ACAPS Audio Reports

This report aims to provide an overview of the humanitarian needs and risks children are facing given the escalating violence in Haiti. While mainly covering the escalation of conflict in 2024 and its impact on children, the report also provides contextual information.

This report highlights the hostilities’ impacts on education in Gaza and the main challenges facing the education system. It will also highlight the secondary impacts of the prolonged lack of education on Gazan students.

A region-by-region analysis of possible developments affecting humanitarian needs and operations in Sudan until December 2025.

This report aims to add to the body of evidence on human safety and security issues that returnees face in Afghanistan to enable targeted protection interventions that are appropriate, relevant, and specific to returnees and that may address the risks host communities are also facing.

This report provides an overview of key humanitarian crises expected to deteriorate or see a significant humanitarian impact in the next five months in South Sudan.

This report analyses pre and post-7 October MHPSS needs in Gaza, the drivers of needs, and MHPSS resources and coping capacities, highlighting the specific needs of people of different genders and ages, people with disabilities, healthcare workers, and detained Palestinians.

This report explores the key protection risks that children in Ukraine are facing and thevulnerabilities of different groups of children to these risks. It aims to provide an improved understanding of child protection risks for humanitarians to develop more targeted interventions addressing the specific challenges that different groups of conflict-affected children are facing.

This report aims to highlight the duty of care challenges that humanitarian responders and volunteers face, particularly those responding in high-risk frontline and occupied areas in Ukraine, with a specific focus on NNGOs and volunteers.

This report provides an update on Interim Taliban Authority (ITA) decrees and directives to provide contextual knowledge in support of the humanitarian response in Afghanistan. Specifically, it maps and analyses ITA policy decisions communicated between September 2023 and June 2024.

This report analyses the humanitarian needs of Sudanese refugees hosted at the Kumer and Awlala refugee camps, those who left and are sheltering outside, and the factors aggravating the situation in order to support humanitarian decision-making.

This report presents the impact of selected protection threats on specific population groups and identifies vulnerabilities among these groups to protection risks in Ukraine between February 2022 and May 2024.

This risk report outlines the main emerging risks driven or compounded by climate change with the potential to affect Afghanistan’s humanitarian situation and the wellbeing of its population between 2024–2030.

This report compares access challenges across Ukrainian oblasts to inform humanitarian responders and support their decision-making. It is part of the ACAPS quarterly analysis of access constraints, with the latest report published on 26 April 2024.

This edition of the spotlight on social impact focuses on the following three themes: the effect of the poppy cultivation ban on farmers’ livelihoods, the availability of maternal health care in rural areas, and the ending of the pension system for government employees.

The onset of El Niño in Colombia in November 2023 led to dry conditions in the Orinoquia region. These conditions resulted in food insecurity, water shortages and rationing, and wildfires, affecting an estimated 195,000 people, predominantly in Arauca department.

This analysis identifies risks posed by a potential polio outbreak, particularly for children, and analyses major constraints in the health and humanitarian response.

This report aims to highlight the food security situation in Sudan, focusing on the drivers of the crisis to analyse how it developed. It also aims to identify vulnerabilities among the affected populations to potentially target and prioritise aid.

This overview compares the overall level of humanitarian access between the last Global Humanitarian Access Index published in December 2023 (covering June–November 2023) and this latest ACAPS assessment (covering December 2023 to June 2024) published in July 2024.

This report aims to highlight Sudan’s current access situation, using a regional focus to account for regions’ markedly different access situations.

Agricultural drought is threatening the food security and livelihoods of millions of Afghans, particularly in the country’s northern, northwestern, and central provinces. Nearly half of the country’s districts are classified as ‘very high risk’ and ‘high risk’ according to the Afghanistan Drought Severity Index.

This report aims to provide an overview of the protection and humanitarian needs and challenges along the mixed migration route in Greece. It also aims to provide an overview of the barriers hindering humanitarian access and response to the mixed migration crisis in the country.

This report aims to outline the strategies that households use to meet their needs and identify effective coping strategies that could be reinforced through humanitarian programming, as well as strategies with negative impacts that are currently not being reduced or mitigated.

Since January 2024, protracted violence and conflict between non-state armed groups (NSAGs) linked to the Islamic State have besieged major towns in northeastern and central Mali (in the Gao, Kidal, Ménaka, Mopti, San, Ségou, Taoudénit, and Tombouctou regions)

This report highlights the key contributing factors and aggravating conditions that can increase the global prevalence of cholera, focusing particularly on the impact of the global OCV shortage that is heightening humanitarian needs among affected populations and those vulnerable to spread

Niger has become a country of transit and destination for people on the move. Until 3 May, Niger was hosting around 417,000 refugees and asylum seekers, primarily from Nigeria (over 57%) and Mali (over 31%), with the remaining hailing from various other countries, including Burkina Faso, Chad, and Sudan.