Humanitarian Response and Loss and Damage Finance: Coordinating action to meet rising needs

While both climate finance and humanitarian response aim to address the negative effects of climate change, they have different mechanisms and distinc...

Building Trust through Participation

What is needed to move beyond consulting and listening to people affected by crises to ensure their representation and influence in decision-making fo...

Understanding Climate Change Loss and Damage and Links to Humanitarian Action

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) includes commitments regarding “Loss and Damage” (L&D) – the impacts of climate cha...

The Road to COP27: Strengthening humanitarian perspectives

Over the last few years, we have seen a significant increase in awareness by the humanitarian community of the impacts of the climate crisis and human...

System-Wide Change for Greater Accountability to People Affected by Crisis

Over the last decade, individual agencies, and the humanitarian sector as a whole, have made progress in becoming more accountable to people affected...

Lessons from the COVID-19 response: The importance of using community-based data in emergency response

Drawing from the experience of the Collective Service, this session will show examples of how a collective approach to community engagement coordinati...

Accountability to Affected Populations – A Leadership Commitment

Drawing on the outcomes of the discussions during the previous two sessions organized during the HNPW on Accountability to Affected Populations, this...

A standardized approach to complaints and feedback mechanisms

While there are still few examples of complaints and feedback mechanisms that systematically capture the views and feedback from affected people, ensu...

Towards collective AAP approaches at country level

The session will draw from a few contexts which have started the implementation of IASC AAP tools such as the AAP framework and the results tracker. I...

Understanding and integrating climate and environment risk data in humanitarian action

Commitment #4 of the Climate and Environment Charter encourages organisations to better understand climate and environmental risks to calibrate respon...

Embracing the leadership of local actors and communities in climate action

On 17 March, ICVA and PHAP will organize the next session of the Learning Stream on Climate Change and Humanitarian Action, exploring Commitment #3 of...

Practical tools and initiatives for reducing environmental impact in humanitarian action

As humanitarian actors are working towards reducing their environmental impact, it’s important to understand what tools are being developed and what i...

Complaints and feedback mechanisms: Making much-needed changes

It has long been recognized that affected people must play an active role in decisions that affect their lives. Yet recent evaluations show that this...

Maximising the environmental sustainability of our work

Commitment 2 of the Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organizations, in line with the principle of “Do No Harm,” calls on us to “avoid,...

Accountability and inclusion in the COVID-19 response: Lessons for the future

The COVID-19 response, like any other public health emergency, has required a focus on communication around associated risks and the promotion of heal...

Adapting to the impacts of the climate and environmental crises

We are already witnessing how climate and environmental crises disproportionately impact communities in vulnerable contexts and situations, and regard...

Practitioner insights: Applying guidance on accountability and inclusion

Introduction to the Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organisations

The recently launched Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organisations sends a clear signal that humanitarian organizations have a key r...

Making collective accountability to affected populations a reality

Accountability to affected populations (AAP) is an essential part of good humanitarian programming. But while some organizations may integrate it well...

Risk Management and Funding Partnerships

Risk management practices are playing an increasingly important role in partner selection and engagement when NGOs receive funding from UN agencies or...

Partnerships and principles in conflict contexts: Voices from Nigeria and South Sudan

Partnerships between international organizations and local actors are key for the delivery of principled humanitarian aid. While progress has been mad...

Community-based protection, early warning, and conflict preparedness

In this webinar, the second of a two-part series exploring existing efforts to improve the safety of civilians during armed conflict, we will be discu...

Civilian Safety in Armed Conflict: Strategies and approaches for direct prevention of violence

In this first of two webinars exploring existing efforts to improve the safety of civilians during armed conflict, we will be discussing “primary” pre...

Parliamentary action to end statelessness by 2024

Statelessness, the situation where a person is not recognized by any State as a citizen, has devastating impacts on millions of people around the worl...

The critical role of ethics in forced migration research

Research on forced migration provides critical input into the processes that help shape policy on displacement and humanitarian response. On that acco...

“Organizational culture matters”: Leadership, staff well-being, and living our values

For a long time, humanitarian organizations have faced situations reminding us that how we carry out our work is as important as what we do – includin...

The State of Protection in the COVID-19 Era

In the margins of the public health and economic crises with which the world has contended through 2020, COVID-19 ultimately looms as a long-term, far...

Creating inclusive cities in South Africa amidst COVID-19

The UN Secretary General’s Policy Brief on COVID-19 in an Urban World reckons that urban areas are at the epicentre of the pandemic, accounting for an...

The State of Humanitarian Professions 2020

The capacities of those delivering response to humanitarian crises determine the quality of aid, its relevance, effectiveness, and sustainability, and...

The impact of bank de-risking on humanitarian action

Over the last few years the issue of “bank de-risking” has increasingly impacted the ability of humanitarian NGOs to safely and effectively transfer f...

Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in the COVID-19 Response: Applying the IASC Guidelines

While the COVID-19 pandemic is seriously affecting the health, livelihoods, and overall wellbeing of people all over the world, persons with disabilit...

Make or break: The implications of COVID-19 for crisis financing

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated challenges for humanitarian work across the globe, including for how emergency response is being funded, providi...

Balancing risk appetite and risk tolerance in humanitarian operations

Read more and access resources at https://phap.org/8sep2020

Understanding and appropriately applying the concepts of risk tolerance and r...

Managing camps in diverse contexts

Read more and access resources at https://phap.org/9sep2020

Many humanitarian emergencies result in large-scale displacement, whether sho...

Coordinating access for humanitarian protection

In most crisis response contexts, multiple protection actors are seeking to access affected populations. As humanitarian actors are interdependent, wi...

Creating Inclusive Cities (Global Compact on Refugees)

More than 61 per cent of the world’s refugees and 80 per cent of internally displaced people live in urban areas. The role of towns, cities, counties...

Access and protection: Avoiding putting people at risk

Read more about this event on https://phap.org/11jun2020

In order to carry out their work for the protection of affected people, humanita...

Launch event: Toolkit for principled humanitarian action – Managing counterterrorism risks

Read more at https://phap.org/5jun2020

The four principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence are the foundations of...

Security risk management and duty of care during COVID-19

Read more at https://phap.org/3jun2020

Humanitarian work is in most cases carried out in insecure environments and situations, making it...

Negotiating access for humanitarian protection

Humanitarian actors often need to negotiate to gain access to populations affected by conflicts and other crises. While negotiating for access for hum...