Archive Sahel emergencies: flexible funding and contingency planning

  • By Penda Diallo, CARE International
  • 13/12/2016

Picture from BRACED publication - Evaluative learning for resilience: Providing Humanitarian Assistance for Sahel Emergencies (PHASE) Research reports and studies, August 2016

13 December, 11.30-12.30 GMT / In a world of increasing risk and instability, humanitarian and development actors must adapt to work more closely. This webinar will explore the impact of crisis modifier interventions and flexible funding in Sahel emergencies. It will draw on experiences of one the CARE consortium, which is one of the world's largest resilience initiatives. The Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) programme in the Sahel is deepening ways to better connect humanitarian–development financial programming by using the implementing modalities of humanitarian aid through the Providing Humanitarian Assistance for Sahel Emergencies (PHASE) programme and its Contingency Mechanism.

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