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Faced with major climate damage, learning from the past to better tackle the emergency in Mayotte
							Once again, the climate is causing devastation... In the aftermath of Cyclone Chido, and almost 20 years to the day since the terrible Tsunami in South-East Asia, we are sharing some resources here that capitalise on lessons learned from managing post-natural disaster aid, which can help emergency and reconstruction actors in Mayotte.						

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Helping to put the triple nexus approach into practice in Chad - 4th mission

Groupe URD has been mandated by the EU Delegation in Chad to analyse the implementation methods and impacts of the nexus approach. This 4th mission continues the work already [...]

Organisational support

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 [...]

Resources

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. [...]

The 6 February 2025 - Brussels & online

Reflective seminar "Agroecology: a relevant approach to reduce risks, manage emergencies and deal with the consequences of crises?"

On the occasion of its fifth anniversary, the Minka international network, a North/South network of non-profit organizations supporting sustainable food systems, is organizing [...]

Organised by URD

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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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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