ICVA at STEP

Date & Time:
- 9 December 10.00-19.30
- 10 December 8.30-16.30
To Register: All ICVA members are encouraged to join and can register for a subsidised price of 5 Euros with thanks to Salesforce.
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Time and date: 03 December 2020, 15:00-16:30 (CEST)
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Event description:
Humanitarian organizations have faced situations reminding us that how we carry out our work is as important as what we do – including how agencies approach the mental and physical well-being of staff members to avoid long-term exhaustion, burnout, injury, or illness. Apart from the direct impact to individual staff members when the duty of care is compromised, organizations also face potential risks of an operational, reputational, safety and security, fiduciary, or legal and ethical nature.
The top management of an organization plays a critical role in managing risks and ensuring that staff and those we assist in our day-to-day work are cared for. This has been the focus of a joint ICVA-CHS Alliance project on the CEO role in driving culture change to enable a positive workplace culture, safeguard staff well-being, and live our humanitarian values.
Join ICVA, the CHS Alliance, and PHAP on 3 December for a webinar in which we will discuss the findings from this project and discuss practical challenges faced by staff and management as well as insights into solutions to improve the ability of senior executives to promote the necessary change.
We will hear from Melissa Pitotti, co-author of the report, who will provide a summary of the findings generated from the interviews and focus group discussions with experts and CEOs. Liza Jachens, Organisational Psychologist at Webster University, will share the results from her research of burnout and mental illness among humanitarian workers. We will also hear from speakers on the role of senior leadership in driving culture change among other topics.
This is the fourth webinar of the Learning Stream on Risk Management in Practice.
Join ICVA and PHAP on 22 October for a webinar focusing on the bank de-risking and its impact on humanitarian action. Following an introductory briefing, we will discuss with a panel of experts the practical challenges faced by humanitarian NGOs and how to approach this issue from a risk management perspective.
Following an introductory briefing, we will discuss with a panel of experts the practical challenges faced by humanitarian NGOs and how to approach this issue from a risk management perspective. This is the third event of the Learning Stream on Risk Management in Practice, aimed at exploring the current state of risk management in the humanitarian sector.
Time and date: 22 October 2020, 15:00-16:30 (CEST)
New York: 09:00 - 10:30
London: 14:00 - 15:30
Amman: 16:00 - 17:30
Nairobi: 16:00 - 17:30
Bangkok: 20:00 - 21:30
Manila: 21:00 - 22:30
Length: 90 minutes
Objective: To have a common understanding of how bank de-risking is impacting the ability of NGOs to work in humanitarian contexts and how to approach the issue from a risk management and advocacy perspective.
Target audience: All practitioners interested in risk management and humanitarian policy issues, particularly NGO staff.
Over the last few years the issue of “bank de-risking” has increasingly impacted the ability of humanitarian NGOs to safely and effectively transfer funds to programmes where people are most in need. While bank de-risking can affect the operations of any type of organisation, humanitarian organisations are particularly affected due to the nature of their work and the contexts in which they operate.
Often related to compliance with counter-terrorism measures, bank de-risking measures by financial institutions manifest themselves to humanitarian organisations in the form of refused transactions, closed accounts, or other restrictions. While bank de-risking issues for humanitarian organisations have to a large degree concerned money transfers to operations in fragile countries, there are more and more examples of humanitarian organisations facing difficulties transferring funds even at the headquarters level. Humanitarian organisations have to resort to transferring money in risky ways in order to preserve programme continuity, thus bank de-risking practices can increase the risks of fraud, security, compliance and lack of transparency.
An opaque banking system which has limited accountability to humanitarian organisations and their principles leave little to be done for individual organisations in term of appealing or objecting to what sometimes seem like arbitrary decisions. Bank de-risking is lacking research and advocacy since most organisations avoid discussing how it affects them. This is why humanitarian organisations need to step up both the management of this risk and common advocacy towards both donors and financial regulators.
This webinar is the third of a series on Risk Management in Practice.
Sangeeta Goswami
Advocacy and Communications Officer, Human Security Collective (HSC)
Khaleel Desai
Head of Governance, Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW)
Philippe Besson
Co-facilitators:
Alon Plato
Policy Officer, ICVA
Angharad Laing
Executive Director, PHAP
On 22 October, ICVA and PHAP's webinar focusing on the bank de-risking and its impact on humanitarian action discussed with a panel of experts the practical challenges faced by humanitarian NGOs and how to approach this issue from a risk management perspective.
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This webinar is part of the ICVA Learning stream on risk managment in practice
Join ICVA and PHAP on 8 September for a webinar focusing on the twin concepts of risk tolerance and risk appetite. Following an introductory briefing on these concepts, we will discuss with a panel of experts the practical challenges in identifying risk appetite and tolerance for NGOs. This is the second event of the Learning Stream on Risk Management in Practice, aimed at exploring the current state of risk management in the humanitarian sector.
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