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13 Nov
14:00 - 16:00
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Improving your Programmatic Learning Journey: A Resource Guide for HDP Nexus Practitioners

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The Knowledge Platform Security & Rule of Law (KPSRL) is organizing an online webinar discussion on Thursday 13 November (14:00 – 16:00 CEST). In this session, we will unpack KPSRL’s soon to be published study: ‘Improving your Programmatic Learning Journey:  A Resource Guide for HDP Nexus Practitioners’ with an international audience SROL and HDP nexus practitioners. 

Objectives  

  • Provide space for KPSRL network to reflect on and make sense of findings emerging from the study. 

  • Unpacking the key arguments and recommendations emerging around 3 selected themes of the study localization, co-creation and uptake. 

  • Identify paths to realistically reframe the programming and policy goals in FCAS, in relation to localization, co-creation and uptake efforts. 

Agenda 

13:00 – 13:05 

Welcome 

KPSRL 

13:05 – 13:25 

Key findings & recommendations 

Research Team 

13:25 – 13:30 

First response  

Speaker TBA

13:30 – 13:35 

First response  

BSocial 

13:35 – 13:40 

First response  

Speaker TBA

13:40 – 14:40 

Open discussion (2 rounds of participant questions followed by responses and discussion, each round 25 min) 

 

Audience, key respondents, MFA (Facilitated by research team) 

14:40 – 14:50 

Reflection & take-aways 

 TBC 

14:50 – 15:00 

Closing 

KPSRL  

 

Background  

Between 2022 and 2024, KPSRL Secretariat piloted a Programmatic Learning Instrument (henceforth PLI).  The PLI was a dedicated budget line aiming to stimulate and facilitate programmatic learning. It built on the experience over the years that the strongest need and potential for learning in the Security & Rule of Law (SRoL) sector is located at the program implementation level, primarily in the field, and at the portfolio management level. 

As part of the PLI, The KPSRL Secretariat commissioned a collaborative study to support the refinement of the Programmatic Learning Instrument as well as to support the role of the KPSRL in providing advice on options available for learning interventions to policymakers and programming partners. The study (which is based,  on in-depth discussions with seven organizations and initiatives in late 2023 and early 2024 and a survey of relevant literature),  culminated into a resource guide intended to serve as a resource and reference for practitioners, policymakers and others working in the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding (HDP) nexus and interested in better understanding the issues of learning and programmatic learning, how programmatic learning occurs, how uptake following learning happens, and what prevents more consistent and meaningful uptake. Specific recommendations were also made to the NL MFA/ DGIS Leadership based on key findings of the Study. 

Building from specific cases studies, the session will delve into 3 selected themes emerging from the guide:  

  • Localization (and Decolonization): useful frame for learning? 

  • Co-creation as a Principle of Engagement and a Process for Learning in Humanitarian, Development, and Peacebuilding Nexus 

  • The challenges of uptake in complex environments 

The session will make sense of the findings by exploring nuances around the 3 concepts (see above), delve into promising and ‘realistic’ prospects and ask about scope for peer learning and collaboration across different stakeholders and development funders to ‘walk the talk’ of programmatic learning.  

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12 Dec
12:30 - 17:30
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KPAC24 Follow-Up: The Hague

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On the afternoon of December 12th, KPSRL is organizing a follow up event in The Hague at the Postillion Hotel for its Annual Conference in Dakar. The aim is to take up key discussions and recommendations from Dakar and translate these to daily realities and practices of INGOs and donors. Expect an afternoon (app. 12:30 - 17:30 + drinks) with interactive discussions for this follow-up event.

For now, this is a save-the-date: more details on the program and a registration link will follow.

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Postillion Hotel & Convention Centre The Hague
Waldorpstraat 15, 2521 CA Den Haag
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28 Nov
14:00 - 17:30
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Reshaping Partnerships

Organized by:Plan International Netherlands
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Current North-South strategic partnerships often struggle to be fully equitable. Co-designing problems and solutions within the partnership chain can provide valuable insights. Plan International, in collaboration with KPSRL, is hosting a learning event. The aim is to share, reflect and discuss the strategic partnership chain, in its current and preferred shape. The presented findings, are the results of human centred co-design sessions, collected during a one year project. Participants included girls and young women, community members, development practitioners, donors, and humans in the private and academic sector. Main topics of discussion of the learning session are challenges, opportunities, and power dynamics involved in current and future partnership set-ups.  More importantly, we seek to exchange on how we can take action for more equitable partnerships.   

Agenda:

14:00-16:00: Learning discussion

16:00-17:30: Networking and drinks

Register for this learning event via the link below. 

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Plan International Netherlands Office
Baarsjesweg 224, 1058 AA, Amsterdam
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16 May
17:00 - 20:00
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KMF Research Report Launch: Integration of MHPSS approaches in accountability mechanisms for atrocity crimes

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This is a hybrid event. Both in-person and online participants need to register through the link below.

The role of victims and of victim-witnesses in national and international accountability mechanisms for atrocity crimes has progressively gained ground over the past two decades. This development increased the need for a better understanding of the potential psychological impact of the work of these mechanisms on survivors/victims and witnesses. It also triggered a heightened interest in how mental health and psychosocial (MHPSS)  approaches can improve witness evidence and victim well-being and, ultimately, improve justice outcomes. However, notwithstanding the increased focus on victim-centred justice, the use of MHPSS approaches and trauma-informed methodologies is still underdeveloped and only scarcely integrated in the work of most justice mechanisms. 

The Integration of mental health and psychosocial approaches in accountability mechanisms for atrocity crimes research project, supported by the Knowledge Management Fund and the Knowledge Platform Security & Rule of Law,  aimed to fill this gap by making good practices and know-how widely available to practitioners in the justice field through guidelines and by strengthening a community of practice around the topic. The key objective being that this project becomes a catalyst for further integration of mental health and psychosocial approaches in accountability mechanisms to make them truly victim and witness-centered. 

To mark the release of the research report, a launch event co-organized by the lead researcher An Michels, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and  the Knowledge Platform Security and Rule of Law will be held on May 16th, 2024 at the Carlton Ambassador Hotel in The Hague and online (for both, registration is needed). The launch event will bring together stakeholders, including legal experts, MHPSS practitioners, human rights advocates, policymakers, and representatives from affected communities, to discuss strategies, challenges, and best practices in ensuring meaningful and coherent use of MHPSS approaches and trauma-informed methodologies in accountability-seeking processes.  

For more information on the event, please download this pdf. 

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Carlton Ambassador Hotel, The Hague
Sophialaan 2 2514 JP Den Haag Nederland
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