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Series of webinars on mutual aid in crisis situations
							A series of webinars is being organised as part of the ‘Mutual aid in crisis situations (phase 2: dissemination of knowledge)’ project from March to June 2025. They will cover different topics and types of crisis. They are aimed at first responders, practitioners/helpers and researchers, and aim to share the initial research results, discuss them, broaden the spectrum to include new topics and obtain feedback to continue the analysis.						

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New MEAL training programme for Expertise France

Groupe URD is launching a new training project to support the further roll-out of Expertise France's monitoring and evaluation policy. This work is a continuation of the [...]

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Analysis of humanitarian access practices and mechanisms for DG ECHO

As part of the INSPIRE+ consortium, which provides the European Commission with support in drawing up its humanitarian policies, Groupe URD assists the DG ECHO in examining [...]

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Humanitarian Aid on the Move

Humanitarian Aid on the Move No. 26

Publication

Aline Hubert

A fair and equitable decarbonisation target for an international NGO, 2024

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Tools and methods

The 29 January 2025 - Online

Webinar "CHS in Evaluation, exploring the complementarities with DAC"

Charly Pierluigi is participating in the webinar organised by Trust Consultancy and Development on the complementarities of the CHS and the DAC criteria regarding evaluation. [...]

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From 18 March 2025 to 28 March 2025 - Online & in Geneva

HNPW 2025

Groupe URD is (co)organising several videoconference and face-to-face sessions during HNPW 2025 (Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks), on a variety of subjects such [...]

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Organised by URD

From 20 March 2025 to 19 June 2025 - Online, Zoom

Series of webinars on mutual aid in crisis situations

A series of webinars is being organised as part of the ‘Mutual aid in crisis situations (phase 2: dissemination of knowledge)’ project from March to June 2025. They will [...]

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Networks

The Humanitarian Environment Network

In response to a Groupe URD initiative, a number of NGOs that have begun to adopt an environmental approach recently met to formally es [...]

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Tools

Guide "Agile or adaptive management", 2020

COMPASS handbook, 2018

The Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS), 2014

Participation Handbook for humanitarian field workers, 2009

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Groupe URD in the Sahel

Groupe URD, a think-tank for humanitarian action

Founded in 1993, Groupe URD is an independent think tank that specialises in analysing practices and developing policies for the humanitarian sector. Our multi-disciplinary expertise, based on continual field visits to crisis and post-crisis contexts, provides us with insight into the functioning of the sector as a whole. We believe in sharing knowledge and collective learning, and we help aid actors to improve the quality of their programmes.

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