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

Building Trust through Participation

Understanding Climate Change Loss and Damage and Links to Humanitarian Action

The Road to COP27: Strengthening humanitarian perspectives

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

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

Accountability to Affected Populations – A Leadership Commitment

A standardized approach to complaints and feedback mechanisms

Towards collective AAP approaches at country level

Understanding and integrating climate and environment risk data in humanitarian action

Embracing the leadership of local actors and communities in climate action

Practical tools and initiatives for reducing environmental impact in humanitarian action

Complaints and feedback mechanisms: Making much-needed changes

Maximising the environmental sustainability of our work

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

Adapting to the impacts of the climate and environmental crises

Practitioner insights: Applying guidance on accountability and inclusion

Introduction to the Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organisations

Making collective accountability to affected populations a reality

Risk Management and Funding Partnerships

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

Community-based protection, early warning, and conflict preparedness

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

Parliamentary action to end statelessness by 2024

The critical role of ethics in forced migration research

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

The State of Protection in the COVID-19 Era

Creating inclusive cities in South Africa amidst COVID-19

The State of Humanitarian Professions 2020

The impact of bank de-risking on humanitarian action

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

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

Balancing risk appetite and risk tolerance in humanitarian operations

Managing camps in diverse contexts

Coordinating access for humanitarian protection

Creating Inclusive Cities (Global Compact on Refugees)

Access and protection: Avoiding putting people at risk

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

Security risk management and duty of care during COVID-19

Negotiating access for humanitarian protection

Access and Humanitarian Protection: Restricted operational contexts and COVID-19

Operationalizing standards: Sphere and the COVID-19 response in camp settings

Participation in Practice: Examples of inclusive action for a “Participation Revolution”

What Next? (Session 3 - ICVA's Virtual Annual Conference 2020)

What Risks? (Session 2 - ICVA's Virtual Annual Conference 2020)

Principles at Risk (Session 1 – ICVA Virtual Annual Conference 2020)

Persons with disabilities in humanitarian response: New guidelines for more inclusive humanitarian action

Coordination and Collaboration with the GPC

Risky Business: Reframing the fundamentals of risk management for humanitarians

Climate preparedness and community based protection

The future of protection in the nexus

Operational camp management: An introduction to the Camp Management Standards

Exploring protection challenges in humanitarian logistics

How do NGOs navigate shrinking civil society space?

Localization: Perspectives on change

Donor perspectives on the humanitarian-development-peace nexus

All In Diary: Launching the sixth edition

Perspectives of peacebuilding actors in the humanitarian-development-peace nexus

The Child Protection Minimum Standards revision: Application in practice and next steps

UN reform: The link to the "nexus" and what it means for non-UN actors

The World Bank and the humanitarian-development-peace nexus

The "nexus" explained: How and when do humanitarian, development, and peace action come together?

Is the attack on UN peacekeepers in DRC a war crime?

The language and logic of IHL: Common misconceptions, use, and misuse

Humanitarian Futures: Capacities for 21st century humanitarian organizations

Humanitarian Coordination: NGOs in government-led and refugee coordination contexts

PHAP Briefing - Contested Evidence: The challenges and limits of evidence-based approaches to humanitarian action

PHAP Briefing: Mitigating corruption in aid - main risks and best practice from the CREATE report

PHAP Briefing- IHL at sea

Humanitarian Coordination - The New Way of Working

Humanitarian coordination: OCHA and NGOs in humanitarian coordination

Humanitarian coordination: NGO fora and consortia from local to global

Humanitarian coordination - The humanitarian coordination architecture at country and regional levels

Humanitarian Coordination - The IASC and the global humanitarian coordination architecture

Counterterrorism laws and their impact on humanitarian action – Advanced Practitioner Series

Revising the Sphere Handbook: What is new and how you can contribute

Humanitarian Financing - The "Grand Bargain" and its impact for NGOs

Learning session - Legal protection of IDPs

Learning session: Private funding for NGOs (Humanitarian Financing)

Briefing: Professional Standards for Protection Work - Presentation on the main proposed changes

Learning session: Detention in non-international armed conflict (Humanitarian Law and Policy)

Learning session: NGO access to pooled funding (Humanitarian Financing)

Learning session: Bilateral funding for humanitarian action (Humanitarian Financing)

Expert Briefing: Hostile intent and civilian protection (Humanitarian Law and Policy)

Expert Briefing: War algorithms and international law (Humanitarian Law and Policy)

OLS HLP 19. Legal protection of refugees

Learning Session: UN humanitarian funding – demystifying NGO access (Humanitarian Financing)

OLS HLP 18. Protection of Cultural Heritage in Armed Conflict

Learning session: The humanitarian financing landscape (Humanitarian Financing)

Expert Briefing: The humanitarian exemptions debate (Humanitarian Law and Policy)

Expert Briefing: The humanitarian exemptions debate (Humanitarian Law and Policy)

Expert Briefing: IHL regulating humanitarian activities (Humanitarian Law and Policy)

World Humanitarian Summit – Independence: Practical dilemmas of principled action

World Humanitarian Summit – Neutrality: Practical dilemmas of principled action

World Humanitarian Summit – Impartiality: Practical dilemmas of principled action

World Humanitarian Summit: Humanitarian UAV Code of Conduct & Guidelines

World Humanitarian Summit – Humanity: Practical dilemmas of principled action

Expert Briefing - Suppressing foreign terrorist fighters and supporting principled humanitarian action (Humanitarian Law and Policy)

Expert Briefing: Medical Care in Armed Conflict: IHL and State Responses to Terrorism (Humanitarian Law and Policy)

Briefing & Discussion: Realities of being principled in today's field operations (Humanitarian Law and Policy)

Briefing: The Power of Business in Emergencies - Online Briefing on the Nepal Earthquake

Briefing: Measuring success in protection programming (Exchange Hub)

World Humanitarian Summit – Gender-Based Violence in Humanitarian Crises

Briefing and Q&A with USG ERC Stephen O'Brien

World Humanitarian Summit – Humanitarian Effectiveness and Staff Wellness

World Humanitarian Summit: Localizing preparedness and response in South and Central Asia

World Humanitarian Summit: Principles for Ethical Humanitarian Innovation

Introductory Briefing: Measuring success in protection programming (Exchange Hub)

Briefing: An NGO Perspective on the new IASC Humanitarian Programme Cycle

World Humanitarian Summit: Migrants in Crisis

World Humanitarian Summit: Trafficking in persons in times of crisis

World Humanitarian Summit: Faith and religion in humanitarian action

World Humanitarian Summit: Pacific regional consultation

World Humanitarian Summit: Special discussion on the principle of neutrality

Building Disaster Management Partnerships - Private sector experiences in the Philippines and beyond

World Humanitarian Summit: Introduction to the Europe and Others regional consultation

World Humanitarian Summit - Humanitarian effectiveness: Regional priorities in Eastern and Southern Africa

World Humanitarian Summit - The power of business in the ebola response

World Humanitarian Summit - Successful innovation scale-up models (Eastern and Southern Africa consultation)

World Humanitarian Summit - Interaction with political and military actors (Eastern and Southern Africa consultation)

World Humanitarian Summit: Introduction to the Eastern and Southern Africa regional consultation

World Humanitarian Summit: Outcomes from the North and Southeast Asia Regional Consultation

The Future of Humanitarian Action - Live Q&A on the World Humanitarian Summit with Valerie Amos

World Humanitarian Summit - North & Southeast Asia: Live online consultation on humanitarian response in situations of armed conflict

World Humanitarian Summit - North & Southeast Asia: Live online consultation on humanitarian effectiveness in a changing landscape

Interactive briefing on World Humanitarian Summit (with Jemilah Mahmood, Linda Poteat, Oliver Lacey-Hall, Paul Empole)

Expert Briefing: International law at the vanishing point of war (Humanitarian Law and Policy)

World Humanitarian Summit: NGO reactions to the Secretary-General's Report

OLS HLP 17. IHL and UN Peacekeeping Operations (with Katarina Grenfell)

OLS HLP 16. The ICC and humanitarian actors (with Théo Boutruche)

OLS HLP 15. Strike at Kunduz - an IHL analysis (with Prof Robin Geiss)

OLS HLP 14. Legal foundations for humanitarian access (with Elizabeth Holland)

OLS HLP 13. Unpacking the concept of direct participation in hostilities (with Anne Quintin)

OLS HLP 12. Independence - Practical dilemmas of principled action (with Sean Lowrie)

OLS HLP 11. Neutrality - Practical dilemmas of principled action (with Kate Mackintosh)

OLS HLP 10. International criminal law and its role in addressing violations of IHL (with Prof Chris Jenks)

OLS HLP 9. Impartiality - Practical dilemmas of principled action (with Jérémie Labbé)

OLS HLP 8. Human rights law in situations of armed conflict (with Prof John Cerone)

OLS HLP 7. Humanity - Practical dilemmas of principled action (with Dr Hugo Slim)

OLS HLP 6. Advanced learning session on humanitarian principles (with Marc DuBois)

OLS HLP 5. Qualification of Armed Conflict Case Studies - Ukraine and Syria (with Prof Laurie Blank and Sareta Ashraph)

OLS HLP 4. Qualification of Armed Conflict (with Dr Noëlle Quénivet)

OLS HLP 3. Fundamental Principles of IHL (with Dick Jackson)

OLS HLP 2. Core Humanitarian Principles (with Elizabeth Holland)

OLS HLP 1. Introduction to IHL and its relevance for humanitarian actors (with Elizabeth Holland)

OLS TCHA 4 - Gender-based violence in humanitarian crises (with Erin Kenny)

Learning session: Psychology, trauma, and staff wellness in humanitarian action (Trends and Challenges in Humanitarian Action)

Learning Session: Humanitarian innovation: an overview (Trends and Challenges in Humanitarian Action)

Learning Session: Faith and Religion in Humanitarian Action (Trends and Challenges in Humanitarian Action)