Exchange as a Tool for Science-Humanitarian Dialogue

Drawing on new learning created through a series of pilot exchanges
between climate scientists and humanitarian policy
makers undertaken from March to June 2009, this briefing
note is intended for humanitarian policy makers, scientists
engaged in disciplines which impact on future vulnerability and
those seeking to strengthen science-policy dialogue.
The Humanitarian Futures Programme (HFP) believes that effective
engagement between scientists and humanitarian policy
makers is essential for ensuring that emerging threats and
possible solutions identified in scientific research are incorporated
into humanitarian planning and, in turn, that humanitarian
concerns inform the focus of scientific research. The programme’s
Futures Group seeks to build understanding of how
humanitarian organisations deal with scientific uncertainty
and is developing a series of tools to support their capacity to
take on evolving scientific learning.