Medair International Humanitarian Aid Organisation

The Medair nutrition team also carries out regular mass Mid Upper Arm Circumference Measurement (MUAC) screening, where they visit ... Commitment 7 of the Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS) states: “Communities and people affected by crisis can expect delivery of ...

In June last year Medair, one of our member organisations, averted a deadly cholera outbreak in South Sudan by timely response that addressed the needs of communities. Medair in South Sudan. Medair has been present in Renk since 2011, providing integrated health, nutrition, and water, sanitation, and ...

Following the experience of the Humanitarian community in responding to the two L3s, the Haiti earthquake and the Pakistan floods in 2010, the IASC ... The cluster coordination responsibility was transferred to WHO and NGO MEDAIR in 2014 for a period of one year, however it came back to UNICEF ...

Medair's work in Lebanon is made possible with support from Swiss Solidarity, EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid, Global Affairs Canada, Gebauer Foundation (CH), UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, EU Madad Fund and generous private ...

Highlights. • The Logistics Cluster, in close collaboration with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC), OCHA and UN agencies coordinated four InterAgency Humanitarian Convoys to besieged and hard-to-reach locations in Aleppo, Homs and Rural Damascus. • As part of the East Ghouta response, the ...

In an amazing coincidence, one of the physiotherapists who attended Medair's training session happened to be the SARC emergency team member who had ... Medair's work in Syria is supported by EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the Syrian ...

The objective is to assess the current humanitarian situation and possible response options. ... and training to national and frontline staff from Action Contre la Faim (ACF), Medair, UNICEF, and Ministry of Health (MOH) was successfully conducted on 6 to 16 March at the four selected nutrition sites.

For three years, aid workers had been providing relief to families as they fled from armed groups in Hawiga, Iraq. Medair knew that many families were still suffering inside the city, but we were unable to reach them. In 2017, Medair and the humanitarian community were advised that fighting was anticipated ...

The Logistics Cluster continues to provide Information Management and coordination for humanitarian trucks reaching Qamishli and Deir-ez-Zor by road ... The Logistics Cluster stored 401 m³ of newly received humanitarian goods in the common storage facilities in Rural Damascus on behalf of Medair, ...

For the past 20 years, the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Madeleine lives, has been the center of one of the world's worst humanitarian crises — and ... Mercy Corps — working with Medair and the Danish Refugee Council — led the UNICEF-funded, "Rapid Response to Movements of Populations" ...

NGO-community Afghanistan calls for action to ensure the protection of aid workers following the attack on Non-Governmental Organizations in Jalalabad ... In 2017, through the support of NGOs alongside other humanitarian actors, well over 3.4 million people across Afghanistan received food, water, ...

For the last year, Medair, an MCC partner in Afghanistan, with support from the Government of Canada's Global Affairs department, has delivered child nutritional supports to people like Shakeb to address the high levels of malnutrition and preventable illnesses in Afghanistan. Mothers too get nutritional ...

Emergency relief organisation Medair is in Bangladesh responding to the Rohingya crisis with shelter and hygiene kits distributions to the most vulnerable refugees. ... The international NGO has identified Thaingkhali, a spontaneous settlement south of Kutupalong Camp, as one of the less-served areas.

... coordinated and effective use of UAVs in a wide range of humanitarian and development settings.” The Code of Conduct was reviewed by international agencies, such as United Nations/OCHA, WFP, UNHCR, DPKO, ICRC, ECHO, American Red Cross, MedAir, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, Cadasta, ...

In addition, the NGO MEDAIR has concluded its project funded by the DRC Humanitarian Fund that provided emergency health response to vulnerable populations in Komanda and Oicha health zones affected by insecurity triggered by armed groups. Also, over 27,000 returnees, IDPs and members of host ...

The Netherlands and the United Kingdom respectively pledged US$3 and $6 million to the DRC Humanitarian Fund to support the humanitarian response in the Kasai region. This new ... On 01 July 2017, the NGO Medair started an OFDA-funded healthcare project which will end on 31 December 2017.

Medair has been working in Syria since 2015, providing shelter, health care, and safe water to families living in Rural Damascus, Aleppo, and Homs Governorates. We work alongside other humanitarian organisations on the ground to coordinate our assistance and provide support to as many families as ...