Contents Highlights
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The year in review – 2013
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Humanitarian assistance in 2013 Overall funding, capacity and reporting
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Humanitarian needs – inter-agency appeals, funding and visibility Inter-agency appeal analysis; public awareness
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Humanitarian needs – sector funding Funding per sector; CERF contributions per sector
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Conflict in 2013 Overall numbers of refugees, IDPs and asylum seekers; number of political conflicts; urban violence
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Natural disasters in 2013 Overall trends in natural disasters; number of affected people; cost of disasters 16 Global challenges and risks Migration; global demographics; health; technology; energy; poverty
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Trends, challenges and opportunities
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Delivering in conflict situations – Syria
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Foreign military assets in support of humanitarian operations – Philippines
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Gender-equality programming – the information gap
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Adapting to complex emergencies – Yemen
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Languages – the communication challenge
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Remote-sensing technology in humanitarian situations
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Social media and natural disasters
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Mobile phones in disaster response – Bangladesh
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Humanitarian assistance – a multiplicity of systems
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InfoRM – uses in risk analysis
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Humanitarian Data Visualization Challenge 2014
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User’s Guide
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