Geneva Humanitarian Connector (GHC)

Participants will be provided with an overview of IASC humanitarian coordination mechanisms at the country, regional, and global levels, followed by an opportunity for questions and answers. The event will explore the current coordination structures, and the way for NGOs to engage in such structures, with a special focus on how the country-level and global-level mechanisms coordinate and feed into each other.

The first session of PHAP's and ICVA's series on humanitarian financing concentrates on the current realities and emerging trends of humanitarian funding. Participants will be provided with an overview of the different traditional and emerging financing streams coexisting in the humanitarian sector, with a focus on how NGOs access humanitarian funding and the challenges they currently face.

Join us on 27 April to learn more about the first draft of the next Sphere standards, and find out how you can contribute to their development. Participants will be provided with an overview of what is new in terms of structure and content in the first draft of the revised Sphere Handbook. They will also learn how they can share their views and feedback. The event will feature brief presentations on each Handbook chapter, followed by an opportunity for participants to ask questions.

The Professional Standards for Protection Work were first established in 2009 in a process initiated and led by the ICRC. Following a first revision in 2013, they are now being updated again to reflect new developments in situations of armed conflict and other situations of violence, and the experiences of humanitarian and human rights organizations responding to these crises.

In this session, participants will be provided with an overview of the origins and current processes related to the Grand Bargain and how it might impact the work of NGOs. Based on the interests expressed in previous sessions, the session will focus on three areas of the Grand Bargain: increasing support to local and national responders, harmonized and simplified reporting, and the humanitarian-development nexus.

The fifth session of PHAP’s and ICVA’s learning stream on humanitarian financing will focus on the growing potential of private funding in the humanitarian sector. Participants will be provided with an overview of the main existing private funding mechanisms, with a particular focus on emerging trends and key challenges for NGOs, followed by an opportunity to ask questions.

The fourth session of the learning stream on humanitarian financing, organized by ICVA and PHAP, will aim to provide a clearer understanding of the changing context for NGOs and bilateral funding. Join this event to hear from speakers from the European Commission and the U.S. Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM), as well as from NGOs with experience of working bilaterally with these two donors.