Amira Mahmoud
Global Coordinator for Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies
Organisation
CARE Egypt Foundation
NGO
Speaker session
The session aims to identify the operational challenges faced by frontline humanitarian workers in better engaging on access, as exemplified by field experiences. It will also outline the advantages of a more systemic and structured approach to strengthening the capacity of country-level humanitarian leadership on access negotiations. The discussions will focus on joined-up approaches among humanitarian and political actors to strengthen the use of humanitarian diplomacy for access while ensuring respect for the humanitarian principles and encouraging States to fulfil their obligations under International Humanitarian Law. Furthermore, the session will analyse how to design humanitarian access strategies in a way that enable accountability to affected populations and facilitate the access of crisis-affected communities to protection services and support.
Protection of Civilians and Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination
Studio
This session seeks to increase awareness on mainstreaming of Protection of Civilians (PoC) by the UN and EU peace/security actors and on the complementarity of PoC with humanitarian protection. It will discuss the key lessons learnt and best practices derived from the engagement with military/peace actors on mainstreaming Protection of Civilians in EU CSDP missions and operations, and UN peacekeeping missions. In addition, it will debate the current gaps and challenges to protecting civilians in complex emergencies. Finally, the session will discuss how Civil-Military Coordination can facilitate protection outcomes in contexts of shared humanitarian and military/peace presence.
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.
Edem Wosornu
Chief, Response Support Branch
Biography
Appointed in February 2021, Ms. Edem Wosornu is the Chief of the Response Support Branch (RSB) in UN OCHA Geneva. RSB is responsible for strengthening national and international disaster response through specialized services, including the UNEP/OCHA Joint Environment Unit, the UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination mechanism, the International Network of Search and Rescue Advisory Group, the Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination Service, and the Humanitarian Negotiations Unit. RSB also fosters operational partnerships with stakeholders, including the private sector through OCHA/UNDP’s Connecting Business Initiative. Ms. Wosornu has over 20 years of experience in humanitarian affairs, including multiple leadership positions in some of the world’s most complex emergencies. Prior to her current appointment Ms Wosornu served as OCHA’s Head of Office in Nigeria from 2018 to 2020; and as Chief of the Strategy Planning, Evaluation and Guidance Section in the Office of the Assistant-Secretary-General of OCHA from 2016 to 2018, where she was responsible for strategic planning, monitoring and evaluations, and coordinating interagency humanitarian evaluations. Before this, she briefly led the Political Engagement Team ahead of the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit; was OCHA’s Section Chief for Asia and the Pacific Region (2015-2016); Head of Office in Somalia (2014-2015), and Deputy Head in Somalia (2012-2013). From 2004 to 2012, Ms. Wosornu worked in various management and technical capacities for OCHA in New York, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. Before joining OCHA she worked as a United Nations Volunteer and intern for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Sudan (2002-2004) and London (2001-2002). She worked in the private legal sector in London prior to her UN career. Ms. Wosornu holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Studies from the College of Law, London; a Master of Laws (LL. M) in International Banking and Finance Law from University College London (UCL); and a Bachelor of Laws (LL. B) from the University of Hull, UK.
Organisation
Coordination Division, OCHA
Speaker session
The session aims to identify the operational challenges faced by frontline humanitarian workers in better engaging on access, as exemplified by field experiences. It will also outline the advantages of a more systemic and structured approach to strengthening the capacity of country-level humanitarian leadership on access negotiations. The discussions will focus on joined-up approaches among humanitarian and political actors to strengthen the use of humanitarian diplomacy for access while ensuring respect for the humanitarian principles and encouraging States to fulfil their obligations under International Humanitarian Law. Furthermore, the session will analyse how to design humanitarian access strategies in a way that enable accountability to affected populations and facilitate the access of crisis-affected communities to protection services and support.
Protection of Civilians and Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination
Studio
This session seeks to increase awareness on mainstreaming of Protection of Civilians (PoC) by the UN and EU peace/security actors and on the complementarity of PoC with humanitarian protection. It will discuss the key lessons learnt and best practices derived from the engagement with military/peace actors on mainstreaming Protection of Civilians in EU CSDP missions and operations, and UN peacekeeping missions. In addition, it will debate the current gaps and challenges to protecting civilians in complex emergencies. Finally, the session will discuss how Civil-Military Coordination can facilitate protection outcomes in contexts of shared humanitarian and military/peace presence.
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.
Anastasiia Fitisova
Research Manager
Organisation
IMPACT Initiatives
International organisation
Speaker session
The session aims to identify the operational challenges faced by frontline humanitarian workers in better engaging on access, as exemplified by field experiences. It will also outline the advantages of a more systemic and structured approach to strengthening the capacity of country-level humanitarian leadership on access negotiations. The discussions will focus on joined-up approaches among humanitarian and political actors to strengthen the use of humanitarian diplomacy for access while ensuring respect for the humanitarian principles and encouraging States to fulfil their obligations under International Humanitarian Law. Furthermore, the session will analyse how to design humanitarian access strategies in a way that enable accountability to affected populations and facilitate the access of crisis-affected communities to protection services and support.
Protection of Civilians and Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination
Studio
This session seeks to increase awareness on mainstreaming of Protection of Civilians (PoC) by the UN and EU peace/security actors and on the complementarity of PoC with humanitarian protection. It will discuss the key lessons learnt and best practices derived from the engagement with military/peace actors on mainstreaming Protection of Civilians in EU CSDP missions and operations, and UN peacekeeping missions. In addition, it will debate the current gaps and challenges to protecting civilians in complex emergencies. Finally, the session will discuss how Civil-Military Coordination can facilitate protection outcomes in contexts of shared humanitarian and military/peace presence.
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.