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Asia and Oceania |

Strengthening Protection of Children in the Maldives

The island paradise has been hard hit by the pandemic, resulting in a significant set-back for the important progress made to protect children, NORCAP expert Kate Halvorsen reports.

Woman and man wearing NORCAP-branded vests, backs towards camera, looking out at a site for asylum seekers in Thessaloniki, with the Greek flag waving in background.
Greece |

Greece: The important hidden impact

Having the right policies or procedures in place can have a life-changing impact on people’s lives. Read on to find out how NORCAP’s capacity building project contributes to improving conditions for refugees in Greece.

A woman and a man walking down a busy Beirut city street, with their backs to the camera.
Lebanon |

NORCAP expertise vital to Beirut urban response

NORCAP’s rapid support and coordination expertise ensured a critical and timely contribution to the urban response to the Beirut Port explosion, according to partner organisation UN-Habitat.

DR Congo|Cameroon |

Meet two NORCAP experts working in the world's most neglected crises

Every year, NRC publishes the list of the ten most neglected displacement crises in the world, to shine the spotlight on these forgotten emergencies. How much do we know about the worlds most neglected crises? Meet two NORCAP experts working in Democratic Republic of Congo, and Cameroon and learn more about their experiences in the crises that never make the news.

Woman walking in a compound in a rural village in Cameroon. Back turned to the camera. (Photo: Ingebjørg Kaarstad/NRC)
Cameroon |

Cameroon’s underfunded crisis hampers action for gender equality

When humanitarian crises don’t receive the level of funding allowing to meet distinct needs, attention to gender equality is far more likely to fall through the cracks, writes Delphine Brun, GenCap adviser to the humanitarian community in Cameroon.

Cameroon |

A failure to address the vulnerability of men and boys

The patchy attention given to adolescent boys and men has not allowed for understanding the gendered impact that crisis has on them. We need to expand our vision of who persons of concern should be, writes Delphine Brun, senior GenCap adviser at United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Cameroon.

Europe |

Pandemic prompts new initiatives for election observation

Covid-19 has affected democratic processes all over the world, making it more important than ever to ensure that elections are up to international standards. NORCAP’s experienced election observers usually travel around the world to observe elections, but many experts have had to work remotely or adjust their methodology to the new reality.

Global|Africa|Middle East |

Women in power: Why the clean energy shift needs a female perspective

As part of NORCAP's Accelerator Program, our five female junior energy experts are pushing for a clean energy transition. To them, women are the most important pieces of the puzzle.

Devastated buildings and cars after the explosions in Beirut, August 2020. (Photo: Racha El Daoi/NRC)
Lebanon |

Beirut: Securing property and coordination

In the aftermath of the devastating Beirut explosion last year, Lebanon continues to struggle with a number of crises. Since the blast, NORCAP experts have supported the coordination of humanitarian efforts and securing housing, land and property rights in affected neighbourhoods.

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.

Africa|Kenya|Malawi|Niger|Tanzania |

Building women's climate resilience

When droughts, floods and hurricanes strike, women are disproportionately affected. Four female NORCAP climate experts are working to counteract that, providing crucial climate information to women in rural communities in Africa.

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.

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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Moria camp on Lesvos burned to the ground
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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.

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.

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