At a time when more than a 100 million people have fled war and conflict, and tens of millions more flee climate driven disasters, collaboration across sectors is vital. NRC’s private sector partnerships is an exchange of expertise where businesses and corporations play an important role in humanitarian response. In our shared commitment, we strive for innovative solutions to empower people who have been forced to flee, helping them build a sustainable future for themselves and their communities. Hear from our long-term partners Cisco and GRUNDFOS/Grundfos Foundation | PDJF and learn more about how we work with the private sector here: https://lnkd.in/dMwNCYe
Norwegian Refugee Council
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The Norwegian Refugee Council is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee
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Flyktninghjelpen er en norsk organisasjon som hjelper mennesker på flukt over hele verden. Vi er raskt på plass der mennesker på flukt trenger oss mest. Vi vet hva som må gjøres, og vi gjør det. Vi får fram hjelpen der nøden er størst. Da vi startet hjelpearbeidet etter andre verdenskrig, var behovet enormt. Det er det fortsatt. I over 75 år har vi jobbet utrettelig for at mennesker på flukt skal overleve og bygge seg en ny framtid. Akkurat nå er vi til stede i både nye og langvarige kriser i 40 land. Der er vi en synlig og anerkjent aktør under navnet Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). Vi gir blant annet mat, husly, rent vann, rettshjelp, og utdanning. Vi står på flyktningenes side. Med erfaring, kunnskap og pågangsmot forsvarer vi rettighetene til mennesker på flukt, og varsler om urett og nød. Flyktninghjelpen er en sterk pådriver for at makthavere skal respektere flyktningers rettigheter. I tillegg driver vi Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), verdens fremste faktabase om mennesker som er på flukt i eget land. Vi samarbeider med partnere over hele verden gjennom våre folk i NORCAP som har ekspertise innen humanitært arbeid, utviklingsarbeid og fredsbygging. De jobber med lokale, nasjonale og internasjonale partnere for å finne bærekraftige løsninger for å møte behovene til mennesker på flukt. Flyktninghjelpen har 15.000 hjelpearbeidere over hele verden. En liten andel jobber på hovedkontoret i Oslo, men de aller fleste av oss jobber ute i felt. Mange har selv vært på flukt. I dag er 108 millioner mennesker på flukt fra krig og forfølgelse, et rekordhøyt antall. Ikke siden andre verdenskrig har flere trengt vår hjelp. Flyktninghjelpen hjalp nær 10 millioner mennesker verden over i 2022, og med din støtte kan vi nå ut til enda flere.
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http://www.nrc.no
Ekstern lenke til Norwegian Refugee Council
- Bransje
- Ideelle organisasjoner
- Bedriftsstørrelse
- 5 001-10 000 ansatte
- Hovedkontor
- Oslo
- Type
- Ideell organisasjon
- Grunnlagt
- 1946
- Spesialiteter
- Shelter, Education, Emergency Food Security and Distribution, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Sectors, Information, Councelling and Legal Assistance, Emergency Response, corporate partnerships, Refugees, Displaced People, Internally displaced people, IDP, human rights, Youth, social impact, Camp Management
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Prinsens gt. 2
Oslo, 0152, NO
Ansatte i Norwegian Refugee Council
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In Somalia, our agriculture project is enabling people to grow their own food using farming methods adapted to climate change, making them more self-reliant. This is giving families more to eat, improving the local economy, and making communities stronger in areas prone to extreme weather like drought and flooding. We’re seeing the farmers in Luuq district, Gedo region, successfully harvesting more crops.
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In June 2022 NRC South Sudan started an important project. They wanted to solarise our offices and guesthouses in the country. This was an ambitious project, with big challenges to overcome and a 2-year timeline. Today, we can proudly show the work of our colleagues in South Sudan, where ten offices and five guesthouses have been successfully solarised! With big climate and environmental benefits. Mercy Giteau, our Area Manager in Wau, explained the benefits, and how the frequent failure of generators - and the high cost of back-up rental units - had a negative impact on their core work of supporting those in need: "The solar installation has reduced the cost of operation therefore enabling more funds towards deliverables that benefit the project participants. It has also led to timely delivery of our programme work.” Thousands of litres of fuel, thousands of dollars in maintenance, and thousands of kilos of CO2 emissions have been saved. The hard work of colleagues in South Sudan has paid off, but also provided a step-by-step guide for other NRC teams to follow.
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NRC has made important steps to decarbonise aspects of our operations, such as through our solarisation programme. Solarisation is the first focus area of NRC’s Capital Fund, an initiative aimed at enhancing the sustainability of humanitarian operations and a mechanism for better solutions to protracted crisis. The fund combines grants and loans from private investors, institutional donors, and NRC's own reserves. Learn more about the initiative here: https://lnkd.in/dQb7EzSM
“This week I was pleased to attend the large ONS conference in my old hometown, Stavanger. It is one of the largest energy conferences in the world and I had the opportunity to outline some of the challenges facing our work in the face of climate change, caused in large part by our use of fossil fuels, on a backdrop of exploding humanitarian needs and shrinking budgets. In over four decades working on humanitarian issues, I’ve never seen so many people affected by conflict and climate driven disasters. In many places, violence and climate-related natural disasters are overlapping, with terrible consequences for those forced to flee. At NRC we are constantly assessing how to make sure we can deliver for those in need, and how our approach can evolve to best address new challenges. Making use of our expert deployment mechanism, NORCAP - part of the Norwegian Refugee Council, we collaborate with more than 50 partners around the world, pushing ourselves to pose difficult questions about our work and our ways of working. How can we ensure our project participants are safe from climate risks and environmental degradation? What could we improve in our operations or approach to minimise our environmental and climate footprint? How can we ensure that already fragile humanitarian settings are not further destabilised by climate change? How can we make sure we keep a focus on tomorrow, when needs today are exploding (and far outstripping funding)? We are working hard to strengthen our understanding of how climate is affecting displaced people and host communities, and the emerging risks on the horizon. We’ve made important steps to decarbonise aspects of our operations, such as through our solarisation programme which brings many benefits in terms of both footprint and sustainability. We’ve seen immediate benefits to some of our hardest to reach projects, in places like South Sudan, Burkina Faso, and Niger. But we’re also just getting started, and we are pressing ahead with climate-proofing NRC’s humanitarian operations, tackling key issues around accessing climate financing, and supporting projects that provide vital forecasting and early warning systems for at-risk communities. There is much work ahead, but NRC is committed to being a global voice for displaced people affected by climate change, and a source of expertise within the humanitarian field. Norwegian Refugee Council NORCAP - part of the Norwegian Refugee Council ONS
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“I was with my aunt. Suddenly someone started shooting. People screamed and ran in all directions. We managed to hide,” 12-year-old Salwa told us. There is a war raging in Sudan which we do not hear much about. Since April last year, 10.2 million people have been forced to flee their homes. Salwa managed to get to South Sudan. Read her story here: https://lnkd.in/dwNz-wQt
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In Colombia and Ecuador, we are working together with young refugees, migrants, and their host communities to strengthen social cohesion and facilitate integration. By addressing barriers to employment and entrepreneurship, these young people have secured jobs and started businesses, important steps on the road to self-reliance. We're proud of our partnership with the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation in this critical work.
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"Every time I visit a displacement site, my strength and resilience to keep going is reborn. I feel like I can survive and persevere. Every smile on a child's face is a reason to keep faith in the work I do. Something grows inside of me when I see how our education activities give hope to these children. We need them as much as they need us," says Maysa, our education officer in Gaza. 2023 was the deadliest year on record for aid workers, with 280 lives lost in 33 countries. More than half of them were killed in Gaza. Despite being the deadliest place in the world for aid workers right now, our teams there are working tirelessly on the ground to help displaced families survive.
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Last week I travelled to Colombia to better understand the impact that eight armed conflicts with multiple armed gangs are having over increasing swathes of the country. Colombia is a place I have engaged with for decades, my interest stemming from time there as a relief volunteer aged 19. Since then, I have been to this fascinating, beautiful and deeply troubled nation many times and with different roles, including as the United Nations' Special Envoy to the country during the peace process in 1999-2002. When I visited for the fist time on behalf of NRC, 10 years ago, my abiding memory was that of people’s belief in a peaceful future for their country. Today, however, Colombia is losing its grip on the hard-won peace agreement with the FARC in 2016. Civilian populations are paying a heavy price. NRC staff there work tirelessly to provide hope and support for the millions internally displaced by conflict and vast numbers of people transiting the country in search of safety and a better future to the North. But a rising tide of violence is dominating life for millions of people, and increasing numbers are living in areas controlled by armed gangs. Since 2021 that number has soared: today almost 8.4 million Colombians live in these zones of conflict. I travelled initially from Bogotá to Necoclí on the Northern Coast close to Panama, before visits to the conflict zones along the South-West coast. In Necoclí I saw how NRC is providing basic supplies to migrants and refugees – including single mothers with children – embarking on the perilous trek throught the dense Darien jungle. The Darien Gap is their only route north, and consists of almost 100km of steep and dangerous terrain, with the constant threat from armed groups, wild animals, and a near total absence of any kind of assistance. Last year, more than half a million people risked their lives on this route north. Some of the communities suffering most in Colombia are in areas where access is incredibly challenging. We visited Olaya Herrera in the South West, where vulnerable indigenous tribes and Afro Colombian communities spoke of being forced from their homes time and time again. One woman I met – Carmen, from an indigenous community – spoke about the constant threats and violence, and how she felt her indigenous heritage was being destroyed. Many such places can only be accessed via remote boat journeys of many hours, but NRC staff are committed to ensuring that these hard to reach and out of sight communities are not left in isolation. As an organisation too we are deeply committed to this region. We have recently opened a new Regional Office in Bogotá, as our base for Latin America. We will use this new hub to advocate for the needs of communities, call for sustained humanitarian funding, and work to protect civilians and ensure that they can find peace and security at home. Norwegian Refugee Council NORCAP - part of the Norwegian Refugee Council United Nations
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Being a humanitarian is a job like no other. In Nigeria, millions of people are in need of aid. Our colleagues work each day to get that aid to people who need it. This week we celebrate the important work of aid workers all over the world. #WorldHumanitarianDay