On July 10 2024, ALNAP (the global network for humanitarian learning) hosted a new kind of online event, featuring humanitarians based all over the world for opinion, debate, networking and video.
The Learning Curve event looked at:
- Exploring why local/national actors with their wealth of knowledge and experience are largely overlooked by the broader system.
- Institutional ego and the competitive funding environment and how this inhibits the willingness of agencies to share learning collectively.
- Organisations developing cultures that enable them to make use of the learning that already exists.
Co-hosts:
- Juliet Parker, Director of ALNAP
- Namukabo Werungah, humanitarian journalist at The New Humanitarian
- Teia Rogers, Founder and managing director of JRNY Consulting
- Sarah Abdelatif, co-founder and CEO of Propel
Speakers:
- Mihir Bhatt, Director, All India Disaster Mitigation Institute
- Sophia Swithern, Independent consultant
- Eranda Wijewickrama, Executive at Humanitarian Advisory Group (HAG)
- Meg Sattler, CEO at Ground Truth Solutions
Video contributions from:
- Saeed Ullah Khan, Director at GLOW Consultants
- Charles Kojo Vandyck, Head of capacity development at West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI)
- Will Carter, Country director - Sudan, Norwegian Refugee Council
- Andriy Klepikov, Executive Director of Alliance for Public Health Ukraine
Throughout 2024, ALNAP is challenging itself, its members and humanitarians everywhere to be bolder in learning, embrace different learning experiences and approaches, and be more receptive and responsive to learning. This new journey will help transform our thinking, step off learning paths, unpick power relations and work towards more inclusive learning environments.