Local and national actors are often the first responders to disasters. Yet they come to disadvantageous situation when it comes to accessing funds. They are often used as ‘cheap implementer’ by the international actors, who neither given they due overhead cost, nor due visibility in their media publication. The same was experienced during flood response […]
HAI Participated in ECOSOC HAS
HAI was invited to take part in the Humanitarian Affairs Segment of ECOSOC, held on June 21-23, 2016 in Geneva. HAI CEO participated in a panel discussion entitled, “Localising Humanitarian Assistance- empowering local actors”. He emphasised that capacity of local actors shouldn’t become a pretext to deny funding to local and national actors. Let international […]
One Year on – The Grand Bargain and Localisation
HAI was invited to the conference One Year on – The Grand Bargain and Localisation, organised by Wilton Park, U.K. This Wilton Park conference brought together 70 representatives of local organisations in countries affected by emergencies, national governments, regional and international organisations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the diaspora and the private sector for two days of […]
Conference on Building Disaster Resilient Societies
HAI, along with SEEDS India organised a conference entitled, ‘Role of Society in Building Disaster Resilient Societies with the theme of #LetLocalBuildGlobal. The event began with a panel discussion moderated by Mr Vir Sanghvi. The other panelists were Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati (Parmarth Niketan), Ms Shefali Chaturvedi (CII Foundation), Dr Thiruppugazh (NDMA) and Mr Jagadananda (CYSD). […]
NRC Study on Pooled Funds
Norwegian Refugee Council recently published a research report on pooled funds existing around the world to respond to disasters. The report also covers HAI’s national pooled fund which HAI is trying to create through the #ThousandPlus campaign. The National Pooled Fund is one of the important pillars of HAI’s response mechanism, along with the National Platform […]