admin June 22nd, 2011
Two and half weeks before South Sudan’s independence – due on July 9th – hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced, minor wars and disputes are simmering, and yet there has so far been less violence – and, surprisingly, less displacement – than once feared.
That said, over 60,000 people have fled violence in South Kordofan and more than 100,000 have fled Abyei for a similar reason. One beacon of hope is that North and South Sudan signed a deal earlier this week to pull their troops out of the disputed Abyei region and bring in Ethiopian peacekeeping forces – a deal brokered by former South African President Thabo Mbeki at a conference in Addis Ababa.
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Tags: Abyei, Ethiopia, South Kordofan, South Sudan, Sudan
admin June 17th, 2011
We’re delighted to say that the launch of the partnership between World Vision, Advance Aid and Agility in Nairobi earlier this week went very well.
Here are some pictures from the event:
Agility, World Vision and Advance Aid partnership team
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Tags: Agility, World Vision
admin June 16th, 2011
DFID yesterday produced its response to the Humanitarian Emergency Response Review (HERR), chaired by Lord Paddy Ashdown. You can read the press release and download the paper here.
Disappointingly, as far as Advance Aid is concerned, the words ‘pre-positioning’ do not appear at all in the 36 page response. Nor does the phrase ‘local procurement’. So whilst there will be a lot of changes in DFID’s approach to responding to disasters, pre-positioning and local procurement are not explicitly part of any new approach.
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Tags: Andrew Mitchell, DFID, HERR, Lord Paddy Ashdown, natural disasters
admin June 15th, 2011
It’s a big day today for Advance Aid as we launch our partnership in Nairobi with World Vision and Agility.
You can read the full press release here but what that does not say is that this is the culmination of many months’ work by everyone involved in this partnership. It also does not say that this is really only the beginning.
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Tags: Agility, Kenya, natural disasters, World Vision
