United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Jun 2022
InterWorks facilitated an Essentials of Humanitarian Negotiation (EHN) online workshop from 27-30 June 2022. Participants came from UNHCR and from NGOs – this workshop being specifically dedicated to UNHCR and NGOs staff on request from the Myanmar management. The EHN online workshop was designed to increase overall emergency response capacity in the region by improving participants’ understanding of humanitarian negotiation basics, and increasing their ability and confidence to use them in real-life applications. The workshop included multiple opportunities for participants to practice collaborative negotiation skills such as asking questions, listening, generating solutions and finding win-win solutions to negotiation challenges. It also included sessions on the centrality of protection and negotiating with non-state armed groups to highlight the importance of humanitarian principles and international legal frameworks as critical components of the “interests” of humanitarian negotiators.
The training preparation is already perfect. Including language translation is much effective for the participants.
– Workshop participant