Event Conference
Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks | HNPW 2023
17 Apr 2023 – 28 Apr 2023
Venue: CICG & Online
Organization: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
The Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week annual humanitarian conference provides a collaborative space for practitioners and experts from a large variety of humanitarian stakeholders including UN agencies, NGOs, the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement, academia, the military, private sector initiatives, and Member States. The 2023 edition takes place in a hybrid format from 17 to 28 April. The programme features a number of sessions addressing environmental challenges and opportunities in humanitarian response.
About the Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week
The Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW) is an annual humanitarian conference, that provides a collaborative space for practitioners and experts from a large variety of humanitarian stakeholders including UN agencies, NGOs, the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement, academia, the military, private sector initiatives, and Member States. This year’s edition is taking place in a hybrid format from 17 to 28 April 2023 (17-21 April remotely, 24-28 April face-to-face at the CICG).
The event was first held in 2015 upon a recommendation from Member States and the stakeholders of Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships to hold their annual meetings at the same location and to provide an opportunity for professionals working in the humanitarian sector to exchange experience, discuss new concepts, introduce new tools and ideas, connect, and collaborate in finding solutions to common challenges in crisis preparedness and response.
Since 2017, the strategy for HNPW cross-network collaboration is defined by the “Leading-Edge Program” Strategic Group, which is co-chaired by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), comprising representatives of Networks and Partnerships that attend the HNPW. The LEP Strategic Group has agreed on nine Areas of Common Concern for cross-network collaboration.
In addition to network and partnership meetings, the HNPW 2023 will offer a wide variety of cross-network interactive sessions, briefings, technical meetings, and a virtual Exhibition Area, where participants can exchange experience and have the opportunity to network with professionals and experts across many sectors, including the environment. Most sessions in the HNPW face-to-face week will be accessible remotely. Connection details of upcoming sessions and the outcomes of completed sessions are available in the Event Program
Environment @ HNPW 2023
The programme features a number of sessions addressing environmental challenges and opportunities in humanitarian response.
17 April, Monday
- 11:00 CEST | The value and potential of repair in displacement settings – a case for durability and circular approaches to solar products
- 14:00 CEST | Environmental Assessments Working Group of The REH: Review And Outlooks
- 17:00 CEST | Ensuring full lifecycle accountability for humanitarian waste through sustainable procurement
18 April, Tuesday
- 14:00 CEST | A path towards ecological international aid – inspirations from experiences in Burkina Faso, Lebanon and France
- 19:00 CEST | Integrating Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction into Humanitarian Programming
19 April, Wednesday
- 15:00 CEST | Greening the Türkiye earthquake response
- 15:00 CEST | Challenges of cooperation, mutualisation and consistency to address the ecological transition in the aid sector.
20 April, Thursday
- 12:00 CEST | Natural Disaster Preparedness Supported by Simulation
- 15:00 CEST | Humanitarian Packaging Waste: How the Joint Initiative supports more sustainable practices
24 April, Monday
- 11:00 CEST | Understanding the impact of triple shocks: climate change, conflict and displacement
- 14:00 CEST | IASC Climate Action Roadmap: seeking inputs
- 14:00 CEST | Scaling grassroots organizations to influence change and impact local and global ecosystems through open mapping
25 April, Tuesday
- 11:00 CEST | Looking back, looking forward – crisis trends and the impacts of climate change
- 14:00 CEST | Child-focused social protection in the age of cash, conflicts, cities and climate risks
- 14:00 CEST | Bridging the Gap: How Protection Actors can support preparedness actions in the context of climate change and disasters
- 14:00 CEST | Green Procurement: Using innovative approaches to item specifications to reduce emissions and waste creation
- 14:00 CEST | Climate, Disasters, and Data
- 16:00 CEST | Re-thinking plastic packaging
- 16:00 CEST | Report Launch: Anticipation Action Global Overview 2022
- 17:15 CEST | Climate Humanitarian Reception
26 April, Wednesday
- 09:00 CEST | Sustainable energy transition in humanitarian cold chains
- 09:30 CEST | Climate Change – what’s the state of readiness of the humanitarian sector to meet this growing demand?
- 11:00 CEST | Waste management in humanitarian context
- 11:00 CEST | Is local procurement always more environmentally sustainable?
- 14:00 CEST | Ukraine Humanitarian Response and the Environment
- 14:00 CEST | Addressing climate and disaster risk in humanitarian and fragile contexts
- 14:00 CEST | Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilience in Humanitarian Action
- 14:00 CEST | Water and Wash Innovations in Humanitarian Context
- 16:00 CEST | How are donors influencing environmental sustainability and climate change mitigation in humanitarian action?