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Jamie Munn, ICVA

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Proud 🇨🇦 maritimer and humanitarian; CEO ICVAnetwork.org 🇨🇭 previously based in 🇽🇰🇰🇪🇵🇰🇦🇫🇵🇭🇹🇭🇲🇲🇧🇩🇮🇶 I have two decades of experience in international aid programming, strategic development, NGO coordination, & policy formation

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Jamie Munn, ICVA @jmunn-icva.bsky.social · Nov 21

After years on Twitter/X, it's time for a fresh start on Bluesky. Embracing new platforms is like opening doors to new ideas and opportunities to rethink, renew, and reach out with purpose. Grateful for the journey so far & let’s see what lies ahead. Here’s to building together on this new horizon!

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Jamie Munn, ICVA @jmunn-icva.bsky.social · Jun 20

Grateful to Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social‬ joining us at ICVA @icvanetwork.bsky.social and taking time to listen directly to our NGO colleagues, including those from South Sudan and Lebanon.
ICVA will keep advocating clearly, consistently, and collectively for NGOs & communities.

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Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · Jun 20

Insecurity and climate crises push thousands to the edge in #BurkinaFaso.

Aid efforts are maxed out and communities overwhelmed.

I’ve allocated $5.9M from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund for humanitarian partners to deliver food, shelter, health and protection.

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Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · Jun 19

We are only asking for 1% of what the world spent last year on defence. And we can save over 100m lives.

Let’s get our collective priorities right.

My speech at #ECOSOCHAS: bit.ly/3SXbANj

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Jamie Munn, ICVA @jmunn-icva.bsky.social · Jun 8

🏳️‍🌈 This Pride season, the silence feels louder, and the cuts run deeper.

I wrote about what’s being lost and what we must not let go of @GenevaSolutions:
“Quiet Cuts and Loud Silences”
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Take a moment to read and reflect. #Pride2025 #Humanitarian

Jamie Munn, ICVA @jmunn-icva.bsky.social · Jun 8

Timely and necessary.

@potustrump47.bsky.social and McCarthy intersect on:
1) weaponisation of fear
2) demand loyalty tests
3) disregard for factual scrutiny
4) institutional corrosion
5) ethically unmoored
6) morally hollow

CNN @cnn.com · Jun 7

Happening Now: See George Clooney's "Good Night, and Good Luck" in a historic Broadway first. Watch live on CNN, CNN.com and streaming on Max: cnn.it/3Hu7rOu

Jamie Munn, ICVA @jmunn-icva.bsky.social · Jun 5

The U.S. veto today at the UNSC is a shameful abuse of power.

Calling the resolution “divorced from reality” is itself a despicable distortion of reality. What’s truly divorced is the U.S. position from the suffering of civilians.

This is not leadership. It’s complicity. #Gaza #UNSC #CeasefireNow

Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · Jun 4

Open all of the crossings. Let in lifesaving aid at scale, from all directions.

Lift restrictions on what & how much aid we can bring in. Ensure our convoys aren’t held up by delays and denials.

Release the hostages. Implement the ceasefire.

Let us work.

Jamie Munn, ICVA @jmunn-icva.bsky.social · Jun 3

Reshma Adatia speaks truth on leadership, equity & responsibility in humanitarian action. Glad to see @icvanetwork.bsky.social voice in the room.
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#gaza #sudan | Reshma K. Adatia

Today I represented ICVA Network and our members in a number of essential conversations, keeping the focus on humanitarian response and the populations in crisis around the world - particularly #Gaza ...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Jun 3

Canadians make up the largest proportion—nearly 28 percent—of international travelers visiting Florida. They also comprise the largest number of international visitors for the entire United States.

But that comfortable relationship may be taking a turn.

Canadians have cooled on US travel

Mexico is looking like a much better option.

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Jamie Munn, ICVA @jmunn-icva.bsky.social · Jun 2

Let this month be a reminder not just of how far we’ve come, but of what we must now defend – openly, actively and without apology.

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❝Quiet cuts and loud silences: this year’s Pride carries a heavier weight - Geneva Solutions

US president Donald Trump’s assault on diversity initiatives has had a silencing effect on many of Geneva’s humanitarian organisations, writes Jamie Munn, the director of the International Council for...

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Jamie Munn, ICVA @jmunn-icva.bsky.social · May 30

Hard to overstate how grave the situation is.
Humanitarian principles must be respected.
Aid must be allowed in.
People in Gaza need food, water, and safety—now.
#HumanitarianPrinciples #AidAccess #Gaza #InternationalLaw

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Jamie Munn, ICVA @jmunn-icva.bsky.social · May 9

Read, follow, engage with me and @icvanetwork.bsky.social on LinkedIn
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Humanitarian Funding in Perspective | Jamie Munn

Imagine telling 300 million vulnerable people that the world spent more on sunglasses and Valentine’s Day than on their survival. Nothing says 'we care' quite like chocolate hearts and designe...

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Jamie Munn, ICVA @jmunn-icva.bsky.social · Apr 4

Happy to share this “pep talk” or maybe it is just the lies I tell myself 😂😂

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Why It Feels Like We Are Shouting Into the Void – But We Must Keep It Up

As I reflect on my career in humanitarian advocacy, I often find myself grappling with a deep, persistent feeling: the sensation that we are shouting into the void. The world is filled with overwhelmi...

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Jamie Munn, ICVA @jmunn-icva.bsky.social · Mar 31

Dear Canadians,

Can we please start a petition to Stop the Crime of Poilievres kissing before and after every speech???

Here is a new slogan for #Poilievre:

End the Cringe

#canadianelection #neverPoilievre

Jamie Munn, ICVA @jmunn-icva.bsky.social · Mar 24

Watching the US admin fumble classified war plans like a drunk losing their keys is one thing, but let’s be real - half of them couldn’t find Canada on a map if we circled it in red. Maybe that’s for the best.

#PeteHegseth, Stephen Miller & lil #JDVance frat boy wannabes who’d flop at band camp too

Jamie Munn, ICVA @jmunn-icva.bsky.social · Mar 23

We can move beyond endless discussions and start implementing long-overdue changes in the humanitarian sector. The system isn’t “broken,” but it is outdated, inefficient, and resistant to necessary reform.

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Stepping Out of the Geneva Rhetoric Machine: Five Things NGOs Must Do Now | Jamie Munn | 11 comments

We can move beyond endless discussions and start implementing long-overdue changes in the humanitarian sector. The system isn’t “broken,” but it is outdated… | 11 comments on LinkedIn

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Hadja Lahbib @hadjalahbib.bsky.social · Mar 21

While the world focuses on Gaza, the occupied #WestBank faces unprecedented violence, displacement & rising humanitarian needs.
Destruction in #JeninCamp forces more families from their homes. These demolitions must stop. Systematic destruction violates IHL & can't be normalized.

UNRWA @unrwa.org · Mar 21

“A deepening humanitarian crisis in the #WestBank with homes and other civilian infrastructure systematically destroyed.

Tens of thousands of #PalestineRefugees are at risk of renewed long-term displacement with #Jenin Camp permanently altered.”

— UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini

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Jamie Munn, ICVA @jmunn-icva.bsky.social · Mar 22

As a new school year begins, 2.2 million Afghan girls are barred from education. What are men so afraid of? An educated girl is a stronger society. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

Joe English @joe-english.bsky.social · Mar 22

As new school year starts in Afghanistan, almost 400,000 more girls deprived of their right to education, bringing total to 2.2 million

“The consequences for these girls - and for Afghanistan - are catastrophic.”

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As new school year starts in Afghanistan, almost 400,000 more girls deprived of their right to education, bringing total to 2.2 million

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the third anniversary of the ban on secondary education for girls in Afghanistan

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Jamie Munn, ICVA @jmunn-icva.bsky.social · Mar 21

Happy Nowruz to all celebrating!

A time for renewal, hope, and solidarity—especially for communities facing hardship. Wishing strength to those working for a better, more just world.

May this year bring peace, resilience, and progress. Nowruzetan Pirouz! #Nowruz #Solidarity

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · Mar 18

"My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law."

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Jamie Munn, ICVA @jmunn-icva.bsky.social · Mar 20

Why did @pierrepoilievremp.bsky.social bring a magic wand to parliament?
Because it was the only way he knew how to make robust policies appear!!

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Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · Mar 19

Ar Brussels Conference for Syria earlier this week, pitching for support.

The cost of failure is far greater than the cost of our plan to back hope for the Syrian people.

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Joe English @joe-english.bsky.social · Mar 14

'Sudan’s children are trapped in one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. I returned last week from a country where conflict, displacement, and hunger are destroying young lives."

UNICEF's Lucia Elmi briefs on the situation in for children in #Sudan

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Geneva Palais briefing note: Children in Sudan: a generation at risk

This is an overview of remarks by UNICEF Director of Emergency Programmes Lucia Elmi – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the Palais des Nations in Geneva

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Jamie Munn, ICVA @jmunn-icva.bsky.social · Mar 14

Hammarskjöld said, “The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell.”

In 2025, the Security Council is incapable of even that. Wars rage, ppl starve & atrocities go unanswered. Is the mandate not peace & security? The world burns while the Council debates. Pathetic.

United Nations Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld, painted by Bo Beskow

Jamie Munn, ICVA @jmunn-icva.bsky.social · Mar 14

I have no doubt that @chrislockyear.msf.org could have spoken for hours about the horrific crimes of war in Sudan. But the real question is - what will the #UNSC do? They’ve mastered the art of listening, but where is the action on Peace and Security?

Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · Mar 13

The war in Sudan is a catastrophic "war on people," @doctorswithoutborders.org Secretary General Christopher Lockyear tells the UN Security Council, calling for an end to violence against civilians and a new commitment to deliver lifesaving aid: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/msf-b...

MSF briefs UN Security Council on Sudan: A catastrophic "war on people"

MSF Secretary General Christopher Lockyear calls for a new commitment to protect civilians and meet humanitarian needs in Sudan.

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Jamie Munn, ICVA @jmunn-icva.bsky.social · Feb 28

Genuine question: How many eggs do Americans eat for egg prices to be a bigger crisis than consumer protection disappearing, federal employees being fired without notice and humanitarian aid getting cut?