Research from @odi.global goes beyond the false binary of "development or climate", and looks at the specific investments that developing countries are seeking.
Full report:
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Are you a Zimbabwean migrant in the UK who sends money, food or goods to Zimbabwe? Researchers at @qmulsse.bsky.social want to hear from you. Our survey explores how remittances support climate adaptation in Zimbabwe. 🔗 tinyurl.com/25evy7ns Please share widely! 🇿🇼🇬🇧
Next Thursday, join us in person or online! Poet activist Peter Kidi will be joining and reading several of his poems from his debut chapbook, The Forgotten Faces biea.ac.uk/events/refug...
When aid doesn’t arrive on time, many refugees turn to debt to survive, effectively pledging future aid to buy food for today.
CSAE's @oliviersterck.bsky.social & @odid-qeh.bsky.social's Vittorio Bruni on the cost of ration cuts & delivery delays in Kenya's refugee camps.
“Let everyone get the same, even if it's just a spoonful,” a refugee told us after hearing she would soon be cut off from food assistance.
Our research on aid cuts and targeting just published in The New Humanitarian.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
Delighted to share The Forgotten Faces, featuring deeply moving and incisive poetry from the brilliant Peter Kidi and the artistic talent of Victor Ndula. Available here: www.lse.ac.uk/africa/asset... @africaatlse.bsky.social
"Policies are drafted about us but never with us. Aid is designed like architecture above our heads, and when it collapses, we are the ones buried in the rubble.' For #FP2P we spoke to poet and refugee Peter Kidi about his life and his art. frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/i-started-wr...
"The last meal" by Peter Kidi, who is a South Sudanese poet and activist, born and raised in Kakuma refugee camp.
A central theme of the poem, reflecting the focus of #WorldRefugeeDay2025, is solidarity, a concept that takes on different meanings.
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blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/...
On World Refugee Day 2025, Peter Kidi has written a deeply personal poem offering a first-hand perspective on the realities of humanitarian aid cuts. Peter is an incredibly talented young poet writing from Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. Here is his poem, The Last Meal: tinyurl.com/ymhswtpj
A really interesting and helpful article.
When aid to a refugee camp gets cut/is volatile:
1) Hunger gets worse, especially if disbursement of remaining aid is delayed;
2) The informal credit system collapses;
3) Food prices fall with reduced demand, partly mitigating the aid cut shock
Really important work and a great article. Costanza Torre and I found similar effects of humanitarian aid cuts on informal credit systems in northern Uganda. Curious to hear if you found the cuts had effects on intra-household consumption? doi.org/10.19088/SSH...
🆕 What happens when humanitarian aid is cut or delayed?
Today on VoxDev, Vittorio Bruni (University of Oxford) & Olivier Sterck (University of Antwerp) demonstrate how aid cuts are having dramatic impacts on food security in one of the world's largest refugee camps: voxdev.org/topic/instit...
If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.
🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg
"If we have a protracted situation where this is what we can manage, then basically we have a slowly starving population," says Felix Okech, the WFP's head of refugee operations in Kenya.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Several transit centres in Uganda are operating at >500% capacity despite ongoing conversations about repatriation. The scale of congestion and water stats are particularly concerning given that #UNHCR just deprioritised WASH and Health activities
As indicated by @wfp.org Uganda “Malnutrition has reached critical levels (15% +) in refugee reception centres, and general food rations have been cut by up to 80%"
The government is discussing forced repatriation. The aid infrastructure in Uganda has been at breaking point for a long time - this is the culmination of years of neglect
Uganda hosts 1.8 million refugees. New arrivals continue. Owing to aid cuts, WFP have cut another 1 million from ongoing monthly assistance (which wasn't much to start with). www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
There's been plenty of hyperventilating in some UK media outlets about solar farm taking over 'productive farm land' and endangering food security
But in fact the ambitious 2030 targets will cover only 0.4% of land, compared with golf courses covering 0.5%
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
"If your humanitarian mission dies when the money dries up, it was never a mission, it was a business."
Opinion by Micheal Gumisiriza, a humanitarian practitioner working with refugee-led organisations in Uganda.
“Paramilitaries in Sudan have murdered more than 200 civilians in a wave of attacks in displacement camps and around the city of El Fasher, the last big city still in the hands of the Sudanese army in the Darfur region.”
Malnutrition is a crisis we can solve—if we act now. From stunting to obesity, poor #nutrition fuels inequality, instability & lost potential. But integrated solutions are working.
Read Afshan Khan's latest op-ed on 👇
🔗 www.fairplanet.org/op-ed/malnut...
This will be an especially difficult year to tell the difference between fake bullshit and actual bullshit this April Fool's Day
I’ve written a piece for @africasacountry.bsky.social about the liberal humanitarian sector’s response to the recent USAID cuts and reformist efforts to defend - what has always been - an unequal system ⬇️
My new article ‘Mission Impossible?
Humanitarian Actors and the Civilizational Logic of International Aid Delivery during the “Congo Crisis,” 1960–1964’ is now open access with Humanity. Worth checking out for the photos, if nothing else. Here is (most of) the abstract.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
