Advancing Humanitarian Action: Engaging with Rising Global Actors to Develop New Strategic Partnerships

Changes in the international framework, the greater engagement of rising global actors and the demand to meet persistent and new challenges make an enhanced dialogue and partnership between the heterogeneous set of actors representing today’s humanitarian action indispensable. The way humanitarian action is conducted, the structure of traditional mechanisms of coordination, cooperation and funding need re-thinking in order to reflect the complexity of humanitarian engagement on the ground. Here, the transfer of knowledge and experience across the board, the establishment of equal partnerships and the strengthening of sustained dialogue bear the potential of finding solutions for contemporary and future challenges.