Innovative approaches in international crisis response. How Humanitarian organizations are navigating new global realities.

Speaker Rhonda Gossen

Specialized agencies of the United Nations together with international NGOs recognize the need to change what some have labelled paternalistic and outdated approaches to aid and humanitarian assistance. New approaches reflect an evolution in thinking about locally led response, the need for external experts, people as protagonists in the recovery of their communities and recognition of the capacities and resilience inherent in every person to respond in crisis. Working in various emergency response situations, Rhonda brings knowledge of how this aspect of the UN is driving new ways of working. 

BIO

Rhonda Gossen is a consultant for the UNDP Crisis Bureau and a former manager in the Department of Global Affairs Canada.  She has worked on humanitarian and crisis response in South Sudan, Nepal, Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Southern Africa and on the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon and the Rohingya refugee crisis in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. A former Canadian diplomat working in Asia and Africa, Rhonda was posted in the Philippines, Ghana, Afghanistan and Pakistan.  

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