DEC

The Disasters Emergency Committee has raised a huge amount of money to support Ukrainians. Now the member agencies must present their detailed proposals. Over the years their formats have become increasingly complicated not helped by this being such a fluid unpredictable situation and that many agencies are working with national partners so need an extra layer of planning. We have 8-15 partners in each country we are working in and all are super busy and exhausted. Creating complex budgets, output tables and the like is just beyond what some are able to do right now. We’ve tried our best to shield them from the complex admin burden of being funded, but it’s been a very stressful and imperfect process.

I’ve just worked through 7 different scenarios for what might happen next and what we’ll need to adapt in each case from a massive increase in refugees if the war spreads to western Ukraine to imminent peace and some refugees making journeys back to Ukraine - and everything in between. We need to be prepared for anything to happen, having seen how dramatically the world can change in just a few weeks.

I did steal a few moment to read the paper in bed though. Accompanied by a snoring dog.