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Adopting innovations and technological solutions in aid delivery and emergency response
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Welcome to the March edition of the AIDF newsletter.
As the spring approaches, we have joined celebration of the World NGO Day on 27th February. The day highlights the significance of the NGO sector and reminds about the need for collaboration and cooperation within and across sectors for a stronger future for all.
The Mobile World Congress, which took place in Barcelona earlier this week, highlighted the prominent role of mobile network connectivity in enabling faster and more effective allocation of resources and facilitating the recovery processes during crises and emergencies. Also a topic we will address at our AIDF Global Disaster Relief Summit in September.
The recent Indonesia earthquake and the study outcomes on the Nepal earthquake, suggesting that it could have been much worse, place ever greater importance on adopting latest innovations and technological solutions by all stakeholders involved in aid delivery and emergency response. This also highlights areas for improvement in disaster mitigation systems and urgent need to address them. These topics, amongst others, will be examined at the upcoming AIDF Asia Summit in June 2016.
In the meantime, we’d like to #PledgeForParity and congratulate all female readers with the upcoming International Women Day.
Please do get in touch if you would like to offer feedback or suggest topics for inclusion in future editions of the newsletter (email Alina O’Keeffe aokeeffe@aidforum.org).
Warm regards,
AIDF Team
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Big Data improves response to humanitarian crises
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Big Data can improve the response to humanitarian crises by enabling earlier detection and distributing warnings to potentially affected groups.
Data services like Mobile Money are also transforming response, according to the World Food Programme’s (WFP) Pierre Guillaume Wielezynski.
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Celebrating World NGO Day
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On 27th February sixty-five years ago the definition of International Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) was first introduced by the United Nations. In light of the event, the day has been proclaimed as World NGO Day to raise awareness and recognise importance of the NGOs worldwide
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Impact of natural disasters and outlook for 2016
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Nepal earthquake that happened in April 2015 has killed approximately 9,000 people. A recent study by Jeff Kargel, the scientist at the University of Arizona, has revealed that the destruction could be “far worse”. The study was published in January issue of the Science, a magazine by American Association for the Advancement of Science, and presents overview of 4,312 landslides that occurred.
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Software to speed up repatriation of trafficked children in South Asia
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According to the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC), South Asia is the fastest-growing and second-largest region for human trafficking in the world, after East Asia. A new technologically enabled system with an aim to speed up repatriation of rescued victims of human trafficking, has been launched and is now piloted by ten charities in Bangladesh, Nepal and India.
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AIDF Asia Summit 2016 I United Nations Conference Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
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21/06/2016 - 22/06/2016
The AIDF Asia Summit is the key strategic event for 250+ senior representatives from regional governments in South East Asia, UN and intergovernmental organizations, investors, academic and technical institutions, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Government Organisations, community leaders and media.
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