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Global |

Five green NORCAP initiatives from 2020

NORCAP has continued to expand work on clean energy and climate issues this year, knowing how vital this is to both present and future livelihoods. Here are five green highlights from 2020.

Global|Cameroon |

Gender-based violence beyond the crises

As seen with the covid-19 pandemic, gender-based violence is often exacerbated by crises. But in order to combat violence towards women and girls, we need to address the underlying causes that were already in place before emergency struck, writes Delphine Brun, senior GenCap adviser at OCHA Cameroon.

NORCAP Head office staff, Elise Luhr Dietrichson, Helen Kape Peters and Eirin Ulleberg visiting a refugee camp in northern Uganda, 2018. (Photo: Emile Ntempera/NORCAP)
South Sudan |

Nobel Peace Prize to WFP: "Giving people emergency food is only the beginning"

“We must work to make people less dependent on food aid and more self-sufficient”, says Helen Kape Peters in NORCAP. Helen, who herself has experienced food insecurity as a refugee, believes this is one of the most important issues facing Nobel Peace Prize winner World Food Programme (WFP), and partners such as NORCAP, in the coming years.

Mali |

Teachers and peace promotion in Mali

Despite the various challenges they face, teachers are showing an incredible dedication to their profession, writes Leandro Salazar-Lievano, our education expert deployed to UNHCR Mali.

Local staff at NRC Regional office in Mankien now have access to solar power 24/7.
South Sudan |

Greening humanitarian operations – one solar panel at the time

NRC South Sudan is replacing their old diesel generators with renewable energy assisted by NORCAP. They encourage the humanitarian sector to follow their example.

Photo of election observer and inclusion analyst Øyvind H. Seim looking into the camera while working on a computer from his garden with flowers in the background.
Global|Myanmar |

Election observation during the pandemic

Political analyst and NORCAP expert Øyvind H. Seim was supposed to be in Myanmar for the general elections this fall. But with the Covid-19 travel restrictions, election observers have to find new solutions.

NORCAP experts have helped set up the new camp on Moria, after fires destroyed the previous camp. We also have a site planner on the island, supporting coordination and setting up water tanks and sewage facilities. (Photo: NORCAP/Alkisti Mavraki) September 2020
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Lesvos
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Moria camp on Lesvos burned to the ground
Top photo with information and photo of solar power system in Africa.
Africa |

New report: EmPowering Africa's most vulnerable

"This report shows that change can happen", says Secretary General of NRC, Jan Egeland, about the new report on the opportunities for solar power in Africa by NORCAP and Boston Consulting Group.

Some schools in northern Colombia use white flags in areas affected by armed conflict. (Photo: Milena Ayala/NRC)
Colombia |

Colombia's long road to peace

The country’s 2016 peace agreement promised an end to 50 years of civil war, but a change of government and the humanitarian crisis in neighbouring Venezuela threaten to undermine its provisions. NORCAP supports the UN in the region in providing a comprehensive response to help the parties navigate the complex crisis.

NORCAP Executive Director, Benedicte Giaever, talking to a local aid worker in the world's biggest refugee camp, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. (Photo: Ingrid Prestetun/NRC)
Global |

Immediate Covid-19 support to partners

Adapting current assistance to ensure continued support to vulnerable communities, along with taking care of staff and experts have been NORCAP’s main priorities in the Covid-19 response.

Global |

NORCAP Annual Report 2019

NORCAP solves challenges in the humanitarian, development and peace-building sectors in order to better protect vulnerable people’s lives and rights. We build partnerships, promote more effective ways of working and provide skilled experts to develop capacity.

NORCAP-expert Patric Mansour standing in front of temporary shelters in the Moria refugee camp on Lesvos. (Photo: NRC/Tiril Skarstein)
Greece |

Providing dignity on a daily basis

When he started his mission in 2015, Patric Mansour was faced with one of the largest refugee influxes to Europe in modern times. Four years on, refugees and migrants are still crossing the Mediterranean for safety in Greece and Mansour believes it is high time for Europe to take responsibility.

Statistician and NORCAP-deployee Marte Ragnhild Owren Claussen was on deployment to the Joint IDP Profiling Service (JIPS) in Geneva in 2019. (Photo: NORCAP/Ida Sem Fossvik)
Ukraine |

From business statistics to statistics on forced displacement

In August 2019, NORCAP-deployee Marte Claussen took a break from her job at Statistics Norway to work on statistics linked to refugees and internally displaced people, at the Joint IDP Profiling Service (JIPS).

A local vendor, selling small items, walking through the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. The Rohingya are not allowed regular jobs in Bangladesh, so they have to find other ways to support themselves. (Photo: NORCAP/Ida Sem Fossvik)
Bangladesh |

Long-term solutions for the Rohingya response

Two years after the people of the Rohingya minority fled Myanmar, 900.000 refugees are trying to rebuild their lives in neighbouring Bangladesh. NORCAP experts support the humanitarian response and our projects target some of the most critical gaps in the assistance.

Ricardo Lobo, CashCap expert in Beira, Mozambique, talking to Elisa Pedro Manuel Malaua, who have just received her vouchers at a WFP distribution, as a response to the Cyclone Idai crisis in March 2019. (Photo: NORCAP/Ida Sem Fossvik)
Global |

CashCap: Connecting global discussions to communities in need

The use of cash and vouchers in humanitarian and development contexts has been steadily increasing in the last five years. CashCap is an active contributor to this trend, promoting cash in global and regional discussions as well as in the field . Three CashCap experts explain why working on all three levels is essential.

Global |

Implementing 1325: Challenges and opportunities

While supporting the implementation process of the UN Security Council Resolution (SCR) 1325 on Women, Peace and Security in the OSCE-area, it became clear to Ewa Sapiezynska what challenges she had to address in order to achieve change.

NORCAP expert Collison Lore Winga walking with a maize farmer in a maize field in Bura, Taita Taveta.
Africa|Kenya |

How local radio boosts climate change adaptation

In the Horn of Africa, local radio stations provide updates on entertainment, sports and health, so why not weather and climate too?

Officer stands in front of a decommissioned weapons.
Philippines |

Handing over weapons: M.I.L.F. combatants commit to peace in the Bangsamoro

The ceremonial presentation of over 1,000 decommissioned M.I.L.F. combatants and their weapons marked a new milestone in the Bangsamoro’s historical peace process. Experts from NORDEM continue to play key roles in the operation.

Women shakes hand man presenter her a birth certificate for her baby at a mobile birth registration exercise.
Kenya |

Documentation opens doors for Kenya's stateless Shona community

Ending statelessness by 2024 is an ambitious goal, but NORCAP expert Sadiq Boateng is closing the gap with efforts to recognise Kenya’s stateless Shona people.

NORDEM study programme delegates from Bosnia and Herzegovina inspect voting booths in the Oslo City Hall polling station.
Norway |

Too much of a good thing? Observers both impressed and concerned by amount of trust in Norwegian elections

Election practitioners from five countries were impressed with the professionalism, transparency and trust in Norwegian local elections, but warn that too much trust can be risky.

Small shacks on a hill behind a bridge where people walk over a swamp area in the Cox's Bazar camp.
Bangladesh |

Calling for a durable and inclusive response two years after the Rohingya mass exodus

In the days following August 25, 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees fled their homes in Myanmar for Bangladesh. In the two years since, continued efforts to protect the Rohingya community from climate hazards in overcrowded camps have resulted in a prolonged emergency response. Now, affected communities must be included to secure durable solutions.

Syrian refugees at Souda camp, Chios, Greece, 2017. (Photo: NRC/Pål Nesse)
Europe|Greece |

Urgent action needed in Greece to save lives before winter sets in

“Ten thousand asylum seekers are now living in cramped conditions in a camp that was designed for 3,500 people. With no proper accommodation or even sleeping bags to face the fast approaching winter, the safety of these desperate people is now at risk”, says Benedicte Giæver, Executive Director of NORCAP.

In April 2014 in Liberia, a UNICEF worker in the city of Voinjama, in Lofa County, distributes posters bearing information on the symptoms of Ebola virus disease and best practices to help prevent its spread. (Photo: NORCAP)
DR Congo |

Fighting Ebola in DRC: Convincing people is key

NORCAP experts working with the Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo believe their most important task is to convince the communities of the severity of the epidemic.

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