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CFPs to Support Horn of Africa Partnership for Early Warning for Early Action
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Deadline: 4-Jan-21
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) invites not profit-making organisations to submit grant proposals that focus on the
project Development of Regional Flood Risk Profile to Support Horn of Africa Partnership for Early Warning for Early Action.
The overall objective of the present Call for Proposals is to support the early work of the HoA Partnership through advancing work on the development of a regional flood risk profile for the IGAD region and to increase the capacity at ICPAC as well as at the national level to produce and use risk information for early warning and early action for food security.
The top 10 weather and climate events of a record-setting year
Calendar year 2020 was an extreme and abnormal year, in so many ways. The global coronavirus pandemic altered people’s lives around the world, as did extreme weather and climate events. Let’s review the year’s top 10 such events.
1. Hottest year on record?
The official rankings will not be released until January 14, but according to NASA, Earth’s average surface temperature in 2020 is likely to tie with 2016 for the hottest year on record, making the last seven years the seven hottest on record.
Remarkably, the record warmth of 2020 occurred during a minimum in the solar cycle and in a year in which a moderate La Niña event formed. Surface cooling of the tropical Pacific during La Niña events typically causes a slight global cool-down, as does the minimum of the solar cycle, making it difficult to set all-time heat records. The record heat of 2020 in these circumstances is a demonstration of how powerful hu
WFP Jordan Country Brief, November 2020
Format
9,740 Jordanians and refugees benefited from livelihood activities
USD 39.1 m six months net funding requirements (December 2020- May 2021)
Operational Updates
• Under the General Food Assistance activity, WFP continued providing monthly food assistance through cash-based transfers to around 498,000 refugees residing in camps and communities.
Most refugees benefiting from this assistance come from Syria, with a minority from Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, and Somalia.
• As part of the response to COVID-19 and to address refugees increasing vulnerabilities, WFP expanded its coverage in November to include an additional 100 refugees under its food assistance programme, making a total of around 15,450 refugees (around 5,450 households) since August. In Za’atari and Azraq camps, and with the increasing number of COVID-19 cases, WFP has so far provided in-kind food assistance to over 2 thousand households in quarantine, 40 percent of them a
By Jeff Masters, PhD, and Dana Nuccitelli | Dec 21, 2020
In an all-around bizarre and largely unpleasant calendar year, extreme weather and climate-related changes contributed to the woes of 2020.
By Jeff Masters, PhD, and Dana Nuccitelli | Monday, December 21, 2020
It doesn’t get any more ‘2020’ than this: on September 16, 2020, smoke from record western U.S. wildfires pours into the circulation of Hurricane Paulette, one of a record 30 Atlantic named storms in 2020. (Image credit: CIRA/RAM)
Calendar year 2020 was an extreme and abnormal year, in so many ways. The global coronavirus pandemic altered people’s lives around the world, as did extreme weather and climate events. Let’s review the year’s top 10 such events.