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Reports to: Sudano-Sahel Regional Director Location: Nairobi (Kenya) Organization Background: The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a US non-profit, tax-exempt, private organization established in 1895 that saves wildlife and wild places by understanding critical issues, crafting science-based solutions, and taking conservation actions that benefit nature and humanity. With more than a century of experience, long-term commitments in dozens of landscapes, presence in more than 60 nations, a...

46 REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- Twenty-two employees across the Army Materiel Command enterprise are receiving recognition for missions they accomplished in the fourth quarter of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021. The employees, including logistics management specialists, contracting officers and program analysts, received AMC’s Employee of the Quarter honors for their work going above and beyond to meet deadlines and exceed expectations. They represent AMC’s “best of the b...

Background: LWF and LWF World Service LWF World Service is the humanitarian and development arm of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF). LWF is a global communion of churches shaped by the insights of the Lutheran Reformation. Founded in 1947, LWF envisions a just, peaceful, and reconciled world. LWF affirms the dignity of every human being, and this forms the basis of its understanding and practice of human rights and diakonia (service to others). Today, World Service is a widely recognized, i...

This role can be based in Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia or South Sudan. As Regional Emergency Director (RED), you will provide strategic and operational leadership to building emergency response capacity and implementing high quality responses in the East Africa Region. In close collaboration with technical and operational counterparts, you will advise and guide decision making for Country, Regional and Emergency and Humanitarian Action Unit (EHAU) leadership around where, when, an...

Reports to: Regional Director, EMECA Department: Regional Leadership - Indirect About CRS Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and pe...

24 May 2021 Please note: The location of this post is flexible and can be in any country where the IRC has an office. The successful candidate will be appointed as a local/national staff member and must already have the right to work in the country where s/he will be based. The IRCs Emergencies and Humanitarian Action Unit The IRC’s Emergencies and Humanitarian Action Unit (EHAU) oversees IRC’s global acute emergency preparedness and response activities. The mission of the EHAU is to expand...

(Niamey, Niger) Helen Keller International is a global health organization dedicated to eliminating preventable vision loss, malnutrition and diseases of poverty. Cofounded by Helen Keller – and guided by her fierce optimism and belief in human potential – the organization delivers life-changing health solutions to vulnerable families where the need is great but access to care is limited. In the US, Africa, and Asia, Helen Keller’s proven, science-based programs empower people to create o...

January 23, 2021 Africa needs timely access to safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines. — courtesy WHO/Christopher Black GENEVA — Africa is in danger of being left behind in the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines as countries in other regions strike bilateral deals, thus driving up prices, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday. Although vaccines have been administered in 50 wealthier nations, Guinea is the sole low-income country on the continent to receive doses...

news WHO says vaccine hoarding could derail Africas fight against COVID-19 , © Provided by N.C.N. Limited A medical staff collects blood sample for COVID-19 test in Yaounde, Cameroon, Aug. 3, 2020. (Xinhua/Jean Pierre Kepseu) The fight against COVID-19 pandemic in Africa could suffer setbacks amid inadequate access to vaccines occasioned by hoarding by rich nations, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. NAIROBI, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- The fight against COVID-19 pandemic...

By Sean Hawkey, photographer | 13/1/2021 LWF Honduras representative Carlos Rivera (with white face mask) visits Chamelecón, Honduras, to look at damage done by hurricanes Eta and Iota. As the flooding came unexpectedly fast many people lost all their belongings. All Photos: Sean Hawkey Honduras after the hurricanes I’ve worked in Honduras over many years since the late 90s, working in emergency response and as a photojournalist. Recently I went to visit som...