Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks

Session title: HUMLOG: Local Procurement in Humanitarian Response

25 Apr 23 11:00-12:30 UTC+2 (Salle Nyon)

SessionAbstract

The HUMLOG Institute invites you to attend a panel discussion on local procurement for humanitarian response.

What is local procurement? Why is it important? And what are the current best practice? This panel offers to bring together a community of practice to discuss the logistical, programmatic and strategic importance of local procurement for Humanitarian Response.

Speaker list to follow including stakeholders from academia, donor organisations, INGO communities and innovation partners. Facilitated by Claire Louise Travers, founder of the Local Procurement Learning Partnership and Doctoral Researcher at the Hanken School of Economics, HUMLOG Institute

Agenda

Agenda

Speaker Introductions
Local procurement and why its important
Best practice, innovation and evidence-based impact
Cross Cutting Issues: the green agenda, Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus
Question and answer
Thank-you and stay in touch

Speakers

Therese Marie Uppstrøm Pankratov is Special Advisor for The Humanitarian Innovation Programme at Innovation Norway.

Claire Barnhoorn is the CEO Solvoz, the open tendering platform for aid with a unique approach of rethinking from problem definition towards solution packages

Lina Frennesson is a researcher focused on localisation in the aid sector, at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University

Stephen Cahill is Director of Supply Division of WFP and former Global Logistics Cluster Coordinator

Facilitated by

Claire Louise Travers is a consultant in market-aligned supply chain management and aid provision and doctoral candidate at the HUMLOG Institute, and the founder of the Local Procurement Learning Partnership