Summary
On 15 December 2022, ALNAP, Humanitarian Outcomes and the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub hosted a webinar which heard from and engaged with researchers, members of Pakistani civil society, humanitarian funders and responders as they explored a number of critical issues:
- The role, response, and coordination model of the international humanitarian system in middle-income countries like Pakistan, where substantial government, civil society, and disaster management capacity are leading the response.
- Financing considerations, including the relatively low levels of humanitarian funding, and the role of climate, anticipatory and IFIs (i.e. the World Bank).
- Poor preparedness and risk reduction efforts despite recurring floods in the region and considerable investment; and the implications this has for future funding of this kind both in Pakistan and other countries impacted by climate change.
Speakers
- Romina Khurshid Alam – Minister of State, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister and Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan (Chair)
- Bilal Anwar – CEO (Pakistan’s National Disaster Risk Management Fund, NDRMF)
- Paul Harvey – Partner (Humanitarian Outcomes)
- Sarah Lumsdon – Humanitarian Adviser (UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, FCDO)
- Shafqat Munir – Director, Resilient Development Programme and Policy Outreach (Sustainable Development Policy Institute, SDPI)
- Nusrat Nasab – CEO (Aga Khan Agency for Habitat, AKAH)