Humanitarian Aid

In my penultimate year in the university, I had a roommate who was in the theater art department. As part of her semester assessment, she had to participate in a production in the school theater which is called The Crab, and also sell a certain number of tickets. As a…

During frontline emergencies and conflict situations, humanitarian aid workers provide humanitarian aid to over half a million people. Women play a crucial part (40%) in improving health, providing access to clean water, and offering life-saving information in conflict zones and during natural disasters. They are mobilizing the global climate movement…

Overview : CyberAttacks Affecting Humanitarian Organizations In the Wake of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. In wake of the Russia-Ukraine conflict that escalated in Feb 2022, cyber attacks have been on the rise, with malicious actors targeting various government, media and infrastructure systems. In particular, NGO’s and organizations dealing with migrants and humanitarian aid face a unique set of challenges during this crisis. They are…

What is Humanitarian Aid? Humanitarian Aid is to provide immediate material and logistical assistance to people who need help. It is usually short-term assistance until some solid help by the government and other institutions replaces it. Among the people in need are the homeless, refugees, and victims of natural disasters, wars, and famines. …

The Boko Haram insurgency has led to the displacement of millions of people from their homes. They often must move and resettle at locations kilometers away from communities where they lived and thrived. As the response to the conflict became formalized, camps for Internally Displaced Persons popularly called IDP Camps…

In recent years, blockchain has been hailed as a transformative technology for the humanitarian sector, with the assumption that storing encrypted data in a way that is transparent, immutable and decentralized is a universal certainty in solving the problems associated with human governance. However, blockchain is a technology still demarcated…

Since last year, the number of people in urgent need of support has risen by 46 per cent, said the UN Deputy Special Coordinator for Lebanon and UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon, speaking in Geneva. “Lebanon’s crisis is affecting everyone, everywhere across the country, with women bearing the brunt of the profound impact of this multi-layered crisis…2.2 million vulnerable Lebanese, 86,000 migrants and 200,000 Palestine refugees in Lebanon currently require emergency aid; in addition to 1.5 million Syrian refugees that are unable to afford or even access health, food, electricity, water, education and waste-water management, not to mention lifesaving protection services.”

Hello lovely readers, Firstly I must apologise for being AWOL for the past few months. As some of you may know if you follow me online, I am doing a PhD. Analysing data and writing up my findings has taken up pretty much every waking moment over the past couple…

Written by Julius Adewopo — Technology for Development Advisor at Mercy Corps, and Ken Kou — Fintech & Innovation lead at Mercy Corps Ventures. Mercy Corps and Sempo pilot a digital tool for humanitarian cash programming in Uganda. Uganda is the largest refugee-hosting country in Africa. The 1.5 million refugees…