Some believe there’s a “sick” culture that infects caregiving sites. Today’s podcast looks back on some unsavory things that went on behind the scenes among those who responded to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa four years ago.
International aid workers talk about the depth and effects of the white savior complex in that community, but this podcast is useful for more broadly reconsidering structures and behaviors of exclusion and subjugation in charitable work. If you don’t have time to listen to this powerful piece right now, make sure you download it for later listening!
A report by the UK International Development Committee finds a culture of self-delusion and denial bordering on complicity regarding rampant sexual abuse towards staff and aid beneficiaries.
Watch NPQ’s senior investigative correspondent Amy Costello, in conversation with a former aid worker and a leading researcher, discussing the components and dynamics in humanitarian aid organizations that can lead to an enabling environment ripe for sexual harassment and assault.
This story is part of a series that exposes the failure of the humanitarian aid sector to protect and support its staff in the wake of widespread sexual assault.
ORIGINAL REPORTING FOR PRI’s THE WORLD: This story was reported by Amy Costello, Senior Correspondent and Investigations Editor at NPQ, and was originally broadcast on March 8, 2018.
Instead of hoping for a revival of Live Aid, the people of Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia, and Nigeria need a new call to action.
The Financial Action Task Force agrees that de-risking may drive financial transactions underground and increase money laundering and terrorist financing risks.
In Kazakhstan’s capital city, the various forces fighting in Syria agreed to establish “de-escalation zones” where aid can reach citizens and refugees can contemplate return.
Derisking, a banking practice based on theoretical terrorist financing concerns, increases risk for many nonprofits, especially international aid organizations, and has real impact on humanitarian efforts.
