Humanitarian Practice Network: A conversation on 'Accelerating localisation through partnerships' by Overseas Development Institute

In this special episode, we're live from New York City at the UN Climate Action Summit, discussing the intersection of conflict, climate change and disaster risk reduction.Interviewees:• Eliot Levine, Director, Environment, Energy and Climate, Mercy Corps• Anne Hammill, Director, Resilience, International Institute for Sustainable Development• Alec Crawford, Senior Policy Advisor and Lead, Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding, International Institute for Sustainable Development• Aditya Bahadur, Research Associate, Risk and Resilience, Overseas Development Institute (ODI)• Yves Daccord, Director General, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)• Ms Mami Mitzouri, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction • Loretta Hieber Girardet, Regional Director, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction for Asia and the Pacific

In this episode, we share six logical and also some radical ideas for how we can improve the support provided to communities who are living with the risk of disasters while also contending with conflict.Interviewees:•Chitra Nagarajan, Senior Advisor, Centre for Civilians in Conflict•Oenone Chadburn, Head of Humanitarian Support, Tearfund•Kassem Chalaan, Disaster Risk Reduction Programme Manager, Lebanese Red Cross•Raghida Abdel El Hamid Chasim, Director, Takmiliyat Al Kobba Secondary School•Animesh Kumar, Deputy Chief, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, UNDRR•Rina Meutia, Disaster Risk Management Specialist, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery•Dr Ayesha Siddiqi, Lecturer in Human Geography, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London•Loretta Hieber Girardet, Regional Director, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction for Asia and the Pacific

In this episode, we focus on the politics of disaster risk reduction policies and strategies and how disaster risk manifests on the ground. We draw on observations from research in Chad, Colombia and Lebanon to reveal the realities of disaster risk reduction in conflict-affected contexts.Interviewees:•Dr Ilan Kelman, Reader, UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction•Ms Mami Mitzouri, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction•Zahi Chahine, Project Manager of Disaster Risk Management Unit, Lebanon•Loretta Hieber Girardet, Regional Director, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction for Asia and the Pacific•Dr Ayesha Siddiqi, Lecturer in Human Geography, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London•Bina Desai, Head of Policy and Research, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)•Chitra Nagarajan, Senior Advisor, Centre for Civilians in Conflict

‘When disasters and conflict collide’ is a podcast series that explores how conflict increases people’s vulnerabilities to disasters around the world.In this episode, we explain why disasters are not natural, how conflict has been the elephant in the diplomatic meeting room for decades and what’s being done to rewrite a better future for affected people.Interviewees:•Banak Joshua Dei Wei, Director General for Disaster Management and National Focal Point for the Implementation of Sendai Framework in South Sudan for the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Republic of South Sudan•Margareta Wohlstrom, President of the Swedish Red Cross•Dr Ayesha Siddiqi, Lecturer in Human Geography, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London•Loretta Hieber Girardet, Regional Director, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction for Asia and the Pacific•Oenone Chadburn, Head of Humanitarian Support, Tearfund•Zahi Chahine, Project Manager of Disaster Risk Management Unit, Lebanon

Constructive deconstruction is a three-part podcast series where change makers pitch radical new visions to shake up the future of humanitarian aid.This episode redefines ‘crisis’ and the humanitarian role, and pitches a vision of a whole-of-problem crisis response based on humanitarian principles.Interviewees:-Christina Bennett, Head of Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG), ODI-Marc Dubois, author, former Executive Director of MSF UK-Abdurahman Sharif, Director of the Somalia NGO Consortium-Nan Buzard, Head of Innovation, ICRC

Constructive Deconstruction is a three-part podcast series where change makers pitch radical new visions to shake up the future of humanitarian aid.This episode explores the pitch for a humanitarian social economy based on opportunities for displaced people, and unpacks the potential of cooperatives and community investment funds with insights from Syria.Interviewees:-Christina Bennett, Head of Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG), ODI-Tahir Zaman, author and lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sussex-Nils Carstensen, Local to Global Protection-Rouba Mhaissen, economist, activist and development expert

Constructive Deconstruction is a three-part podcast series where change makers pitch radical new visions to shake up the future of humanitarian aid.This episode examines how technology is disrupting power structures in the humanitarian sector, drawing on real life examples from across the world including the Mediterranean refugee crisis.Interviewees:-Christina Bennett, Head of Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG), ODI-Paul Currion, author and humanitarian consultant-Jaz O’Hara, Founder, World Wide Tribe-Aimee Ansari, Executive Director, Translators without Borders

This episode introduces the concept of gender norms and explores how they are changing. It looks at gender norms through a historic lens to demonstrate that while change is slow, it is happening. Part 1: What are gender norms?Part 2: Change happens In this podcast, we speak to:- Dr Caroline Harper, Head of Programme/Principal Research Fellow, ODI- Dr Nicola Jones, Principal Research Fellow, ODI and Director, GAGE- Dr Anita Ghimire, Director, Nepal Institute for Social and Environmental Research - Rachel Marcus, Research Associate, ODI- Bekele Tefera, independent consultant, Ethiopia- Nikki Van Der Gaag, Director of Gender Justice and Women’s Rights, Oxfam Great Britain

This episode unpacks some of the many challenges associated with changing gender norms.Part 1: The paradoxical nature of change creates challengesPart 2: What are the wider conditions needed to facilitate change?Part 3: Even if change is happening, there are powerful forces pushing backInterviewees (May also appear in the previous and following episode)Carol Watson, independent researcher Dr Florence Kyoheirwe Muhanguzi, Senior Researcher, Makerere University, UgandaPaola Pereznieto, Research Associate, ODIDr Fiona Samuels, Senior Research Fellow, ODI