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Cash transfers in Masisi

Chris Pycroft, Head of Office, DFID DRC, 27 August 2014 - Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Humanitarian

Cash transfers are an increasingly important component of DFID’s poverty-reduction tool kit. There is strong evidence that they are a highly effective means to support extremely vulnerable and poor people. Cash transfers can help people to recover from shocks caused …

Old shoes and OMO: cracking the problem of urban water in Goma

Chris Pycroft, Head of Office, DFID DRC, 18 August 2014 - Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Infrastructure

Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) must be one of the most difficult environments to deliver clean water. The city is built on the lava flows from nearby active volcanoes (the last major eruption was …

Emergency food fair in North Kivu

Chris Pycroft, Head of Office, DFID DRC, 23 November 2012 - Democratic Republic of Congo

It's a bit unnerving to be decanted from a helicopter into the middle of a field, surrounded by towering hills in the far reaches of North Kivu on the edge of an area active with Mayi-Mayi fighters. But there we …

Cash transfers in Masisi

Old shoes and OMO: cracking the problem of urban water in Goma

Emergency food fair in North Kivu

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