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16 January 2014
During their December meeting, the PHAP Board decided unanimously to start the process of creating two advisory groups for the association’s Professional Development Program. The two groups of subject matter experts will be providing guidance relating to the track on Humanitarian Law and Policy and the track on Leadership and Management of Humanitarian Action in order to formalize the valuable...
18 December 2013
We are happy to announce that PHAP members now receive discounts with three new prominent training providers, adding to the association’s initiative to improve the matching between opportunities and needs for humanitarian training and professional support services. Starting this month, Mango, Human Rights Education Associates (HREA), and INTRAC are offering members access to their courses at...
18 December 2013
Last month, PHAP launched a new information-sharing initiative, as part of its monthly Update on Leadership and Management of Humanitarian Action, in which active humanitarian practitioners are asked to highlight the main professional challenges they are currently facing in the crisis they are working on.Starting with a focus on the Syrian crisis in PHAP’s November update, there were...
18 December 2013
For the first time, PHAP will be offering its Core Professional Training on Humanitarian Law and Policy in French. This spring, 28-30 April, the training course will be held in Dakar, Senegal. In order to facilitate for bilingual participants, breakout groups for discussions and exercises will be organized according to preferred language (English or French).Responding to the need for a clear and...
16 December 2013
PHAP members gathered for their annual General Assembly on 22 November. The meeting, hosted online in order to enable members throughout the world to attend, was the most well attended General Assembly to date. Members present or represented were based on all continents (except Antarctica, of course!) and were coming from the full range of organizations active in the humanitarian sector,...
5 December 2013
On 22 November, the PHAP General Assembly elected five new board members: Karen AbuZayd, Pamela Husain, Lucio Melandri, Ross Mountain, and Faizal Perdaus. Together with Bruno Demeyere and Michael Fark, who will be continuing to serve on the board, this group of prominent professionals in the humanitarian sector will be playing an important role in developing the association to better meet the...
4 December 2013
PHAP participated as a partner and exhibitor at AidEx in Brussels this year, which took place on 12 and 13 November. The event attracted around 2000 people from more than 67 countries.The PHAP Secretariat staff members who were present at the exhibition spoke with more than 200 people about PHAP over the course of the two days. With so many different elements of the humanitarian sector...
12 November 2013
Our recent thematic workshop in Istanbul brought together an impressive set of humanitarian practitioners and policy experts on humanitarian access. Over two days, they had the opportunity to deepen their knowledge in the area and learn from experts and peers. The workshop included sessions on the latest relevant research by leading institutions, featuring speakers from the Geneva Academy, the...
9 November 2013
AidEx will soon take place and the PHAP Secretariat will be there in order to meet with you and answer any questions you may have about the association. If you are in Brussels on either 13 or 14 November, we hope that you will be able to come and pay us a visit at our stand in the exhibition hall – number A64 along the west wall of the hall.On 13 November, PHAP will also be organizing a two-hour...
8 November 2013
On 23 October, almost 40 PHAP members and invited guests met up in Istanbul for an evening networking event. This was an appreciated opportunity for members to meet their colleagues in the association, whether they had worked together before or were new acquaintances.Taking place between PHAP’s training events on humanitarian law and policy and the World Conference on Humanitarian Studies, the...