Activations

Supporting earthquake affected healthcare facilities in northwest Syria by repairing medical equipment locally. Assisting healthcare and technical staff in the maintenance of medical devices to ensure their functionality

Providing contextual data on information, communication and dialogue. Improving responders’ ability to include affected people in decision making, engage with all stakeholders in planning, identification and mitigation of risk, and supporting communication infrastructure recovery.

Enhancing data and information sharing among Syrian actors, including Syrian diaspora organizations and national NGOs, as well as between local and international humanitarian actors. Enhancing knowledge by documenting the role of diaspora in the response and the DEMAC coordination model through an after-action and real-time review.

Completion of a scoping mission to embed perception work in the response processes from an early stage and design a longterm mixed-methods perceptions tracking approach. Conducting qualitative research to inform the response with the views of affected people and frontline workers.

Informing short and long term response measures to communicate the needs of affected communities by sharing their stories and amplifying their voices.

Supporting the operational post-earthquake response in Türkiye to deliver aid that meets quality and accountability standards in line with the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS).

Empowering engineers to provide safe, effective and suitable support to the humanitarian response in northwest Syria, as well as strengthening locally led training initiatives and on-ground engineering training capacity.

Building NGO capacity to mitigate challenges in food delivery. The project develops an understanding of how conflict dynamics put aid delivery and staff at risk and how prediction and mitigation strategies can strengthen the acceptance of aid interventions.

Improving the accessibility and quality of information on the drought’s impact on the Kenyan population while providing remote sensing and regional analysis across the drought-affected areas in the Horn of Africa. This will support informed evidence-based decision-making for humanitarian stakeholders.

Setting up a pilot groundwater monitoring programme at critical water sources across the Horn of Africa. The project aims to support drought alert systems which is key to understanding what resources are available and how they are being impacted by abstraction and climate.

Supporting effective, local drought response and resilience of affected populations through a capacity strengthening programme in Kenya and Somalia, together with the local partner Somali Lifeline Organization. Over 130 stakeholders will be supported in areas such as drought management and resilience planning, gender-sensitive responses, and community engagement.

Working with REACH to make language and communication data available for targeted humanitarian assistance and engagement of marginalized language communities in Somalia. Guidance on communicating across dialects of Somali, based on consultation with experts on the Somali languages and society in collaboration with Minority Rights Group International will also be developed.

Providing technical support to strengthen collective solutions to challenges in communication, community engagement, and accountability (CCEA) in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. The capacity of CDAC will be formally seconded to the regional Accountability to Affected People (AAP) working group while supporting the protection working group to catalyze change in the response.

Providing analysis of the current situation of the drought in the Horn of Africa and providing anticipatory analysis of the likely future impacts of the drought in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia.

Design and develop a ready-to-roll-out learning path “MEAL CHS - Quality and Accountability in practice” to be delivered online to field-based staff to help them implement Quality and Accountability commitments in crisis response.

‘Humanitarian Making’ for Everyone – a Mobile App. The humanitarian system’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has seen many aid agencies – international and local – start to make their own aid supplies such as PPE, or find new ways to support local stakeholders to produce these supplies. Field Ready will develop and publish its procedures and tools for the local production of appropriate quality aid supplies, based on its years of innovation and learning in this emerging space. The app will help everyone, anywhere to get ready for the next humanitarian emergency by helping them to make aid supplies – and to do it well.

Building bridges in surge capacity for Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA) by developing SOPs and tools for humanitarian responders, locally based individuals and companies experienced in CEA to act as centres of community engagement excellence and coordination.

Rapid Onset Localization Team (ROLT): a team of experienced regional experts and trainers fully trained, able to engage in their region on short notice, with access to a knowledge base and equipped with a series of short training modules aimed at incorporating local actors into humanitarian response.