Addressing critical humanitarian & development issues

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What We Do

Mission: Enhance understanding of critical humanitarian issues around the world and support practical actions to address them.

Approach: Bring together experienced persons engaged in addressing critical issues - Facilitate a forum for discussion with global thought leaders - Support the efforts of affiliates in diverse fields in which they are making contributions - Undertake studies evaluations and consultancies - Offer training and mentoring.

HDPI FORUM

Discussion with global thought leaders on critical humanitarian issues

Recordings

SPECIALIZED SERVICES/ Working Groups

Child Protection in Emergencies
Impowering Persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Addressing Trauma in Migration
Emergency Preparedness /Risk Reduction
Ethical Considerations in Decision Making

ONGOING COURSES AND SEMINARS

IDEAS

RESOURCES/PUBLICATIONS/VIDEOS by HDPI affiliates

THE CAPABILITIES PROJECT - Living with special abilities

MAJOR ONGOING INIATIVES

Support for agencies working with institutionalized and unaccompanied children in the UKRAINE emergency
Collaboration with Special Olympics to provide training in refugee camps and local communities on persons living with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Haitians Helping Haitians support for communities after the Haitian earthquake
Support to healthcare professionals and community members who work with persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities/Shariti Hospital, Tanzania

SOUND BITES FROM THE HDPI FORUM

Saulo Padilla, speaks on the Trauma of Migration for children

SOUND BITES FROM THE PATHFINDERS FORUM

Marie de la Soudiere speaks about reuniting unaccompanied children.

SOUND BITES FROM CHANGING PERCEPTIONS

Nils Kastberg discusses engagement with persons living with intellectual and developmental disabilities - at Shariti Hospital, Tanzania.

Engagements and Publications by Persons Affiliated with HDPI

Capacity building for children’s rights in transitional justice processes in Sri Lanka

September 24, 2020

HDPi consultants are providing intensive capacity-building for local civil organizations in children’s rights and inclusion framework in truth-seeking and reconciliation processes following the decades-long armed conflict in Sri Lanka.

Supporting social change and conflict reduction through trauma healing and community problem-solving

September 24, 2020

HDPI supports Wozo Haiti a locally developed, national organization which aims to generate positive social change and conflict reduction through trauma healing and community empowerment.

Engaging faith leaders to promote human rights

September 24, 2020

HDPI consultants provided training for faith leaders on basic tenents of international humanitarian law, human rights and child rights, youth leadership, conflict prevention, and reconciliation in conflict-affected communities in Eastern DRC and Burundi.

Facilitating inter-agency workshop on emergency preparedness and child rights

September 24, 2020

HDPI facilitated an inter-agency workshop in Kigali to improve emergency preparedness and response to cross-border movements of children in the Great Lakes Region

Advising the Government of Eritrea on their OneWASH strategic plan

September 24, 2020

Provided strategic guidance and facilitation for the Government of Eritrea and their partners during the process to develop their process to develop a national strategy for water, sanitation, and hygiene for 2030.

Strategic guidance for accountability to children affected by crises

September 24, 2020

HDPI provides ongoing strategic guidance and technical expertise to support the Childfund Alliance in developing child-friendly accountability programs to monitor progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goal Target 16.2 (ending violence against children).

Leading international study on early-warning and early-response

September 24, 2020

HDPI undertook a multi-country study to identify ways to strengthen UNDP’s early warning and early-response to crises across the globe.

Study on statelessness and risks of statelessness in Guinea Bissau

September 24, 2020

HDPI consultants carried out ground-breaking research on stateless people and persons at risk of statelessness in Guinea Bissau. The study also assessed the impact of statelessness on fundamental rights, as well as the legal and administrative framework for preventing and reducing statelessness.

Planning and facilitation for the World Humanitarian Summit

September 24, 2020

HDPI members supported big picture thinking on adapting the humanitarian system as part of planning inputs to the World Humanitarian Summits, and served as facilitators and rapporteurs of various consultations and meetings.

Evaluating post-earthquake programming

September 24, 2020

HDPI organized and conducted an evaluation of a post-earthquake trauma-healing and resilience program in Haiti.

Strategic consultations with ‘Pathfinders’ of Child Protection

September 24, 2020

HDPI convened a three-day consultation with pioneers in child protection in humanitarian crises from around the world. The consultation documented the evolution of child protection knowledge and best practice over the past few decades and chartered a vision for how the field can continue to evolve.

Emergency assessments for refugee and displaced children

September 24, 2020

HDPI members helped facilitate an inter-agency mission to Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey to assess the situation of at-risk refugee and displaced children. Also consulted on emergency preparedness and response actions to the large-scale influx of unaccompanied children into the US.

Strategic guidance on national humanitarian response policy

September 24, 2020

HDPI developed guidance for the UAE Committee for Coordination of Humanitarian Foreign Aid on how to coordinate and organize humanitarian response programs.

Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Linked to the COVID-19 Crisis in the United States

April 26, 2022

FINAL AAIUH MHPSS EVAL

OpEds by Persons Affiliated with HDPI

Misinformation on the Internet – Working Group on Ethical Decision Making

April 27, 2022

HDPI Working Group on Ethical Decision Making Misinformation on the Internet – an Ethical Tool to Find the Way Forward To Regulate of Not to Regulate? The extraordinary power of the internet to spread information instantly, with little oversight or regulation, has meant that hate speech, intentional misinformation, fake news, and the purposeful spreading…

The Ethics of Sanctions

April 26, 2022

The Ethics of Sanctions (Summary of the latest thoughts by HDPI’s Ethical Decision-Making Group) If, as Carl von Clausewitz said, war is the continuation of politics by other means, then perhaps the adoption of sanctions is the prevention of war by economic means. In the last sixty years, economic and political sanctions have been imposed—unilaterally…

Pathfinders in Child Protection: Everett Ressler

June 4, 2020

In November of 2019, HDPI convened some of the globe’s experts in child protection in humanitarian emergencies to discuss the origins, evolution, and future of the field. The convening was called the Pathfinders Dialogue and was made possible by the Oak Foundation. This is an excerpt from an interview with Everett Ressler, who had a long…

COVID-19: The need for global solidarity and cooperation: Dr. William Hawk

April 1, 2020

By Dr William Hawk, Fred Spielberg and Everett Ressler This op-ed was first posted in Global Geneva. As COVID-19 has shown, the first reaction of governments in a pandemic is to close borders. Indeed, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) prescription of “isolate, test, treat and trace” proves much easier if the influx of imported cases…

The future of humanitarian evaluation

April 1, 2020

HDPI staff and affiliates have a joint call every other Thursday to discuss ongoing initiatives and to share knowledge from our diverse fields and experiences. The HDPI call on Thursday, 6th February focused on evaluation. Krishna Belbase, who joined HDPI recently made a brief presentation and led the discussion on the topic “Evaluation: Emerging Trends…

Rebuilding Schools – Rebuilding Communities In Nepal

February 1, 2017

What happens after the bodies are counted, after the wounds are bandaged, after the world attention leaves to focus on the next global disaster? April 2015 Nepal, a small and peaceful country on the south side of the Himalayas, suffered a major earthquake that left close to 9,000 dead, hundreds of thousands with destroyed homes,…

Listening to the voices of local communities in humanitarian response

January 23, 2016

In this video with BBC Media Action, HDPI Member Nigel Fisher speaks about the importance of listening to populations affected by humanitarian crises: “Actually, people who are affected by disasters, people living in communities and local organizations, they’re usually the first responders anyway. And quite often, what they think needs to be done may or…

Who We Are

A global network of experienced practitioners

Affiliates

Pilar Aguilar, PhD.

Specializes in education in emergencies

Nicholas Alipui, MD

Specializes in Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in context of the SDGs and humanitarian strategy

Richard Anson, Ph.D.

Specializes in agriculture and rural development

Orla Bakdal

Specializes in Human Rights, Good Governance, Climate Change, and Diplomacy

Becca Balis

Specializes in child rights and protection

Martin Barber

Specializes in maintaining peace and security and protecting civilians in conflict

Elaine Zook Barge

Specializes in trauma and resilience

Krishna Belbase

Specializes in results based monitoring and evaluation. Also, food and nutrition, security, and social protection.

Mathilde Bienvenu

Specializes in Child protection, child rights and early childhood development

Neil Boothby

Specializes in child rights and protection, especially in refugee contexts

Jim Brasher

Specializes in strategic development and global philanthropy

Marie de la Soudière

Specializes in family tracing and reunification, psycho-social reintegration of boys and girls formerly associated with armed forces and groups.

Diego Otegui Ph.D.

Specializes in the design and implementation of emergency management and humanitarian educational programs.

Moira Fratta

Specializes in strategic planning and humanitarian leadership, preparedness, resilience and sustainability.

Ed Giradet

Specializes in journalism in humanitarian contexts

Katy Grant

Specializes in refugee and child protection

Sara Guerreiro

Specializes in human rights and governance

Stephen Hanmer D’Elía

Specializes in child protection, forced migration, mental health & psychosocial support.

William J. Hawk

Specializes in practical ethics featuring an evidence-based ethical reasoning strategy

Vern Jantzi

Specializes in restorative justice and trauma healing and resilience

Nils-Arne Kastberg

Specializes in advocacy for persons living with mental conditions and syndromes with a focus on human rights and humanitarian action.

Jean-Claude Legrand

Specializes in child protection in emergencies

Leslie Little

In Memory of Björn Ljungqvist

National Nutrition Policy

Charles Mutasa

Specializes in civil society, governance, and human rights

Tom McDermot

Saulo Padilla

Specializes in trauma and resilience

Roger Pearson

Roger holds a master’s degree on Medical Demography from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition from the University of London.

Heidi Peugeot

Specializes in emergency preparedness, disaster risk reduction and resilience

Beatrice Progida

Specializes in program design, monitoring and learning systems

Angela Raven Roberts

Specializes in reunification of unaccompanied children, gender based violence, creation of safe spaces.

Michael A Rechlin, Ph.D.

Specializes in forestry and conservation

Everett Ressler

HDPi Executive Director, specializes in child protection and care and protection of unaccompanied children.

Claudio Schuftan

Public Health Consultant

Saudamini Siegrist

Specializes in transitional justice and child rights and protection

Laurent Sierro

Specializes in global political and humanitarian journalism

Frederick Spielberg

Specializes in emergency preparedness, simulations and child protection.

AR. Subbiah

Mr. Subbiah has operational responsibility for Regional integrated Multi-hazard Early warning System( RIMES ) for Africa and Asia Pacific region.

John Williamson

Specializes in technical support for programming and policy to strengthen family care for children, preventing separation promoting family reunification.

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