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Session title: Agility, Resilience through Local Capacity Investment in Humanitarian Action
Organizer(s): WVI and LNGO, INGOs reps.
9 May 24 11:00-12:30   (Salle 11)
 
SessionAbstract

This session will be in an inter-active format with speakers from LNGOs, INGOs discussing how humanitarian preparedness, learning from and investment in local capacity in community and staff skills enables multiplier effects strengthening locally-led humanitarian (and anticipatory) action with agility and resilience. People are humanitarian organization’s most precious "asset" - the organisations' resilience capacity captures its ability to take situation-specific, robust, and transformative actions when confronted with unexpected often powerful events that frequently undermine adequate readiness for humanitarian crisis. The discussion will aim at showcasing how local capacity and capabilities can be nurtured to amplify locally-led humanitarian action.

Nearly 8 years post-World Humanitarian Summit, the Agenda for Humanity is far from being successfully achieved. One of the key agenda items still creating substantive debate but little practical and tangible change in the humanitarian sector is local humanitarian capacity. In light of increasing complexity of crises and global human resources, expertise more difficult to engage, remunerate, retain with little sustainable capacity investment into local humanitarian frontline responders or community members, this session will take a refreshing look at what it may mean “to reinforce local systems (Transformation 4A) and invest in local capacities (Transformation 5A)” (Agenda for Humanity). Besides financial and power equity issues, persisting narratives of “capacity building” may insinuate that there is “little/ no capacity” – which is untrue for most contexts.
The notion that “agility” and “resilience” – robustness of people, systems and expertise at local level is insufficient in rapid onset major complex humanitarian disasters and conflict crises, is over and again proven to be untrue. So, how to build local agility and resilience to carry through, even when international media attention, international donor funding is ebbing away but the crisis persists? What can international and local humanitarian actors do much more to not only “shift power, resources, and the “chair” function of inter-agency networks, working groups to those that should have leadership and decision-making authority in the first place on all matters affecting them and their community – also in international fora?

Speakers:

Adessou Kossivi, Global Network of Civil Society Organisation for Disaster Reduction (GNDR) team in Africa, Climate Change Lead in GNDR

Mustafa Alloush, Programme Manager of the local Orange NGO, Tuerkiye

Ihor Kuzmuk is the Cash and Voucher Programming Manager for the Ukraine Crisis Response, WVI

Smruti Patel is the founder and Co-Director of Global Mentoring Initiative & International Coordinator for Alliance for Empowering Partnership (A4EP)

Tirtha Prasad Saikia is the Joint Director of North-East Affected Area Development Society (NEADS), a grassoot development organisation in India

Moderator:
Dr. Kathryn Taetzsch, Snr. global Director, Humanitarian & Development Capacity & Capabilities with WVI

Agenda

1. Agenda:

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· Sharing experiences from Europe Ukraine, Africa, Middle East, Asia

· 1 sentence statements from each panelist on gaps/ challenges

· Key takeaways (moderator summary)

2. Target Audience

humanitarian and developmentorganisationsand youth focused agencies, ,localization,inclusion, gender, conflict/ humanitarian response & recovery, HR professionals, managers

The session will:

1. Highlight the challenges and discuss solutions of enabling local staff, local organisations to build resilient workforce, support to local communities as humanitarian frontline responders (several country examples)

2. Discuss and showcase examples on how to address underlying system, cultural issues (e.g. sharing experiences of organisations having undertaken self-and triangulated assessments of culture, bias, local capacity investment opportunities and barriers)

3. Understand how to ensure a robust capacity that enables locally-led humanitarian action in inter-agency contexts

4. Engage with the audience in Q&A, discussion to understand how to best navigate and effectively leverage different approaches of capacity investment across the spectrum


  • 3. Speakers
  • AdessouKossivi,Global Network of Civil Society Organisation for Disaster Reduction (GNDR) team in Africa,Climate Change Lead in GNDR

  • Mustafa Alloush, Programme Manager of the local Orange NGO, Tuerkiye

    • Ihor Kuzmuk is the Cash and Voucher Programming Manager for the Ukraine Crisis Response,WVI
    • Smruti Patel is the founder and Co-Director of Global Mentoring Initiative&International Coordinator for Alliance for Empowering Partnership (A4EP)
    • Tirtha Prasad Saikia is the Joint Director of North-East Affected Area Development Society (NEADS), a grassoot development organisationin India

    • Moderator:: Dr. Kathryn Taetzsch,Snr. global Director, Humanitarian & Development Capacity & Capabilities with WVI


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