Protracted crises demand more than repeated emergency response — they require coherent action that meets urgent needs while reducing risk, building resilience, and addressing the drivers of conflict. This advanced programme equips senior practitioners to design and lead programming across the humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) nexus, working towards collective outcomes while safeguarding humanitarian principles.
Aimed at an international audience from officer to director level, the programme engages the real tensions of nexus work: principled collaboration, joint analysis and collective outcomes, financing across pillars, and the institutional barriers to coherence. Participants learn to lead nexus approaches that are context-driven, conflict-sensitive, and genuinely additive rather than merely rhetorical.
Course Objectives
Upon the successful completion of this program, attendees will be able to:
- Critically appraise the HDP nexus and its evolution
- Reconcile nexus working with humanitarian principles
- Lead joint and shared context analysis
- Define and pursue collective outcomes
- Design coherent multi-pillar programming
- Sequence, layer, and integrate interventions
- Embed conflict sensitivity across the nexus
- Link relief, resilience, and development
- Navigate financing across humanitarian and development streams
- Build multi-mandate partnerships and coordination
- Engage peace and political actors appropriately
- Manage institutional and incentive barriers
- Lead adaptive programming in protracted crises
- Measure progress towards collective outcomes
- Strengthen national leadership of the nexus
- Anticipate emerging trends in nexus programming
Course Outline
- Module 1: The HDP Nexus & Its Evolution
- Module 2: Nexus Working & Humanitarian Principles
- Module 3: Joint & Shared Context Analysis
- Module 4: Defining Collective Outcomes
- Module 5: Designing Coherent Multi-Pillar Programming
- Module 6: Sequencing, Layering & Integrating
- Module 7: Conflict Sensitivity Across the Nexus
- Module 8: Linking Relief, Resilience & Development
- Module 9: Financing Across Pillars
- Module 10: Multi-Mandate Partnerships & Coordination
- Module 11: Engaging Peace & Political Actors
- Module 12: Institutional & Incentive Barriers
- Module 13: Adaptive Programming in Protracted Crises
- Module 14: Measuring Collective Outcomes
- Module 15: Emerging Trends: Nexus Programming
Who Should Attend
This advanced programme is designed for international programme directors, strategy and partnership leads, coordination staff, and senior officers working in protracted crises across UN, INGO, national NGO, donor, and peacebuilding settings.
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