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Humanitarian Exchange Magazine No. 79 - Localisation and local humanitarian action
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Humanitarian Exchange is localisation+ and local humanitarian action. Five years ago this week, donors, United Nations (UN) agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) committed within the Grand Bargain to increase multi-year investments in the institutional capacities of local and national responders, and to provide at least 25% of humanitarian funding to them as directly as possible. Since then, there is increasing consensus at policy and normative level, underscored by the Covid-19 pandemic, that local leadership should be supported. Localisation has gone from a fringe conversation among policy-makers and aid agencies in 2016 to a formal priority under the Grand Bargain. Wider global movements on anti-racism and decolonisation ha
Vaccination of frontline workers at SevenHills Hospital, Andheri
MUMBAI: Anuja Jayaraman’s father-in-law SN Subramaniam came home after 36 days of treatment at SevenHills Hospital, Andheri, last month. And even though her mother-in-law Sivakamu lost her battle with the virus after 42 days in the same hospital, Jayaraman has regained faith in the city’s public health system somewhat. “We truly believe that public health worked in Mumbai during the pandemic, she said, calling the compassion shown by doctors and nurses at SevenHills “exemplary”.
The hospital, mainly known for its legal battle with the BMC and a multi-crore insolvency plea, may have become the city’s unlikely saviour in the pandemic by handling a fifth of its Covid admissions. Last week, SevenHills completed admitting over 21,000 patients the highest by any single Covid facility in Mumbai. “We knew this was the only facility that could be readied in the minimum possible time. That decision has paid of