Jamie Munn, ICVA
@jmunn-icva.bsky.social
Proud 🇨🇦 maritimer and humanitarian; CEO ICVAnetwork.org 🇨🇭 previously based in 🇽🇰🇰🇪🇵🇰🇦🇫🇵🇭🇹🇭🇲🇲🇧🇩🇮🇶
I have two decades of experience in international aid programming, strategic development, NGO coordination, & policy formation
I have two decades of experience in international aid programming, strategic development, NGO coordination, & policy formation
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Jamie Munn, ICVA
@jmunn-icva.bsky.social
· Nov 21
After years on Twitter/X, it's time for a fresh start on Bluesky. Embracing new platforms is like opening doors to new ideas and opportunities to rethink, renew, and reach out with purpose. Grateful for the journey so far & let’s see what lies ahead. Here’s to building together on this new horizon!
Grateful to Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social joining us at ICVA @icvanetwork.bsky.social and taking time to listen directly to our NGO colleagues, including those from South Sudan and Lebanon.
ICVA will keep advocating clearly, consistently, and collectively for NGOs & communities.
 
ICVA will keep advocating clearly, consistently, and collectively for NGOs & communities.
 
June 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Grateful to Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social joining us at ICVA @icvanetwork.bsky.social and taking time to listen directly to our NGO colleagues, including those from South Sudan and Lebanon.
ICVA will keep advocating clearly, consistently, and collectively for NGOs & communities.
 
ICVA will keep advocating clearly, consistently, and collectively for NGOs & communities.
 
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Insecurity and climate crises push thousands to the edge in #BurkinaFaso.
Aid efforts are maxed out and communities overwhelmed.
I’ve allocated $5.9M from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund for humanitarian partners to deliver food, shelter, health and protection.
Aid efforts are maxed out and communities overwhelmed.
I’ve allocated $5.9M from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund for humanitarian partners to deliver food, shelter, health and protection.
June 20, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Insecurity and climate crises push thousands to the edge in #BurkinaFaso.
Aid efforts are maxed out and communities overwhelmed.
I’ve allocated $5.9M from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund for humanitarian partners to deliver food, shelter, health and protection.
Aid efforts are maxed out and communities overwhelmed.
I’ve allocated $5.9M from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund for humanitarian partners to deliver food, shelter, health and protection.
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We are only asking for 1% of what the world spent last year on defence. And we can save over 100m lives.
Let’s get our collective priorities right.
My speech at #ECOSOCHAS: bit.ly/3SXbANj
Let’s get our collective priorities right.
My speech at #ECOSOCHAS: bit.ly/3SXbANj
June 19, 2025 at 5:59 AM
We are only asking for 1% of what the world spent last year on defence. And we can save over 100m lives.
Let’s get our collective priorities right.
My speech at #ECOSOCHAS: bit.ly/3SXbANj
Let’s get our collective priorities right.
My speech at #ECOSOCHAS: bit.ly/3SXbANj
🏳️🌈 This Pride season, the silence feels louder, and the cuts run deeper.
I wrote about what’s being lost and what we must not let go of @GenevaSolutions:
“Quiet Cuts and Loud Silences”
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Take a moment to read and reflect. #Pride2025 #Humanitarian
I wrote about what’s being lost and what we must not let go of @GenevaSolutions:
“Quiet Cuts and Loud Silences”
📖 genevasolutions.news/peace-humani...
Take a moment to read and reflect. #Pride2025 #Humanitarian
June 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
🏳️🌈 This Pride season, the silence feels louder, and the cuts run deeper.
I wrote about what’s being lost and what we must not let go of @GenevaSolutions:
“Quiet Cuts and Loud Silences”
📖 genevasolutions.news/peace-humani...
Take a moment to read and reflect. #Pride2025 #Humanitarian
I wrote about what’s being lost and what we must not let go of @GenevaSolutions:
“Quiet Cuts and Loud Silences”
📖 genevasolutions.news/peace-humani...
Take a moment to read and reflect. #Pride2025 #Humanitarian
Timely and necessary.
@potustrump47.bsky.social and McCarthy intersect on:
1) weaponisation of fear
2) demand loyalty tests
3) disregard for factual scrutiny
4) institutional corrosion
5) ethically unmoored
6) morally hollow
@potustrump47.bsky.social and McCarthy intersect on:
1) weaponisation of fear
2) demand loyalty tests
3) disregard for factual scrutiny
4) institutional corrosion
5) ethically unmoored
6) morally hollow
Happening Now: See George Clooney's "Good Night, and Good Luck" in a historic Broadway first. Watch live on CNN, CNN.com and streaming on Max: cnn.it/3Hu7rOu
June 8, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Timely and necessary.
@potustrump47.bsky.social and McCarthy intersect on:
1) weaponisation of fear
2) demand loyalty tests
3) disregard for factual scrutiny
4) institutional corrosion
5) ethically unmoored
6) morally hollow
@potustrump47.bsky.social and McCarthy intersect on:
1) weaponisation of fear
2) demand loyalty tests
3) disregard for factual scrutiny
4) institutional corrosion
5) ethically unmoored
6) morally hollow
The U.S. veto today at the UNSC is a shameful abuse of power.
Calling the resolution “divorced from reality” is itself a despicable distortion of reality. What’s truly divorced is the U.S. position from the suffering of civilians.
This is not leadership. It’s complicity. #Gaza #UNSC #CeasefireNow
Calling the resolution “divorced from reality” is itself a despicable distortion of reality. What’s truly divorced is the U.S. position from the suffering of civilians.
This is not leadership. It’s complicity. #Gaza #UNSC #CeasefireNow
Open all of the crossings. Let in lifesaving aid at scale, from all directions.
Lift restrictions on what & how much aid we can bring in. Ensure our convoys aren’t held up by delays and denials.
Release the hostages. Implement the ceasefire.
Let us work.
Lift restrictions on what & how much aid we can bring in. Ensure our convoys aren’t held up by delays and denials.
Release the hostages. Implement the ceasefire.
Let us work.
June 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
The U.S. veto today at the UNSC is a shameful abuse of power.
Calling the resolution “divorced from reality” is itself a despicable distortion of reality. What’s truly divorced is the U.S. position from the suffering of civilians.
This is not leadership. It’s complicity. #Gaza #UNSC #CeasefireNow
Calling the resolution “divorced from reality” is itself a despicable distortion of reality. What’s truly divorced is the U.S. position from the suffering of civilians.
This is not leadership. It’s complicity. #Gaza #UNSC #CeasefireNow
Reshma Adatia speaks truth on leadership, equity & responsibility in humanitarian action. Glad to see @icvanetwork.bsky.social voice in the room.
🔗 www.linkedin.com/posts/rkadat...
🔗 www.linkedin.com/posts/rkadat...
#gaza #sudan | Reshma K. Adatia
Today I represented ICVA Network and our members in a number of essential conversations, keeping the focus on humanitarian response and the populations in crisis around the world - particularly #Gaza ...
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June 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Reshma Adatia speaks truth on leadership, equity & responsibility in humanitarian action. Glad to see @icvanetwork.bsky.social voice in the room.
🔗 www.linkedin.com/posts/rkadat...
🔗 www.linkedin.com/posts/rkadat...
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Canadians make up the largest proportion—nearly 28 percent—of international travelers visiting Florida. They also comprise the largest number of international visitors for the entire United States.
But that comfortable relationship may be taking a turn.
But that comfortable relationship may be taking a turn.
Canadians have cooled on US travel
Mexico is looking like a much better option.
www.motherjones.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Canadians make up the largest proportion—nearly 28 percent—of international travelers visiting Florida. They also comprise the largest number of international visitors for the entire United States.
But that comfortable relationship may be taking a turn.
But that comfortable relationship may be taking a turn.
Let this month be a reminder not just of how far we’ve come, but of what we must now defend – openly, actively and without apology.
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❝Quiet cuts and loud silences: this year’s Pride carries a heavier weight - Geneva Solutions
US president Donald Trump’s assault on diversity initiatives has had a silencing effect on many of Geneva’s humanitarian organisations, writes Jamie Munn, the director of the International Council for...
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June 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Let this month be a reminder not just of how far we’ve come, but of what we must now defend – openly, actively and without apology.
genevasolutions.news/peace-humani...
genevasolutions.news/peace-humani...
Hard to overstate how grave the situation is.
Humanitarian principles must be respected.
Aid must be allowed in.
People in Gaza need food, water, and safety—now.
#HumanitarianPrinciples #AidAccess #Gaza #InternationalLaw
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Humanitarian principles must be respected.
Aid must be allowed in.
People in Gaza need food, water, and safety—now.
#HumanitarianPrinciples #AidAccess #Gaza #InternationalLaw
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May 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Hard to overstate how grave the situation is.
Humanitarian principles must be respected.
Aid must be allowed in.
People in Gaza need food, water, and safety—now.
#HumanitarianPrinciples #AidAccess #Gaza #InternationalLaw
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Humanitarian principles must be respected.
Aid must be allowed in.
People in Gaza need food, water, and safety—now.
#HumanitarianPrinciples #AidAccess #Gaza #InternationalLaw
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Read, follow, engage with me and @icvanetwork.bsky.social on LinkedIn
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Humanitarian Funding in Perspective | Jamie Munn
Imagine telling 300 million vulnerable people that the world spent more on sunglasses and Valentine’s Day than on their survival. Nothing says 'we care' quite like chocolate hearts and designe...
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May 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Read, follow, engage with me and @icvanetwork.bsky.social on LinkedIn
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Happy to share this “pep talk” or maybe it is just the lies I tell myself 😂😂
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Why It Feels Like We Are Shouting Into the Void – But We Must Keep It Up
As I reflect on my career in humanitarian advocacy, I often find myself grappling with a deep, persistent feeling: the sensation that we are shouting into the void. The world is filled with overwhelmi...
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April 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Happy to share this “pep talk” or maybe it is just the lies I tell myself 😂😂
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Dear Canadians,
Can we please start a petition to Stop the Crime of Poilievres kissing before and after every speech???
Here is a new slogan for #Poilievre:
End the Cringe
#canadianelection #neverPoilievre
Can we please start a petition to Stop the Crime of Poilievres kissing before and after every speech???
Here is a new slogan for #Poilievre:
End the Cringe
#canadianelection #neverPoilievre
March 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Dear Canadians,
Can we please start a petition to Stop the Crime of Poilievres kissing before and after every speech???
Here is a new slogan for #Poilievre:
End the Cringe
#canadianelection #neverPoilievre
Can we please start a petition to Stop the Crime of Poilievres kissing before and after every speech???
Here is a new slogan for #Poilievre:
End the Cringe
#canadianelection #neverPoilievre
Watching the US admin fumble classified war plans like a drunk losing their keys is one thing, but let’s be real - half of them couldn’t find Canada on a map if we circled it in red. Maybe that’s for the best.
#PeteHegseth, Stephen Miller & lil #JDVance frat boy wannabes who’d flop at band camp too
#PeteHegseth, Stephen Miller & lil #JDVance frat boy wannabes who’d flop at band camp too
March 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Watching the US admin fumble classified war plans like a drunk losing their keys is one thing, but let’s be real - half of them couldn’t find Canada on a map if we circled it in red. Maybe that’s for the best.
#PeteHegseth, Stephen Miller & lil #JDVance frat boy wannabes who’d flop at band camp too
#PeteHegseth, Stephen Miller & lil #JDVance frat boy wannabes who’d flop at band camp too
We can move beyond endless discussions and start implementing long-overdue changes in the humanitarian sector. The system isn’t “broken,” but it is outdated, inefficient, and resistant to necessary reform.
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Stepping Out of the Geneva Rhetoric Machine: Five Things NGOs Must Do Now | Jamie Munn | 11 comments
We can move beyond endless discussions and start implementing long-overdue changes in the humanitarian sector. The system isn’t “broken,” but it is outdated… | 11 comments on LinkedIn
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March 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
We can move beyond endless discussions and start implementing long-overdue changes in the humanitarian sector. The system isn’t “broken,” but it is outdated, inefficient, and resistant to necessary reform.
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While the world focuses on Gaza, the occupied #WestBank faces unprecedented violence, displacement & rising humanitarian needs.
Destruction in #JeninCamp forces more families from their homes. These demolitions must stop. Systematic destruction violates IHL & can't be normalized.
Destruction in #JeninCamp forces more families from their homes. These demolitions must stop. Systematic destruction violates IHL & can't be normalized.
“A deepening humanitarian crisis in the #WestBank with homes and other civilian infrastructure systematically destroyed.
Tens of thousands of #PalestineRefugees are at risk of renewed long-term displacement with #Jenin Camp permanently altered.”
— UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini
Tens of thousands of #PalestineRefugees are at risk of renewed long-term displacement with #Jenin Camp permanently altered.”
— UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini
March 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
While the world focuses on Gaza, the occupied #WestBank faces unprecedented violence, displacement & rising humanitarian needs.
Destruction in #JeninCamp forces more families from their homes. These demolitions must stop. Systematic destruction violates IHL & can't be normalized.
Destruction in #JeninCamp forces more families from their homes. These demolitions must stop. Systematic destruction violates IHL & can't be normalized.
As a new school year begins, 2.2 million Afghan girls are barred from education. What are men so afraid of? An educated girl is a stronger society. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn
As new school year starts in Afghanistan, almost 400,000 more girls deprived of their right to education, bringing total to 2.2 million
“The consequences for these girls - and for Afghanistan - are catastrophic.”
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“The consequences for these girls - and for Afghanistan - are catastrophic.”
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As new school year starts in Afghanistan, almost 400,000 more girls deprived of their right to education, bringing total to 2.2 million
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the third anniversary of the ban on secondary education for girls in Afghanistan
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March 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
As a new school year begins, 2.2 million Afghan girls are barred from education. What are men so afraid of? An educated girl is a stronger society. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn
Happy Nowruz to all celebrating!
A time for renewal, hope, and solidarity—especially for communities facing hardship. Wishing strength to those working for a better, more just world.
May this year bring peace, resilience, and progress. Nowruzetan Pirouz! #Nowruz #Solidarity
A time for renewal, hope, and solidarity—especially for communities facing hardship. Wishing strength to those working for a better, more just world.
May this year bring peace, resilience, and progress. Nowruzetan Pirouz! #Nowruz #Solidarity
March 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Happy Nowruz to all celebrating!
A time for renewal, hope, and solidarity—especially for communities facing hardship. Wishing strength to those working for a better, more just world.
May this year bring peace, resilience, and progress. Nowruzetan Pirouz! #Nowruz #Solidarity
A time for renewal, hope, and solidarity—especially for communities facing hardship. Wishing strength to those working for a better, more just world.
May this year bring peace, resilience, and progress. Nowruzetan Pirouz! #Nowruz #Solidarity
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"My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law."
March 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law."
Why did @pierrepoilievremp.bsky.social bring a magic wand to parliament?
Because it was the only way he knew how to make robust policies appear!!
Because it was the only way he knew how to make robust policies appear!!
March 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Why did @pierrepoilievremp.bsky.social bring a magic wand to parliament?
Because it was the only way he knew how to make robust policies appear!!
Because it was the only way he knew how to make robust policies appear!!
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Ar Brussels Conference for Syria earlier this week, pitching for support.
The cost of failure is far greater than the cost of our plan to back hope for the Syrian people.
The cost of failure is far greater than the cost of our plan to back hope for the Syrian people.
March 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Ar Brussels Conference for Syria earlier this week, pitching for support.
The cost of failure is far greater than the cost of our plan to back hope for the Syrian people.
The cost of failure is far greater than the cost of our plan to back hope for the Syrian people.
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'Sudan’s children are trapped in one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. I returned last week from a country where conflict, displacement, and hunger are destroying young lives."
UNICEF's Lucia Elmi briefs on the situation in for children in #Sudan
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UNICEF's Lucia Elmi briefs on the situation in for children in #Sudan
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Geneva Palais briefing note: Children in Sudan: a generation at risk
This is an overview of remarks by UNICEF Director of Emergency Programmes Lucia Elmi – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the Palais des Nations in Geneva
www.unicef.org
March 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
'Sudan’s children are trapped in one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. I returned last week from a country where conflict, displacement, and hunger are destroying young lives."
UNICEF's Lucia Elmi briefs on the situation in for children in #Sudan
www.unicef.org/press-releas...
UNICEF's Lucia Elmi briefs on the situation in for children in #Sudan
www.unicef.org/press-releas...
Hammarskjöld said, “The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell.”
In 2025, the Security Council is incapable of even that. Wars rage, ppl starve & atrocities go unanswered. Is the mandate not peace & security? The world burns while the Council debates. Pathetic.
In 2025, the Security Council is incapable of even that. Wars rage, ppl starve & atrocities go unanswered. Is the mandate not peace & security? The world burns while the Council debates. Pathetic.
March 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Hammarskjöld said, “The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell.”
In 2025, the Security Council is incapable of even that. Wars rage, ppl starve & atrocities go unanswered. Is the mandate not peace & security? The world burns while the Council debates. Pathetic.
In 2025, the Security Council is incapable of even that. Wars rage, ppl starve & atrocities go unanswered. Is the mandate not peace & security? The world burns while the Council debates. Pathetic.
I have no doubt that @chrislockyear.msf.org could have spoken for hours about the horrific crimes of war in Sudan. But the real question is - what will the #UNSC do? They’ve mastered the art of listening, but where is the action on Peace and Security?
The war in Sudan is a catastrophic "war on people," @doctorswithoutborders.org Secretary General Christopher Lockyear tells the UN Security Council, calling for an end to violence against civilians and a new commitment to deliver lifesaving aid: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/msf-b...
MSF briefs UN Security Council on Sudan: A catastrophic "war on people"
MSF Secretary General Christopher Lockyear calls for a new commitment to protect civilians and meet humanitarian needs in Sudan.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
March 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I have no doubt that @chrislockyear.msf.org could have spoken for hours about the horrific crimes of war in Sudan. But the real question is - what will the #UNSC do? They’ve mastered the art of listening, but where is the action on Peace and Security?
Genuine question: How many eggs do Americans eat for egg prices to be a bigger crisis than consumer protection disappearing, federal employees being fired without notice and humanitarian aid getting cut?
February 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Genuine question: How many eggs do Americans eat for egg prices to be a bigger crisis than consumer protection disappearing, federal employees being fired without notice and humanitarian aid getting cut?