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David Nicholson, Chief Climate Officer, gives four opportunities for the private sector to enhance #AnticipatoryAction via Business Fights Poverty: ⚠ Invest in Early Warning Systems 💲 Support Pre-Disaster Financing 📝 Advocate for Policy Change 🔄 Enhance Resilience in Supply Chains

📅 Join Alessandra De Guio, our Senior Advisor - Humanitarian Capacity, alongside a stellar panel of experts from Africanofilter, The New Humanitarian, CDP Foundation this Thursday for VOICE's Decolonising #Humanitarian Action event. 📍 Brussels 🔗Register: voiceeu.org/activities/voi…


Mercy Corps welcomes the new European Commission. We call on 🇪🇺 Commissioner Hadja Lahbib to ✔️continue decisive action to respond to #humanitarian crises ✔️ scale up responses in #Gaza, #Sudan, #Ukraine ✔️ ensure funding is allocated based on humanitarian principles and needs.

Onze projectleider Eva Lia volgde #COP29 in Bakoe met een feministische blik, met leden ActionAid Nederland @bothends.bsky.social @CARE_Nederland Mondiaal FNV Mercy Corps Netherlands Milieudefensie New Women Connectors Oxfam Novib Simavi WECF international. Lees haar terugblik: ow.ly/qJwr50UgFsl

How can global organizations better support locally led climate resilience? 🌱 Alongside speakers from the @IKEAFoundation, the Netherlands Food Partnership, and ROAD, we explored this topic during an evening in #Amsterdam. 📹See what climate experts had to say! #Localization #ClimatePossible

🇪🇺 Mercy Corps welcomes the new European Commission and President Ursula von der Leyen's recommitment to #humanitarian aid & development. Communities in fragile contexts at the intersection of conflict, #ClimateChange, need to be prioritized. Read our statement: europe.mercycorps.org/en-gb/press-ro…



We need your vote 🗳 Our film, DREAMS for Refugees, is nominee in this year’s Charity Film Awards. Just a couple of clicks can help get us to the judging round and it’s completely free. 💛 Vote here: ow.ly/Jlky50UrUrf #CharityFilm #CFA25

Seeds of hope in Kassala, Sudan! Through our SOMOUD program in partnership with World Food Programme, @MercyCorps is distributing 12,000 bags of wheat seeds (60kg each) to 4,727 farmers.




At Mercy Corps we will continue to support communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis & work w/our partners to accelerate efforts to scale up climate finance & help build a climate-resilient future for all. My statement: mercycorps.org/press-room/rel…

"Many families who lost their homes cannot afford to rebuild with their own money...Funding for #Lebanon — already limited — has been largely directed towards emergency humanitarian assistance rather than long-term rebuilding." — Elie Yaacoub, @MercyCorps via The New Humanitarian

🗳 Do you have a moment? We'd love your vote for our film, DREAMS for Refugees, to become a finalist in this year’s Charity Film Awards Charity Film Awards 🎬 💛 Please watch our film and vote here: ow.ly/Jlky50UrUrf #CharityFilm #CFA25


🚨 “The escalation of violence toward Bukavu raises fears of even greater displacement, while the breakdown of humanitarian access is leaving entire communities stranded without support,” —Rose Tchwenko, @MercyCorps Country Director, #DRC via The Associated Press apnews.com/article/congo-…

💶💚 How can climate finance meaningfully reach women & marginalised groups? Learn from concrete examples from Nepal, with our members from Mercy Corps Netherlands. Join this session on climate finance and gender equality in person or online! 🎟ow.ly/Chix50VCf8V
