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humanitarian, rescue pup mom, wife to @haleythomas09. currently @hiltonfound. formerly @USAIDSavesLives @RESCUEorg @cgdev. @bucknellu @mediaLSE alum.

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How to fund refugee-led aid: thenewhumanitarian.org/inter… (@newhumanitarian)

How to fund refugee-led aid

Donors have largely failed to fund refugee-led organisations. We spoke to one bucking the trend to find out how and why.

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Forced Migration Review@FMReview21 Feb 2024
Call for article proposals! FMR 74: Financing displacement response Deadline: 1 April This issue of FMR will explore the wide variety of financing mechanisms for forced #displacement response & their impacts & implications. See: fmreview.org/financing-displ… #Funding #Refugees
Credit: © UNHCR/Colin Delfosse Caption: Cash distribution to displaced people after floods in N'djamena, Chad, 2023. Description: Two hands exchange cash, a light coloured tile floor and dark yellow curtain in the background.

ALT Credit: © UNHCR/Colin Delfosse Caption: Cash distribution to displaced people after floods in N'djamena, Chad, 2023. Description: Two hands exchange cash, a light coloured tile floor and dark yellow curtain in the background.

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Hilton Foundation@hiltonfound28 Feb 2024
How can we deliver for children & caregivers in displacement settings? Join us & the @WorldBank Early Learning Partnership this Friday 3/1 at the #FragilityForum. Tune-in at 11 am ET: hiltonfoundation.org/world-b… @ICBFColombia @AddisMayorGov @FCDOGovUK @AmnaHealing @poverty_action
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Julia Zahreddine@JZahreddine15 Feb 2024
How are effective RLO funding mechanisms different from standard approaches?  How can donors, intermediaries & INGOs responsibly use or hand over power to enable high-impact funding for RLOs? Join us on February 29th, 9-11am EST, to find out! RSVP : bit.ly/3SBOEmj
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"More is needed for Tigrayans to start to rebuild their lives, and for the fragile peace to hold...Without assistance, there is a risk that Tigray will not recover." #Tigray cannot be forgotten. Learn more from Sarah Miller in her latest for @Newsweek newsweek.com/tigray-still-cr…

Tigray Is Still in Crisis—The Guns Have Stopped, but Hunger Abounds

Much more is needed for Tigrayans to start to rebuild their lives, and for the fragile peace to hold.

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Sandra V. Rozo
@svrozo11 Nov 2023
Humans 2nd call for papers is open. Send us your BEST research work on migration. Come and meet outstanding keynote speakers and expert researchers. @m_clem @dmckenzie001 #Catalina_Amuedo @ClaireAdida @SantiagoPerexz9 @anamibanez @MelendezMarcela @antobandiera_
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Critical new report by @hpg_odi @devinitorg finds just $26.4m in aid went to refugee-led orgs last year - a drop in the bucket of humanitarian + development aid. Foundations like @hiltonfound are showing funding RLOs more directly can be done -- other donors need to step up
HPG (now on Bluesky: hpg-odiglobal.bsky.social)@hpg_odi6 Nov 2023
NEW RESEARCH: There is a widespread failure to localise #humanitarian funding to refugee-led organisations, and this is having dire consequences. HPG's @CaitlinRS & @AlexandraSpen25 and @devinitorg delve into this problem and how it can be fixed: buff.ly/49p8R69 #RLO
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Great piece by my former colleague @AnastasiaSMoran on why the @WorldBank needs a new playbook for crisis contexts -- one that involves greater partnership with civil society orgs -- or risks only investing where it's easiest to deliver vs. where funding is most needed
Foreign Policy
@ForeignPolicy7 Oct 2023
In August, the World Bank, the largest development actor in Niger, suspended most of its portfolio; overnight, millions of families lost access to critical services funded by the bank. buff.ly/3F3axVc
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Dean Karlan
@deankarlan31 Jul 2023
I'm pleased to share an exciting job opening to lead the new @USAID Office of the Chief Economist's "Evidence Use" team. Evidence here mainly refers to evidence of cost-effectiveness. The closing date is Aug 7th. 1/2
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William Carter@WillCarter_NRC27 Jul 2023
Four great questions from @ianbremmer about the neglected #humanitarian situation in #Sudan Four great and compassionate answers by @USAmbUN @LindaT_G, incoming UN Security Council president “… the carnage continues … getting aid into Sudan to displaced people is important”
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@gzeromedia26 Jul 2023
When the US takes the UN Security Council presidency, the Sudan war will be on the Agenda People in Sudan "need to hear the world has not turned their backs on what is happening in their country," says @USAmbUN @LindaT_G in a new #GZEROWorld interview gzeromedia.com/gzero-world-c…

Has the world turned its back on the Sudan war? | GZERO World

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Tristan Harley@drtristanharley24 Jul 2023
The ability of refugee-led initiatives to effectively serve their communities is so deeply connected to the environment in which they operate. Check out this new report on the experiences of RLIs in Cox's Bazar.
UNSW Kaldor Centre@KaldorCentre24 Jul 2023
Hot off the press: The 1st detailed analysis of the experiences of RLIs working in the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar. By @SaifulH42710790 @jessica_olney_1 Brian Barbour @drtristanharley @NajeebaWazefado OUT NOW from us w/@actforpeace @APNORefugees bit.ly/44UYvbo
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50 participants from 26 countries joined us for the Online School in Forced Migration earlier this month. If you’d like to join us in academic year 2023-2024, applications are open! Dates: • 4-8 December 2023 • 11-15 March 2024 Full details 👇 rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/internati…

About the Online School

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Debt and crisis often go hand in hand for nations facing a humanitarian emergency. And the debt can make it all the more difficult to prepare for future disasters and emergencies, according to @NewHumanitarian: #disaster #funding bit.ly/3Oagowa

Where debt and crises collide

These countries spend more than 10% of their revenue on debt interest payments. Many also face severe humanitarian emergencies.

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HPN@hpn_hpg12 Jul 2023
NEW - Our 83rd Humanitarian Exchange magazine focuses on #refugee participation and leadership in addressing forced displacement. Across 12 articles we hear from a range of actors on the importance and role of refugee-led organisations in crises. 🔗 bit.ly/HPN_HE83
Humanitarian Exchange 83: refugee participation leadership. Read more at bit.ly/HPN_HE83

ALT Humanitarian Exchange 83: refugee participation leadership. Read more at bit.ly/HPN_HE83

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Exciting news📌The @ilo and @Refugees commit to decent work through the launch of the Joint Action Plan (2023-2025) setting the priorities for an inclusive world of work in forced displacement context. Click to learn: bit.ly/3XHo8di #livelihoods #decentwork #Refugees

ILO and UNHCR commit to decent work for refugees, displaced people and host communities | UNHCR

GENEVA – At the end of 2022, there were 108.4 million people forced to flee from their homes, according to an annual flagship report by UNHCR, the UN refugee agency. With 67 per cent of those...

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A New Kind of Disaster Aid: Pay People Cash, Before Disaster Strikes nytimes.com/2023/07/03/clima… #AnticipatoryAction

A New Kind of Disaster Aid: Pay People Cash, Before Disaster Strikes (Published 2023)

Experiments suggest that sums as low as $50 can help the world’s poorest protect themselves and their property in ways they couldn’t otherwise.

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Daniel Ghezelbash@DanGhez3 Jul 2023
To successfully advocate for more humane refugee and asylum policies, we need to develop a deeper empirical understanding of the politics of refugee law and policy making. @KDorostkar and I unpack this in our new article in @JRefugeeStudies doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fead039 🧵👇
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Sajjad Malik@malik_sajjad27 Jun 2023
UNHCR-WB sign data sharing agreement. “The scale, complexity, and speed of challenges associated with forced displacement require longer-term development support as well as immediate aid,” worldbank.org/en/news/press-… via @WorldBank

World Bank-UNHCR Data Sharing Agreement to Improve Assistance to the Forcibly Displaced

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the World Bank today signed a new global data sharing framework agreement that will provide both organizations with quicker access to data, improving the timeliness...

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