FUNDLIFE PHILIPPINES
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Meet the Team
    • Meet our Global Superstars
  • Football for Life
  • NEWS
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Meet the Team
    • Meet our Global Superstars
  • Football for Life
  • NEWS

NEWS


FundLife International presents at the Aid and Development Asia Summit in Bangkok

29/6/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
Bangkok, Thailand - FundLife International’s founder, Marko Kasic, was invited to the Aid and Development Asia Summit 2016, held in Bangkok last 21-22 June, to present the organisations impact as support to children across Tacloban after the appalling aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, which struck the Philippines in November 2013 and saw over 1.7 million children displaced.
Sitting alongside a distinguished panel, including Anna Law, Programme & Policy Officer of the UN Word Food Programme (WFP),  Junichi Hirano, Deputy Director of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and Meimei Leung, Humanitarian Emergency Affairs Director for the East Asia Region of World Vision International, Marko also discussed the ‘accountability for shifting from disaster response to community development’.

He shared findings from a ‘Save the Children’ Report*, which cites that 99% of all children living in emergencies and protracted crisis list ‘education as their biggest priority’, and began with a thought provoking question by asking delegates in filled UN auditorium ‘who is really accountable to these children’ and ‘how do we measure our effectiveness of reaching them’.
 
After sharing an introduction to FundLife and some of the organisations work with UNICEF in the Philippines, Marko again engaged the audience by asking ‘if we all agree that the systems we have been using have not sufficiently allowed us to respond to the real-time need of post-disaster communities.
 
The core focus of the short presentation was to provoke the esteemed audience to consider the long-term goal of responding to an emergency before the short-term measurements. To illustrate this, Marko made reference to the ‘Build Back Better’ framework by concluding that ‘if conditions before the emergency were such that children were undereducated and marginalised, then we should be asking organisations ‘to build back smarter’ and improve the conditions that are not working.
The presentation concluded with a quote from Anthony Lake, Executive Director of UNICEF;
“Yes, we will measure our progress, yes, through statistics. But the true measure will be in every child lifted out of poverty.”
Picture
Indeed, while the paramount need is immediate relief and recovery to communities after emergencies, we must remember that children who live in extreme and acute poverty are living in a perpetual emergency, which simply cannot be ignored. ~
Picture
Photo credit: AIDF
Read more: Aid Forum
For more information on FundLife or to request a copy of Marko’s presentation, please contact our Communications Manager at margaux@fundlife.org
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    March 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    September 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    December 2015
    October 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    February 2015
    October 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    February 2014
    January 2013

    Categories

    All
    6th Anniversary Haiyan Commemoration
    Andrew Figari
    Arsenal Cup
    Arsenal Football Clinic
    Arsenal In The Community
    Australian Aid
    CAC
    Capitol Cup Cbu
    Capitol Cup Cebu
    Classroom Sessions
    Coach Ed Programme
    Congressional Meet
    COVID 19 Emergency Response
    COVID-19 Emergency Response
    Dengue Awareness Football Sessions
    Dignity Day 2019
    Expansion FFLA
    Explore More Possibilities Program
    Explore More Program
    FFLA
    FFLA At Thirsty Cup
    FFLA Cebu
    FFLA Coach
    FFLA FIFA World Cup
    FFLA Graduation
    FFLA Internship
    FFLA Learners
    FFLA Players
    FFLA Summer League
    FFLA Thirsty Cup Stories
    FFLA Tournament
    FFLA Year 2
    Financial Literacy
    Football3
    Football Champions
    Football Clinic
    Football Education
    Football For Girls
    Football For Hope
    Football For Kids
    Football For Life
    Football For Life Academy
    Football Jacket
    Foot Ball Outerwear
    Football Skills
    Football Tournament
    Football Tournament Philippines
    FundLife
    FundLife At SIGEF
    FundLife At Tokyo
    FundLife At Tokyo Japan
    FundLife Cebu
    FundLife Celebrates Dignity Day
    FundLife COVID-19 Relief
    FundLIfe Expands FFLA
    FundLife Founder Marko Kasic
    FundLife GCL
    FundLife International
    FundLife Internship
    FundLife Leadership Academy
    Fundlife Partner School
    FundLife Play For Peace
    Fundlife Savers Club
    FundLife Summer Kickoff
    FundLife Summer League
    FundLife Training Workshop
    FundLife Work Opportunities
    FundLife Workshop
    Fustsal Girls Congressional Meet
    Futsal Philippines
    Gawad Kalinga Football Fundlife
    GCL - Cebu
    Generation Amazing
    Generation Amazing Centre
    Generation Amazing National Festival
    Genesis Project
    Girl Rising
    Girl Rising Workshop
    Girls Advancement Program
    Girls Community League
    Girls Community League Cebu
    Girls Community League Tacloban
    Girls Empowerment
    Girls Futsal Philippines
    Girls Got This
    Girls Rising
    Girls Rising Explore More
    Girls Rising Participants
    Global Dignity Day
    Global Giving
    Haiyan Commemoration
    Haiyan Cup
    Haiyan Football Cup
    Japan
    Kick-off Launching Of FundLife
    Leadership
    Learner's Profile
    Marko Kasic
    Mini-world-cup
    Partner
    Play For Peace Mindanao
    Recognition Day
    Sama Sama Games
    Savings
    Shinji Kagawa In Tacloban
    Shinji Kagawa Visits FundLife
    Shinji Kagawa Visits Tacloban
    SIGEF 2019
    SIGEF 2019 FundLife
    Sports League
    Sports Tournament
    SSH Young Leaders Mentorship Program
    Summer League
    Tacloban
    Thirsty Cup
    Thirsty Cup Cebu
    Training Workshop
    Training Workshop Fundlife
    UEFA Foundation
    UN Global Goals
    UNICEF
    World Dignity Day
    Young Football Players
    Young Leaders

    RSS Feed

VIDEOS     PUBLICATIONS     JOBS     PARTNERS     CONTACT US
PRIVACY POLICY
FundLife is a registered non-for-profit organisation in the Philippines with company number 201502511
© 2021 FUNDLIFE - Proudly Designed by non-professionals
​ALL RIGHTS RESERVED​