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Training SH+ facilitators from the Ministry of Health Training SH+ facilitators from our partner INGO
The realities of implementing Self-Help Plus – what have we learnt so far?
Grantee insights
Humanitarian Innovation
Service provider workshop in Manta, July 2022, where key insights from the study were shared with representatives from organizations responding to the Venezuelan migration crisis.Figure: Sample sizes in each of the three countries where data was collected.A discussion of the study’s key findings with a group of Venezuelan community members in Peru, July2022.
USING A SENSEMAKING APPROACH TO DOCUMENT GENDERED MIGRATION EXPERIENCES FOR VENEZUELAN WOMEN AND GIRLS IN LATIN AMERICA
Grantee insights
Humanitarian Innovation
Queen�s University student, Nour Bakhache, piloting a SenseMaker survey with Syrian women Lebanon May 2016 Credit: Colleen Davison
The Double-edged Sword: How technology can provide new ways of responding to gender-based violence (GBV) but also creates new forms of harm
Elrha insights
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Signpost for the Sweswe Water Treatment Plant, Kyaka II, Uganda (Photo Credit: Gabrielle String)
Kyaka II – Testing new territory for the SWOT in Uganda
Grantee insights
Humanitarian Innovation
Disaster Response Team members and volunteers transporting material across Mandakini River on the way to Kunjethi village, Rudraprayag district, Uttarakhand state, with relief materials (tents, black boards, stationery items) for a school damaged by a flood.
Going global: How to scale an innovation from local success to international impact
Elrha insights
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Effective emergency preparedness depends on inclusion
Grantee insights
Humanitarian Innovation
Lessons from a (mostly) failed research project: the challenge of studying misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic
Elrha insights
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Children in Maridi, South Sudan
Scientific evidence‚ policy change‚ and progress: tackling onchocerciasis and nodding syndrome in South Sudan
Grantee insights
Humanitarian Research
Hamza*, 12, sits in his hospital bed during rounds at the MSF trauma hospital in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, November 29, 2011. He suffered a fractured pelvis after being struck by a taxi. Dr. Martin John Jarmin III (left) conducts daily rounds in the in-patient ward. The MSF hospital opened in August, 2011 and provides surgical care and physical therapy. It is the only trauma center of its kind in the region. *Name has been changed|Abdallah*, 12, undergoes exercises in a specially-equipped physical therapy room at the MSF trauma hospital in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, November 29, 2011. Daoud suffered a serious leg fracture in a car accident and receives regular physical therapy due his prolonged hospitalization. The hospital opened in August, 2011 and provides surgical care and physical therapy. It is the only trauma center of its kind in the region. *Name has been changed
Encouraging patients after trauma in humanitarian settings to get moving again
Grantee insights
Humanitarian Research
Funding for research partnerships: time to think bigger?
Elrha insights
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Pakistan floods: innovations and guidance for the response
Elrha insights
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Using a Human-Centred Design Approach to developing M&E tools: A report from South Sudan
Grantee insights
Humanitarian Innovation
Innovation: what does the State of the Humanitarian System report say?
Elrha insights
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Five years on: investigating the needs of Rohingya refugees through five research studies
Elrha insights
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Lessons from a pandemic: how researchers overcame the challenges of COVID-19
Elrha insights
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PIONEER workshop with members and management - ASBPIONEER workshop with members and management - ASB
Takeaways from the Localisation of Inclusive Humanitarian Partnerships
Grantee insights
Humanitarian Innovation
Dissemination workshop held by the Research and Grants Institute of Ghana as part of their project focusing on engaging women with obstetric fistula induced incontinence.
A Spotlight on Disseminating Research Findings on Obstetric Fistula Induced Incontinence AND WASH Programming
Grantee insights
Humanitarian Innovation
Amel Association staff provide health services to Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Photo credit: Amel Association|||||
Funding rapid research in a pandemic — what did the research tell us? PART TWO
Elrha insights
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Soup distribution during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in Gaza City in April 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Funding rapid research in a pandemic — what did the research tell us? PART ONE
Elrha insights
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The evidence grows, but does better humanitarian response follow?
Elrha insights
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REACH enumerators conducting data collection for the 2019 CAR Multi-Sectoral Needs Assessment. Photo credit: IMPACT Initiatives.
Five factors that make for successful research in a pandemic
Elrha insights
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Introducing R2HC Project and Sharing R2HC Pamphlet in Camp Health Committee Meeting (18.Feb.2022). Photo: IRC
Responding to the need for Non-communicable Disease care for refugees
Elrha insights
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outh Disaster Response Teams, trained by the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) and the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), support early warning via grassroots observation. Image Credit: PragyaLogging a landslide risk during heavy rainfall in the DMS Himalaya App (in development and trials phase). Image Credit: PragyaAutomated weather monitoring stations installed as part of the DMS Himalaya network. Image Credit: Pragya
Improving Early Warning in the Remote Himalayas
Grantee insights
Humanitarian Innovation
The queue of people getting their cash assistance is long but orderly and fast.
Answering ‘the million dollar question’: how do we ensure evidence on community needs and perceptions is used in humanitarian response?
Elrha insights
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HEAL Africa staff sign handover agreements for tablets for MediCapt - PHRParticipants in a September 2021 MediCapt training, practice using the app - PHR
Innovative E-Health Tool Scales to the Democratic Republic of the Congo: MediCapt launches at HEAL Africa in Goma‚ DRC
Grantee insights
Humanitarian Innovation
All 15 retailers, Mercy Corps staff, Ecoca East Africa staff, and Pesitho staff - Cerlina Glud, Pesitho A sales site stocked fully with ECOCA units - Nikki Kaasgaard, Pesitho MC staff interviewing potential retailers - Gerald Butele, Pesitho Retailers doing flip-learning on the relationship between usage of the ECOCA and solar energy - Cerlina Glud, Pesitho MC staff inspecting purchased shelfs - Gerald Butele, Pesitho Staff from Ecoca East Africa supervising retailers that are disassembling an ECOCA - Cerlina Glud, Pesitho
ECOCA end-to-end: Establishing a retailer network
Grantee insights
Humanitarian Innovation
Ana y Alex are recipients of cash transfers and have an enterprise selling steamed corn cakes (aka humitas).
How Cash Assistance Can Help Survivors Recover from Gender-Based Violence
Grantee insights
Humanitarian Innovation
Health Systems & Services
COVID-19
Artificial intelligence and emerging technologies
Non-communicable diseases (NCD)
Mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS)
Undernutrition and food insecurity
Inclusion of people with disabilities and older people
Locally-led innovation
Scaling innovation
Gender-based violence (GBV)
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)

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