Access all the ongoing research and activities that IMPACT and REACH are launching in order to help the humanitarian community respond to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in crisis-affected countries. Regular updates, key findings and contact information.
Described as a Ground Zero for climate change by the United Nations, the Sahel region hosts some of the most vulnerable populations in the world. Yet climate change is just one of the many challenges Sahelians’ are forced to contend with. The combination of climate change further compounded by the spread of COVID-19 and the measures taken to fight it, act as threat multipliers in some of the most crisis-affected communities globally.
In 2020, switching to remote data collection processes, REACH teams around the world were able to survey the needs of over 100,000 households as part of the flagship Multi-Sector Needs Assessments designed to shape more informed and targeted aid- setting a standard for the safe collection of data in the process.
It is with profound grief that we confirm the death of Darman Dungus, a member of the REACH team, and 4 other humanitarian workers and captives who were taken hostage by a non-state armed group in north-eastern Nigeria, Borno State, on June 8, 2020.
