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Humanitarian day

Facilitación de retornos seguros: recuperación urbana y reconstrucción de los medios de vida para las comunidades yazidíes desplazadas en Ninewa Occidental (Irak)

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Voices & Views

Para celebrar el Día Mundial de la Asistencia Humanitaria (19 de agosto) y conmemorar el noveno aniversario de la masacre de Sinjar (3 de agosto), el equipo de Capacity4dev se ha puesto en contacto con los responsables de la...

Asia
Iraq
Employment & VET
Humanitarian Aid
Urban Development
Humanitarian Day picture

Facilitating safe returns: urban recovery and livelihood redevelopment for displaced Yazidi communities in Western Ninewa (Iraq)

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Voices & Views

To celebrate World Humanitarian Day (19 August) and commemorate the 9th anniversary of the Sinjar Massacre (3 August), the Capacity4dev team reached out to the implementers and beneficiaries of an EU-funded project led by UN...

Asia
Iraq
Employment & VET
Humanitarian Aid
Urban Development
Humanitarian day

Faciliter les retours en toute sécurité : rétablissement urbain et réaménagement des moyens de subsistance des communautés yézidies déplacées dans l'ouest de Ninive (Irak)

Article
Voices & Views

Pour célébrer la Journée mondiale de l'aide humanitaire (19 août) et commémorer le 9e anniversaire du massacre de Sinjar (3 août), l'équipe de Capacity4dev a contacté les responsables de la mise en œuvre et les bénéficiaires d'un...

Asia
Iraq
Employment & VET
Humanitarian Aid
Urban Development

COVID-19. How EU Delegations are responding to the pandemic: the case of Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria

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Voices & Views

EU Delegations' efforts to assist developing countries to fight the COVID-19 virus and its consequences have been a priority since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020. The Heads of Cooperation in Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria are...

Africa
Nigeria
Asia
+1
Kyrgyzstan
Development Effectiveness
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
Social Protection and Inclusion
Women in Nigeria

Shifting institutional culture in Nigeria to address the needs of women

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Voices & Views

In Nigeria, addressing the question of gender equality and gender issues requires long-term structured engagement. A sense of ownership of the process to implementers and beneficiaries can help drive this process and create a...

Africa
Nigeria
Agriculture & Rural Development
Gender
Gender equality - women's rights
+3
Women's empowerment
Women's organisations
Human Rights

Migration management: One year on from the launch of the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection & Reintegration

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Voices & Views

With over 3,500 migrants rescued from the desert and 15,000 assisted in returning home from dire situations across the Central Mediterranean routes, the first year of the EU-IOM joint initiative has yielded substantive results...

Africa
Libya
Burkina Faso
+12
Côte d'Ivoire
The Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Mali
Mauritania
Niger
Nigeria
Senegal
Cameroon
Chad
Humanitarian Aid
Protection
Relief co-ordination, protection and support services
+7
Migration & Forced Displacement
Smuggling of Migrants & Trafficking in human beings
Legal pathways
Migration dialogues
Migration policy
Refugees
South-South migration

Many paths, one direction: Strategies for achieving Universal Health Coverage

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Voices & Views

Each year, nearly 100 million people find themselves pushed into extreme poverty because of health-related expenditures. Capacity4dev spoke to health programme managers at the EU Delegations to Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Africa and...

Africa
Nigeria
South Africa
+4
Ethiopia
Asia
Timor-Leste
Oceania
Health
Health policies & policy dialogue
Health Systems Strengthening
+1
Universal health coverage - equity

Resilient… but to what?

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Voices & Views

There was a question posed more than once at this year’s European Development Days in Brussels. Most participants agreed the concept of “resilience” has been widely embraced since a 2012 EU communication on the topic, but many...

Worldwide
Africa
Nigeria
+4
Asia
Bangladesh
Nepal
Pakistan
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
Comprehensive approach
Resilience

Supporting Education in Crisis-Affected Environments

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Voices & Views

One of the many casualties of crises is education. Natural disasters, wars and protracted conflict are disrupting children’s access to schools and contributing to higher drop-out and lower completion rates. Schools can also be...

Africa
Somalia
South Sudan
+2
Asia
Iraq
Education
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience

Keeping Human Rights at the Heart of Development

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Voices & Views

National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) are bodies set up to protect and monitor human rights – to stand up for those in need and to hold governments to account. They can also provide advice, deal with complaints and carry out...

Africa
Mauritania
Asia
+1
Iraq
Human Rights