Geneva Day 1
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United Nations Humanitarian Network and Partnership Week (HNPW) 2024 Help Peru is represented at the HNPW 2024 conference by its Deputy Director, Adriana Delgado. The week-long conference in Geneva, Switzerland, is providing a space for participants to connect, share, and learn about the global impact of climate change. On the first day, the primary topic was “silo” work – the separation between Humanitarian and Developmental organizations and interventions. The sharing centered around the necessity of integrated approaches to development. Communities need to alleviate poverty first and foremost. They do not separate out climate change, environmental issues, natural disasters, or food insecurity in their day-to-day living. The discussions also included the need to focus on short- and long-term interventions, as well as the need for real engagements with communities or what was mentioned as “localization.” These approaches reflect what Help Peru puts into practice in our development work. Other interesting discussions took place around innovative finance mechanisms, the involvement of the private sector – an affected sector but at the same time funders for emergency situations and many times the first to respond to emergency/disasters by investing in the recovery. Names such as VISA and Miyamoto were mentioned as two companies that provide support during humanitarian crisis. The necessity of involving youth to create a new generation of leaders that work actively on climate change solutions was a theme repeated in various sessions.Finally, we close this update with a reflection by Ramesh Rajasingham, Director of OCHA – United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, who made a call to consider the three “Cs” in our work: climate crisis, conflict situations, and economies impacted by Covid. Currently in 2024, we have only advanced in meeting sustainable development goal (SDG) indicators by 15%; with this year having a lower percentage of people targeted vs people in need. To mobilize resources when priorities of international organizations and big donors focus on conflict and climate change related disasters is challenging but there is space to identify new ways of funding. New discussions around funding includes climate funding, standardized measurements for donor contributions, flexible funding considering a changing context, funding focused on organizational development, etc. Adriana Delgado, Help Peru, 6 May 2024 |