ICVA's Virtual Annual Conference 2020 Session 1: Principles at Risk

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Principled humanitarian action may be more important than ever for humanitarian actors managing risk in highly political and volatile operational contexts. However, humanitarian principles are being challenged on multiple fronts. This first session helped frame the discussions of the Annual Conference and explored the importance of protecting and promoting principled humanitarian action.

This session was part of ICVA's Virtual Annual Conference 2020. Read more about the conference on the event page.

Target audience and event access

All humanitarian practitioners, particularly NGO and UN frontline staff involved in the development and delivery of programs.

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Recommended resources

We recommend everyone who is attending the Virtual Annual Conference to read the following resources:

ICVA briefing paper, "Risk and Humanitarian Culture"
ICVA-PHAP webinar "Risky Business: Reframing the fundamentals of risk management for humanitarians", 21 November 2019
InterAction, Resources on NGO Risk Management
Norwegian Refugee Council, “Principles Under Pressure”: The impact counterterrorism measure and preventing/countering violent extremism on principled humanitarian action” (2018)
Norwegian Refugee Council and Handicap International, “Challenges to Principled Humanitarian Action: Perspectives from four countries” (2016)
ICRC and Deakin University, Australia “Principled Humanitarian Action Roundtable report” (2015)
ICVA briefing paper on Risk to be published soon

For resources recommended by speakers and participants during the conference, see the main event page.

Speakers

Yves Daccord Director General, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Gloria Modong Morris Executive Director, Titi Foundation and Deputy Chair, NGO Forum South Sudan

Inger Ashing Chief Executive Officer, Save the Children International

Philippe Besson Head, Multilateral Division, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Swiss Humanitarian Aid