Global Humanitarian Policy Forum 2021
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Virtual
Where to from Here? Humanitarian Action Between Rising Needs and Distant Solutions
On 9-10 December 2021, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in partnership with the United Nations Foundation, convened the tenth Global Humanitarian Policy Forum (GHPF). This year’s GHPF assessed the current landscape through a series of thematic, interactive panel discussions including the growing humanitarian climate crisis, persistent challenges around access and humanitarian negotiations, increasing cyber threats impacting humanitarian action, and the linkages between COVID-19 and conflict and the importance of vaccines in humanitarian settings. Discussions were held virtually on Zoom.
Since 2012, the Forum has convened members of the humanitarian community and experts from other fields to anticipate future trends, launch new policy ideas and explore the practical challenges and opportunities of shifting policy to practice in crisis contexts. Over the past nine years, the GHPF has been at the forefront of shaping the international humanitarian community’s policy agenda.
Programme
Thursday, 9 December 2021 9.00 a.m. - 10.00 a.m. EST
Thursday, 9 December 2021 10.15 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. EST
From Checkpoints to High Politics: Humanitarian Access Negotiations in Action
Thursday, 9 December 2021 11.45 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. EST
Sparks on the Horizon: COVID-19 and Fragility
Friday, 10 December 2021 9.00 a.m. - 10.15 a.m. EST
No Return to Normal: Realities and Opportunities of the Growing Humanitarian Climate Crisis
Friday, 10 December 2021 10.30 a.m. - 11.45 a.m. EST
The Humanitarian Implications of Cyber Threats