Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW) 2026 - The Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus and Education: Not Just Another Buzzword
Tuesday, 10 March 2026, 16:00-17:30 CET
Hybrid: CICG, Salle 15 and online
For registration instruction, read the Event Guide for HNPW Participants
As a platform for collaboration, HNPW offers discussion and dialogue to improve humanitarian preparedness and response with Areas of Common Concern (AOCC): Accountability to affected populations, Climate crisis, Inclusion, Localisation and coordination, Security risk management integration across humanitarian action, Anticipatory action, Organisational culture and power relations, Nexus empowerment. Discussions also cover themes such as information management, data quality, logistics and supply chain, research and innovation, as well as training.
This panel is particularly relevant to the Nexus empowerment AOCC, but links to many others. The Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP)–or triple–nexus emphasises the interconnections between humanitarian aid, development, and peacebuilding efforts in order to better serve affected communities, more effectively addressing and anticipating crises while also promoting sustainable development and peace. Naming the HDP Nexus in global policy did not breathe it into being; global action is lagging behind these global promises.
The purpose of this session is to provide answers to the questions: To what extent is global action keeping up with and supporting local leadership, solutions and effectiveness? And what are ways forward in a context of increasing levels of crisis globally, and sharply reduced international funding flows?
A year on from the Humanitarian Reset, this panel provides an opportunity to take stock, with a nexus lens, of education in humanitarian response. Panel members (all contributors to a recent NORRAG Policy Insights Education and the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus at 10) will share their experiences of making the nexus a reality. They will provide insights for concrete action to help us move beyond the persistent funding silos, duplication and competition among actors, and the limited coordination across sectors that have hindered its full potential.
Programme:
- Opening Remarks
- Moira Faul, Executive Director, NORRAG
- Faiza Hassan, Director, Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)
- Panel Discussion:
- Esther Mbau, INEE PSS SEL Coordinator
- Anna Tazita Samuel, Women for Change South Sudan
- Francesca Pinna, Education Cannot Wait
- Loise Gichuhi, University of Nairobi/Africa Higher Education in Emergencies Network (AHEEN)
- Mackenzie Monserez, Save the Children International
- Questions and Discussion
- Moderator: Alison Joyner, EiE specialist NORRAG
- Closing Remarks