DIHAD 2025

Humanitarian and development aid in a polarised world

DIHAD convenes for its annual conference at a critical moment for aid and development funding. Cuts to USAID budgets have sent the sector into a tailspin, only compounding the existing shortfalls due to growing need on the back of more conflict and climate-related suffering and displacement.

Join foundations, iNGOs, Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, academics, community organisations, and government aid bodies to discuss how the sector can and should respond to growing global challenges.

Sessions will focus on the following topics:

1. Conflict and the evolution of humanitarian principles

2. The changing landscape of financing

3. The development/humanitarian aid interface

4. Globalisation and localisation; new actors

5. The exponential impact of climate change

6. Population displacements; trends and challenges

 

Speakers

• Kate Forbes
  President, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
• Martin Griffiths
  Former UN Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
• Patricia Danzi
  Director-General, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
• Ms. Eva Svoboda
  Director of Law, Humanitarian Diplomacy and Policy, ICRC
• Major General James M Cowan
  Chief Executive Officer, The HALO Trust
• Mr. Ahmad Al Suwaidi
  CEO, Dubai Charity Association
• Hana Omar
  Director of Partnerships and International Relations, King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre, KSA
• Alice Laugher
  Chief Executive Officer, Committed to Good (CTG), Dubai

Notes

DIHAD takes place at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 29/04 to 1/05. You can register here.