IOM is pleased to receive a delegation from #Korea 🇰🇷 who are in #Ethiopia 🇪🇹 for a study visit to better understand the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus (HDPN). There's a critical need to ensure a nexus approach to avoid humanitarian situations becoming protracted.

At this IDP Camp in Debre Birhan, Amhara region of #Ethiopia, thousands of displaced children and their families have lost everything, but not their dignity. As the situation is escalating, James Elder calls for urgent support to save the lives of children! ⌛️ Watch it now! 👇

Thanks to generous support from Sida, IOM handed over medical equipment and emergency medication to Ethiopian Public Health Institute Ethiopian Public Health Institute for reception sites and the isolation centre for communicable diseases in #AddisAbaba that support returnees.

Many Regions in #Ethiopia are currently experiencing one of the most severe La Niña-induced droughts in recent decades. Here are 5⃣ facts about #drought in 🇪🇹

“We must be instructed by what the affected community tell us”, Humanitarian Coordinator to Ethiopia Dr. Catherine Sozi UN Ethiopia Tom Fletcher Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) This is the essence of accountability to affected people Happening now in #Ethiopia a workshop on strengthening this approach

Say it louder for the people who still think girls don’t have a place in politics! 📢 It’s time for girls to get #EqualPowerNow. Support their call for safe, inclusive, accessible, and sustainable ways to participate in decision-making and politics.

The Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) Working Group, Ethiopia, chaired by IOM, is conducting AAP workshops for humanitarian actors this week. The aim is for agencies to have a common understanding of a rights-based & needs-based approach to working w/ communities.

Achieving gender equality is the unfinished human rights struggle of this century. All girls & women must be permitted to exercise their full human rights in a safe environment without fear of violence, prosecution or persecution. #16Days

And we're off! 📺 Information as a right: what’s holding us back? Join us on Zoom ➡️ us02web.zoom.us/j/81106283080?… #HNPW #CommIsAid

Radio Ergo Leyla Ugbaad Save the Children International Save the Children Global Media IOM Ethiopia Internews "Information often seems to fall at the bottom of the list of prioritities for humanitarians. Framing information as a right changes the game and strengthens our ability to hold humanitarians to account" - Asia Kambal of Rooted in Trust Sudan, Internews #HNPW #CommIsAid

Radio Ergo Leyla Ugbaad Save the Children International Save the Children Global Media IOM Ethiopia Internews "There is not a consistent understanding of what it means to be rights-based in practice, and we often see 'needs' and 'rights' used interchangeably. Information and communication are seen as a luxury, but information can be lifesaving" – Philippa Hill, Save the Children International #HNPW

Radio Ergo Leyla Ugbaad Save the Children International Save the Children Global Media IOM Ethiopia Internews "'Information as aid' implies that it's one-way – us 'giving' something to the community. But 'information as a right' emphasises the community's agency to exercise their rights, and puts them at the centre of the response" – Catherine Alcaraz, IOM Ethiopia #HNPW

Radio Ergo Leyla Ugbaad Save the Children International Save the Children Global Media IOM Ethiopia Internews The power imbalance in terms of access to information carries a colonial legacy. Asia Kambal of Internews points out that there is even often a disparity in terms of info access between local/national and international humanitarian staff. #HNPW #CommIsAid #InfoAsARight

Radio Ergo Leyla Ugbaad Save the Children International Save the Children Global Media IOM Ethiopia Internews Philippa Hill of Save the Children International also highlights humanitarian action's history of paternalism, which doesn't support a rights-based approach. Our conceptualisation of childhood creates even more barriers when trying to support children's rights, agency and dignified treatment.

.Leyla Ugbaad of Radio Ergo / IMS emphasises the ned for humanitarians to work more closely with media to operationalise #InfoAsARight – media has the audience relationships, trust and understanding to reach more people with info that will impact their lives #HNPW

Leyla Ugbaad Radio Ergo IMS We should also support the agency and capacity of crisis-affected people to inform our communication and engagement strategies, says Philippa Hill, referencing Save the Children International's experience of promoting child-led information-sharing initiatives in response to Covid-19 #HNPW

CDAC starts today in in Addis Ababa! 🇪🇹 With the Ethiopia AAP Working Group, we are jointly hosting a learning event on strengthening collective communication, community engagement and accountability in the #HornOfAfrica response, funded by H2H Network #CommIsAid

The humanitarian emergency in the #HornOfAfrica is not over. Already weakened communities face yet another year of severe hardship.  With your support, we can help them.

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EHF & IOM 🇪🇹 are partnering to enhance: ☑️Accountability for Affected Population ☑️Disability mainstreaming ☑️Strengthening capacity of local partners ☑️Awareness-raising among affected communities to understand & exercise their rights as active participants in the response.