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Harriss, Harriet, 2016, Conference or Workshop, Keynote in Technical innovations in humanitarian action: Lessons learnt (Innovations techniques dans l’action humanitaire : Retours d’expériences) at 9th Convergences World Forum, Paris, France, 5-7 Sept 2016.

Abstract or Description:

Convergences Global forum session focussing upon:
1. What are the challenges of population growth in the 21st century?
2. What role should each stakeholder play to address these challenges?
3. What are the means?
4. What are the innovations?
And to establish:
1. New tools, equipment and specific services: How can they improve humanitarian assistance?
2. How to fund these innovations? How to ensure coordination between the manufacturing industry and institutional donors?
3. How would these tools serve a new approach of humanitarian assistance, that is better suited to beneficiaries’ needs, while integrating the notions of development and resilience?

Official URL: http://www.convergences.org/en/
Subjects: Architecture > K100 Architecture
Other > Social studies > L700 Human and Social Geography
School or Centre: School of Architecture
Funders: United Nation High Commission for Refugees, LaNef Finance Ethique, The Global Compact, Network France
Date Deposited: 05 Jan 2017 15:03
Last Modified: 09 Nov 2018 14:29
URI: https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/2652
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