World Humanitarian Summit - North & Southeast Asia: Live online consultation on humanitarian response in situations of armed conflict

Join us this coming Thursday, 19 June, for a live online briefing and consultation for the World Humanitarian Summit on the topic of humanitarian response in situations of armed conflict in North and Southeast Asia. Speakers will include Carsten Völz, Humanitarian Director of Oxfam International, Cecilia Jimenez,  National Director of the IDP Project for the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines, and Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, Deputy Head of the regional office for Asia and the Pacific of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

This event will be an opportunity to both get better acquainted with the regional consultation process, and to provide your views and ideas on the topics discussed, helping to shape the agenda for the upcoming regional consultation event.

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The Summit, convened by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and managed by OCHA, will bring all interested humanitarian stakeholders together to set out a new course for how we collaborate in the vital effort to prepare for and respond to natural disasters and man-made crises around the world.

Participation is free, but space is limited, so please register in advance to ensure that you are able to participate. You can join the online event either via your web browser (no installation is required) or by calling in using your phone. Instructions will be provided in the email confirming your registration.

About the speakers

Carsten Völz is the Humanitarian Director of Oxfam International. He has been active in international humanitarian assistance and development cooperation since 1994. Carsten has worked in grassroots projects and country programmes, with regional and global responsibilities across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Central America. Over the past two decades, he has led several leading humanitarian organizations’ major disaster response and recovery programmes from Rwanda to the Balkans to Darfur, in the South Asian floods and the Horn of Africa drought. Carsten’s recent positions include those of Global Head of Emergency Operations of CARE International and Sudan Country Director for the Norwegian Refugee Council. He is also Executive in Residence at INSEAD’s Social Innovation Centre and  a board member of the Sphere project (Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response).

Cecilia Jimenez is currently the National Director of the IDP Project for the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines. Prior to this, she was a Senior Training and Legal Officer of IDMC/NRC based in Geneva. A Philippine lawyer with specialisation in human rights and migration, Cecilia has protection field experience primarily in Southeast Asia and has over two decades of experience in NGO human rights advocacy for the Asia-Pacific region. She also has teaching experience as an Adjunct Professor on human rights law and on IHL and as trainer and legal consultant for a variety of academic and NGO consultancies on capacity-building, strategy formulation and partnerships.

Sebastian Rhodes Stampa is the Deputy Head of OCHA’s Regional Office in Bangkok and UN OCHA’s Regional Civil Military Coordination Officer. He has been based in Bangkok since 2006. During that time he has deployed into numerous humanitarian emergencies arising from both natural disaster and conflict or in support of response preparedness throughout the region. After serving in the British Forces from 1989-98, Sebastian has worked for the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) mission in Kosovo, and for OCHA as the UN Liaison Officer to the Coalition Forces and subsequently as the Special Assistant to the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative (SRSG), and as the OCHA Middle East Desk Officer in New York.

A recording of the event and summary documents can be found at phap.org/consultations