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    New Sudan coalition aims to channel help to local responders

    With international organizations unable to access the war-affected country, philanthropies argue that aid money should go straight to the people on the ground.

    By Anna Gawel // 01 October 2024

    By most measures, Sudan is enduring the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, and the few people able to provide aid inside the war-affected, closed-off nation are local responders. So why not give these local frontliners aid money that would typically go to larger organizations, which for the most part are stuck on the sidelines unable to mount a large-scale response?

    That’s the rationale behind the Coalition for Mutual Aid in Sudan, an initiative spearheaded by 15 philanthropies such as the Gates Foundation and other organizations to channel at least $2 million in direct and flexible emergency grants to vetted mutual aid groups in Sudan by the end of this year and generate a minimum of $4.5 million more from peer philanthropies over the next two years.

    Patricia McIlreavy, president of the Center for Disaster Philanthropy,  a coalition member, says that what’s happening in Sudan mirrors in many ways what happens in all kinds of disasters — whether in California or Louisiana: communities on the ground helping each other.

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