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The fourth global ‘dialogue platform’ for humanitarian forecast-based financing (FbF), supported by the German government and the German Red Cross (see drk.de/en/forecast-based-financing) was hosted by the IFRC in Geneva on 13–15 December 2016. At least ten national government ministries or weather services were represented and at least 15 Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies, as well as interested UN agencies, insurance companies and other stakeholders. The meeting heard a call from Germany’s Federal Foreign Office for other donors to jointly support the innovative humanitarian methodology over the next few years. IFRC Under Secretary General for Programmes and Operations, Garry Conille, who visited the platform on its third day, said “we are extremely excited about forecast-based financing” and looking at how to work it into the IFRC system. The twice-yearly dialogue platforms gather governments, meteorologists, climate scientists, humanitarians and donors as part of the German action plan for humanitarian adaptation to climate change. FbF is being piloted by the Red Cross Red Crescent with German support in Bangladesh, Mozambique and Peru (Federal Foreign Office), and in Togo and Uganda (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development), with the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre providing technical advice. The methodology is also being piloted by the World Food Programme in Bangladesh, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Nepal, and together with its own Norwegian-supported ‘FoodSECuRE’ programme in the Philippines, in addition to (under FoodSECuRE) Guatemala, Niger, Sudan and Zimbabwe. Recent WFP research has shown that early humanitarian response could “trigger positive feedback loops that reduce humanitarian costs as well as disaster impacts,” the Geneva platform heard. (Photo credit: Greta Aubke/German Red Cross)
The delegates from the Southern Africa workshop in Malawi with their facilitators Lt Col Mary Capsey and Elise Belcher
My DSLR was broken and recently repaired. I was asked to take some pictures of my friend's new grandbaby and discovered an SD card full of pictures from 2017. I love when that happens!
2007 Airshow @ the historic Floyd Bennett Field site. Kodak Elite Slides
Minolta XE-7 w/Vivitar 20mm
This plane took care of a few Japs with some 50mm diplomacy.
Laura Evangelista Alvarado Cardozo, conocida como la Madre María de San José, o simplemente como Madre María, es una Beata de la O.S.A de la Iglesia Católica que nace el 25 de abril de 1875, en Choroní municipio del Distrito Girardot, en el Estado Aragua, (en aquel entonces conocido como Estado Guzmán Blanco), en Venezuela. Existe cierta discusión con su segundo nombre, ya que algunos afirman que se llamaba Laura Elena Alvarado Cardozo pero por una tradición religiosa de aquella fecha se les asignaba a los muchachos al nacer o poco tiempo después, el nombre del Santo en el día en el que nacieron y por lo tanto ella recibió el nombre de Evangelista.
45mm - ISO 200
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OEV - FBF
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