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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. ....
The assassination of Haiti's president may worsen its response to COVID-19 opendemocracy.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from opendemocracy.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
News Alert: Mercy Corps Haiti Prepares for Hurricane Elsa, First of the Season Format Mercy Corps’ Haiti team is preparing for Hurricane Elsa, the first official hurricane of the Atlantic hurricane season, as it strengthens and is projected to pass over the southern part of Haiti on Saturday. The majority of people in southern Haiti live on less than $2 a day. Haiti’s coastal areas are affected by heavy deforestation, and are especially prone to flooding and landslides. Today we are launching SMS alerts to 7,500 Haitian families around Port-au-Prince to help people prepare, with messaging around shelter locations, where to meet family if separated, how to protect homes and how to keep important documents safe. ....
PORT-AU-PRINCE A lingering constitutional crisis in Haiti that has triggered protests, unrest, and bureaucratic chaos is overshadowing the country’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout – and fanning a vaccine hesitancy that has also led to fewer immunisations against preventable diseases. “What we see from recent data is that there is a huge drop in acceptance of injections,” Yves Sassenrath, country director of the United Nations Population Fund, or UNFPA, told The New Humanitarian. “The immunisation sector is being hit in Haiti by lack of trust in the health system, misinformation, access issues, fear – in terms of violence – and fake news.” Haiti already had weak immunisation participation for vaccine-preventable diseases – such as diphtheria and tuberculosis – before the pandemic, but recent frustration with the government is driving up resistance to COVID-19 vaccines, aid workers from at least three organisations told TNH, referring to reports they ha ....
GSMA | COVID-19 and digital humanitarian action: Trust and the uptake of information gsma.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gsma.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.