A digital tool is helping local teams respond to emergencies. This tool provides the necessary infrastructure for accountability, such as tracking and reporting. Typically, only large organizations have had access to this type of infrastructure.
The use of this tool has been demonstrated in several cases. These cases show that with the right systems in place, local teams can deliver aid effectively. Further details about the tool and its use are available, including case studies from various locations, such as Poland, Lebanon, and Greece.
. ABSTRACT This case study highlights how a refugee-led organisation of six local staff was able to sustainably provide long-term support to over 27,000 beneficiaries in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley through adoption of a structured, choice-based digital voucher and aid delivery program...
. By Lara Cooper Fourteen tons of requested medical aid arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal, over the weekend to support communities impacted by last month’s flash floods. More than 1,300 people were killed when catastrophic flooding swept through entire communities in northern Nepal and...
Sitting alone in a tepee-like shelter made from sticks collected by a dry African riverbed in 1974, 24-year-old Debbie Dortzbach stitched the words of Psalm 34:4 onto a white bandage from her captors’ helicopter first aid kit. The phrase “I sought the Lord and he heard me” altern...
Liberty University students who got up for an early class on September 11, 2001, may have skimmed a copy of the Liberty Champion at breakfast in the dining hall. If they did, they may have read about the university’s Spiritual Emphasis Week, or about renovations to the major acad...
“We inherited two worlds—one of hope to which we were bred; one of a certain disillusion which we had discovered for ourselves.” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote those words of the 1920s, speaking to a generation that had served in World War I and often followed it with hedonistic exces...
Growing up, I often heard one statement in my church youth group: “The most loving thing you can do is tell someone the truth.” The statement became especially potent whenever we gathered for a weekend at the Youth Evangelism Conference in my home state of Oklahoma to be reminded...
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. OPERATIONAL CONTEXT 466,709 People affected 101,416 Uninhabitable homes Colombia continues to face a large-scale humanitarian emergency following the 7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck San José del Palmar, Chocó, on 10 August. As of 9 September, at least 466,709 people had be...
Countries: World, occupied Palestinian territory, Somalia, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic . Ongoing wars, protracted conflicts and recurring natural disasters have driven the number of people in need of aid to record levels. At the same time, the global humanitarian system is strugg...
