Ansherina Talavera
Program Manager
Biography
Ansherina Grace Talavera, Program Manager for ECHO Actions, CARE Philippines
Oversees the implementation of ECHO-funded humanitarian and disaster preparedness actions, works closely with the EU-funded Peace and Culture project, and ensures complementarity, coherence in strategies, cross-learning, streamlined internal and external coordination, and strengthened donor relations. She also provides technical support to project teams on Integrated Risk Management and on humanitarian sectors.
Organisation
CARE Philippines
NGO
Speaker session
Responding to an unprecedented global food crisis and averting famine
Auditorium
Mitigating climate-driven disasters: Scaling up resilience and anticipatory action
Auditorium
The session will highlight the impact of climate change on at risk communities and identify gaps in the resilience of communities to climate shocks. It will investigate the importance of all actors across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus to ensure a holistic approach to building resilience to shocks. The session will investigate actions that Nexus actors could take to support at risk communities to build their resilience to climate shocks, and will also discuss the role of anticipatory action in addressing the impacts of climate change.
Soaring humanitarian needs and limited resources: Engaging emerging donors and new sources of financing
Auditorium
This session discusses a new “humanitarian narrative” in which humanitarian aid is framed as an investment and a common good. This narrative is framed by the ever-growing gap between resources for humanitarian assistance and humanitarian needs. . How new sources of funding (i.e. development and climate funding) can be mobilized will be discussed. In this context, the session will also debate how to get more concrete commitment from aid organizations to provide assistance in a more efficient and effective manner, working together much stronger and distributing tasks more systematically in line with their core strengths. Finally, the session will seek the support of minimum benchmarks for national humanitarian budgets with the objective of additional and more balanced humanitarian funding.
Boosting synergies for humanitarian action and civil protection in crisis response
Aquarium
This session will showcase concrete examples of successful cooperation and synergies between humanitarian action (HA) and civil protection (CP) and discuss how these examples can be replicated in other contexts. The session will debate the current level of integration of HA and CP actions and highlight the tools that are available to create synergies at EU-level (e.g. HA funding, EHRC, UCPM, rescEU, and ERCC). Finally, the session will analyse how other actors, such as member states and regional disaster management organizations, manage and contribute to the interactions between the HA and CP, and showcase what the benefits to these interactions are, seen from the perspective of humanitarian partners.
Session 2: Quality Funding
Auditorium
Session 3: Localisation – Equitable partnerships in practice
Auditorium
Closing remarks
Anya Sitaram
Moderator and Director Rockhopper Media
Biography
Anya Sitaram is a journalist, documentary producer and conference host specialising in health, science and international development. A former BBC World News anchor and television reporter Anya is a founding director of Rockhopper Media an award-winning television and film production company.
Anya has overseen scores of documentaries which have run on channels around the world including BBC World News, PBS, Discovery, Nat Geo and Al Jazeera among others. She regularly moderates at high level international events.
Speaker session
Responding to an unprecedented global food crisis and averting famine
Auditorium
Mitigating climate-driven disasters: Scaling up resilience and anticipatory action
Auditorium
The session will highlight the impact of climate change on at risk communities and identify gaps in the resilience of communities to climate shocks. It will investigate the importance of all actors across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus to ensure a holistic approach to building resilience to shocks. The session will investigate actions that Nexus actors could take to support at risk communities to build their resilience to climate shocks, and will also discuss the role of anticipatory action in addressing the impacts of climate change.
Soaring humanitarian needs and limited resources: Engaging emerging donors and new sources of financing
Auditorium
This session discusses a new “humanitarian narrative” in which humanitarian aid is framed as an investment and a common good. This narrative is framed by the ever-growing gap between resources for humanitarian assistance and humanitarian needs. . How new sources of funding (i.e. development and climate funding) can be mobilized will be discussed. In this context, the session will also debate how to get more concrete commitment from aid organizations to provide assistance in a more efficient and effective manner, working together much stronger and distributing tasks more systematically in line with their core strengths. Finally, the session will seek the support of minimum benchmarks for national humanitarian budgets with the objective of additional and more balanced humanitarian funding.
Boosting synergies for humanitarian action and civil protection in crisis response
Aquarium
This session will showcase concrete examples of successful cooperation and synergies between humanitarian action (HA) and civil protection (CP) and discuss how these examples can be replicated in other contexts. The session will debate the current level of integration of HA and CP actions and highlight the tools that are available to create synergies at EU-level (e.g. HA funding, EHRC, UCPM, rescEU, and ERCC). Finally, the session will analyse how other actors, such as member states and regional disaster management organizations, manage and contribute to the interactions between the HA and CP, and showcase what the benefits to these interactions are, seen from the perspective of humanitarian partners.
Session 2: Quality Funding
Auditorium
Session 3: Localisation – Equitable partnerships in practice
Auditorium
Closing remarks
Anya Sitaram
Moderator
Biography
Anya Sitaram Director Rockhopper Media
Anya Sitaram is a communications consultant, documentary producer and conference host specialising in health, science and international development. A former BBC World News anchor and television reporter Anya is a founding director of Rockhopper Media an award winning television and film production company. Anya has overseen scores of documentaries which have run on channels around the world including BBC World News, PBS, Discovery, Nat Geo and Al Jazeera among others. She regularly moderates at high level international events.
Organisation
Rockhopper Media
Other
Speaker session
Responding to an unprecedented global food crisis and averting famine
Auditorium
Mitigating climate-driven disasters: Scaling up resilience and anticipatory action
Auditorium
The session will highlight the impact of climate change on at risk communities and identify gaps in the resilience of communities to climate shocks. It will investigate the importance of all actors across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus to ensure a holistic approach to building resilience to shocks. The session will investigate actions that Nexus actors could take to support at risk communities to build their resilience to climate shocks, and will also discuss the role of anticipatory action in addressing the impacts of climate change.
Soaring humanitarian needs and limited resources: Engaging emerging donors and new sources of financing
Auditorium
This session discusses a new “humanitarian narrative” in which humanitarian aid is framed as an investment and a common good. This narrative is framed by the ever-growing gap between resources for humanitarian assistance and humanitarian needs. . How new sources of funding (i.e. development and climate funding) can be mobilized will be discussed. In this context, the session will also debate how to get more concrete commitment from aid organizations to provide assistance in a more efficient and effective manner, working together much stronger and distributing tasks more systematically in line with their core strengths. Finally, the session will seek the support of minimum benchmarks for national humanitarian budgets with the objective of additional and more balanced humanitarian funding.
Boosting synergies for humanitarian action and civil protection in crisis response
Aquarium
This session will showcase concrete examples of successful cooperation and synergies between humanitarian action (HA) and civil protection (CP) and discuss how these examples can be replicated in other contexts. The session will debate the current level of integration of HA and CP actions and highlight the tools that are available to create synergies at EU-level (e.g. HA funding, EHRC, UCPM, rescEU, and ERCC). Finally, the session will analyse how other actors, such as member states and regional disaster management organizations, manage and contribute to the interactions between the HA and CP, and showcase what the benefits to these interactions are, seen from the perspective of humanitarian partners.
Session 2: Quality Funding
Auditorium
Session 3: Localisation – Equitable partnerships in practice
Auditorium
Closing remarks