Delighted to share The Forgotten Faces, featuring deeply moving and incisive poetry from the brilliant Peter Kidi and the artistic talent of Victor Ndula. Available here: www.lse.ac.uk/africa/asset... @africaatlse.bsky.social

"Policies are drafted about us but never with us. Aid is designed like architecture above our heads, and when it collapses, we are the ones buried in the rubble.' For #FP2P we spoke to poet and refugee Peter Kidi about his life and his art. frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/i-started-wr...

"The last meal" by Peter Kidi, who is a South Sudanese poet and activist, born and raised in Kakuma refugee camp. A central theme of the poem, reflecting the focus of #WorldRefugeeDay2025, is solidarity, a concept that takes on different meanings. ⬇️ blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/...

On World Refugee Day 2025, Peter Kidi has written a deeply personal poem offering a first-hand perspective on the realities of humanitarian aid cuts. Peter is an incredibly talented young poet writing from Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. Here is his poem, The Last Meal: tinyurl.com/ymhswtpj

A really interesting and helpful article. When aid to a refugee camp gets cut/is volatile: 1) Hunger gets worse, especially if disbursement of remaining aid is delayed; 2) The informal credit system collapses; 3) Food prices fall with reduced demand, partly mitigating the aid cut shock

🆕 What happens when humanitarian aid is cut or delayed? Today on VoxDev, Vittorio Bruni (University of Oxford) & Olivier Sterck (University of Antwerp) demonstrate how aid cuts are having dramatic impacts on food security in one of the world's largest refugee camps: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention. 🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg

"If we have a protracted situation where this is what we can manage, then basically we have a slowly starving population," says Felix Okech, the WFP's head of refugee operations in Kenya. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Several transit centres in Uganda are operating at >500% capacity despite ongoing conversations about repatriation. The scale of congestion and water stats are particularly concerning given that #UNHCR just deprioritised WASH and Health activities

As indicated by @wfp.org Uganda “Malnutrition has reached critical levels (15% +) in refugee reception centres, and general food rations have been cut by up to 80%"

The government is discussing forced repatriation. The aid infrastructure in Uganda has been at breaking point for a long time - this is the culmination of years of neglect

Uganda hosts 1.8 million refugees. New arrivals continue. Owing to aid cuts, WFP have cut another 1 million from ongoing monthly assistance (which wasn't much to start with). www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

There's been plenty of hyperventilating in some UK media outlets about solar farm taking over 'productive farm land' and endangering food security But in fact the ambitious 2030 targets will cover only 0.4% of land, compared with golf courses covering 0.5% www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

"If your humanitarian mission dies when the money dries up, it was never a mission, it was a business." Opinion by Micheal Gumisiriza, a humanitarian practitioner working with refugee-led organisations in Uganda.

“Paramilitaries in Sudan have murdered more than 200 civilians in a wave of attacks in displacement camps and around the city of El Fasher, the last big city still in the hands of the Sudanese army in the Darfur region.”

Malnutrition is a crisis we can solve—if we act now. From stunting to obesity, poor #nutrition fuels inequality, instability & lost potential. But integrated solutions are working. Read Afshan Khan's latest op-ed on 👇 🔗 www.fairplanet.org/op-ed/malnut...

This will be an especially difficult year to tell the difference between fake bullshit and actual bullshit this April Fool's Day

I’ve written a piece for @africasacountry.bsky.social about the liberal humanitarian sector’s response to the recent USAID cuts and reformist efforts to defend - what has always been - an unequal system ⬇️

My new article ‘Mission Impossible? Humanitarian Actors and the Civilizational Logic of International Aid Delivery during the “Congo Crisis,” 1960–1964’ is now open access with Humanity. Worth checking out for the photos, if nothing else. Here is (most of) the abstract. muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Nearly 3M HIV deaths due to foreign aid cuts, study forecasts Researchers warn that decades of progress in HIV treatment and prevention could be undone. Claudia Chiappa for @politico.eu ✍️ www.politico.eu/article/near...

From household health surveys on the ground to satellite images taken from space, the vast information networks that inform the humanitarian system are teetering on the brink of “collapse” as a result of the US government budget cuts. ⬇️

✨ Writing from the Nutrition for Growth summit #N4GParis. ✨ DYK that malnutrition costs the global economy US$3.5 trillion a year? 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲-𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆: We all benefit from a well-fed world. @lseblogs.bsky.social @lseimpactblog.bsky.social @duncangreenlse.bsky.social

Looking for impact? Think about food. Charlotte Brown on today's Activism, Influence and Change blog blogs.lse.ac.uk/activism-inf...

⏰ Starting soon at 10 CET/5 EDT! Chief Program Officer Shawn Baker moderates an #N4G session on Integrating Nutrition into Health and Social Protection Systems: Towards Sustained Impact. 🎤 💻Watch the live stream: vist.ly/3myerhw @ScalingUpNutrition

A key theme emerging from the #N4GParis CSO Pavilion this week was the question of how we can think more holistically about addressing global nutritional deficits - Professor David Luke's upcoming edited volume responds directly to this question @africaatlse.bsky.social

"There are staggering numbers of people facing malnutrition. We hope that our analysis of the connections between food security, agricultural policies, trade, and climate will help drive reform." - Professor David Luke (@africaatlse.bsky.social) 🔗Read in full: www.lse.ac.uk/research/res... #RftW

in all seriousness: one of the most important philosophical questions of our time

❗Dr Laurence Grummer-Strawn @who.int at #N4GParis demands attention to systemic barriers. 'Teach a man to fish' assumes that the man doesn't know how to fish. What if there are commercial fishing trawlers that destroy the lake? There might not be any fish left to find❗

🗣️ Alia Poonawala Private Sector Engagement Lead, @gavi.org: "It is not about cost-cutting - it is about strengthening the entire system and viewing it more holistically." Funding immunisation-nutrition-integration must be a priority at the upcoming Gavi replenishment.

If we are to #EndTB, we must first break the stigma. If we are to break the stigma, we must first dispel the myths. #WorldTBDay

Ayooshee Dookhee @kofiannanfdn.bsky.social 📢 Food is not just a tradable commodity. Food is a global public good #N4Gparis

Malnutrition decreases vaccine efficacy Limited immunization increases malnutrition Making the case for immunisation-nutrition-integration --> thinking holistically delivers more impact #N4Gparis

Francesca Erdelmann of World Food Programme: We need more than anthropometric data, we need to understand contexts + remember the importance of local foods - foods that grow well in the relevant climates #N4GParis

🗣️ Patricia Young, Director of Moving Minds Alliance: "There’s an urgent need for integrated approaches… children in crisis settings and those who care for them face compounding challenges."

It is worth remembering that the Famine Early Warnings System Network is still offline (another casualty of USAID closure) This is a vital data sharing tool for nutrition systems #N4Gparis

The power of play for ECD... and yet, high on the list of things most likely to be cut in the current funding climate. #N4Gparis

Awurabena Quayeba health and nutrition technical manager World visionGhana Important intervention on the role of play in improving nutrition outcomes for children undergoing treatment for malaria @worldvisioneu.bsky.social #N4Gparis

A lot of emphasis on engaging community health workers for sustained impact on nutrition in displacement contexts - they do hugely important work, rarely are they given the resources to do their work effectively, much less compensated for their roles #N4Gparis

Yvonne Manka'ah IRC national nutrition advocacy coordinator Burkina Faso - Social workers can be trained in best approaches for ECD but they are overworked, lacking time and resources so cannot implement these approaches #N4GParis Case worker to children at risk ratio in Uganda 1:229 in march 2024

Tricia Young, Director of Moving minds alliance Humanitarian architecture is part of the problem - works against systems approach even though we know malnutrition and undernutrition have cumulative effects across sectors and over time #N4Gparis

*Prevention essential for improvements in nutrition outcomes* As funds are cut, we cannot only focus on treatment in conflict zones Dan Irvine @worldvisionuk.bsky.social #N4Gparis

Despite being preventable, nearly 1 in 4 children under 5 are permanently stunted by #malnutrition – that’s 148 million kids. 🌍 By providing the right nutrition support at the right time, we can help ensure all children have the foundation for a healthier future. 💜🤍 #March4Nutrition

Starting off this exciting week of #N4GParis at the #CSOPavilion!

Ahead of #N4GParis, we joined 15 renowned chefs in signing a letter urging the UK Gov to prioritise high-impact solutions for tackling global malnutrition. Today we handed the letter into 10 Downing Street. It’s time for action. Read the letter: bit.ly/3Q0b9jU

Refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, protesting water shortages and hunger yesterday were met with bullets and teargas www.eyeradio.org/kenya-police...

People are starving. The longer this goes on, the worse it will get. It will have multi-generational consequences. The Nutrition for Growth Summit in Paris next week is a call to action for ambitious financial and political commitments. Governments must act now.