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Women, walking with what possesions they can carry.

Women, displaced by Jowhar floods and walking with what possessions they can carry, arrive in a steady trickle at an IDP camp in Somalia.

"Crises are increasingly protracted, with populations displaced for 17 years, on average, and humanitarian needs at levels not seen since the end of the Second World War. ... For those whose livelihoods and lives are at risk on the ground, the distinction between humanitarian assistance, development support and building peace is meaningless. Those challenges affect people's lives in a unified and simultaneous manner - our response will never be adequate if fragmented."

Secretary-General António Guterres

 

Calendar:

18 March 2020: Principal-level meeting on Sudan

14 November 2019: Fifth high-level meeting of the United Nations Joint Steering Committee to Advance Humanitarian and Development Collaboration

8 May 2019: Fourth high-level meeting of the United Nations Joint Steering Committee to Advance Humanitarian and Development Collaboration

19 November 2018: OECD DAC Round Table on Humanitarian, Development and Peace Nexus

6 November 2018: Third high-level meeting of the United Nations Joint Steering Committee to Advance Humanitarian and Development Collaboration

26 October 2018: Second ad-hoc meeting of the United Nations Joint Steering Committee to Advance Humanitarian and Development Collaboration

15 -19 October 2018: Workshop on the Humanitarian-Development Nexus in the Central African Republic

A close-up of a blue UN flag

The Joint Steering Committee to Advance Humanitarian and Development Collaboration (JSC) is a critical mechanism to promote greater coherence of humanitarian and development action in crises and transitions to long-term sustainable development and in reducing vulnerabilities to build resilience.

Zubeir (right) and his friend came to get water from this water point in Musaik, a neighbourhood of Sana'a. In this neighbourhood, more than 30,000 people are dependent on water distribution, according to GIZ, the German cooperation agency. Every day, three trucks of 3,000 liters each serve a few distribution points in the neighbourhood. The project is a cooperation between GIZ and UNICEF. Because of the commercial blockade and the lack of fuel, most water pumps are not able to function and people rely on water trucking.

The New Way of Working (NWOW) calls on humanitarian and development actors to work collaboratively together, based on their comparative advantages, towards ‘collective outcomes’ that reduce need, risk and vulnerability over multiple years.