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When we speak of capacity-building, we must ask: who exactly is asking for it? Sithu Htin Aung believes this question is key for ensuring that capacity-building efforts in 🇲🇲Myanmar are truly aligned with the needs & demands of local communities. More ⤵️ buff.ly/3XmZRt0

In September 2023, Tamer Ramadan (formerly of @IFRC) and his team were navigating the effects of the deadly #StormDaniel in Libya. One year on, this is his seven-step guide to escaping #MentalHealth distress as a humanitarian practitioner: buff.ly/3Xma4Gr

NEWS: The upcoming HPG (now on Bluesky: hpg-odiglobal.bsky.social) Integrated Programme will also includes work to remodel the Humanitarian Practice Network to become a knowledge platform focused more on national and local humanitarian practice. Watch this space!

❓ Do giant crises trigger transformative change in the humanitarian sector? Drawing on examples inc. the war in Ukraine, the Indian Ocean tsunami & Covid-19, experts @EleanorDavey, Fernando Espada & Kim Scriven explore this critical question in detail ↓ buff.ly/3TkdB6D

#PledgeForChange is a movement focused on learning, unlearning, and exploring how to use leadership power & influence to drive real change within organisations and in the wider humanitarian and development sectors. Find out more and join the community 👇 buff.ly/4eilfGO

🇸🇩 In this recent paper, Senior Research Associate Margie Buchanan-Smith explores the interconnectedness of humanitarian and civic space in #Sudan, and identifies the implications for localising the delivery of humanitarian action. Read it now ⤵️ buff.ly/3XIjTjl

🇵🇱🇧🇾 How to be a humanitarian worker when access is denied: life on the Poland–Belarus border: buff.ly/47HzClW

.Alight have been working towards redefining language in humanitarian aid. After interactions such as that with Mohammed, and much reflection, Alight created a language guide as a resource to aid the evolution of the humanitarian sector. More ➡️ buff.ly/3Y5aF0F

"In this much water, no one could possibly stay at home." Pradipto Vaskar Rakshit of Oxfam in Bangladesh shares his experiences and insights after visiting two of the worst-hit districts of the recent Eastern Flood in Bangladesh 🇧🇩⤵️ odihpn.org/publication/on…

🗺️The world faced an unprecedented challenge with #COVID-19. What have we learned, and how can we prepare for the future? Join our #TheLearningCurve event! 🗓️Thu, 17 Oct 🕑1300 (London) Sign up here ➡️ buff.ly/47a4zPy #withlearningcomeschange #unlocklearning

The humanitarian sector must better understand how crisis-affected people perceive protection, why current approaches miss the mark, and what changes are needed to enhance impact. More in this #DRC study from Ground Truth Solutions, IES-Congo_Innovations et Entrepreneuriat Social & Victim’s Hope DRC: odihpn.org/publication/wh…

"There is no time to waste." In the year since the current escalation of violence in #Gaza, women-led organisations have played a vital role in providing essential services/humanitarian assistance and advancing women’s rights. What happens next? odihpn.org/publication/wh…

As I prepare to leave Norwegian Refugee Council after almost 4 years, a few endnotes from #Iraq. I look forward to returning many times— hopefully not as a humanitarian but as a friend. odihpn.org/publication/ir…

🇮🇶 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

🇨🇩 What displaced people in the DRC think of humanitarian protection and how to learn from it, by Ground Truth Solutions, IES-Congo_Innovations et Entrepreneuriat Social & #VictimsHopeDRC ↓ buff.ly/3YyD67i

Why are Global South countries still expected to rely on the assistance of Global North actors for survival and development? Manoug Antaby from the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies explores ➡️ buff.ly/3Uo2iel Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies

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