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People are the Centre

09:43
20.10.2020
Hickel emphasizes that the local people are at the centre of the work. The most complex aspect of the work is often breaking the holistic work down into different projects and thus different budgets. When the disaster strikes the different teams are working together at community level. The reality is much more complex than displayed through individual projects and something like the distribution of salaries can be complicated in that perspective. 

What are the realities on the ground, asks Peters. This must always be the first question in the work. Peters sees more money on analysis and more money for implementing the learnings as the most important points for the future. "Why do we do this? This questions could often help to improve the approach, instead of simply starting a new project", concludes Südhoff. 

Dr. Diana Mantel

About low flexibility of German funding compared to international standard Of course, we are aiming for as flexible funding as possible. We have given a large amount of our funding almost unearmarked to our international partner organisations so they can be used wherever it was needed in order to tackle the day to day needs during Covid-19. At the same time, we introduced more flexibility with our global projects where funds can be transferred from one country to another without any need of permission from us, although we need to be notified.   Benjamin Hanna - Federal Foreign Office 09:38
20.10.2020