A motley crew of international aid bloggers, practitioners, and critics. Interested in impact, poverty, evidence, and throwing things out of planes.
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The #refugee crisis isn’t just a European phenomenon. With the current political situations in #Nicaragua and #Venezuela, #LatinAmerica has its own increasingly flow of displaced people theguardian.com/world/2016/o…
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25 Apr 2018
Lant Pritchett's top six politically incorrect research findings in development economics ht Jake Allen
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IDEA! When leaving a #supermarket, remove all #plastic packaging that you don't need & put it in the supermarket's bin. If we all did this, bins would still fill up and cause a real headache & a cost #peoplepower @Greenpeace @GreenpeaceUK @guardian @BoyanSlat #endplasticpolution
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17 Apr 2018
Progress isn't always linear x.com/oldpicsarchive/status/…
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22 Mar 2018
Short thread with a few of my take-aways from @irinnews #MeToo #AidToo debate at @IHEID today. Full recording here youtu.be/utKmqCFF_kc
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Aid Leap retweeted
22 Mar 2018
4. @Oxfam found itself in a storm in part b/c it documented its cases better than most. Donors shouldn't punish aid orgs for being transparent, says former head of @theOFDA @JeremyKonyndyk. In fact, orgs that report no incidents of abuse should raise red flags in donors' eyes.
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Made me stop and think. Read and share your thoughts x.com/humanicontraria/status…
24 Mar 2018
New post up to follow on my thoughts re the aid sector's #MeToo and #AidToo discussions. bit.ly/2I1Fcmn Actual solutions proposed, but from an unlikely source.
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Another example of the profitability of conflict
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Deeply saddening x.com/josiensor/status/97621…
20 Mar 2018
David Nott, British surgeon who helped Syrian operations in Aleppo, 'hacked' to reveal location of hospitals which were then hit by air strikes telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03…
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Aid Leap retweeted
19 Mar 2018
“Aid is exactly the right kind of investment to make when it is patient, hands-off and sensitively applied,” argues Pablo Yanguas in Open Democracy bit.ly/2DEXk2A #foreignaid
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We can't ignore those most in need. Not now. x.com/NRC_Egeland/status/970…
5 Mar 2018
Only a massive aid effort prevented famine striking Somalia last year. Pulling aid out now is playing with fire. It risks hard-won gains and threatens the lives of countless Somalis nrc.no/news/2018/march/somal…
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11 Mar 2018
Overstretched: #Uganda hosts some 1.4 million refugees from its neighbors and the cholera outbreak is now affecting other aspects of the response to the refugee influx irinnews.org/news/2018/03/08…
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5 Mar 2018
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3 Mar 2018
An extremely high proportion of aid agency publicity draws attention to what they are doing for affected populations. Very little of it publicizes what people are doing for themselves. And when it does, it tends to be in the form of 'human interest stories'.
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Attacking aid workers is never justified. Very sad news from #CAR unicef.org/media/media_10270…
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We need this level of straight talking honesty. Thank you @NRC_Egeland and all those speaking the #truth x.com/vanessahuguenin/status…
1 Mar 2018
The message from humanitarian actors to the members of #UNSC is quite clear : “You are failing to help us help civilians in #Syria” @NRC_Egeland tells the press in Geneva
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We have lost against our own standards.
Stand up and face the #truth Europeans.
And let's be honest, it's not just in #Syria . . . #Yemen, #DRC . . . .
@antonioguterres @MarkLowcock @NRC_Egeland @guardian @irinnews
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Every now and again you see something that makes you smile,
And gives you hope in humanity again
twistedsifter.com/2018/02/gh…
#hopeinhumanity
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