AHP Videos
Through the AHP Türkiye earthquake response, psychosocial support helped women and children, including Syrian refugees like Aisha, to get back on their feet.
In the midst of the devastating 2021-23 drought in Kenya, the burden of finding water often fell on women. Oxfam Kenya, with support from the Australian Humanitarian Partnership and in partnership with local organisations Strategies for Northern Development (SND) and the ASAL Humanitarian Network (AHN), responded to these urgent needs.
In the midst of Kenya's unprecedented drought, learners at Narengewoi Primary School had to rely on the salty Lake Turkana, six kilometers away, for drinking water. Trekking to the lake -- known for its dangerous crocodiles -- posed a clear safety risk and disrupted learning. Cases of water-borne diseases and other related illnesses such as kidney stones were also on the rise. Through the Australian Humanitarian Partnership response in Kenya, Oxfam in partnership with Turkana Pastoralist Development Organization (TUPADO) and the Asal Humanitarian Network (AHN) responded to restore water supply to the school by installing new water pipes and a storage tank.
Drought decimated livelihoods of thousands of households in Kenya's pastoral arid and semi-arid lands. Livestock were killed, with families unable to access food, water and other basic needs. Acute malnutrition cases were on the rise, especially among children. With funding from AHP, Oxfam in Kenya in partnership with local NGOs Pastoralist Community Initiative and Development Assistance (PACIDA) and the ASAL Humanitarian Network, responded to the critical needs of communities in Marsabit County with multipurpose cash assistance.
Plan International Lebanon introduced Inter-Gender Dialogue Sessions to the AMANI project, supported by the Australian Humanitarian Partnership response in Lebanon. These sessions are designed for adolescents and young men and women to engage in dynamic discussions, fostering a secure space for sharing, learning, and mutual support towards achieving gender equality. These sessions provided young women like Jana and Amina with an open space to share the struggles they face in a male-dominated society.
To promote healthy relationships, Plan International Lebanon and its partner International Medical Corps introduced Cycle of Violence Sessions as part of the Australian Humanitarian Partnership response in Lebanon, specifically addressing men. Participants learned strategies to break harmful cycles and promote healthy, non-violent interactions.
The deepening economic crisis in Lebanon put children, girls and women, people with disability, and refugees at greater risk of abuse, violence and exploitation. The AHP response addressed immediate protection needs of vulnerable groups through gender-based violence and child protection services, community education, case management, cash for protection, and emergency assistance, while also working on prevention strategies to address root causes of violence.
Through the AHP response to floods in Pakistan, young children at risk of malnutrition were able to access treatment, through CARE and local partner the Shifa Foundation.
Under the lead of CARE, an Australian Humanitarian Partnership response supported those affected by devastating floods in Pakistan in 2022. The response focused on recovery, including livelihoods.
Implemented by World Vision Lanka and Sarvodaya, the Australian Humanitarian Partnership response in Sri Lanka supported food security, nutrition and livelihoods in the wake of the country's economic crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Netsanet was forced to flee Western Tigray with her young daughter due to conflict, leaving behind her successful hair salon. Through the AHP response in Ethiopia, cash assistance is helping women like her get back on their feet.
Supported by AHP Disaster READY, a local theatre group in Vanuatu that focuses on telling the stories of people living with disabilities is taking a deep dive on the topic of disaster preparedness – creating a performance encouraging audiences to include their loved ones living with disabilities in the preparation process.
Haos Blong Yumi is a 5-day training workshop teaching women and men in Vanuatu who have recently returned from overseas work about managing a small building project with their savings. The training focuses on building cyclone-resilient housing, or on modifying an existing home to be more cyclone resilient – helping to keep Vanuatu families safe during disasters.
Disaster READY partner organisations, and community members, share some of the impacts the Disaster READY program has had in its first five years on disaster risk reduction and preparedness.
Through the AHP-supported Amani program in Lebanon, women, men, girls and boys have been supported through programs to end gender-based violence and provide services to victim-survivors, provide child protection knowledge and referrals, teach positive parenting, and change attitudes and norms.
In Bangladesh, Community-Based Youth Clubs are helping adolescent girls and boys, including those with a disability, to access education and make social connections. Plan International and local partner Friends in Village Development Bangladesh are running the clubs, supported by the Australian Humanitarian Partnership.
The Disaster READY program in Timor-Leste has supported some 63 communities in its first five years. This video shows some of the program’s successes.
In Fiji and Solomon Islands, AHP Disaster READY is supporting local partners to increase their capacity for disaster preparedness and response, enhancing inclusion and saving lives.
In Bangladesh, displaced Rohingya have limited access to health services, and women and girls are at high risk of experiencing gender-based violence (GBV). Through the Australian Humanitarian Partnership response in Bangladesh, CARE is supporting the provision of integrated sexual and reproductive health services, including contraception, and gender-based violence services to women living in the camps.
Through the Australian Humanitarian Partnership response in Bangladesh, Rohingya refugees are being assisted with mental health and psychosocial support. Many have experienced trauma, grief and loss.
With AHP support, World Vision Lebanon is supporting families in North Lebanon to stay warm during the coming winter through the provision of cash support, awareness sessions, rehabilitation of houses and support for alternative affordable heating methods.
In Thaing Khali village in Cox’s Bazar, hilly terrain and low groundwater levels made accessing enough water a daily battle. With support from the Australian Humanitarian Partnership (AHP) Bangladesh Consortium through CARE Bangladesh, schools and the community now have easy and regular access to clean water.
The two-year Australian Humanitarian Partnership response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Timor-Leste supported food security, livelihoods, agricultural production, nutrition and health.
The Disaster READY program in Timor-Leste is supporting disaster preparedness and helping communities adapt to the changing climate.
Through the AHP response in Bangladesh, the people of wards 3 and 4 in Raja Palong Union identified local disaster risks and have taken proactive steps to mitigate them with the support of AHP partners. By improving connecting roads and a drainage canal, flooding will be significantly reduced in the future, and accessibility has improved.
Two years after TC Harold and COVID-19 hit, families in Vanuatu are getting back on track, growing themselves healthier and more resilient crops with help from CARE Vanuatu’s AHP and EU-supported Helti Kakae, Helti Famili (Healthy Food, Healthy Family) project.
In Solomon Islands, Disaster READY partner Oxfam produced a music video with talented Honiara reggae artist Jah Boy to share messages on community disaster preparedness.
Josefa Lalabalavu, Plan International’s Pacific DRM Manager, speaks on the Disaster READY program for a speech at the Bali GPDRR conference in May 2022.
AHP partners have been supporting the COVID-19 response across the Pacific, and globally. This short animation highlights their work.
As part of the AHP-supported COVID-19 response in Samoa, and with the support of CARE Australia, Samoa's national disability organisation Nuanua O Le Alofa worked with local NGO Women in Business Development Incorporated to distribute seedlings to 400 people with disabilities and their families.
This film dramatises a Disaster READY disaster preparedness simulation in the Oibola community in Solomon Islands’ Malaita province. The local community and partners contributed to script writing and acted all the roles in the short film.
This animation shows how the AHP Bangladesh response has been supporting COVID-19 public health efforts in Rohingya camps at Cox’s Bazar. (Bengali w subtitles)
In August 2021, the Disaster READY team in Vanuatu conducted a successful Disaster Risk Reduction and Tropical Cyclone Simulation Exercise in Canal Fanafo, Santo.
AHP partners in Fiji prepared this public service announcement, which aired on FBC TV, on the importance of inclusive disaster preparedness and response, supported by Disaster READY.
The Famili I Redi (‘Family Ready’) training package has been designed in Vanuatu to ensure that the benefits of labour mobility are felt by all household members and entire communities, as part of the AHP COVID-19 Response to support Vanuatu's economic recovery from the pandemic.
The AHP Bangladesh consortium is part of Australia’s response to the Rohingya displacement crisis, and is supporting activities in 23 camps and with host communities. This video, prepared by the Consortium, provides an overview of the Phase III response.
Save the Children Vanuatu's Protektem Mi Program provides psychosocial support to children who have been impacted by disasters. The program is supported through the Australian Humanitarian Partnership's COVID-19 response.
Naomi Tai is the Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (DI-DRR) Officer for People with Disabilities Solomon Islands, the National Organisation of Persons with Disabilities. Her role is supported by AHP, through the Disaster READY program.
Diana Ma'ahoro works with the YWCA in Solomon Islands. She discusses the importance of disability inclusion in disaster preparedness and response, supported by Disaster READY.
To support the delivery of gender and child protection in disasters, CARE Vanuatu conducted a Training of Trainers workshop for AHP Disaster READY partners on the Gender in Humanitarian Action workshop methodology.
The AHP-supported UnBlocked Cash program in Vanuatu is using blockchain technology to support those affected by disasters, including women and people with disability, and businesses in their community.
AHP partners in Timor-Leste, including World Vision, have provided support to families displaced by flooding after Tropical Cyclone Seroja hit in April 2021.
The AHP response in Iraq, Building Peaceful Futures, has supported returnees in Hawija and Sinjar with essential hygiene items to combat the spread of COVID-19.
The AHP Iraq response, Building Peaceful Futures, is supporting those displaced by Islamic State with cash grants. Many are returning home to destroyed houses and looted belongings, and the grants help families to purchases essentials.
The Australian Humanitarian Partnership supported CARE Vanuatu’s shelter response to Cyclone Harold in South Pentecost. Watch how traditional materials and knowledge were used in the recovery.
In Vanuatu, Disaster READY partners collaborate closely with government agencies such as the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) and with communities on inclusive disaster preparedness and planning through the Australian Humanitarian Partnership.
Community information videos on COVID-19 for PNG. Produced by Oxfam with support from ABC International Development and the Australian Government as part of the Australian Humanitarian Partnership.
Community information videos on COVID-19 for PNG. Produced by Oxfam with support from ABC International Development and the Australian Government as part of the Australian Humanitarian Partnership.
If you're living with a disability, or providing care for others, consider what changes you might need to make to stay healthy during COVID-19. This community information video was produced by Oxfam with support from ABC International Development and the Australian Government as part of the Australian Humanitarian Partnership.
In April, 2020, Tangoa Island in Vanuatu was hit with full force by category 5 Tropical Cyclone Harold, only a month after the WHO had declared the COVID-19 pandemic.
Australian Humanitarian Partnership NGOs are playing a pivotal role in supporting the humanitarian response to category 5 Tropical Cyclone (TC) Harold in Vanuatu.
How can cash help people recover more quickly from disaster? Save the Children developed this video for Pacific audiences to support cash program activities being delivered under Disaster READY.
Funded through the Disaster READY program, Save the Children is trialling a cash and voucher assistance program in Fiji. After a disaster, cash can be a fast way to help individuals and communities get back on their feet.
Menstrual hygiene is a huge challenge for Rohingya refugee women with limited privacy in the camps. As part of the AHP response to the Rohingya refugee crisis , CARE Bangladesh piloted a communal laundry with menstrual hygiene management facilities in the camps in Cox’s Bazar.
Funded through the Disaster READY program, Save the Children is trialling a cash and voucher assistance program in Fiji. Cash can be the best way to support communities after a disaster.
Following severe flash floods in Attapue Province in the southeast of Laos in July 2018, Plan International launched an emergency response to support food-affected children and their families.
The Building Peaceful Futures program is taking an inclusive approach by addressing barriers to learning for girls and children with disabilities so all children get the chance reclaim their future.
In 2018, Save the Children Australia led a study into the general feasibility of using Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) in responding to disasters in Fiji through Disaster READY.
Funded by the Australian Government through the Australian Humanitarian Partnership, Save the Children Australia is leading a consortium of NGOs on the ground in the Sinjar and Hawija communities of Iraq. The consortium is made up of the Norwegian Refugee Council, CARE, Humanity and Inclusion, and Save the Children.
Paulina shares how her involvement with Disaster READY in Timor-Leste has helped her support her community to be better prepared for disasters.
AHP partner, World Vision, provided safe, clean drinking water in schools in South Sudan as part of the AHP response to conflict and famine in the country.