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The 2025 Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW) will take place from 17 to 28 March in a hybrid format, bringing together humanitarian practitioners from across the globe. This annual event serves as a unique platform for collaboration, knowledge-sharing and advancing humanitarian action. Participants from various sectors, including UN agencies, NGOs, Member States, the private sector, media, academia and beyond, come together to address key humanitarian challenges.

This year, UNDRR is organizing three sessions at the HNPW that explore how disaster risk reduction can be better integrated into humanitarian response. Join us for these dynamic discussions aimed at strengthening the role of disaster risk reduction and environment in humanitarian action and explore ways to improve preparedness, fostering a more resilient response to crises worldwide.

Our sessions will be held in-person at the International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG) and online.

Sessions:

1. Reducing disaster risk in humanitarian action: lessons from the field

2. Optimizing emergency preparedness for effective anticipatory action and response

3. Mainstreaming environment and disaster risk reduction into humanitarian response: concepts and practice