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Getting families back on track after Philippine’s Tropical Storm Tembin

Rita Balaguna, 48, was preparing breakfast for her family when the deadly Tropical Storm Tembin struck her hometown in Halapitan Barangay, municipality of San Fernando, Bukidnon province, a few days before Christmas Day in 2017.

6 July 2018

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Do humanitarian agencies really NEED to be accountable to communities?

Unfortunately, the answer to this question is no, we don’t. As a community engagement and accountability advisor within a humanitarian agency, I can’t tell you how much this answer pains me. If I were to ask, “SHOULD humanitarian agencies be accountabl …

22 May 2018

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Community voices driving decisions: Kenya Red Cross and IFRC share the lessons learned on accountability to communities

“As a movement we have no choice than being accountable to people.” Abbas Gullet, Secretary General of Kenya Red Cross Society Kenya Red Cross Society has published new independent research documenting their experience and lessons learned in mainstream …

10 May 2018

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Communities as agents of change: Five things we’ve learned from the Ebola response

From 2014 to 2016, Ebola killed 11,000 people in West Africa, mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Red Cross volunteers and staff across West Africa worked around the clock to help halt the disease from spreading, including in the 10 neighbourin …

18 April 2018

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Africa: Giving communities a voice in disaster response

National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies across Africa are set to improve the way they work with people affected by disasters, thanks to a newly trained team of community engagement and accountability (CEA) specialists who are ready to be deployed whenever and wherever needed.

18 December 2017

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