The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan is one of the most severe and complex crises in the world. An estimated 9.4 million Afghans are currently in need of life-saving assistance. Awaaz Afghanistan, the first nationwide inter-agency humanitarian call centre, is funded by the Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund, the European Union Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid, UNHCR and … Continued
The UNDP’s Digital Socio-economic Impact Assessment (SEIA) is a reliable and flexible end-to-end digital assessment toolkit designed to support decision makers in crisis-affected countries. Digital SEIA enables rapid mobile data collection and visualization, with a strong focus on vulnerable groups. The toolkit can be tailored to the needs of various stakeholders, while facilitating multidimensional analyses … Continued
Today, more than 2.1 billion people do not have access to safe water and 3 billion do not have hand-washing facilities with water and soap at home. In fragile contexts, humanitarian aid is often addressing these gaps in water delivery with temporary solutions – but at notable long term financial and environmental costs. UNICEF and … Continued
The initiative builds a concrete regional model for investing considerably and long-term in programs that will accelerate the demographic transition through girl’s education, empowerment for women and girls, prevention of early marriages and family planning, and job creation thus allowing countries of the Sahel to benefit from the demographic dividend The interventions are structured around … Continued
Recognition of education qualifications from one’s home country is essential to access to further studies and/or for seeking employment opportunities in a new country. To support and ensure that refugees are able to participate in the job market or pursue further studies, UNESCO has initiated a pilot project on the evaluation of refugees’ qualifications in … Continued
The project aims to strengthen resilience to misinformation in countries vulnerable to conflict, protecting the health of members of fragile societies and avoiding the destabilization of peace processes. It is a short-term project linked to the temporality of COVID-19 crisis and deployed in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean. The initiative is funded by … Continued
WhistleblowingCorruptionCoronavirus is a friendly tool designed for any person to report acts of corruption related to the detection, handling and treatment of the COVID-19 virus, the violation or restriction of access to personal data, and governmental failures in, both, public and private hospitals. The registration of these corrupt actions gives us enough data and information … Continued
Trade in Africa has been characterized by many hurdles and inefficiencies. The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the need to keep borders open and trade flowing, especially essential goods (food and medical supplies). TradeMark East Africa as one of the largest Aid for Trade organisations worldwide has 10 year of successful experience in trade facilitation and … Continued
The #CoronaVirusFacts Alliance is the largest collaborative fact-checking project ever seen and it’s led by the International Fact-Checking Network. The Alliance unites 99 fact-checking organizations from all over the world in publishing, sharing and translating facts surrounding the novel coronavirus. Launched in January 2020, when the spread of the virus was restricted to Asia but … Continued
CAIAC is a comprehensive and authoritative “sense-making” platform combining collective and augmented intelligence to map and advance our common knowledge of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact. It empowers decision makers around the world to respond to the health, economic, and social implications of the pandemic in a coordinated fashion, using a dynamic knowledge graph … Continued
