Each year, ICVA holds an Annual Conference, which provides an important opportunity for members to convene and discuss issues relevant to the humanitarian sector, as informed by ICVA’s membership base.
ICVA 2019 Annual Conference: Translating commitments to action
ICVA's 2019 Annual Conference discussed the various commitments made through the World Humanitarian Summit, the Grand Bargain, the New York Declarations and the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration, the UN Reform process, the Localization discussion- and took a hard look at how and what we, as an NGO community, were doing to translate these commitments into action while putting people at the centre.
ICVA 2018 Annual Conference: Navigating the Nexus: NGO Perspectives
ICVA 2017 Annual Conference. How can humanitarian civil society better navigate a complex world?The importance of NGO engagement with host governments.
The 2017 Annual Conference, held on 28 March 2017, at the CICG in Geneva, discussed the relationship between states and civil society and the impact this relationship has on the ability of NGOs to operate. Keynote speakers and panel disucssions looked at the global trends and drivers impacting civil society and humanitarian NGOs, NGO experiences, and how NGOs engage with host governements.
ICVA 2016 Annual Conference: Complementarity in humanitarian action: What does it mean? What does it look like? What are the risks and benefits?
The 2016 Annual Conference was held on 5 March 2016, at the CICG in Geneva, Switzerland. Leveraging experience, insights and tools from NGOs, academia, the UN, the Red Cross and Red Crescent, civil society and the private sector, ICVA’s 2016 Annual Conference explored the concept of complementarity. The conference provided a platform for practitioners to discuss what ‘complementarity’ means, it’s relationship to humanitarian effectiveness and in local and national leadership. The conference held conversations on how complementarity is understood and applied in various humanitarian relationships - through ideological, institutional and operational lenses. As the conference took place prior to the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, complementarity in relation to the World Humanitarian Summit, and how the WHS process could positively influence and promote complementarity in humanitarian action was also discussed.
ICVA 2015 Annual Conference- Partnership, from principles to practice.
- Conference Report
- Photographs
- Presentation: Partnerships by Ros Tennyson
- Background Papers
- Provisional Agenda
- Concept Note
ICVA 2014 Annual Conference - Humanitarian Financing: Show me the Money
- Conference Report
- Presentation on Rethinking Humanitarian Resourcing
- Presentation by keynote speaker Judith Randel.
ICVA 2013 Annual Conference- Innovation! It doesn't have to be like this.
ICVA 2012 Annual Conference - Adjusting to Reality?
ICVA 2011 Annual Conference- Does size matter?
ICVA 2010 Annual Conference- Partnership for change?
- Agenda
- Concept note
- Presentation: Violence against aid workers and operational response
- Presentation: Good practices in Parternship
ICVA 2009 Annual Conference-
- Agenda
- Presentation: Changing the Humanitarian Community by Antonio Donini
- Presentation: NGO Benchmarking by Robert Jourdain
- Presentation: The Humanitarians Dilemma': Unpacking the Moral Arguments for Changing the System- by Ben Ramalingan
ICVA 2008 Annual Conference- The Essential Humanitarian Reforms
ICVA 2007 Annual Conference- How compatitable are UN Coherence and humanitarian partnership?
ICVA 2006 Annual Conference- Principles and politics of humanitarian action
1 February, 2006. Geneva, Switzerland
2003 Annual Conference- NGOs in a changing world order: dilemmas and challenges