Friday, September 23, 2022
As the toll from Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine continues to mount, albeit interspersed by some rare glimpses of hope, the implications for global aid are becoming clearer, and more worrying.
The effects on aid are both indirect and direct. In...
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
As the UN marks the International Day of Family Remittances on Thursday, there is concern that economic contraction and job losses in Russia - likely to now rise further as a result of sanctions imposed since the invasion of Ukraine - are...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
How do you register for official support and humanitarian assistance when war forces you away from your home? When you have fled with just the essentials, without knowing where you are going or how long you will be there. When going to a public office in...
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
There has been a fair amount of discussion in this blog of multifaceted, poverty graduation programs (now often called ‘economic inclusion’ programs). Berk covered results from a big multicountry study, as well as some related qualitative...
Friday, April 22, 2022
In less than two months, more than five million people have been forced to flee Ukraine and more than a quarter of the total population of the country has been forcibly displaced due to the war. The majority of the people fleeing Ukraine are...
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
DNIPRO, Ukraine — When asked what type of aid assistance would be most beneficial, Svitlana Servatovska has a hard time responding. The 40-year-old business owner lost everything when her city of Mariupol in southern Ukraine was decimated by Russian...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
West Africa is increasingly impacted by climate change through more frequent and intense droughts and floods which hit the poorest most. When shocks hit, early action can help households cope. In November 2021, the Government of Niger decided to act...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
In a context of violent conflict, widespread suffering and displacement, social protection is still being delivered in Ukraine. To understand how social protection is being mobilised in this context, Bozena Sojka, with Paul Harvey and Rachel Slater from...
Friday, March 4, 2022
As the war in Ukraine shakes the moral conscience of the world, the question is what the global community can do to help those suffering within the country and outside. One proposal, laid out in POLITICO on Tuesday, is to use the $650 billion worth...
Sunday, February 27, 2022
To ensure that agencies can effectively, efficiently and promptly provide support to refugees from Ukraine in Poland, Hungary, Romania and Moldova, it is important to learn from the lessons from the last EU centred refugee response in Greece. In 2016/...