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Tech for Good
5 lessons for investing in humanitarian tech
From supporting local teams to setting the right metrics for success, here's what UNICEF has learned from five years of investing in humanitarian tech.
Humanitarian Action
Here's how governments can help mobile phones become a humanitarian lifeline
Mobile phones can help vulnerable communities access support during COVID-19 - but too many are still excluded from this vital technology. Here's what needs to change.
Lebanon
This is how different countries are supporting Lebanon after the Beirut explosion
Following the explosion in Lebanon's capital, Beirut, on 4 August, multiple countries and international organizations have offered their assistance.
Humanitarian Action
On World Refugee Day, a look at how COVID-19 is affecting refugees and asylum seekers
Ahead of World Refugee Day, Young Global Leaders and Global Shapers discussed how to support refugees and asylum seekers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Great Reset
Refugees: the entrepreneurs that society must support
COVID-19 is affecting the livelihoods of refugees, many of whom only had savings to last them a few days.
COVID-19
How unity and common purpose can help us defeat this virus
Each of us, from CEO to frontline worker, has a role to play in fighting COVID-19 - and by working together, we can emerge stronger and better connected.
COVID-19
Why social entrepreneurs are critical to our response to and recovery from the COVID-19 crisis
The Schwab Foundation will host the newly launched COVID Response Alliance for Social Entrepreneurs, to help social innovators respond to the pandemic.
COVID-19
COVID-19: Using cash payments to protect the poor in Pakistan
Initial reports suggest this approach has provided some stability and may help alleviate some of the expected economic damage from coronavirus.
COVID-19
5 ways to help the world's most vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship is helping social innovators respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's how you can chip in, right now.
Drones
Medicines from the sky: how drones can save lives
In a disaster, drones have the potential to enable faster and safer delivery of critical medicines and vaccines, bypassing any infrastructure affected.
COVID-19
'Death on an appalling scale’ – David Miliband on the threat of COVID-19 to refugees
Without urgent international action the coronavirus crisis will be rampant among the world's most vulnerable in weeks, warns David Miliband, CEO and President of the International Rescue ...
COVID-19
How to reform NGO funding so we can deal with threats like COVID-19
The pandemic threatens charities’ cashflow meaning they may have to lay off staff just when they are needed most. Here’s what we can do to tackle that
Humanitarian Action
The threat of coronavirus in Africa flags a deeper crisis of global solidarity
Self-isolating may be impossible in developing countries. But this public-health catastrophe in the making is the result of nations remaining isolated from each other for too long.
COVID-19
COVID-19 poses a dramatic threat to life in conflict zones
The world’s most vulnerable countries lack the medical facilities to deal with the inevitable onslaught of coronavirus.
Global Risks
4 global news stories that have been overshadowed by the coronavirus crisis
From swarming locusts to the warmest winter on record in Europe and Asia, here are some important stories you may have missed.