Introduction

Humanitarian crises are increasingly protracted, complex, and recurrent, driving a sustained rise in humanitarian needs and appeals over the past decades. Despite continued improvements in the efficiency and reach of humanitarian response, needs continue to outpace available resources. Against this backdrop—and building on commitments under the 2030 Agenda and the outcomes of the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit—the international community has recognized that addressing humanitarian needs alone is insufficient.

The Humanitarian–Development–Peace (HDP) Nexus emerged as a practical approach to reduce needs, risks, and vulnerabilities by strengthening collaboration across humanitarian, development, and, where relevant, peace actors. Over time, this agenda has evolved from a conceptual discussion to a focus on operational delivery at country level, including joint analysis, collective outcomes, and more coherent planning and programming.

Within the Humanitarian Network and Partnerships Week (HNPW), the HDP Nexus AOCC provides a platform for networks and partners to exchange experience, surface operational lessons, and advance practical approaches to strengthening humanitarian–development–peace collaboration. The topic is inherently crosscutting, connecting issues of coordination, localization, early recovery, financing, and transitions that span multiple operational and thematic communities. Today, the HDP Nexus sits at the core of the Humanitarian Reset, providing a pathway to enable transitions from internationally led humanitarian responses toward nationally and locally led, sustainable systems.

Objectives

• Clarify how the HDP Nexus contributes to theambitions of the Humanitarian Reset, including prioritization, efficiency, localization, and sustainability.

• Share concrete country and global experiences where Nexus approaches have helped reduce humanitarian needs and risks over time.

• Identify practical enablers for Nexus implementation, including coordination arrangements, leadership roles, financing instruments, and sequencing of interventions.

• Strengthen shared understanding across humanitarian, development, and peace communities on transition pathways and early recovery as a foundation for solutions.

• Generate actionable insights to inform ongoing system-wide reform efforts and future HNPW engagements.

Discussion Topics(at previous HNPW)

• Data, Analysis, and Anticipatory Approaches for Nexus Outcomes:Use of shared data, geographic analysis, and predictive tools to inform collective outcomes, anticipatory action, and solutions-oriented responses, including for internally displaced populations, election-related risks, and environment–conflict dynamics.

• Localization, Community Empowerment, and Social Accountability:Strengthening locally led action through community-driven accountability mechanisms, local market engagement, and inclusive participation of affected populations as foundations for sustainable humanitarian, development, and peace outcomes.

• Engagement with Non-Traditional and Diaspora Actors:Leveraging diaspora networks, non-traditional partners, and cross-border actors to complement formal humanitarian and development systems, particularly in protracted and politically constrained contexts.

• Sectoral and Thematic Entry Points for the Nexus:Exploring concrete Nexus entry points through sectors such as early recovery, housing, land and property, environment and climate action, education and school feeding, sustainable procurement, livelihoods, and market systems as bridges between immediate humanitarian response and longer-term recovery and solutions.

• Operationalizing the Nexus: Coordination, Capacity, and Practice:Practical lessons on inter-organizational collaboration, coordination models, training and capacity development, accessibility, and institutional incentives needed to translate Nexus concepts into day-to-day decision-making at country and system levels.