World Vision UK is presenting a revised version of the Minimum Agency Standards for Mainstreaming Protection. The revised manual includes core standards, specific sector standards, lessons learned from the field and additional improved features. Victoria Metcalfe will be a discussant for this event.
Sarah Bailey gave a presentation on ‘Land in post-disaster contexts: the case of Haiti’ to a group of visiting students and professors from Oxford Brookes University.
HPG is currently undertaking a series of eight case studies in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia focusing specifically on the vulnerabilities of displaced populations in urban areas and how national and international actors can best respond. Simone Haysom will present a selection of findings from the studies on urbanisation and humanitarian action.
The International Civil Society Organisation (CSO) Conference in Copenhagen brings together key CSO leaders and experts from Europe and the developing world and includes high-level dialogue with European Institutions and European Development Ministers. Samir Elhawary moderated and spoke at the humanitarian theme session: Humanitarian space, civil-military relations and protection.
USAID organised meeting; Simon Levine presented findings from the Humanitarian Practice Network Paper 'System failure? Revisiting the problems of timely response to crises in the Horn of Africa' at a session entitled 'Improving Emergency Response'.
USAID organised meeting to present findings from OCHA-led real time evaluation of the emergency response in Ethiopia. Simon was one of the participants and presented HPN Network Paper 71: System Failure?
Norwegian Refugee Council launch of A partnership at risk? The UN-NGO relationship in light of UN integration report. Samir Elhawary spoke on the panel about HPG's UN Integration and Humanitarian Space report.
Simon Levine spoke at the Regional Humanitarian Partnership Team, IAWG, and Food Security and Nutrition Working Group joint workshop, highlighting key issues from the HPN Network Paper 71: System Failure?Wendy Fenton participated in the event.
This conference will bring together researchers with an interest in the use of evidence in policy making and decision makers from policy making institutions. Ajoy Datta will give a presentation on understanding the incentives of policymakers before developing capacity development programmes for them to better use research in their decision making.
This PSO Thematic Learning Event focused on Perspectives on relations, roles and functions in the aid structure in South Sudan. Sara Pantuliano spoke on dynamics of relationships in fragile settings and the relevance of TLP on the first day, and served as the key resource person on the second day. She also spoke on the evaluation report ‘Aiding the Peace’.