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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 World Food Programme (WFP), through its Caribbean Multi-Country Office (MCO) in Barbados, is enhancing Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) preparedness across 22 Caribbean nations.
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.