The Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW) is an annual humanitarian forum that brings together networks, NGOs, UN agencies, governments, academia, private sector actors, and civil society to collaborate on improving humanitarian action.
Below you will find a list of events and gatherings happening during the online week (02–06 March) and the in-person days (at the CICG in Geneva, 10–12 March 2026) that explore themes of climate and environment in humanitarian contexts.
Faith-Rooted SRM: Community Intelligence, Youth Leadership, and Climate Resilient Solutions to Reduce Humanitarian Risk
GISF, Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation
13:00-14:00 UTC / 14:00-15:00 CET (remote)
Climate Action Plans as a Coordination Tool: Bridging Policy and Practice in WASH
Global WASH Cluster’s Climate Change Working Group, IOM, WASH Cluster Ethiopia, WASH Cluster Somalia, Oxfam
13:00-14:30 UTC / 14:00-15:30 CET (remote)
Designing a Bio-Circular Framework for Humanitarian Operations
HUMLOG Institute
08:00-10:00 UTC / 9:00-11:00 CET (remote)
Can We Make Sustainability Truly Sustainable?
WREC Coalition
09:00-10:00 UTC / 10:00-11:00 CET (remote)
Climate-Smart and Accountable: Can we be both?
CHS Alliance, Charter Secretariat
09:00-10:00 UTC / 10:00-11:00 CET (remote)
Climate Crisis fuels rising violence against children: evidence across child protection research
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (Group of Friends on Climate Change and Child Protection), joined by Aangan Trust, Terre des Hommes, the University of Cape Town, and the University of Oxford
09:00-10:30 UTC / 10:00-11:30 CET (remote)
Compounding Climate and Conflict Risks: How ACAPS’ Risk Radar Supports Forward-looking Humanitarian Decisions
ACAPS
09:00-10:30 UTC / 10:00-11:30 CET (remote)
What does the climate crisis mean for humanitarian Health and WASH?
ADAPT Initiative
11:00-12:00 UTC / 12:00-13:00 CET (remote)
Climate Change and Market in Crisis
Markets in Crisis Network
09:30-11:00 UTC / 11:30-13:00 CET (remote)
Debate whether the climate crisis is a communication crisis
Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN)
13:30-15:00 UTC / 14:30-16:00 CET (remote)
Climate Crisis: Shared Humanitarian Risk and Locally Led Adaptation
LM International, Climate and Environment Charter Secretariat
10:00-11:30 CET (remote)
Heating up – humanitarian preparedness and response to heatwaves
ADAPT Initiative
11:00-12:30 UTC / 12:00-13:30 CET (remote)
Delivering on Greening the Humanitarian Reset: Sustainable Energy in Humanitarian Responses, Latest insights/impacts
Global Platform for Action
13:00-14:00 UTC / 14:00-15:00 CET (remote)
Strengthening Early Warning Systems in Fragile, Conflict and Violence-affected Contexts
UNDRR, WMO, ITU, IFRC, IOM
13:00-14:30 UTC / 14:00-15:30 CET (remote)
Climate Risks, Frontline Humanitarians and Community Workers
Humanitarian Aid International (HAI), Alliance for Empowering Partnership (A4EP)
09:30-11:00 UTC / 15:00-16:30 IST (remote)
Campaigning to Reduce Avoidable Deaths in a Climate-Challenged World
Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN)
14:30-16:00 UTC / 15:30-17:00 CET (remote)
Reimagining the Joint Initiative for Greener Humanitarian Assistance: The Future is Ours to Build
Erika Clesceri, Masoom Hamdard
15:00-17:00 UTC / 10:00-12:00 EST (remote)
Flood Impact Monitoring: A West and Central Africa Case Study
11:00-12:30 UTC / 12:00-13:30 CET (remote)
DELTA Resilience: Enabling the Use of Disaster Impact Data for Risk-Informed, Inclusive and Climate-Resilient Humanitarian Action
UNDRR, RCCC, German Red Cross
13:00-14:00 UTC / 14:00-15:00 CET (remote)
Estándares Esfera en tiempos de crisis climática: lecciones desde América Latina
Sphere Standards
16:00-18:00 UTC / 17:00-19:00 CET (remote)
REAP Networking Reception, La Corne à Vin, Geneva
18:30 CET onwards, RSVP required
EHAN Annual Meeting
10:00-10:15 CET Réseau Environnement Humanitaire (Waste working group) “Solar power systems: Maintenance & Waste Management Toolkit”
11:45-12:00 CET Réseau Environnement Humanitaire (Environmetal assessment working group) piloting the MERA tool in Burkina Faso
08:00-16:30 UTC / 09:00-17:30 CET (hybrid)
How Earth Observation Support Conflict Damage Mapping and Climate Resilience
Humanitarian Openstreet Maps, PAX, Red Cross Climate Center
13:00-14:30 UTC / 14:00-15:30 CET (face-to-face)
The climate gap: what do bigger crises and less support mean for the communities we work with?
Ground Truth Solutions
15:00-16:30 UTC / 16:00-17:30 CET (face-to-face)
Anticipation Hub Meet Up, Cafe Guidoline
From 18:30
Energy, Climate and Environment Meet Up
Le Scandale, Geneva, from 18:30
Unpacking What it Takes: Country Case Study on Collaborative Locally Led Resilience
UNDP
10:00-11:30 UTC / 11:00-12:30 CET (hybrid)
Without Borders, Within Boundaries: Learning How to Deliver Aid in Light of the Climate Emergency?
Médecins Sans Frontières Switzerland and Climate Action Accelerator
10:00-11:30 UTC / 11:00-12:30 CET (hybrid)
Financing and Scaling Long-Term Resilience at Community Level: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s Missing
Charter Secretariat, UNDP and ECHO
13:00-14:30 UTC / 14:00-15:30 CET (hybrid)
Agroecology, Resilience and Humanitarian Action: Learning from Locally Led Programmes and Options for Inter-Agency Ways Forward
CAFOD and Caritas Bangladesh
13:00-14:30 UTC / 14:00-15:30 CET (hybrid)
Fostering a Humanitarian Reset that Can Address the Climate Crisis: Global and Local Perspectives on the Importance of Integrating Climate Resilience, Greening and Anticipatory Action
FAO, IFRC and OCHA
15:00-16:30 UTC / 16:00-17:30 CET (hybrid)
Innovation in Fleet Management: Transforming Humanitarian Fleets from Vehicle-Centric Fleet to Mobility Plans
Fleet Forum
08:00-09:30 UTC (hybrid)
Humanitarian Crisis and Climate Challenges: Is the Humanitarian Sector Ready?
Norwegian Refugee Council
08:00-09:30 UTC / 09:00-10:30 CET (hybrid)
Climate Emergency: Transforming Humanitarian Practices to Better Serve Populations Today and Tomorrow
Climate Action Accelerator
10:00-11:30 UTC / 11:00-12:30 CET (hybrid)
Integrating Climate Risk into EMT Preparedness and Operations
WHO EMT Secretariat
10:00-11:30 UTC / 11:00-12:30 CET (face-to-face)
Satellite Imagery and Climate Data
10:00-11:30 UTC / 11:00-12:30 CET (face-to-face)
Launch of the Global WASH Cluster’s Framework for Climate Action and Humanitarian WASH: Turning Commitments into Action
The GWC Climate Change Working Group, Global WASH Cluster, IOM, UNHCR, GTH
13:00-14:30 UTC / 14:00-15:30 CET (hybrid)
Anticipatory Action in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings: Delivering the Humanitarian Reset
Members of the Anticipatory Action Task Force (Anticipation Hub, FAO, OCHA, Red Cross Red Crescent – Climate Centre & IFRC, Start Network, WFP, Welthungerhilfe)
13:00-14:30 UTC / 14:00-15:30 CET (hybrid)
The Humanitarian–Nature Learning Lab
Sarah Henly-Shepard, Erika Clesceri, IUCN FEBA
15:00-16:30 UTC / 16:00-17:30 CET (hybrid)
Reducing risk through co-development of Seasonal Climate Information for Early Action
Start Network, Save the Children, WMO Coordination Mechanism (WCM)
15:00-16:30 UTC / 16:00-17:30 CET (hybrid)