The Humanitarian Coalition (French: La ''Coalition Humanitaire'') brings together 12 Canadian

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s consisting of Action Against Hunger, Canadian Foodgrains Bank, Canadian Lutheran World Relief, CARE Canada, Doctors of the World, Humanity & Inclusion,

Islamic Relief Islamic Relief Worldwide is a faith-inspired humanitarian and development agency which is working to support and empower the world’s most vulnerable people. Founded in the United Kingdom in 1984, Islamic Relief has international headquarter ...

Canada, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam-Québec,

Plan International Plan International is a development and humanitarian organisation which works in over 75 countries across Africa, the Americas, and Asia to advance children’s rights and equality for girls. Its focus is on child protection, education, child par ...

Canada,

Save the Children The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, is an international non-governmental organization established in the United Kingdom in 1919 to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic ...

Canada and

World Vision In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the worl ...

Canada. The Humanitarian Coalition's stated mission is "to bring together leading aid organizations to provide Canadians with a simple and effective way to help during international humanitarian disasters. Member agencies join forces to raise funds, partner with the government, and mobilize media, businesses and individual Canadians." Since 2010, the Humanitarian Coalition has launched appeals for the

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in 2022, the Haiti earthquake in 2021, the Beirut blast in 2020, that Cylone Idai in 2019, the Hunger Crisis affecting parts of Africa and

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

in 2017, the Syrian Refugee Crisis in 2015-2016, the Nepal earthquake in 2015, the Ebola Outbreak in 2014, the food crisis in the Sahel in 2012, the drought in East Africa in 2011, the earthquake in Japan in 2011, the floods in Pakistan in 2010 and the earthquake in Haiti in 2010. Previous emergencies include

Typhoon Rai Typhoon Rai, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Odette, was the second costliest typhoon in Philippine history behind Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. Rai was a powerful rare tropical cyclone that struck the Philippines in December 2021. Rai beca ...

in the

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(2021),

Cyclone Eloise Tropical Cyclone Eloise was the strongest tropical cyclone to impact the country of Mozambique since Cyclone Kenneth in 2019 and the second of three consecutive tropical cyclones to impact Mozambique in the 2020–21 South-West Indian Ocean cy ...

Mozambique Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi ...

(2021),

Hurricane Eta Hurricane Eta was a deadly and erratic Category 4 hurricane that devastated parts of Central America in early November 2020. The record-tying twenty-eighth named storm, thirteenth hurricane, and sixth major hurricane of the extremely-active 20 ...

in Honduras,

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, and Guatemala (2020), forest fire in Bolivia (2019), flooding in Sudan (2019).

Governance

The Board of Directors is made up of the respective CEO or Executive Director of the member agencies. The current board includes: * Andy Harrington:''
Canadian Foodgrains Bank
* Karin Achtelstetter: Canadian Lutheran World Relief * Barbara Grantham: CARE Canada * Usama Khan:

Canada * Lauren Ravon: Oxfam Canada * Denise Byrnes: Oxfam-Québec * Lindsay Glassco:

Canada * Danny Glenwright:

Canada * Michael Messenger:

Canada The day-to-day activities of the Humanitarian Coalition are run by the organisation's secretariat based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The current Executive Director of the Humanitarian Coalition is Richard Morgan.

Emergency responses

The Humanitarian Coalition has responded to 24 major emergencies and 77 smaller-scale disasters since 2005. More than $120 million has been mobilized to meet the emergency needs of 27 million people.

Reports and Publications

The Humanitarian Coalition reports regularly on its activities. Annual reports and Crisis-specific reports are available on its website in English and in French.

International counterparts

Around the world, agencies have begun to collaborate and launch joint appeals. Successful national humanitarian appeal mechanisms include the

Disasters Emergency Committee The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) is an umbrella group of UK charities which coordinates and launches collective appeals to raise funds to provide emergency aid and rapid relief to people caught up in disasters and humanitarian crises aroun ...

(UK)
Aktion Deutschland
(Germany)
Japan Platform
(Japan) and others. Together, they form the Emergency Appeals Allianc

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Humanitarian Coalition, The Charities based in Canada