In March, Refugees International laid out the main factors that make forcibly displaced people so vulnerable to the virus, along with recommendations for key measures to guide the response. Those recommendations have stood the test of time. Nonetheless, over the last three months, the virus has spread in both expected and unanticipated ways. Measures to contain that spread have had enormous and often unintended consequences, particularly for those in need of humanitarian assistance. Drawing on…
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An unprecedented overlap of natural and man-made disasters are plaguing the Greater Horn of Africa region. We have seen one million displacements in two months, communal tensions reignited, and pre-existing vulnerabilities exacerbated. In recent weeks, our news channels have been flooded with stories about the Covid-19 pandemic, political and social unrest around the world, natural hazards upending people’s lives, and even a locust infestation, which surfaced in Sub-Saharan Africa then migrated towards Asia, destroying crops…
In an effort to prevent the transmission of Covid-19, governments around the world have closed schools. School closures are negatively impacting the well-being of children and young people and, in some contexts, might not be effectively reducing transmission. The INEE and the Alliance call on policymakers to: Consider the impacts of school closures on the education and protection out-comes of children and youth; Balance these impacts with a considered review of the health impacts; and…
The global community hopes that before too long a vaccine for COVID-19 will be found, produced and universally delivered, and the world will become safer. But unless action is taken now, the long-term legacies of the pandemic will be rising inequality and a devastating impact on children’s learning. New analysis for this report shows how COVID-19 may affect both the funding and the delivery of education in some of the countries most at risk of…
COVID-19 is deepening the hunger crisis in the world’s hunger hotspots and creating new epicentres of hunger across the globe. By the end of the year 12,000 people per day could die from hunger linked to COVID-19, potentially more than will die from the disease itself. The pandemic is the final straw for millions of people already struggling with the impacts of conflict, climate change, inequality and a broken food system that has impoverished millions…
This document is the second in a series that highlights emerging practices as UNHCR operations and their partners work to support the continuity of education for displaced and refugee students during the pandemic and support them in returning to school. Download
Summary: There is an emerging awareness that governments must strike a fair balance between protecting and promoting public health on one side and individual human rights on the other. Human rights could smoothly be integrated into the COVID-19 measures’ decision process. Such integration will ask for human rights awareness, knowledge and accessibility. Governments are responsible for fulfilling human rights, and thus also for introducing the right tools for decision-makers and implementers. An easy to use…
COVID-19 has directly killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world. It is also taking a deep toll on the food security, nutrition and livelihoods of millions of people across the globe. The socio-economic fallout from COVID-19 has resulted in sharp declines in household income due to job losses and/or reduced livelihoods options. Declining remittances is leading to steep increases in poverty and hunger, particularly in low-income developing countries. Those living in fragile and…
This background paper presents considerations on how the COVID-19 pandemic is accentuating existing vulnerabilities of populations forcibly displaced by war (refugees, asylum-seekers, internally-displaced and stateless persons), in settings across East Africa and the Middle East. In addition to the devastating health threat the pandemic poses, lockdown measures imposed by governments to reduce transmission are having outsized effects on forcibly displaced populations, further entrenching poverty, xenophobiaand creating new humanitarian protection issues. With the exceptional physical distancing…
Aid providers in the Horn of Africa have always struggled to adapt their systems and models to the simple fact that people move from place to place. Delivering aid in remote areas normally involves establishing long supply chains that rely on populations being in places where they can be relatively easily ‘accessed’. The refugee and IDP camps of the region, many of which were constructed as temporary locations for the provision of food or shelter,…
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