Janez Lenarčič
European Commissioner for Crisis Management
Speaker session
The session aims to identify the operational challenges faced by frontline humanitarian workers in better engaging on access, as exemplified by field experiences. It will also outline the advantages of a more systemic and structured approach to strengthening the capacity of country-level humanitarian leadership on access negotiations. The discussions will focus on joined-up approaches among humanitarian and political actors to strengthen the use of humanitarian diplomacy for access while ensuring respect for the humanitarian principles and encouraging States to fulfil their obligations under International Humanitarian Law. Furthermore, the session will analyse how to design humanitarian access strategies in a way that enable accountability to affected populations and facilitate the access of crisis-affected communities to protection services and support.
Camilla Waszink
NRC’s Executive Director of Partnerships and Policy
Biography
Camilla Waszink is NRC’s Executive Director of Partnerships and Policy, leading the organization’s global advocacy and humanitarian policy work and its partnerships with institutional donors, UN agencies and NGOs. Prior to that, she was Chief of Staff to NRC’s Secretary General Jan Egeland. Before joining NRC, she held positions with the International Law and Policy Institute, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Norwegian Red Cross and the Norwegian Centre for Conflict Resolution. Waszink has also worked as a researcher and consultant, including for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Small Arms Survey and the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. She has published extensively on protection of civilians, international humanitarian law, arms control and disarmament.
Organisation
Global advocacy and humanitarian policy
Speaker session
The session aims to identify the operational challenges faced by frontline humanitarian workers in better engaging on access, as exemplified by field experiences. It will also outline the advantages of a more systemic and structured approach to strengthening the capacity of country-level humanitarian leadership on access negotiations. The discussions will focus on joined-up approaches among humanitarian and political actors to strengthen the use of humanitarian diplomacy for access while ensuring respect for the humanitarian principles and encouraging States to fulfil their obligations under International Humanitarian Law. Furthermore, the session will analyse how to design humanitarian access strategies in a way that enable accountability to affected populations and facilitate the access of crisis-affected communities to protection services and support.
Carla Greiber
Deputy Director in the Department for Humanitarian Action
Biography
Carla holds a MSc in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen and a MSc in Development Studies from London School of Economics. Carla has worked for the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2013 and currently acting as Team Leader for the Humanitarian Policy Team in the Department for Humanitarian Action, Civil Society and Engagement with responsibility for Danish Humanitarian Action. Carla was previously been posted to Addis Ababa where she was responsible for the humanitarian diplomacy and assistance.
Organisation
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark.
Member State authority
Speaker session
The session aims to identify the operational challenges faced by frontline humanitarian workers in better engaging on access, as exemplified by field experiences. It will also outline the advantages of a more systemic and structured approach to strengthening the capacity of country-level humanitarian leadership on access negotiations. The discussions will focus on joined-up approaches among humanitarian and political actors to strengthen the use of humanitarian diplomacy for access while ensuring respect for the humanitarian principles and encouraging States to fulfil their obligations under International Humanitarian Law. Furthermore, the session will analyse how to design humanitarian access strategies in a way that enable accountability to affected populations and facilitate the access of crisis-affected communities to protection services and support.