CCHN Monthly Forums continue to provide a platform for discussion on negotiation in the context of the humanitarian response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Mónica Bucio Escobedo, UNICEF’s Chief of Field Office in Venezuela, shares how practical negotiation tools help strengthen humanitarians’ capacity to operate. She explains why being prepared reduces risks for her team, her organization and, most of all, the people she is serving on the field.
The impact of COVID-19 on humanitarian responses is massive and varied in different regions and contexts. During the first CCHN Monthly Forum that took place on 15 April 2020, the CCHN brought together field practitioners, policymakers, experts and government representatives to discuss the latest developments affecting the international humanitarian response.
Members of CCHN Community of Practice shared their methods on how to manage stress collectively and individually while negotiating in volatile and complex situations or when a crisis emerges. The interview was done during the CCHN Thematic Retreat on Negotiation Under Pressure 2019.
Members of CCHN Community of Practice shared their methods on how to manage stress collectively and individually while negotiating in volatile and complex situations or when a crisis emerges. The interview was done during the CCHN Thematic Retreat on Negotiation Under Pressure 2019.
In February and March 2020, the CCHN organized two Peer Workshops and a Specialized Session in Spanish to strengthen the negotiation capabilities of humanitarian workers in Latin America. The first Taller de negociación humanitaria en terreno (Peer Workshop on Humanitarian Negotiations) was held in Cucuta, Colombia on 25-27 February 2020.
The Centre of Competence on Humanitarian Negotiation (CCHN) has continued to facilitate humanitarians working in the Sahel and West Africa to be better negotiators. In 2019, the CCHN held two French-language Peer Workshops on Humanitarian Negotiation in Dakar and Kinshasa. Subsequently, on 2-4 March 2020 in Dakar, CCHN organized another French-language Peer Workshop.
Before the COVID-19 measures were tightened, CCHN managed to organize a Peer Workshop on Humanitarian Negotiation in Amman, Jordan on 25-27 February 2020. It included 27 participants, a few of them working in the academic sector. This workshop took place after we had launched the new Training of Facilitators curriculum in two trainings at the end of January and the beginning of February.
Members of CCHN Community of Practice shared their methods on how to manage stress collectively and individually while negotiating in volatile and complex situations or when a crisis emerges. The interview was done during the CCHN Thematic Retreat on Negotiation Under Pressure 2019.
Starting in 2020, the Training of Facilitators (ToF) programme has a new curriculum designed to give facilitators a deeper understanding of the CCHN negotiation tools and methods so that they can better pass on that knowledge. The new curriculum is the result of recommendations made in a professional consultation, held in Caux, Switzerland, in June 2019, with members of the CCHN’s community of practice.