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Shahida Arif, Regional Learning Advisor for Pakistan and Bangladesh, Disasters and Emergencies Preparedness Programme (DEPP), on the recent DEPP conference in Islamabad.

A Call for Learning has been announced in order to increase the sharing of knowledge across projects within the Disasters and Emergency Preparedness Programme (DEPP).

Helen Asnake discusses the recent learning hub event in Ethiopia with partners of the Disasters and Emergencies Preparedness Programme.

SOURCE: CHS Alliance. This report presents the results of the first tracking mechanism of the humanitarian surge response to the Nepal earthquake in 2015.

The Start Network and the CHS Alliance are pleased to launch a new interactive human resources (HR) platform to help HR and humanitarian staff share good practice and learn from each other when undertaking surge responses.

This report captures the learning that is emerging so far from the Disasters and Emergencies Preparedness Programme.

The current international humanitarian system, dominated by large international organisations, is being stretched to its limit. Dealing with growing frequency, unpredictability and complexity of emergencies, it appears increasingly unfit to deal with these challenges, let alone address future ones. One opportunity to address these is getting the balance right between international and local response.

Talent Development is an innovative humanitarian capacity-building project that aims to develop decentralized approaches to capacity-building and to improve the quality and speed of humanitarian response in countries at risk of natural disaster or conflict related humanitarian emergencies.

Alice Hawkes and Kerry Ann Akers, from the Protection in Practice project ask whether international organisations are truly ready to relinquish control and enable decision making to take place as close to the front line as possible.

The State of Surge Capacity in the Humanitarian Sector is the largest snapshot on surge for a number of years, and reveals how surge in the humanitarian sector has evolved in the past decade.