Current HFP projects
Programme area three
Futures Vulnerabilities: New Risks, New Solutions
To highlight evolving and emerging threats that might increase human vulnerability and to support organizations and networks to engage in systematic speculation on the complexities and uncertainties of these threats and the potential for technological, scientific, social and political innovations and solutions.
Outcomes:
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Awareness raising: Organisations are aware of the need to engage in long-term systematic speculation to identify emerging and evolving threats as well as the innovations that may help them to deal with these threats;
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Policy influencing:Evidence of policy outcomes that allow for greater speculation and longer term strategic planning within organisations with humanitarian responsibilities.
- Contributing to changes in organizational attitudes, behaviours and practice: Evidence that organisations have changed their incentives and structures to allow for longer-term strategic planning and speculation, as well as evidence that this informs operational practices in planning for and reacting to emerging and evolving threats.
Projects:
1. Radioactive waste and nuclear leakages in Central Asia: The silent threat.
Objective: This study aims to raise awareness on an under-analysed threat – that of nuclear tailings in Central Asia and their potential threat, not only to the health of vulnerable communities but also their potential catalyzing role in fuelling conflict. The study will be completed by March 2011.
2. World Disaster Report.
Objective:HFP will contribute to the IFRC’s 2011 World Disasters Report to highlight the changing nature, dynamics and complexities of humanitarian crises. The chapter will also emphasise the ways in which those with humanitarian responsibilities need to become more innovative, anticipatory and collaborative to meet these challenges of the future.
3. UNISDR’s Global Assessment Report 2011.
Objective: As with HFP’s contribution to the World Disasters Report, HFPwill also contribute a chapter to this important bi-annual review to ensure that the sector as a whole is aware of the changing context and broadening vulnerability associated with humanitarian crises and advocate for greater commitments for organisations to become more innovative, anticipatory and collaborative to meet these challenges of the future.
Dimensions of Crisis Impacts: Humanitarian Needs by 2015
Humanitarian Horizons: Climate Change and its Humanitarian Impacts
Humanitarian Horizons: Demographic Trends and their Humanitarian Impacts
Humanitarian Horizons: The Future of Globalisation and its Humanitarian Impacts
The Waters of The Third Pole: Sources of Threat, Sources of Survival
