Our Family Frontline Fund is a new approach to delivering emergency aid – to local organisations in our network, who are already on the ground, working in the communities, delivering aid in the midst of sudden disasters. As summed up by our CEO Amanda Griffith: "Climate change is leading to a whole raft of emergencies such as wildfires, flooding, droughts and hurricanes, whilst conflicts are on the rise. However, these aren’t always large-scale national emergencies. In fact they are often localised events. As a result they don’t trigger a national let alone an international response. It is often the most vulnerable and marginalised communities that are impacted hardest by these events. The result is further hardship, loss of livelihoods and homes, disrupted education, health risks and poor mental health etc.. Local organisations already working in these communities are used to pivoting to these new contexts. They switch to providing blankets, food, psychosocial support, access to education materials and mobile health services for example." Support the Family Frontline Fund here: https://lnkd.in/eQeqDwTR #EmergencyAid #ClimateChange #UrgentAid #ProtectChildren #FamilyForEveryChild #DisasterAid #ChildrenInCrisis
Climate change is leading to a whole raft of emergencies such as wildfires, flooding, droughts and hurricanes, whilst conflicts are on the rise. However, these aren’t always large-scale national emergencies. In fact they are often localised events. As a result they don’t trigger a national let alone an international response. It is often the most vulnerable and marginalised communities that are impacted hardest by these events. The result is further hardship, loss of livelihoods and homes, disrupted education, health risks and poor mental health etc.. Local organisations already working in these communities are used to pivoting to these new contexts. They switch to providing blankets, food, psychosocial support, access to education materials and mobile health services for example. As we saw with COVID, local organisations are uniquely placed to respond rapidly to emergencies and disasters, they have the relationships with the communities so they are the first to be alerted to the emerging needs, they speak the local language and they know how the local and national systems function and have networks with all the local actors. This means they can instigate a timely and appropriate response. However so often they do not have access to resources to fully respond. If it is a major disaster they have to wait for the national and international humanitarian machinery to kick into action. Despite the Grand Bargain and a lot of discussions about localisation, the local organisations may not be part of these large scale disaster response mechanisms and risk being marginalised once a response is mounted. Many times the disaster doesn’t lead to a national or international response and the local organisations struggle to repurpose their resources to respond as best they can. To test a new approach we. are launching a Frontline Fund. This will be available to the local organisations who are members of our alliance to access. The aim will be to get funds to the frontline as quickly as possible, especially for smaller scale responses. We believe this will demonstrate that local leadership makes all the difference. To find out more visit our website https://lnkd.in/ePP8H7E4 We would love to hear about other truly local emergency response initiatives.