Humanitarian partners: introduction
ECHO does not intervene directly on the ground. The assistance it provides is mainly mobilised and implemented by its partners, along ECHO's general strategic guidelines.
Working hand in hand
ECHO works with about 200 non-governmental organisations, United Nations agencies and international organisations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross and the International Federation of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent Societies
Having a diverse range of partners is important for ECHO because this allows for comprehensive coverage of an ever-growing list of needs in different parts of the world - and in increasingly complex situations. ECHO has developed increasingly close working relationships with its partners at the level of both policy issues and management of humanitarian operations.
Partners Conference
Like every year, ECHO organises a Conference with its partners. You will find below presentations of plenary sessions and workshops for the last three years.
2012
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- ECHO Operational Perspectives 2013
- Partnership Agreements Revision
- eSingle Form - a New Generation
- Partners Conference Visibility 2012
- NEW AGENDA NOW AVAILABLE - 11/10/2012
- Concept Paper "Improving the Partnership Agreements" - 09/10/2012
- Revision of Partnership Agreements – timeline
- Visit the Partners' Virtual Stands!
- Read the speech by Nicolas Borsinger, VOICE President
- Listen to Alain Boinet, Director-General of Solidarités International, during the 2012 Partners Conference
- Listen to Léon Prop, Director of the EU Red Cross Office, during the 2012 Partners Conference
- Listen to Antoine Gérard, Head of OCHA Liaison Office Brussels, during the 2012 Partners Conference
2011
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- Video recording: Address by Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response
- Transcript of the speech by Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva
- Video recording: Round table "Caught in the Crossfire": Protecting civilians and delivering aid in conflict zones.
Round table introduced and moderated by Claus Sørensen, ECHO Director General
Panellists:- John Ging, Director, Coordination and Response Division of operations, OCHA
- Lt Gen Ton van Osch , Director General, EU Military Staff
- Knut Dörmann, Head of the Legal Division, ICRC
- Greg Ramm, Director of Global Programmes, Save the Children UK
- Workshop 1 - "Into the breach": Boosting capacity of delivery in difficult operational environments
- Martin Kessler, Head of Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe: The ACT Alliance
- Michele Schivo, Desk Somalia, ECHO B/3: Remote management: The Somalia experience
- Bernhard Julier, Head of Unit External Resources Division, ICRC: The NIIHA approach
- Martin Kessler, Head of Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe: The ACT Alliance
- Workshop 2 - "Out of the box": Disaster trends and innovative responses
- Sarah Bailey – Overseas Development Institute (ODI): Disaster trends and humanitarian response – Are solutions 'in' or 'out' of the box?
- Ian Heigh, Senior Logistics Advisor, IFRC Global Logistics Service: 'Doing the right things'- A systematic approach that can be used by organisations working in disaster response
- Nicolas Barrouillet, coordinator CaLP consortium: Do you have change? Innovation and technology in Cash Transfer Programming
- Ian Clark, Head of Unit ECHO A/5, Civil protection Policy, Prevention, Preparedness and DRR: Key Challenges in Disaster Management over the next Ten Years
- Sarah Bailey – Overseas Development Institute (ODI): Disaster trends and humanitarian response – Are solutions 'in' or 'out' of the box?
- Workshop 3 - "Too many cooks?" - Multiplication of actors and effective Coordination
- Christopher Stokes, Director General of the MSF Operational Centre in Brussels and MSF Belgium: The limits of the humanitarian coordination system
- Niels Scott, Chief, Humanitarian, Coordination Support Section, Coordination and Response Division OCHA: Humanitarian action challenges
- Patrick Lambrechts, Desk DRC, ECHO B/2: How would DG ECHO fund coordination in a given emergency
- Vera Goldschmidt, ECHO B/1 Emergency response: How the EU Civil Protection Mechanism facilitates coordination
- Plenary – "Up to the challenges: Can we boost efficiency through working in "consortia?"
- Introduction by Walter Schwarzenbrunner (Director ECHO C): Can consortia/coordinated response contribute to meet the identified challenges?
- Achim Apweiler (Welthungerhilfe Pakistan Director on behalf of Alliance2015): Alliance 2015: Reflections on the Consortium response in the Pakistan floods
- Beatrice Miège (ECHO B/4): Enhancing co-ordinated/integrated response strategies
- Jean-Pierre Buisseret (Head of Unit ECHO C/3), Getting accountability and partnership issues right
- Presentation by Harald Happel, Humanitarian Officer, Caritas Europa: Humanitarian Aid needs commitment to humanitarian principles
- Presentation by Mihela Zupancic, ECHO communication unit: The challenges of communicating EU humanitarian aid - video
- Presentation by Steffen Stenberg, ECHO Director of operations: Operational perspectives for 2012: funding and HIPs calendar
- Speech by Dr. Wolf-Dieter Eberwein (VOICE President)
2010
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- Agenda -
- Video footage of the speech
- A DVD copy of the video footage of the 21/10 morning session is available upon request.
Message from Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response
Roundtable on securing the humanitarian space: from principles to action - presentations by panel speakers
- Lead remarks by Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary General - Emergency Relief Coordinator, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
- Elisabeth Rasmusson, Secretary General of Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) -
- Yves Daccord, Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) -
- Benoit Miribel, President of Action contre la Faim (ACF), Director of Foundation Merieux -
Presentations by DG ECHO
- Increasing effectiveness and efficiency of our partnership - Herman Mosselmans (ECHO/B2) -
- Enhanced response capacity - Henrike Trautmann (ECHO/C2) -
- Reflection on how to strengthen at longer term efficient funding in humanitarian aid - Vijay Bhardwaj (ECHO/B1) -
- Interaction between humanitarian aid and civil protection in emergencies - Hans Das (ECHO/C3) -
- Undernutrition in humanitarian crises - Maureen Philippon (ECHO/A5) -
- DG ECHO operational priorities for 2011 (Directorate A - operations) -
- DG ECHO priorities regarding food assistance and nutrition in 2011 - Jan Artur Sienczewski (ECHO/A5) -
- Mid-term review of the action plan of the consensus on humanitarian aid - Julia Stewart David (ECHO/C1) -
Presentations by partners
- Speech of Wolf-Dieter Eberwein, President of VOICE -
- Access and assistance to beneficiaries in the Colombian context - Carol Byler (Mencoldes) -
- International Disaster Response Law: objectives and challenges - Elise Baudot (IFRC) -
- Beyond cluster coordination on the context of natural disasters - Simon Eccleshall (IFRC), Eelko Brower (NL Red Cross), Matthew Wingate (Save the Children UK), Maurice McQuillan (Trócaire) -
- Challenges and benefits of working in consortia: the example of the Liberia WASH consortium - Chantal Richey (Oxfam GB) - -
