Humanitarian Trends and Trajectories to 2030: North and South-East Asia - Regional Consultation

Author(s)
Peters, K.
Publication language
English
Pages
40pp
Date published
01 Jan 2014
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Needs assessment, System-wide performance
Countries
Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Indonesia, Japan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam
Organisations
ODI

North and South-East Asia will face a new set of humanitarian challenges from 2015 to 2030. The region is vulnerable to cumulative risks, with increasing urbanisation, population and asset exposure, new infectious diseases and climate extremes. Projections show the region moving to a ‘severe’ level of vulnerability, compounded by drought-related water and food shortages, which are anticipated to exacerbate existing malnutrition. Migration and displacement will continue, with figures predicted to exceed the 71 million displaced persons in North and South-East Asia between 2008 and 2012.