Briefing session on Participation of Local Actors in Humanitarian Coordination Group

About the webinar

Mr. Muhammad Amad presents the various aspects, challenges and importance of participation of Local Humanitarian Actors in the Coordination Group at country and international level. 

About the Speaker

Mr. Mohammad Amad is a renowned development professional since 16 years. He had been a volunteer social worker in community since graduation and initiated social reform organization. He is an advocate of localization of humanitarian action. He is in the advisory board of Pakistan Humanitarian Pool fund and a regular contributor to UN strategic policies and plans. He is a member of realization team for START Hub in Pakistan. He contributed to the civil military protocols in complex emergency. Furthermore, he is endorsee of C4Cs and member of GNDR and PHAP.  Since 8 years he is working as Executive Director of Initiative for Development and Empowerment Axis (IDEA) and since 3 years he is National Chair of NHN.

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Video Recording

National Humanitarian Network Pakistan

A volunteer network, founded in 2010 in result of interactive dialogue in National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) “to act as an independent and vibrant voice to engage with stakeholders throughout Pakistan for promotion of humanitarian values by influencing policies and building capacities to ensure right based humanitarian response”. 172 humanitarian organizations are members of NHN from across Pakistan and it is open for all national and local organizations engaged in humanitarian assistance or disaster management advocacy.  NHN focus on “Effective and Accountable Humanitarian Governance” – mainly in Response and Disaster Preparedness through four major areas i.e. “Coordination/networking, Advocacy, Capacity Building and Information Management”.

NHN is a key network in Pakistan which is well connected with various stakeholders and demonstrated its effectiveness to do proper advocacy and lobbying for access, space and principled response. NHN supports stakeholders in collecting and timely sharing of critical information for preparedness and response as its members are spread across Pakistan and even in hard to reach areas.

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