Thursday 22 July, 2021
Blog | blog | Disaster response | English | Haiti | Latin America & the Caribbean | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Preparedness | Refugees and forced migrants
The GSMA Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Fund aims to promote innovation in the use of mobile technology to address humanitarian challenges. The first round of the Fund focused on providing support to help to test or scale innovative ideas which support responses to natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies. This blog post shares three key lessons from our project with Mercy Corps Haiti in partnership with Viamo: Communities in Haiti Access New Technologies for Early Warning/Response (CHANTER).
The GSMA provided grant funding to Mercy Corps to enable them to support communities by limiting loss of income, better protecting households and reducing the risk of physical harm from natural hazards, which are becoming increasingly frequent in Haiti.