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Learn MoreThe Environmental Emergencies Centre (EEC) is a one-stop-shop of information relevant to the preparedness, prevention and response stages of an environmental emergency. EEC strengthens the preparedness capacities of responders and humanitarians, allowing users to build on their own mechanisms and to draw on the resources and services of EEC partners. The Environmental Emergencies Centre is hosted by the UNEP/OCHA Joint Environment Unit (JEU).
The impact of Climate Change has already increased the insecurity of vulnerable communities in serval regions across the globe, including exacerbating the loss of livelihoods,...
Learn MoreA rapid environmental screening tool for humanitarian contexts, which allows humanitarian actors to quickly identify issues of environmental concern before designing longer term emergency or...
Learn MoreThe GRRT is a toolkit and training program designed to increase awareness and knowledge of environmentally responsible disaster response approaches.
Learn MoreThe course, available in English, French, Spanish and Russian, provides humanitarian actors with information on how to effectively integrate environmental issues into humanitarian response and...
Learn MoreThe Flash Environmental Assessment Tool (FEAT) is a tool which helps identify existing or potential acute environmental impacts that pose risks for humans, human life-support...
Learn MoreThe Rapid Environmental Assessment Guidelines are a tool which allow for defining and prioritizing potential environmental impacts during disaster situations.
Learn MoreThe UNEP/OCHA Joint Environment Unit (JEU), with support from Data Friendly Spaces, Joint Initiative partners, and expert reviewers, released the Urban Nexus Environmental Assessment Tool (U-NEAT+) in July 2021. The urban version of the environmental screening tool comes in response to the increasing and complex trend of urban displacement that…
This report analyses the nexus between the protection of civilians and the environment in humanitarian operations. The study focused on examining the type of harms that come out of this nexus, as well as reviewing best guidance and practices existing in the field. Finally, it underlines how the protection sector…
An explosion of 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate occured at the port of Beruit. This incident left hundreds dead, thousands injured, and hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In the prevailing COVID-19 context many complications emerged and a more sophiscated examination response to this incident was required.
Ariel shot of explosion at Port of Beirut (@BBC News)
Below are two presentations presented by Mr. Muralee Thummarukudy and Margherita Fanchiotti, PhD on the linkage between the environment and COVID-19 and environmental reponse to the explosion.
A growing number of people need humanitarian assistance (UNOCHA, 2020), which is intended to save lives, alleviate suffering and restore human dignity during and after manmade crises and disasters caused by natural hazards (Good Humanitarian Donorship, n.d.). At the same time, solid waste management (SWM) is a rising development challenge…
Motivation On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. This global crisis has been a very powerful reminder of the links between environment and emergencies. Disasters, crises and the environment are intrinsically interconnected. Therefore, a key element of emergency response is the rapid identification and mitigation of…
This report presents the results of an environmental scoping mission using the Nexus Environmental Assessment Tool (NEAT+) by the UNEP / OCHA Joint Environment Unit (JEU) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to the Integrated Assistance Centre (Centro de Atención Integral, or CAI) in Maicao, northeastern Colombia.
This guidance accompanies the Environment Marker, and aims at giving specific guidance on mitigation measures for activities in “B”-coded projects (medium environmental impact). It provides...
Learn MoreThere is an inextricable link between the protection of the environment and the protection of civilians across in the armed conflict-affected areas. This publication explains...
Learn MoreThe research paper, "Faecal Sludge Management in Africa: Socio-economic aspects, human and environmental health implications", aims to explore how current trends in faecal sludge management...
Learn MoreCash and voucher Assistance (CVA) has been used widely in humanitarian programs. Like all types of humanitarian operations, CVA can have environmental impacts. This includes...
Learn MoreThe United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) together with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), theUnited Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) have conducted...
Learn MoreThe United Nations Environment Programme/Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Joint Environment Unit (JEU), also known as the UNEP/OCHA Joint Environment Unit, is housed within OCHA’s Emergency Services Branch in Geneva. Founded in 1994, it helps Member States prepare for and respond to environmental dimensions of emergencies. The…
Motivation On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. This global crisis has been a very powerful reminder of the links between environment and emergencies. Disasters, crises and the environment are intrinsically interconnected. Therefore, a key element of emergency response is the rapid identification and mitigation of…
A Joint Initiative to improve engagement and coordination between environmental and humanitarian actors The Coordination of Assessments for Environment in Humanitarian Action – The Joint Initiative – is a unique, multi-stakeholder project that convenes environmental and humanitarian actors to work together towards minimizing the environmental causes and consequences of…
The Adaptation to Climate Change in Sub-Saharan African Humanitarian situations is an inter-agency initiative which aims to strengthen climate change adaptation in target humanitarian hot spots. The project supports vulnerable communities, internally displaced people, refugees and host communities that face climate-related risks in Burundi, Chad and Sudan. The projects involves…
Humanitarian assistance demands continue to rise in parallel with an increasingly urgent and underfunded global solid waste management crisis. This waste management crisis disproportionately affects countries that commonly receive humanitarian assistance, many of which often lack sufficient infrastructure or management systems to handle the country’s regularly produced solid waste, let…
The Environment and Emergencies Forum (EEF) is a unique global event organized by the UN Environment/OCHA Joint Unit (JEU). The Forum brings together stakeholders from around the world to showcase innovations in environmental emergency preparedness and response, and to highlight current efforts on integrating environmental risk in humanitarian action.
Six weeks after #earthquakehaiti, the #UNDAC team that supported the government-led #response is demobilising as we move into #earlyrecovery & #reconstruction. You too can help: https://t.co/l6Ig4ELpnl
Ce matin, une fructueuse rencontre a eu lieu entre la Coordonnatrice de l’action gouvernementale du Sud, la Ministre Sofia LOREUS, avec une représentante spéciale de l’OCHA, Mme Margherita FANCHIOTTI 1/2
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Today marks one month since #earthquakehaiti. @EnvironmentOcha is on the frontline to support the government-led #response. Here is what we have been doing. You can help, too: https://t.co/l6Ig4EtNYL @UNEP @UNOCHA
It's been a month since the devastating earthquake struck #Haiti.
See how @UN & partners have been responding to the crisis and support hundreds of thousands of affected people to rebuild lives.
You can help, too: https://t.co/aXsQ1qH7Ha
STARTING TODAY – Webinar series on Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies for disaster risk prevention, reduction and response. 🤖🧑💻
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The @UN and its #humanitarian partners continue to provide aid in Les Cayes after the #Haitiearthquake2021, in support of the government-led #response. Here is what is going on:
🎥 @UNOCHA /Matteo Minasi
HAITI / EARTHQUAKE AID
The United Nations and its humanitarian partners continue to provide aid in Les Cayes, Haiti after the 14 August ...
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The @UN is supporting the government-led response to #Haitiearthquake2021. The affected population needs #shelter, #water, #emergency #healthcare, #food, #protection & #earlyrecovery. @UNEP & @UNOCHA are there to assist.
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The Urban-NEAT+ has been released! 📱🌏
This urban version of the application is designed for environmental assessment in the complex framework of urban displacement.
Find out more details on the tool and how to pilot it: https://t.co/RByYC4qsqT
D-5 before the end of #TheHumanRace challenge staged for #WorldHumanitarianDay2021! Discover our fifth challenger to see how the Joint Environment Unit has committed to tackle the #ClimateCrisis through this challenge. 👇🏃
Find out more & join the race: https://t.co/TuFYEJt1A7
📲 Risk planning & preparedness
🌳 Natural resources management
📚 Climate education & information
These are the outputs of the recently completed International Climate Initiative (IKI) project implemented in Burundi, Chad and Sudan.
Read more about it: https://t.co/XsacMKDdPN
There's still one week for you to join us in tackling the climate crisis through #TheHumanRace challenge staged for #WorldHumanitarianDay! Need a bit of inspiration? Here's our fourth challenger. 👇🏃
Find out more & join the race: https://t.co/TuFYEJt1A7
@Prepare_Init
Introducing PREPARE, an initiative bringing together humanitarian, civil society, disaster management and academic organisations to improve the response to climate disasters and crises.
Want to learn more? ▶️👇 or reach out to: contact@chcinitiative.org
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The UNEP/OCHA Joint Environment Unit (JEU) is committed to tackle the climate crisis through #TheHumanRace challenge staged for #WorldHumanitarianDay! Here is our third challenger. 👇🏃
Find out more & join the race: https://t.co/TuFYEJt1A7
On this day, 19 August, 2003, we lost 22 of our colleagues when the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq was attacked.
On #WorldHumanitarianDay we commemorate humanitarians who've been killed or injured while doing their job. We are #NotATarget.
The UNEP/OCHA Joint Environment Unit (JEU) is committed to tackle the climate crisis through #TheHumanRace challenge staged for #WorldHumanitarianDay on 19 August! Discover our second challenger.👇🏃
Find out more & join the race: https://t.co/TuFYEJt1A7
#EarthquakeHaiti Our thoughts are with those affected, @EnvironmentOcha is deploying to support the government-led response #readytogo @UNEP @UNOCHA
Under the leadership of the #GovernmentofHaiti, national and international partners have activated all emergency response mechanisms, working closely to scale up trauma care, conduct post-impact damage and needs assessments and activate rapid response mechanisms.#DGPCHaiti
The UNEP/OCHA Joint Environment Unit (JEU) is committed to #TheHumanRace challenge staged for #WorldHumanitarianDay on 19 August! Discover our first challenger.👇🏃
Find out more & join the race: https://t.co/TuFYEJt1A7
The Environmental Emergencies Centre (EEC) is an online preparedness tool designed to enable an effective response to the environmental dimensions of emergencies.
