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Development thinking so far has focused on what developing countries do not have (developed countries’ capital-intensive industries); on areas in which developed countries perform better (Washington Consensus policies and governance); or on areas that are important from a humanitarian point of view but do not directly contribute to structural change (health and education).
More than 20 million people in those four countries alone remain severely food-insecure, and the United Nations estimates that $1.8 billion in immediate humanitarian aid is needed.
They invited charities to apply for grants of $25,000 in five broad humanitarian categories, with the application process demanding the kind of information that they had been seeking.
In fact, the obligation of states to abide by humanitarian rules of conduct while their enemies are free to barbarize warfare is what makes asymmetric wars especially insoluble.
Indeed, only a fraction of humanitarian aid budgets, roughly 1%, is allocated to education.
A humanitarian fund for education in emergencies needs to be established, and soon, so that when calamity strikes, vulnerable children are not forced to wait in misery and insecurity while the adults pass around the begging bowl.
Such a pool of money would help the roughly 50% of the world’s children who are out of school – some 28 million boys and girls – because of conflicts, civil wars, or humanitarian emergencies.
In the case of Nepal and other disaster-prone regions, the fund could, and should, be used to strengthen immediate relief plans, improve coordinated responses, and support longer-term efforts to bridge humanitarian relief and development, including preventive measures, such as retrofitting schools.
But it is crucial to realize that, for children, educational opportunity underpins all humanitarian and development interventions.
Education may not provide humanitarian support in exactly the same way that the provision of medical care, food, or shelter does, but the risks facing children out of school during crises – including labor, marriage, human trafficking, and recruitment as soldiers – can be as grim as any other type of suffering.
The assembled leaders and policymakers should take the opportunity to heed the call of organizations – such as the International Network for Education in Emergencies, UNICEF, and UNHCR – to ensure that no child falls into the gap between humanitarian and development assistance.
Schools provide their students with something that no other service or humanitarian assistance program can offer: hope of a return to normalcy and of a future worth planning for after those delivering the emergency response have left.
But the international community should direct its money to humanitarian causes, such as hospitals and schools, rather than backing American designs.
The right of humanitarian intervention limits the sovereignty of all other countries.
But time and time again, humanitarian assistance in Africa has come up short, as it did in Somalia in 2011 and 2012; in Niger in 2005; and in Ethiopia during the 1980s.
Humanitarian organizations like mine have always operated with limited human and financial resources, and have been expected to do more with less.
This is just one example of the positive role that local humanitarian actors can play when fully empowered.
Changing the global humanitarian paradigm will not be easy; change on this scale never is.
Beyond closing the aid gap, United Nations Special Envoy on Education Gordon Brown has rightly called for financing mechanisms to deliver education to children affected by conflict and humanitarian emergencies.
The result has been an escalating political and humanitarian crisis – and increasingly heated debate about how to address it.
Let us be inspired by them, and wage a humanitarian war against child sexual abuse.
Educating Nigeria’s SurvivorsABUJA – Two-year-old Bintu Mustapha is the human face behind the hidden humanitarian catastrophe now unfolding in northeast Nigeria.
The humanitarian emergency in northeast Nigeria is the country’s most serious since the Biafra famine in the 1960s.
Less than half of the UN’s humanitarian appeal was funded.
An effective humanitarian response requires predictable and assured funding to underpin the necessary investments in nutrition, livelihoods and food security.
As one of the conveners of the conference, Germany should be working with other major donors – notably the United Kingdom and the United States – to broaden and deepen humanitarian support.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has placed one of its most able ministers, Zainab Ahmed, at the head of the humanitarian response team.
Despite the economic recession, the authorities have also pledged to allocate around $1 billion of humanitarian support for the northeast.
Yet UN agencies and donors have effectively scripted education out of the humanitarian appeal.
In engaging the major powers, ASEAN will not shun traditional security issues, such as maritime cooperation, as well as humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
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