Past Event
WORKSHOP: Mainstreaming Climate and Environmental Action in Humanitarian Contexts
Friday, December 13, 2024: Bangkok, Thailand
Together with Community World Service Asia and ADAPT Initiative, the Charter Secretariat held a workshop on Mainstreaming Climate and Environmental Considerations in Humanitarian Action on the sidelines of the Regional Humanitarian Partnership Week in Bangkok on 13 December 2024.
The workshop brought together thirty signatories of the Charter ranging from local, national, regional and international NGOs and Red Cross/Red Crescent movement working across the Asia-Pacific region to share experiences, challenges, and strategies for integrating climate and environment commitments into their humanitarian programming. Through interactive, peer-to-peer learning sessions, participants explored ways to develop targets to the Charter commitments and how to mainstream climate and environment action into their operations and programs.
Key outcomes included the importance of mutual accountability, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing, with participants highlighting successes and challenges, innovative tools and approaches from their own organizations’ efforts. The workshop also emphasized the need for resources to be accessible in local languages and flexible to take action in dynamic humanitarian contexts, as well as the need for stronger climate and environmental advocacy at national, regional, and global levels. You are welcome to read more about the workshop from one of the participants, Rajeev Jha from Humanitarian Aid International (HAI), India.