The World Food Programme has won the Nobel Prize for Peace

Published: 2020-10-23

All IHP members congratulate our longstanding partner the World Food Program (WFP) in winning dignified and well-deserved recognition - the Nobel Peace Prize.

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IHP Supports UNDAC in Albania Earthquakes

Published: 2020-01-29

26th of November 2019 Albania was struck by several Earthquakes. After the initial rescue phase, an UNDAC team was established to support the local authorities with rescue and emergency sheltering efforts. As IHP was requested to support the UNDAC team, two experts from Finland were sent to Tirana, Albania. These experts are members of the Finn Rescue Team and were deployed by the Emergency Services Academy Finland.

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Biannual IHP Focal Point meeting hosted by Estonian Rescue Board in Tallinn, Estonia

Published: 2019-11-26

Every spring and autumn, the IHP Focal Points and the partners to IHP meet to discuss current issues and decide on these as well as the way forward. This time IHP members and most of the partners (OCHA, ECHO, WFP, UNHCR, IOM and MapAction) met 19 and 20 November in Tallinn.

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The Danish Chairmanship is coming to an end – Estonia will take over

The last day of DEMA’s IHP Chairmanship will be Sunday 30 June 2019 after which ERB will take over on Monday 1 July for 1½ years.

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IHP ends its mission in Mozambique

Published: 2019-05-14

On 29 April IHP ended its support mission to OCHA /UNDAC in Mozambique after the current operations centre was moved from the airport at Beira to new locations in town.

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