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🌍 Transforming Lives through Collaboration. Did you know that over 2 billion people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water? The challenge is immense, but so is the opportunity to make a difference. CAWST is leading the way by empowering communities and local partners with knowledge, tools, and training to tackle this global crisis. The work that our team is doing to collaborate with partners in the Chocó region of Colombia is just one example. By equipping local organizations to deliver water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services, we work amplify our reach and create a sustainable impact for those who lack access to clean drinking water and safe sanitation and hygiene practices: Here’s why CAWST’s approach is a game-changer: ✔️ Scalability: Training others creates ripple effects—impacting not hundreds, but thousands of lives (or more). ✔️ Sustainability: Solutions focus on empowering communities, fostering self-reliance. ✔️ Cost-Effectiveness: Every dollar donated multiplies in value as it supports capacity-building. Thanks to all of our supporters for enabling CAWST to do what we do best—bring life-saving knowledge to where it's needed most. 💙 Let’s work together to ensure safe water for everyone, everywhere. 👉 What inspires you about CAWST’s approach? Share your thoughts below, and help us spread the word by sharing this post with your network. #Impact #SafeWater #Collaboration #Sustainability #GlobalDevelopment #CAWST

🚀 Great news! The YMCA Europe Refugee Skilling and Support Project has been extended for Phase III through the end of the year. Since October 2022, through this project, YMCAs in Europe have been actively working to serve the Ukrainian refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) with the support of the Accenture Foundation. ➡️ The first phase was the emergency response, implemented until March 2023 ➡️ The second phase began in June 2023, ran through the end of May, and transitioned from an emergency response to integration-focused 👉 Read more about the impact of the first two phases and what happens in the next phase here: https://bit.ly/3VuXbss

🌍 Thank you to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency for organising today’s impactful workshop on enhancing two-way communication with communities in emergency responses, focusing on #Sudan and #SouthSudan. 100+ participants, including many from CDAC Network, joined this important discussion. CDAC’s Programme Lead, Liz Hendry, shared insights on the critical role of networks and collaboration, reflecting on CDAC’s support to the Sudan regional response since the outbreak of violence last year. Key takeaways: 1️⃣ In South Sudan and Sudan, collective approaches are are the only way to address cross-border needs, fragmented information ecosystems, connectivity breakdowns, harmful information and lack of access and resources. 2️⃣ Collaboration builds trust, reduces confusion and tensions, and is essential for effective communication with communities. 3️⃣ Local actors, including media and diaspora, are vital and often on the front line of communication efforts. Their participation in decision-making is crucial. 4️⃣ There is still a pressing need to prioritise communication with communities, integrate it across all sectors and ensure it is well-resourced. 📢 Every organisation has a role to play to elevate the importance of communication: make it an agenda item, budget for activities, lobby for resources, reach out to local media and share success stories. #CommIsAid

Today I attended the Conference on Improving Linkages between Social Protection and the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus in the Arab Region, organized by the Danish Refugee Council and Arab Reform Initiative. The sessions covered critical questions on integrating support systems in crisis settings and creating pathways toward sustainable social protection. A big thanks to the organizers in particular Justine Cherrier Samane Salimi and fatma chehidi Yet, reflecting on the discussions today and based on my personal observations in multiple crisis settings I find myself questioning how much the sector has been able to actually make progress in this field in the past thirty years. The idea of linking relief, rehabilitation, and development (LRRD) has been a central theme since the 1990s, and while there’s been progress in refining policy frameworks and collaboration models, the major challenge of better integration remains largely unresolved. Many obstacles—such as funding silos, organizational mandates, and the complex dynamics of protracted crises—are deeply systemic, making them hard to overcome with incremental solutions alone. This raises the question of whether what we face in the nexus of humanitarian, development, and peace work is a problem rooted in the structure of the systems themselves. If we aim to move beyond immediate relief toward true resilience and sustainability, we may need a fundamental rethink of our approaches. At GIZ Jordan we will continue to explore these challenging questions as we evaluate and learn together with our partners from the practical project experiences in the context of the regional refugee crisis. Thanks again Danish Refugee Council / Dansk Flygtningehjælp for stimulating our joint thinking today. #SocialProtection #HumanitarianDevelopmentPeace #LRRD #ProtractedCrises #GIZ #SustainableDevelopment #CashForWork

🏡 Over 50 million people in Europe face housing insecurity. Our Europe Housing Forum dived into this critical issue along with key topics such as innovation in housing solutions, best practices for addressing housing insecurity, sustainable and community-driven approaches, and policy recommendations. Read the full report to discover the innovative solutions and best practices that were shared to tackle the housing crisis. 📖 Check out the full report here: Europe Housing Forum Report and learn how we can create a future where everyone has a decent place to live. https://ow.ly/PZsc50SLIVy Habitat for Humanity Poland IOM - UN Migration UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency

🚨Publication Alert: “Regional Refugee Response Plans and Violence Against Women: A Comparative Analysis of the Humanitarian Situations in Ukraine and Venezuela” in Feminist Economics. 🗞 Hot off the press, my article on operational and funding structures on gender-based violence (GBV) in Regional Refugee Response Plans is ready to be added to your reading list. https://lnkd.in/egPgvTP4 ➡️In the article, I argue that economic-political power relations inform discrepancies in global migration governance, and that these power relations affect GBV prevention, mitigation, and response. ❓How? Because of tensions between sectoral infrastructures and funding streams as well as between implementing partners and funding recipients that are exacerbated by the flexibility, contradiction, and incoherence that shapes humanitarian situations. ✨ Many thanks to everyone who has provided insights along the way, including at various conferences such as the Second International Dialogue on the Governance of Refugee Camps (Athens, Greece) and the Summer Institute on Inclusive Economies (Bogotá, Colombia). #GBV #funding #operations #refugees

💡The Kampala Convention is the world’s first legally binding regional instrument to protect and assist internally displaced persons (IDPs), setting a critical framework for addressing displacement across Africa. 🌍Building on this landmark convention, the Cross-Regional Forum on Implementing Laws and Policies on Internal Displacement in Africa took place in Dakar. Co-organized by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, the IDP Protection Expert Group (IPEG), and the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of Internally Displaced Persons, Ms. Paula Gaviria Betancur, with the support of the Sanremo Institute, the forum gathered government officials from 13 African countries. These countries—🇧🇫 🇧🇮 🇨🇲 🇨🇫 🇹🇩 🇨🇩 🇪🇹 🇲🇱 🇳🇪 🇳🇬 🇸🇳 🇸🇴 🇸🇸—are at various stages of domesticating and implementing the Kampala Convention. This peer-to-peer exchange provided a vital space to share best practices, tackle common challenges, and explore ways to advance prevention, protection, and solutions for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). 📃More about the convention here: https://bit.ly/3Y68JVC #InternallyDisplaced #KampalaConvention

November in Tallinn is traditionally full of #migrationconferences. I can't but admire the organizer's - Eesti Pagulasabi / Estonian Refugee Council - creative approach and very thoughtful selection of the panelists. Although I've not yet worked in the #humanitarian sector, I see that there is a clear potential for humanitarian actors to explore #remittance potential for the emergency relief, especially in the current underfunding the sector faces: in mid-2024, only 18% of the funding needed for humanitarian assistance globally had been received.

#HumanitarianAid 🤝 LIST and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency move towards a global early warning and response system for emergencies   The strategic collaboration aims at advancing global emergency management. Using LIST’s expertise in #naturaldisaster management and research outputs on how climate variables impact human mobility and infrastructure, this initiative seeks to make a meaningful difference for displaced communities: https://lnkd.in/eTsGwCEv   Supported by Luxembourg’s Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Defence, Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade, the collaboration aims to empower responders to:   ⏹ Anticipate humanitarian needs ⏹ Optimize supply procurement and resource mobilization ⏹ Minimize response times ⏹ Prevent duplication of humanitarian efforts Photo: © MAE Luxembourg   #EmergencyResponse #ClimateImpact #EarthObservation

#WeekendDataRead: Data is often seen as a solution—but are we doing enough to harness its full potential for forced displacement? Hear from CRAF’d partners UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency experts Sarchil Qader, Nicci Potts Giulia Del Panta , and Paddy Brock on “Innovation and Partnerships to Improve Socioeconomic Data on Forced Displacement,” See how innovation is leading to better data, targeted support, faster response time and better lives! Read more: https://shorturl.at/odG23