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Country: Ukraine Source: International Organization for Migration Please refer to the attached file. У період з 12 січня по 30 березня 2026 року Міжнародна організація з міграції (МОМ) провела 23-й раунд Загальнонаціонального опитування населення (GPS), яке забезпечує репрезентативну оцінку динаміки мобільності в Україні. Дані для цього звіту були замовлені МОМ і зібрані 61 інтерв’юером компанії Multicultural Insights шляхом скринінгових телефонних інтерв’ю з 40 004 випадково відібраними респондентами, доповнених подальшими інтерв’ю з 1 471 внутрішньо переміщеною особою (ВПО), 1 121 особою, яка повернулася, та 1 688 особами без досвіду переміщення. Усі інтерв’ю проводилися методом комп’ютеризованого телефонного опитування (CATI) із застосуванням підходу випадкового набору номерів (RDD). У цьому звіті представлено основні результати 23-го раунду GPS, які надають детальну інформацію про чисельність населення, напрями та потоки переміщення, наміри щодо мобільності, демографічні профілі, склад домогосподарств і рівень вразливості, а також потреби внутрішньо переміщеного населення. Отримані дані покликані сприяти ухваленню рішень на основі фактичних даних під час стратегічного, технічного та програмного планування заходів реагування і відновлення в Україні.

Country: Afghanistan Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Please refer to the attached file. A 6+ magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan on 31 August 2025, followed by multiple aftershocks in the days that followed. The earthquake primarily affected Kunar and Nangarhar provinces, causing fatalities, injuries, widespread damage to homes and public infrastructure, displacement and major disruption in remote mountainous areas. The humanitarian response was implemented in an extremely constrained physical access environment characterized by landslides, damaged roads, difficult terrain, recurring aftershocks, weak telecommunications including a 48-hour nationwide outage, winter onset, and restrictions affecting Afghan women staff access to UN compounds. Despite these conditions, humanitarian actors mounted a large-scale emergency response that delivered life-saving assistance rapidly and at significant scale. Rapid donor funding, including an emergency Central Emergency Relief Fund (CERF) allocation complemented by a reserve allocation by the Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund (AHF), together with early resource mobilization efforts, notably the EU Humanitarian Air Bridge (EUHAB), which operated five humanitarian cargo shipments between 19 and 29 September 2025, were widely viewed by responders as critical enablers of the response. A detailed infographic timeline of the response is included in the annex. Following the conclusion of the response, the Inter-Cluster Coordination Team (ICCT) initiated an After-Action Review (AAR) to assess the humanitarian response to the 31 August 2025 eastern region earthquake across Nangarhar and Kunar provinces. The review examined operational coordination, response delivery, information management, logistics, access and accountability arrangements through document review, operational data analysis, key informant interviews, focus group discussions and field consultations with humanitarian actors, de facto authorities (DfA) and affected communities, including dedicated consultations with Afghan women responders and women from affected communities. Conducted between January and March 2026, including a field mission to Jalalabad and affected districts in February, this report presents the main findings, lessons learned and recommendations emerging from the AAR. By January, more than 300,000 people had received assistance, including over 230,000 people in priority districts including Chawkay, Khas Kunar and Nurgal in Kunar Province and Dara-e-Nur in Nangarhar. Stakeholders consistently described the eastern region earthquake response as an improvement over the 2023 Herat earthquake response, characterizing it as faster, more organized, and better coordinated in delivering immediate assistance. Some lessons from previous emergency responses appeared to have been internalized and translated into stronger operational readiness. However, the review also identified persistent structural gaps. The most significant early constraint was not a lack of humanitarian capacity, but the limited operational readiness of first 72-hour activation and sequencing arrangements needed to turn preparedness plans into immediate field action. While contingency planning had intended to frontload key operational decisions, some elements were re-discussed and partially re-developed during the initial response phase, contributing to avoidable delays. Several stakeholders also noted that early planning figures generated through the Disaster Impact Model (DIM) were constrained by outdated shelter typology data and inaccuracies in modelled earthquake intensity data, limiting confidence in projected damage estimates during the initial phase of the response. A second and equally important finding is that while the humanitarian system proved increasingly capable of scaling relief assistance, the transition toward recovery and resilience support once acute needs began to stabilize was slow with various degrees of uptake from Basic Human Needs (BHN) actors. Across interviews, focus groups, field teams and coordination actors, respondents repeatedly emphasized the need for earlier pivoting toward: emergency shelter repair and reconstruction debris clearance and road repairs restoration of water systems livelihoods recovery winter resilience The draft Final Evaluation of the Herat Post-Earthquake Recovery Response Project Under the Special Trust Fund for Afghanistan reinforces that earthquake response effectiveness should not be assessed solely through the speed and scale of immediate relief delivery, but also on how early, and at what scale, recovery, resilience and longer-term service restoration activities are operationalized within the response. According to the evaluation, in Herat, the integrated multi-agency Joint Programme implemented by participating UN agencies supported shelter recovery, infrastructure rehabilitation, livelihoods assistance and community action planning, contributing to high satisfaction of people served, improved perceptions of safety and stronger recovery outcomes among assisted households compared with control groups. At the same time, the evaluation highlights continuing challenges related to long-term sustainability, including financing gaps, market access constraints and the difficulty of sustaining recovery gains without continued support. These findings reinforce the importance of strengthening the transition between emergency response, early recovery and longer-term resilience support. While the system increasingly understands the requirements for emergency response and recovery-oriented programming, experiences from both the Herat and the eastern region earthquake responses suggest that further work is needed to ensure financing arrangements, implementation modalities and coordination mechanisms can support timelier and more predictable scaled recovery transitions. During AAR field visits, the team observed a range of BHN interventions across affected communities. However, community members, local DfA and humanitarian staff consistently indicated that ongoing support remained insufficient relative to the scale of recovery and reconstruction needs, particularly highlighting the importance of livelihoods support and income-generating opportunities to support longer-term self-reliance. This review concludes that Afghanistan’s disaster response capacity has measurably strengthened since the 2023 Herat earthquake response. Future improvements will depend not only on rapid emergency scale-up, but also on more executable preparedness systems, stronger anticipatory planning assumptions, and faster scaled transition from relief to recovery, the latter constituting a shared responsibility among humanitarian and BHN partners.

Country: Sri Lanka Source: Disaster Management Centre of Sri Lanka Please refer to the attached file.

Country: Pakistan Source: World Food Programme Please refer to the attached file. HIGHLIGHTS April The Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based annual headline inflation increased to 10.9 percent (YoY), up from 7.3 percent in March. On a month-on-month basis the CPI is up by 2.5 percent, in April compared to March, reflecting higher transport and perishable food costs. Annual food inflation increased by 7.6 percent (YoY) compared to April 2025, indicating that households paid nearly 8 percent more for food items – impacting food expenditure, especially for poor households. Prices of wheat and wheat flour in April were slightly lower compared to March, while rice prices largely remained stable with marginal decreases, reflecting adequate supply conditions. Compared to the previous month, the terms-of trade (ToT) improved by 4 percent, meaning that an unskilled daily wage earner’s wage could purchase marginally more wheat flour (12.3 kgs) in April than in March (11.8 kg), offering some relief.

Country: South Sudan Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Please refer to the attached Infographic. In 2025, South Sudan continued to face multiple, overlapping shocks and trends that worsened the humanitarian situation and increased the needs of vulnerable communities. According to the 2025 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP), an estimated 9.3 million people, approximately three-quarters of the population, required humanitarian assistance. Several factors, including protracted conflict, intercommunal violence, the worsening food insecurity and economic crisis, spillover effects from the Sudan crisis, insufficient humanitarian funding and extreme climate events such as flooding and localised dry spells, exacerbated the humanitarian situation. South Sudan remains one of the most dangerous contexts for humanitarians. In 2025, continued attacks on civilians, humanitarian staff and assets severely constrained the delivery of life-saving assistance and worsened the fragile situation in affected communities. At least 21 humanitarian workers were killed in the line of duty, while 606 humanitarian access incidents were reported during the year, up from 453 incidents in 2024. Despite these challenges, humanitarians reached approximately 4.3 million people across South Sudan with assistance. This represents 81 per cent of the 5.4 million people, including some 680,000 refugees, targeted through the 2025 HNRP. This includes more than 3.1 million people who received food assistance and livelihood support, and about 2 million people who accessed health care services. In addition, nearly 707,000 people received protection services, while some 500,000 people accessed safe water and sanitation services. At least 530,000 people received emergency shelter and essential household items, while some 620,000 people were reached through camp coordination and camp management services. About 1.2 million children, as well as pregnant and lactating women, were provided with emergency nutritional assistance, and 330,000 children were supported to access education in emergencies. A total of 8,169 metric tonnes of humanitarian cargo were transported during the year. In 2025, only US $763 million, representing 45 per cent of the US $1.7 billion required for the HNRP, was received. Despite this funding shortfall, 293 humanitarian organisations, 66 per cent of which were South Sudanese non-governmental organisations, contributed to the response, reaching people in dire need across the country.

Country: Somalia Sources: ChildFund Alliance, Plan International, Save the Children, SOS Children’s Villages International, Terre des hommes, World Vision Please refer to the attached file. Joint Statement by Joining Forces Alliance, East and Southern Africa Region ChildFund Alliance, Plan International, Save the Children International, SOS Children’s Villages International, Terre des Hommes International Federation, and World Vision International The Joining Forces Alliance expresses deep alarm at the rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis in Somalia. The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) findings show that nearly 6.5 million people across Somalia are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, while more than 1.8 million children are suffering from acute malnutrition. Among them, hundreds of thousands face severe acute malnutrition requiring urgent treatment. These are not simply numbers. They represent children going to bed hungry, families forced from their homes by repeated drought and conflict, and mothers struggling to make impossible trade-offs to keep their children alive. Somalia is once again approaching the brink of catastrophe. Unlike previous crises, this emergency unfolds as humanitarian resources shrink, and Somalia is excluded from key pooled funding mechanisms within the international humanitarian system. Alarming data confirm a sharp reduction in humanitarian resources. Figures show that funding requirements dropped from approximately $1.42 billion in the 2025 Humanitarian Response Plan to $852 million in 2026—nearly a 40 per cent reduction, not due to declining needs, but tough funding decisions. Exclusion from Pooled Funds is Deepening the Crisis At the very moment Somalia requires rapid and flexible financing, the country has been excluded from major pooled funding allocations. This exclusion comes at a time when there is clear evidence of escalating need, despite repeated warnings from humanitarian actors operating across the country. Although the Somalia Humanitarian Fund continue to provide important support, the scale of available funding remains far below growing humanitarian needs. This funding gap is severely constraining humanitarian organisations, from expanding critical life-saving interventions. Programmes providing food, nutrition, water, health, child protection, and gender-based violence support are being reduced or incapacitated. Frontline Somali organisations must do more with less, even as needs continue to rise. This is not only a funding gap. It is a failure of prioritisation and a blow to humanitarian action. Somalia has demonstrated before that famine is preventable when the international community acts early and decisively. In 2022, coordinated support from donors helped avert a far greater tragedy. Today, however, delayed decisions and shrinking resources are placing millions of lives at risk of unnecessary and preventable tragedy. Women and Children are Bearing the Heaviest Burden Children are at the centre of this crisis. Hunger, displacement, and the collapse of basic services are exposing children to disease, exploitation, child labour, family separation and loss of education. Women and girls are facing heightened risks of violence and abuse as they travel longer distances in search of water, food and firewood, or live in overcrowded and unsafe displacement sites. Without urgent investment in protection and essential services, the consequences for children and families will be devastating and long-lasting. Our Call to Donors The Joining Forces Alliance, East and Southern Africa, urgently calls on bilateral and multilateral donors, including OCHA-managed funding mechanisms, to: Reverse Somalia’s exclusion from key pooled funds and immediately allocate additional emergency resources to Somalia. Provide early, flexible and predictable funding that enables humanitarian actors to respond before conditions deteriorate further. Prioritise support to national and local organisations that have access, community trust and the capacity to deliver humanitarian assistance quickly. Increase multi-year investments that link humanitarian response with resilience, drought preparedness and recovery. Reduce administrative barriers that delay the release of life-saving funds. We join the Somali NGO Consortium, which recently submitted an open letter to Donors, to assert that the cost of inaction will be measured in lives lost, communities destabilised, and a generation of Somali children permanently affected by hunger and deprivation. The world pledged “Never Again” after the 2011 famine in Somalia claimed more than a quarter of a million lives, many of them children. That promise is now being tested. Somalia does not need sympathy alone. It needs urgent action, political attention, and immediate financing. The humanitarian warning signs are clear. The solutions are known. What is needed now is the courage and commitment to act before it is too late. The Joining Forces Alliance stands in solidarity with the people of Somalia and urges all partners to respond now.

Countries: Iran (Islamic Republic of), Afghanistan, Armenia, Lebanon, Pakistan, Syrian Arab Republic, Türkiye, Turkmenistan Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Please refer to the attached file. Since late February, escalating hostilities in Iran and Lebanon have triggered humanitarian consequences with impact across the region, including refugee returns in adverse circumstances to Afghanistan and Syria. Events are unfolding against an already fragile humanitarian baseline, with over 24 million forcibly displaced people hosted across the wider region prior to the current escalation, alongside host communities under significant economic and social strain. Inter agency emergency response is underway to address urgent needs. In Iran, the Flash Refugee Response Plan targets refugees and others in need of international protection alongside affected host communities. In Lebanon, a Flash Appeal complements the broader response under the Lebanon Response Plan to deliver life saving assistance and protection, including to Syrian refugees. In Afghanistan, the funding requirement for the returns response is outlined under the Humanitarian Needs & Response Plan. UNHCR and partners have been working across countries neighbouring Iran to strengthen preparedness for possible large-scale refugee flows, in support of national authorities. Preparedness measures are in place, including border monitoring, reception and protection readiness, but these arrangements remain highly dependent on flexible and predictable funding in an increasingly constrained resource environment.