[Collaboration in the humanitarian sector] brings stronger engagement, a culture of understanding, and appreciating contextually how different the problems may seem – when you collaborate, you can actually find viable common solutions! – Parvathy Ramaswami
The Centre of Competence on Humanitarian Negotiation (CCHN) recently organized a 6-day World Summit. This global event brought together frontline negotiators, humanitarian policymakers, scholars, donors, and government representatives to tackle the most challenging present-day issues related to humanitarian negotiation.
During the World Summit, we met with some of the world’s leaders in the humanitarian field. In this interview, Parvathy Ramaswami, Deputy Country Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) Afghanistan shares her experiences in humanitarian negotiations.