BEMA TALKS. Disaster Relief. Is there a need for an African Descent NGO to address Disaster Relief and Planning?

As the number of disaster and crisis events are increasing globally is there a need for an African Descent NGO to immediately address the needs, cultural competencies, and other cultural issues on the continent?

Accounting and finance of such an endeavor will be a key factor.

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Accounting and Financial Management Pooled Funding – How Can NGOs Engage? Are you aware of the different pooled funding mechanisms accessible directly to NGOs? This curriculum provides an overview of pooled funding mechanisms including Country Based Pooled Funds, the START fund, and the NEAR network’s pooled funding mechanism. Guest experts from OCHA, Oxfam, and COAST Bangladesh address current challenges and opportunities for NGO access to pooled funds. This is the third topic in a series on Demystifying Humanitarian Financing developed by ICVA in partnership with PHAP: The Humanitarian Financing Landscape – Realities and Trends for NGOs UN Humanitarian Funding – Demystifying NGO Access Pooled Funding – How can NGOs Engage? Bilateral Funding – Trends, Challenges and Opportunities for NGOs Private Funding – A Growing Source for NGOs? (coming soon) The Grand Bargain (coming soon) This curriculum will soon be available in French and Arabic.   Start Learning Accounting and Financial Management Bilateral Funding – Trends, Challenges and Opportunities for NGOs International humanitarian assistance from bilateral donors has doubled in the past decade. This curriculum provides NGOs a general understanding of bilateral humanitarian funding streams and trends, including the Grand Bargain reforms and the increasing relevance of emerging donors. This is the fourth topic in a series on Demystifying Humanitarian Financing developed by ICVA in partnership with PHAP: The Humanitarian Financing Landscape – Realities and Trends for NGOs UN Humanitarian Funding – Demystifying NGO Access Pooled Funding – How can NGO’s Engage? Bilateral Funding – Trends, Challenges and Opportunities for NGOs Private Funding – A Growing Source for NGOs? (coming soon) The Grand Bargain (coming soon) This curriculum will soon be available in French and Arabic.

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BEMA TALKS. DEVELOPMENT Mission or systems approach to development

Why do we still hear of 'missions' in the 21st Century to under-served communities throughout the world?

Thought of the day.

Mission, or systems approach to development, and self-sustainability?

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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mission

Definition of mission

1. 1obsolete :  the act or an instance of sending
2. 2a :  a ministry commissioned by a religious organization to propagate (see propagate 3b) its faith or carry on humanitarian work organized a missionto the heathen nativesb :  assignment to or work in a field of missionary enterprisec (1) :  a mission establishment (2) :  a local church or parish dependent on a larger religious organization for direction or financial support Spanish missions in Californiad missions plural :  organized missionary worke :  a course of sermons and services given to convert the unchurched or quicken Christian faith a preaching mission
3. 3:  a body of persons sent to perform a service or carry on an activity: such asa :  a group sent to a foreign country to conduct diplomatic or political negotiations a member of a trade missionb :  a permanent embassy or legationc :  a team of specialists or cultural leaders sent to a foreign country served on a mission to improve agricultural methods
4. 4a :  a specific task with which a person or a group is charged Their mission was to help victims of the disaster.b (1) :  a definite military, naval, or aerospace task a bombing mission a space mission (2) :  a flight operation of an aircraft or spacecraft in the performance of a mission a mission to Marsc :  a preestablished and often self-imposed objective or purpose statement of the company's mission
5. 5:  calling, vocation Her mission was to be a teacher.