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Oct
13
2020
9:00—10:30 AM EDT
October 05, 2020
Coordination is essential to effective humanitarian action. But the humanitarian cluster coordination system has struggled with persistent weaknesses. It is dominated by large aid agencies and organizes humanitarian action around technical sectors, formalizing a siloed approach to response fund...
Mar
31
2020
VIRTUAL
12:30—1:30 PM ET
March 27, 2020
Successful suppression of COVID-19 in the United States will require urgent and decisive action by state, local, and community leaders across the country. To support effective decision-making, top global health security leaders have released a COVID-19 Frontline Guide. Developed in response to calls...
Mar
19
2020
2:00—3:00 PM CET
March 18, 2020
Aid agencies are scrambling to adapt as the COVID-19 pandemic is felt throughout the world. Join TNH Senior Editor Ben Parker as he speaks to leading experts and practitioners from across the humanitarian sector to discuss some of the most pressing issues. How will COVID-19 impact crisis-affected an...
Feb
13
2020
9:00—11:00 AM ET
February 07, 2020
The outbreak of the novel Coronavirus, known as 2019-nCoV, is growing by the day, and increasingly posing risks beyond China—with the developing world particularly at risk. Combining high transmissibility, a concerning fatality rate, and no medical countermeasures, experts warn the disease is evolvi...
Sep
23
2019
2:00—4:00 PM
August 19, 2019
Humanitarian relief must involve, and be accountable to, the crisis-affected people it serves.
Versions of this principle can be found in most foundational humanitarian documents, and it features prominently in recent reform commitments including the 2016 Grand Bargain. Yet the power structures t...
Oct
29
2018
10:30—12:00 PM
October 16, 2018
More than two years after we saw the end of a deadly Ebola epidemic that claimed the lives of over 11,000 people and devastated populations in West Africa, new mechanisms have been pursued to strengthen preparedness efforts, stimulate innovation for new vaccines and therapies, and develop rapid and ...
May
31
2018
9:00—3:30 PM
May 03, 2018
As countries struggle with political pressures to close borders and question the value of traditional aid to humanitarian emergencies, divisive rhetoric can often drown out reasoned debate. The imperative for pragmatic evidence on migration, forced displacement, and humanitarian policies has never b...
May
9
2018
9:30—11:00 AM
April 13, 2018
In recent years, cash transfer programming (CTP) has emerged as one of the most significant innovations in international humanitarian assistance. The Cash Learning Partnership estimates that $2.8 billion was spent on cash and voucher programming in 2016, up 40% from 2015 and near...
Sep
29
2017
9:30—11:00 AM
September 21, 2017
Long-simmering conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine state has exploded in recent weeks, leading to the rapid flight of more than 400,000 members of the country’s Rohingya population into neighboring Bangladesh. The pace of this flight has few precedents in recent history, faster even than the m...
Sep
13
2017
4:30—6:00 PM
August 28, 2017
With plans for a redesign of the State Department and United States Agency for International Development well under way, this is a critical moment for an informed discussion of the latest reforms proposals that will make US foreign assistance more effective and efficient. Please join us for a bipart...