Ilze Feifa
ECHO Partnership Manager
Organisation
Save the Children
NGO
Speaker session
Stepping up the Commitment to Conflict-Affected Children: Working across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus
Aquarium
This panel will focus on children at risk of, associated with, and formerly associated with armed forces and armed groups and. In particular, the panel will discuss how to best prevent these children’s recruitment and use, and support their reintegration through a Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus perspective. The discussion will highlight ways in which children are negatively impacted by their recruitment and use by armed actors and their differentiated needs based on age, gender and disability status. It will furthermore give concrete recommendations for updating the EU Guidelines on CAAC as well as their Implementation Strategy.
Inger Ashing
CEO
Biography
Organisation
Save the Children
NGO
Speaker session
Stepping up the Commitment to Conflict-Affected Children: Working across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus
Aquarium
This panel will focus on children at risk of, associated with, and formerly associated with armed forces and armed groups and. In particular, the panel will discuss how to best prevent these children’s recruitment and use, and support their reintegration through a Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus perspective. The discussion will highlight ways in which children are negatively impacted by their recruitment and use by armed actors and their differentiated needs based on age, gender and disability status. It will furthermore give concrete recommendations for updating the EU Guidelines on CAAC as well as their Implementation Strategy.
Jan Egeland
Secretary General
Biography
Egeland has been the Secretary General of NRC since August 2013, a role which oversees the work of the humanitarian organisation in over 30 countries affected by conflict and disaster.
Current and previous roles include the Eminent Person of The Grand Bargain initiative (2021- ), Chair of the Independent Senior Advisory Panel on humanitarian deconfliction in Syria (2021), UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (2003-2006).
Organisation
Norwegian Refugee Council
NGO
Speaker session
Stepping up the Commitment to Conflict-Affected Children: Working across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus
Aquarium
This panel will focus on children at risk of, associated with, and formerly associated with armed forces and armed groups and. In particular, the panel will discuss how to best prevent these children’s recruitment and use, and support their reintegration through a Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus perspective. The discussion will highlight ways in which children are negatively impacted by their recruitment and use by armed actors and their differentiated needs based on age, gender and disability status. It will furthermore give concrete recommendations for updating the EU Guidelines on CAAC as well as their Implementation Strategy.