Navigating Change Learning Stream

Localization is the process through which a diverse range of humanitarian actors are attempting, each in their own way, to ensure local and national actors are better engaged in the planning, delivery and accountability of humanitarian action, while still ensuring humanitarian needs can be met swiftly, effectively and in a principled manner.

The webinar on “How do NGOs navigate shrinking civil society space”, was an opportunity to hear from NGOs and different actors’ on current challenges and trends regarding civil society space. The webinar provided an opportunity to have a broader discussion on how to connect and collaborate with other actors already working on shrinking space, possible counterstrategies, and ways forward.

This webinar aimed at answering the following questions:

• What measures are being put in place to restrict the operations of NGOs and how are humanitarian NGOs affected?
• What are NGOs and other actors doing to navigate shrinking and changing space for civil society?
• How can NGOs improve their engagement with other actors and partners and connect and collaborate?

The IASC recently endorsed guidelines for the inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian action. How can these guidelines help make humanitarian action more inclusive? Join us on 26 February for a webinar, organized by ICVA and PHAP together with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) secretariat and the Reference Group on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action, which will introduce the guidelines and discuss how they can be implemented in practice. We will be joined by the three interim co-chairs of the Reference Group, as well as one of the NGOs that has been implementing the IASC Guidelines in their organization.

The webinar will aim at:

• providing practical guidance on including persons with disabilities in humanitarian programming and coordination;
• Increasing capacity among humanitarian stakeholders to develop and implement quality programs that are inclusive of persons with disabilities;
• describing the roles and responsibilities of humanitarian stakeholders to include persons with disabilities in humanitarian action; and
• increasing and improve the participation of persons with disabilities and organization of persons with disabilities in preparedness, response and recovery