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Reporting on humanitarian issues, watching the aid business. Whistleblowers welcome. Use open DM / ben@thenewhumanitarian.org/ WhatsApp/Signal: + 447808791267
Dec 23, 2019 13 tweets 17 min read
States that do want to fund reconstruction in Syria (most large donors do not) will find a welcoming partner in the @UN and @UNDP: @UN @UNDP The @UN, unlike the US and EU, has no sanctions on Syria. As @aronlund explains here: thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2019/…
Oct 30, 2019 19 tweets 3 min read
Syria talks open in Geneva: Government opening statement: rejects direct or indirect foreign interference.
Nov 28, 2018 9 tweets 6 min read
NEW: @Refugees in Uganda gets slammed by internal probe: irinnews.org/news/2018/11/2… With donor money, @refugees spent $14.6 million setting up Uganda’s national refugee registration system. It didn’t work. So donors had to pay another $11 million to do a new headcount.
Oct 8, 2018 24 tweets 10 min read
At 4pm UK time, an independent review of @savechildrenuk will report. Here’s what @irinnews reported earlier this year.
#MeToo #AidToo #TimesUp
irinnews.org/feature/2018/0… In a @savechildrenuk press release, responding to one of several leaks about its handling of #MeToo, review lead Suzanne Shale (@ethicsconsult) said "past events may have caused distress to staff" and "we will listen to those accounts very carefully..."