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InterAction’s document library is a resource for and by the NGO community and our partners. It includes reports, press releases and advocacy materials. Search by document type, issue area and country to explore.
Feb 25, 2013
Dublin-based international humanitarian organization Concern Worldwide has announced that its new CEO is Dominic MacSorley. Prior to this appointment, MacSorley served as the Operations Director of Concern Worldwide US, an independent New York City-based affiliate of Concern Worldwide. He succeeds Tom Arnold, Concern’s CEO since 2001 who recently announced his resignation to chair Ireland’s historic Constitutional Convention.
Feb 22, 2013
This week's update includes the latest on sequestration, the summary of a hearing on Mali and a list of recommended articles.
Feb 21, 2013
InterAction teamed up with a number of partners, including CARE, Catholic Relief Services, the International Rescue Committee, Mercy Corps, Refugees International and World Vision and many others to urge the White House and Congress to rethink the amount of resources provided for foriegn aid, emphasizing that the funds allocated for 2013 were already stretched thin.
Feb 20, 2013
Current funding levels for Fiscal Year 2013 for international humanitarian assistance are insufficient to meet escalating humanitarian needs, said leading NGOs in letters sent this week to U.S. lawmakers and the administration.
Feb 20, 2013
Current funding levels for Fiscal Year 2013 for international humanitarian assistance are insufficient to meet escalating humanitarian needs, said leading NGOs in letters sent this week to U.S. lawmakers and the administration.
Letter To OMB Acting Director From 40 Organizations Supporting U.S. Humanitarian Assistance Accounts
Feb 20, 2013
In this letter, 40 NGOs urge Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Jeffrey Zients to take steps to increase the humanitarian accounts to levels approved by the relevant Senate committees for FY2013, as the current Continuing Resolution expires. Should another Continuing Resolution be passed, the organizations say, these accounts should be adjusted to reflect needs which have increased dramatically from when the FY 2012 Consolidated Appropriations Act was passed by Congress on December 23, 2011.Several emergencies have intensified over the course of the current year and present new needs that were not anticipated when the President sent his FY 2013 budget to Congress on Monday, February 13, 2012, according to the letter.
Letter To OMB Acting Director From 40 Organizations Supporting U.S. Humanitarian Assistance Accounts
Feb 20, 2013
In this letter, 40 NGOs urge Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Jeffrey Zients to take steps to increase the humanitarian accounts to levels approved by the relevant Senate committees for FY2013, as the current Continuing Resolution expires. Should another Continuing Resolution be passed, the organizations say, these accounts should be adjusted to reflect needs which have increased dramatically from when the FY 2012 Consolidated Appropriations Act was passed by Congress on December 23, 2011.Several emergencies have intensified over the course of the current year and present new needs that were not anticipated when the President sent his FY 2013 budget to Congress on Monday, February 13, 2012, according to the letter.
Feb 20, 2013
In this letter, 40 NGOs urge U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns to take steps to increase the humanitarian accounts to levels approved by the relevant Senate committees for FY2013, as the current Continuing Resolution expires. Should another Continuing Resolution be passed, the organizations say, these accounts should be adjusted to reflect needs which have increased dramatically from when the FY 2012 Consolidated Appropriations Act was passed by Congress on December 23, 2011.Several emergencies have intensified over the course of the current year and present new needs that were not anticipated when the President sent his FY 2013 budget to Congress on Monday, February 13, 2012, according to the letter.
Feb 20, 2013
The 40 organizations that signed this open letter are urging Congress to ensure that funding levels approved for the remainder of Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 are commensurate with humanitarian need. There is deep concern that current resource levels for humanitarian assistance are not sufficient, which will prove harmful to both U.S. interests and millions of vulnerable people requiring lifesaving assistance.Humanitarian needs resulting from conflicts and natural disasters around the world have increased dramatically over the course of the last year. "With more people displaced by conflict around the world than at any other point in the last 15 years, we simply cannot afford to step back our humanitarian assistance programs now," the letter reads.
Feb 20, 2013
Almost two years after the uprising in Syria began, Sarah Adams, MCC representative for Syria and Lebanon, and a friend in Syria discuss the realities of the current conflict.
