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Virtual
Each year, ICVA holds an Annual Conference, which provides an important opportunity for members to connect and discuss issues relevant to the humanitarian sector, as informed by ICVA’s membership base.
On 25 and 26 May 2021 ICVA will host its second virtual annual conference on the theme: ‘Climate, environment, and humanitarian action: How can NGOs mitigate and adapt?’ During ICVA’s 2030 strategy consultations, members and partners highlighted the importance of the intersection between climate and environmental change and humanitarian action. The changes taking place are not only threatening humanity and our environment as we know it, but it is also faster and more radical than expected.
The conference will bring together ICVA members, NGOs, NGO fora, States, donors, UN agencies, experts, and other climate and environment sector stakeholders to share their experiences, lessons learned, challenges, and ways forward around these issues.
New alliances will be required to work outside existing silos and it will creatively explore how the humanitarian, development and climate communities can work together to shape policy, increase resilience, improve practice, and secure resourcing for climate-related humanitarian crises and organizational change.
The conference aims to:
- Increase awareness on the challenging contexts under which NGOs already are and will have to operate
- Enable members and partners to share and learn from each other
- Create opportunities for exchange and dialogue between ICVA members, NGOs, and other actors in the humanitarian and climate/environment sectors on how to mitigate challenges, be prepared, and support NGOs to deliver in the future
- Identify where more collective action and evidence is required, building on partners and membership strengths