Interviews
KA VS KU BAND : WHICH IS THE BEST FOR SATELLITE BROADBAND?
In the humanitarian space, satellite connectivity is vital to successful relief efforts, being the lifeline for government, emergency services, aid organisations, and other parties collaborating on-ground....
Cash is the fax machine of Global Development
How Cryptocurrencies and Facebook’s Libra Coin will disrupt emergency & disaster relief and donations. By Adjunct Professor Samson Williams, University of New Hampshire School of Law’s ...
New “forecast-based financing” helps most vulnerable before a crisis
The Bangladeshi government and humanitarian agencies trialled a new form of aid for the first time during floods, under the new “forecast-based financing” project. To ensure potential...
Horn of Africa drought puts 15 million in severe danger
More than 15 million people are in need of aid as drought hits parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. Oxfam warns that lives are at risk if the lessons learned from the devastating droughts of 2011 and 2017...
World Bank mobilises up to US$300 million to Ebola response
The World Bank Group announced that it will mobilise up to US$300 to scale up support for the global response to the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This announcement followed the declaration...
WHO declares Ebola outbreak in DRC a Public Health Emergency
On Wednesday July 17th, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the second worst Ebola outbreak of all time, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as a Public Health Emergency of...
EU to provide €7 million for disaster preparedness in Southern Africa and Indian Ocean region
The EU is supplying €7 million to strengthen the capacity of vulnerable communities and authorities to both prepare for and respond to disasters in the Southern Africa and Indian Ocean region. This...
World Refugee Day is celebrated across the globe amid record displacement of 70 million people
On June 20th, World Refugee Day is celebrated around the world to honour the strength and resilience of individuals and families that have been forcibly displaced from their countries as...
Iran improve early warning systems after floods cause US$2.5 billion in losses
For the past month, Iran has seen flooding destroy infrastructure, farms, and displace almost 300,000 people. Estimates of damage caused reach is around US$2.4 billion, setting back the efforts being undertaken...
WHO rolls out an early warning alert and response system across Mozambique
In a joint effort, the Mozambican Ministry of Health and WHO is rolling out an early warning alert and response system, known as EWARS-in-a-Box. WHO hopes this system will help is the detection of epidemic-prone...
OECD reveals humanitarian aid in 2018 decreased for world’s neediest countries
Foreign aid from official donors in 2018 fell 2.7% from 2017, with a declining share going to the neediest countries according to preliminary data collected by the OECD. The drop is likely due to less aid...
What impact investments mean for achieving SDGs
In a new report, IFC estimated that the potential market for impact investors could be as high as $26 trillion. There is still a lot to unpack around impact investing, but the report, Creating Impact: The...
