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A hybrid session for the Fragility Forum Partnership Day
Shifting power to local actors has been a top policy priority in the international aid sector, alongside attempts to break down silos between humanitarian, development and peace efforts in fragile settings. But efforts to ‘localise’ are rarely joined up with efforts to connect across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus. Some have argued that these internationally-led reforms continue to place donors and international agencies at the centre, instead of governments and local civil society. Others suggest that locally led, HDP nexus work is impossible in complex risk environments.
Join ALNAP and IFRC in this hybrid session as part of the World Bank Group’s Fragility Forum Partnership Day, as we explore and challenge these assumptions by learning from leaders outside the internationally-led aid system on how to support locally led development, peace and humanitarian work. We will hear from the perspectives of government, national civil society and the Red Cross/Crescent movement on what is working in terms of local leadership across the H-D-P nexus in complex risk environments and where more effort is required. We will also share insights from the philanthropic sector, where efforts to support local leaders are potentially making faster pace, unencumbered by long-standing bureaucratic silos.
Session time: Friday 1 March at 1-2pm EST / 6-7pm GMT / 7-8pm CET / 9-10pm EAT***
Speakers:
Mr. Nouhum Maiga, Secretary General, Mali Red Cross Society
Hodan Ali, Senior Policy Advisor, Health and Social Services, Office of the President, The Federal Government of Somalia
Wafa M. Al Madhaji, PhD., Abs Development Organization for Woman and Child, Yemen
Hibak Kalfan, CEO, NEAR Network
Patricia McIlreavy, President and CEO, Center for Disaster Philanthropy
Chair: Alice Obrecht, Head of Research & Impact, ALNAP
Join us online by registering at this link: https://shaking-off-the-silos.rsvpify.com
Will you be in Washington DC on 1st of March and want to join us in person? Please register here on the World Bank site to attend the Fragility Forum partnership day in person.
*** ALNAP and IFRC recognise that the timing is inconvenient for several time zones and will record the session to be available afterwards. To enable fast access to the recording, please register online for the session and the recording will be shared with you within 48 hours of the event.***