Evidence is emerging on effective approaches to supporting refugees. A new brief highlights key lessons learned from a year of implementation. It notes that combining different methods yields better outcomes than using a single approach.
Demonstrations and learning from peers can also help speed up the adoption of new practices. Further details are available on the outcomes of this work. The brief explores what works in programming for refugee resilience.
It also identifies areas where more learning is needed. More information can be found in the URRI Year 1 Learning & Reflection Brief, which summarizes the findings from a year of work on livelihoods, sustainability, and social inclusion.
Countries: Kenya, South Sudan, Uganda . Executive Summary Deep cuts to humanitarian aid in 2025 mean that refugees must adapt to radically different situations, where livelihoods and hopes for the future are challenged in new ways. How they respond is shaped by the conditions in ...
Countries: World, Australia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands . Highlights/updates since the last map was sent on PacNet on 08 September 2026: Acute watery diarrhoea • Federated States of Micronesia: Situation Repo...
Countries: Yemen, Djibouti . Families are being forced from their homes, and some are now fleeing the country altogether. Over 2,000 people fleeing the hostilities have reached Djibouti's northern shores so far, landing at scattered points along the coast near Obock. Djiboutian a...
Countries: Djibouti, Yemen . According to the International Organization for Migration, displacement inside Yemen has surpassed 85,000 people, while more than 2,000 people have reached Djibouti’s northern shores near Obock in recent days, many of them women and children. In respo...
. The report presents findings from a Rapid Needs Assessment conducted between August and September 2026 across eight Syrian governorates, gathering the perspectives of 348 respondents on social cohesion, peacebuilding, local governance, transitional justice, women's leadership, ...
. KEY MESSAGES • At SSP 133,524 per person per month, average food basket costs were marginally lower than the previous week, while remaining 3 percent above the level recorded four weeks earlier. • Livestock price dynamics, such as the 25 percent drop in the price for a goat in ...
Countries: World, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Haiti, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Myanmar, Niger, Pakistan, Uganda, Zimbabwe . SUMMARY Drought, extreme heat and erratic rainfall threaten crops, livestock, and water supplies across Southern Africa and the Sahel, while parts of East Afr...
. Palais Briefing Note GENEVA – Good morning to you all. So I am here today to give a briefing on what we are seeing as a fairly catastrophic situation unfolding across South Sudan. Simply put, South Sudan today is facing a sort of a collision of crises, plural, just as the human...
. Almost everyone now wants to be associated with it. Donors promote it, international agencies build strategies around it, national organisations claim the role, and staff pursue related positions. It is both a policy agenda and a source of funding and legitimacy. This is not in...
