About the webinar

NHN in partnership with Pakistan Resilience Partnership presented the webinar on Humanity, Neutrality, Impartiality and Independence – Are these Humanitarian Principles being applied in today’s Humanitarian Response. The webinar was conducted on 12 October 2021. The main objective of the webinar was to highlight the importance of humanitarian principals and their application in the current humanitarian landscape.

brief the humanitarian workers and the community members on the accountability responsibility towards the affected population and how to ensure it during all ohases of a project implementation. 

About the Speaker

Mrs. Uzma Shahid is a Disaster Risk Management (DRM) practitioner, capacity building expert and a renowned trainer. She has sound expertise in conceptualizing, planning and execution of developmental, environmental, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction programs. Her professional career spans over more than two decades . She has on credit the conception, designing, planning, execution, management, and supervision of over 30 projects and programs in the diverse fields of: Disaster Risk Management, Child Centered Disaster Risk Reduction, Child Protection, livelihoods, Education particularly of girls, and Rural and Urban Development. She has developed, coordinated and contributed to more than 100 knowledge products including: research reports, training manuals, IEC material and working models/frameworks in these fields. She has designed and delivered hundreds of trainings on participatory development approaches, child protection, child rights, child centered disaster risk reduction, livelihoods, cash for work, emergency response and many more. Mrs.  Uzma Shahid has remained part of various emergencies and disasters response teams at international and national levels.

Presentation of the session (click to download)