28 September 2021
28 September 2021
Nearly eight months after the attempted coup in Myanmar, the junta has severely compounded the existing humanitarian crises in Myanmar, continued to weaponize humanitarian aid to its advantage by withholding, restricting, or even destroying the delivery of aid and have instrumentalized assistance to further its own false narrative as protector of the people. Thus, a shift by the international community and donors towards community-based ethnic organizations and locally distributed cross-border aid is essential to ensuring aid reaches those most in need. Civil society and community-based ethnic organizations who are providing aid to the displaced communities on the ground are facing difficulties in accessing funds due to strict donor regulations. More than ever before, there is a need for a ‘do no harm’ solidarity-based approach in the provision of humanitarian aid in Myanmar and for donors to be flexible, fast track applications and remove bureaucratic barriers to accessing funds during this humanitarian emergency.
Amid the increasing and dire need for the provision of humanitarian aid, and the increasing role of the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on disaster management (AHA Centre) in the Myanmar crisis, civil society representatives will offer key insights on how humanitarian aid can be effectively distributed within ethnic and non-ethnic regions through local actors. The webinar will also discuss the briefing paper “Nowhere to Run: Deepening Humanitarian Crisis in Myanmar” produced by Progressive Voice and nine ethnic community-based and locally-based civil society organizations, which provides an overview of the devastating humanitarian crisis in Myanmar, focusing on Kachin, Karen, Shan, Karenni, Chin, and Rakhine States. The recommendations given in the paper predominantly focuses on ethnic regions but can be applied beyond these regions as many of the issues and themes discussed therein apply nationwide, including central and southern Myanmar.
Date: 4 October 2021
Time: 9.30 – 11.00 AM (Yangon Time)
Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/
Translation: Burmese to English simultaneous translation is provided for this event on Zoom platform.
Speakers:
Moderator – Thinzar Shunlei Yi, Action Committee for Democracy Development
For more information, please contact: [email protected]
The briefing paper is co-authored by:
၂၈ ရက်၊ စက်တင်ဘာလ၊ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်
ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၁ ရက်နေ့ စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းရန် ကြိုးပမ်းချိန်မှစ၍ ရှစ်လနီးပါး ကာလအတွင်း မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် ယခင်ရှိထားသော လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှုဆိုင်
သဘာ၀ဘေးအန္တရာယ် စီမံခန့်ခွဲမှုဆိုင်ရာ လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှု အကူအညီအတွက် အာဆီယံ၏ ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်ရေး စင်တာ (ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on disaster management – AHA Centre) ၏ အခန်းကဏ္ဍနှင့်အတူ လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှုဆိုင်
နေ့စွဲ – ၄ ရက်၊ အောက်တိုဘာလ၊ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်
အချိန် – နံနက် ၉း၃၀ နာရီ မှ ၁၁း၀၀ နာရီ (မြန်မာစံတော်ချိန်)
စာရင်းသွင်းရန် – https://zoom.us/webinar/
ပါဝင်ဆွေးနွေးမည့်သူများ
Moderator – မသဥ္ဇာရွှန်းလဲ့ရည်၊ ဒီမိုကရေစီ ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေး လှုပ်ရှားဆောင်ရွက်မှုကော်မတီ
ပိုမိုသိရှိလိုပါက ဆက်သွယ်ရန် – [email protected]
စာတမ်းတိုကို ပူးတွဲထုတ်ဝေသည့်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများ
28 February 2025
Asian NGO Network on National Human Rights Institutions , CSO Working Group on Independent National Human Rights Institution (Burma/Myanmar)
Progressive Voice is a participatory rights-based policy research and advocacy organization rooted in civil society, that maintains strong networks and relationships with grassroots organizations and community-based organizations throughout Myanmar. It acts as a bridge to the international community and international policymakers by amplifying voices from the ground, and advocating for a rights-based policy narrative.