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Learning to code, learning to write and sharing thoughts from 14 years in the humanitarian sector
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With: @thomasbyrnes.bsky.social , Anna McCord, @valentinabarca.bsky.social and Carla Lacerda
Social protection in a post-USAID world: an open discussion on key implications
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March 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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March 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I would assume that as both eu counties and us combined have similar gdps and aimed to give similar amounts of odi as a % of gdp the totals would be quite close, for me the key issue is that with the us stopped in short term and dramatically reduced in the long the immediate impact on operations etc
February 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Hi Chris so the most comprehensive data set for us foreign assistance is foreignassistance.gov I would recommend downloading there data sets incase they are taken down in the future as they are not being updated since the new administration came into office
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ForeignAssistance.gov is the U.S. government’s flagship website for making U.S. foreign assistance data available to the public. It serves as the central resource for budgetary and financial data prod...
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February 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
For funding to humantiran agencies I had it has us 42% eu member states 19.5% eu commission including echo 8.2% so eu total 27.7ish% this is based on the un ocha data of funding committed to humanitarian responses and tracked via fts
February 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I am not sure that is correct but great if you can share the sources as love to be corrected this was my anylsis done on all donors www.linkedin.com/pulse/flash-...
Flash Analysis : US Aid Freeze: A 90-Day Countdown to Crisis for Humanitarian Agencies
This is Part 1 published on Jan 25th in my ongoing series examining the ongoing US Aid Freeze. For a better understanding, check out the other posts in the series, as I have tried to document this evo...
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February 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Hi Chris the data sets are form OCHA fts the extracted info is hear marketimpactorg-my.sharepoint.com/:x:/g/person... and hear marketimpactorg.sharepoint.com/:x:/s/MIWork... and the source is fts.unocha.org
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February 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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5/8 Join us as we explore the balance between innovation and responsibility in the age of AI. https://tinyurl.com/SPpodcast46

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🎙️@thomasbyrnes.bsky.social , Humanitarian & Social Protection Consultant, Founder and Director of MarketImpact.
Ep. 46 | Harnessing AI for Social Protection: opportunities and risks | socialprotection.org
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming industries worldwide, and social protection systems are no exception. From improving targeting and service delivery to enabling predictive interventions,…
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January 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM