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Emergency Trust Fund for Africa
  • News article
  • 16 April 2019
  • 1 min read

Meet the juror for our Sight-by-Side competition: Award-winning photographer Meeri Koutaniemi

HoA Sight by Side juror

Waiting to find out the results of our Sight-by-Side competition?

We are excited to announce our award-winning juror! Meeri Koutaniemi will select the final EU and Ugandan participant who will travel through this diverse country to report on inequalities.

Meeri Koutaniemi is an award-winning Finnish photographer and journalist. Koutaniemi's work extends to over 50 countries where she has photographed and documented people with compelling stories of struggle and resilience. Her work stems from the question and definition of identity. Koutaniemi has focused on the humanitarian side of conflicts, displacement, and human right violations. At the core of her work lies the universal ability for empowerment and resistance. At the moment Koutaniemi on working on her long term project about female genital mutilation and the activism to eradicate it around the world.

Check out her work here.

Details

Publication date
16 April 2019
Region and Country
  • Horn of Africa

Programmes in the region

Improving Nutrition and Reducing Stunting in Eastern Sudan

The action aims to enhance the ability of women and children in the States of Red Sea, Kassala and Gedaref to lead socially and economically productive lives, and in doing so strengthen their resilience and that of their communities.

Region and Country
  • Horn of Africa
Thematic
  • Strengthening resilience of communities
Partner
  • World Food Programme
Regional Development and Protection Programme in Ethiopia

The specific objectives and focus of the interventions in Ethiopia are the following:1.

Region and Country
  • Horn of Africa
Thematic
  • Greater economic and employment opportunities
  • Improved governance and conflict prevention
  • Strengthening resilience of communities
Partner
  • Plan International
  • Save the Children
  • Danish Church Aid
  • Norwegian Refugee Council
  • International Rescue Committee
Resilience Building and Creation of Economic Opportunities in Ethiopia (RESET II)

The specific objective is strengthening economic opportunities and resilience of the most vulnerable communities to human-induced and natural disaster crises, through measures that will increase livelihoods and employment, and better access to basic services.

Region and Country
  • Horn of Africa
Thematic
  • Greater economic and employment opportunities
  • Improved governance and conflict prevention
  • Strengthening resilience of communities
Partner
  • Action Contre la Faim
  • International Development Entreprises UK
  • Cordaid
  • CARE
  • Danish Church Aid
  • Vita Ethiopia
  • Save the Children
  • International Rescue Committee
Strengthening Resilience of IDPs, Returnees and Host Communities in West Darfur

To strengthen the local health systems to better deliver basic packages of health services in West Darfur with the final aim of creating a more conducive and sustainable living environment for host communities and displaced populations through: (1) greater access to and quality of primary health...

Region and Country
  • Horn of Africa
Thematic
  • Strengthening resilience of communities
Partner
  • Concern Worldwide
  • International Medical Corps
Strengthening resilience of refugees, IDPs and host communities in Eastern Sudan

The main objective is to strengthen the local health systems to better deliver basic packages of health services in selected areas of Eastern Sudan, with the final aim of creating a more conducive and sustainable living environment for host communities, displaced populations and refugees.

Region and Country
  • Horn of Africa
Thematic
  • Strengthening resilience of communities
Partner
  • Italian Development Cooperation
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