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The recording of the ICVA report launch "Publish Once, Use Often: Realising the promise of data in humanitarian work" is now available on YouTube!

🎥 Watch the full webinar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ7S...

📘 Download the report: www.icvanetwork.org/resource/pub...

📢 Join us for the launch of ICVA’s new report - Risk Sharing in Pooled Funds for Locally Led & Effective Response

📅 Date: Thursday 17 July 2025
🕑 Time: 14:00-15:30 CET

👉 Register now: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/948b34...
📝 Read the report: www.icvanetwork.org/resource/pub...

Eman Ismail, ICVA MENA Regional Engagement Coordinator, joined a gathering of leaders, practitioners, and innovators at the Workshop on Advancing Resilience-Based Development through Strategic Philanthropy.

📄 Report: www.undp.org/arab-states/...
🎥 Recap video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfuP...

📢 Join us for an ICVA webinar exploring the relevance, reality and durability of voluntary repatriation in 2025.

📅 Date: Tuesday, 22 July 2025
🕘 Time: 09:00–11:00 CET
💻 Platform: Microsoft Teams (link shared upon registration)

👉 Details & registration: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/83a9c5...

📄 A few days ago, ICVA and IRC Yemen co-hosted a powerful webinar to launch IRC’s new policy brief: “In Their Own Words."

The event was moderated by Eman Ismail, ICVA MENA Regional Engagement Coordinator.

👉 Read the full policy brief: www.rescue.org/report/their...

📣 Applications are now open also in French and Spanish!

The 2025 Interagency PSEA Community Outreach and Communication Fund is now accepting proposals from local and national NGOs and CSOs working in humanitarian or displacement contexts.

👉 www.icvanetwork.org/resource/pse...

🔄 Rotation of ICVA NGO Representation at the IASC Emergency Directors Group (EDG)

We are pleased to announce that following expressions of interest from the ICVA membership, Elodie Andrault, Operations Director of Action Contre la Faim (ACF) France, has been selected as the new ICVA EDG NGO repr.

ICVA-Building Resilience Through Financial Inclusion: The Journey of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants in Colombia International Council of Voluntary Agencies

📣 "Resilience is not built through charity, but through inclusion."

📝 Our latest blog by Isidro Navarro Paya explores what real inclusion means and how stakeholders can support the move from pilots to regional transformation.

👉 Read the full blog here: www.icvanetwork.org/blog/buildin...

ICVA Statement on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and the Erosion of Principled Humanitarian Action - ICVA International Council of Voluntary Agencies

📣 ICVA Statement on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and the Erosion of Principled Humanitarian Action

🔗 Read the full statement: www.icvanetwork.org/blog/icva-st...

📣 New blog out now: Shifting the balance – reflections on advancing locally led action in Iraq

💡 Read the blog: www.icvanetwork.org/blog/shiftin...
📖 Read the report: www.icvanetwork.org/resource/mea...
📽️ Watch the webinar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uikA...

📣 Upcoming Webinar | Women-led response in Yemen: a call for equitable partnerships

📅 Date: Tuesday, 1st July
🕒 Time: 12:00-13:45 (Yemen time) - 11:00-12:45 (CEST)
💻 Live-streamed webinar
🗣️ Arabic & English

👉 Register here: events.rescue.org/en/0XtU956/i...

We’re pleased to welcome Qamar Iqbal, Head of Localisation & Partnerships at Pak Mission Society, to the ICVA Speakers Bureau!

🎤 Are you looking for insightful, experienced panelists for your next humanitarian event?
Browse the ICVA Speakers Bureau:
🔗 www.icvanetwork.org/icva-speaker...

🤝Yesterday, ICVA was pleased to welcome Tom Fletcher, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and ERC, to our Geneva office.

We’re grateful for the time he took to hear directly from our local NGO members from South Sudan, Lebanon, and R-SEAT, alongside international NGOs.

#ICVA #OCHA

📣 Join us for the launch of our new report “Publish Once, Use Often: Realising the promise of data in humanitarian work.”

📅 Date: Tuesday 24 June 2025
🕒 Time: 15:00-16:30 CET

👉 Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e22123...
📝 Read the report here: www.icvanetwork.org/resource/pub...

📣 Upcoming webinar - Reframing humanitarian principles in practice: lessons from Sudan

🗓️ Date: Tuesday 24 June
🕒 Time: 10:30–12:00 (Nairobi) | 09:30–11:00 (CET)
🔗 RSVP by: 22 June, 23:59 CET
❗ TAKE NOTE: The event is only open to NGOs.

👉 Register here: forms.office.com/e/usduznLeAH

At the 93rd UNHCR Standing Committee, Jesuit Refugee Service delivered the collective NGO Statement on Sustainable Responses on behalf of a wide range of NGOs, and co-drafted with the Refugee Led Organisation Newcomers with Disabilities Sweden.

📄 Statement: www.icvanetwork.org/uploads/2025...

📣 At the 93rd Meeting of the UNHCR Standing Committee, Oxfam delivered the NGO Statement on Community-Based Protection on behalf of a broad coalition of NGOs, including refugee-led organisations.

📄 Read the full statement: www.icvanetwork.org/uploads/2025...

The Humanitarian Reset proposes channelling 33% of global humanitarian funding through CBPFs.

Our latest paper explores the implications of this proposal, calling for measured reflection, inclusive governance, and a balanced funding ecosystem,

🔍 Read it here: www.icvanetwork.org/resource/reb...

📣 At the 93rd Meeting of the Standing Committee of the ExCom Programme, Paul Kithima of Bondeko Livelihoods Centre (Uganda), a refugee-led organisation, delivered the NGO statement on behalf of a broad coalition of NGOs and RLOs.

📄 Read the statement here: www.icvanetwork.org/uploads/2025...

The 2025 Interagency PSEA Community Outreach and Communication Fund is now accepting proposals from local and national NGOs and CSOs working in humanitarian or displacement contexts.

📅 Deadline to apply: 11 July 2025, 17:00 CET
👉 Apply here: www.icvanetwork.org/resource/pse...

🌍 ICVA participated in the high-level event “People-driven responses: the effective way to combat food crises” held today in Geneva.

🎤 ICVA's Director of Engagement, Reshma K. Adatia, joined the panel with representatives from ICVA members Direct Aid Kuwait and World Vision, as well as local NGOs.

Join us on Tuesday, 24 June 2025, from 15:00–16:30 CET for the launch of “Publish Once, Use Often: Realising the promise of data in humanitarian work.”

👉 Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e22123...
📝 Read the report here: www.icvanetwork.org/resource/pub...

SOHS 6th edition: Aid practitioners survey 2025 ALNAP is gathering insights from practitioners for the 2026 edition of its flagship report that assesses the size, shape and performance of the humanitarian system.

🔎 Research work for the State of the Humanitarian System (SOHS) 2026 has begun and the aid practitioner survey is open.

👉 Surveys:
▪️ English: bit.ly/3FdhrLe
▪️ French: bit.ly/44Ph0Bi
▪️ Indonesian - bit.ly/4k6LJOY
▪️ Spanish - bit.ly/3ZuuD58
▪️ Ukrainian - bit.ly/3H23Qa5
▪️ Arabic: bit.ly/4d8FWFW

116 Aid organizations call for immediate action to pull Yemen back from the brink of catastrophe [EN/AR] - Yemen News and Press Release in Arabic on Yemen about Education, Health and more; published on 20 May 2025 by OCHA

🚨 New statement on the situation in Yemen

116 aid organizations—including ICVA members—are calling for urgent international action to prevent a deepening catastrophe in Yemen.

📄 Read the full statement (EN/AR): reliefweb.int/report/yemen...

🚨 New Blog Post!

"8 Things You Should Know About Humanitarian Country Teams (HCTs)" by Albert Phillip-Burger, ICVA’s Policy & Practice Coordinator.

📘 Plus: Check out our practical guide to the HCT Terms of Reference in [EN, FR, ES, AR].

👉 Read the blog: www.icvanetwork.org/blog/8-thing...

In 1990, the WHO finally removed homosexuality from its list of diseases. Yet today, LGBTIQ+ people around the world still face discrimination, violence, and exclusion.

At ICVA, we stand with those calling for safe, inclusive spaces in the humanitarian sector and beyond.

ICVA is pleased to co-host an important talk during the EHF:

🔹 Advancing Equitable Partnerships through Due Diligence Passporting
📅 Monday, 19 May | 🕓 16:45–18:00
💻 Live-streamed – no registration required! Link available on the day

ICVA 2023 Case Studies - ICVA International Council of Voluntary Agencies

How does ICVA turn strategy into impact across regions, crises, and policy spaces?
These five case studies illustrate how ICVA’s operational strategies—anchored in collaboration, advocacy, and local leadership—translate into meaningful change on the ground and in global forums.

How can we ensure local and national NGOs (L/NNGOs) are truly included in humanitarian leadership? This ICVA study goes beyond the numbers to evaluate the quality of L/NNGO engagement in IASC structures.

www.icvanetwork.org/resource/loc...

🗓️ 23–24 September 2025
📍 UNHCR Headquarters, Geneva

ICVA is pleased to partner with @UNHCR’s Regional Bureau for Europe for the 2025 UNHCR Regional Consultations with NGOs in Europe, taking place 23–24 September 2025 at UNHCR Headquarters in Geneva.

More here: www.unhcr.org/europe/event...