Humanitarian Aid

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Cluster - Community outreach - Emergency food aid - Humanitarian - development transition - LRRD - Livelihoods - Material relief assistance and services - Protection - Reconstruction relief and rehabilitation - Relief co-ordination, protection and support services

How to adapt to climate change in the Mali Inner Niger Delta

Lea Appulo posted Information | 23 September 2016

Wetlands International is working to alleviate the climate change impacts on communities in the Inner Niger Delta region of Mali. In the context of our Partner for Resilience programme, we created two market gardens and one well in the Deboye and Youwarou Rural Districts.

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Group: Disaster Risk Reduction in ACP
Boarding school renovation

Mathias Eichhorn created a new Photo album | 19 September 2016

Renovation of a boarding school in Kaolack. The work included fresh paint of the building as well as new fans and lighting for the classrooms and dorms and matraces for the dorms. We also refurbished the computer room with 10 desktop PCs and individual PC furniture. The overall budget spent was 2...

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Project: Creating Sustainable Means to Empower the Vulnerable in Rural Senegal
2016 Disaster and Emergency Preparedness Learning Conference in Nairobi

Jean-Louis Lambeau created a new event | 16 September 2016

29 Nov

From 29 November 2016 to 1 December 2016
in (Kenya)

Organised by DEPP MEL - START NETWORK http://www.startnetwork.org/events/2016-depp-learning-conference

There are many reasons for working collaboratively – we all know that – and one key benefit that has been shown to be true time and time again is learning: by working together on projects, we learn from our partners’ mistakes and successes as well as our own. Moreover, when multiple agencies...

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Group: innov-aid
Lesson learned during the training to demonstrate our field development support process in Kenya

Amouzou Bedi updated the WIKI page | 15 September 2016

Our field development support mechanism process : During the training our volunteers are motivated and educated on development matters on our community learning center ( StayConnecteD4Dev ). They become skilled and motivated volunteers. Under the guidance and mentoring of our regional or local...

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Project: Development Aid Support Mechanism
Lessons from the graduation approach

Sarah Cummings created a new event | 9 September 2016

12 Sep

From 12 September 2016
in 1049 Bruxelles (Belgium)

Organised by DEVCO Unit B3, CGAP and the Ford Foundation

This lunchtime conference [1] concerns the Graduation model, based on BRAC’s work in Bangladesh, has proven to be successful in building sustainable livelihoods and “graduating” people out of extreme poverty. CGAP and the Ford Foundation have been implementing and testing the model in different...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Survey: Most humanitarians favour the use of drones in disaster zones

Timo Luege posted Information | 6 September 2016

Drones are one of the most controversial technologies in disaster response operations. To find out what exactly humanitarian aid workers think about the use of these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), the Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD) with funding from EU Humanitarian Aid has now published a...

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Group: innov-aid
Drones in Humanitarian Action – A survey on perceptions and applications

Timo Luege uploaded a new Document | 6 September 2016

drones_in_humanitarian_acion_survey-analysis-final2.pdf 3.19 MB

The first in its kind, this survey measures perceptions of the use of drones in humanitarian action. The Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD) undertook the survey between 15 November 2015 and 15 January 2016. A majority of survey respondents expressed confidence that drones have the potential to...

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Group: innov-aid
Delivering development aid through case reporting

Amouzou Bedi updated the news | 27 August 2016

If Human development is defined as the process of enlarging people’s freedoms and opportunities and improving their social justice, economic and environmental well-being, citizens have to participate, and decide worldwide who to be, what to do, and how to live individual and together to reach...

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Project: Development Aid Support Mechanism
Case Study No. 5: Mapping – Testing the Utility of Mapping Drones for Early Recovery in the Philippines

Timo Luege posted Information | 26 August 2016

Type of system: eBee fixed-wing micro-drone Deploying Agency: Medair Piloting Agency: Drone Adventures Dates of Deployment: March 2014 Summary A project employing drones in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan explored how aerial imagery might support recovery and reconstruction activities. Ultimately, the...

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Group: innov-aid
Case Study No. 4: Mapping – Deploying Drones for Spatial Modeling of Displaced Landmines after floods in Bosnia Herzegovina

Timo Luege posted Information | 24 August 2016

NATURAL DISASTER | ACUTE EMERGENCY I MAPPING Type of system: MD4-1000 Multicopter Microdrone Deploying Agency: Belgian Royal Military Academy Piloting Agency: Belgian First Aid and Support Team (B-FAST) Dates of Deployment: May and June 2014 Summary Heavy floods and landslides in Bosnia Herzegovina...

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Group: innov-aid

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