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“When you leave in the morning, you never know if you’ll come back safe.” The Women’s Refugee Commission traveled to Kenya’s Kakuma and Dadaab camps this summer to talk with…

I met a Somali woman in the Ifo refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya who summed up the problem: “You cannot divorce food from fuel,” she said, “they are completely interlinked….

Reuters/Zohra Bensemra, courtesy www.alertnet.org The theme of this year’s World Refugee Day is “home.” Home refers to the many homes lost, destroyed, but also, hopefully, those returned to by the…

This post was cross-posted on ReliefWeb. “We strongly believe that this new area of work, on cash and protection, is an opportunity to include protection in our efforts to increase…

This post was cross-posted on ReliefWeb. Humanitarian agencies are increasingly supporting displaced families with Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA). This has raised questions about how CVA is affecting—and being inclusive…

This post was cross-posted on ReliefWeb. The COVID-19 pandemic is a multi-faceted global health crisis with ripple effects felt across humanitarian contexts and sectors. While the negative impacts of COVID-19…

…of CVA include boosting local economies and providing affected populations with the ability to make their own decisions. While the use of cash itself is not inherently risky, simply designing…

Desde el año 2016, ha llegado aproximadamente 1 millón y medio de personas venezolanas a Ecuador huyendo del crimen desenfrenado, de la violencia política, de una economía que colapsa y…

Fleeing rampant crime and political violence, a collapsing economy, and severe shortages of food and medicines, some 1.5 million Venezuelans have arrived in Ecuador since 2016. Among them are LGBTQIA+…