Tens of millions of people in 42 countries will need assistance in 2019, according to Mark Lowcock, the United Nations under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, writes in a recent editorial for Thomson Reuters Foundation News.
He offers four suggestions for how we need to “work differently” to reduce immediate need:
- revamp humanitarian financing to improve its efficiency
- expand the funding pool
- shift from response to prevention and early action to prevent large-scale crises
- tackle the root causes of vulnerability and instability
At Christian Children’s Fund of Canada, we address those ideas, with a focus on tackling root issues. For example, providing access to education and training is a key ingredient in empowering communities to reject child labour and child marriage.
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