Integral Cyclone Pam Update 2
Ten Integral Members are actively responding to Cyclone Pam which has devastated the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. Integral has now held two teleconferences to coordinate the activities of its Members who are supporting five local partners, and launching fundraising campaigns in their headquarter countries. Latest statistics from the National Disaster Management Organisation in Vanuatu […]
Integral Cyclone Pam Update 1
Integral Members met together by teleconference today to coordinate their response for Cyclone Pam which has devastated the nation of Vanuatu .. This category 5 Cyclone made landfall on Vanuatu on Friday 13th March evening and Integral Members started to plan and coordinate together within a few hours. An Integral Alert was raised on Saturday […]
Integral Issues a Disaster Alert for Cyclone Pam
An Alert for an Integral Response was raised on 14th March 2015 for Cyclone Pam which has devastated the nation of Vanuatu … A category 5 cyclone struck Vanuatu late on Friday 13th March, the worst ever to hit this island nation with gusts of wind up to 200 mph. Assessment information is still being […]
Integral Typhoon Haiyan Final Evaluation
In Jan 2015 a group of 31 people from around the world gathered in a small conference centre in Tacloban in The Philippines, to participate in a learning review for the Integral response to Typhoon Haiyan. This typhoon, one of the strongest tropical storms ever to make landfall, saw the largest Integral response since the […]
Integral Adding Value in Bangladesh
Nancy Tenbroek is the current chair of the Integral country group in Bangladesh. Here she updates us on their current activities and gives us her view into the value of collaborating … Who makes up the Integral Bangladesh country group? We have had a core group of the following agencies meeting face to face: Tearfund (UK), […]
Integral Issues a Disaster Alert for Typhoon Hagiput
An Integral Disaster Response was launched on 12 December 2014 for Typhoon Hagupit in The Philippines, known locally as “Ruby”. Although the impact was much less than the previous devastating Typhoon Haiyan, the storm caused significant damage: a total of 18 deaths were reported and 39,384 houses totally destroyed … Jan Eyre, Integral’s Disaster Management […]
Integral Adding Value in Kenya
In 2012, as part of their work together in disaster preparedness, Integral Members in Kenya came together to work on a peace campaign in the run up to national elections. The Integral Programme Group developed a Shared Country Approach Strategy in late 2013 with plans to pilot this approach in 5 countries. As part of […]
Integral Disaster Response Alert for the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa
Integral’s Members have been responding individually to Ebola both operationally and through partners since the beginning of the outbreak. However, following a joint conference call on 23rd October, the Ebola outbreak is now an official Integral Disaster Response, with 13 of Integral’s 20 Members opting in. The response includes all work in West Africa relating […]
Integral Issues Disaster Response Alert for the Iraq Humanitarian Crisis
Integral raised a Disaster Alert for the growing humanitarian crisis in Iraq on 12th August 2014. To date Integral has hosted seven teleconferences in order to facilitate Members sharing their operational and communication activities in the region. Currently 13 Integral Members have joined together for this response: CEDAR Fund (Hong Kong), Food for the Hungry […]
Integral Responding in South Sudan
South Sudan marks its third anniversary since it gained independence from Sudan three years ago this month. Since independence the country has suffered internal conflict and currently 1.5 million people have been displaced and around 4 million face alarming food insecurity as a result of the fighting that started in December 2013. After watching the […]
Building Hope in South Sudan
An Integral Disaster Response for South Sudan was launched on 3 Jan 2014, and since then Integral has facilitated a joint HQ teleconference, regular meetings of its Members’ South Sudan Country Directors and sent round email updates. Integral News asks Thomas Hedd, World Renew’s Country Director in South Sudan, some questions about his experience of […]
Working Together in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Integral Members Tearfund UK and Tearfund Belgium are over half way through an eighteen-month-long joint project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The project is funded by the Belgian Government, and will run until September 2014. “The aim of the project is to promote sustainable approaches to food security in order to reduce people’s […]