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Rapid Response Initiative

“I believe that the time has come to improve the assistance we offer to help some of the most vulnerable people in our world by adding a direct operational response…I welcome the opportunity this initiative is providing to our home-grown talent to offer its assistance to global humanitarian relief”.

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“The Rapid Response Initiative will allow us to scale up and enhance our current efforts. It is a new and exciting additional dimension to the humanitarian work of Irish Aid…I am confident too that the Rapid Response Initiative will draw on the enormous potential that exists in the public and private sector in Ireland to make a real difference in humanitarian emergencies.”

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To find out about the experience of members of the Rapid Response Corps in the field click on:

- Rapid Response Mozambique
- Rapid Response Somalia
- Rapid Response Sudan

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