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Author: Edmund Page

  • Gathering Points and Relationship Based Aid

    Gathering Points and Relationship Based Aid

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    The Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo is currently experiencing a crisis. Decades of bubbling tension has overflowed into wide scale conflict, with at least 7000 people killed so far. Traditional forms of humanitarian aid are not getting into the country. There are three main reasons why international aid is barely trickling into…

  • Realpolitik In Aid

    Realpolitik In Aid

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    For over 20 years an organisation called InterAid was the main implementation partner for the most significant refugee response contracts in Kampala Uganda. All public funding allocated towards Education for refugees in Kampala, for example, found its way to InterAid. They were responsible for running education programmes in urban areas such as supporting schools with…

  • Brands And The Corporatisation of NGOs

    Brands And The Corporatisation of NGOs

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    Of the $46 billion given in humanitarian aid, only 1.2% is put in the hands of local actors and far less is put in the hands of leaders from communities affected by forced displacement. (HPG, November 2023) When donors choose to give, be they tax payer funded donor agencies, private philanthropic agencies or individual donors,…

  • Neocolonialism Through Due Diligence. The Price of Depending on Imperialist Institutions for Brokering Trust

    Neocolonialism Through Due Diligence. The Price of Depending on Imperialist Institutions for Brokering Trust

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    Global crises fuelling the displacement and protracted emergencies for increasingly vast populations around the world is the result, for a large part, of global inequalities and the perpetuation of inter-continental and intergenerational injustices. Reallocation of unjustly concentrated resources and a shift in power in the way we collectively deal with the world’s problems is needed…

  • Reframing the way aid works

    Reframing the way aid works

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    Tue, Mar 1, 2022 Read in 2 minutes At Cohere, our vision isn’t to transfer aid. It’s to transfer power. We are reframing the way humanitarian aid works. At Cohere, our vision isn’t to transfer aid. It’s to transfer power. That’s why, along with some of our partners, we developed Reframe – a website that showcases refugee-led…

  • A Letter from our Founder & CEO

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    Tue, Mar 1, 2022 Read in 4 minutes In the years since Xavier Project began, the number of people displaced around the world has increased from 42 million people to over 82 million people today. When I began Xavier Project in 2008 I didn’t necessarily expect it to become a charity. In fact, the word…