12. The Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) – Towards Principled Humanitarian Funding

Activity

Please visit the link below, read the paper in question and answer the following questions.

Introduction

The Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) was established in 1994 to provide an independent forum for policy-makers, practitioners and others working in or on the humanitarian sector to share and disseminate information, analysis and experience, and to learn from it. The only network of its kind, HPN plays a key role in examining policy developments and distilling practice. It is fast in capturing major new initiatives and good practice from a wide range of players, and documenting and disseminating this information to field staff and policy-makers. HPN’s aim is to improve the performance of humanitarian action by contributing to individual and institutional learning.

HPN’s institutional location is the Humanitarian Policy Group Links to an external site. (HPG) at the Overseas Development Institute Links to an external site. (ODI), an independent think tank on humanitarian and development policy. HPN’s publications are researched and written by a wide range of individuals and organisations, and are published by HPN in order to encourage and facilitate knowledge-sharing within the sector.

The paper concerning this particular exercise is entitled ‘Towards Principled Humanitarian Funding’ and is made available at http://odihpn.org/magazine/towards-%C2%91principled%C2%92-humanitarian-funding/ Links to an external site..