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An aid agency is an organisation dedicated to distributing aid. Many professional aid organisations exist, both within government (e.g. AusAID, USAID, DFID, EuropeAid, ECHO), between governments as multilateral donors (e.g. UNDP) and as private voluntary organizations or non-governmental organisations, (e.g. ActionAid, Ducere Foundation, Oxfam, World Vision). The International Committee of the Red Cross is the world’s oldest humanitarian organisation and is unique in being mandated by international treaty to uphold the Geneva Conventions.
Aid can be subdivided into two categories: humanitarian aid (emergency relief efforts, e.g. in response to natural disasters), and development aid (or foreign aid), aimed at helping countries to achieve long-term sustainable economic growth, with the aim of achieving poverty reduction. Some aid agencies carry out both kinds of aid (e.g. EcoCARE Pacific Trust and ADRA), whilst others specialise (e.g. Red Cross, humanitarian aid; War on Want, development aid).
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The UN has said up to 100,000 Iraqi civilians could flee to Syria and Turkey to escape the military assault on Mosul. But other aid agencies fear that number could be way higher and are frantically rushing to get ready for what could be the most complex humanitarian crisis this year. The Norwegian Refugee Council's (NRC) acting area manager in Erbil, Courtney Lare said: "NCR is currently preparing for massive waves of displacement coming out of Mosul. We're expecting in the first several wee… READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2016/10/17/battle-for-mosul-aid-agencies-braced-for-massive-refugee-exodus What are the top stories today? Click to watch: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSyY1udCyYqBeDOz400FlseNGNqReKkFd euronews: the most watched news channel in Europe Subscribe! htt...
As a new report shows aid groups paid for access in Somalia, we ask if picking sides in a conflict helps their cause.Inside Story, with presenter Jane Dutton, discusses with guests: Abdi Aynte, director of the Heritage Institute for Policy Studies, and co-author of this latest report; Marc Dubois, executive director of Doctors Without Borders; and Richard Dowden, director at the Royal African Society.
The Global Development Network (GDN) and the Center for Global Development (CGD) bring you a panel discussion on the future of aid agencies.The panel will discuss a range of questions on the topic, including: How should development actors work to sustain development in the next fifteen years? What specific skills do these actors need to advance the development finance agenda? Should aid agencies remain pivotal to global aid? PANELISTS Yuen Yuen Ang, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, author of winning essay on the future of foreign aid Daniel Honig, Assistant Professor of International Development at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, author of winning essay on the future of development aid Mahmoud Mohieldin, World Bank Group Senior Vice President ...
The Nigerian government and aid agencies are stepping up the delivery of food in areas devastated by the armed group Boko Haram. Hundreds of people have already died from malnutrition, but aid workers warn that a bigger problem lies ahead as farmlands lie idle across. Al Jazeera's Ahmed Idris reports from Borno state in north-eastern Nigeria. - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/
For nearly half a decade, Syrians in the town of Daraya lived under siege, with limited access to food and medicine, at the hands of their government. On Friday, they received their first food aid delivery since 2012. But then came the barrel bombs. They were dropped by Syrian government helicopters. But is a new chapter really being opened in aid delivery? And how is siege being used by the Assad regime in this conflict? Presenter: Sami Zeidan Guests: Neil Sammonds, Syria Researcher at Amnesty International Abeer Etefa, senior spokeswoman for the Middle East at the World Food Programme Marwan Kabalan, Syrian academic and writer More from Inside Story on: YouTube - http://aje.io/insidestoryYT Facebook - https://facebook.com/AJInsideStory Twitter - https://twitter.com/AJInsideStor...
Syria's Daraya was supposed to receive aid for the first time in more than over three years, but the International Committee of the Red Cross said it was denied entry without blaming any side. Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports from Gaziantep.
South Sudan's government is calling on aid agencies to resume their efforts and help thousands of civilians. Agencies have been forced to reduce aid after their convoys came under attack. South Sudan is now promising safe passage for them.
Typhoon Haiyan: aid agencies face distribution problems in Tacloban Subscribe to the Press Association: http://bit.ly/RvMVLq International aid starts to arrive in Tacloban. Military planes land at the city's damaged airport but the scale of the disaster and challenges of delivering the assistance means few in the city have received any help. There are also growing health fears, as dead bodies are strewn throughout the disaster zone.
The Zimbabwe government together with The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the Food and Agriculture Organization Signed a four year deal to rehabilitate eight smallholding irrigation schemes.
The office of the prime minister together with humanitarian agencies handling the thousands of South Sudan refugees fleeing into the country have reduced the food ratios as more continue to arrive. By today the number of refugees has risen to over forty thousand people. Subscribe to Our Channel For more news visit http://www.ntv.co.ug Follow us on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/ntvuganda Like our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/NTVUganda
Listen to the full audiobook: http://easyget.us/mabk/30/en/B0083JC3DM/book What is the relationship between education, aid and aid agencies?drawing on international research in numerous countries, including Thailand, India, Afghanistan, Lebanon and the Uk, the contributors consider, conceptually and empirically, the provision of education to aid and aid agencies, analyzing the internal and external factors affecting educational provision during and after emergencies.each chapter contains a summary of the key points and issues within the chapter to enable easy navigation, key contemporary questions to encourage you to actively engage with the material and an annotated list of suggested further reading to support you to take your exploration further.
the top objective of Team 48 Response says: "(to) Provide initial situational report, needs assessments and information from ground zero of a climate-related disaster for various partner agencies, relevant government institutions, disaster rescue/response workers rapid assessment and other aid related agencies and organizations with the aim of speeding up the provision of targeted and appropriate aid."
Niger has the highest rate of child marriages in the world. 24% of women get married before the age of 15 and have an average of 8 children. Aid agencies try to make a difference by educating children about contraception at an early age.
The EU is a hurry to sign the long-awaited association treaty with Ukraine, while the new leaders in Kiev are turning to Washington for support. Whose interests were at stake during the Ukrainian revolution? Should the promises of the West be trusted by the new authorities? Sophie talks to former US intelligence officer Scott Rickard to find out the answers to these questions. Follow @SophieCo_RT RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RussiaToday Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com Follow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/rt Follow us on Google+ http://plus.google.com/+RT RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. ...
Shrinking editorial budgets have resulted in journalists increasingly turning to aid agencies to cover stories. At the same time, aid agencies are being pushed to be more media savvy in order to get their message out and to support advocacy and fundraising efforts. In conflict and disaster zones, aid agencies often have the local knowledge and access to affected communities. Journalists need these stories, while aid agencies are equally in need of the media coverage. Although it appears to be an ideal partnership, this kind of embedded journalism raises significant editorial and security questions. We will be joined by an expert panel of journalists, security experts and humanitarian workers to examine the editorial complexities and security risks presented by these partnerships. The med...
The US Vice President meets with Turkey for the first time since the July 15th coup attempt. We discuss the future of US-Turkey Relations with Ian Lesser, GMF's senior director for foreign policy, and Ziya Altunyaldiz, an AK Party MP. As Doctors Without Borders pulls out of Yemen, we speak to MSF's Michael Neuman about why relief agencies are increasingly coming under fire. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7fWeaHhqgM4Ry-RMpM2YYw?sub_confirmation=1 Livestream: http://www.youtube.com/c/trtworld/live Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TRTWorld Twitter: https://twitter.com/TRTWorld Visit our website: http://www.trtworld.com/
The leaders of the separatist Luhansk People's Republic have expelled most foreign humanitarian organisations from eastern Ukraine. At least ten agencies are affected, including the United Nations and Doctors Without Borders. The reason for their expulsion is not clear. But rebels have long been suspicious of foreign aid agencies, some of which they have accused of being spies. Pro-Russia separatists occupied Luhansk and Donesk regions in eastern Ukraine after rebels began fighting government forces in April last year. The decision to ban aid agencies will make it especially difficult for people because of the upcoming harsh winter weather. And the UN is warning of a looming humanitarian crisis. So, what's the reason behind the ban? And what does this mean for civilians caught up in...
Every major donor organization has committed to open their books in terms of how aid is being spent and delivered. The deadline for delivering on these political commitments was December 2015. This joint CGD and Publish What You Fund event will reveal who has delivered on these promises and who has not, with the unveiling of the results of Publish What You Fund’s 2016 Aid Transparency Index, the leading global measure on the state of aid transparency. Learn more and RSVP at http://www.cgdev.org/event/aid-agencies-committed-transparency-so-who%E2%80%99s-delivered-and-who-hasn%E2%80%99t
This session brings together senior staff working in development agencies that have engaged, or attempted to engage, directly with social entrepreneurs working in emerging markets. To what degree have these respective agencies facilitated the work of innovative social change agents working directly with the poor? What can be done to enhance the impact of these potentially powerful partnerships? The session will draw upon entrepreneurs in the audience who have engaged with international aid agencies.
Do aid workers risk violating counter-terrorism laws to reach people who need humanitarian support? Over the past two decades, states and inter-governmental bodies have adopted increasingly robust counter-terrorism laws and policies. At the same time, humanitarian crises in countries like Somalia, Mali and Syria have reaffirmed the continued importance of principled humanitarian action. Counter-terrorism laws and humanitarian action share several goals, including the prevention of attacks against civilians and of the diversion of aid to armed actors. Yet tensions between these two areas of law and policy have emerged in recent years, resulting in challenges for governments and humanitarian actors. This event launched Network Paper 79, Counter-terrorism laws and regulations: what aid ...
[Rael cannot look away from those eyes, mesmerized by his own image. In a quick movement, his consciousness darts from one face to the other, then back again, until his presence is no longer solidly contained in one or the other. In this fluid state he observes both bodies outlined in yellow and the surrounding scenery melting into a purple haze. With a sudden rush of energy up both spinal columns, their bodies, as well, finally dissolve into the haze.All this takes place without a single sunset, without a single bell ringing and without a single blossom falling from the sky. Yet it fills everything with its mysterious intoxicating presence. It's over to you.]
When it's cold
It come slow
It is warm
Just watch it grow
All around me
It is here
It is now!
Just a little bit of it
Can bring you up or down
Like the supper
It is cooking
In your hometown
It is chicken
It is eggs
It is in between your legs
It is walking on the moon
Leaving your cocoon
It is the jigsaw
It is purple haze
It never stays in one place
But it's not a passing phase
It is in the singles bar
In the distance of the face
It is in between the cages
It is always in a space
It is here
It is now!
Any rock can be made to roll
If you've enough of it
To pay the toll
It has no home
In words or goal
Not even in your favourite hole
It is the hope for the dope
Who rides the horse
Without a hoof
It is shaken
Not stirred
Cocktails on the roof
When you eat right through it
You see everything alive
It is inside spirit
With enough grit to survive
If you think that it's pretentious
You've been taken for a ride
Look across the mirror, sonny
Before you choose, decide
It is here
It is now!
It is Real
It is Rael
'Cause it's only
Knock and knowall