Field Bulletin: Longer-Term Disaster Displaced: A Forgotten Group

The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator’s Office of Nepal released a field bulletin about the long-term disaster displacement in the country.

Almost all districts across the Far West face losses of lives and proper

ty every year due to natural disasters. However, the impact can last well beyond the immediate event. Humanitarian actors have observed that the duration of displacement varies depending on the intensity and type of disaster: displacement following inundation of rivers is generally short term, while displacement resulting

> from floods and erosion is generally longer term.

Read the brief

in full here.

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