Humanitarian Response to Complex Emergency | Report

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HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE TO COMPLEX EMERGENCY
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Discussion..................................................................................................................................2
Overview of the conflict and natural hazards in Yemen........................................................2
How the ongoing conflict and outbreaks alike Cholera and cyclones and floods impacted
the humanitarian response......................................................................................................4
Climate Change and Climatic Variability in Complex Emergencies and how it impacted
the response in Yemen...........................................................................................................7
Resilience in Complex Emergencies like Yemen engagement of communities in the
humanitarian response and accountability for the affected population..................................8
Humanitarian Aid and the Sustainable Development Goals, how the humanitarian and
development agendas complement each other.....................................................................11
Conclusion................................................................................................................................13
Reference..................................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
The paper is going to talk about especially on the conflict between natural world and
the humanitarian response by focusing on the natural hazards faced by the people of Yemen.
Firstly, the paper will give a brief overview of the conflict and then it will concentrate on how
the natural disaster has effectively influenced the humanitarian response. It will further talk
about how change in climate in complex emergency like this impacted the response in
Yemen. Next, it will talk about how the resilience in the people will work in the emergency.
Finally, the paper will conclude with how humanitarian aid and sustainable development
agendas complement each other.
Discussion
Overview of the conflict and natural hazards in Yemen
On November 3 2015, a terrible cyclone with the force of hurricane started blowing at
such a speed that made a devastating landfall. Yemen witnessed this horrible cyclone at the
cost of Arabian Sea. This has not made thousands of victims homeless but also has
successfully washed away one of the largest cities of this province, Mukalla. The immensely
powerful civil war that almost hit the province and the prevailing poverty almost crippled the
country from inside. Now, with the addition of the aftermath of cyclone, this affected the
country even more as confirmed by the officials and the meteorologists.
With the repeated rock slides the people anticipated more of them hence more than
300,000 people of Mukalla, that has been the capital of the provinces had to constantly live
under this life threatening situation. The cars were completely submerged in water making
the situation even more difficult to fight that led more than 12 families to take shelter into a

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nearby hospital to safeguard them from approaching landfalls. According to the residents, the
promenades that were located in front of the sea were completely destroyed along with
multiple homes at the coastal area were either horribly damaged or washed away. The
officials had confirmed that more than 6000 people had to leave their homes and were shifted
to places that were usually higher than the coastal area. Naturally, it hindered the power
supply of the city bringing the whole city under darkness and a temporary halt leading the
people to deal with terrifying conditions everyday. However, some residents were still
positive about the fact that although the night was difficult, yet they managed to pass it off
peacefully.
The officials and the authorities of the UN’s office, which works with coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), declared that the places that were heavily affected by the
cyclones that have also brought in landfalls had a huge population, making the number closer
to almost 1.8 million. It is understandable how difficult the situation was for the government
and humanitarian affairs officials because the number of people that were in desperate need
to have support was not small. Therefore, their job became difficult to reach help equally to
all of them. However, they located that around 1.4 million people were in search of
humanitarian help that could save their lives (LeComte 2016). It had been anticipated that the
cyclone could have occur possibly once again with a three to four times of the average
rainfall that takes place in a yearly manner can hit the eastern part of Yemen and southern-
western part of Oman in merely a day or two.
The first place to have been affected by the cyclone was the remote part of Yemeni
island situated in Socotra. This incident occur on this place on Monday that not only hit the
place devastating some houses but also was able to kill three people. The cyclone was so
powerful that it was able to displace more than thousand people at a blow. This island is so
remote that it is located 380 kilometers away from Yemen though connected with Arabian