On November 5 – 7, the HLA took part in the International Humanitarian Studies Association conference in Bangladesh, where Elisa Sandri, our Research & Evaluation Specialist, chaired the panel “Local humanitarian responses to Ukrainian refugees – the case of Eastern Europe”.
The researchers and practitioners from Ukraine, Poland and Romania presented their first-hand experiences and research about local humanitarian responses in Central and Eastern Europe, discussing their unique position in the humanitarian landscape and the challenges faced in the response.
During the panel, the participants were able to hear and discuss perspectives from Maryana Zaviyska from Open Space Works Cooperative, Agnieszka Kosowicz from Polish Migration Forum Foundation, Myroslava Keryk from Fundacja Ukraiński Dom, Sarian Jarosz from Migration Consortium, Andreea Vrînceanu from Agenția Metropolitană Brașov, and Marta Pachocka from Warsaw School of Economics.
This three-day conference provided a great opportunity to share quite a unique Eastern European case, with its new concepts, ways of working in a humanitarian response and experience with the wider humanitarian sector. Moreover, it gave participants a chance to extend their networks and make their work more widely known in the sector.
We are grateful to everyone who joined the conference and our panel online and in-person and are looking forward to meeting again at the 8th IHSA conference in two years.
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