On #InternationalWomensDay - and EVERY OTHER DAY - don't use words like 'empower' and 'celebrate'. Instead, use words like 'hire', 'promote', 'pay', 'raise', 'bonus', 'fund', 'invest in', 'enrich', 'give equity to', 'elect', 'lead' - and don't just say it, DO IT.
#IWD #IWD 2023

When you have to murder to achieve your utopian dream - whatever that might be -, you are only enacting a dystopian nightmare.

What is interesting here is: “a sister company to the nonprofit”. The for profit spin off not only present in the US but I also see ambitions of it globally. Looking forward to this future of solidly built enterprises, but dreading the commercial replication of NGO systems.

Imagine if other crisis were externally managed as well as this one is… The amount of PR behind this type of humanitarian appeals should be studied in the context of futures of aid. Can you picture Ben receiving a beautifully written thread about Mali or Congo and posting it?

The biggest compliment is when your ex-employer has to call an external consultant to do a full blown review to figure out how to replace the work you did across a myriad of areas.

Absolutely brilliant The Brookings Institution - the lack of capacity is in the donor plus the misalignment of local government interest.

Who knew? There’s still interesting content on Twitter!

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Money migrant workers from developing countries send home is at least three times as much as foreign aid those countries receive (World Bank data).

A reminder about who plays which role when one speaks about development…

If you are trying to figure out how to improve CVA for people on the move🚶🏽‍♀️🚶🏽, consider this advice by humanitarian Paula Gil Baizan: Become a friction reliever❗️

Continue listening for practical examples from Paula 👉🏽 bit.ly/3LX801u

Paula Gil Baizan

After months of work I can finally to share the video of the latest Humanitarian Reform - Grand Bargain - Leave no one behind - Resilience - Nexus - From Funding to Financing - Cash - Collective Outcomes Summit

Me and the other black sheep had a blast!

… and call it a humanitarian cluster.

In the climate conference, they will ask for your stories of how your village was wiped out by a cyclone and how the sea is swallowing the land. They will have a bit of a cry and thank you. And then they will do it again next year while the world continues to burn.

#Haiti A combination of sociopolitical unrest, fuel shortages, and declining economy has resulted in significant #humanitarian needs

4.7M people (half of the pop) in IPC Phase 3 or worse levels of acute food insecurity and +800 suspected cholera cases...
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Hace poco más de 4 años mi mamá me llamó y me dijo: Emi, veni porque creo que estoy teniendo un ACV. Yo estaba en la facultad esperando la nota de un parcial así que dejé todas mis cosas ahí y corrí las 15 cuadras hasta su casa mientras pedía una ambulancia (sigue)

Estos días en que los muertos ya vienen en camino para visitarnos son perfectos para leer cuentos de terror. Acá van 13 cuentos latinoamericanos de terror que me encantan (y que están en internet). Este hilo se desprendió del vestido de una bruja en sus correrías nocturnas.

Attention intermediate and advanced mappers and validators! The Disaster Services Team could use your help in completing this project tasks.hotosm.org/explore?campai…

To stay competitive and finance operations, nonprofits are going to have to figure out Web 3 the same way they figured out Web 1 and 2 before them. At one point, creating an Instagram account for a nonprofit was laughable; today it is integral. twitter.com/metapreneur_x/…

I found a video about humanitarian innovations trying to scale after institutional donors stop feeding, sorry, funding them.

A transcript from my presentation at the launch organized by ⁦CALP Network⁩ today

Paging ⁦Duolingo⁩ for those of you who don’t speak the language of revolution

“Movimiento humano y transferencias en efectivo” by Paula Gil Baizan
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