IASC Second Mapping of Good Practice in the Implementation of Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus Approaches. 2024 Synthesis Report

This synthesis report provides a summary of the second iteration of the initiative, Mapping good practice in the implementation of humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) nexus approaches, carried out by IASC Task Force 4. It reflects findings across 11 countries, with individual country reports available on the IASC website.

The report serves as an update to the 2021 Interagency Standing Committee (IASC) Mapping of Good Practice in the Implementation of the HumanitarianDevelopment-Peace (HDP) Nexus approaches. It serves to assess progress on implementation of HDP nexus approaches, summarize any outcomes achieved, and identify the remaining barriers to implementation, useful enablers to accelerate progress, and examples of effective programming that could be brought to scale. Based on this assessment, it suggests recommendations for further collective action. Building on the 2021 synthesis, this report has an increased emphasis on three areas:

• Stronger focus on exploring whether there have been tangible impacts of efforts to work across the dimensions of the HDP nexus for communities in terms of reductions in vulnerabilities and needs, increases in resilience to shocks, and the degree to which HDP nexus efforts are sufficiently monitoring and evaluating whether tangible impacts have been achieved.
• Recognizing that local and national actors (LNAs) are not always effectively represented in country level reporting on the HDP nexus, this synthesis also makes strong efforts to capture the perspectives of a diversity of LNAs who bring implementationlevel experience of programming across the HDP nexus into international discussions.
• Strong focus on the peace element of the HDP nexus and related lessons learned.

The report begins by assessing progress on operationalizing the HDP nexus approach, before providing a dedicated section for each of these three focus areas of assessing impact, LNAs, and peace. It concludes with recommendations for how the IASC can continue to support efforts to strengthen HDP nexus approaches with the aim of producing tangible impacts for vulnerable communities.