Humanitarian Practice Network #84 Survivor- and community-led crisis response: practical experience and learning ‘The project succeeded because we worked together in the village. Many other NGO projec

Hi all, Please find more on this interesting initiative and webinar from the good folks associated with Oxfam’s “Poverty to Power” blog and “Emergent Agency in a Time of Covid” - coming up this Thursd

Dear all, Pleased to announce the latest video on responses to Covid-19 from Marsabit, Kenya. This is the last of a series of shorts videos on the impact of Covid-19 and how communities, CBOs, NGOs an

Hi all - hope you are doing well! Sorry for possible x-mailing today, but please do see attached paper announcing ODI’s forthcoming Humanitarian Exchange (79) on Localisation and local humanitarian ac

Community radio and education during Covid-19 in Marsabit, Kenya This video from Kenyan NGO Iremo describes the work of a local community radio during Covid-19. Marsabit county in Kenya is among other

Dear all, Darare Gonche of Iremo has just shared this new video about Covid-19 and a worsening water shortage in Marsabit county in Kenya. The video - Marsabit’s water crisis during Covid-19 - is prod

Hello everyone - Darare Gonche greeting you from Marsabit county in Kenya Please find here the link to a short documentary video on how Covid 19 has impacted on the immunization of children in Marsabi

Dear all, Please find link below to the second instalment of accounts of life in the Africa’s Sahel region after the onset of Corona. This document represents a collaboration between L2GP and Internat

Responding to Covid-19 in Marsabit county, Kenya Background note to videos produced by Mamo Ali and Darare Gonche, July 2020, for IREMO in Marsabit, Kenya. The videos were produced with support from C

Hi all, Please see te link below for ODI HPG new briefing paper: ‘All eyes are on local actors’: Covid-19 and local humanitarian action https://www.odi.org/publications/17173-all-eyes-are-local-actors

Dear all, Please find below updates with examples of citizen and community action to COVID-19 from Myanmar and Yemen. Myanmar Learn about the outreach work of Myanmar's Seafarer’s union, net-citizens

Hi all, Please find link below to a number of accounts of life in the Africa’s Sahel region after the onset of Corona. This document represent an emerging collaboration between L2GP and International

Digest of local Covid-19 responses from Myanmar media Yangon, June 9, 2020, by Kyaw Lin Htoon 1. Volunteering in Myanmar’s quarantine centres During COVID-19 period, Myanmar rely heavily on the help o

Hi all - sorry if the link I forwarded di not work. Try this instead: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YaIUyp0HBmQDWsB8bj74oVDE3JXkB-Aa/view Greetings nils nils carstensen Local to Global Protection E

Dear all, Please find below the link to the second video shared by Darare Gonche at Iremo, a local NGO working in Marsabit, north-western Kenya. The video is a strong example of local agency and the c

Dear all, Pleased to be able share the link to a short film produced by Mamo Ali an Darare Gonche for IREMO in Marsabit, Kenya. The film vividly illustrates how Covid-19 adds to the many other challen

Dear colleagues, Thanks to all of you who have sent updates and resources relevant to community-responses to the Covid-19 crisis – in its many manifestations. From the Palestinian West Bank, colleague

… and from Somalia, Africa’s Voices (see link below) has a story on a recent survey in Somalia on what the listeners of Radio Imaqal saw as most important for Covid-19 responses: ‘Dear Imaqal Listener

Dear all, Below please find an interesting example of cooperation between Karen villagers, the Thai military and urban citizens in Chiang Mai – all shared by good colleagues in Thailand. Villagers sup

Hi all, Below two links to the “Frontier Myanmar” shared by good collegues on this group. Both illustrate the particular challenges for Myanmar migrant workers - and the important role of community vo