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Super Typhoon Rai (Odette) made landfall on 16 December 2021 and left devastation in its wake as it passed through the central Philippine islands.
May 2014
Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) activities in the Philippines are currently in transition and services are being handed over.
Located in northwestern Dominica with a population of almost 2,000 people, Wesley was destroyed following Hurricane Maria’s passage, leaving its inhabitants in a power blackout, without mobile network coverage or Internet connectivity.
When planning a training exercise, they say you should always have Plans B and C re
Emergency Telecommunications Sector (ETS) services draw on sustainable energy to keep humanitarians connected
By Elizabeth Millership
With a wealth of wisdom and experience in humanitarian emergency response, Caroline Teyssier is the go-to oracle of the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster.
Being deployed to the Caribbean may sound like a dream mission.
The ITU Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D) helps to improve telecoms in developing countries through international collaboration. ITU-D uses a Study Group structure to conduct research and develop reports, guidelines, and recommendations based on input received from participants.
This document contains critical background information for participants of the IT Emergency Managing Training.
The tiny southwestern Pacific Island nation of Nauru is facing its first COVID-19 cases.
In one week, the virus has reached about a third of the population.
TACLOBAN - It's my birthday. Not a particularly big birthday, but a birthday nonetheless. When you're part of the recovery operation after the largest typhoon in history has slammed into the side of an island nation, balloons and cake aren't really top of the priority list.
ETC Assessment and Reporting Tool Project Plan as at 18 September 2014. This current project plan assumes a waterfall methodology. This will be modified in the coming days to adapt to agile methodology once the product backlog and sprints are defined.
As Martin Luther King Jr once said: “If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
A 2.5 day training course will be held at the Queen Elizabeth Barracks from 10-12 April 2017.
Al-Hol camp in north-east Syria is home to 55,000 Syrians and Iraqis fleeing conflict.
Recently, there was a need to ramp up safety and security in the camp.
Over two years since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the humanitarian situation, especially near the frontline, has grown increasingly complex.
SUVA – Global lead of the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC), the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) officially handed over two high frequency (HF) radio packs to the Fiji Ministry of Rural and Maritime Development and National Disaster Management in Suva on 1 February 2017.
YIDA - “Let it rain over me,” said Haidar Baqir, WFP's emergency telecoms coordinator, citing a song of the same name by his favourite US rap artist, Pitbull.
Within hours of Cyclone Pam tearing through Vanuatu, the critical need for communications was blaringly obvious. Why? With the exception of the capital, Port Vila on Efate Island, the other 64 inhabited islands that comprise the country were largely incommunicado.
Nowhere is the basic human need to communicate more apparent than in a disaster situation. Whether it is to find a lost loved one, or gain access to vital supplies or information, one of the first things we reach for is our mobile phone.
This story was originally published on WFP Innovation Acc
ICT officers, Ivan Storr and Hugh Macready were deployed from Australia to Haiti to respond to the earthquake emergency. Members of RedR Australia, Ivan and Hugh joined the World Food Programme (WFP) team to restore electrical services and communications.
Action on Disaster Relief 2018 presents an invitation-only Emergency Telecommunications Cluster Meeting in Panama
2017 was a devastating year for natural disasters in Central and South America, with hundreds of lives lost. Peru was the first to be hit at the beginning of the year with heavy floods, during which over a 150 people died.
This workshop will bring together National Disaster Management Offices (NDMOs), Telecommunications Ministries, Regulators, NGOs and the private sector to work on a strategy related to emergency communications across Samoa, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Tonga.
The Pacific is one of the world's most disaster-prone regions, with Pacific Island Countries (PIC) ranked among the most vulnerable in the world to natural disasters, due to rising sea levels and increasing severe weather patterns, caused by the effects of climate change.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is hosting a Regional Pacific Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) and Logistics Cluster Workshop in Port Vila, Vanuatu.
PORT VILA– Preparing for and responding to threats posed by natural and man-made disasters are major themes being discussed at the first-ever joint meeting of the Regional Pacific Logistics Cluster and Emergency Telecommunications (ETC) Cluster which opens in Port Vila, Vanuatu, today, co
Guidance for responders leading Emergency Telecommunications Cluster operations
In 2005, when the Cluster Approach was introduced, the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) was activated in one emergency – the Pakistan earthquake.
It’s a busy day in Kutupalong Registered Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The entry road is jammed with Rohingya refugees queuing to receive relief goods or trying to take them back home.
The Remote Site on Vehicle (RSoV) solution is effective in situations where essential communication services, such as GSM networks, satellite phone coverage, and Very High Frequency (VHF) repeater coverage, are unavailable.