How internal displacement is impacting food security and livelihoods: a crucial cross-crisis analysis for the GRID report

Ethiopia continues to face humanitarian crisis compounded by cycles of droughts, floods, and conflict. The humanitarian community has struggled to secure funding for its response. As the 2024 rainy season approaches, concerns mount over the possibility of yet another failed harvest and erratic rainfall patterns due to El Niño. And spreading the drought to key […]

In Sudan, where over a quarter of the population is in need of humanitarian assistance, the year 2020 has seen a deepening economic crisis, exacerbated by COVID-19 containment measures, rising tensions in parts of the country In 2020, REACH led its first-ever multi-sector needs assessment (MSNA) in Sudan, across all 18 states and the Abyei Area, to provide humanitarian actors with an evidence-based understanding of humanitarian needs in the country, including for areas where humanitarian actors have traditionally been absent.

Evidence pouring in from various market monitoring and analysis assessments showed the extent to which food security levels are being threatened in many countries. With this in mind, IMPACT Initiatives prompted a discussion with market monitoring and food security experts to further elaborate on the role of market monitoring and analysis systems, and the need for more granular data

Since the outbreak of conflict in Sudan’s South Kordofan and Blue Nile states in 2011, an estimated 200,000 Sudanese have become refugees in South Sudan, with most of them staying in Pariang and Maban Counties in Unity State and Upper Nile state. Due to the continued influx of refugees, the relocation of refugees between camps, […]

Famine was declared in South Sudan’s Unity State counties of Mayendit and Leer in early 2017. Although this Famine was reversed through increased humanitarian assistance, subsequent updates from the Integrated Phase Food Security Classification (IPC) for South Sudan have continued to highlight the risk of Famine in different parts of the country. The January IPC […]

As a consequence of the ongoing economic crisis and social turmoil in Venezuela, an increasing number of Venezuelans are crossing the northern border to Brazil in order to seek asylum, safety and better livelihood opportunities. According to estimates, over 50,000 Venezuelans are living in Brazil currently, of which half in the northern city of Boa […]

The outbreak of conflict between armed groups in South Sudan’s Deim Zubier town on the first week of April displaced thousands of civilians to multiple locations in the western parts of the country. Due to the rapid onset of conflict, little is known about the displacement routes or needs of the affected populations. To fill […]