Kasmira Jefford
Editor-in-Chief at Geneva Solutions
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2 days ago |
genevasolutions.news | Kasmira Jefford
Floods and other disasters have forced over 260 million people globally to become internally displaced within their own countries over the past decade, with people with disabilities especially at risk. Historically excluded from disaster management processes, a community-led training scheme in Bangladesh shows how inclusion leads to empowerment.
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2 weeks ago |
genevasolutions.news | Kasmira Jefford
Geneva’s State Council is partnering with the foundation behind Swiss luxury watchmaker Rolex to help NGOs cope with funding cuts. Despite the blow from the Trump administration’s decision to slash foreign aid, international Geneva is not giving up.
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1 month ago |
genevasolutions.news | Kasmira Jefford
Geopolitics will come and go, but the permanent effects of climate change on the planet mean sustainable finance will remain an urgent priority for world leaders, argues the United Nations’ development agency’s policy boss. With an economy under assault from trade tensions, high debt levels and geopolitical conflicts, scaling up finance to tackle the world’s multiple crises – from climate change to food insecurity – faces seemingly insurmountable challenges.
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1 month ago |
genevasolutions.news | Kasmira Jefford
Humanitarian and development actors are still struggling to understand the extent of the cuts by the United States and other international donors, and estimate the number of lives affected. A survey by a Swiss NGO platform sheds some light on these figures. What has been the combined cost of aid cuts by the United States, Switzerland, European nations and other countries on Swiss NGOs?
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1 month ago |
genevasolutions.news | Kasmira Jefford
Donald Trump’s foreign aid cuts have decimated the United Nations’ coffers. Voluntary contributions for specific programmes – from the International Organization for Migration, to UNAids, to the World Health Organization – have been drastically scaled back or wiped out altogether.
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RT @RichardGowan1: "What has thrown everyone off balance is how cuts have hit not only parts of the UN that the US traditionally dislikes,…
Geneva to provide CHF 10m for NGOs reeling from US funding freeze | via @genevasolutions https://t.co/xZzcuabt5d
“Millions of people have been abandoned from one day to the other,” says Barbara Hintermann, director of the Terre des Hommes Lausanne foundation.
#USAID @tdh_org lays off 440 staff in nine countries after seeing US funding halted. ✍️@kmjefford | via @genevasolutions https://t.co/uaeYr3G86E
