The Course
Agenda
Pricing
Presenters
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The Course
The Pacific region is highly vulnerable to the increasingly frequent and severe disasters caused by natural hazards, including extreme weather and climate change. Whilst humanitarian responses to these disasters are increasing proportionally, their own negative impacts must be reduced. Incorporating greener approaches and processes into Pacific humanitarian action helps avoid or minimise negative effects on communities, their environmental resources, cultural valueOnline TrainingActs, economic opportunities, and community practices. Simultaneously, ‘greening’ creates opportunities for nature-positive outcomes to stem from humanitarian activities for Pacific communities.
Launched in December 2023, the Framework for Greening Humanitarian Action in the Pacific provides local, national, regional and international humanitarian practitioners, policymakers and donors with a practical approach for strengthening greener humanitarian action. It was designed to avoid the overly technical and therefore inaccessible nature of other frameworks and is the first operational framework developed specifically for the Pacific region. The framework centralises community perspectives, priorities and the roles of national actors in leading greener humanitarian responses.
This half-day workshop is aimed at building on current thinking about greening humanitarian operations and including outlining the process, priorities and tools that make up the Framework. The session will explore the steps to using the framework, including contextualisation, creating a baseline, developing an action plan, and implementing and monitoring progress.
This interactive 3-hour session will include opportunities for CID members, presenters, and members of the humanitarian network to share and discuss in breakout rooms as well as in the plenary sessions. The session assumes participants already have a working knowledge of humanitarian response and will be providing information useful for them to contribute to the greening journey of their organisation.
Learning Outcomes
Attending this training will enable participants to:
- Learn about the environmental impact of humanitarian response in the areas of protecting habitats, management of water, tackling waste, reducing emissions and clean energy alternatives.
- Understand how to gauge where their organisation and their humanitarian programming is at through a greening lens.
- Advocate within their organisation to develop a roadmap to green humanitarian operations.
- Develop a baseline and a way forward in designing greening humanitarian programs
Agenda
Pricing
CID Members: $200 +GST
Non-CID Members: $300 +GST
Student: $75 +GST
Special Offer: Receive a 25% discount for group sign-ups of 3 or more individuals from the same organization. Please contact Amie to avail of this offer.
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Presenters
Jess Lees - Co-Director
Co-Presenter for Session 1 & 2
Jessica Lees (Jess) has been working in humanitarian response operations in Africa and the Asia-Pacific region over the past 10 years. Most recently, Jess has been coordinating Australia’s contribution to Red Cross aid operations in East African countries facing drought and famine. Jess has also deployed to Darfur, Sudan and coordinated aid in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013 and Cyclone Winston which ravaged Fiji in 2016. Since starting in the humanitarian sector Jess has worked for a range of humanitarian and development focussed non-governmental organisations, as well as the United Nations World Food Programme and most recently with Australian Red Cross. Jess holds a Bachelors degree in International Studies from RMIT University in Melbourne and a Master of International Crisis Management from Monash University.
Beth Eggleston - Co-Director
Co-Presenter for Session 3
Beth has held key humanitarian coordination roles in a range of peace operations and humanitarian response contexts. After surviving the bureaucracy of large international NGOs and the United Nations, she co-founded Humanitarian Advisory Group in 2012. Beth has worked in the humanitarian sector specialising in civil-military coordination and humanitarian reform for the last two decades and has field experience in Afghanistan, Liberia, Tonga, Costa Rica, Laos PDR, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam. Whilst working with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) in Afghanistan Beth developed humanitarian civil-military coordination guidance, was involved in implementing humanitarian reform and worked alongside the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority. Beth also has experience working alongside host governments, with local and international NGOs, and has been on short-term deployments to Pakistan, Solomon Islands, and Sri Lanka.
Jesse McCommon - Leader
Co-Presenter for Session 1 & 2
Jesse is currently based in the United States. She began working for HAG after completing a Master of International Relations at the University of Melbourne in 2019. After several lovely years in Melbourne, she relocated to the US, but has not let several thousand kilometres or opposite time zones stand in the way of her continued work with HAG.
Jesse provides research and technical support across all three streams of HAG’s Humanitarian Horizons research programme. She also provides leadership and support for client projects, working closely with donors, NGOs, UN agencies and research organisations in the Pacific and globally. She maintains a special focus on HAG’s climate and environment portfolio, and has a keen interest and specialist knowledge in climate and disaster resilience, climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies, localisation process, and humanitarian reform.
Jesse is passionate about elevating local leadership and driving community-centred reform. She has been fortunate to work closely with local partners and consultants all over the world who have helped to shape and guide her career. She is dedicated to tackling inequalities within the aid sector and continuing to push boundaries with innovative thinking and creative solutions.
Sara Phillips - Leader
Co-Presenter for Session 3
Sara Phillips is the Research and Planning Coordinator at Humanitarian Advisory Group. At HAG, she has worked on a diverse range of research and M&E projects, including research on gender and inclusion in the humanitarian sector and the impacts of COVID-19 on how the sector operates. She has also worked on a number of projects providing M&E technical support for government aid programmes including in Afghanistan, Myanmar and Bangladesh.
Before joining HAG, she worked at the Monash Gender, Peace and Security Research Centre. Her research experience has focused on gender and age-based analyses of armed conflict and humanitarian crises, as well as gender, foreign policy and political leadership.
Sara completed a Master of International Relations at Monash University. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts (International Studies & French), and a Diploma of Languages (Spanish).