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Nothing in this block for this pillar this week.

• 2026-10-06 PNG: food tax cut — 8 toea of each kina to poorest quintile

  World Bank incidence study; ~K600m fiscal cost; 36 toea to stores/wholesalers. Devpolicy, 6 Oct.

• 2026-10-09 Burkina Faso–Côte d’Ivoire: migration, climate and agriculture (MMC)

  Qualitative analysis, 56 interviews in three northern Ivorian cities.

• 2026-10-07 Samoa: 2026 labour mobility reforms vs 18 years of RSE data

  Cap 10,000 workers/year; ~8% of residents 20–49 offshore on RSE/PALM (Mar 2026).

• 2026-10-02 PNG: family planning and the conversion gap (DHS 2016–18)

  88% know methods, 37% use any; fertility 4.2 vs ~3 wanted. Devpolicy / RESET@50.

• 2026-10-02 Nepal: situation report 6 on Bhote Koshi flash flood

  Plan International, 1 Oct: humanitarian series; cause (possible GLOF) under investigation.

• 2026-09-28 Is El Niño a risk factor for sorcery accusation-related violence in PNG?

  SARV incident database: ~90% triggered by sickness/death; Simbu case Sep 2026 and drought.

• 2026-09-25 Nepal: illusion of food security (WFP household survey, Sep 2026)

  Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading: adequate consumption at survey time may reflect emergency assistance, not recovery.

• 2026-09-23 Kiribati: fiscal discipline and social protection (Devpolicy)

  ~1 in 3 dollars of recurrent spending reaches households; fisheries >A$210m/year. Highest relative social assistance (IMF measure).

• 2026-09-25 Life expectancy in the Pacific, and the case of Naoero

  Regional average 68.8 years (52.7 in 1960). Income explains ~1.5% of Pacific variance vs ~67% globally.

• 2026-09-21 Australia: ending the third-year backpacker visa and implications for PALM

  Devpolicy data deep dive on Pacific–Australia labour mobility.

• 2026-09-18 Colombia: Flash Update 013 on the earthquake (cut-off 17 Sep, 14:00)

  OCHA / HCT: at least 486,917 people and 303,934 households; 36,478 homes destroyed. Weekly series until end of September.

• 2026-09-18 Myanmar: Protection Analysis Update (September 2026)

  21.9m in need; 15.4m protection; 3.7m IDPs. An analysis product, not a 24-hour sitrep.

• 2026-09-17 Kalimantan: recurring fires as a super-wicked problem

  ~202,000 ha burned in 2026 (Sipongi). Annual fire-control budget is less than a quarter of MBG’s daily spend.

• 2026-09-18 The changing funding landscape for education in emergencies

  Development education finance could fall by up to 30% by 2027 vs 2024. 234m children in crisis (+35m in three years).

• 2026-09-11 Honduras: preliminary joint analysis of El Niño humanitarian impacts (Sep 2026)

  OCHA / Humanitarian Network: 75 municipalities on red alert; 13–14 Jul workshops. Does not replace official climate analysis.

• 2026-09-11 UNDP: landscape of information-integrity interventions on climate and disasters

  Hundreds of interventions; ~50 climate-specific. Detection/response dominate; does not assess each one’s effectiveness.

• 2026-09-10 Mobility provisions in recent Australia–Pacific bilateral agreements

  Falepili: up to 280 visas/year; 8,750 first-ballot registrations. No Australian visa for sudden disaster movement.

• 2026-09-08 Affirmed, noted, endorsed: Pacific Islands Forum leaders in Koror

  76 paragraphs: reaffirmed 38, endorsed 20, tasked 1. A$1.89m for a renewable-energy commissioner at SPC.

• 2026-09-06 Safe, playable, and accessible? Children’s exclusion from urban spaces

  403 children (8–18); 0.9% of land is open space; 36% have a park 10–15 min away; 23% see parks as disability-accessible.

• 2026-09-11 Uganda launches ACTxBEC to strengthen emergency care

  200 facilities, 85 districts, ~2,400 workers over 3 years; 855.6 emergencies/100k (2024/25), over half trauma-related.

• 2026-09-04 LAC weekly situation update as of 4 September 2026

  OCHA updates the cut-off: 91k Dry Corridor households; Colombia 466,606 affected (282,709 on 21 Aug); Kenscoff.

• 2026-09-04 Kiribati: water security and public health in a changing climate

  MSF in Abaiang: ERT, infiltration tests and GIS of salinity and coliforms to decide wells and rainwater.

• 2026-09-01 Women’s earnings and support for women’s education in Afghanistan

  Over 69k surveys (34 provinces, 2014–2021): men’s demand varies with earnings and insecurity.

• 2026-09-02 Resource-related education investment in PNG: Porgera and Lihir

  Similar SML scale: 95% dropout in Porgera versus GPA 3.0 scholarships and public reports in Lihir.

• 2026-08-30 August 2026 aid news: PRF, Pacific El Niño and IDA

  PRF: US$172m of a US$500m target; El Niño drought in Fiji and PNG; IDA and China lending wind-down.

• 2026-08-21 Colombia: addendum to the 2026 Humanitarian Response Plan

  Integrates earthquake and drought needs with OCHA-coordinated data.

• 2026-08-21 South Sudan: access constraints map (21 August)

  Logistics Cluster and WFP publish a geospatial map of viable humanitarian corridors.

• 2026-08-18 Australia publishes aid datasets for transparency

  Opens full aid datasets, moving beyond narrative reports.

• 2026-08-21 Ukraine: Mykolaiv art school amid conflict

  Education initiative using child-protection data to sustain creative spaces.

• 2026-08-21 WHO and Peking University: health emergency preparedness

  Alliance for joint epidemiological surveillance and response data.

• 2026-08-21 Colombia earthquake: MSF in Quibdó and Buenaventura

  Medical deployment using updated needs data after the Chocó earthquake.