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Interactive briefing on World Humanitarian Summit (with Jemilah Mahmood, Linda Poteat, Oliver Lacey-Hall, Paul Empole)
Interactive briefing on World Humanitarian Summit (with Jemilah Mahmood, Linda Poteat, Oliver Lacey-Hall, Paul Empole)
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57 minutes
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Mar 1, 2016
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Speakers: Jemilah Mahmood, Linda Poteat, Oliver Lacey-Hall, Paul EmpoleEvent date: 28 May 2015This live online event was an excellent opportunity for everyone interested to learn more about the World Humanitarian Summit, to take place in Istanbul in 2016, and the process leading up to this major global event. Participants learned about both the online and onsite consultation processes at the regional and global level, the main questions that will be discussed, how to provide input to the consultations, and how the results are meant to help humanitarian action move forward. Hosted by PHAP, this interactive information event featured Jemilah Mahmood, Chief of the World Humanitarian Summit Secretariat; Linda Poteat, Discussion Chair of the Online Global Consultations; Oliver Lacey-Hall, Head of the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA); and Paul Empole, Discussion Chair of the Online West and Central Africa Consultations.The Summit, convened by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and managed by OCHA, will bring all interested humanitarian stakeholders together to set out a new course for how we collaborate in the vital effort to prepare for and respond to natural disasters and man-made crises around the world.Read more at https://phap.org/WHS-28May2015
Released:
Mar 1, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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