Strengthening Local Partnerships for Long-Term Resilience
Greetings from Community World Service Asia!
In collaboration with our partner, ACT Church of Sweden, we have organised a series of Webinars on “Adapting Responsibly and Ethically to the Changing Funding Landscape.”
The series aims to explore how humanitarian and development actors can adapt responsibly and ethically in the face of shrinking resources, shifting donor priorities, and escalating needs. Through diverse perspectives—from local leadership to global accountability standards—it seeks to deepen collective understanding of what it takes to remain community-centred, principled, and effective amidst funding uncertainty.
Webinar 1: Strengthening Local Partnerships for Long-Term Resilience
Date: April 17, 2025 | Time: 11:30 AM PKT
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
The keynote speaker, Sudhanshu Shekhar, Founder and CEO, Humanitarian Aid International (HAI) is a humanitarian and development professional with over 34 years global experience, he was involved in managing responses to almost all major disasters in the Asia Pacific region during 2001. Sudhanshu has been closely engaged with key global processes including Agenda for Humanity, Grand Bargain and Charter for Change. He is one of the founders and international coordinator of Alliance for Empowering Partnerships (A4EP). Sudhanshu has authored numerous papers published nationally and globally.
The webinar will be moderated by Uma Narayanan, an expert on quality and accountability within the humanitarian and development sectors, with a strong focus on the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) and Sphere Standards. She has collaborated with organizations to integrate accountability into their work, strengthen staff capacity, and apply simple, practical approaches to quality and safeguarding.
We look forward to your participation in the webinar.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact aqsa.tahir@communityworldservice.asia.
