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Throughout the 'Beyond the Pandemic' research, the HERE team has been in dialogue with many parts of the sector over the last four months to make sense of the way the sector is changing, gathering evidence to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the humanitarian landscape. We initiated a global research programme, with a focus on four different contexts: Cameroon, Colombia, Libya and Myanmar.
In November 2020, HERE hosted a discussion with practitioners and policymakers to consider how the impact of the pandemic could be leveraged to instigate improvements in humanitarian action. An initial analysis of the findings makes one thing clear: the time to garner a collective energy to map the future we want is now.
Through the conference, HERE would like to use the preliminary findings of its research project 'Beyond the pandemic' to move collectively from analysis to solutions. If we have a good idea of what does not work, how do we make change happen? What needs to be integrated into current global policy processes? The true value of an ecosystem is its diversity of views. HERE is therefore not looking for the ideal solution but it rather believes in creating the opportunity to bring different visions together to map alternative ways forward.
