PHAP: Learning sessions and webinars

Jul 06 2023 149 ep. 83 mins 218

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Learning sessions and webinars organized by the International Association of Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection open to members and the wider humanitarian community.

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

Jul 06 2023 93 mins

While both climate finance and humanitarian response aim to address the negative effects of climate change, they have different mechanisms and distinct forms of financing, resulting in poor coordination. Improving coordination between these two sectors is needed to help close the considerable funding gaps that exist for countries most affected by climate change.Join us for a webina

Building Trust through Participation

Dec 13 2022 94 mins

What is needed to move beyond consulting and listening to people affected by crises to ensure their representation and influence in decision-making forums? Join us on Tuesday, 13 December 2022, to explore how we can collectively build greater trust in our responses through genuine participation in decision-making processes.The IASC AAP Task Force has been exploring different elemen

Understanding Climate Change Loss and Damage and Links to Humanitarian Action

Aug 26 2022 116 mins

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) includes commitments regarding “Loss and Damage” (L&D) – the impacts of climate change to which those least responsible for climate change are not able to adapt. Action to address L&D under the UNFCCC aims to enable countries to recover and develop after a crisis and address slow-onset impact, but also to comp

The Road to COP27: Strengthening humanitarian perspectives

Jun 30 2022 117 mins

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 humanitarian engagement in UNFCCC processes. Following on COP26 in Glasgow last year, we saw a far greater presence of humanitarian actors, engaging and raising awareness of the impacts of climate change on the most vulnerable. However, ah

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

Jun 24 2022 90 mins

Over the last decade, individual agencies, and the humanitarian sector as a whole, have made progress in becoming more accountable to people affected by crisis. However, we are still facing substantial challenges in meeting the commitments we have made to affected people. Fundamentally, we need to work with affected communities, multilateral agencies, NGOs, civil society organizati

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

May 19 2022 93 mins

Drawing from the experience of the Collective Service, this session will show examples of how a collective approach to community engagement coordination can make a difference in the response in communities facing multiple threats and where the same partners respond simultaneously to public health, humanitarian and other emergencies.The session will share experiences of how social d

Accountability to Affected Populations – A Leadership Commitment

May 11 2022 85 mins

Drawing on the outcomes of the discussions during the previous two sessions organized during the HNPW on Accountability to Affected Populations, this high-level session will focus on the key actions required from humanitarian leadership to make AAP a reality and to "address the asymmetry of power that currently defines the relationship between humanitarian agencies and affected peo

A standardized approach to complaints and feedback mechanisms

May 06 2022 93 mins

While there are still few examples of complaints and feedback mechanisms that systematically capture the views and feedback from affected people, ensure they inform decision-making, and close the “feedback loop,” progress is being made. Drawing from a few country examples, this session will be an opportunity to look at some of the existing good practices for collective and stan

Towards collective AAP approaches at country level

May 03 2022 99 mins

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. It will focus on how they are contextualizing and operationalizing these tools and how this is contributing to advancing collective accountability at country level.Read more at https://phap.org/3may2022

Understanding and integrating climate and environment risk data in humanitarian action

Apr 29 2022 119 mins

Commitment #4 of the Climate and Environment Charter encourages organisations to better understand climate and environmental risks to calibrate responses adequately. Meteorological data and local and indigenous knowledge about patterns of variability should be used to provide risk analyses that are comprehensive, reliable, and relevant. In many places where humanitarian organizatio