Event Host/Institute: UNHCR
Event date and time (to and from): February 21, 2024
Event location/venue: Online
Event type: Webinar
Link: https://www.unhcr.org/us/events/2024-unhcr-online-consultations-ngos
*Event notes below*
Description from host:
The overall objective of the Online Consultations is to support an enabling environment for UNHCR, NGOs, and other civil society organizations to exchange on operational, policy, and advocacy priorities in a safe space to:
- strengthen policy-making processes at the stages of conception, drafting, impact assessment, and decision-making
- improve monitoring and evaluation of policy implementation, when appropriate
- create prioritized and manageable follow-up action points.
The Online Consultations aim to:
- lead to concrete and lively exchanges between UNHCR and NGOs, sometimes inclusive of other actors
- link to ongoing policy and strategy developments (e.g. UNHCR policies developed/reviewed in 2023 and/or 2024 and which would benefit from NGO input)
- link to major global initiatives and processes (e.g. related to the Global Refugee Forum)
- link to operational aspects, particularly in engaging NGOs in the operationalization of specific policies and strategies or in discussing – at global level – coordination and implementing partnerships issues
- connect to past discussions as well as to upcoming discussions such as in the framework of the UNHCR Global Consultations with NGOs
- lead to collective recommendations and/or follow-up actions.
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