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Gain insights into the field experiences and lessons learned from Relief International, a partner organization working in fragile settings. Discover how they build resilience, address urgent needs, and promote well-being and dignity in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Explore their approach, vital statistics, and the importance of partnerships, integration, and local participation in achieving effective relief and development outcomes.
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Practicing Development in Fragile locations Experience from the Field March 28, 2018 USAID Alumni Association
Agenda • My suitcase • Introducing Relief International • The RI Way • Vital Statistics • Fragility Response • Experiences from the Field • Africa • Asia • Middle East • What’s your advice? Education + South Sudan
Relief International… …partners with people in fragile settings, building their resilience to achieve relief from poverty and emergencies, and advance their well-being and dignity.
RI Sectors WASH + Syria Health + South Sudan Education + Somalia Economic Opportunity + Lebanon
The RI Way • Partnerships • Integration • Local participation • Civic Skills Emergency Response + Yemen
Relief International Vital Statistics • Topline $102M • Staff = 6,200 • FT 1960 • Auxiliary 4285 • Reached 4.9M clients/beneficiaries • Net ICR 11.5% 70% of RI’s countries rank among the world’s 40 most fragile states.
Fragility response • Program Management in Fragile Settings • Remote Management Framework • Systems approach • Humanitarian programs with a development perspective Clinic road, Yemen IDPs in South Sudan
Sudan Before
Sudan After
Turkey Mental health counseling Physiotherapy Prosthetics program
Yemen Food distribution Moneer, 40, and his son Sami Malnutrition treatments
A Closing Poem The Oneness of Mankind Adam's sons are body limbs, to say For they're created of one essence. Should one organ be troubled by pain, The other limbs cannot remain at rest. (poem by Saadi, 13th century Persian poet)