Cotopaxi’s Post

📢FUNDERS BRIEFING: The Loss and Damage Collaboration and Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) are holding a briefing for funders on supporting the Global #LossAndDamage Community in 2024. 🗓️04 March 2024 ⏰14:00 EST 📍Zoom ✏️To register please email: erin [@] https://lnkd.in/e5HwZsmC to register (Funders only please‼️) Join us to find out more about our work and for a rich dialogue on the following questions: 1. How we can support developing countries to advance the global #LossAndDamage agenda? 2. Where we should focus our collective efforts in 2024 and beyond to mobilize financing for addressing #LossAndDamage at the scale of needs? 3. What research is needed to better understand how to address #LossAndDamage?

Today, Läkarmissionen / LM International together with INTEGRAL ALLIANCE and its members launched ‘Five Factors Driving Neglected Crises’. The report highlights five factors causing disasters and conflicts to become neglected: 💶 The impact of cultural political or economic isolation 📰 The lack of media coverage and profile 📉 Donor fatigue, inertia and the protracted crisis 🌱 The climate connection 🤝 Insufficient support for locally-led action Sweden and the EU must take a leading role in transforming the humanitarian sector by securing new funding, strengthening nexus collaborations, and promoting local ownership and leadership to ensure that no crisis remains hidden and that every affected community receives the attention and support they urgently need. Read full report ⬇ https://lnkd.in/etWcS7kV EU-CORD VOICE EU

💡"Despite the increasing complexity and duration of conflicts, and the critical role #peacebuilding plays in interrupting these cycles of #violence, financial resources for peacebuilding work are declining." -Kristina Preiksaityte, NP's Strategic Partnerships Manager Preiksaityte's #OpEd from Alliance magazine highlights how this funding deficit is affecting peacebuilding efforts, especially locally-led initiatives. ⬇️ Read More https://bit.ly/3VlhL0f

 "Forecasting and early warning technologies have advanced so much in the past decade." ⚙ 🛑 🔊 We use these innovations to our advantage, strengthening our anticipatory action initiatives and crisis financing programmes. #StartFund is actively changing the humanitarian system by collaborating with experts to improve how we respond and prepare for crises. https://lnkd.in/e_7yvCtx #StartFundat10

The United Nations OCHA-managed Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and Country-Based Pooled Funds (CBPFs) are 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚, making an impact for the world's most vulnerable people by advancing progress in priority and often underfunded areas.   Prioritizing a coherent humanitarian response that is people-centred, locally driven and agile, the Pooled Funds have helped protect vulnerable communities, support women-led organizations, and drive anticipatory climate action.   Together, we #InvestInHumanity

If you are interested in learning which government agencies provide funding for international cooperation in 🌏 Africa, Asia, Latin America, Pacific or Eastern Europe, you might find our new blog article useful. It gives a comprehensive 💹 overview of all government funders that regularly distribute grants for non-profits working in international cooperation and humanitarian aid 👇🏼

If we compare the PBF's work with other UN-based financial instruments, it remains at the forefront of conflict and violence prevention along with critical post-conflict efforts, while maintaining a somewhat stable resource mobilization strategy. However, prospects are definitely not promising. It appears that we will increasingly observe a decline in funding in the coming years. Decentralizing, localizing, and laying off experienced technical human resource will not solve the underlying structural problem, which is political in nature and deeply connected to a preference for bilateral donations/investments by key stakeholders. All trust-funds I know of seem to be facing the same challenge. The UN system and the international civil society, are deeply underfunded, trying to navigate a state-centric environment tainted by the demise of "multilateralism". Ps: Kudos to the PBF for accompanying their report with a picture of a Liberian Peace Hut. So much to learn from them.

Certainly, anticipatory action is an effective way to mitigate climate-related events and shocks in disaster-prone areas. It helps safeguard the income sources of affected populations. However, some countries should adopt harmonized triggers and thresholds, as humanitarian actors currently use significantly different triggers and thresholds for the same hazards. May, we need much more coordination on its execution.

European aid is contracting. After steady growth, major donors such as the U.K., France, Germany, Sweden, and the EU are slashing budgets. What's driving this shift? Join Devex as we examine the changes that are happening and the driving force behind them. #EU #donors #aid

Today I highlight an important report on misinformation efforts that hamper Muslim-led NGOs and harm their beneficiaries. The good news is that there are effective strategies to mitigate misinformation efforts. One of them is to shift funder efforts toward shared goals with Muslim-based NGOs and away from misinformation attacks. https://wix.to/YP2Mw8P #newblogpost