Welcome to CENFACS’ Online Diary!
28 June 2023
Post No. 306
The Week’s Contents
• Season of Happiness 2023 in the Context of Weak Economic Upturn
• Creations and Innovations to Win the Battle against Crises: Appeals to Triumph the Battle against Humanitarian Crises (from Week Beginning Monday 26/06/2023)
• The Victims of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Forgotten Crisis Need your Influence
… And much more!
Key Messages
• Season of Happiness 2023 in the Context of Weak Economic Upturn
2023 Season of Happiness or Life Satisfaction will be passed in the conditions of weak economic upturn following the lingering effects of the coronavirus disaster and the continuing cost-of-living crisis. These conditions are those described by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in its Economic Outlook of June 2023. According to the OECD (1),
“The global economy is showing signs of improvement but the upturn remains weak, amid significant downside risks… However, core inflation is proving persistent and the impact of higher interest rates is increasingly being felt across the economy”.
For example, in the UK the base interest rate is now 5% while the UK’s annual inflation rate currently sits at 8.7% (2).
Because we are all part of the global economy these economic conditions affect all of us with variation or differentiation. In those circumstances, how can we, especially our users or beneficiaries, find happiness in the context of weak economic upturn?
• • Working with users to find happiness during this Summer 2023
During this Season of Happiness, we shall work with users to help them find out what can satisfy their lives during this frail upward of the economy. Our work with them will be about implementing existing initiatives while developing new ones that can make them happy or satisfy their lives.
So, our Season of Happiness or Summer of Happiness will be about the following three items:
1) How the CENFACS Community can spread happiness between its members to narrow the gap in happiness inequalities
2) How best to help those most in need within the CENFACS Community to feel happy, to achieve successful outcomes despite the current and underlying cost-of-living crisis
3) How to create and innovate happiness-enhancing activities and projects to reduce poverty linked to the lack of happiness.
Although happiness is about the interplay between gene and environment, it is possible to help the members of CENFACS Community to find happiness cure, become happy and feel well. It is possible to help them overcome inequalities in happiness and achieve well-being.
To do that, we are going to consider what the science of happiness tells us. We shall as well approach happiness as both an independent and interdependent concept. In other words, happiness could be a personal or subjective experience for any member of our community. Happiness can also be a collective participation for any of these members as belonging to a community, the CENFACS Community. It is in this interaction between happiness as individual practice and happiness as collective experience that they can find their true balance or harmony.
To sum up, during this 2023 Season of Happiness we are going to work with our users so that they can have aspects of their life in balance and feel at peace with their life despite the feeble economic revival. The above is the way in which we would like to approach our 2023 Season of Happiness or Summer of Happiness.
Under the Main Development section of this post, we have provided further details including the projects and programmes making the 2023 Season of Happiness.
• Creations and Innovations to Win the Battle against Crises: Appeals to Triumph the Battle against Humanitarian Crises (from Week Beginning Monday 26/06/2023)
Creating and innovating to win the battle against crises as the theme of 2023 Creative Economic Development Month continues this week. We are dealing with appeals to triumph the battle against humanitarian crises. The appeals could be our responses to the following:
∝ Short-term environmental strikes and crises
∝ Short-term armed conflicts and disputes
∝ Disasters linked to climate change cycles
∝ Wars linked to economic trends and business cycles
∝ Long-term environmental storms and catastrophes
∝ Long-running and permanent wars and structural warfare.
So, creations and innovations to triumph the battle against humanitarian crises are part of the rebuilding projects or processes in the context of Rebuilding Africa programme by CENFACS. One of the creations we made this year is how to use influence as a donation in humanitarian field instead of money to change the lives of those seeking or needing humanitarian relief.
In order to treat the above-mentioned creations and innovations, we are going to proceed with the following:
∝ Understanding the meaning of humanitarian crisis and appeal
∝ What we can do to triumph the battle against humanitarian crises
∝ Providing an example of humanitarian appeal made by CENFACS.
Let us briefly explain these proceedings.
• • Basic understanding of humanitarian crisis and appeal
Regarding humanitarian crisis, ‘concern.org.uk’ (3) explains that there is no universal definition of humanitarian crisis; and the terms ‘humanitarian crises’ and ‘humanitarian emergency’ are often used interchangeably. The same ‘concern.org.uk’ argues that
“A humanitarian crisis is defined as an event or series of events that represents a critical threat to the health, safety, security or wellbeing of a community or other large group of people, usually over a wide area”.
As to humanitarian appeal, the Centre for Policy Research of the United Nations University (4), states that
“A humanitarian appeal is supposed to identify top priorities under time pressure, and ensure that these are met. Ideally, it functions as a triage process that makes the difficult decisions about what is most urgent – education or water, this camp or this group of migrant herders – all in the face of limited resources”.
In this activity about making an appeal to triumph the battle against crises linked to humanitarian catastrophe (that is, a great disaster or geological event causing destruction an loss of life), we are going to identify top priorities for those in need who are under pressure.
• • What we can do to triumph the battle against humanitarian crises
As suggested by the Centre for Policy Research of the United Nations University (op. cit.), in order to triumph the battle against humanitarian crises we are going to work with those impacted by humanitarian crises and those who can support them to find ways of
~ bridging the gaps between the requests from the impacted by catastrophe-led crises and supporters’ funding
~ developing a crisis and resilience plans between 1 to 5 years development cycle
~ aligning/synchronising pledging and planning
~ reforming humanitarian appeals process and architecture
etc.
• • Providing an example of humanitarian appeal made by CENFACS
There are many examples of humanitarian appeals launched by CENFACS. We can mention the humanitarian appeal we made on 31 May 2023 (5) to Support Children in the Horn of Africa to Avoid Famine; appeal which is a case of basically dealing with humanitarian crisis. In this case or crisis, children have been experiencing life-threatening and -destroying conditions due to a prolong drought and conflict in the Horn of Africa (that is, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia).
This example of Appeals to Triumph the Battle against Humanitarian Crises concludes our 2023 Creative Economic Development Month’s Working Weeks and Plan for Creations and Innovations to Win the Battle against Crises. However, these appeals do not end this battle. As we argued at the start of the 2023 Creative Economic Development Month, winning this battle is a desirable aim in the battlefield of poverty reduction. To win it, one can remember what Joanne Reed (6) says, which is this:
“Life is a battlefield. Nothing is easy, we have to fight our way through everything, and with this in mind, it would be a good idea for us to familiarise ourselves with combat strategy and learn the best tricks in the book from trained warriors”.
Throughout these working weeks and with the notes attached to them, we hope that we have learnt together as trained warriors the greatest tricks to win the battle against crises, particularly those crises that lead to poverty and unsustainability.
For any queries and or enquiries about the Appeals to Triumph the Battle against Humanitarian Crises, please contact CENFACS.
To support and or engage with CENFACS’ Creative Economic Development Month and or the project Jmesci, please also communicate with CENFACS.
• The Victims of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC’s) Forgotten Crisis Need your Influence
This is a needs-based humanitarian appeal centred around the needs of the victims of the DRC’s Forgotten Crisis. The DRC’s Forgotten Crisis concerns 5.7 millions of people who have been displaced in the eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri.
• • A Perfect Example of Humanitarian Catastrophe of a Forgotten Emergency
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Crisis in its eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri is a perfect example of humanitarian catastrophe of a forgotten emergency.
The DRC’s crisis is listed by the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (7) amongst other crises in Africa. From the perspective of the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), the term “forgotten crises” refers to protracted conflict situations. ECHO argues that it can also refer to crises resulting from the cumulative effect of recurring natural hazards or combination of the two. ECHO provides the forgotten crises assessment which includes factors such as risk, crisis severity, media coverage, the level of humanitarian aid per capita and qualitative assessment.
If we take into account the crisis severity factor, it is right to argue that displacement in the eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri is a forgotten emergency.
According to ‘news.un.org’ (8),
“Overall, 6.2 million people have fled their homes across the country [DRC] – the highest number in Africa”.
Likewise, the Word Food Programme (9) observes that
“Food insecurity is particularly intense in DRC’s northeast, where 3.6 million people are facing emergency hunger levels – a million more than in 2022. In May, catastrophic floods and landslides in South Kivu added to their hardship”.
These displaced people need your influence to support them.
• • Using Your Influence to Win the Battle against Displacement Crisis
As we are in CENFACS’ Year of Influence, we are asking to those who can to use their influential resources to affect the drivers of the crisis that have pushed the inhabitants of these provinces out of their lands. Your influence will help to win their battle against the following:
√ Chronic violence and displacement that fuels a dramatic hunger crisis in the eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri
√ Insecurity to deliver food to the displaced persons
√ The lack of access to vulnerable communities to receive the vital relief they need
√ Overburdening of host families
√ Overcrowding in camps
Etc.
• • What Your Influencing Support Can Achieve
Your influencing donation will help the displaced and food insecure people…
√ to return to their land and homes
√ to grow their food
√ to feed hungry families and meet their daily food needs
√ to move the displaced persons from temporary reprieve to permanent accommodation
√ to end traumatic life amongst refugees
√ to provide food and cash assistance to the hardest-hit displaced people
etc.
You can donate your Influence to reduce or end poverty amongst the Victims of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Forgotten Crisis.
To donate, please contact influential persons (or those having the keys) to reduce or solve the detrimental effects of crisis that led to displacement of the people of the eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri.
You can as well influence the things or factors that determine these crises in order to create lasting favourable conditions towards an end to crises; factors like conflicts and non-state armed groups that have negatively impacted the supplies and prices of foods in these provinces.
Please also let CENFACS know about your influencing work or contribution you are or will be making and its outcome on behalf of the food poor in Africa.
To let us know, you can contact CENFACS as follows:
*over phone
*via email
*through text
*by filling the contact form on this site.
On receipt of your message or influencing donation, CENFACS will contact you for record and thank you for any influencing donation made. However, should you wish your influencing support to remain anonymous; we will respect your wish.
Thank you in anticipation for your willingness to give your Positive Influence and help save the lives of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Forgotten Crisis.
DONATE YOUR POSITIVE INFLUENCE NOW!
Extra Messages
• Dematerialisation, Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Creations and Innovations
• Creative Arts and Design-based Development Project –
In Focus: Unknown and Unnamed Artists and Designers of Poverty Relief and Sustainable Development with the Example of Young Creators and Innovators
• Digital and Social Media Campaign (Level 7) – In Focus: Artificial Intelligence and Poverty Reduction
• Dematerialisation, Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Creations and Innovations
The Month of Creative Economic Development is also of Dematerialisation, which is part of CENFACS‘ Poverty-Environment Programme.
• • What is dematerialisation?
According to the World Bank (10), dematerialisation refers to
“An absolute or relative reduction in the quantity of materials required to serve economic functions in society”.
Cutler J. Cleveland and Matthias Ruth (11) go further by explaining that
“Dematerialisation refers to the absolute or relative reduction in the quantity of materials used and/or the quantity of waste generated in the production of a unit of economic output”.
For Cleveland and Ruth, there is a common indicator to measure dematerialisation. This indicator is the intensity of material used per unit of economic output.
These definitions of dematerialisation will be used to work together with the community and explore non-conflicting ways of activating or improving the process of dematerialisation in the economic functions of their households. In working together, there is a possibility to explore ways of further reducing poverty via dematerialisation.
• • Dematerialisation and Poverty Reduction
With reference to the above definitions, CENFACS shall work with its community to help find way of reducing the quantity of resources or materials from the ecosystem in order to meet their basic life-sustaining economic needs. This will be an opportunity to promote and spread the news about dematerialisation in the way the community produces, consumes and distributes products and services.
Having in mind that household is small unit of production, we can work with ours users and their households to find out their material intensity as ratio of material used to the amount of poverty reduction produced. In other words, we can try together to produce poverty reduction by using less material and/or generating less waste. To do that we may need together to create and/or innovate for sustainability.
• • Dematerialisation and Sustainable Creations and Innovations
Finding creations and innovations that can continue over the long term without adverse effects is also part of the work of 2023 Creative Economic Development Month (CEDM). Also, using less materials and generating less waste to create and innovate are equally amongst the objectives of 2023 CEDM.
In brief, we can try to reduce poverty with less materials and less waste while making our creations and innovations to equitably serve the current and future generations in meeting their needs.
The work on dematerialisation is CENFACS’ way of supporting both poverty reduction and sustainable creations and innovations within our community.
Those who may be interested in working with us on Dematerialisation, Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Creations and Innovations; they are welcome to let CENFACS know.
• Creative Arts and Design-based Development Project –
In Focus: Unknown and Unnamed Artists and Designers of Poverty Relief and Sustainable Development with the Example of Young Creators and Innovators
Artists and designers play an active role in helping to reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development. So, this week we are working on some of the works carried out by artists and designers especially those from small scale and charitable backgrounds, the local arts and design products and services undertaken by local people and communities sometimes to make ends meet.
These kinds of work can include the following:
√ Those carried out by poor families, children, young people and those who are left out of the economic growth or upturn
√ There are works undertaken by unknown and unnamed artists and designers who may be amateurs or not professionals or not just celebrities.
Every year, we try to find out unknown and unnamed artists and designers, as part of Creative Arts and Design-based Development Project. This finding exercise helps to know and name them as well as advertise their works. We can advertise their work as advertising is an area of creative industries making CENFACS’ 2023 CEDM.
All these small pieces of art and design works can help relieve poverty and enhance the process of sustainable development. They can help to win the battle against crises such as the cost-of-living crisis.
• • Example of Unknown and Unnamed Artists and Designers: Young Creators and Innovators
Some Young Creators and Innovators can be classified as unknown and unnamed artists and designers. Who are they?
They are of all sorts of talents and abilities who can create and innovate to reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development. They can as well help to build forward better together cleaner, greener and safer. Their works can help reduce poverty induced by the cost-of-living crisis while keeping the progress of the realisation of sustainable development goals. They could be the finders of the today’s solutions for tomorrow’s problems.
So, this week we are continuing our Creative Arts and Design-based Development project by looking at the contribution that unknown and unnamed artists and designers, and amongst them are Young Creators and Innovators, who are helping in reducing poverty and hardships as well as in enhancing sustainable development.
If you are a young creator and/or innovator and has some feeling that you would probably fall under the category of unknown and unnamed artists and designers, CENFACS would like to hear from you as well as your creative or innovative work. You could be the Creative Mind of Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development of June 2023; the Mind we are looking for.
• Digital and Social Media Campaign (Level 7) – In Focus: Artificial Intelligence and Poverty Reduction
The next level of our Digital and Social Media Campaign is on how we can use and/or access artificial intelligence to reduce poverty or get more poverty reduction results or outcomes.
Since its birth in 1950 by Alan Turing, Artificial Intelligence has made progress to such an extent that it can be a tool for poverty reduction. But, what is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
• • Defining Artificial Intelligence
There are many definitions of AI. One of these definitions come from ‘ibm.com’ (12), which says that
“AI is the science and engineering of making intelligent machine, especially intelligent computer programme”.
Knowing the meaning of AI and learning its history are all fine. However, what we are interested in is real-world applications of AI systems in helping to reduce poverty. There are many examples about how AI has contributed or is contributing in the work of poverty reduction.
For example, online virtual agents through social media can provide personalised advice and engage people in need to meet their needs of poverty reduction and/or enhance sustainable development.
At this level of our Digital and Social Media Campaign (Level 7), we are looking forward to working with users and Africa-based Sister Organisations in finding more opportunities to access AI technology and use it to reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development amongst them.
Those who would like to engage with us at this Level 7, they are welcome to contact CENFACS.
For further information about CENFACS’ Digital and Social Media Campaign including levels 1 to 6 of this campaign, please also communicate with CENFACS.
Message in French (Message en français)
Mots de remerciement avant le dernier jour (30/06/2023) de remerciement à nos supporteurs/ses
Nous aimerions profiter de l’occasion des journées de grâce de CENFACS pour réitérer nos pensées, nos expressions et nos sentiments de profonde gratitude à tous nos suporters et soutiens.
Le CENFACS est vivement très reconnaissant de vous avoir comme soutiens et d’être avec nous aux côtés de ceux ou celles qui sont dans le besoin, en particulier pendant cette année difficile des effets persistants et douloureux de crises multiples qui se chevauchent.
Tous nos remerciements!
Main Development
• Season of Happiness 2023 in the Context of Weak Economic Upturn
The following items will help to understand the way in which, together with our users, we would like to wish the 2023 Season of Happiness to happen:
∝ Rebuilding Season to Happiness Season
∝ What is Summer for CENFACS’ Users and Beneficiaries?
∝ Happiness in the Context of Weak Economic Upturn
∝ Preview of 2023 Summer of Happiness and Well-being Programmes.
Let us briefly explained these items.
• • Rebuilding Season to Happiness Season
Jmesci (June Month of Environmental and Sustainable Creative Initiatives) and Creative Arts and Design-based Development Project are the projects that have made the last part of Spring 2023 programme. Both projects make our Creative Economic Development month.
In practice, Jmesci is the project that is ending our Rebuilding or Life Renewal Season to start Happiness Season or Summer of Happiness. After creating and innovating to build forward better together cleaner, greener and safer as well as to help reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development; we are now looking forward to enjoy the sunshine of Summer with Happiness. We look forward to Summer, although the warm weather has already started.
• • What is Summer for CENFACS’ Users and Beneficiaries?
Summer is a period of the warm sunny weather that we would like to associate with it at CENFACS. It is the time of happiness that we all expect, after a long period of full time work and education. We look forward to a break after such a long time of routine working life, especially as most of CENFACS’ projects and programmes are framed around the school timetable to suit and reflect the needs and living patterns of our users and beneficiaries. This is despite that the fact that during Summer people are still working to keep their households and the economy running.
• • Happiness in the Context of Weak Economic Upturn as a Focus for Summer 2023
As highlighted in the key messages, our Season of Happiness or Summer of Happiness will be about the following three elements:
1) Our capacity to spread happiness between the members of CENFACS Community to narrow the gap in happiness inequalities
2) The help we can provide to those who are in most need within the CENFACS Community to find happiness cure and feel happy, to achieve successful outcomes despite the current and underlying cost-of-living crisis
3) Our ability to create and innovate happiness-enhancing activities and projects to reduce poverty linked to the lack of happiness.
It is possible to help CENFACS’ users overcome inequalities in happiness and achieve well-being.
Therefore, the key note of our theme for Summer of Happiness will be: How to Create, Enjoy and Sustain Happiness in the Context of Weak Economic Upturn.
To support those struggling with the rising costs of living over Summer 2023, we shall work with them so that they can navigate their way to happiness and well-being. In practical terms, it means that we shall provide Happiness Tips and Hints in the Context of Weak Economic Upturn. We will provide them through the following Summer initiatives.
• • Preview of 2023 Summer-of-Happiness and Well-being Programmes
Summer Programme at CENFACS is mainly made of two sets or broad areas of projects for and with Multi-dimensionally Poor Children, Young People and Families; which consists of:
(a) Happiness Projects (Part 1) and
(b) Appeal Projects or Humanitarian Relief to Africa (Part 2).
Besides this main Summer seasonal regular feature, we have also planned other initiatives as side menus. We shall gradually release the contents of these Summer projects as we progress during Summer 2023.
Our development calendar/planner already indicates what is planned for July and August 2023. However, should anybody want to find out more, they are welcome to contact CENFACS.
• • • Summer 2023 Programmes, Projects and Activities (Summer calendar/planner)
How to Make this Summer 2023 as of Happiness in the Context of Weak Economic Upturn
July 2023
∞ Financial Updates: Financial History
How to rebuild your financial past
The 2023 Edition of Financial Updates (a CENFACS’ Individual Capacity Building and Development resource for Summer) will provide advice, tips and hints about how to keep, construct, repair and rebuild users’ financial past despite multiple overlapping crises since the coronavirus began. In other words, it is about working with our users to achieve the goal of poverty reduction by avoiding reversal in their financial past.
This 2023 Edition of Summer Financial Updates (SFU) will focus on information about income, finances, assets, salaries/wages, monetary incentives, insurance, financial transactions, credit worthiness, and debts that our users may need to prove or produce in order to justify their financial past.
∞ All-in-one Impact Assessment
July, which is the Analytics month within CENFACS, is the month to be at CENFACS for those who are working on project and programme impacts.
We will be doing two levels of impact assessment as follows:
1) Our usual July Impact Monitoring, Evaluation, Review and Analytics for projects and programmes that we run in the preceding financial year
2) Impact assessment of the different activities linked to the cost-of-living crisis (e.g. activities to tackle rising prices of food, energy, etc.).
∞ Virtual Summer Festival with Seven Days of Development in July
In focus for our Summer 2023 Festival will be:
Financial Inclusion
To reduce and possibly end poverty, it requires financially including those who are financially and economically poor. So, working with the poor to enable them to access financial services such as savings, insurance, payments, credit and remittances, is the way to power them.
Our Summer 2023 Festival will focus on ways of reducing poverty and enhancing sustainable development by financially including everybody, especially those who are financially excluded or poorly included (for example women in Africa) because of various reasons. The Festival will look at ways of increasing, improving and extending financial inclusion to others.
July – August 2023
∞ Children, Young People and Families (CYPFs) Summer Programme (Part I): Appeal Projects
Summer Humanitarian Appeal projects are a set of projects to help alleviate multi-dimensional poverty experienced by CYPFs during the Summertime. We normally launch one umbrella appeal that brings under one roof these projects. This year, we are going to launch selected appeals for most of them with special emphasis on the impacts of the cost of living on CYPFs.
One of the selected appeals will be about helping CYPFs to be free from distress caused by the cost-of-living crisis in Africa. The appeal – Win against Distress in Africa – is about helping poor CYPFs to mitigate the negative affects of polycrises in Africa.
Another appeal project that will have a particular attention and that is needed during this period of the cost-of-living crisis is the Iconic Young Carer Project (iYCP).
∞ Children, Young People and Families (CYPFs) Summer Programme (Part II): Happiness Projects
Happiness projects are another set of Summer projects making the second part of our Summer Programme. We shall release more details about Happiness projects in due course.
∞ Summer 2023 Run, Play and Vote to Reduce Poverty
Our Triple Value Initiatives (Run, Play and Vote) for this year have already kicked off. Through e-workshops, we have provided some guidance and help about them. And we are still available to talk to those who need some help. Those who started them should be half-way through with them.
These activities can be run in hybrid manner; that is in-person or virtual depending on the circumstances of participants.
Since we are already in the middle of the year, half-year actions and results about these activities will be sought from those who are practising them.
We shall ask those who undertook exercises relating Triple Value Initiatives such as e-workshops and recreational activities to report on their actions and results as well.
∞ Integration of Le Dernier Carré into Build Forward Better Programme
Our four step model of poverty relief (that is the Last Square of Poverty Relief or Le Dernier Carré) will be included in some of the elements of the Summer-of-Happiness Programme.
∞ Summer Track, Trip and Trending
Track and Trip activities will be run as normal.
Regarding Trending activity, we are going to follow the direction of poverty reduction via marine and coastal ecosystem services. In other words, we are going to find out how marine and coastal ecosystem services are helping in lifting people out of poverty.
The above is just an indicative plan of work for our Summer of Happiness. This Summer work plan will be reviewed depending on the circumstances and events that may occur as we move throughout the summertime.
We hope you find a happy, helpful and hopeful relief from the above programmes and projects on offer at CENFACS over this Summer!
For details or clarification about the above programmes and projects, including ways of accessing them, please contact CENFACS.
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Note: Although the above is scheduled for Summer 2023, we may slightly alter our initial plan and or introduce occasional initiatives to cope with the reality of the unpredictability and complexity of development situations (e.g. humanitarian and emergency situations), in which case we shall let you know as early as we can.
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• References
(1) https://oecd.org/economic-outlook/june-2023/ (accessed in June 2023)
(2) https://moneytothemasses.com/owning-a-home/interest-rate-forecasts/latest-interest-rate-prdictions-when-will-rates-rise# (accessed in June 2023)
(3) https://www.concern.org.uk/news/what-is-a-humanitarian-crisis (accessed in June 2023)
(4) https://cpr.unu.edu/publications/articles/time-for-a-reset-fixing-the-faulty-humanitarian-appeals-process.html# (accessed in June 2023)
(5) cenfacs.org.uk/2023/05/31/organisations-an-causes-to-not-for-profit-invest-for-impact-in-africa/ accessed in June 2023)
(6) https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/how-to-win-everyday-battles-08553edb539f (accessed in June 2023)
(7) https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/what/humanitarian-aid/needs-assessment/forgotten-crises_en (accessed in June 2023)
(8) https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/06/1137902 (accessed in June 2023)
(9) https://www.wfp.org/stories/refugee-day-how-one-family-escaped-violence-and-hunger-are-finding-safety-tanzania (accessed in June 2023)
(10) https://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/dematerialisation-degrowth-and-climate-change-agenda (accessed in June 2023)
(11) Cleveland, C. J. & Ruth, M. (1998), Indicators of Dematerialisation and the Materials Intensity of Use at https://doi.org/10.1162/jiec.1998.2.3.15 (accessed in June 2023)
(12) https://www.ibm.com/topics/artificial-intelligence (accessed in June 2023)
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