This is an archive. The Geneva Humanitarian Connector (GHC) was a PHAP initiative. Its event calendar is no longer updated. The pages below are kept as a record of the events it listed, from 2016 to 2019.
What was the Geneva Humanitarian Connector?
The GHC was a networking and information-sharing platform for the humanitarian community in Geneva. PHAP ran it in partnership with the Swiss administration. Its main tool was a calendar of the conferences, meetings, briefings, courses and networking events in Geneva that were of professional interest to humanitarians.
Archived events (78)
PHAP and GHC events
- Expert Briefing: IHL regulating humanitarian activities – key findings from the updated ICRC Commentary on the First Geneva Convention
- Geneva networking reception (following the PHAP GA 2016)
- IRIN Curtain Raiser Event: The Grand Bargain - how far have we come?
- IRIN Geneva launch event
- Learning Stream on Humanitarian Coordination: The humanitarian coordination architecture at country and regional levels
- Learning Stream on Humanitarian Coordination: The IASC and the global humanitarian coordination architecture
- Learning Stream on Humanitarian Financing: Pooled funding – how can NGOs engage?
- PHAP Online Briefing - Humanitarian Futures: Capacities for 21st century humanitarian organizations
- PHAP Online Briefing: Contested Evidence: The challenges and limits of evidence-based approaches to humanitarian action
- PHAP Online Briefing: IHL at sea – key findings from the updated ICRC Commentary on the Second Geneva Convention
- PHAP Online Briefing: Mitigating corruption in aid - main risks and best practice from the CREATE report
Courses and training
- Alumni Reunion 2017: To celebrate the Geneva Academy's 10th anniversary
- Chronic diseases in humanitarian contexts (thematic short course)
- Communication in humanitarian settings (thematic short course)
- Designing an advocacy strategy for humanitarian action (thematic short course)
- Gender in Transitional Justice (short course/weekly lectures)
- Higher education in Emergencies (Geneva Summer Schools)
- ICRC alumni / General Assembly 2017
- International criminal law and transitional justice (thematic short course)
- Legal framework of forced migration (thematic short course)
- Legal framework of humanitarian action (thematic short course)
- Project cycle management (thematic short course)
- Sexual and reproductive health (thematic short course)
- The classification of armed conflict (short course/weekly lectures)
- The International Criminal Court (short course/weekly lectures)
- The interplay between International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (short course/weekly lectures)
- Training of Trainers on the Core Humanitarian Standard
- Workshop on Leadership Skills
UN meetings and sessions
- Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), 61st session
- Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED), 14th session
- Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED), 15th session
- Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), 69th Session
- Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), 70th Session
- Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), 71th Session
- Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), 94th Session
- Committee on the Rights of the Child, 75th Session
- Committee on the Rights of the Child, 77th Session
- Committee on the Rights of the Child, 78th Session
- Committee on the Rights of the Child, Pre-sessional Working Group, 77th session
- Conference on Disarmament, Part II
- Global Protection Cluster (GPC) AoR Meeting, May 2017
- Global Strategic Advisory Group (Global Shelter Cluster), May 2017
- Human Rights Council, 35th session
- Human Rights Council, 36th session
- Human Rights Council, Organizational meeting on the 35th session of the Human Rights Council
- Humanitarian Development Nexus! What is the New Way of Working? Practical examples, session 2
- IASC Working Group meeting (March 2018)
- IASC Working Group meeting (March 2019)
- IASC Working Group meeting (October 2018)
- IASC Working Group meeting (October 2019)
- International Labour Conference, 106th session
- International Law Commission, 69th session, 1st part
- Open-ended intergovernmental Working Group on an international regulatory framework on the regulation, monitoring and oversight of the impact of the activities of private military and security companies on the enjoyment of human rights, 6th session
- Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on the Rights of Peasants and other people working in rural areas, 4th session
- Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture (SPT), 32nd session
- UNHCR High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection Challenges 2017
- UNHCR NGO Annual Consultations 2017: From global responsibility to local action – Implementing the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework
- Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, 112th session
- Working Group on the issue of human rights commitments related to the discrimination against women in law and practice, 19th Session
- World Health Assembly, 70th assembly
Other events
- 21st century security: challenges and opportunities
- Air and missile warfare: navigating the legal dimension
- Challenges of resource mobilization and transparency in humanitarian operations and new FTS launch
- Empowering local leadership in humanitarian work – a global HR perspective
- Environmental Human Rights Defenders: Responding to a Global Crisis
- Geneva Engage Awards 2017
- HR trends and implications for Geneva-based agencies and L&D providers
- Humanitarian Networks and Partnership Week (HNPW) 2018
- Is the attack on UN peacekeepers in DRC a war crime? The status of UN peacekeepers under IHL
- Keeping duty of care on your agenda Focus: People management & duty of care
- Launch Event - The Future of Aid: INGOs in 2030
- Perception Change Project (PCP) Meet-up
- Speech by Angelina Jolie ‘In defense of internationalism’
- The "nexus" explained: How and when do humanitarian, development, and peace action come together?
- UN Watch Annual Gala Dinner
- United Nations and Global Challenges (Summer 2017)
- United Nations and Global Challenges (Winter 2018)
- What does good quality humanitarian aid data look like