ACAPS Audio Reports

This report explores the dynamics of internal displacement linked to climate and environmental hazards, such as drought, flooding, and desertification, from a granular and intersectional perspective that considers gender, age, and disability.

This report aims to analyse the humanitarian effects triggered by violence-induced livelihood deterioration in El Oro, Ecuador, from May 2024 to May 2025.

This report highlights eight key protection risks identified as the most severe in 2025 by responders, with special focus on at-risk population groups, high-risk areas, and information gaps. It also aims to delve into the dynamics of each protection risk in 2025.

This report presents a forward-looking analysis of the potential rise in sectarian and social tensions in Syria throughout 2025, along with related conflict dynamics.

This report gives an overview of the humanitarian needs of IDP returnees in Aj Jazirah state and the factors driving and compounding continuing IDP returns.

This report analyses the humanitarian impact of confinement and mobility restrictions through an intersectional and multicausal lens, with a particular focus on ethnicity, gender, and age among affected communities.

This report updates ACAPS’ previous analysis on Donetska oblast, reflecting recent developments, including the shift in Russian military operations toward Kostiantynivka.

This report outlines the key humanitarian crises expected to affect Pakistan in the next six months of 2025. It is intended to support humanitarian planning and anticipatory action by providing an analytical overview of the the current situation, as well as potential risks having a humanitarian impact.

Over six million people in Ukraine are estimated to have a disability, with three million formally recognised, half of whom are older people. The war has caused new disabilities across all ages, with men making up 60% of those newly recognised. People with disabilities are facing increased hardships, safety risks, and humanitarian access constraints during the war, compounded by preexisting suppor...

This report builds on ACAPS’ briefing note on what the US aid freeze means to Afghanistan, published on 7 February 2025. It aims to provide a more comprehensive overview of the implications of the US aid freeze and subsequent cuts on humanitarian programming in the country, with a focus on how this affects humanitarian response capacity and Afghans.

This report highlights the key developments affecting humanitarian access in Sudan between October 2024 and March 2025 at both the national and subnational levels, accounting for significant regional variations in access constraints. This is a follow-up report to the 27 June 2024 ACAPS report on humanitarian access in Sudan.

This report analyses the anticipated humanitarian impacts of a potential increase in dengue and yellow fever cases in Putumayo during 2025. It analyses how key drivers, structural vulnerabilities, and aggravating factors could shape the spread of these vector-borne diseases (VBDs) and their humanitarian impacts in this scenario.

This report analyses the current and potential implications of the US funding freeze and stop-work orders on humanitarian operations and needs in Colombia. It aims to provide key stakeholders with an accessible overview of emerging operational and strategic challenges.

This report analyses the actual (by March 2025) and potential implications of the US funding freeze and cuts on the overall humanitarian response in Myanmar, with a particular focus on national and local organisations. It includes a spotlight on the health sector, which is facing significant cuts amid rising health needs.

This report examines trends in Rohingya cross-border displacement in 2024 and early 2025, along with humanitarian needs during the displacement process and upon arrival in Bangladesh specifically. It identifies the drivers of movements and variables that may influence the outlook for displacement in 2025.

On the evening of 17 March 2025, Israel unilaterally ended the ceasefire that it agreed upon with Hamas on 15 January, launching air strikes on Gaza. During the ceasefire, Israel had killed at least 170 Gazans and allowed only 70% of the 600 aid trucks to be allowed in daily. The 17 March air strikes killed at least 404 civilians and injured around 660.

On 11 April, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) conducted a three-day assault on Zamzam camp, the largest camp for displaced people in Sudan, located in North Darfur, around 15km south of El Fasher City, resulting in the displacement of at least 406,265 (81%) of the camp’s inhabitants.

This report considers three distinct yet plausible futures for Ukraine through the end of 2025. They focus on how changes in the situation in the country will affect people’s ability to meet their basic needs and affect humanitarian operations in and around Ukraine.

The report aims to present the war-related developments and resulting humanitarian impacts in the Ukrainian-controlled territory of Khersonska oblast (namely Beryslavskyi raion and six hromadas of Khersonskyi raion since July 2024.

This report examines the distinct impacts of escalating violence on children across Ecuador, with a particular focus on protection, education, and health in the provinces of Esmeraldas and Guayas.

This report is a midterm update of the original outlook, with added highlights on other tactics, such as regular countrywide mass drone attacks and other more localised missile attacks on the energy infrastructure

This report analyses the current and potential implications of the US SWOs, subsequent cuts on humanitarian operations, and needs in the DRC, with a focus on the escalating humanitarian needs in eastern DRC provinces as conflict persists.

This report aims to provide a national-level analysis of the implications of the US funding freeze and subsequent terminations of aid for the humanitarian context in Ethiopia to support understanding and decision-making.

The suspension of US assistance will have severe implications for Haiti, where six million people (50% of the 11.9 million population) are in need of humanitarian assistance.

This report analyses the actual and potential implications of the US funding freeze, SWOs, and subsequent cuts on humanitarian operations and humanitarian needs in Sudan.