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Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks | HNPW 2025

17 Mar 2025 – 28 Mar 2025

Venue: CICG & Online

Organization: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Eco-Humanitarian

SDG1 | SDG16

The Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks annual humanitarian event provides a collaborative space for practitioners and experts from a large variety of humanitarian stakeholders including UN agencies, NGOs, the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement, academia, the military, private sector initiatives, and Member States. The 2025 edition takes place in a hybrid format from 17 to 28 March 2025. The programme features a number of sessions addressing environmental challenges and opportunities in humanitarian response.

About the Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks

The 2025 edition of the Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW)  – a large humanitarian event held every year since 2015 providing a collaborative space for humanitarian networks, partnerships, practitioners and experts to meet and address key humanitarian issues – is convening from 17 to 28 March 2025. The first week 17 to 21 March is taking place online, while the second week (24 to 28 March) will take place in person at the CICG in Geneva.

Since 2017, the strategy for HNPW cross-network collaboration is defined by the “Leading-Edge Program” Strategic Group, which is co-chaired by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), comprising representatives of Networks and Partnerships that attend the HNPW. The LEP Strategic Group has agreed on nine Areas of Common Concern for cross-network collaboration: 1) Accountability to Affected Population, 2) Anticipatory Action, 3) Climate Crisis, 4) Emergency Response in a Pandemic, 5) Inclusion, 6) Integrating Security Risk Management in Humanitarian Action, 7) Localization, 8) Environment Nexus, and 9) Organizational Culture and Power Relations.

Sessions will be categorized by “Enablers” 1) Logistics and supply chain, 2) IM, data and data quality, 3) Research and innovation, and 4) Training and Exercises.

During the event, networks and partnerships hold their annual meetings and consultations, share their expertise and collaborate on best practices to address shared problems. HNPW 2025 also offers a wide variety of cross-network interactive sessions, briefings, technical meetings, and a virtual Exhibition Area, where participants can exchange experiences and have the opportunity to network with professionals and experts across many sectors, including the environment. Most sessions in the HNPW face-to-face week will be accessible remotely. Connection details of upcoming sessions and the outcomes of completed sessions are available in the Event Program.

HNPW 2025 Website

Environment @ HNPW 2025

The programme features a number of sessions addressing environmental challenges and opportunities in humanitarian response.

Monday, 17 March

Tuesday, 18 March

Wednesday, 19 March

Thursday, 20 March

Monday, 24 March

Tuesday, 25 March

Wednesday, 26 March

Thursday, 27 March

Friday, 28 March