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Remittances
– money sent home by migrants – are an important
part of many people’s lives around the world. In disasters,
they can play a particularly important role in peoples’
survival and recovery strategies. Despite
this, humanitarian actors often fail to consider remittances
in assessments and response design – a neglect that
reflects a broader tendency to undervalue the capacities of
crisis-affected populations.
Remittances
during crises, the latest report from ODI’s Humanitarian
Policy Group, argues that humanitarian actors could do much
more to explore the complementarities between emergency relief
and peoples’ own efforts to support friends and family
in times of crisis. This could take the form of helping to
replace lost or destroyed identity cards which are needed
to collect money; working with the private sector to rapidly
re-establish access to telecommunications so that people can
phone home; even setting up internet cafes in displacement
or refugee camps.
At
this ODI event, the lead author of the report, Kevin Savage,
will present its findings. This will be followed by presentations
from Anna Lindley and Helen Young, both of whom contributed
to the report by providing country case studies on Darfur
and Somalia respectively.
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Details and Application
If
you would like to attend, please send an email with your name,
organisation and contact details to the address given below.
To download a copy of the report and learn more about this
project, please visit the web pages.
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