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World Humanitarian Data and Trends 2015

This report covers the forecast of the smart weapons market and its dynamics over the next five years, while also recognizing market application gaps, recent developments in the market, and high potential countries. The smart weapons market has been analyzed primarily on the basis of product (including missiles, munitions, guided projectiles, guided rockets and precision guided firearms) during the forecast period, considering 2015 as the base year.

AFGH is a broad European network of NGOs advocating for Europe to play a more proactive role in enabling developing countries to meet the Health Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Established in 2006, today Action for Global Health is active in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, the UK and Brussels and has over 30 member NGOs across these countries.

The eight MDGs - which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 - form a blueprint agreed to by all the world's countries and all the world's leading development institutions.

The IRP was conceived at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction (WCDR) in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan in Jan2005. As a thematic platform of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) system, IRP is a key pillar for the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters, a global plan for disaster risk reduction for the decade adopted by 168 governments at the WCDR. The key role of IRP is to identify gaps and constraints experienced in post disaster recovery and to serve as a catalyst for the development of tools, resources, and capacity for resilient recovery. IRP aims to be an international source of knowledge on good recovery practice

A new IDS paper is proposing that human security principles should be used to develop a post 2015 framework.

A gateway to the UN System;'s Work on the MDGs

Camp Management Toolkit of the UN Cluster on CCCM

12 January 2015 The Nigerian military has appealed to the international community for assistance in its fight against Boko Haram, following the recent attack on the north-eastern town of Baga. The extremist group attacked Baga and the surrounding villages after overrunning the headquarters of the Multinational Joint Task Force, which consists of soldiers from Nigeria, Niger and Chad.