At a time when more than a 100 million people have fled war and conflict, and tens of millions more flee climate driven disasters, collaboration across sectors is vital. NRC’s private sector partnerships is an exchange of expertise where businesses and corporations play an important role in humanitarian response. In our shared commitment, we strive for innovative solutions to empower people who have been forced to flee, helping them build a sustainable future for themselves and their communities. Hear from our long-term partners Cisco and GRUNDFOS/Grundfos Foundation | PDJF and learn more about how we work with the private sector here: https://lnkd.in/dMwNCYe
Norwegian Refugee Council
Ideelle organisasjoner
The Norwegian Refugee Council is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee
Om oss
Flyktninghjelpen er en norsk organisasjon som hjelper mennesker på flukt over hele verden. Vi er raskt på plass der mennesker på flukt trenger oss mest. Vi vet hva som må gjøres, og vi gjør det. Vi får fram hjelpen der nøden er størst. Da vi startet hjelpearbeidet etter andre verdenskrig, var behovet enormt. Det er det fortsatt. I over 75 år har vi jobbet utrettelig for at mennesker på flukt skal overleve og bygge seg en ny framtid. Akkurat nå er vi til stede i både nye og langvarige kriser i 40 land. Der er vi en synlig og anerkjent aktør under navnet Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). Vi gir blant annet mat, husly, rent vann, rettshjelp, og utdanning. Vi står på flyktningenes side. Med erfaring, kunnskap og pågangsmot forsvarer vi rettighetene til mennesker på flukt, og varsler om urett og nød. Flyktninghjelpen er en sterk pådriver for at makthavere skal respektere flyktningers rettigheter. I tillegg driver vi Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), verdens fremste faktabase om mennesker som er på flukt i eget land. Vi samarbeider med partnere over hele verden gjennom våre folk i NORCAP som har ekspertise innen humanitært arbeid, utviklingsarbeid og fredsbygging. De jobber med lokale, nasjonale og internasjonale partnere for å finne bærekraftige løsninger for å møte behovene til mennesker på flukt. Flyktninghjelpen har 15.000 hjelpearbeidere over hele verden. En liten andel jobber på hovedkontoret i Oslo, men de aller fleste av oss jobber ute i felt. Mange har selv vært på flukt. I dag er 108 millioner mennesker på flukt fra krig og forfølgelse, et rekordhøyt antall. Ikke siden andre verdenskrig har flere trengt vår hjelp. Flyktninghjelpen hjalp nær 10 millioner mennesker verden over i 2022, og med din støtte kan vi nå ut til enda flere.
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Ekstern lenke til Norwegian Refugee Council
- Bransje
- Ideelle organisasjoner
- Bedriftsstørrelse
- 5 001-10 000 ansatte
- Hovedkontor
- Oslo
- Type
- Ideell organisasjon
- Grunnlagt
- 1946
- Spesialiteter
- Shelter, Education, Emergency Food Security and Distribution, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Sectors, Information, Councelling and Legal Assistance, Emergency Response, corporate partnerships, Refugees, Displaced People, Internally displaced people, IDP, human rights, Youth, social impact, Camp Management
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Prinsens gt. 2
Oslo, 0152, NO
Ansatte i Norwegian Refugee Council
Oppdateringer
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“We’re not implementing technology for technology’s sake, we’re implementing technology to allow us to reach more people, to allow us to be more effective and efficient, and Okta does come into that very well.” Our Chief information officer, Pietro Galli, was interviewed in Computer Weekly about cyber security in a humanitarian context, importance of data responsibility beyond mere data protection, and how our partner Okta has been key in helping our organisation become more secure and efficient in delivering our programmes. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/d9fJc-g8
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In Somalia, our agriculture project is enabling people to grow their own food using farming methods adapted to climate change, making them more self-reliant. This is giving families more to eat, improving the local economy, and making communities stronger in areas prone to extreme weather like drought and flooding. We’re seeing the farmers in Luuq district, Gedo region, successfully harvesting more crops.
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In June 2022 NRC South Sudan started an important project. They wanted to solarise our offices and guesthouses in the country. This was an ambitious project, with big challenges to overcome and a 2-year timeline. Today, we can proudly show the work of our colleagues in South Sudan, where ten offices and five guesthouses have been successfully solarised! With big climate and environmental benefits. Mercy Giteau, our Area Manager in Wau, explained the benefits, and how the frequent failure of generators - and the high cost of back-up rental units - had a negative impact on their core work of supporting those in need: "The solar installation has reduced the cost of operation therefore enabling more funds towards deliverables that benefit the project participants. It has also led to timely delivery of our programme work.” Thousands of litres of fuel, thousands of dollars in maintenance, and thousands of kilos of CO2 emissions have been saved. The hard work of colleagues in South Sudan has paid off, but also provided a step-by-step guide for other NRC teams to follow.
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NRC has made important steps to decarbonise aspects of our operations, such as through our solarisation programme. Solarisation is the first focus area of NRC’s Capital Fund, an initiative aimed at enhancing the sustainability of humanitarian operations and a mechanism for better solutions to protracted crisis. The fund combines grants and loans from private investors, institutional donors, and NRC's own reserves. Learn more about the initiative here: https://lnkd.in/dQb7EzSM
“This week I was pleased to attend the large ONS conference in my old hometown, Stavanger. It is one of the largest energy conferences in the world and I had the opportunity to outline some of the challenges facing our work in the face of climate change, caused in large part by our use of fossil fuels, on a backdrop of exploding humanitarian needs and shrinking budgets. In over four decades working on humanitarian issues, I’ve never seen so many people affected by conflict and climate driven disasters. In many places, violence and climate-related natural disasters are overlapping, with terrible consequences for those forced to flee. At NRC we are constantly assessing how to make sure we can deliver for those in need, and how our approach can evolve to best address new challenges. Making use of our expert deployment mechanism, NORCAP - part of the Norwegian Refugee Council, we collaborate with more than 50 partners around the world, pushing ourselves to pose difficult questions about our work and our ways of working. How can we ensure our project participants are safe from climate risks and environmental degradation? What could we improve in our operations or approach to minimise our environmental and climate footprint? How can we ensure that already fragile humanitarian settings are not further destabilised by climate change? How can we make sure we keep a focus on tomorrow, when needs today are exploding (and far outstripping funding)? We are working hard to strengthen our understanding of how climate is affecting displaced people and host communities, and the emerging risks on the horizon. We’ve made important steps to decarbonise aspects of our operations, such as through our solarisation programme which brings many benefits in terms of both footprint and sustainability. We’ve seen immediate benefits to some of our hardest to reach projects, in places like South Sudan, Burkina Faso, and Niger. But we’re also just getting started, and we are pressing ahead with climate-proofing NRC’s humanitarian operations, tackling key issues around accessing climate financing, and supporting projects that provide vital forecasting and early warning systems for at-risk communities. There is much work ahead, but NRC is committed to being a global voice for displaced people affected by climate change, and a source of expertise within the humanitarian field. Norwegian Refugee Council NORCAP - part of the Norwegian Refugee Council ONS
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“I was with my aunt. Suddenly someone started shooting. People screamed and ran in all directions. We managed to hide,” 12-year-old Salwa told us. There is a war raging in Sudan which we do not hear much about. Since April last year, 10.2 million people have been forced to flee their homes. Salwa managed to get to South Sudan. Read her story here: https://lnkd.in/dwNz-wQt
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In Colombia and Ecuador, we are working together with young refugees, migrants, and their host communities to strengthen social cohesion and facilitate integration. By addressing barriers to employment and entrepreneurship, these young people have secured jobs and started businesses, important steps on the road to self-reliance. We're proud of our partnership with the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation in this critical work.
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"Every time I visit a displacement site, my strength and resilience to keep going is reborn. I feel like I can survive and persevere. Every smile on a child's face is a reason to keep faith in the work I do. Something grows inside of me when I see how our education activities give hope to these children. We need them as much as they need us," says Maysa, our education officer in Gaza. 2023 was the deadliest year on record for aid workers, with 280 lives lost in 33 countries. More than half of them were killed in Gaza. Despite being the deadliest place in the world for aid workers right now, our teams there are working tirelessly on the ground to help displaced families survive.
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