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White Nile State is home to a large population of South Sudanese refugees. In the first half of 2019, the World Food Programme (WFP) supported 387,000 refugees across Sudan with the majority of food contributions from USAID. More than half of them are women. WFP encourages women decision-making power at home by issuing... | ['Sudan', 'Humanitarian', 'Refugees', 'Women', 'Food'] |
I covered this story as a part of the Strategic Communications Branch at the United Nations OCHA for World Humanitarian Day 2019. This story is of Augusta Maita, a strong humanitarian from Mozambique. Emotions are a huge part of womanhood and humanitarianism, a theme that I kept in mind although the drafting of this pi... | ['Humanitarian'] |
Overview
Ebola Crisis in DRC
The latest Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was recently declared by Doctors Without Borders to be the worst ever documented in that country, and the second-largest Ebola outbreak recorded anywhere. The World Health Organization believes it to be a public health emer... | ['Global Health', 'GIS', 'AI', 'Humanitarian', 'Satellite Imagery'] |
In 2016, Danish aid worker and founder of DINNødhjælp Anja Ringgren Lovén was voted the Most Inspiring Person of the Year in recognition of her distinguished efforts to rescue and rehabilitate Nigerian children accused of being witche
“As a little girl I dreamt about life in an African village and to be able to play w... | ['Danish Aid Worker', 'Humanitarian', 'Philanthropy', 'Witch'] |
20 litres per person per day — this is the minimum amount of water UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency aims to provide for every refugee living in a refugee camp. Yet only in 43% of the camps UNHCR is able to reach this essential mark. Climate change is one of the main factors making water supply for refugees more and more ch... | ['Hygiene', 'Climate Change', 'Humanitarian', 'Refugees', 'Water'] |
How have other women helped you in your career or how have you helped other women?
Eujin: I was in Lebanon during the Syria refugee crisis. I saw children and women living in tents when there was a huge snowstorm and then when I entered my house with a heater, a roof, nice food—I just cried every day. Then I got very ... | ['Development', 'Humanitarian', 'Refugees', 'Women', 'Careers'] |
As the manager of USAID’s Ebola Response Management Team for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Cara Christie has her hands full leading a team of more than 15 people who are working to help contain the second largest Ebola outbreak in history.
Cara is no stranger to the fight against Ebola. In 2015, she led ... | ['Womens Day', 'Humanitarian', 'World', 'Women', 'Leadership'] |
BRIGHT: The book argues, “Alleviating poverty is not the same as creating prosperity. We need to start thinking differently.” What does it mean to create prosperity? What does that process actually look like?
First, let’s be clear what we mean by prosperity. There are some obvious and commonly used proxies for prosper... | ['Development', 'Ngo', 'Economics', 'Poverty', 'Humanitarian'] |
Across the three nations, tens of thousands are known to have have lost their homes. Roads, bridges and crops have been washed away. Assessments continue, but early indications are that WFP may need to provide 500,000 people with food assistance — out of a total of 600,000 believed to be in need of help in Mozambique a... | ['Africa', 'Mozambique', 'Emergency', 'Disaster Response', 'Humanitarian'] |
On March 15, Tropical Cyclone Idai — the worst natural disaster to hit southern Africa in two decades — made landfall over Mozambique, producing torrential rains and strong winds across the country, as well as in neighboring Malawi and Zimbabwe. The cyclone caused catastrophic flooding, which has killed hundreds of peo... | ['Mozambique', 'Disaster Response', 'Humanitarian', 'World', 'Natural Disasters'] |
Restless innovation, human-centred design and adaptability are at the core of the GO development approach. From the introduction of the first set of APIs allowing for data interoperability across IFRC systems, GO has demonstrated new ways to solve old problems. The platform is built from scratch using open source softw... | ['Covid 19', 'Red Cross', 'Data', 'Humanitarian', 'Digital Transformation'] |
The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown us off-balance. Who hasn’t been? My 18-year experience working mostly in global emergencies came in very handy. Not quite but almost. I thought the string of natural and man-made disasters in Asia, and the debilitating hunger in the African continent, already topped the list of challeng... | ['Storyteller', 'Storytelling', 'Humanitarian', 'Pandemic', 'Covid-19'] |
Credit: Julia Burpee / IOM
“I could not sleep for two weeks.”
The words of Ramatoulaye Diène, a returnee from Senegal, echo what millions around the world have experienced during the pandemic: anxiety, fear and disruption. The rapid spread of the virus and global response have constricted people’s lives, exacting a s... | ['Africa', 'Humanitarian', 'Humanity'] |
As it happens, even if you adopt a broad and open approach to innovation, some form of consolidation and negentropy is inevitable. Resources, and especially the willingness to dedicate them to innovative solutions, are limited and often unevenly distributed.
Some managers will “get it” more than others, thus actively ... | ['Technology', 'Ethics', 'Humanitarian', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Digital Transformation'] |
A nation’s journey to Del Rio, Texas
“Aren’t you afraid of being here in the United States without anyone to stay with?”, a volunteer asked a Venezuelan man in Spanish. “Afraid?,” he questioned with clouds in his eyes. “I was afraid in Venezuela. I was afraid when my entire family was murdered by police officers becau... | ['Human Rights', 'Del Rio', 'Texas', 'Humanitarian', 'Refugees'] |
Here’s how blockchain innovations bring untapped value to WFP’s humanitarian operations
By Gulia Rakhimova
WFP actively seeks new ways of delivering humanitarian assistance by exploring cutting-edge technologies and innovations, and has done so since its earliest days. Photo: WFP/Jörg Koch.
Those who champion blockc... | ['Technology', 'Innovation', 'Humanitarian', 'Blockchain', 'Food Security'] |
Source: Aarón Blanco Tejedor
As humanitarians we have a strong sense of purpose about what we do and feel deeply connected to the people we serve. At the same time, the work we do takes a heavy toll on our own mental health and well-being and we often live with a fear of reprisal about speaking up.
The newly released... | ['Empathy', 'Culture', 'Humanitarian', 'Mental Health', 'Leadership'] |
Journalist. Advocate. Diplomat. USAID Administrator.
Samantha Power on a visit to Kyiv, Ukraine in 2015, while serving as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under the Obama Administration. / U.S. Embassy in Ukraine
Samantha Power has been a war correspondent, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a Harvard University p... | ['Usaid', 'Public Service', 'Humanitarian', 'International Development', 'Us Government'] |
“Before we start, I’d like to acknowledge that the decisions we make in this room today may have implications into the future and far beyond the lifetime of this project, team or organisation. We make those decisions with that in mind.”- The Long Time Project
Image by Carol Gaessler — shared under Creative Commons-Att... | ['Ethics', 'Decolonisation', 'Humanitarian', 'Digital Futures', 'Foresight'] |
When Aid Gets Manufactured Locally
Connecting the dots to get needs met, fast NeedsList Follow Apr 13 · 3 min read
In Uganda, Field Ready and LIRA NGO Forum team members modeling locally manufactured face shields.
When you think of international aid, what comes to mind? Is it packages of food being thrown off of air... | ['Covid 19', 'Innovation', 'Humanitarian', 'Uganda', 'Social Impact'] |
I saw a baby girl wandering around a garbage, looking at "thrown food" and searching for life over there! I just stopped there to know that what she is going to do with her life. After a few minutes, I noticed that she had found nothing but a hopeless hope for the life. She left, may be for another garbage but the sile... | ['Human Rights', 'Poverty', 'Poverty Stoplight', 'Humanitarian', 'Humanity'] |
The United Arab Emirates is known for donating generously to provide relief and development assistance around the world. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), UAE is the world’s largest donor of official development aid, relative to its national income. The Arab country designa... | ['Uae', 'Foreign Aid', 'United Nations', 'Humanitarian', 'Peace'] |
We live in a day and age , when everything is at the swipe off a phone, a tap of an app, or a ping of a message. As a consequence, some things often don’t come across as sacred as they once did, or should. I lost a friend to a horrible tragedy today , and it had me pondering this. Though this isn’t the first time that ... | ['Death', 'Humanitarian', 'Human Interaction', 'Humanity', 'Memories'] |
We all know where we were. I was in my high school gym class, it was a bright and sunny day and we had been running around the track just ten miles away from Manhattan. I quickly changed back into my normal attire to make sure I wasn’t late for my honours history class on the other side of my high school. I was so quic... | ['Storyteller', '9 11 Attacks', 'Humanitarian'] |
How Sudan’s youth are pushing for sustainable solutions via innovative ideas to make long lasting change in their communities.
UNICEF Sudan launched the Young People’s Agenda contest as part of Generation Unlimited at the UN General Assembly 2018. Sudan is one of 16 countries chosen to participate. Over 2000 Sudanese ... | ['Humanitarian'] |
Cash and conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Bahati Mitondo spared part of the cash she received to extend her farming lands. Photo: WFP/Jacques David
Micheline Ngalara smiles as she counts money she has just received during a distribution in Djugu territory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).... | ['Uk Aid', 'Eu', 'Humanitarian', 'Drc', 'Cash'] |
I have researched and developed solutions to a global issue — refugees — as part of a global strategic communications curriculum I am enrolled in. Before the course, refugee was just a label. Just another word for migrant. Now, the word paints a story for me: the story of Emmanuel and his wife who escaped Burundi in th... | ['Activism', 'Humanitarian', 'Donations', 'Refugees', 'Volunteering'] |
Prioritize the holistic needs of girls and women
Sunee following-up with women in a village in Cox’s Bazar about how they are sustaining after WFP’s livelihoods project phased out one year ago. Photo credit: Saikat Mozumdar/WFP
Girls and women do not experience their lives in silos — and issues concerning their sexua... | ['Gender Equality', 'Humanitarian', 'Women Leaders', 'Refugees', 'Wfp'] |
Water Is Life
Grace Pule has seen firsthand the devastation that unsafe water brings. As a minister at Prince of Peace Church in a small village in Zambia, she struggled with her community through the deadly cholera outbreak that struck one year ago. In need of water, which was scarce in the region, families often had... | ['Humanitarian', 'Clean Water'] |
Americans Making a Difference
By: Courtney Fatigato, Humanitarian Affairs Intern, U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva.
Americans are the world’s most generous contributors to humanitarian assistance — not just with dollars, but with human capital. Thousands of Americans work across the globe in international... | ['Humanitarian', 'Refugees', 'United Nations'] |
Where the world is most in need of humanitarian research and innovation
With 79.5 million people displaced around the world, we were already facing an unprecedented crisis before COVID-19 hit. Already before the pandemic, crucial, life-saving interventions weren’t reaching enough people. Too many children don’t have a... | ['Humanitarian', 'Innovation', 'Coronavirus', 'Research'] |
Coronavirus takes its toll on the livelihoods and economic prospects of millions around the world — in Lebanon, the situation is particularly dire. Trying to cope with the outbreak, the country faces an unprecedented economic crisis that is pushing an increasing number of families into poverty.
In recent months food a... | ['Covid 19', 'Lebanon', 'Poverty', 'Humanitarian', 'Coronavirus'] |
Caribou Digital and DAI are pleased to share a new report on the issues around the use of information and identification systems in humanitarian and social protection support.
Biometric Registration in Bidi Bidi Camp, Northern Uganda (photo: author)
Recently, the systems and technologies through which social assistan... | ['Development', 'Socialprotection', 'Humanitarian', 'Digitalid'] |
The Hippocratic Oath (Source: Health Times)
One idea that drives contemporary environmental justice movements is the right of future generations. This idea recognises that what we do for the sake of “development” today — for example, manufacture products or invent technologies — have an environmental impact and can le... | ['Conflict', 'Philosophy', 'Humanitarian', 'International Development', 'Medicine'] |
Within weeks of WHO declaring a global pandemic, we launched a rapid research funding call to support the COVID-19 response in humanitarian settings. Based on priorities identified in WHO’s Research and Development Blueprint, the call exposed a huge demand for research and evidence to help combat the spread of the viru... | ['Humanitarian Research', 'Public Health', 'Covid 19', 'Humanitarian', 'Research'] |
Abdul Sattar Edhi( A great Humanitarian)
M other: I’m feeling unwell, do something.
Son: Edhi Ambulance is coming take us to the hospital.
A fter 30 minutes, reached at hospital, doctor said to her son, if you didn’t reach hospital on time, your mother could have expired. We have started her treatment, please submit... | ['Pakistan', 'Richest Poor Man', 'Abdul Sattar Edhi', 'Humanitarian', 'Philanthropist'] |
Reflecting on the last decade, especially the founding of the Moka Origins Farm in Cameroon, it seems that our ambitious goal of spreading empowerment and creating a sustainable, transparent supply chain for cacao and coffee Farmers in Cameroon, has taken on a life of its own.
As a young startup, it’s always humbling ... | ['Craft', 'Coffee', 'Humanitarian', 'Chocolate', 'Bean To Bar'] |
Syrians are still being deprived of vital, fundamental resources including basic healthcare and safe drinking water. Now, as a result of action by Russia and China, the United Nations’ resolution 2165/2449 can no longer help them.
The multi-sided Syrian civil war has continued to devastate countless Syrian people in t... | ['Syria', 'Syrian Refugees', 'Humanitarian', 'United Nations'] |
The United States is responding to COVID-19 pandemic here at home and also supporting partner countries in their response to the disease. USAID and the State Department have pledged more than $900 million to date to combat COVID-19 in more than 120 countries around the world. This assistance will be used to care for th... | ['Global Health', 'Covid 19', 'Disaster Response', 'Humanitarian', 'World'] |
Back in 2015, my family began starring on a reality TV show called I am Jazz on TLC. Once the show aired, I began to gain a large following across all social media platforms. On the show, I serve as a supportive brother to my transgender sister, Jazz Jennings, so that was initially the foundation of my brand.
More rec... | ['Influencers', 'Influence', 'Humanitarian', 'Influencer Marketing'] |
This week I’ve been sensing increased uneasiness and despair among the British population, due in part to the uncertainty of when lockdown will end and when we’ll ever be able to fully enjoy the sunshine or give our loved ones a hug. Meanwhile, the endless stream of upsetting news continues, with constant reminders not... | ['Humanitarian', 'Coronavirus', 'Global Health'] |
“Those found to have high temperatures are not permitted to fly.” And there is a good reason for that. “This is most important for helicopter flights to the deep field to avoid spreading the virus into densely populated and hard to reach areas such as IDP camps,” Walker explains.
At a time of heightened concern that t... | ['Conflict', 'Covid 19', 'Airlines', 'Humanitarian', 'Nigeria'] |
Rapid evidence summary: SMS & mobile interventions
With people physically distancing around the world due to COVID-19, we are exploring mobile interventions in order to continue delivering services for our clients. In our latest rapid evidence summary, we looked at literature on the impact SMS and mobile interventions... | ['Mobile', 'Covid 19', 'Humanitarian', 'Research'] |
Floating Doctors is an organization that provides locum tenens medical and humanitarian aid services to poor, remote, underserved, as well as ravaged areas throughout the world. It was established nearly a decade ago, and its first mission involved the deployment of medical volunteers and support staff, along with 20,0... | ['Humanitarian', 'Volunteering', 'Philanthropy', 'Medicine'] |
Do-gooder.
Twice over the last few months, incensed humanitarians have reached out to tell me how wrong I am for referring to people in this way, as if it were demeaning or disparaging, or that it must be with resentment. Both times, bristled, I have tried to figure out why “do-gooder” pisses people off so much that t... | ['Global Development', 'Nonprofit', 'Humanitarian', 'Social Good', 'Humility'] |
This project started with an email message about Facebook’s High-Resolution Settlement Layer generated at a resolution of about 30m for population density. This was part of their open datasets and was distributed under the Creative Commons International License. This dataset was hosted and shared by the Center for Inte... | ['Dataset', 'Google Earth Engine', 'Google Earth Outreach', 'Humanitarian', 'Tools'] |
Beira, Mozambique, after Cyclone Idai. Credit: Associated Press
Last Thursday, tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall in several countries in Southern Africa, causing widespread flooding and destruction in what the United Nations has called the worst natural disaster to hit the Southern Hemisphere. Passing through Mozamb... | ['Mozambique', 'Malawi', 'Humanitarian', 'Zimbabwe', 'Natural Disasters'] |
Women in Bolivia leverage technology in humanitarian work
From the traditional cholitas fighting in the rings of El Alto and climbing the peaks of the Andean mountains, to acclaimed researchers and scientists — Bolivian society champions independent and strong women. With technology opening up new opportunities, femal... | ['Gender Equality', 'Drones', 'Women In Tech', 'Humanitarian', 'Bolivia'] |
By Irene Velicer
Afghan police conduct their duties after Taliban take over Kandahar, 15 August 2021. Many international organisations are continuing operations in Afghanistan as the Taliban takes control. (Keystone/EPA/STRINGER)
The Taliban’s capture of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, is nearly complete since beginnin... | ['Humanitarian Aid', 'Afghanistan', 'Humanitarian', 'Taliban', '2021'] |
As communities create their Community Inclusion Currencies as a credit against their future production, projects and excess capacity, Grassroots Economics is looking at various ways to connect these tokens together and as well to other networks. Below I’ll describe and contrast two approaches, namely a Fixed vs Algorit... | ['Community Currency', 'Crypto', 'Humanitarian', 'Liquidity'] |
In my previous article, I gave a brief introduction and some insight into the initial stages of implementing Blockchain in a humanitarian aid supply chain. This pilot is part of the second cohort of project ideas launched by Frontier Technology Livestreaming, an innovation programme supported by the Department for Inte... | ['Supply Chain', 'Frontier Tech', 'Humanitarian', 'Livestream', 'Blockchain'] |
A spark of inspiration
On a sunny October afternoon last year, the Bomberos de Bogotá (Firefighters of Bogota) received a call reporting the poor condition of a residential building with fears it might collapse.
Drone assessment by the Firefighters of Bogota. Video: Bomberos de Bogota
The Bomberos immediately sealed... | ['Colombia', 'Drones', 'Humanitarian', 'Training', 'Search And Rescue'] |
In Senegal, more than 156,000 students were supported during the 2017–2018 school year through WFP’s school feeding program. Thanks to this assistance, a hot meal is served to students every day, from Monday to Friday in the beneficiary schools.
Diarry Oumar Sall, one of Thiambé’s Elementary School cooks consulting th... | ['Senegal', 'Humanitarian', 'Food'] |
The leadership of United Arab Emirates received the Higher Committee and the organisers of the Special Olympics World Games Abu Dhabi 2019 on Monday at the Qasr Al Bahr Majlis. The meeting was held under the patronage of the crown prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, who praised the organisers for helping in s... | ['Uae', 'Intellectual Disabilities', 'Humanitarian', 'Sports', 'Special Olympics'] |
Today there are more than 70 million people around the world who have been forced from their homes. As crises get more prolonged, the only home that entire generations know, are refugee camps. The average length of displacement is rising, estimated at 26 years, and as of 2018, 78 per cent of all refugees were in protra... | ['Kenya', 'Work', 'Humanitarian', 'Refugees', 'Women'] |
In this series of articles, we have surfaced key insights for designers, technologists, and policymakers who want to do something for Venezuelans living under repressed economic freedoms and high inflation, but who weren’t familiar with how people living through this situation are using money or what limitations they m... | ['Human Rights', 'Venezuela', 'Bitcoin', 'Humanitarian', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
Having dealt with global health organizations for some years now, I can say with some confidence that their decisions aren’t exclusively evidence-based nor do they always treat the disease over the symptom. In case of pneumonia vaccines, organizations such as Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, often choose to band-aid or by-p... | ['Global Health', 'Humanitarian', 'International Development', 'Science And Medicine', 'Health'] |
Her name is Gabriela Vivacqua Borges de Barros.
And in case you haven’t figured it out from the name, yes, she is indeed Brazilian.
Born and raised in ‘the marvelous city’ - Rio de Janeiro - she is a holder of a law degree and practiced for a few years in her home country. At the time photography was just a pastime. ... | ['Africa', 'Humanitarian', 'Women', 'Photography', 'Careers'] |
REBECCA SEMMES
Rebecca is a regional Food for Peace Officer for East Africa and Kenya. She has worked at USAID for 10 years, and has served as a public health volunteer for the Peace Corps (Senegal) and a disaster response volunteer for the American Red Cross.
Food for Peace Officer Rebecca Semmes gives a woman a bow... | ['Usaid', 'World Humanitarian Day', 'Humanitarian', 'Refugees', 'Women'] |
‘Children can go to school … farmers can get their produce to markets’
WFP engineer Yeshi Jangchuck at the 120-metre-long Kuajok bridge. Photo: WFP/South Sudan
Think ‘World Food Programme’ and an image may come to mind: planes airdropping food in areas of food insecurity that are difficult to reach. There is more to ... | ['South Sudan', 'Humanitarian', 'Engineering'] |
From coordinating airdrops, air freights, road convoys, river operations, retail markets and warehousing, women are defying the odds in South Sudan. They have gone to some of the most remote locations and they have done it with much success.
“We are outshining even some of our male colleagues in the office,” says Just... | ['Logistics', 'South Sudan', 'Humanitarian', 'Female', 'Wfp'] |
Sonia Walia, Public Health and Nutrition Advisor
Q: You’ve worked at OFDA for 8 years. Why do you continue to do this work?
“I really love my job and the work that I do. I find it very rewarding and it’s something that fulfills not only my professional goals, but my personal goals in that I like to give back. I can d... | ['World Humanitarian Day', 'Disaster Response', 'Humanitarian', 'Women', 'World'] |
Photo by Joel Muniz on Unsplash
The KitaJaga community is well-known for its peer-to-peer organization and its commitment to achieving food security, stable basic supplies, and provide financial aids. This alleviates the COVID-19 pandemic’s hardship faced by the people. The platform hopes to save lives by allowing ind... | ['Technology', 'Peer To Peer', 'P2p', 'Humanitarian', 'Volunteering'] |
Nice and daring. I’d like to add the chaos of our political systems to the mix. In particular, we need to take a good look at the most devastating democratic system, district voting, that disenfranchises up to half of the voters at times. It leads to two group-think parties that do not have much real conversation and d... | ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Humanitarian', 'World', 'Crisis'] |
In that emergency, we ended up making mobile phone credit fungible back into cash at face value, unblocking the liquidity (cash is the most liquid asset for those not in the financial services business) problem and enabling people to paid on time and without having their money stolen.
In Sierra Leone, to get mobile mo... | ['Financial Inclusion', 'Startup', 'Humanitarian', 'International Development', 'Fintech'] |
“You northern hemisphere guys get so excited about stars. At home we get this every night,” says Ryan Twittey, Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) Coordinator for the Cyclone Idai response in Mozambique in his usual say-it-like-it-is way. For him, home is Australia, land of the outback and big blue skies.
Altho... | ['Mozambique', 'Cyclone Idai', 'Technology', 'Telecommunication', 'Humanitarian'] |
On April 25, Cyclone Kenneth made landfall in the southern African country of Mozambique. It was the strongest tropical cyclone to hit the country since modern records began. According to Mozambique’s National Institute of Disaster Management (INGC), “38 people have been killed by Cyclone Kenneth. More than 35,000 home... | ['Photo Essay', 'Climate Change', 'Humanitarian', 'Photography', 'Crisis'] |
Drone collaboration thrives in Mozambique
Antonio Jose Beleza was a flight enthusiast and a member of the Aeroclub in Sofala, Mozambique long before he participated in the drone workshop led by the World Food Programme (WFP) in November 2017. As the Information Management Officer of the Mozambique National Institute o... | ['Africa', 'Mozambique', 'Technology', 'Drones', 'Humanitarian'] |
By Sofia Kyriazi, Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Diagram by Hans Park.
Do first impressions matter?
When I first arrived at UNHCR, snuggled in a small office in the basement, situated at the heart of a new team focused on the European refugee situation, I didn’t necessarily believe that there was space for program... | ['Machine Learning', 'Innovation', 'Orbit 2018', 'Humanitarian', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
We promised earlier this year that we will provide a detailed update on our Tunisia project. Today, we’d like to write a summary of the project, including what we did, the experiences we learned and the future of what we have developed.
The Tunisia project started in Feb 2018, when an invitation was extended via one o... | ['Humanitarian', 'Blockchain', 'Devery'] |
“If it were not for the big helicopters bringing food, I don’t know what would become of us. We have lost all our seeds too.” The sadness is engraved on Maria’s face, I fear it will never leave her. The cyclone has stolen her youth as she tells me her worry is for the children as they have no clothes, shoes, food or wa... | ['Africa', 'Mozambique', 'Emergency Response', 'Emergency', 'Humanitarian'] |
Image source
Palantir and the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) are partnering for a reported $45 million. Palantir, a US-based company that sells data software and has been the centre of numerous scandals.
The World Food Programme provides assistance in food and nutrition to around 92 million people each year. Systems... | ['United Nations', 'Data', 'Humanitarian', 'Palantir', 'Silicon Valley'] |
‘Busy, busy, busy’
The dust kicks up as the helicopters move toward the runway. One after another they are airborne, fading into the skies. Still on the ground, a small airplane waits for its passengers to arrive on the flight from Juba in the next few minutes and another helicopter readies for its flight. This is Rum... | ['Unhas', 'Humanitarian', 'Aviation', 'South Sudan'] |
Thirst. It does things to people. Some go mad looking for a source to quench their thirst. Others find solace in finding solutions to quench humanity’s thirst.
The first remain consumers. The latter has all the markings of a successful social entrepreneur, Scott Harrison’s tribe.
It wasn’t always like that for Scott.... | ['Charity Water', 'Social Entrepreneurship', 'Scott Harrison', 'Humanitarian', 'Social Entrepreneurs'] |
Since the first recorded case of COVID-19 in Sudan on 13 March 2020, 195 people have lost their lives, with more than 4,300 cases recorded.
The virus does not discriminate — many migrants, returnees and those forcibly displaced are at heightened risk due to already existing vulnerabilities.
Sudan is home to around 1.... | ['Africa', 'Covid 19', 'Humanitarian', 'Health'] |
All aspects of migration management can- and should — be rethought to protect those migrating in the context of new climate and environmental realities.
Sirajganj is a community in Bangladesh where many people have been displaced by the erosion of the local river. Photo: IOM /Amanda Nero
Every day, we read more and m... | ['Humanitarian', 'Climate Change', 'Migration'] |
Known as the Greenmarket Square refugee sit-in, over 600 protestors, the majority originating from Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Somalia and Burundi took refuge in the Central Methodist church as well as on the streets surrounding Greenmarket Square in Cape Town, South Africa during October 2019. Their intention... | ['Human Rights', 'Humanitarian', 'Children', 'Refugees', 'South Africa'] |
When it comes to Trust, it is natural to tread lightly. In plain words, Trust is a firm belief in the reliability, truth and strength of a person or thing. However, I know trust is something that is not easy to come by. Human to human trust is something that must be developed. It is natural Human instinct to rationaliz... | ['Humanitarian', 'Children', 'Humanity', 'Education', 'Love'] |
How limited WFP seed funding grew the Telecommunications Security Standards (TESS) project into a powerful inter-agency service
By Emma Wadland
On a sun-baked hill overlooking Kigali, Rwanda, workers from dozens of humanitarian agencies set up telecommunications repeaters side by side, dotting the drumlin with equipm... | ['Security', 'Technology', 'Telecommunications', 'Humanitarian', 'Wfp'] |
The Asian University for Women opened 11 years ago in Chittagong, not too far from Cox’s Bazar. In 2017, hundreds of thousands of refugees started to flee across the border from Myanmar, in need of emergency food, medical care and protection. For many graduates, this crisis was a chance to apply their skills to support... | ['Empowerment', 'Humanitarian', 'Refugees', 'Women'] |
Talk a bit about your work on the Hill and how that has figured in to your role as Director of Food for Peace.
Prior to joining Food for Peace I was a Senior Professional Staff Member on the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate. I was the lead on foreign assistance for the committee as well as the lead oversight ... | ['Humanitarian Aid', 'Humanitarian', 'Refugees', 'Food Assistance', 'Food Security'] |
Humanitarian 101
Hurricanes. Mudslides. Earthquakes. Unrelenting conflict. The year 2017 bore witness to all these and more. It might appear that aiding victims and assisting with cleanup efforts will never end. The amount of work needed is mind boggling. Almost paralyzing. We ask ourselves, “Can any one person even m... | ['Development', 'Change', 'Sustainable Development', 'Humanitarian', 'Partnerships'] |
New UN deal with data mining firm Palantir raises protection concerns
by Ben Parker
CIA-linked software firm Palantir will help the UN’s World Food Programme analyse its data in a new partnership worth $45 million, both organisations announced Tuesday, drawing immediate flak from privacy and data protection activists... | ['Data', 'Humanitarian', 'Rights', 'Humanitarian Innovation', 'Tech'] |
The ‘Fab Five’ (Netflix/Austin Hargrave)
Queer Eye is a Netflix reality TV show where five gay guys (the ‘Fab Five,’ as they are known) make-over someone’s life. The show has amassed some kind of a cult following, and for good reason: it’s critically acclaimed, and has been called, among other things, the “antidote to... | ['Development', 'Humanitarian', 'Queer Eye', 'Aid'] |
The World Food Programme
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience.
As the international community has committed to end hunger, achieve food s... | ['Humanitarian'] |
Lieutenant Jonathon ‘Pony’ Moore, recently found himself being dumped into the warm Atlantic Ocean as part of a ‘downed pilot’ scenario.
Lt Moore stranded out at sea with HMS Queen Elizabeth in the distance.
Lieutenant Moore was the focus of a ‘downed pilot’ scenario, which aims to test the rescue skills of both HMS ... | ['Military', 'Security', 'Sea', 'Humanitarian', 'Navy'] |
(“Forklift Lifts A Cubicle And Moves To Stack”, John O’Brien)
David Graeber, an anthropologist at the London School of Economics, recently published the book Bullshit Jobs, where he talks about “jobs which even the person doing the job can’t really justify the existence of, but they have to pretend that there’s some r... | ['International Development', 'Humanitarian', 'Bullshit Jobs', 'Aid'] |
Using a decentralized water treatment and distribution system, Jim Chu, the founder and CEO of dloHaiti, is bringing safe, affordable water to thousands on the island. Chu recently participated in diaspora engagement roadshows hosted by USAID INVEST, which encouraged members of the Haitian diaspora to invest in the cou... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Impact Investing', 'Sustainability', 'Humanitarian', 'Water'] |
One Team, One Mission
On Foreign Service National (FSN) Recognition Day, we celebrate our FSNs, who represent the largest portion of the USAID workforce and make vital contributions to our mission to end hunger and strengthen our partner countries along the Journey to Self-Reliance. USAID Food for Peace Nov 20, 2019·5... | ['Usaid', 'Humanitarian', 'Food Aid', 'Foreign Service'] |
Central Sahel: the humanitarian emergency the world is ignoring
Since January 600,000 people have fled violence in Burkina Faso, such as this family in Pissila camp, near Kaya. Photo: WFP/Marwa Awad
“Conflict is moving forward and moving fast,” says Margot van der Velden, Director of the World Food Programme’s (WFP) ... | ['Africa', 'United Nations', 'Hunger', 'Humanitarian', 'Sahel'] |
Photo by Aarathi Krishnan
After spending three years spinning creative communications for the IFRC Innovation and Futures team, the time came to say goodbye. Here’s a narration with my favourite moments with the Red Cross / Red Crescent network and what’s the next chapter in my life.
I joined the IFRC on a short-term... | ['Social Innovation', 'Communications Strategy', 'Humancomputer Interaction', 'Humanitarian', 'Futures'] |
Rescue.org
Over the past 100 years, humans have killed roughly 200 million other humans in warfare. Over economic, religious and political ideas and access to resources. This does not include the humans murdered by other humans in other forms of violence. This is strictly murder related to organized warfare, 200 milli... | ['War', 'Humanitarian', 'Crisis', 'Yemen'] |
And some of the politics in the U.S. about it are insane.
Unless you live under a rock, I am sure you have heard of Venezuela in the news and all the turmoil running amok over there. Well, that news hits harder for me as I am from there but immigrated to the U.S. when I was seven. It hits my SO even harder as she is f... | ['Venezuela', 'Maduro', 'Trump', 'Humanitarian', 'Foreign Policy'] |
The future of war: When civilians are targeted during conflict
International humanitarian law protects civilians, humanitarian relief personnel, and medical workers during wartime. But in today’s deadly conflicts, humanitarians face growing risk. According to the Aid Worker Security Database, 313 aid workers were vict... | ['Syria', 'Humanitarian', 'Displaced', 'Conflict'] |
How climate and coronavirus forced people into debt and hunger in Mauritania
An early onset of the lean season and measures to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus affected food security in parts of Mauritania WFP West Africa Follow Nov 27, 2020 · 3 min read
Cash transfers have helped several families in Mauritania... | ['Climate Change', 'Humanitarian', 'Mauritania', 'Drought', 'Coronavirus'] |
From Italy to Libya, and the world, with love
by Flavia Brunetti in Rome
Two weeks ago, I flew from the epicentre of one crisis to another, in my pajama top, praying the plane would take off and I would make it to my family.
I’m Italian, grew up in the United States, and have lived in Tunisia for the past four years... | ['Humanitarian', 'Coronavirus', 'Italy', 'Global Health'] |
My fellow designers and I are passionate about solving real-world problems. We truly believe that by working together, we can deliver products that could one day save lives. That’s why NASA’s Space Apps Challenge was so exciting!
This project challenged us to find a creative way for people to prepare in case of an eme... | ['NASA', 'Hackathons', 'Humanitarian', 'UX Design', 'Product Design'] |
In October 209, members of the Executive Board, the governing body of World Food Programme (WFP) visited Cox’s Bazar, home to the largest refugee population in the world today. Led by the President of the Executive Board, H.E. Hisham Mohamed Badr of Egypt, the delegation comprised of representatives from Australia, Bra... | ['Rohingya', 'Humanitarian', 'Food', 'Refugees'] |
Coronavirus: WFP ready to rise to the challenge
Agency puts expertise and infrastructure at the service of pandemic response and appeals for US$ 350 million as part of consolidated UN funding call Simona Beltrami Follow Mar 18, 2020 · 4 min read
True to its nature as an agency that is always on the frontline of the t... | ['Humanitarian', 'Coronavirus', 'World', 'Emergency'] |
Did you know we’re experts at stopping the spread of deadly disease? For nearly 80 years, we’ve been working in communities across the world to promote hygiene training and provide clean water and safe sanitation — things like taps and water tanks as well as toilet and showers. In times of crisis, it’s our priority to ... | ['Public Health', 'Oxfam', 'Humanitarian', 'Pandemic', 'Coronavirus'] |
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