UN refugee agency and AVPN explore innovative finance

 

Shafi Musaddique

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AVPN 2024: The UNHCR, the UN’s refugee agency, has teamed up with Asian philanthropy network, AVPN, to explore innovative financial models to help strengthen support for forcibly displaced people in Asia and the Pacific.  

The two organisations within the world of philanthropy and the humanitarian sector signed a memorandum of understanding at the AVPN Global Conference in April. 

Christian Schaake, chief of UNHCR private sector partnerships in Asia said he wanted to ‘scale up’ work in the region via ‘innovative finance’, a means in which humanitarian organisations like the UNHCR receive support via nontraditional donor-based assistance.  

The UNHCR said it aims to close its funding gap by ‘generating financing for humanitarian aims from capital markets, leveraging and supplementing the grants from governments, foundations, corporations and individuals that currently provide most resources for humanitarian response’. 

‘AVPN is looking forward to actively engaging in the development of innovative financial mechanisms and creative approaches for financing projects that effectively contribute to the wellbeing of displaced communities across Asia-Pacific,’ said Moutushi Sengupta, Chief of Capital Mobilisation, AVPN.  

AVPN will also provide support for the UNHCR’s research and data analysis and help ‘raise awareness of the plight of refugees and achieve the best results for these communities, and the environment, as possible,’ Sengupta added.  

Some 108.4 million people were displaced by the end of 2022, according to the UNHCR’s 2023 Global Trends report. 

In the Asia-Pacific region, conflict and persecution has forcibly displaced people and communities. Natural disasters and climate change have pushed many into neighbouring countries.  

Shafi Musaddique is the news editor at Alliance Magazine 

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Frank Sterle Jr.

I see many migrants [a.k.a. 'illegals'], new and old, in my home city, which comes close to bordering Washington State. I know that growing numbers of people, regardless of their origin, requiring housing only increases the market-value pressure on the rent rate I pay for my old one-bedroom apartment unit. I also know there’s greater pressure on the publicly-funded health services here that were already stretched thin. Still, it would be wrong, if not hypocritical, of me to criticize often-desperate people for doing what I [and many others] likely would do in their dreadful position and if brave enough. Conveniently ignored by critics of northward mass migration is that many are fleeing global-warming-related extreme weather events and chronic crop failures in the southern hemisphere widely believed to be related to the northern hemisphere’s chronic fossil-fuel burning, beginning with the Industrial Revolution. Yet, many politicians play political games with migrants — human beings, like the rest of us — while ignoring that they can feel, be hurt and suffer like the rest of us. [I hope those politicians don't consider or call themselves Christian.] In any event, I have a hard time believing that migrants and refugees in general willfully and contently become permanent financial/resource burdens on their northern host nation. Quite likely they desire to pull their own weight via employment, even if only to prove their critics wrong. I know I'd much want to if in their shoes. But even genuine refugees are nowadays typically deemed ‘fake’ or economic refugees, especially on social media. Yet, many are rightfully despondent, perhaps enough so to work very hard in cashless exchange for basic food and shelter. Of course, all of that no longer matters when they die in their attempt at arriving. Like in January 2022, when a young family of four from India froze to death trying to access the U.S. via sub-zero southern Manitoba, Canada [near the US border].


Silvina vera

Disabilities are the samples not in physical manifestation but in the form a person is looking for to donate,sharing making charity and more and more. Philanthropy is evolving too. Not all are able to become a philanthropy. We know that. In this modern time the formule do-destroy it is a little bit archaique. Founds, money, arms of organisations are available, the most richest of the planet too. But I ask me which is the way a refugee regenerate its mind, with consciousness, healing tools, philosophy and psychology system to install the wellbeing...living in a tent...tech healing machines are necessary for to make faster more processes, without family far of home,thinking ina new life...but healing the memory...they all must to be the firsts to have the priority and to be that priority...time to be healthy is not sufficient, so wich is the true helping?


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