Cascading hazards and entrenched inequalities have led to false starts in reconstruction and ongoing suffering since the 2023 disaster in India’s eastern Himalayas.
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Most climate aid arrives after the disaster. A handful of countries are proving it doesn’t have to.
Recovery time between climate disasters makes a huge difference to the consequences affecting local people.
Israel’s refusal to investigate the killing of Australian Zomi Frankcom relfects a long standing problem of insufficient accountability for aid worker deaths.
Africa does not need another grand vision. It needs to treat the vision it already has as a discipline.
The drop in funding has also led donors to prioritize the trend of using aid to control the movement of people – over their needs.
Many Skultuna cookpots survive in the kitchens of Palestinians, keeping alive the memory of Swedish friendship at a time of dire need.
Instead of disconnected projects driven by external priorities, a country platform enables governments to set the agenda and direct finance to where it is needed.
The aid plan supported by Israel and the US has more to do with control than compassion.
Some African families see orphan-focused NGOs as a path to education and improved lives.
Exposure to accurate reporting over the dire plight of people in Gaza resulted in 5% bump in those in Israel who supported aid convoys.
Wage workers in street food shops are among the most vulnerable category of workers in Ghana.
Prevention is better than cure. To cut healthcare costs, African countries must re-strategise.
Foreign aid has helped, but it leaves African countries vulnerable to the political mood swings of funders.
The US has donated nearly US$4 billion to Afghanistan since the Taliban came into power. Gutting USAID will have enormous consequences for women and children.
The EU and China may fill the aid vacuum left by Trump’s aid cuts.
US president Joe Biden called for a ‘surge’ of humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.
Can a multinational security mission provide Haiti with a stable future? Not without sustained funding for after the troops leave.
The US president has ordered a pier to be built so that it can supply aid to Gaza. But it will not be enough.
Children are particularly at risk from malnutrition as food supplies in Gaza run out.
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