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Localising advocacy on refugee rights and protection in Turkey
Localising advocacy on the protection and rights of refugees and the communities that host them is meant to be a key policy priority for international humanitarian actors. Yet in practice, advocacy approaches replace rather than complement the advocacy efforts of people in crisis, and fail to empower local and national actors, leading to siloes.
November 23, 2021
Embedding ethics in the practice of humanitarian innovation
What comes to mind when you think about ‘ethics’? For most people, it’s something like ‘doing what is right’. But does ethical behaviour mean simply doing what you think is right? Is it sufficient to trust your common sense and get on with it? When we ask that question to innovators and social entrepreneurs working on complex social problems, the answer is usually ‘no’. We would agree.
January 20, 2022
The SOS Sahel UK story: the journey from one international to four national NGOs
SOS Sahel UK, an international non-governmental organisation (INGO) registered in the UK in 1983 in response to the devastating drought and famine that impacted much of the Sahel in the early to mid-1970s.
November 30, 2021
Localising advocacy on refugee rights and protection in Turkey
Localising advocacy on the protection and rights of refugees and the communities that host them is meant to be a key policy priority for international humanitarian actors. Yet in practice, advocacy approaches replace rather than complement the advocacy efforts of people in crisis, and fail to empower local and national actors, leading to siloes.
November 23, 2021
Localisation and local humanitarian action
The theme of this edition of Humanitarian Exchange is localisation and local humanitarian action. Five years ago this week, donors,…
May 25, 2021
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