In collaboration with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Gulf Office, the International Humanitarian City (IHC) hosted for the first time the Arabhum Workshop in Dubai last week. The full-day event brought together over 60 humanitarian and development practitioners and academics from leading organizations in the Gulf region, alongside a
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a contribution of US$1 million from the Sultanate of Oman to support food assistance programmes that will benefit people suffering the effects of drought and conflict in West Africa. “We are especially grateful for Oman’s generosity towards the people of the Sahel region whose needs risk
The International Humanitarian City (IHC) Board of Directors, Chaired by HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, wife of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, today expressed their deep gratitude to Dubai Customs for its unwavering support and cooperation with IHC through facilitating customs
Watani Al-Emarat establishment and Dubai’s International Humanitarian City (IHC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to create an official partnership between Watani Al-Emarat and IHC. The partnership aims for both parties to work together in order to promote and support the best practices for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of humanitarian and development programs through the
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) started airlifting on Tuesday enough food to feed close to 30,000 displaced people for a month from Iraq to Qamishli in northeast Syria amid growing problems in reaching people, especially in conflict and besieged areas. It is the second such WFP airlift from Erbil, Iraq, to people who
As the number of affected people in the Philippines continues to rise, humanitarian assistance shipped out from the UAE pours into remote regions devastated by super-typhoon Haiyan, also known as Yolanda locally. To date, over 1500 metric tons of relief supplies from stockpiles of various UN agencies and international NGOs have been sent from the
The International Humanitarian City (IHC) participated for the first time in the annual global humanitarian and development aid event, AidEx earlier this month. The leading international humanitarian and development aid event held annually in Brussels brings together many crucial organizations working in aid delivery together to discuss the sustainability and efficiency of aid delivery, and
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