Recording now available for the fourth session of the PHAP and ICVA Learning Stream on Risk Management in Practice 

Access the video and audio recordings of the PHAP, ICVA and CHS Alliance webinar that took place on 3 December.

On 3 December, ICVA, the CHS Alliance, and PHAP organized a webinar building on a joint ICVA-CHS Alliance project on the CEO role in driving culture change to enable a positive workplace culture, safeguard staff well-being, and live our humanitarian values. The session explored practical challenges faced by staff and management as well as insights into solutions to improve the ability of senior executives to promote the necessary change.

Liza Jachens, Organisational Psychologist at Webster University, shared the results from her research of burnout and mental illness among humanitarian workers. Ann Muraya, Director of Organisation Health for Thrive Worldwide, discussed what it means to have a healthy organizational culture. Melissa Pitotti, consultant for the ICVA-CHS Alliance joint project looking at the CEO role in driving organisational culture change and co-Initiator of the CHS Alliance Initiative to Cultivate Caring, Compassionate Aid Organisations, provided a summary of the findings generated from recent interviews and focus group discussions with CEOs. Amanda Khozi Mukwashi, CEO of Christian Aid, and Dhananjayan (Danny) Sriskandarajah, CEO of Oxfam GB, reflected on their own experiences leading culture change within their organisations.

If you missed this event, you can now access the video and audio podcast version recordings of this session on the event page. 

This was the fourth webinar of the Learning Stream on Risk Management in Practice. This session follows the first three webinars in this learning series which explored ‘the impact of bank de-risking on humanitarian action’;  ‘security risk management and duty of care during COVID-19’ and ‘balancing risk appetite and risk tolerance in humanitarian operations’.