My first two weeks were filled with onboarding meetings with each member of the team to understand each person's tasks and responsibilities. On my first week, I was also able to attend an interagency workshop on the launch of the Global Compact for the Engagement of Young People in Humanitarian Action in Jordan. This compact, led by UNFPA and NRC, aims to set standards for humanitarian operators to systematically engage young people in humanitarian actions. The Compact target five different stages of areas of humanitarian interventions for adolescents and young people to be engaged at: services, participation, capacity, resources, data.
On my end so far, my work was focused on updating documents related to resiliency plan (HRP / 3RP) to include the recommendations of the Compact in order to roll it out in two other countries within the next three months. Such platforms set new standards for international cooperation and interventions. It was very interesting for me to learn and understand the creation process of such collaborative agreement, how they're rolled out and how they get adopted in signatory members' everyday work. On another note, those two weeks were very enlightening for me with regards to the challenges faced by agencies like UNICEF in the MENA region, working in both crisis countries (like Syria) and middle income countries (like Tunisia and Morocco). The needs are fundamentally different and require fundamentally different approaches. The dichotomy between humanitarian interventions and development activities reflects the challenges faced today by development agencies and calls for flexible ways of working.
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