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Sep 5, 2012
More than 100,000 refugees fled Syria in August amid reports of escalated violence—the largest monthly exodus since the crisis began in March 2011, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Now more than 235,500 people have registered...
Aug 16, 2012
This morning 156,394 pounds of relief supplies headed to Bamako, Mali as part of InterAction members’ ongoing effort to address the crisis in the Sahel. The global logistics company, UPS, coordinated the effort which brought food, shelter, medical...
Aug 10, 2012
The UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated $55 million towards humanitarian interventions. Countries receiving funds in this allocation are Afghanistan, Cameroon, Columbia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Sri...
Aug 2, 2012
InterAction’s president & CEO, Samuel A. Worthington, has been honored as one of the “Power & Influence Top 50 2012” by The NonProfit Times.
For the last 15 years, The NonProfit Times has honored the lead influencers in the nonprofit sector...
Jul 24, 2012
InterAction is proud to release its 2011 Annual Report.
As InterAction President & CEO Sam Worthington wrote in his introduction, “2011 saw our community challenged by a number of external factors, including crises in Japan, the famine in the...
Jun 20, 2012
June 20 is World Refugee Day, an annual United Nations day that brings attention to the situations facing refugees around the world. This year’s theme reflects refugees’ dilemmas and the difficult decisions they must make to ensure their safety....
Jun 19, 2012
At a press conference on Monday, June 18, British Prime Minister David Cameron, along with the Australian and Canadian prime ministers, announced the launch of a new $100 million AgResults prize fund to stimulate technological agriculture...
Jun 12, 2012
Droughts and rising food prices are contributing to an escalating hunger crisis in the Sahel, a region in West Africa. More than18 million people lack access to sufficient food and more than 1 million children under the age of 5 are at risk of dying...
May 18, 2012
Ahead of the G8, President Barack Obama presented a food security partnership, The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, which aims to lifting 50 million people out of poverty in the next 10 years. The New Alliance will bring together...
May 8, 2012
InterAction member Save the Children released their 13th annual State of the World’s Mothers Report, listing the best and worst places to be a mother in the world. The report examines the well-being of mothers and children in 165 countries,...
May 2, 2012
The final session of the 2012 InterAction Forum started with a conversation with World Bank president Robert Zoellick, who discussed recent shifts at the Bank and how the institution must change to remain relevant going forward. Reflecting on his...
May 2, 2012
A recent convergence of government interest, private sector investment and available technology has renewed and highlighted the issue of clean cookstoves on the development agenda.
The panel, "Mobilize together: Collaborative NGO Innovation for...
May 2, 2012
As his World Bank presidency comes to an end, Robert Zoellick discussed his legacy and the future of the institution with InterAction president and CEO Sam Worthington.
The conversation began with Worthington asking Zoellick to reflect back on his...
May 2, 2012
Funding appeals during an emergency require nuanced messaging, a challenge which was tackled in a workshop on the final day of Forum 2012.
The Ad Council’s Tony Foleno and Jamie Corder of the Boulder-based research company Egg Strategy, presented...
May 2, 2012
The InterAction Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Working Group hosted a panel, Living on the Edge: Building Resilience in Coastal Cities, to discuss the relationship between coastal cities, disaster risk, and climate change. Moderated by Guillermo...
May 1, 2012
As technology creates a smaller world and shatters geographical borders, how does the NGO community use new technologies to its advantage? While SMS is becoming prevalent in the use of disseminating information, this workshop focused on the...
May 1, 2012
NGOs confront the challenge of promoting foreign assistance spending to a Congress faced with unprecedented economic pressures. Without a domestic constituency, the conventional wisdom says that aid funding would be easy to cut. However, as the...
May 1, 2012
Lisa Anderson, Editor of Thomson Reuters Foundation’s TrustLaw Women, Bill Warren, Vice President of Foundation Relations and Grants at National Geographic Society, and Dan Green, Deputy Director of Strategic Media Partnerships at the Bill &...
May 1, 2012
The term "new actors" is rocketing quickly to the top of the most used phrase list in the development and humanitarian sector. Its frequent use reflects the insight that the context for NGO work in the sector is changing rapidly, and one of the most...
May 1, 2012
Day two at InterAction’s Forum had an inspiring and youthful start as the morning plenary focused on youth, gender and political change. Co-sponsored by InterAction's Commission on the Advancement of Women and the Alliance for International Youth...
