitarian responses this year. UNICEF is leading efforts in the sectors of water, sanitation and hygiene, nutrition and education.

A worker from the NGO Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger), a UNICEF partner, measures a girl’s mid-upper-arm circumference to assess her nutritional status, in the predominantly Muslim PK12 neighbourhood of Bangui, the capital. The yellow on the band indicates that she is at risk of becoming malnourished. Children who screen positive for malnutrition are receiving Plumpy’nut ready-to-use therapeutic food. In early March 2014, conflict continues to worsen living conditions in the Central African Republic – already among the world’s poorest countries, and where children have long been deprived of education, protection and basic social and health services. Across the country, 2.5 million people need assistance, and 601,000 are internally displaced. Of these, 176,858 are in Bangui, where inter-religious tensions are significant. Launched jointly by UNICEF together with other United Nations agencies, the 2014 Strategic Response Plan for the Central African Republic calls for US$551.3 million to cover humanitarian responses this year. UNICEF is leading efforts in the sectors of water, sanitation and hygiene, nutrition and education.

Credit: OCHA/John James

An aid worker installing a water pump to provide the 40,000 internally displaced people in Bossangoa with drinking water

Iraq, 17 August 2014 Photo: WFP/Mohammed Al Bahbahani

Peshkhabour / Dohuk Unicef provides child protection services and distributes water and hygiene items to Yazidi IDPs that are crossing from Syria into Kurdistan. These IDPs had been trapped on Mount Sinjar with no water, shelter or food.Credit:UNICEF

UNICEF temporary CFS at peshkabour border crossing where UNICEF facilitators distributed soap and bottles of water to Yezidi IDPs. Credit:UNICEF

Yezidi IDPs from Mt. Sinjar cross the bridge at Peshkabour border crossing from Syria into Iraqi Kurdistan. Credit:UNICEF

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UNICEF Iraq Representative Dr. Marzio Babille talks to Yezidi IDPs at Peshkabour border crossing.Credit:UNICEF

11 July 2014: Men jostle for a place in line as they wait to receive some fresh water. Credit: OCHA/David Swanson

June 2014, Iraq: A girl receives food from Red Crescent volunteers in Moula Berwan, Dohuk province, where the organization is assisting 160 families who fled from the violence in Karakush, a town between Erbil and Mosul. Credit: Iraqi Red Crescent

June 2014, Iraq: Children fill water containers from a tanker outside the Garmava transit camp, located near a checkpoint on the road between Mosul and Duhok in Iraqi Kurdistan. Credit: UNHCR/S. Baldwin

21 Oct 2012: UN agencies and humanitarian partners are providing aid to the refugees as well as responding to chronic food insecurity affecting 3 million people in Burkina Faso. So far this year, they have provided food assistance to more than 800,000 people. Here, food rations are ready for distribution in Mentao Refugee Camp. Credit: OCHA/Belinda Holdsworth

June 2012: OCHA vehicles on a muddy road close to Djabal refugee camp. During the rainy season, poor road conditions make it hard to carry out aid work. Credit: OCHA/ Pierre Peron

Said, a casual worker in Mao, Kanem,Chad, carries sacks of food aid for WFP. (pierre Peron/OCHA)

Floods and poor road conditions in southern Chad made it hard for aid agencies to reach people who needed help. Credit: OCHA/Pierre Peron

10 March 2012, Republic of Congo: A UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team is working with Government authorities to coordinate the humanitarian response. Credit: MAG

10 March 2012, Republic of Congo: The Congolese fire department has been conducting search and rescue efforts. The UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) has been working with them. Credit: MAG

17 January 2012, Western Côte d’Ivoire: Norwegian Refugee Council builds houses in Zeaglo. Credit: OCHA/ Kayode Egbeleye

17 January,2012: Second from right, the Assistant Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs & Deputy Coordinator for Emergency Relief,Mme Catherine Bragg,& the Humanitarian Coordinator, Mr. Ndolamb Ngokwey (fourth from right) watch as returnees receive Non-Food-Items in Zeaglo (Blolequin) (Photo: Basile Zoma)

17 January,2012: Returnees and artisans at work on a Solidarite Internationale-funded home rehabilitation scheme in Niambly.(Photo: Basile Zoma)

17 January,2012: New foundation for returnees in Niambly village as destroyed houses get reconstructed by Solidarite Internationale. (Photo: Basile Zoma)

17 January,2012: Returnees and artisans at work on a Solidarite Internationale-funded home rehabilitation scheme in Niambly.(Photo: Basile Zoma)

Two women sharing oil received from a food distribution in Dungu, DR Congo. Credit: Y. Edoumou / UNOCHA DRC

Aid organizations are working to deliver aid to displaced people in Dungu, in DRC's Province Orientale.

Displaced people in Dungu, in DRC's Orientale Province, receiving food aid. Credit: Y. Edoumou / UNOCHA DRC

23 Oct 2012: Humanitarian workers distribute aid vouchers to displaced people. Many of them fled fighting between armed groups in North Kivu. Since the beginning of 2012, nearly 400,000 people have been displaced by conflicts in the region. Credit: OCHA/Imane Cherif

30 November 2012: In partnership with World Vision, CARITAS and Lutheran World Federation, the World Food Programme is distributing 1,200 tons of food. Food packages cover the needs of each recipient for a period of 15 days. Credit: OCHA/Imane Cherif

30 November 2012: The humanitarian community in DRC acted quickly to respond to the crisis, providing emergency water and sanitation, food and healthcare. Credit: OCHA/Imane Cherif

Aid organizations have remained in Goma to help people in need. Credit: OCHA/ Yvon Edoumou

Aid workers unloading food aid from a truck at the Mugunga III camp. Credit: OCHA / Yvon Edoumou

Displaced woman carrying back vegetable oil and CSB (Corn Soya Blend). Credit: OCHA/ Yvon Edoumou

Aid worker carrying oil that will soon end up in the hands of displaced families. Credit: OCHA/ Imane Cherif

Displaced people at the Mugunga III camp carrying newly distributed food. Credit: OCHA/ Yvon Edoumou

Food distribution have been ongoing at Mugunga 3 IDP camp. Credit: OCHA/ Imane Cherif

Distribution of food, Mugunga III IDP camp, Goma, North Kivu, 8 December 2012. Source, OCHA, Niels Stassyns.

Distribution of food, Mugunga III IDP camp, Goma, North Kivu, DRC, 8 December 2012. Source, OCHA, Niels Stassyns.

Getting in line for food distributions in Mugunga III IDP camp, Goma, North Kivu, DRC, 8 December 2012. Source, OCHA, Niels Stassyns.

Food distribution in Mugunga III IDP camp, Goma, North Kivu, DRC, 8 December 2012. Source, OCHA, Niels Stassyns.

Internally displaced people watching food stocks for distribution in Mugunga III IDP camp, Goma, North Kivu, DRC, 8 December 2012. Source, OCHA, Niels Stassyns.

Mugunga III IDP camp, Goma, North Kivu, DRC, 8 December 2012. Crowd assembling for food distributions. Source, OCHA, Niels Stassyns.

Internally displaced people receive food items in Mugunga III camp, Goma, North Kivu, DRC, 8 December 2012. Source, OCHA, Niels Stasssyns.

Internally displaced people receive food in Mugunga III camp, Goma, North Kivu, DRC, 8 December 2012. Source, OCHA, Niels Stassyns.

Internally displaced people carrying freshly received food to their huts in Mugunga III IDP camp, Goma, North Kivu, DRC, 8 December 2012. Source, OCHA, Niels Stassyns.

Queing for food distributions in Mugunga III IDP camp, Goma, North Kivu, DRC, 8 December 2012. Source, OCHA, Niels Stassyns.

Lining up for food distributions at Mugunga III IDP camp, Goma, North Kivu, DRC, 8 December 2012. Source, OCHA, Niels Stassyns.

Food distribution in Mugunga III, Goma, North Kivu, DRC, 8 December 2012. Source, OCHA, Niels Stassyns.

Food distribution, Mugunga III IDP camp, Goman North Kivu, 8 December 2012. Source, OCHA, Niels Stassyns.

Food distributions under way in the Lac Vert IDP site near Goma, North Kivu, DRC, 30 November 2012. By the end of November 2012, the site hosted around 30,000 IDPs after the seizure of the Goma and Sake towns by the M23 rebel movement during the same month. Source, OCHA, Gana Imane Cherif.

March 2013, DRC: Humanitarian partners bringing aid to Kitchanga have been constrained by insecurity. Thanks to this ECHO-sponsored helicopter, the World Food Program deployed a response team on the ground and provided 6 tons of high energy biscuits to the displaced people in and around the UN peacekeepers' base. Credit: OCHA/Imane Cherif

Oil is one of the staple items distributed to IDPs in the DRC by the World Food Programme. Credit: OCHA/Y.Edoumou

In DRC, the World Food Programme relies on local labour to help distribute food to thousands of IDPs and host communities. Credit: OCHA/ Y.Edoumou

International humanitarian donors have been very active in the DRC, it is estimated that more than USD 4 billion has been given over the past decade. Credit:OCHA/Y.Edoumou

Tons of food are distributed per year in the DRC to displaced people and host communities. Credit: OCHA/ Y. Edoumou

Displaced women are usually the head of households, the ones to whom food aid given. Credit: OCHA/Y.Edoumou

Displaced woman and vendor discuss at an IDP fair in Kambilo camp, Easter DRC. More than 26.000 displaced households received assistance in NFI vouchers through Pooled Funds financed projects in 2012. September 4, 2013. Source: OCHA Gemma Cortes

September 2013. Katanga, DRC. Safi Mutombo, shows page of coupons valued 90 USD received at the innovative 'IDP fair' system for distributing goods to displaced families . Once inside the market she separates the coupons into different amounts and prepares to shop the items she needs. During 2012, Pooled Fund partners completed 23 Non Food Items projects for a total value of 16,3 million USD. Source: OCHA Gemma Cortes

Displaced woman having identity confirmed at Non Food Items fair in Kambilo, Katanga Province. This innovative way to assist families improves distribution of supplies to displaced people in DR Congo. September 4, 2013. Source: OCHA Gemma Cortes

Displaced woman presents a vendor with vouchers, par of the innovative "IDP fair' system for distributing goods to displaced families in Kambilo camp, Easter DRC. MOre than 26.000 displaced households received assistance in NFI vouchers through Pooled Funds financed projects in 2012. September 4, 2013. Source: OCHA Gemma Cortes

September 2013. Katanga, DRC. Jeanne Kaubwa presents a vendor with vouchers, part of an innovative 'IDP fair' system for distributing goods to displaced families in Kambilo camp. This market approach system benefits everyone, displaced families have the freedom to choose, cash is injected into local economy and local traders get customers. Source: OCHA Gemma Cortes

19 May 2014, Kolula, South Kivu, DRC: Boxes containing medication are unloaded from a helicopter. In hard to reach areas of Eastern DRC, helicopters play a pivotal role in getting assistance to IDPs and returnees. Credit: OCHA/Naomi Frerotte

8 August 2012, Democratic Republic of the Congo: WFP and UNICEF have provided high energy biscuits (BP5) to thousands of people who have recently arrived at the sites for displaced people in Kibati and Kanyaruchina. Credit: OCHA/Imane Cherif

9 March 2011, Saloum Land Port, Egypt. Water Distribution. Humanitarian assistance is being provided to the almost 6,000 people still at the border who have fled the unrest in Libya. Photo: UNICEF

25 September 2014, Kasnazan, Iraq: Workers for WFP partner ACTED deliver food supplies to beneficiaries at a distribution site in the Kasnazan area of Erbil Governorate. Credit: OCHA/Iason Athanasiadis

25 September 2014, Kasnazan, Iraq: A beneficiary checks his registration papers while waiting at a WFP distribution line in the Kasnazan area of Erbil Governorate in northern Iraq. Credit: OCHA/Iason Athanasiadis

13 April 2013, Aleppo City, Syria: A WFP food delivery is offloaded in an opposition-held area of Aleppo. WFP is aiming to increase its food assistance to reach 2.5 million people in April 2013. Credit: OCHA/Gemma Connell

Assistance delivered in Collective Shelters in Tartous city, Tartous Governorate Credit: UNHCR

UNICEF blankets, along with food supplies, are about to be distributed from a Syrian Arab Red Crescent warehouse in Lattakia. The blankets will help keep displaced children and their families warm during the winter months.

A woman affected by the on-going conflict receives UNICEF blankets during a recent Syrian Arab Red Crescent distribution of relief items in Lattakia.

UNRWA’s humanitarian aid distribution began at 13:05. Reja area up, Yarmouk camp, Damascus. Feb 28, 2014 © unrwa.org

Guinea - Many years of hosting refugees fleeing conflict in neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone had a significant impact on communities in the eastern region of Guinea. This UNTFHS funded project implemented by UNIDO (June 2005 – June 2011) contributed to reducing tensions between refugees and host communities by restoring destroyed social infrastructure and rehabilitating the productive capacities of refugees, returnees, and IDP’s. Credit: UNIDO

Port-au- Prince, district de Canapé Vert. Le CICR propose aux personnes qui ont vivent sous des tentes de contacter leur famille par téléphone satellite pour leur dire qu'ils sont sains et saufs. Port-au- Prince, Canape Vert district. ICRC initiates restoration of family links to residents living in tents. People are offered satellite phone connection in order to contact family members to inform them that they are safe. The earthquake which ocurred in the Port-au-Prince region on the 12th of January 2010 is the worst earthquake the country has ever had to endure. Credit: CICR/KOKIC, Marko

In the last three years, the number of people in camps has decreased by 77 per cent. Many went back to their rehabilitated homes and neighbourhoods. Here, local engineers inspect the reconstruction of houses carried out by families who received construction training and materials from the Government and UNDP. Credit: MINUSTAH/Victoria Hazou

Support Center for Reconstructing Damaged Houses (CARMEN), supported by the UNDP and the Haitian Government, was established to help families rebuild their homes, making them safer, stronger and more resilient to future disasters. Credit: MINUSTAH/Victoria Hazou

12 Sept 2014, Khanke, Iraq: In other sites, WFP and other food security actors ran field kitchens to supply hot meals to those who lacked the means to cook for themselves, as is often a result of having fled with almost nothing. WFP also provides emergency rations for those who are still on the move. Credit: Iason Athanasiadis

Madagascar: Local contingency plans and emergency communication systems were in place and pre-positioned emergency stocks were available. Within days, NGO’s CARE and Helimission delivered plastic sheeting to thousands affected by the storm. Credit: OCHA/Tomas de Mul

March 2014, Malawi: VDC members assisting a beneficiary at Gologota FDP in Chiradzulu. Credit: WFP/D.Ndhlovu

March 2014, Malawi: CP helping a beneficiary put her right thumb print on her ration card at Gologota FDP in Chiradzulu. Credit: WFP/D.Ndhlovu

March 2014, Malawi: Beneficiaries receiving CSB and Pulses at Nyungwe FDP in Chiradzulu. Credit: WFP/D.Ndhlovu

March 2014, Malawi: CP and VDC members assisting beneficiaries at Nyungwe FDP in Chiradzulu. Credit: WFP/D.Ndhlovu

March 2014, Malawi: Beneficiaries lined up to receive their entitlements at Chiperere FDP in Chiradzulu. Credit: WFP/D.Ndhlovu

Thea Chaung IDP camp, Rakhine State, Myanmar, Sept 2012: Food distribution at Thea Chaung camp in rural Sittwe. Since the beginning of the conflict WFP has distributed over 4,400 metric tons of food to affected people. The needs are likely to increase with the additional displaced people. Credit: OCHA

March 2012: Aid delivery to internally displaced people in Kachin. The conflict has displaced some 50,000 to 55,000 people since June, according to the UNHCR. Credit: UN Myanmar

March 2012: Aid delivery to internally displaced people in Kachin. Aid was delivered to camps in Sadung, Lweje and Mai Jayang along the Myanmar-China border. Credit: UN Myanmar

November 2012: World Food Programme food distribution for displaced communities in Rakhine. Credit: OCHA

26 April 2012: Visit of the Regional Humanitarian Coordinator--David Gressly--to Mopti, Mali. Photo Credits: Nicolas Meulders/UNDP

26 April 2012, Mopti, Mali: Food and cooking oil are distributed to displaced people from northern Mali in a temporary shelter in Mopti. Credit: UNDP/ Nicolas Meulders

26 April 2012: Visit of the Regional Humanitarian Coordinator--David Gressly--to Mopti, Mali. Photo Credits: Nicolas Meulders/UNDP

13 Nov 2014, Bogole, Chad: A young patient gets a check-up from a nurse. Often, infections like Tuberculosis or HIV can accompany malnutrition, so medical staff are always on the look out even when their patients seem to be recovering. Credit: OCHA/Philippe Kropf

13 Nov 2014, Bogole, Chad: One package of Plumpynut contains 500 kilocalories - one quarter of an adult's daily requirements. The peanut paste contains sugar, oil, milk powder and is enriched with vitamins and minerals. Because it comes in sachets, it is can easily be administered outside of clinical settings. Credit: OCHA/Philippe Kropf

13 November 2013, Bogole, Chad: "On some days we have up to 200 women coming in with their kids," explains Guy-Salomon Djeugueme, the nurse in charge of the Bogole health centre. "Many of the mothers are children themselves, married at an early age." Credit: OCHA/Philippe Kropf

13 November 2013, Bogole, Chad: Salamata, the mother of six month old Alewa Ahmat, is only 14 years old herself. "He just lost weight and started coughing. I did not know what to do. Now he is better and has gained 1 kg already." Credit: OCHA/Philippe Kropf

13 November 2013, Bogole, Chad: Every mother receives 11 sachets of Plumpynut - enough for them to feed their child for seven days. They must thenreturn to the health centre for the next consultation. Credit: OCHA/Philippe Kropf

13 Nov 2014, Bogole, Chad: Many of the mothers pictured here walked for hours to arrive at the feeding station that is supported by the NGO Action Contre la Faim. The rate of Global Acute Malnutrition in Kanem is 17.3 per cent - well over the emergency threshold of 15 per cent. Credit: OCHA / Philippe Kropf

13 Nov 2014, Bogole, Chad: Once a week, this health centre in Bogole in Chad's arid Kanem region becomes a feeding station - one of nearly 500 such stations in the country. According to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), nearly 250,000 children in Chad were malnourished in the first 10 months of 2014. Credit: OCHA / Philippe Kropf

13 Nov 2014, Bogole, Chad: Every child who arrives at the centre is weighed and measured. The circumference of the upper arm is taken as an indicator for malnutrition - less than 115 millimeters indicates severe acute malnutrition. Credit: OCHA/Philippe Kropf

13 November 2013, Bogole, Chad: Three women leave the feeding station after the treatment. They will be back in one week. Usually, it takes around six weeks for a child to recover from malnutrition. Credit: OCHA/Philippe Kropf

13 Nov 2014, Bogole, Chad: An appetite test establishes if the children have the energy and the will to eat. If not, they need to be referred to a therapeutic centre to be fed via a stomach tube. Credit: OCHA / Philippe Kropf

4 March 2015, Rakhine, Myanmar - OCHA staff member talks to Outpatient Therapeutic Program (OTP) centre worker and incoming patients at Thet Kae Pyin camp for internally displaced people Credit: OCHA/Z.Nurmukhambetova

4 March 2015, Rakhine, Myanmar - OCHA staff member talks to Outpatient Therapeutic Program (OTP) centre worker at Thet Kae Pyin camp for internally displaced people Credit: OCHA/Z.Nurmukhambetova

July 11, Yemen, Sana'a. This morning UNHCR started transporting lifesaving aid for immediate distribution to displaced families in previously hard-to-reach areas. Mattresses, blankets and sleeping mats are among the necessities for families sleeping on the cold concrete of unfinished buildings or out in the open. There are over 1.2 million displaced people and 250,000 refugees in Yemen. Credit: UNHCR/A.Zabarah

July 2, Sana’a, Yemen. Six trucks contracted by WHO Yemen line up to join and inter-agency convoy of headed from Sana’a to Aden with 46.4 tons of medical aid for health installation in the whole city. Besides providing essential medicines and supplies, training on epidemiological field investigation, early warning system and rapid test for Dengue and Malaria took place. Credit: WHO / Sadeq Al-Wesabi

11 July 2015, Amran, Yemen. Distribution by UNHCR’s implementing partner the Yemen Red Crescent of essential household items to 129 displaced families (987 individuals) in Amran Governorate. Credits: YRC / S.Hadi and A.Alashmorri

13 July 2015. UNCHR, WFP and the implementing partner Society for Humanitarian Society (SHS) distributee food to families in the Kharaz Refugee Camp. Kharaz camp is located in Lahj governorate, Al Madharaba distinct west of Aden governorate, and it is far away from Aden 136 kilo meter. Up to 20,000 refugees reside permanently in the camp; nearly 50% of them are children. Credit: UNHCR/A.Faadaq

• 23 July 2015, Aden, Yemen: The WFP chartered MV Copenhagen gets unloaded in Aden port. The ship is carrying 500,000 litres of diesel fuel for humanitarian operations. The vessel had earlier been re-routed to Al-Hodeidah due to ongoing hostilities in Aden and unloaded 1 million litres of fuel two weeks ago in Al-Hodeida. The humanitarian operations in Yemen are in need of an estimated 5 million litres of fuel per month, including fuel for milling grain and keeping the public water supply running. (Credits: WFP) (Name of photographer not known)

31 JAN 2017, Elidaar Woreda, Zone One, Afar Region. Emergency food distribution. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia/ Tamirat Mengistu

25 NOV 2017, Gewane Woreda, Zone 3, Afar Region. NFI distribution for flood affected people in Gewane woreda by IOM and ERCS. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia/ Tamiral Mengistu

24 JAN 2017, Gelalo Woreda, Afar Region. No access to transport humanitarian response for 11 Kebeles in Gelalo woreda in zone 3. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia/ Tamirat Mengistu

24 JAN 2017, Awash River, Afar Region. People using the Awash river for drinking and washing clothes this causes AWD in the area

27 FEB 2017, Chifera Woreda, Zone One, Afar Region. Pasture detriorated due to lack of rain in zone one chifera woreda. Credit: UNOCHA EThiopia/ Tamirat Mengistu

06 Mar 2017, Mille Woreda, Zone One, Ethiopia: Disscusion with the community about the current drought situation. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia/ Tamirat Mengistu

05 APR 2017, Elidaar Woreda, Zone 1, Afar Region, Ethiopia: The mission visted Akula IDP site. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia/ Tamirat Mengistu

05 APR 2017, Elidaar Woreda, Zone 1, Afar Region, Ethiopia: Halydege pasture land deteriorated due to lack of Belg rain . Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia/ Tamirat Mengistu

05 April 2017, Elidaar Woreda, Zone 1, Afar Region, Ethiopia: Discussion with IDP elders in Akula site. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia/ Tamirat Mengistu

05 APR 2017, Elidaar Woreda, Zone 1, Afar Region, Ethiopia: The team visited Gera IDP site. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia/ Tamirat Mengistu

05 APR 2017, Elidaar Woreda, Zone 1, Afar Region, Ethiopia: Discussion with the IDPs in Akula site. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia/ Tamirat Mengistu

UNICEF waterpoint. Dikwa, Borno State, 15 June 2017 Photo: OCHA / Yasmina Guerda

Golden Tulip Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia World Humanitarian Day, 19 August 2017. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia/ Henock Solomon

27 JAN 2018, Gode, Somali. Mark Lowcock received by the Somali regional authorities in Gode. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia

28 JAN 2018, UNECA, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. Mr. Lowcock presenting at high level event on new Way of Working. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia

28 JAN 2018, UNECA, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. Mrs. Ahunna presenting at high level event on new Way of Working. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia

28 JAN 2018, UNECA, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. Mr. Lowcock presenting at high level event on new Way of Working. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia

28 JAN 2018, UNECA, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. Mrs. Ahunna presenting at high level event on new Way of Working. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia

28 JAN 2018, UNECA, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. Mr. Lowcock presenting at high level event on new Way of Working. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia

27 JAN 2018, Gode, Somali. Mark Lowcock received by the Somali regional authorities in Gode. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia

27 JAN 2018, Gode, Somali. Mr. Lowcock visiting Farbour IDP in Gode. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia

27 JAN 2018, Gode, Somali. Mark Lowcock received by the Somali regional authorities in Gode. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia

APR 2018, Kalafo-Mustahil Woreda', Shabelle Zone, Somali Region: Flood. Credit: UNOCHAEthiopia/ Hamidu Jalloh

7 MAY 2018, Somali Region: Flood. Credit: Early Warning Directorate Director, DPPB, SRS/ Abdi Ahmed

4 May 2018, Shabelle Zone, Somali Region: DHC Bouloukos meets with local authorities and project management personnel at the Karinka IDP site. Credit: UNOCHA/ Kaela Glass

4 May 2018, Gode, Somali Region: Recently constructed shelter for IDP households who will resettle in Shabelle Zone. Credit: UNOCHA/ Kaela Glass

4 May 2018, Gode Woreda, Shabeele Zone, Somali Region: Health Clinic. Credit: UNOCHA/ Kaela Glass

4 May 2018, Shabelle Zone, Somali Region: Shelter construction at the Karinka IDP resettlement site. Credit: UNOCHA/ Kaela Glass

24 APRIL 2018, Gedeo Zone, SNNPR, Ethiopia: Displacement caused by conflict. Credit: IOM

24 APRIL 2018, Gedeo Zone, SNNPR, Ethiopia: Displacement caused by conflict. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia\Mesfin Andargie

24 APRIL 2018, Gedeo Zone, SNNPR, Ethiopia: Displacement caused by conflict. Credit: IOM

24 APRIL 2018, Gedeo Zone, SNNPR, Ethiopia: Displacement caused by conflict. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia\Mesfin Andargie

24 APRIL 2018, Gedeo Zone, SNNPR, Ethiopia: Displacement caused by conflict. Credit: IOM

24 APRIL 2018, Gedeo Zone, SNNPR, Ethiopia: Displacement caused by conflict. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia\Mesfin Andargie

24 APRIL 2018, Gedeo Zone, SNNPR, Ethiopia: Displacement caused by conflict. Credit: IOM

07 July 2018, Oromia Region, West Guji Zone, Bule Hora Woreda. IDPs. Credit: UNOCHA/ Tinago Chikoto

07 July 2018, Oromia Region, West Guji Zone, Kercha Woreda. IDPs. Credit: UNOCHA/ Tinago Chikoto

20 JULY 2018, Bule Hora Woreda, West Guji Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia: Bule Hora Admin Site. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia\Mengistu Dargie

24 APRIL 2018, Gedeo Zone, SNNPR, Ethiopia: Displacement caused by conflict. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia\Mesfin Andargie

Dawa Bicho Kebele, Melka Soda Woreda, West Guji Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia, 20-21 Jul 2020. Dawa Bicho Kebele of Melka Soda Woreda, where 500 HHS are displaced and currently they are settled in this new site, due to the conflict between UAG’s and government forces. : UNOCHA Ethiopia/ Nahimi Feyissa

Amibara woreda, Afar Region, Ethiopia, 22 Sep 2020. Overview of floods. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia

Gewan woreda, Afar Region, Ethiopia, 22 Sep 2020. Overview of floods. Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia

Mushahil Woreda, Shabelle Zone, Somali Region, Ethiopia, 16 Aug 2020.. Floods in kiremt Credit: UNOCHA Ethiopia

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On 13 March 2014, category 5 Cyclone Pam struck the pacific islands of Vanuatu leaving a trail of destruction and displacing thousands of people. Credit: UNICEF Pacific/Alice Clements

More than 160,000 people were affected by the storm with thousands in urgent need of food, clean drinking water and emergency shelter. Credit: UNICEF Pacific/Alice Clements

The UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) allocated US$5 million to help UN Agencies provide quick humanitarian assistance. Credit: WFP/Victoria Cavanagh

With funding from CERF, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) provided emergency shelter for thousands of families that had been forced to sleep out in the open. Credit: IOM/Troy Dooley

Since the beginning of the recovery efforts, IOM has provided emergency shelter for 50,000 people. Credit: IOM/Joe Lowry

The World Food Programme (WFP) received some $1.7 million from CERF to provide emergency food assistance for more than 160,000 people. Credit: WFP/Victoria Cavanagh

WFP distributed rice and high energy biscuits to islands where affected families had limited access to clean water to cook food. Credit: WFP/Victoria Cavanagh

With $1.7 million from CERF, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) provided emergency health services, clean water and emergency education. UNICEF/Gaelle Sevenier

UNICEF helped keep children in school by providing school supplies and tents to act as temporary classrooms. Credit: UNICEF Pacific/Sokhin

UNICEF estimates that more than 82,000 children were affected by the cyclone. Credit: UNICEF/Gaelle Sevenier

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February 2012, Afghanistan: A family at an informal settlement for displaced people in Kabul. Hundreds of thousands of people are displaced in the country. Credit: IRIN/Mohamed Popal

February 2012, Tillaberi, Niger: A sandstorm in Tillaberi region. Erratic and poor rainfall in Niger during the 2011-2012 agro-pastoral season worsened the food and nutrition crisis. Credit: IRIN/Jaspreet Kindra

February 2012, Diffa, Niger: Bappi Dari, leader of a WoDaabe community, was forced by successive droughts to give up his nomadic way of life. He now earns a pittance working as a security guard in Diffa. Credit: IRIN/Jaspreet Kindra

March 2012, Diffa, Niger: A family in the Diffa region of southeastern Niger. Droughts have become more frequent, challenging the traditional way of life of pastoralists. Credit: IRIN/Jaspreet Kindra

March 2012, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Morning tea in Ngubu IDP camp, northeastern DRC. Since the beginning of 2012, the humanitarian situation in the DRC has deteriorated mainly due to conflict in the east. Humanitarian agencies have provided drinking water to over 3 million people in the first half of 2012. Credit:IRIN/Guy Oliver/IRIN

March 2012, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Ngubu IDP camp on the outskirts of Faradje, Haut-Uélé District, northeastern DRC. The number of displaced people in DRC increased from 1.7 million in December 2011 to 2.4 million in September 2012 because of conflict. Credit: IRIN/Guy Oliver

April 2012, Yemen: A makeshift centre for displaced people in a school in Aden, Yemen. Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by conflict are living in temporary shelters and public buildings. Credit: IRIN/Lindsay Mackenzie

June 2012, Mohale Hoek, Lesotho: Crop diversification is an important way of dealing with climate change. Improved agricultural production can help people cope with the food crisis caused by recurrent droughts in southern Africa. Credit: IRIN/Mujahid Safodien

July 2012, Kenya: Children displaced from central Kenya’s Isiolo District attend school in Kanchara village in the northeastern district of Wajir. Thousands of people have been affected by inter-communal conflict in Isiolo. Credit: IRIN/Siegfried Modola

July 2012, Côte d’Ivoire: Nicla II refugee camp, known as Peacetown, has evolved into a sprawling village in the forest outside Guiglo in western Côte d’Ivoire. For nearly 20 years, Côte d’Ivoire has hosted tens of thousands of Liberian refugees who fled across the border during the civil wars in their country. Credit: IRIN/Tommy Trenchard

July 2012, Tabou, Côte d’Ivoire: Liberian refugee children play on the beach in Tabou, 30 km from the Liberian border. Credit: IRIN/Tommy Trenchard

July 2012, Mogadishu, Somalia: The remains of Mogadishu cathedral, built by the Italian colonial authorities. Although famine conditions no longer exist in Somalia, more than 2 million people face food shortages. Credit: IRIN/Kate Holt

July 2012, Ras Kamboni, Somalia: A weekly nutritional assessment in Ras Kamboni. Over a quarter of a million children are malnourished in Somalia. Credit: IRIN/Kate Holt

July 2012, Kenya: Children displaced from central Kenya’s Isiolo District attend school in Kanchara village in the northeastern district of Wajir. Credit: IRIN/Siegfried Modola

August, 2012: A Syrian Kurdish refugee child returning from school in Domiz refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan. More than 300,000 Syrian refugees are registered in neighboring countries. Credit: IRIN/Heba Aly

August 2012, Manila, Philippines: A flooded district of Manila. The Philippines is highly disaster-prone with an average of 20 typhoons a year, and is exposed to other natural hazards such as earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions and drought. Credit: IRIN/Jason Gutierrez

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27 Aug 2014, Doolow, Somalia: Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia Phillipe Lazzarini discusses key humanitarian concerns with aid workers from various organizations based in Doolow during a stop over at the town en-route to Garbahaarrey for a humanitarian assessment visit on 27 August 2014. UN Photo / David Mutua

27 Aug 2014, Garbahaarrey, Somalia: Phillipe Lazzarini, Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, discusses urgent humanitarian issues with the District Commissioner of Garbahaaarrey, Imaan Addow Kaarshe, and other members of the local administration during a humanitarian mission to Garbahaarrey town. UN Photo/David Mutua

27 Aug 2014, Garbahaarey, Somalia: The OCHA Head of Office a.i. Edem Wosornu, discusses the day-to-day struggles and challenges women face in drought-affected Garbahaarey in Gedo region. Aid workers visited the town in late August 2014 to get a better understanding of the humanitarian needs. UN Photo / David Mutua

27 Aug 2014, Garbahaarey, Somalia: The Humanitarian Coordinator Philippe Lazzarini visited drought affected Garbahaarey in Gedo region on 27 August to discuss with local communities and aid workers and to take stock of measures required to ensure that the humanitarian response is at scale in the area. UN Photo / David Mutua

27 Aug 2014, Garbahaarey, Somalia: Water is a big challenge in Garbahaarey in Gedo region. Community members and local authorities in Garbahaarey noted that most of the pastoralists and agro-pastoralists had moved southwards in search of pasture and water while small livestock (sheep and goats) are dying due to lack of water. Aid workers visited the drought-affected area in August 2014 to inform response. UN Photo/David Mutua

27 Aug 2014, Garbahaarey, Somalia: The Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Phillipe Lazzarini, walks to a water point and passes through a saline river that serves two thirds of Garbahaarey town during a humanitarian assessment visit to the drought-affected town. UN Photo/David Mutua

27 Aug 2014, Garbahaarey, Somalia: A young man fetches water from a shallow well in Garbahaarey town in Gedo region. Gedo is one of the regions experiencing drought in Somalia following below average seasonal rains between April and June 2014. Emergency cargo flights began in August to alleviate the fragile humanitarian situation. UN Photo/David Mutua

27 Aug 2014, Garbahaarey, Somalia: A young man en-route to a shallow well to fetch water in Garbahaarey town in Gedo region. Aid workers visited the area in August 2014 to discuss with local communities and authorities and to better understand the humanitarian needs. UN Photo/David Mutua

27 Aug 2014, Garbahaarey, Somalia: Water is scarce in drought affected Garbahaarey town in Gedo region in southern Somalia. Young girls wait by a shallow well during a humanitarian mission to the area in August 2014. UN Photo/David Mutua

Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Philippe Lazzarini, and FAO Head of Office, Rudi Van Aaken, hold a joint press conference in Mogadishu on 2 September, concerning Somalia's deteriorating food security. Over one million people in Somalia are currently facing acute food insecurity, an increase of 20 per cent from six months ago, and as many as 3.2 million people are now in need of humanitarian or livelihood assistance. UN Photo / Tobin Jones

Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Philippe Lazzarini, and FAO Head of Office, Rudi Van Aaken, hold a joint press conference in Mogadishu on September 2, concerning Somalia's deteriorating food security. Over one million people in Somalia are currently facing acute food insecurity, an increase of 20% from six months ago, and as many as three million people are now in need of humanitarian assistance. UN Photo / Tobin Jones

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Yemen Faces a Growing Humanitarian Crisis: Chronic underdevelopment, exacerbated by political instability, has led to sharp increases in food insecurity, malnutrition and a breakdown of basic services. Credit: Yemen Humanitarian Communication Network

Around half a million people have been displaced, and do not have access to basic shelter and other services. Credit: Yemen Humanitarian Communication Network

Prospects for return in many areas are limited due to ongoing conflict, destruction of infrastructure and landmines. Many displaced people sought shelter in schools, disrupting the education of some 300,000 children. Credit: Yemen Humanitarian Communication Network

Aid agencies have helped schools and communities create Child-Friendly Spaces and temporary schools in conflict-affected areas, allowing 110,000 children to continue their education and receive psycho-social support. Credit: Yemen Humanitarian Communication Network

Almost one million children under the age of five suffer from acute malnutrition, with 267,000 at risk of death if not treated immediately. Credit: Yemen Humanitarian Communication Network

Aid agencies continue to treat malnourished children in mobile clinics in the North. But the clinics are facing closure due to funding shortages. Credit: Yemen Humanitarian Communication Network

Scarce water resources threaten the health of the population, particularly children. Lack of water supplies disrupts education, particularly for young girls, who are forced out of schools to make long journeys to fetch water. Credit: Yemen Humanitarian Communication Network

Half of the population of Yemen does not have access to safe water sources and adequate sanitation. Credit: Yemen Humanitarian Communication Network

Humanitarian partners have equipped deep boreholes in the North with generators and pumps to make water more accessible for thousands of families. Credit: Yemen Humanitarian Communication Network

Unemployment rose to around 40 per cent during the crisis, placing additional strain on household budgets and food security. Credit: Yemen Humanitarian Communication Network

More girls have been forced into early marriage to reduce their economic dependency on their families. Credit: Yemen Humanitarian Communication Network

Aid organizations have reached hundreds of thousands of people with cash transfers, working through the Post Office system and coordinating with the Social Welfare Fund. This initiative is ready to be scaled up to reach more than half a million people. Photo by Wolfgang Gressmann

Government institutions, local NGOs and international organizations are working together to respond to the humanitarian crisis. In 2012, the humanitarian community appealed for US$584 million to carry out projects that address immediate needs and put Yemen on the road to recovery. Credit: Yemen Humanitarian Communication Network

As of September 2012, US$283 million was received, just 48 per cent of the total requirement. If fully-funded, humanitarian programmes will reach six million people nationwide. Credit: Yemen Humanitarian Communication Network

Amina Salim and her family lost their income and now struggle to survive. Her second son Radee, 7-years-old, has cerebral palsy and is prone to infections. Aid organizations support government health facilities in areas where displaced families are concentrated to improve health services, particularly for women and children. Amina said, “We get free treatment and medicine at the health centre, something we cannot afford. My son now has physiotherapy." Credit: Yemen Humanitarian Communication Network

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