JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (May 24, 2022) – “The Indo-Pacific region is the most disaster prone region in the world,” said Lt. Col. Patrick Blankenship, G9 Director of Civil Affairs with I Corps.

CAMP KOSCIUSZKO, Poland — U.S. Army V Corps civil affairs general staff section hosted the Joint Humanitarian Operations Course, a formal, comprehensive U.S. government system course led by the U.S.

Working toward sustainable solutions requires close coordination among humanitarian and development agencies. Too often this has been hampered by artificial divides. Momentum is building to address ...

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Julia Wittig, with the Humanitarian Financing Strategy and Analysis Section of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), helps us better understand anticipatory action, which is ...

KYIV – As the full-scale war in Ukraine approaches its fourth year, the United Nations and partners today launch twin humanitarian and refugee response plans for 2025, appealing for US$3.32 billion to ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has long been synonymous with complex security challenges, characterized by periods of political unrest, armed conflict, and a humanitarian crisis that demand a ...

When disaster strikes, local organisations are often the first to respond. But do they have the right systems, skills, and confidence to lead effectively? And just how efficient, effective, and ...

The right to food is a basic human right but around the world millions of people go hungry every day. This gets worse during humanitarian crises, as we are seeing in the current conflict in Gaza, ...

The 2016–2017 Battle of Mosul would have been unrecognizable to Henri Dunant, the founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Unlike the defined front lines in the Battle of Solferino, ...