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Flavie Halais is a freelance journalist based in Montreal, Canada. She has reported internationally for various outlets including The Guardian, Le Monde Afrique, Jeune Afrique, The Correspondent and Devex, and currently writes about cities for WIRED.

Flavie’s work investigates how global identities express themselves through politics and culture. She has written at length about informal settlements, foreign aid, migration, cities and poverty. Her multiplatform project Refugee Economics, backed …

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Making Public Transit Fairer to Women Demands Way More Data

Making Public Transit Fairer to Women Demands Way More Data

Transit agencies may feel uneasy about sharing such information. Indeed, media coverage has focused on the in…

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Cities Race to Slow Climate Change-and Improve Life for All

Cities Race to Slow Climate Change-and Improve Life for All

Looking back on it, 2019 was the year the "climate emergency" was declared, and while many countries have res…

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Rio's Defunct Gondola Tells a Tale of Transit Style Over Substance

Rio's Defunct Gondola Tells a Tale of Transit Style Over Substance

Visitors landing at Rio de Janeiro's Galeão International Airport are greeted by a spectacular skyline that i…

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Gentrification under Trudeau's nose: how his electoral district is struggling with evictions

Gentrification under Trudeau's nose: how his electoral district is struggling with evictions

Parc-Ex, one of Canada's poorest areas and part of Justin Trudeau's riding, has just welcomed a new Universit…

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Los refugiados urbanos quedan fuera de la ayuda internacional

Los refugiados urbanos quedan fuera de la ayuda internacional

En su taller de costura, escondido en un edificio comercial del centro de Kampala, capital de Uganda, Alice (…

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'They call him the millionaire': the refugee who turned his camp into a business empire

'They call him the millionaire': the refugee who turned his camp into a business empire

It's a sweltering afternoon in the Kakuma refugee camp, and workers are busy loading crates of Coca-Cola bott…

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Why mental health is the missing link in responses to climate change

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| Devex
Extreme weather events caused by climate change, and man-made environmental degradation such as deforestation can have devastating consequences on the mental health of the communities immediately affected and beyond. But the link is rarely discussed in the siloed worlds of public health and climate agencies. Some organizations are trying to understand this by taking an interdisciplinary approach.
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Weathering the storm: Building resilience in the humanitarian sector

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By Flavie Halais Verified
| Devex
From climate-related disasters to health crises and armed conflicts, humanitarian crises are intensifying both in scale and frequency. The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on health, economic, and food systems; the growing impacts of climate change on extreme weather events and associated food and water shortages; and the increasingly protracted nature of conflicts have placed millions more people in situations of vulnerability.
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Weathering the storm: Building resilience in the humanitarian sector

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“What’s interesting is that the only funding that helped was unrestricted,” he said. “That is the money that did the magic during that time.” A recipient of the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize in 2018, SHOFCO directed the funds toward growing its capacity by hiring core staffers and improving its impact measurement processes, Odede said. This allowed the organization to build credibility in the eyes of international donors, which still helps the organization secure funding, he added.
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