Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW)

What is HNPW?

Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW) is an annual event, bringing together experts in crisis preparedness and response from over 350 organisations and countries. HNPW provides a unique forum for humanitarian networks and partnerships to meet and address key humanitarian issues. One of the largest humanitarian events of its kind, it gathers participants from the UN, NGOs, Member States, the private sector, the military, academia and beyond to discuss and solve common challenges in humanitarian affairs.

HNPW & GISF

In 2021, HNPW identified Integrating Security Risk Management Across Humanitarian Action as one of nine priority topics for the first time. Recognising the Global Interagency Security Forum’s (GISF) leading role in this area, GISF was selected to lead sessions on this critical topic.

GISF has continued to lead on this topic at HNPW ever since, in collaboration with the UNHCR Field Security Service.

In 2025, GISF is partnering with UNHCR once more on Integrating Security Risk Management Across Humanitarian Action as part of HNPW. During the second week of HNPW (24-28 March), we’ll be joined by experts from across the NGO sector in a series of in-person sessions in Geneva. Together, we will explore the challenges to safe humanitarian action, and how individuals and organisations can work together to create a strong culture of security risk management that enables aid workers to do their job safely.

We welcome everyone to join our sessions in Geneva or to join us online and discuss how to keep aid workers safe and facilitate access to affected communities.

Registration for HNPW is now open! To find out more and register for GISF’s sessions, click here. 

How to register

Steps to register for a session:

1. Click the link and follow instructions to register

Or

1. Log in (or create an account) on the HNPW homepage (if the link doesn’t work, try typing hnpw.org directly into your browser);
2. Select Event Programme on the navigation toolbar, where you can view the full HNPW event programme;
3. To find GISF’s event, you need to find Area of Common Concern in the filter selection;
4. Please select Humanitarian Security – this will filter to show you all GISF’s events and others across the Area of Common Concern;
5. To register your attendance for any event, please select register just to the left-hand of the session title;
6. You will have the option to register, either face to face or virtually depending on the session; bookmark the event; or cancel your registration;
7. When you select register, the ‘register’ button will change to registered, and you will receive a confirmation email from ‘no-reply@un.org’. 

Exhibition Stand

GISF will have an exhibition stand at HNPW this year, at the International Conference Centre (CICG) in Geneva. If you are in Geneva, and attending HNPW, please come and say hello to the team at stand number 62!

If you have any questions about GISF’s sessions, registration or HNPW, please reach out to Alyssa Thurston (alyssa@gisf.ngo).