Category: Blogs
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The changing landscape of humanitarian financing: Understanding its uncertainties
At the start of the year, the world was confronted with a new global reality when the newly elected U.S. government, historically the leading financier of global aid, announced it would discontinue much of its foreign aid. This abrupt decision has sent shockwaves across the humanitarian and development sectors, including UN entities, international NGOs, and…
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Gathering Points and Relationship Based Aid
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…
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Realpolitik In Aid
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…
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The Pact for the Future: What does it mean for our work and to forced displacement?
In this issue of our quarterly advocacy blog, we want to briefly unpack some key features of the newly adopted international consensus document, the Pact for the Future, that was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 22-23 September 2024. We also make some observations on its impact on the future of advocacy in relation…
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Brands And The Corporatisation of NGOs
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,…
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Neocolonialism Through Due Diligence. The Price of Depending on Imperialist Institutions for Brokering Trust
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…
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The question of knowledge production in forced displacement
We live in a global political order strained by multiple crises and/or drivers of vulnerability. Key among such crises are increased instances of armed conflicts in various parts of the world, which are giving rise to an ever-increasing number of displaced persons. UNHCR’s annual flagship report, Global Trends, presents another disheartening picture on the state…
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Questioning knowledge production in forced displacement
We live in a global political order strained by multiple crises and/or drivers of vulnerability. Key among such crises are increased instances of armed conflicts in various parts of the world, which are giving rise to an ever-increasing number of displaced persons. UNHCR’s annual flagship report, Global Trends, presents another disheartening picture on the state…
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ARE WE ALL LISTENING?
This World Refugee Week, as we confront staggering statistics and stories of displacement from across the globe, we are challenged to imagine a way forward and to consider how to adequately respond to the unprecedented numbers of displaced people, each one representing devastating individual experiences The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported a…
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Climate change and displacement – a double tragedy!
As the world celebrates Environmental Day today, Paul Nandia, Programme Lead at Cohere, shares his thoughts around climate change and its effects on displacement by recognising the important work that refugee-led organisations are doing to respond. The number of people forcibly displaced from their homes has steadily grown over the past decade, climate change is…