InterAction NGO Futures Digest: October 9, 2020
InterAction’s NGO Futures initiative accelerates NGOs’ ability to adapt, evolve, and affect sustainable change through offerings, including this NGO Futures Digest. Nominate content to NGO Futures program director Deborah Willig. Collaboration encouraged.
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COVID-19 poses a new set of challenges to organizations’ safeguarding efforts. Practice these tips:
- Engage with communities to understand the efficacy of safeguarding measures.
- Use a survivor-centered approach when developing and adapting safeguarding measures.
- Take extra precautions with online interactions.
- Use multiple platforms when communicating PSEAH and safeguarding policies.
- Remain flexible with NGOs and implementing partners.
Five pandemic lessons for managing uncertainty:
- Get project management basics in place.
- Embrace trial and error to manage challenges.
- Explore the hard questions that affect your future.
- Build on the upsides.
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Thirty-six organizations call for greater leadership fighting COVID-19 in the US and abroad, noting a 15% increase in children living in poverty since the beginning of the pandemic and a possible 82% increase in the number of people living in acute food insecurity around the world.
The OECD released States of Fragility 2020, examining the dramatic impact COVID-19 is having on fragility, builds the case for coherence across the humanitarian, development, and peace nexus, and explores what it means to work effectively in fragile contexts.
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International Medical Corps’s Yemen team cultivated local community backing for a new strategy for those facing the greatest risk of contracting COVID-19: elderly, disabled, and chronically ill Yemenis in crowded displacement camps. While the concept makes sense on paper, implementation has been challenging. Read how they developed buy-in.
The Norwegian Refugee Council Secretary-general shares that the knock-on effects are providing more devastating than COVID-19 itself, how society is creating a lost COVID generation, and points to an opportunity for political leadership.
Emphasizing that the efficacy of COVID-19 responses depends on understanding how marginalized people are affected, CARE shares data analysis from across nearly 40 countries and the voices of more than 6,000 women, and provides recommendations to inform a more equitable, effective COVID-19 response, and an equal future for everyone.
COVID-19 has caused an economic shock three times worse than the 2008 financial crisis. Still, the worst could be behind us, and a greener economy could emerge after the pandemic, according to the Chief Economist at HIS Markit, on the WEF podcast World vs. Virus.
The process of decolonization will involve multiple stakeholders — old and new partners, a new way of thinking, and a radical approach toward the redistribution of power, according to panelists in this Devex conversation.
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Scanning the Horizon, Exploring Complex Potential Futures – Part II: Strategic Decision-Making in a Whirly World, focusing on the past six months of interconnected trends and their impacts on the sector. October 13-15, three two-hour sessions | Register HERE.
Future of Sustainability: From System Shock to System Change, immersive event on five dynamic system shifters and tipping points set to influence the decade ahead, and a set of possible trajectories forward from the system shock created by the COVID-19 crisis. October 15, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET | Register HERE.
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