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"Gunshot to the head"

If you are in Nairobi, this is a don't-miss event!

🆕 OUT NOW! Humanitarian Exchange 85: Across 14 articles, this edition of our magazine focuses on the often overlooked and undervalued leadership roles women take on during times of crisis. 📖 Read in full now → buff.ly/4biSIzd (1/2)

Displacement has been rising globally for the past decade. Our recent research centres groups of often overlooked displaced people, incl. those with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression & sex characteristics, and refugee-led orgs 👇 buff.ly/3zj0EDd

🧵 Last week at the Humanitarian Segment of #ECOSOC2024 , HPG (now on Bluesky: hpg-odiglobal.bsky.social)'s Sorcha O'Callaghan moderated an event, co hosted with CARE (care.org) & Women's Peace & Humanitarian Fund with four extraordinary women undertaking extraordinary work in difficult contexts, with the following 4️⃣ key takeaways:

Did he actually though? Shame on you BBC. I expected better than the Daily Mail but seems I was wrong…

I had one of the best nights of my life here with Dr Michael Nelles and came away with a unicorn balloon. Sign the petition!

Come be my boss!! We’re a great team – anyone would be lucky to have us!

I mean, fingers crossed 🤞

This #WorldHumanitarianDay must be a call to address the stark reality that local humanitarians repeatedly #ActForHumanity – until they are killed. ✍️ HPG's Nosheen Malik unpacks the sharp discrepancies between the treatment of int'l & local humanitarians: buff.ly/3WQ8ZX1

📢 Last call to apply! An exciting opportunity has opened up in our team to lead HPG. If you are: ✅a recognised expert in crisis response ✅a leader in policy & research ✅experienced in business dev't ...then get your application in by THIS SUNDAY: buff.ly/3WJEwLn

HPG will spend the next 3 yrs researching the lives & livelihoods of urban internally displaced persons (IDPs). We hope to understand what aid actors can do differently/better to support IDPs to build their own livelihoods, on their own terms. More: buff.ly/4d3F7ww (1/4)

Internally displaced persons, rural–urban migrants, urban poor – what’s the difference? And, perhaps more importantly, does the difference matter? Research Fellow Kerrie Holloway explores as part of HPG's latest research agenda on #CollectiveActionInCrises ⤵️ buff.ly/3MLw7Bw

Excited to be working on the CHH-Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict and Forced Displacement as a NextGen scholar! Can't wait to see what comes out of this incredibly clever and diverse group of contributors.

Come work with us! We’re fun, I promise!

If you're following me because you're interested in all things IDP protection/response, check out this paper by Sarah Miller on IDP solutions:

I recently posted on Blue Sky for the first time and will likely leave this platform soon — find me there at the same handle and say hello!

🇮🇶 In early 2023, Iraq's humanitarian efforts transitioned towards seeking sustainable longer-term solutions. This has proved – predictably – to be easier said than done. Imrul Islam (from Norwegian Refugee Council in Iraq) reflects: buff.ly/3U9U6yq Imrul

STATEMENT: ODI (which leads HPG) will suspend all activity on X from today, in light of the substantial rise in hate speech, mis- and disinformation on the platform. We encourage our followers to join us on other platforms. Read more about our decision: odi.org/en/press/odi-s…