Sentences with phrase «affected populations closer»

Digital trends include real - time mapping and analysis using social media, crowd sourcing and data mining, the use of mobile phones to disseminate information, online campaigns bringing publics and affected populations closer together, digital platforms for cash transfers and new digital tools for assessment work, as well as monitoring and evaluation.

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Donations of canned goods are rarely beneficial and the collection of bottled water is highly inefficient, as both food and potable water can be purchased more inexpensively through merchants close to affected populations.

In the United States, more than 25 percent of the population was affected by the extremely virulent influenza A H1N1 virus, forcing schools, theaters and public places to close.

Celiac disease affects about one in 133 people or close to 1 percent of the population.

In Chicago, Arne Duncan closed 44 schools during his time as mayor; a few years later, in May 2013, Rahm Emmanuel closed 49 more schools — and again, 88 % who were affected were black, though they made up only 40 % of the district population.

Specifically, the claim was made that temperatures in Churchill, Manitoba (close to the center of the Western Hudson Bay population of bears) had not risen, and that instead, any multidecadal variations in temperatures affecting the bears were related to the Arctic Oscillation (AO), a mode of natural variability.

Predicted to grow by 2.23 residents by 2020, an increase of close to 20 % of its population, the risks of flooding and typhoons affecting Manila threaten millions.