The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the lives of the people in Kyrgyzstan as elsewhere in unprecedented ways, profoundly affecting their ability to meet basic needs. The Brief provides an overview of the impact of the pandemic on the country's socio-economic context.
This paper assesses the political situation, the wider macroeconomic context, and developments in the cost of minimum expenditure basket (MEB) and its food components.
Risk finance can empower women with regard to climate resilience. This brochure presents success stories of women in Guatemala and Zambia showing how risk finance has changed their lives.
The food basket cost in contracted markets increased from TRY 196 in June to TRY 213 in September 2021. While summer season has opportunities for the beneficiaries to generate income through agricultural work, the purchasing power decreased due to high inflation rates.
The brief provides an analysis on Â鶹ÊÓƵ Emergency Operation in Cox¡¯s Bazar (Bangladesh) which have adapted to the newer challenges due to COVID-19 to continue life-saving interventions for the extremely vulnerable population. Â鶹ÊÓƵ has also ramped up its assistance to the host population which is a critical element of its operation.
Learn more about how integrated interventions implemented as part of the Green Badakhshan Initiative (GBI), have contributed to building the resilience and improving the food security and nutrition of beneficiaries in Afghanistan.
Learn more about how the Njovo weir construction, as part of a broader multi-layered FFA project in Zimbabwe, contributed to increased water availability and a community nutrition garden with horticulture activities for enhanced food security and nutrition.
A brief on the potential impacts and implications of the coronavirus pandemic on vulnerability and social protection responses in both rural and urban contexts in East Africa.
This brief considers some of the potential impacts and implications of the coronavirus pandemic on building the resilience of households to climate-related shocks and stresses in East Africa.
This brief considers some of the potential impacts and implications of the coronavirus pandemic on vulnerability and social protection responses to displacement in East Africa.
With the continued extensive spread of COVID-19 and the impact the pandemic has on incomes and livelihoods, VAM¡¯s role is to continuously monitor the situation and provide evidence that inform the required responses in light of shifting circumstances.
Here you find our latest special COVID-19 analytical products such as the Socio- Economic impact paper, Regional situation reports, Real-time Food security snapshots and much more.
The Somali Fill the Nutrient Gap analysis was conducted in 2018-19 to build a deeper understanding of the structural barriers to accessing healthy diets. It identified opportunities and strategies across the food system to improve nutrition in a sustainable manner, connecting humanitarian interventions with development efforts.
The joint Â鶹ÊÓƵ-IOM report highlights the close interconnection between hunger, conflict, migration and displacement, which has been further aggravated by COVID-19. The study explores the impact of the pandemic on the livelihoods, food security and protection of migrant workers households dependent on remittances and the forcibly displaced. Using the latest available data, the report highlights food security trends in some of the major migration and hunger hotspots across the world. The key findings have informed joint recommendations put forward by both agencies to mitigate the immediate negative effects on mobile and displaced populations, while preparing the pathway to recovery.
Bhutan Earthquake Impact Planning Policy Brief - Modelling the impacts from potential future earthquakes
This policy brief summarizes the findings of a research project with Durham and Newcastle universities on earthquake impact assessment modelling. The project produced for the first time quantifiable numbers of the impact of earthquakes in Bhutan in terms of fatalities, injuries and displaced persons in the 110 possible scenarios.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Nepal and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD) have produced mVAM market update on the impact of COVID-19 on market situation and the prices of essential commodities across 67 districts.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s goals require a participatory gender analysis which highlights the separate needs of women, men, girls and boys in terms of food security, the intersection between a context of ongoing military occupation and food insecurity in Palestine, as well as an understanding of the importance of a gender analysis in contexts where social injustices preside. Results of this gender analysis help Â鶹ÊÓƵ design targeted activities that are effective, efficient, empowering and transformative.
