HPG at Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks 2024
Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW) is a major annual humanitarian conference in Geneva, Switzerland that provides a collaborative space for practitioners and experts from a large variety of humanitarian stakeholders including UN agencies, NGOs, the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement, academia, the military, private sector initiatives, and Member States.
This year HPG will be taking part in and hosting a number of events at HNPW. Find out more about our activities:
- Launching the 84th issue of the Humanitarian Exchange: Climate change, conflict and displacement – 30 April 13:00-14:00 UTC (REMOTE)
- Embracing the nexus of climate, localisation, and faith: A call to collective action – 6 May 09:00-10:30 UTC+2 (HYBRID)
- Reconstructing accountability narratives to centre the interests and priorities of affected communities – 7 May 09:00-10:30 UTC+2 (HYBRID)
- Confronting disparities in humanitarian responses: Lessons from Nigeria – 9 May 09:00-10.00 UTC+2 (HYBRID)
- Protection and the HDP nexus: Working in complementarity across humanitarian and peace action for violence reduction – 9 May 16:00-17:30 UTC+2 (HYBRID)
HPG's Humanitarian Practice Network recently published the 84th issue of the Humanitarian Exchange magazine on the topic of climate change, conflict and displacement – with a launch event at HNPW.
In this session, authors of three of the articles will share and critically reflect on their experiences, initiatives they’ve been involved in and their perspectives on this theme.
Speakers/participants:
- Madison Jensen, World Jewish Relief
- Madina Yunis Mahat, Pastoralist Girls Initiative
- Imrul Islam, Norwegian Refugee Council
- Thomas Wilson, Norwegian Refugee Council
- Helena O’Mahony, Mishcon de Reya LLP
- Kerrie Holloway, HPG/ODI
As communities worldwide grapple with the far-reaching impacts of climate change, from extreme weather events to rising sea levels, the need for innovative solutions and collaborative efforts has never been more pressing. At the heart of this complex landscape lies the nexus of climate, localisation, and faith – a dynamic intersection that offers challenges and opportunities for creating positive change.
Organised by Islamic Relief Worldwide, this panel is designed for policymakers, donors, operational actors, researchers, and academics interested in enhancing the efficacy of humanitarian response and climate adaptation through innovative and collaborative approaches.
This panel aims to help interrogate and strengthen the AAP (Accountability to Affected People) agenda by focusing on the narratives through which AAP is understood and justified, and how narratives around ongoing and future AAP interventions can be grounded in the voices of affected communities. Panellists will consider whose interests and assumptions are and are not present in the narratives that are told about the need, justification and aims of the AAP agenda. The panel will discuss roles that different actors, including in the humanitarian and media sectors, can play to reconstruct narratives around AAP grounded in the voices of affected communities.
The panel and anticipated audience will comprise of experts and practitioners within the AAP community, as well as from the media sector and local civil society working on accountability.
Speakers/participants:
- Mahad Wasuge, Somali Public Agenda
- Meg Sattler, Ground Truth Solutions
- Abdurahman Sharif, Save the Children International
- John Bryant, HPG/ODI
- Stephanie Diepeveen, ODI
This session focuses on prioritisation in situations of protracted humanitarian crises, drawing on findings from a comparative study of the responses in the north-west and north-east of Nigeria.
Recent research carried out by Neem Foundation and HPG has focused on the disparity in humanitarian service provision and assistance within Nigeria. It asks in a situation of protracted crisis, limited attention and resourcing, and high needs, how have responders prioritised their actions and what has been the impact of how crises have been framed upon them?
In this session, researchers will distil some key lessons from Nigeria, including on engaging state-level authorities, limits on ‘nexus’ approaches, and upholding principles around assistance according to need. They will also consider the wider relevance of these findings to global conversations around effective prioritisation as an increasingly urgent necessity as resources for the humanitarian system grow further strained.
Speakers/participants:
- Ahmad Jumare, Neem Foundation
- John Bryant, HPG/ODI
Many humanitarian and protection actors are not proactively addressing threats to civilians in conflict, with limited focus on preventing or reducing risks of violence, coercion or deliberate deprivation. There is growing recognition of the need to shift approaches to humanitarian protection. Based on new and on-going research, HPG is convening this interactive discussion on how humanitarian, protection and peace actors can work in complementarity with each other to reduce violence and thus improve the protection of people affected by conflict.
The roundtable will aim to:
- Inform HDP nexus conversations, practice and policy with new evidence and analysis with a focus on the ‘P’ component of the nexus.
- Convene humanitarian and peace actors to discuss their roles in reducing and preventing violence and explore the optimal roles of humanitarian, peace (and development) actors in reducing violence.
- Identify, with humanitarian and peace actors, ways to ensure they can focus on their comparative advantages while complementing each other’s actions to ensure greater impact on violence reduction.
Speakers/participants:
- Mike Jobbins, Search for Common Ground
- Marc Linning, Center for Civilians in Conflict
- Lisa Monaghan Norwegian Refugee Council (TBC)
- Marie Brüning, Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations Office in Geneva
- Kristina Preiksaityte, Nonviolent Peaceforce
- Gregory Connor, UNDP
- Veronique Barbelet, HPG/ODI
- Gemma Davies, HPG/ODI
